Set Comment Undated, but approx 1920's-1930's. Red, green or blue cloth covers with pictorial pastedown illustration to front board, and gilt titles to spine. Some titles also come with cheaper linen type cloth cover with no picture. Catalogue to rear pages. Colour plate to frontispiece, plus five full page illustrations in text with several black and white drawings throughout.
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| ALICE IN WONDERLAND | |
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Item Comment illustrations THE MAD HATTER'S TEA PARTY, ALICE SEES THE WHITE RABBIT, ALICE AND THE PIG BABY, THE QUEEN'S CROQUET PARTY, THE MOCK TURTLES STORY, WHO STOLE THE TARTS?
Artist A.L. BOWLEY Author LEWIS CARROLL Size 5 x 7.5 in. Categories |
| ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES | |
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Item Comment on title page HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES
Artist MABEL LUCIE ATTWELL Author HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN Size 5 x 7.5 in. Categories |
| DICKENS' DREAM CHILDREN | |
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Item Comment red or green cloth covered boards with pictorial paste down colour illustration, title in gold to spine,
Artist HAROLD COPPING AND OTHERS Author MARY ANGELA DICKENS (CHARLES DICKENS' GRAND-DAUGHTER) AND OTHERS Size 5 x 7.5 in. Categories |
| GRIMM'S FAIRY STORIES | |
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Item Comment illustrations LITTLE SNOW-WHITE, THE SIX SWANS, THE TRAVELS OF TOM THUMB, THE CHANGELING FROM "THE FAIRY FOLK", LITTLE RED-CAP, SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED
Artist MABEL LUCIE ATTWELL Author THE BROTHERS GRIMM Size 5 x 7.5 in. Categories |
| HEROIC DEEDS OF GREAT MEN | |
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Item Comment illustrations LORD ALLENBY ENTERING JERUSALEM (cover), SIR PHILIP SIDNEY AT THE TOURNAMENT IN WHITEHALL, NELSON BOARDING THE SAN NICOLAS, SIR HENRY HAVELOCK AT THE RELIEF OF LUCKNOW, GENERAL GORDON IN THE DESERT, LORD KITCHENER DISGUISED AS AN ARAB, THE "VINDICTIVE" AT ZEEBRUGGE
Artist HOWARD DAVIE AND HARRY PAYNE Author C. SHERIDAN JONES AND ALFRED MILES Size 5 x 7.5 in. Categories |
| KING ARTHUR AND HIS KNIGHTS | |
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Item Comment illustrations THE YOUTH PULLED IT OUT EASILY, ONE OF THE TWO KNIGHTS RUSHED TO ENCOUNTER HIM, THE STRANGEST BEAST THAT HAD EVER BEEN SEEN, ARTHUR TOOK THE SWORD IN ITS SHEATH FROM THE HAND, WITH ALL DUE RITES SIR PALAMIDES WAS BAPTISED, LINET CAUGHT HIM BY THE ARM AND IMPLORED HIM TO WAIT, THERE CAME AN AGED MAN LEADING THE YOUNG NEW-MADE KNIGHT
Artist A.A. DIXON Author DORIS ASHLEY AND OTHERS Size 5 x 7.5 in. Categories |
| LEGENDS OF ANIMALS FAR & NEAR | |
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Item Comment illustrations THE MONKEY AT ONCE BECAME SUSPICIOUS (cover), NEVER BEFORE OR SINCE HAS THERE BEEN SUCH A TUG-OF-WAR, INCORONATA WAS A FAVOURITE, HE PERCEIVED THE TRAIN OF PATIENT MULES, IT WAS ONE OF THE STRANGEST SIGHTS THAT EVER WAS, AT LENGTH THE PAINT WAS NEARLY ALL USED UP, IT'S A STRANGE CAT THAT HAS STOLEN IT
Delightful collection of animal stories.
