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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1937 1st British edition. 47pp. Good/None. Hard pictorial boards with cloth spine, a little rubbing/bumping, some chipping to board edges, minor soiling/scuffing. Contents generally clean & tight but for minor soiling. A few illustrations neatly coloured in. Charming B&W and colour illustrations by Marie-Madeleine Franc-Nohain throughout. Second in the series of story books about a mischievous little girl called Sophy. Written in French by by the Comtesse de Segur, a French writer of Russian birth. Scarce in this edition. Franc-Nohain, Marie-Madeleine (illustrator).…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. A charming copy of the first English edition of the Comtesse de Ségur"s classic tale of childhood mischief, illustrated by Marie-Madeleine Franc-Nohain. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding with pictorial paper boards.First UK edition.Illustrated with four colour plates, including a frontispiece, with numerous in-text line drawings by Marie-Madeleine Franc-Nohain. Collated, complete.An English translation of Les Malheurs de Sophie, one of the most celebrated works of 19th-century French children"s literature.The book follows the impulsive and well-meaning Sophie through a sequence of moral misadventures. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding with pictorial paper boards. Externally, smart. Light scattered spotting and discolouration to perimeters of boards. Slight soiling and one or two handling marks to boards. Slight shelf wear to extremities. Hinges slightly cracked, but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. Marie-Madeleine Franc-Nohain (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. A 1944 reprint following first publication in this translation in 1943. 78 printed pages, with three colour plate (including frontispiece) and numerous line drawings in text, coloured endpapers. In illustrated, paper-covered boards (shelf worn, rubbed on corners and spine ends, spine neatly repaired with vinyl tape). A little loosened. 4to. A few signs of compression warping, else internally neat, clean and bright. An enchanting story with delightful illustrations. The fourth in series containing stories of Sophy; this volume contains Candied Fruits; The Donkey; The Little Donkey-Cart; The Tortoise; and The Departure. Hard to find title. Franc-Nohain, Marie-Madeleine Children's books, Vintage Books, illustrated books. Franc-Nohain, Marie-Madeleine (illustrator). …

Publisher's original colour illustrated paper covered thick boards. 4to 11'' x 9''. Contains 78 printed pages of text with 2 [of 3] full-page colour plates, smaller monochrome illustrations throughout some of which have been very beautifully coloured-in with sympathetic water-colours. Rubbing of the paper to the spine edges, small tear to the fore edge of page 15, Member of the P.B.F.A. CHILDREN'S & JUVENILE.…

Williams & Norgate Ltd. 1936. UK first edition. 4to Harback with board covers. Illustrated throughout in b/w and colour. Pages, edges and endpapers spotted and browned. Boards slightly warped outwards. Otherwise a clean and sound copy.