AUNT BROWN'S BIRTHDAY A Story Told and Illustrated By Elsa Beskow by Beskow, Elsa - 1930

New York: John H. Eggers [1922]. (stiff paper covers) Not paginated. Very good. Color illustrated cover, black and white and color illustrations. Previous owner's inscription. Illustrations by Harrison Cady. Main character: Buster Bear. (Juvenile).

London and New York: William Heinemann and Doubleday, Page & Co, 1928 A fair copy in the original grey decorative cloth binding with designs and 34 tipped-in colour plates by Arthur Rackham. The binding has been rebacked - relaying the original spine and endpapers, so it is nice and tight. There is some bumping to the front top corner and the back board corners. The binding is very clean with some fading and browning to the spine. The original decorative endpapers are free of inscriptions - there is a little grubbiness - the back free endpaper has had a sheet of music pasted to the reverse - the music contains the motifs to Siegfried, the ring and other relevant sections. There is an ink inscription to a preliminary 'To Elizabeth for her "seventeenth" birthday - from Daddy and Mummie with our best love 19 Aug'. There is some spotting to preliminaries and the text pages have a brown tint especially to edges. This book is classed as 'fair' and priced cheaply because there… Read More

Norwalk: Easton Press 1982, Collector's Edition. (4to) 219pp. Near fine, no dust jacket. Green leather with gilt decorations and lettering on the cover and spine. All edges gilt, ribbon marker, frontispiece, color illustrations. There is a previous owner's book plate on the front free endpaper. "The story of 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' was written solely to please children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out" - from the Introduction by L. Frank Baum in 1900. Illustrations by Michael Hague. (Juvenile, Fairy Tales).

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, cloth bubbled on . boards, jacket price-clipped and tattered.. 1967. Tenth Printing. Hardcover. 0132208229 . Folk rhyme adapted by Barbara Emberley. 1968 Caldecott Medal winner with colored woodcut illustrations by Ed Emberley. Red cloth reinforced library binding. Illustration by Ed Emberley of bipedal, top-hatted crocodile with mouse riding on his snout, signed and dated 1976, Norfolk on page facing title page. ; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall .

London: Methuen & Company. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1957-1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Autobiographical book of Shepard childhood, later famous for his children illustration in particular books by AA Milne. A fine book in excellent condition. Internally clean with clean boards and clear red top stain. VG+ or better dust jacket. Some minor edgewear and some very small chips. Now in a protective cover, unclipped. An exceptional copy in collectors condition, the 2nd of Shepard's bibliographical works following on Drawn from Memory. Many of Shepard's drawings adorn the pages. A very fine book, small smudge at the bottom edge. Internally book is pristine (as new) with no marks internally. Tight binding and seems unread. Clear red top stain. A like dust jacket that is very fine. Unclipped, with 25s price visible. Now in a protective cover. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 190 pages .

New York: John H. Eggers [1922]. (stiff paper covers) Not paginated. Very good. Color illustrated cover, black and white and color illustrations. Previous owner's inscription. Illustrations by Harrison Cady. Main character: Buster Bear. (Juvenile).

London and New York: William Heinemann and Doubleday, Page & Co, 1928 A fair copy in the original grey decorative cloth binding with designs and 34 tipped-in colour plates by Arthur Rackham. The binding has been rebacked - relaying the original spine and endpapers, so it is nice and tight. There is some bumping to the front top corner and the back board corners. The binding is very clean with some fading and browning to the spine. The original decorative endpapers are free of inscriptions - there is a little grubbiness - the back free endpaper has had a sheet of music pasted to the reverse - the music contains the motifs to Siegfried, the ring and other relevant sections. There is an ink inscription to a preliminary 'To Elizabeth for her "seventeenth" birthday - from Daddy and Mummie with our best love 19 Aug'. There is some spotting to preliminaries and the text pages have a brown tint especially to edges. This book is classed as 'fair' and priced cheaply because there… Read More

Norwalk: Easton Press 1982, Collector's Edition. (4to) 219pp. Near fine, no dust jacket. Green leather with gilt decorations and lettering on the cover and spine. All edges gilt, ribbon marker, frontispiece, color illustrations. There is a previous owner's book plate on the front free endpaper. "The story of 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' was written solely to please children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out" - from the Introduction by L. Frank Baum in 1900. Illustrations by Michael Hague. (Juvenile, Fairy Tales).

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, cloth bubbled on . boards, jacket price-clipped and tattered.. 1967. Tenth Printing. Hardcover. 0132208229 . Folk rhyme adapted by Barbara Emberley. 1968 Caldecott Medal winner with colored woodcut illustrations by Ed Emberley. Red cloth reinforced library binding. Illustration by Ed Emberley of bipedal, top-hatted crocodile with mouse riding on his snout, signed and dated 1976, Norfolk on page facing title page. ; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall .

London: Methuen & Company. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1957-1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Autobiographical book of Shepard childhood, later famous for his children illustration in particular books by AA Milne. A fine book in excellent condition. Internally clean with clean boards and clear red top stain. VG+ or better dust jacket. Some minor edgewear and some very small chips. Now in a protective cover, unclipped. An exceptional copy in collectors condition, the 2nd of Shepard's bibliographical works following on Drawn from Memory. Many of Shepard's drawings adorn the pages. A very fine book, small smudge at the bottom edge. Internally book is pristine (as new) with no marks internally. Tight binding and seems unread. Clear red top stain. A like dust jacket that is very fine. Unclipped, with 25s price visible. Now in a protective cover. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 190 pages .