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Kestrel Books, 1980. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Blue boards with gilt titles. Pictorial dustwrapper. A near fine/fine copy with clean boards. Internally clean with no inscriptions & no marks to textblock edges. The near fine dustwrapper is fresh clean. Tiny sliver of loss to the top of the front flap - hardly noticeable. None of the usual fading to lilac spine. Original price of £3.50net to front flap. A lovely clean copy of a uncommon title from a tiny publisher hence its relative scarcity. Princess Amy of Phantasmorania has a very special christening gift - Ordinariness. Unlike all her six immaculate raven haired sisters she has freckles and brown hair and enjoys to play outside rather than playing the Harp. When her parents try to arrange her marriage she runs off and becomes a kitchen maid; but there she meets a prince just as ordinary (and special) as her!

Macmillan, 1906. Early printing. 8vo. Full red polished calf boards with raised bands and bottle green spine label. Decorative floral spine compartments. Gilt gadrooned board edges. Decorative trailing floral turn ins. Marbled edges & endpapers. A near fine copy with no chipping or splitting to boards. Some superficial rubbing to spine label. Internally clean and complete. Ink inscription to blank endpaper dated 1918. Very clean and fresh leaves with sharp corners. A very attractive copy. The second of Kipling's two part Classic.

Macmillan, 1894. Both volumes first editions, first printings. Blue boards with gilt titles & vignettes to boards. All edges gilt. Housed in an early 20th century felt lined blue gilt double decker Morocco slipcase with folding blue felt lined chemise within. A fine set. Clean and bright boards with very bright gilt indeed. A few light translucent marks only to boards. Very bright gilt titles & edges. Provenance - attractive heraldic bookplate of Walter Russell, Baron Brain of Eynsham (medical statesman, poet & outstanding physician who made important contributions to neurological knowledge besides writing the standard British textbook on the subject) to front endpaper of vol i. Quite unbelievably, none of the usual foxing to either volume & no inscriptions. No cracking to original black endpapers. A superb set of this cornerstone of children's literature. Classic children stories told by an adult. The best known are the "Mowgli" stories - an abandoned Indian boy brought… Read More