Shaped Book (8 results)

Condition: Good. Van Gool-Lefevre-Loiseaux (illustrator). Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Circa 1890, printed in Holland, 6 panel concertina panorama, each panel 150 x 75 mm, 5¾ x 3 inches, each shaped around the roof of the house, thin card colour printed 1 side, text on the other. Very pretty images: the dolls' house with dolls sitting in the garden; the dolls having their hair done by their little mistress; she pushes 4 of them in a pram for their morning drive; she feeds them at table; the dolls in a circle on the floor listen to their lessons; their little mistress rocks them in their cradle. Each image has 4 4-line verses describing the activity on the reverse. On text side there are signs that this little item has been removed from a scrap album as there are a few small grazes and a few letters missing, all 5 folds have been repaired with sellotape on text side (not browned). A scarce doll item, dated from US publisher. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. London and New York. Printed in Bavaria: Ernest Nister and E. P. Dutton & Co., 1880. Undated, ca. 1880. Shaped book, with the top mimicing a cupboard top, oblong format about 7.25 inches wide, sixteen pages including the covers. Two pages are illustrated in color, others in black and white. Spine has been repaired with old rice paper tape as are the hinges, some modest shelfwear, pages lightly age-toned but clean, no names or other markings. Soft Cover. Fair. Oblong 12mo.

Pictorial Card Covers. Condition: Extra Fine. First Edit. No date, c1890 ? 8 pages. 4 highly finished colour plates. Die cut shaped book depicting pretty white flowers which are shaped to 'spill ' over the page edges, with a pretty silk stiched spine. A most pretty item, in totally immaculate condition. Castell Brothers were founded in 1878, were publishers of card games, religious books, poetry, Valentine and Christmas cards.

Victorian children's book, circa 1880, 340 x 250 mm, 13½ x 9¾ inches, 14 pages counting the inside of the covers, all illustrated in colour, 1 double page, 6 with text, caption to bottom of each page, publisher's coloured pictorial thin card covers shaped at the top around the roof of the house. Spine worn and repaired, lower edge of lower cover chipped, maximum 20 mm deep, (¾") no loss of text (image 5), all inner margins have been repaired, many small marginal tears repaired, 1 closed tear 50 mm (2") long running into image, repaired without loss, a small amount of adhesion to centre fold of double page plate with a tiny amount of colour restoration, some light browning to inner margins, margins a little dusty and an occasional small mark. A well loved book with restoration but still an acceptable copy of an uncommon ephemeral item. Story captions: Loo and Prue, A Dolls House Story; The Dolly's Breakfast Table; Loo and Prue in the Laundry; The Evening Party, Christmas Eve in the Doll's House; Great News in the Doll's House. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

DOLL SHAPED BOOK, Tuck's No.1756, inscribed 1901, 370 x 190 mm, 14½ x 7½ inches, die cut card covers shaped at top and fore-edge around a beautiful doll, dressed in pink and lace, with huge hat, carrying parasol, lower cover plain. 4 pages of delightful chromolitho illustrations, 9 in total, all but 1 depicting children with dolls, 10 text pages with many line illustrations, mostly children with dolls. A few tiny surface chips to shaped edges (max 2 mm, 1/8" deep), small pencil inscription on lower cover. Excellent condition for a large fragile item. Near Fine. Not a modern reproduction. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Humphrey Milford. Large Children's Boat Shaped Board Book. First edition. No wrapper issued (or possible!) Slight splitting to paper covered spine but sound. Small colour pieces missing from top of sail. Title page and following few pages foxed otherwise a lovely copy of a scarce item. Chloe Preston, 1887-1969, was a children's author and artist of books and postcards. She is best known for her cute, cherubic children in adult guise and situations. Unlike the later US edition this volume has HMS Chunky on the sailors' hats on the cover as well as the illustrations within.