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Byron, May. HUMPTY AND DUMPTY THEIR ADVENTURES. Henry Frowde, Hodder & Stoughton, 1912.
Price: US$77.47 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st 1912. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Square buff boards, black titles; colour pictorial onlay to front cover. Part of the Cecil Aldin's Happy Family series. Colour illustrations. Damp stain to spine, spreading out to front cover. Browning and foxing to covers and pages. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: No date [1912], unpaginated. This is No. II of Cecil Aldin's Happy Family series. Beige paper cover on boards, black lettering, colour picture of cat pasted on front cover. The cover is only lightly worn. There is a tiny bookseller label at top of front pastedown. Illustrated endpapers show the six members of the happy family. Prev. owner's name written neatly at top of half title page. There is foxing, mainly to the beginning & ending pages but also light foxing on text pages. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin with 5 full page & 1 double page chromoliths, as well as b/w sketches. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: B A Downie Dog Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
Price: US$90.54 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Presumed First, no date, circa 1912. No I in the Happy Family series which was published in 6 parts and also in a collected edition. Original paper-backed boards, illustrated endpapers, 6 coloured plates (one double-leaf), line drawings. A very nice clean copy, no spotting or dampstaining, e.g., Previous owner name-stamp at half-title. Cracked at front hinge, corners and spine ends bumped but not split, some creasing to corners of the covers. A very clean copy.
Seller: Northern Lights Rare Books and Prints, Sastamala, Finland
Byron, May. FORAGER HIS ADVENTURES. Henry Frowde, Hodder & Stoughton, 1912.
Price: US$133.56 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Circa 1912. Good condition with no wrapper. Happy Family Series No. 6. Brown boards, pictorial onlay to front cover. Colour plates and b/w illustrations. Title on cover is 'Cecil Aldin's Happy Family'. 8 x 7.5 inches. Joints badly cracked showing webbing. Lacks front endpaper. Rear endpaper detached and torn with loss. Three pages with an edge tear. Spine slightly split and worn at base. Corners rubbed. Covers grubby. Colour plates bright. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Price: US$199.72 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Illustrated with 36 Coloured plates 6 of which are double pages and 36 black & white illustrations. Covers worn. Spine with amateur repair & tape along inner cover margin edges. Occasional foxing internally but plates generally good - very good with 3 plates loose.
Seller: Dublin Bookbrowsers, Dublin, NONE, Ireland
Price: US$318.01 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in quarter bound tan cloth, tan boards with pasted-on colour illustration to front boards, illustration to spine and rear boards, gold gilt lettering to front and spine. No dustjacket. 30 single and 6 double page tipped-in illustrations, full page b/w line drawings throughout. Not library copy, ink name and date to ffep, 2 colour plates loose, few marks to boards, few marks throughout. (62/5)
Seller: CURIO, Grimsby, N. E. Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$1127.66 + shipping
Description: ALDIN, Cecil. Cecil Aldin's Happy Family : Being the Adventures of Hungry Peter, the Pig; Rufus, the Cat; Humpty & Dumpty, the Rabbits; Rags, the Dog;Master Quack, the Duckling; and Forager, the Puppy. Told by May Byron andIllustrated with many Full-Page Pictures in Colour. London : Henry Frowde /Hodder & Stoughton, 1912. Each of the six sections consists of 6 numberedleaves, six title leaves, and six plates. Illustrated with 30 Full-Page Colour Plates and Six Double-Page Colour Plates. 4to, light brown cloth spine,light brown paper over boards, gilt lettering and colour pictorial onlay to front board, gilt lettering and dog illustration to spine. Spine rebacked, some wear to corners and edges, foxing to all three edges and most leavesbut not on plates, else a very good copy. 1,500.00
Seller: John W. Doull, Bookseller, Dartmouth, NS, Canada