six assorted children's and illustrated books, including Sop...

Hammer

£130

six assorted children's and illustrated books, including Sophia Rosamund Praeger: 'The Tale of The Little Twin Dragons', London, Macmillan, 1900, 1st edition, [56]pp, colour title + 27 full page colour illustrations as called for, oblong 4to, original cloth backed pictorial boards worn, inner joints split, Martin Merrythought [i.e. Arthur J. Maas]: 'Animals Around Us', L, Humphrey Milford, 1921, author presentation copy to the interior designer Georgina Fairholme (1927-2019), with his printed bookplate/compliment slip attached to FFEP and inscribed beneath "G.F. Fairholme Sept. 1932 "as a small compensation" for not receiving from the "Saturday Review" (bankrupt!) the 2 guinea prize gained for acrostics for the last quarter of 1931.", colour frontis + b/w plates, orig. pictorial paper covered boards (worn), James Orchard Halliwell: 'The Nursery Rhymes of England', L, Warne, 1886, 5th edition, engraved frontis, added engraved title page, engraved vignette ills. throughout, original quarter calf gilt, top edge gilt, plus 3 others (6)