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THE IBIS JOURNAL 4 PHANTASIES AND DREAMS
Written by Geoffrey Beare. Illustrated by Robert Anning Bell; Arthur Hughes; Florence Mary Anderson.
Stock no. 1812716
Published by The Imaginative Book Illustration Society. 1st 2011. Fine condition.

Introduction by Geoffrey Beare. Articles about illustrations of Robert Anning Bell; Arthur Hughes; and Florence Mary Anderson. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w & colour illustrations. 144 pages. ISBN: 9780953559640. A lovely copy.

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THE IBIS JOURNAL 1 ASPECTS OF ILLUSTRATION
Written by Robin Greer; et al. Illustrated by Willy Pogany; Alice B. Woodward; et al..
Stock no. 1208609
Published by The Imaginative Book Illustration Society. 1st 1999. Fine condition.

White pictorial cardwraps. Colour & b/w illustrations. Bibliographies and essays on book illustration. Includes articles on Alice B. Woodward and Willy Pogany. ISBN: 0095559602.

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PRINTED KATE GREENAWAY A CATALOGUE RAISONNE
Written by Thomas E. Schuster; Rodney K. Engen. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 1403761
Published by T.E. Schuster. 1st 1986. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A fully comprehensive reference book listing over 600 major items with hundreds of variants within each heading. Covering published books, greetings cards, periodicals, ephemera and spinoffs. Green cloth, gilt titles. Colour & b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0951175203. SIGNED with dedication to front endpaper. Light grubby mark to text block edge. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is a little edgeworn with light fading at folds.

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WHO'S WHO IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS A TREASURY OF THE FAMILIAR CHARACTERS OF CHILDHOOD
Written by Margery Fisher.
Stock no. 1403445
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 3rd 1978. Slightly better than very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A personal collection of characters, some famous and others less familiar, from the world of children's fiction. Red cloth with gilt titles to spine and vignette to front board. Red and white pictorial endpapers. Colour and b/w plates plus b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0297770373. Spine bumped. Contents clean. Pictorial wrapper is edge worn and creased. Spine is faded. Small tear to front panel is mended with tape on verso. Couple of small marks.

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THE BEST OF BRITISH PLUCK
Written by Philip Warner.
Stock no. 2113275
Published by Book Club Associates. 1977. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A portrait of the Boy's Own Paper. Articles from the earlier years when the magazine had its widest-ranging appeal. Recreating the vigorous spirit for which the Boy's Own Paper became a household name. Large format. Red boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. Some light wear to top and tail of spine. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Pale page edge browning. Wrapper is edge-creased, with a couple of tiny nicks.

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THE LINDLEY LIBRAY
No author listed.
Stock no. 1708833
Published by Royal Horticultural society. 1927. Very good condition.

Blue cloth gilt titles. Corners bumped. A little relevant annotation.

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FINE BIRD BOOKS 1700-1900
Written by Sacheverell Sitwell; Handasyde Buchanan; James Fisher.
Stock no. 1708677
Published by H.F. & G. Witherby Ltd.. 1st thus 1990. Fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

With a Foreword by S. Dillon Ripley. Large format. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0854932038. Wrapper spine faded.

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THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY, ART COLLECTIONS, BOTANICAL GARDENS
Written by Elizabeth Pomeroy.
Stock no. 2111088
Published by Scalo; Philip Wilson. 1986. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Colour photos and illustrations. ISBN: 0935748563. Reprint, with some revisions. Odd mark to endpapers and prelims. A little edge-creasing to wrapper.

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CHEPSTOW STREET LITERATURE AND EPHEMERA
Written by Ivor Waters.
Stock no. 1603670
Published by Moss Rose Press. 1989. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Limited to 140 copies. B/w illustrations. Revised edition. ISBN: 0906134412. Corners rubbed. Wrapper is faded to spine.

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PICTURE-BOOK WORLD
Written by Bettina Hurlimann; Brian W. Alderson.
Stock no. 1705877
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1968. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Modern picture-books for children from twenty-four countries with a bio-biographical supplement by Elizabeth Waldmann. Colour illustrations. 216 pages. Board edges worn with bumped corners. Ink stamps to prelims. Wrapper faded and grubby with edge-creasing and chipping.

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BIBLIOTHECA CESTRIENSIS
Written by John H. Cooke.
Stock no. 2106650
Published by Mackie & Co. Limited. 1904. Very good condition.

Or a biographical account of books, maps, plates and other printed matter relating to, printed or published in, or written by authors resident in the county of Chester. Illustrated with views of old halls in Cheshire. Compiled by Cooke. Large format. Limited to 200 copies. Some wear to covers; a little scuffing and bumping, damp marking to rear cover, with bad wear to top edge. Copy no. 100 (Royal quarto). Some grubby margin marks and a couple of pages have small nicks to edges.

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