Stories include: Atta Troll, Reynard the Fox, The Resourceful Tortoise, The Hen-Partridge and the Jackass, The Raven's Revenge, How the Hippo lost his Kingdom. Artist EDWIN NOBLE Author ROSE YEATMAN WOOLF Size 5 x 7.5 in. Categories |
| OLD TIME FAIRY TALES AND NURSERY RHYMES | |
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Item Comment illustrations THE MAGIC MIRROR (cover), THE GOOSE GIRL, OLD KING COLE, SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED, MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB, BLUEBIRD, SEE-SAW, MARGERY DAW
Artist JENNIE HARBOUR Size 5 x 7.5 in. Categories |
| ROBIN HOOD | |
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Item Comment on title page ROBIN HOOD AND HIS LIFE IN THE MERRY GREENWOOD,
Artist HOWARD DAVIE Author ROSE YEATMAN WOOLF Size 5 x 7.5 in. Categories |
| ROBINSON CRUSOE | |
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Item Comment illustrations BRINGING THE RAFT FROM THE WRECK (cover), CRUSOE SAVES FRIDAY'S LIFE, CRUSOE AND HIS FORTRESS, ROBINSON CRUSOE IN HIS HUT, THE FOOTPRINT IN THE SAND, LAUNCHING THE CANOE, CRUSOE APPEARS BEFORE THE SHIP'S CAPTAIN
Artist HOWARD DAVIE Author DANIEL DEFOE Size 5 x 7.5 in. Categories |
| SHAKESPEARE TALES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS | |
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Item Comment on title page SHAKESPEARE TALES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS AND WHEN SHAKESPEARE WAS A BOY
Artist J. H. BACON, A.R.A. AND OTHERS Author DR. F.J.FURNIVALL, M.A. Size 5 x 7.5 in. Categories |
| STORIES FROM GRIMM | |
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Item Comment info from dust jacket of TALES OF THE ALHAMBRA Artist MABEL LUCIE ATTWELL Categories |
| STORIES FROM HANS ANDERSEN | |
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Item Comment info from dust jacket of TALES OF THE ALHAMBRA Artist MABEL LUCIE ATTWELL Categories |
| TALES AND LEGENDS FROM INDIA | |
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Item Comment illustrations 'THEY CAME WITH GARLANDS, LAMPS AND MUSIC".., HIS NAME IS SATYAVAN"..., THE PALACE OF LAC...., "PABHAVATI WAKENED WITH A START"..., "SHE FLED FROM THE AUDIENCE CHAMBER"...., "CATCHING SIGHT OF RAMA SHE RUSHED FORWARD"...., "HE DEMANDED AN AUDIENCE OF THE GRAND VIZIER"....,
Artist HARRY G. THEAKER Author M. D. BELGRAVE AND HILDA HART Size 5 x 7.5 in. Categories |
| TALES OF ADVENTURE | |
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Item Comment illustrations I'M SORRY, MISS CAMERON...., YOU MUST NOT BREAK IT...., YES, IT IS THE ONLY WAY...., HERE, PUT SOME OF THIS ON YOUR HANDS..., BELIEVE ME, I HAVE NO WISH TO HURT YOU, HOW'D YOU GET ERE?.....,
Artist T. CUNEO Author NATALIE JOAN, VIOLET METHLEY AND OTHERS Size 5 x 7.5 in. Categories |
| TALES OF THE ALHAMBRA | |
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Item Comment illustrations THE GRAN MASTER OF ALCANTARA (cover), THE BEAUTIFUL CAPTIVE AND ABEN HABUZ, RUYZ DE ALARCON AND THE ROSE OF THE ALHAMBRA, KING ABU HABUZ AND THE ARABIAN ASTROLOGER, PRINCESS ALDEGONDA AND HER PHYSICIANS, THE GRAND MASTER OF ALCANTARA AND THE HERMIT,
Artist HARRY G. THEAKER Author WASHINGTON IRVING Size 5 x 7.5 in. Categories |
| TALES OF THE SEA | |
