Lot
2813
Lot 2813
Literature, Children’s – Bond ([Thomas] Michael, CBE, 1926-2...
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Literature, Children’s – Bond ([Thomas] Michael, CBE, 1926-2017), A Bear Called Paddington, an Omnibus, London, Chancellor Press, 1985, 8vo, 636pp, illus. Peggy Fortnum, 5 Vols. in 1: A Bear Called Paddington; More about Paddington; Paddington Helps Out; Paddington at Large and Paddington Marches On, bound cream printed boards, spine torn but repaired; Howitt (Mary), Our Four-Footed Friends, London, S W Partridge & Co., n. d. (1867), 8vo, 168pp, engr. frontis., numerous other plates and engraved vignettes, advertisement pastedowns, gilt embossed and bevelled green boards front board mounted with lithograph, gilt titles; Caroll (Lewis [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson,] 1832-1898), Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, London, & Glasgow, Collins, reprinted 1941, 2 Vols. in 1, small 8vo, 239pp frontis. & 7 colour plates and vignettes, bound oatmeal boards, green titles, dirty and worn d.w. front board and frontis. loose; Milne (Alan Alexander, 1882-1956), Winnie-the-Pooh, the Complete Collection, of Stories and Poems, London, Methuen, 1994, small 4to, 432pp, profusely illustrated in colour after E H Shephard monochrome printed endpapers, gilt embossed green boards and spine titles, clean d. w.; Anon., My Big Book of Stories and Rhymes, Loughborough, Ladybird, 4to, 384pp profusely illustrated in colour, colour printed boards and spine; Anon., Bugs Bunny Annual 1975, Racine Wn., USA & Manchester 1975, small 4to, 77pp, colour strip cartoons, coloured endpapers and printed boards, cover dirty; Walt Disney’s Giant Book of Bedtime Stories, London, Purnell, reprint, `975, small 4to, 189pp, profusely illus. in colour colour printed endpapers, blue boards with gilt vignette gilt titles to spine, colour printed d. w., slight tear to top; Brockbank (Russell), The Brockbank Omnibus, London, Perpetua, 1957, small 4to, 120pp, illus. in monochrome, black boards, gilt titles, binding stained by damp, good d. w., minor tears (8)
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