Lot 1200 , Frost, A.B. - Stuff and Nonsense. 1st edition. pictorial title and f-page illus. throughout; original cloth backed pictorial boards, 4to. John C. Nimmo, (1884); Smythe, Gladys - The Fairy Scales and Other Stories. pictor
° Frost, A.B. - Stuff and Nonsense. 1st edition. pictorial title and f-page illus. throughout; original cloth backed pictorial boards, 4to. John C. Nimmo, (1884); Smythe, Gladys - The Fairy Scales and Other Stories. pictorial title, 10 coloured plates and other illus. (by Catherina Patricchio); original decorated cloth with coloured mounted illus., coloured pictorial e/ps., 4to. (1921); Beskow, Elsa - Olles Skidford. pictorial title, 13 f-page coloured illus. and some others; original cloth backed coloured pictorial boards, 4to. (Stockholm,?1907); together with other related books (11)
£80-120
Condition:
Frost - sl.bds. wear, good inside, neat old ownership, Smythe - spine faded, back cover discol., inside back hinge cracked, mostly clean inside, Xmas 1921 inscription half title verso; Beskow - spine and corners wear, back hinge weak; an old 14pp. typed Eng. trans (not attributed loosely inserted); Others include - Jackson's Treatise on Wood Engraving (1st. ed.,1839); Crawhall's Chap-book Chaplets (repr. Scolar Press,1976), Malory's Morte D'Arthur (illus. Rackham, 1917), spine loose and joints split, wear on covers, hinges cracked; and 5 others
Unsold