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The Parent's Assistant; or, Stories for Children (1796)

By: Edgeworth, Maria

Price: £50.00

Publisher: London, Baldwin & Cradock etc: 1832

Seller ID: 80034

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

A New Edition, Ornamented with Plates. Frontispiece and vignette title page in each volume. Three volumes in early C19th maroon leather over marbled boards, with spines gummed/attached to text blocks. Leather chipped at head of spine on volume I, all volumes shaken, bookplates and signatures (1842) on endpapers, foxing, fair/good.
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Frank: A Sequel to Frank in Early Lessons (1822)

By: Edgeworth, Maria

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, R. Hunter etc: 1825

Seller ID: 93064

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Second Edition in Three Volumes. Three volumes uniformly bound in mid-C19th green leather over green marbled boards. Spines gummed to text blocks. Edges rubbed, small losses to spine ends, longitudinal crack to leather on spine of volume I, foxing; otherwise a tight set, fair.
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Marion; or, The Smuggler's Wife (1871)

By: Filleul, Marianne

Price: £16.00

Publisher: London, SPCK: 1880

Seller ID: 02072

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Reprint, undated [1880]. Frontispiece. Original dark green cloth, blocked in black and lettered in gilt; pale yellow endpapers. Corners scuffed, otherwise very good. Publisher's catalogue dated 1/10/80 bound in at end. Originally published simply as "by M. F."
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The Magic Mirror Tales for Young and Old (1866 as The Magic Mirror A Round of Tales for Young and Old)

By: Gilbert, William

Price: £45.00

Publisher: London, Strahan & Co: 1876

Seller ID: 87003

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Reprint. Eighty-four illustrations by W. S. Gilbert. Original light brown cloth, lettered and decorated in black and gilt on front board and spine (blocked in blind on rear board); brown endpapers; all edges gilt. Hammersmith Library perforated stamp at foot of title page, with accession stamps etc on verso, no other library marks. Spine sunned, corners rubbed, no half-title, a trifle shaken, fair/good. Undated publisher's catalogue bound in at end. An ex-library copy of a scarce book. Whimsical fairy stories by novelist William Gilbert, with drawings by his more famous son, dramatist W[illiam...
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The Rosemary Angel or The Hidden Chalice and Other War Stories (1915)

By: Harris, Mrs Jo [ie Gertrude Marie Harris]

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Lowestoft, Jarrold & Sons: 1915

Seller ID: VN2389

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original pink cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine and lower parts of boards sunned, otherwise good. Written and published in Lowestoft during the First World War; a collection of stories for children.
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Augustin and Wenonda. A Tale for the Young. Translated from the German of Franz Hoffman (1857)

By: Hoffman, Franz

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Judd & Glass: 1857

Seller ID: VN0940

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Young Englands' Illustrated Library. Illustrated. Original blindstamped purple cloth, lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers. Spine and board edges sunned, undated signature in red on front free endpaper, foxing/spotting: good. A juvenile story of settlers in early America: Augustin is a European "pale-face"; Wenonda the son of the chief of the Delaware tribe.
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Tales for My Godson, translated and adapted from the German . . . by Frances M. Wilbraham (1850)

By: Hoffman, Franz, Translated by Frances M. Wilbraham

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, J. Masters & Co.: 1850

Seller ID: 03174

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Undated [1850]. Illustrated. Original blindstamped pale blue-grey cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine; yellow endpapers. Corners rubbed, chipped on spine ends, a little foxing, undated signature on front free endpaper, fair/good. Publisher's catalogue for July 1850 at end. 6 stories for children: The Golden Locket, The Loyal Heart, The Blind Boy, The Young Robinson Crusoe, "Thou Shalt Not Steal" & A Tale of St Domingo.
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A Treasury of New Favourite Tales for Young People (1861)

By: Howitt, Mary

Price: £16.00

Publisher: London, James Hogg & Sons: 1861

Seller ID: 00848

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

First Edition, no date [1861]. Illustrated by Palmer and Coleman. Mid C19th black leather with blue and red marbled boards. Spine gummed to text-block: consequently creases upon opening. Edges rubbed and boards grazed; light spotting/foxing throughout; bookplate of Cooper's West End Circulating Library, Reading, on front pastedown, Cooper's Library at foot of spine, good. Contains 2 stories by Mary Howitt: The Lords of Wyven & The Little Peacemaker, and a further 12 stories by Harry Gringo, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanny Fern, Oliver Optic etc.
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Tales of Old Travel Re-Narrated by Henry Kingsley (1869)

By: Kingsley, Henry

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1869

Seller ID: 03608

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

8 plates & vignette title page. Original green cloth, decorated and lettered in gilt. Brown endpapers. Rubbed on corners, with chips to cloth at foot of spine; paper on inner joints cracked (but joints tight), bookplate of front pastedown, fair. All plates present but the location of two is different to that given in the List of Plates.
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Higgledy-Piggledy or Stories for Everybody and Everybody's Children (1875)

