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THE MONARCHS OF MERRY ENGLAND (HENRY VII TO ELIZABETH)
Written by Roland Carse. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 1312999
Published by T. Fisher Unwin. Good condition.

Humourous rhymes of historical times. Large format. Brown boards with large pictorial onlay to front. Red cloth spine. Colour plates plus b/w text illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and worn, split to top 2.5" of spine. Light scuff marks to rear cover. Front joint cracked. Endpapers lightly browned. Some messy colouring to the b/w illustrations. Grubby fingermarks to page margins. Some tears at inner margins. Very scarce in this format.

THE MONARCHS OF MERRY ENGLAND (JAMES I TO EDWARD VII)
Written by Roland Carse. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 1312998
Published by T. Fisher Unwin. Good condition.

Humourous rhymes of historical times. Large format. Brown boards with large pictorial onlay to front. Red cloth spine. Colour plates plus b/w text illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and worn, split to top 2" of spine. Light scratch marks to rear cover. Front joint cracked. Light pencil mark to rear endpaper. Some messy colour to the b/w illustrations, pencil doodles to one of the plates. Grubby fingermarks to page margins. Some tears at inner margins. Very scarce in this format.

RED VAGABOND
Written by G.D. Adams. Illustrated by BB.
Stock no. 1312992
Published by The Batchworth Press. 1st 1951. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A vividly told tale of a fox set against the background of wild life on the Welsh border. Red cloth. Gilt title to spine. Superb b/w wood engravings. 189 pages. Spine slightly bumped and rubbed. Covers and contents bright and clean. Dustwrapper is faded to spine with loss at top and bottom, slightly edge chipped with minimal further loss. Price not cut.

NO ROOM TO SWING A CAT
Written by Ralph Steadman. Illustrated by Ralph Steadman.
Stock no. 1312693
Published by Andersen Press Ltd.. 1st 1989. Nearly fine condition.

Tom's room is so cluttered with toys that there's not even room to swing a cat or moose or dinosaur... Riotous and exuberant colour illustrations. Glazed pictorial boards. Not paginated. ISBN: 0862642418. Spine is very slightly browned else a fine copy.

JONES OF COLORADO
Written by Ralph Steadman. Illustrated by Ralph Steadman.
Stock no. 1312669
Published by Ebury Press. 1st 1995. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Steadman visits his friend hoping to avoid distractions and finish a new book. Instead, he met Jones and succumbed utterly to the cat's sly charm. He decided to buy a brand-new sketchbook - and this is the result... Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. Not paginated. ISBN: 0091809452. SIGNED by Steadman to half-title with some slight transfer of ink to free-endpaper opposite. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is ever so slightly edge rubbed causing very slight grubbiness.

QUEST FOR SITA
Written by Maurice Collis. Illustrated by Mervyn Peake.
Stock no. 1312662
Published by John Day. 1st USA 1947. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth with gilt title to spine and red vignette to front cover. 162 pages. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped, slight rubbing to cover edges. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn with slight loss to top and base of spine and a large section of loss to lower corner of front panel.

KATE GREENAWAY
Written by M.H. Spielmann. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 1312641
Published by A. & C. Black. 1911. Very good condition.

British Artists series. Sixteen examples in colour of the artist's work. Green cloth, gilt titles. Pictorial onlay to front. Tipped-in plates. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Foxing and page browning to text pages. All plates present and in fine condition. Hinge between last page of text and first plate is cracked. This edition "reissued with slight rearrangement of pictures, February 1911".

THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF ILLUSTRATION
Written by Gerard Quinn.
Stock no. 1109348
Published by Studio Editions. 1st 1990. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A Compilation of More Than 5,000 Illustrations and Designs. Large format. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0851703608. Light browning to covers. A few marks to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased with a few chips/nicks.

THE ART OF MAURICE SENDAK
Written by Selma G. Lanes. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
Stock no. 2114423
Published by The Bodley Head. 1st 1981. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Large oblong format. Pictorial cloth. "Sendak's Life and Works are explored in affectionate detail, including many colour and b/w illustrations and folding plates, a moveable scene and a facsimile of the tiny mock-up that Sendak first made for the story that would later become Where The Wild Things Are". ISBN: 0370303865. Light wear to cover edges. Light page browning.

THE ART OF MAURICE SENDAK
Written by Selma G. Lanes. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
Stock no. 1312475
Published by Harry N. Abrams. 1st 1980. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Sendak's life and work are explored in affectionate detail in this charming fun-filled book. 94 full-colour illustrations and more than 165 b/w illustrations. Large oblong format. Pictorial cloth showing scene from "Where The Wild Things Are". ISBN: 0810916002. A few very light scartch marks to the heavy plastic original dustwrapper.

THE ADVENTURES OF WILLY AND NILLY
Written by Phyllis Morris. Illustrated by Hilda Cowham.
Stock no. 1710683
Published by John Lane The Bodley Head. 1st 1921. Very good condition.

Green cloth with dark titles. B/w illustrations and 8 colour and 7 b/w plates. Willy and Nilly are twins. Spine faded with a couple of small marks. Pictorial endpapers browned. All plates present.

FORTY FINE LADIES
Written by Patrick R. Chalmers. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 1109160
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1st 1929. Very good condition.

Limited edition of 250 copies. White vellum spine, burgundy cloth, gilt titles. Large format. B/w and two tone illustrations. Top edge gilt. Verses to do with fox-hunting which have appeared in Punch previously . SIGNED by author and illustrator. This is copy no. 96. Vellum spine is grubby. Some foxing and marks to endpapers and outer page edges. Contents are very nice!