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Item Comment illustrations "GRASPING ONE OF THE DANGLING FALLS HE SWARMED UP", MORGAN REGAINED HIS FEET AND MAKE HIS WAY ON DECK", "DICK RAPPED OUT AN ORDER, AND THE ROSE SWUNG ROUND", " A SCORE OF CUSTOMS BOATMEN DASHED TOWARDS THEIR PREY!", "RIGHT AHEAD WAS A SCHOONER WITH HER CANVAS IN SHREDS", "CERDAH STRUCK HIM WITH HIS FIST"
Artist T. CUNEO Author PERCY R. WESTERMAN, MAJOR CHARLES GILSON AND OTHERS Size 5 x 7.5 in. Categories |
| TALES OF WONDER | |
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Item Comment on title page TALES OF WONDER "SUR, THE EAGLE"
Artist C. E. BROCK. R. I. Author M. GASTOR, PH.D. Size 5 x 7.5 in. Categories |
| TALES THAT THRILL | |
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Item Comment illustrations THE TWO HORSES CANNONED (cover), I WAS RESOLVED TO SELL MY LIFE AS DEARLY AS I COULD, WHAT ON EARTH D'YOU THINK IS MAKING THAT NOISE, WHAT'S THIS, BY THUNDER, THE TWO MEN IN THE BOAT...., BUT THE GREATEST WONDER OF ALL...., IF I KEEP THE PISTOL LIKE THIS...,
Artist C. E. BROCK. R. I. Author MAJOR CHARLES GILSON, WALTER WOOD AND OTHERS Size 5 x 7.5 in. Categories |
| THE ARABIAN KNIGHTS | |
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Item Comment illustrations PERIEZADEH AND THE SULTAN (cover), MORGIANA, ALI BAB AND COGIA HASSAN, ALADDIN AND THE GENIE, PRINCE AHMED AND THE FAIRY PERIE ANOU, PRINCE FEROZE-SHAH AND THE ENCHANTED HORSE, THE KING, PRINCESS BADOURA AND CAMARALZAMAN, PRINCE AGIB IN THE PRINCESSES' PALACE
Artist H.G. THEAKER Author RETOLD BY ROSE YEATMAN WOOLF Size 5 x 7.5 in. Categories |
| THE HEROES OR GREEK FAIRY TALES | |
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Item Comment illustrations "HERA HAS SENT US A PILOT; LET US FOLLOW THE CUNNING BIRD", "THEN PERSEUS HELD ALOFT THE GORGON'S HEAD"," THEN ORPHEUS TOOK HIS HARP, AND BEGAN HIS MAGIC SONG"," DOWN CAME TWO FEARFUL MONSTERS, THE LIKE OF WHOM MAN NEVER SAW", "JASON TORE THE FLEECE FROM OFF THE TREE-TRUNK", " AS HE LOOKED HE SHRANK AND SHUDDERED"
Artist HOWARD DAVIE Author CHARLES KINGSLEY Size 5 x 7.5 in. Categories |
| THE ROMANCE OF THE RAILWAY | |
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Item Comment illustrations LONDON MIDLAND AND SCOTTISH RAILWAY. SCOTCH EXPRESS (cover), CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS. THE "CONTINENTAL LIMITED", LONDON AND NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY. THE "FLYING SCOTSMAN", GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY THE CORNISH EXPRESS, PARIS, LYONS AND MEDITERRANEAN RAILWAY THE FAMOUS "BLUE TRAIN", GREAT INDIAN PENINSULAR RAILWAY. THE VICEREGAL TRAIN, BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD. THE "CAPITOL LIMITED"
Artist BERNARD WAY Author G. GIBBARD JACKSON Size 5 x 7.5 in. Categories |
| THE WATER BABIES | |
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Item Comment red or green cloth covered boards with pictorial paste down colour illustration, title in gold to spine,
Artist MABEL LUCIE ATTWELL Author CHARLES KINGSLEY Size 5 x 7.5 in. Categories |
| WONDROUS DEEDS OF BYGONE DAYS | |
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Item Comment illustrations SIGURD AND BRYNHILD, "HE MARRIED A LADY OF HIGH BIRTH", ANDVARI AND THE RHINE MAIDENS, "THEY CAME TO A CAVE BY THE SEA", HLADGRUN, OLRUN AND ALVIT,"THE CHILD SHOWED SIGNS OF AMAZING STRENGTH", ODIN AND FRIGGA
Artist H.G. THEAKER Author M. DOROTHY BELGRAVE AND HILDA HART Size 5 x 7.5 in. Categories |