By: Knatchbull-Hugessen, Rt. Hon. E[dward] H[ugessen]:

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Longmans, Green & Co.: 1875

Seller ID: 01840

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Illustrated. Contemporary red leather over pink cloth. Corners scuffed, a few marks, light foxing: lacks one plate, chip/split to leather at head of upper hinge, leather rubbed on edges: fair to good copy of this scarce title.
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Its Own Reward (1886)

By: Lloyd, J. Sale [Jessie Sale Lloyd]

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, W. H. Allen: 1886

Seller ID: 89126

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Illustrated. Original green cloth, lettered and illustrated in black and green; black endpapers. A couple of small and faint marks on cloth, a little foxing, otherwise fine. A juvenile title by the author of Ruth Everingham, We Costelions, Scamp etc. From a collection belonging to the Lloyd family and probably unread.
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The Arabs of Love Lane or Ragamuffins (1880)

By: Lloyd, J. Sale [Jessie Sale Lloyd]

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, John F. Shaw: 1885

Seller ID: VN2709

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Undated reprint, c1885. Original illustrated brown cloth on bevelled boards, lettered in gilt, green decorated endpapers. Lightly scuffed, front free endpaper removed, some browning on pages, fair/good.
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Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood

By: MacDonald, George

Price: £8.00

Publisher: London, Blackie & Co.: 1924

Seller ID: VN3473

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Undated, but 1924 or later from reference in note on author on page 9. Original brown cloth with blindstamped art nouveau decoration on front boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Coloured frontispiece and monochrome illustrations in text. Corners rubbed, small area of damage to edge of front board, contents in good order; good.
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Influence (1853 as Influence; or, The Evil Genius)

By: Mackarness, Mrs

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Routledge & Co.: 1856

Seller ID: 01848

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

[Reprint]. Illustrated. The original heavily damaged binding has been removed and replaced with simple card wrappers (see photo). Text block clean and tight. A reading/rebinding copy of a scarce title. Note: this is an original C19th volume, NOT a modern reprint or facsimile reproduction
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The Crofton Boys

By: Martineau, Harriet

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Routledge, Warne & Routledge: 1864

Seller ID: VN0188

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

"New Edition with an Illustration". Original blindstamped dark red cloth. Corners rubbed, chipped head/foot of spine, good.
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Praise and Principle; or, For What Shall We Live? A Tale (1845)

By: McIntosh, Miss Maria J.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Thomas Nelson & Sons: 1850

Seller ID: 00560

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Possibly first English edition: the novel was first published in New York in 1845. Frontispiece and vignette title. Original dark red cloth with blindstamped frames: gilt decoration on both boards; yellow endpapers; all edges gilt. Small chips/nicks to spine tips, inner joint papers cracking (but joints tight), inscription (1852) on front free endpapers, a little light browning and foxing on paper, good. A scarce American novel.
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Petronella & The Coming of Polly

By: Meade, L. T. [Elizabeth Thomasina Meade]

Price: £7.50

Publisher: London, W. & R. Chambers: 1927

Seller ID: VN0007

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Undated reprint, c1927. Original blue cloth, lettered and decorated in dark blue. Undated signature on front free endpaper, occasional light foxing, very good.
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Bashful Fifteen (1892)

By: Meade, L. T. [Elizabeth Thomasina Meade]

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Cassell & Co.: 1892

Seller ID: 03556

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original two-tone cloth. Spine in green, front board in grey, patterned with flowers; patterned endpapers. A few light marks, corner rubbed, a little foxing, good.
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Tales and Stories (1866)

By: Mitford, Mary Russell [editor]:

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Warne & Co.: 1866

Seller ID: 01380

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

"With Coloured Illustrations". Later rebinding in pinky-brown binder's cloth. Light scuffing, faint foxing. Only 2 illustrations present in text: others (including frontispiece) presumed missing. "These tales and stories, originally selected by Miss Mitford, have been carefully revised, re-edited, and gathered into a single volume. When first published they obtained great and deserved popularity; it is hoped that in their new form they will prove equally attractive, and afford much pleasure to the young readers of the present, as they formerly did to the children of the past." Preface.
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The Blue Veil. Moral Tales (1883 as The Blue Veil. A New Series of Moral Tales for Children)

By: Montgomery, Florence

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Leipzig, Tauchnitz: 1883

Seller ID: 04064

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Pale blue cloth, green leather title label on spine. Small spot at foot of front board, armorial bookplate of Percy Ashton Jonson on front pastedown, very good. Todd [2206a]. First issue. Series half-title bound in.
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