51. Friedman, Edwin H.

Friedman’s Fables. Includes 29-page booklet – “Friedman’s Fables: Discussion Questions”.

New York, The Guilford Press, 1990. 14 x 20.5cm. (8), 213 pages, with black and white text illustrations. Original hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition.

52. Konigsburg, E.L.

From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.

New York, Dell Publishing / Doubleday, 1977. 13 x 19cm. 162 pages, with black and white illustrations. Original softcover. Good condition, fading and bumping to jacket and spine, minor signs of wear between pages 130 and 155. [A Dell Yearling Book].

53. Swift, Jonathan.

Gulliver’s Travels. Illustrated by Hans Baltzer and edited by Elaine Moss.

Second Impression. Originally published by Kinderbuchverlag, Berlin W8. London, Constable Young Books Ltd. 1964. 21.5 cm x 30 cm. 176 pages. Generously illustrated in colour throughout. Original Hardcover with black-and-white illustration on front cover and title on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some slight damage to corners (bumped).

54. Rackham, Arthur.

His Life and Work [Advertising Leaflet for the important Biography on Rackham – Ephemera – Leaflet with short Biography on Rackham , small, printed photograph of Rackham and Order Form].

[London], William Heinemann Ltd., 1960. Slim Quarto (11.5 cm 24 cm). 4 pages. Original, illustrated softcover. Excellent condition.

55. Everard, Jappy.

Hoe de Bengels toch naar Zwitserland gingen. Geillustreerd door Miep de Feijter.

Amsterdam, H.J.W.Becht, c.1931 15 cm x 23.5 cm. 225 pages with illustrations. Original Illustrated Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. All illustrations have been coloured in colour- pencil by previous owner. A few annotations in colour-pencil on lists of other publications on endpaper. Name of pre-owner and stamp on the endpaper. Dutch Edition.

56. Hoyle, Edmond.

Hoyle’s Games Improved : Being practical Treatises on the following fashionable Games, viz.: Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Chess, Back-Gammon, Billiards, Cricket, Tennis, Quinze, Hazard, and Lansquenet. In Which Are Also Contained The Method of Betting at those Games upon equal or advantageous Terms. Including The Laws of the several Games, as settled and agreed to at Whites and Stapleton’s Chocolate Houses. Revised and corrected by Thomas Jones, Esq.

London, Printed for W. Wood in Fleet-Street, 1778. Small Octavo (9.5 cm x 15 cm). XI, 216 pages. Hardcover / Original 18th century full leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Spine professionally repaired, original endpapers preserved. Name of preowner “Desproz” on titlepage. A little dusty but overall very desirable and very rare publication.

57. Menzel, Hans.

Hupferl und Tupferl. Die klugen Erfinder. Mit Bildern von Rudolf Brezik. Idee und Verse: Hans Menzel.

Erste Auflage. Leipzig, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, 2005. 30 x 20,5 cm. Unpaginiert. Ca. 30 Seiten. Hardcover/ Gebundene Ausgabe. Sehr guter Zustand mit minimalen Gebrauchsspuren.

58. 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.

59. Henty, G.A.

In the Irish Brigade – A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain. With Twelve Illustrations by Charles M. Sheldon.

London, Blackie & Son, 1901. Octavo. Frontispiece, 384 pages plus an illustrated catalogue of “Blackie & Son’s Illustrated Story Books” with several illustrations bound to the rear of the Volume. Original Hardcover with artwork to cover. / Special Gift-Binding with gilt emblemata of “Tiffins endowed School in Kingston on Thames” on cover. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. Gift-Bookplate from Tiffins School to Arthur John Clifford on pastedown.

60. Jacobs, Joseph. [Ed].

Indian Fairy Tales. Illustrated by John D. Batten.

New York, Dover Publications, Inc., 1969. 13.5 x 21.5cm. (12), 255 pages, with black and white illustrations. Original softcover. Some signs of external wear, including creasing to jacket and minor paper loss to spine. Internally in very good condition, other than some text annotations. [Dover Children’s Classics].