11. King, Alexander.

May This House Be Safe From Tigers.

First Edition. Kingswood, Surrey, The Windmill Press Ltd., 1960. 15cm x 22cm. VIII, 374 pages. 23 illustrations by the author. Original Hardcover with original, illustrated dustjucket in protective Mylar. Foxing to the edges. Minor signs of external wear to the dustjacket and a ball pen mark on the front of the DJ. Otherwise in very good condition. Especially the rare dustjacket in excellent condition !

12. [Masereel, Frans] Institut für Buchgestaltung Leipzig.

Buchkunst / Internationale Beiträge zur Buchgestaltung – Dritter Band / [Including 16 pages on the artist Frans MAsereel – with a short biography and some examples of his Woodcut – Work / With a chapter on Oskar Zech- A Master of Typography / Ein Meister der Typographie / With a wonderful chapter on international children’s books].

Dresden, Verlag der Kunst, 1959. 21.5 cm x 30.2 cm. 271 pages. Original Hardcover in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor tanning to page margins, edges, pastedowns and endpapers. Otherwise bright and clean.

13. Mitsuko, Ono.

The Camphor Tree’s Story. Japanese Text. Illustrated by Fuyuji Yamanaka.

No Place, No Publisher, No Year. 21.1 cm x 24.4 cm. 31 pages. With many colour illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only minor dampstain to a few pages throughout. With ephemera of a typed translation from Japanese into English by ‘Erik and Masako Haugaard’. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard. The book is inscribed by the illustrator Fuyuji Yamanaka.

14. Peters, Harry T.

Currier & Ives. Printmakers to the American People.

New York, Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1942. 23.5 cm x 40 cm. XVI, 41 pages. With 192 Plates. With 247 black and white illustrations and 32 colour illustrations. This special edition of Currier & Ives is set in 12 pt. Caslon Monotype with hand-drawn decorative initials. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Cloth boards age-toned and with some minor staining. Minor foxing to edges, endpapers and pastedowns. Faded blue decoration to top edges. Gilt title on spine. A very unique and special collection of timeless prints. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen Translator- Erik C. Haugaard.

15. Powling, Chris (Editor).

The Best of Books for Keeps. Highlights from the Leading Children’s Book Magazine.

London, The Bodley Head Children’s Books, 1994. Octavo. 15.7 cm x 24 cm. XI, 265 pages. With twenty black and white illustrations. Original Hardcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor foxing to front and rear pastedown enpapers, endpapers, and pages throughout. Edges have minor foxing and discolouration. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen Translator Erik C. Haugaard.

16. Rasmussen, Halfdan / Spang Olsen, Ib.

Regnens Harpe. Digte og grafik fra Irland.

Denmark, Schønberg, 1990. 20.9 cm x 27.9 cm. 55 pages. With many black and white illustrations throughout. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor foxing to the inside front and rear cover, halftitle page and endpaper. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen Translator- Erik C.Haugaard.

17. [René d’Anjou].

Le Livre Du Cueur D’Amours Espris [The Love Heart Book]. Introduction and Commentaries by F.Unterkircher / The National Library, Vienna.

Faksimile. London, Thames and Hudson, 1975. 19.4 cm x 28.2 cm. 48 pages. 16 colour plates with commentary opposite. Original Hardcover in illustrated card slipcase with gold draw-ribbon. Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear (minor stain to cover). Gilt decorated cloth. Number 1694 of 3000 special limited edition. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

18. Ruland, Carl (Hrsg).

Aus dem Goethe-National-Museum II. [Mit Zeichnungen von Goethe und Schmeller – Enthält auch ein Portrait von Wilhelm Jerusalem, Corona Schröter, Wieland, Silhouetten von Anna Amalia, Carl AUgust und Luisen, C.A.Vulpius, Riemer, Eckermann, Kanzler von Müller, Sulpiz Boisserée, Felix Mendelssohn, Karl von Holtei etc.]

Weimar, Verlag der Goethe-Gesellschaft, 1897. 24,5 x 33 cm. 11 Seiten Text und 25 Bildtafeln. Hardcover / Lose Blattsammlung im originalen Leinenschuber. Die Bindung etwas fleckig. Sonst in sehr gutem Zustand mit nur minimalen Gebrauchsspuren. [Schriften der Goethe-Gesellschaft. 12. Band. Herausgegeben von Bernard Suphan und Erich Schmidt.]

19. Spottiswoode, W. Hugh.

Winter’s Pie Being the Christmas Number of “Printers’ Pie”.

London, The Sphere & Tatler Ltd., 1914. Colour Frontispiece. 32 pages of advertisements, 112 pages, colour and black and white plates and illustrations. Original Softcover. Poor condition of the binding with strong signs of external wear. Cover damaged and in poor condition. Open tear to rear cover illustration. Front cover illustration missing. Pages separated from cover. Contains moderate foxing to edges. Pages tanned. Otherwise interior clean, no markings. Colour Pear’s Health and Beauty advertisement to rear. The illustraions inside in very good condition (see images).

20. Vierge, Daniel.

The Tavern of the Three Virtues. Translated from the Original of Saint-Juirs. Illustrated with sixty drawings by Daniel Verge together with a critical essay on the art of Vierge by Edmund Gosse.

London, T. Fisher Unwin, (ca. 1890). 22 cm x 33 cm. 155, (1) pages. Hardcover. Original cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. One of only 650 copies of a limited edition. Exlibris of Gordon Sloane (Lamh Dhearg). Blindstamped “Oaklands, St.Peters, Isle of Thanet”.