31. Crockett, S.R.

Sweetheart Travellers – A Child’s Book for Children, For Women, And for Men. Illustrated by Gordon Browne and W.H.C. Groome.

Third Edition. London, Wells, Gardner, Warton & Co. 1896. 15 cm x 21.5 cm. Frontispiece, XV, 305 pages. 69 illustrations including frontispiece. Hardcover [publisher’s original patterned green cloth] with lettering on spine and front board. Spine and front board carry inlaid pictorial images. Gilt top edge. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior is bright and clean. Minor abrasions in gutter between front endpaper and pastedown. Binding still firm and strong.

32. Dahal, Charity.

The Orange Thieves and Other Stories. Illustrated by Beryl Moore.

East African Publishing House, 1971. 12 x 18cm. 64 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. [East African Readers Library, No. 5].

33. De Brunhoff, Laurent.

Serafina The Giraffe.

London, Methuen & Co Ltd, 1968. 21.5 cm x 28.5 cm. [26 pages] Abundant colour illustrations by author throughout. Hardcover [publisher’s original richly illustrated orange cloth] lettering to spine. Good- condition. Minor rubbing to board corners. Cracks along length of both gutters between pastedowns and endpapers and at hinge of spine. Binding is tender at hinges but textblock is solid. Interior bright and clean with hint of foxing to edges. Ownership stamp of Charles U. Kruger, Educational Consultant’, in Switzerland on rear endpaper.

34. Dégh, Linda. [Ed].

Folktales of Hungary. Translated by Judit Halász. Foreword by Richard M. Dorson.

Second Impression. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1969. 13 x 20.5cm. (46), 381 pages. Original softcover. Some signs of external wear including some paper loss to spine, creasing to front jacket, bumping to edges. Previous owner’s name on half-title page and some minor text annotations. [Folktales of the World, No. 6, Editor: R.M. Dorson].

35. Dehn, Olive / Meldrum, Roy / Compton Mackenzie / Jean Margaret Hamilton / Madeleine Nightingale / et. al.

No. Fourteen [14] Joy Street. A Medley of Prose & Verse for Boys and Girls.

Oxford, Basil Blackwell, No Year [c.1930]. 18.3 cm x 24.8 cm. Frontispiece, 246 pages. Black and white and several tipped-in colour-illustrations. Illustrators include Harry Rountree, C.T.Nightingale, Maria Wolff, Mary Baker, Audrey Teago, Josephine Leslie etc. Original Hardcover. Decorative cloth boards. Decorative endpapers and pastedowns. Good+ condition. Binding a little shaky but holding with endpapers intact. Minor wear and rubbing to cover. Moderate foxing to edges. Minor foxing to pages throughout. Many previous owners names in ink to half-title and title pages. A few colour markings throughout. Pages separating from book block in places.

36. Deluxe Illustrated Children’s Book – Kipling, Rudyard.

All the Puck Stories. With Illustrations by H.R.Millar and Charles E.Brock.

First Deluxe Edition (Published simultaneously with the trade edition). London, MacMillan and Co., 1935. Octavo. Frontispiece-Illustration, X, 670, [2] pages. Illustrated throughout. Original Hardcover / Decorative full red leather with gilt lettering and gilt illustration of Puck on the front board. In its original, rare dustjacket. The dustjacket frayed with some loss. The Volume itself in excellent condition with some minor signs of wear to upper and lower hinge only.

37. Des Salles, Héloïse.

The Adventures of Jonathan Seal. [Signed / Inscribed]

London, Jonathan Cape, 1948. Large Octavo. 55 pages with numerous illustrations. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed and inscribed by Héloïse Des Salles on the halftitle. Rare !

38. Dickens, Charles.

Collection of six First Editions, all bound uniformely around 1850 and all in their original state. A stunning set with nearly all of the books in their First state of First Edition printing and with all plates complete. The collection includes: Bleak House / Little Dorrit / Nicholas Nickleby / Martin Chuzzlewit / Dombey and Son / David Copperfield. A very rare occasion in which a contemporary 19th-century lover of Dickens’ Literature had all Novels in their first edition bound to his/her liking. The mid-19th-century bindings beautiful in their simplicity and uniform style.

London, Chapman and Hall, 1839 – 1857. Octavo. Hardcover / Mid-19th-century Half-Leather with gilt lettering on spine. Original marbled endpapers. Very good condition with only few layers and illustrations loosened and the usual tanning to the illustrations. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. [The David Copperfield Volume has a defect (see detailed description below)]. Perfect collection of first editions to start a Dickens-Collection in contemporary, 19th-century bindings.

39. Dickey, James / Angel, Marie.

Tucky The Hunter. Illustrated by Marie Angel.

New York, Crown Jewel, 1978. Oblong Large Octavo. 44 pages with colour illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor signs of foxing. Signed and inscribed by James Dickey to Peter [Viereck] on the endpaper: ″ – to all in Peter’s house – from James Dickey”.

40. Dickson, George.

Railways Shown to the Children.

London & Edinburgh, T.C. & E.C. Jack, no year [c.1917]. 12 cm x 16.5 cm. Frontispiece, VII, 95 pages. 40 coloured plates and numerous illustrated within text. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Pictoral on front board with gilt lettering and bordering. Deckled edges. Bound purple nylon bookmark. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of previous owner on front end paper. Interior bright and clean. [Shown to the Children Series, No. 15]