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A BOOK OF NONSENSE
Written by Edward Lear. Illustrated by Edward Lear.
Stock no. 1331462
Published by The Bodley Head. 1981. Fine condition.

Facsimile edition from The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books. Wonderful blue pictorial cloth with gilt titles and vignettes. Printed on one side of the paper only. All edges are gilt. A super copy contained in publishers beige card slipcase.

OH, BABY, THE PLACES YOU'LL GO!
Written by Dr. Seuss; Tish Rabe. Illustrated by Dr. Seuss.
Stock no. 1831514
Published by HarperCollins Childrens Books. Circa 2017. Slightly better than very good condition.

Baby, oh, baby, the places you'll go! The worlds you will visit! The friends you will know! A warm welcome to the magic and wonder of Dr. Seuss, for mothers, babies and everyone in between! Adapted by Tish Rabe. Pictorial cloth boards. Colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 9780008241650. Sixth printing. Light knock to top front edge of boards. Contents fine. Contained in publisher's pictorial slipcase which is lightly rubbed at corners, and has a minor 'dint' to front. A lovely, fresh looking copy.

A BOOK OF NONSENSE
Written by Edward Lear. Illustrated by Edward Lear.
Stock no. 1830412
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st thus 1980. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Reproduced from a rare copy, published around 1870, in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the first in which the drawings appeared in colour. Large format. Red cloth boards with gilt titles. Cream endpapers. Bold colour illustrations. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0723227152. Very light fading to boards. Minor pencil erasure mark to half-title page. Else a clean copy. Red pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-creased, lightly faded to spine and a small nick, minor wear to top of spine.

THE DONG WITH A LUMINOUS NOSE
Written by Edward Lear. Illustrated by Edward Gorey.
Stock no. 1328382
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st thus 1969. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

6 x 9 ins. Yellow boards with black illustration to front board. Illustrated endpapers. Wonderful b/w drawings illustrate Edward Lear's Nonsense Rhyme. Originally published by Lear in 1847. ISBN: 0701116439. Spine slightly bumped and rubbed. Damp stain to lower edges of covers. Inscription in ink to verso of front free-endpaper. Price-cut wrapper is damp stained and edge rubbed.

A BOOK OF NONSENSE
Written by Edward Lear.
Stock no. 1321526
Published by Gowans & Gray Ltd.. 1919. Good condition.

Minature Edition. Pictorial card wraps (illustration to front by Hassall). B/w illustrations. Covers grubby, foxed and edge rubbed. Tobacco smell to contents. Fingering to page margins.

MISTER BANNOCK
Written by Edgar Primrose Dickie. Illustrated by Savile Lumley.
Stock no. 1320447
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1947. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

A nonsense story. Red cloth, black titles and vignette to front cover. Colour frontis, b/w text illustrations. 91 pages. Covers are mottled, fading to top front edge. Spine bumped. Tiny dents to lower edges of covers. Endpapers lightly browned. Foxing to contents. Price-cut wrapper is edge worn and a little grubby to rear panel, foxed on verso.

NONSENSE NONSENSE!
Written by Walter Jerrold. Illustrated by Charles Robinson.
Stock no. 1814723
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 1902. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Cloth spine. Pictorial boards and endpapers. One of Robinson's rarest illustrated books. Edges rubbed, corners worn. Scattered foxing throughout and a few grubby marks.

FIDDLESTICKS
Written by David Naylor. Illustrated by Ian Hassall.
Stock no. 1315461
Published by The Diamond Press Limited. 1st 1927. Very good condition.

Nonsense verse. Orange cloth, black titles and vignette to front cover. 118 pages. Full-page colour and two-tone text illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Covers ever so slightly grubby. Prize plate to front endpaper. Foxing to contents. A few small page edge nicks.

TEAPOTS AND QUAILS AND OTHER NEW NONSENSES
Written by Edward Lear. Illustrated by Edward Lear.
Stock no. 1314793
Published by John Murray. 1st 1953. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Edited and introduced by Angus Davidson and Philip Hofer. Previously unpublished verses found 65 years after Lear's death. Brown pictorial boards. B/w drawings to text. Spine slightly bumped and rubbed. Endpapers slightly foxed. A few light fingermarks to pages else contents clean. Dustwrapper is foxed and edge chipped with minimal loss and tape repairs on verso.

NONSENSE SONGS
Written by Edward Lear; Dudley Glass. Illustrated by Edward Lear.
Stock no. 2113142
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Set to music by Glass. Large format. Cloth spine, orange boards. 23 pages. B/w text illustrations. Some bumping and wear to spine and corners. A little page browning; some foxing, mainly to outer page edges. A few grubby margin marks. Wrapper has some large tears and chips; large piece of loss to front panel and corner; grubby.

HUSH-A-BYE BABY
No author listed. Illustrated by Nicola Bayley.
Stock no. 2111600
Published by Walker Books. 1st 1985. Slightly better than very good condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0744503809. Spine a little faded. Couple of corners are bumped.

AS I WAS GOING UP AND DOWN AND OTHER NONSENSE RHYMES
No author listed. Illustrated by Nicola Bayley.
Stock no. 2111599
Published by Walker Books. 1st 1985. Nearly fine condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0744503795. Spine is faded.