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1971. 1. REFERENCE. (BOOK COLLECTING). COLLECTOR'S BOOK OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS by Eric Quayle. NY: Clarkson Potter (1971). 4to, (9 x 12"), cloth, 144p., Fine in dust wrapper. Stated 1st ed. An excellent survey of children's books for the collector with a profusion of color photos and much informative text. A very readable reference work. ... more information

1971. 1. REFERENCE. (BOOK COLLECTING) COLLECTOR'S BOOK OF BOOKS by Eric Quayle. NY: Clarkson Potter (1971). 4to, cloth, 144p., Fine in dust wrapper. Stated. 1st ed. An excellent survey of collectible books with index and a profusion of color photos and much informative text. A very readable reference work. ... more information

1915. 1. (GRAY,M.ETHELDREDA)illus. THE TREASURE BOOK OF CHILDREN'S VERSE arranged by Mabel & Lillian Quiller-Couch. NY: Hodder & Stoughton, no date, circa 1915. Very thick small 4to (7 x 9 1/2"), 335p., green cloth with elaborate gilt pictorial design, MINT IN PUBLISHER'S BOX (box lightly worn near Fine). This is a lavish book of poems divided into categories and illustrated by Gray with 20 very beautiful mounted color plates. An unusually lovely book in excellent condition. ... more information

1915. 1. (DULAC,EDMUND)illus. SLEEPING BEAUTY and other fairy tales from the old French retold by Arthur Quiller-Couch. NY: Hodder & StoughtonDoran, no date [circa 1915]. Small 4to, brown gilt pictorial cloth, near fine. Containing Sleeping Beauty, Blue Beard, Cinderella and Beauty & the Beast. Illustrated by Dulac with 12 beautiful tipped-in color plates. This is the American Popular Edition, Hughey 23d. ... more information

1910. 1. (GRAY,M.ETHELDREDA)illus. THE TREASURE BOOK OF CHILDREN'S VERSE arranged by Mabel & Lillian Quiller-Couch. NY: Hodder & Stoughton, no date, circa 1910. Very thick 4to (8 x 10 1/2"), 335p., blue cloth with elaborate gilt pictorial design, top edge gilt, Fine condition. This is a lavish book of poems divided into categories and illustrated by Gray with 20 very beautiful mounted color plates. An unusually lovely book in excellent condition. ... more information

1913. 1. (NIELSEN,KAY)illus. IN POWDER AND CRINOLINE: old fairy tales retold by Arthur Quiller-Couch. Lond:Hodder & Stoughton, nd [1913], large 4to, ( 10 x 12 1/2"), 1/4 leather and cloth, raised bands on spine, original labels bound in, Fine. 1st ed. Deluxe issue. Illustrated by Nielsen with 26 tipped- in color plates on heavy stock (2 more plates than in the trade edition) and also with pictorial tissue-guards. There are also numerous illustrations in text- all to accompany 7 fairy tales. Th... more information