AN ENDURING MAGIC
and lower hinge just starting, contemporary gift inscription to front endpaper and bookplate to front pastedown. [44884] £2,500 One of the scarcest of Wodehouse’s early school stories. McIlvaine A12a PROVENANCE: Bookplate of James Heineman to front pastedown.
48. The Railway Children NESBIT, Edith
Wells Gardner, Darnton & Co. Ltd., 1906. First edition. 8vo. Ma- roon cloth embossed with gilt lettering and decoration. Top edge gilt. Pictorial title page and twenty black and white plates by C.E. Brock. A near fine copy, spine a little faded, contents very clean. An uncommonly fresh copy. [45677] £2,750 Nesbit’s most enduring work and a classic of that most fertile period for children’s literature at the beginning of the twentieth century. The book has been adapted for stage and screen on numerous occasions most fa- mously in 1970 starring Jenny Agutter.
49. The Secret Garden BURNETT, Frances Hodgson; ROBINSON, Charles
Heinemann, 1911. First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth with gilt vignettes and titles and decorative endpapers. Eight full page colour plates and pictorial endpapers by Charles Robinson. A very good copy indeed, nice and bright externally, some light foxing throughout and a small split to the top edge of the rear hinge. [45712] £2,500
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