Published by Darton and Co, London, UK, 1859
ISBN 10: 1437266827 ISBN 13: 9781437266825
Hardcover. Black & White/Color Plates (illustrator). London, UK: Darton and Co. Collectible-Very Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1859. Hardcover. Many chromolithographs. Frontis, title page plus 6 color plates . 8vo., 296 pp, 32, Inter hinge repaired. Former owner's inscription . Collectible-Very Good/NO DUSTJACKET.
Published by Darton and Co., London, 1862
Cloth. Condition: Good. Not Stated (illustrator). A scarce annual from American author Peter Parley, with colour illustrations. Scarce work. Illustrated with a hand-coloured frontispiece, hand-coloured title page, and six hand-coloured plates, with many in-text engravings. Collated complete. A charming annual of short stories and verses, with titles such as: Christmas All the World Round, Dog Tales, Monkey Stories, South African Lion Adventure, and When We Were Boys Together. Written by Samuel Griswold Goodrich, better known under his pseudonym Peter Parley, an American author. Edited by William Martin. With thirty-two pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear, two of which are folding pages. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, sound with rubbing and light fraying to the extremities. Fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Splits in the cloth to the joints at the head and tail of the spine. Hinges tender. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with the odd small spot or handling mark and light age toning to the extremities. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper dated Christmas 1861. Good. book.