Children's Books from Veery Books

London: Christie's, London, 1992. 101 pp. 548 lots. Pages lightly tanned toward top edge, otherwise fine. English Literature: The John Bowden Collection of 18th Century books and bindings in remarkably fine condition; Shakepeare's Henry IV part I 1639; an unrecorded variant of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey 1818, and an important Samuel Mearne Binding with an original fore-edge painting. Children's books:… Read more about this item

150 Nassau Street, New York: American Tract Society 52 pp. + adv. Blindstamped cloth with gilt titles on spine. A curved depression and associated stain to front board, causing a curve in bottom of spine with short tears to cloth, otherwise light wear to corners of boards. A dampstain of bottom third to half extends throughout volume causing browning. P.O.… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944. 224 pp. Blue Cloth with silver embossing is fine, some foxing to endpapers, and top of pages a bit dull. DJ missing two pieces with spine darkening. Dust jacket art and decorations by Edward Shenton. 'Although Jumper was harnessed almost daily that winter, the chores assigned to him were so light that he considered… Read more about this item

Milano: Ulrico Hoepli, 1935. p.o. signed ffep. Color illustration by Nino Pagot on boards is clean and bright. Sedici tavole fuori testo [Sixteen plates outside text]. I count only 15 plates, perhaps there was a frontis or they are including the front board. Pages browned at edges and becoming brittle. Pages are becoming detached at front. Cloth spine with 3-… Read more about this item

Andover, UK: Pitkin Pictorials, 1980. 32 pp. A rub to the rear wrap, and a price sticker. Many unusual photographs and illustrations. ''Mavis Batey tells the story of Alice Liddell, the daughter of the Dean of Christ Church, and the immortal friendship with 'Lewis Carroll', the mathematics don, which inspired the Alice books. Mrs Batey, who is married to… Read more about this item