Beecher-Stowe, Harriet.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin – A Tale of Life among the Lowly. With [106] original Illustrations [plus one Fronstispiece-Portrait] by Jenny Nystrom-Stoopendaal.

London / Paris / New York & Melbourne, Cassell and Company, 1905. Large Octavo (18 cm x 23 cm). Frontispiece – Portrait of Harriet Beecher-Stowe, XIV, 680 pages with numerous illustrations throughout. Hardcover / Original, very decorative publisher’s cloth-binding in protective Mylar. The notoriously shaky publication was strengthened by our bookbindery and is now ready to be read and used without fear of handling. Old gift-inscription to slightly frayed endpaper. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. The best version due to the large size of the book and the corresponding illustrations.

13. Benjamin, Walter.

Neuester Orbis Pictus oder Die Welt in Bildern für fromme Kinder. Aus der Sammlung von Walter Benjamin. Faksimiledruck im Inselverlag.

Frankfurt am Main, Insel Verlag, 1970. 16 x 24 cm. Unpaginiert. Ca. 50 Seiten. Hardcover/ Gebundene Ausgabe. Sehr guter Zustand mit minimalen Gebrauchsspuren.

Bourguignon, Paul-Henri.

En Écoutant Toone jouer le Bossu. Illustrations D’Edgard Tytgat.

Bruxelles, Éditeur R. Dupriez, (1944). 8°. 71 pp. Broché. [Bookblock slightly detached but overall excvellent / Bel exemplaire. Edition originale. Couverture et 12 dessins d’Edgard Tijtgat, mis en couleurs à la main au pochoir. Exemplaire No. 311 / 510 exemplaires (exemplaire sur Hollande Van Gelder). / Inscribed and signed by Paul-Henri Bourguignon on the endpaper in 1954.

Bowman, Anne.

Charade Dramas for The Drawing-Room. With Illustrations. [Acting Charades by Anne Bowman].

London, George Rutledge and Sons, no year (c.1895). Small Octavo. Frontispiece, 114 pages plus 6 pages of advertising. Original advertising endpapers and pastedowns present. With 8 illustrations (including the Frontispiece). All the illustrations show children acting a scene. Original, illustrated Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Frontispiece and a few of the other 7 illustrations cleanly detached but in very good condition. Binding a little shaky but still intact and rather firm. Ex Libris / Bookplate of J.B. Findlay to pastedown. Extremely rare !

Brockett, Eleanor.

Persian Fairy Tales. Retold by Eleanor Brockett. Illustrated by Harry Toothill.

London, Frederick Muller Limited, 1965. 13 x 20cm. (8), 224 pages, with black and white illustrations. Original clothbound hardcover. Minor signs of external wear, including sunned spine and some fraying to cloth edges. Internally in very good condition, other than some minor text annotations on first twenty pages. [Muller World Fairy Tales Collection].

10. Browning, Gareth H.

The Children’s Book Of Wild Flowers And The Story Of Their Names. Illustrated by M. C. Pollard.

London / Edinburgh, W. & R. Chambers, Ltd., 1929. 16 cm x 21 cm. Frontispiece, 250 pages, 50 illustrations. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Sunning to spine, chipped dustjacket, slightly shaken, otherwise in Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

Brun, Samuel Jacques.

Tales of Languedoc. With an Introduction by Harriet W. Preston and Illustrations by Ernest C. Peixotto.

San Francisco, William Doxey, 1896. 22cm x 16cm. 240 pages. With 33 beautiful illustrations. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Bullard, Asa.

Sunnybank Stories: Reward of Merit. Compiled by Asa Bullard. Illustrated.

Boston, Lee & Shepard, 1863. Duodecimo / Miniature book. 64 pages. Original Hardcover (red cloth with gilt lettering and ornament on spine). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Burnett, Frances Hodgson.

The Secret Garden.

In one Volume. Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1912. Small Octavo. 286 pages. Original publisher’s softcover wrapper. Name of preowner on titlepage. Rear brochure missing. Still firm and with only minor signs of fraying. Good overall condition with only minor signs of external wear. The rare Tauchnitz edition of this important book. [Tauchnitz Edition – Collection of British Authors Volume 4324].

Burnett, Frances Hodgson / Jessie Willcox Smith.

In the Closed Room. Illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith.

First Edition. London, Hodder and Stoughton [Printed in the USA by “The McClure Press”], 1904. Octavo. Frontispiece, III, [1], 129 pages with 8 beautiful illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith. Hardcover / original, beautifully illustrated publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spien and three coloured cover illustration. Interior in art nouveau style. One of the illustrations cleanly detached but still in very good condition (slightly frayed), one of the illustrations slightly detached. Otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some very minor and only very occasional staining to a few of the pages. Binding with some inor spottingto the rear board but very firm with the original artwork on endpapers and pastedown. Name of preowner on endpaper.