Aldin Cecil. The White Puppy Book. Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton. No date. c.1909., 1909.

Price: US$102.66 + shipping

Description: HB. Original stiff card boards with cloth spine. Twelve full page colour plates. Boards rubbed & edgeworn. Corners bumped. Spotting to early pages with further pages age toned. Inscription date "Christmas 1908" to first endpaper. Small paper bookseller label contemporary to publishing date pasted to rear endpaper. Good.

Seller: Geoff Blore`s Books, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Cecil Aldin. The White Puppy Book. Henry Frowde and Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1909.

Price: US$153.99 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Famed illustrator Cecil Aldin's delightful 'White Puppy Book', an illustrated volume featuring a humorous tale concerning a troublesome young pup. A charming early twentieth century illustrated children's book by artist and illustrator Cecil Aldin.Aldin was best known for his delightful paintings and sketches of animals, sports, and rural life, with both of these volumes illustrated throughout. Illustrated with twelve colour plates. Collated, complete.Undated; dated circa 1909 via Jisc.In a scarce variant of the publisher's binding, featuring two white puppies to the front board, rather than one. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with back strip lightly age toned. Horizontal split to cloth at back strip centre. Discolouration to perimeters of rear board, with rubbing to fore edge of head of front board. Hinges strained, and a touch tender. Internally, firmly bound. Spotting to first few leaves, with pages otherwise clean and bright. Very Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

Aldin, Cecil. The White Puppy Book. Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton, 1909.

Price: US$160.41 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 12 colour plates and black & white illustrations. Some superficial cracking to inner hinges but all is very firm. Nice clean copy inside and out but boards have some edge wear and very light scuffs.

Seller: HAUNTED BOOKSHOP P.B.F.A., CAMBRIDGE, CAMBS, United Kingdom

Aldin, Cecil. The White Kitten Book. Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton, 1909.

Price: US$192.49 + shipping

Description: 12 plates and illustrations within text. An unusually clean and firm copy inside and out. There is an inscription verso of free front endpaper and very minor edge wear to boards.

Seller: HAUNTED BOOKSHOP P.B.F.A., CAMBRIDGE, CAMBS, United Kingdom

Not Stated. Pussy and Her Ways. Henry Frowde and Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1909.

Price: US$211.74 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A beautiful Cecil Aldin work on cats and their many adventures, illustrated colourfully in Aldin's signature style. A charming volume on cats, comprising of short fiction pieces and poems recounting various feline adventures.Illustrated with three colour plates, and full-paged and in-text monochrome illustrations, all depicting cats.The title page and three colour plates by Cecil Aldin. Aldin is best known for his entertaining illustrations of animals, depicting pets in their day to day life in charming detail.Undated, dated from the prize label to the front paste down. In the original publisher's quarter cloth binding with illustrated paper to the boards. Externally, smart, with some light marks and discolouration visible to the white paper. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. A couple of very small chips to the backstrip. Small crack to the tail of the front joint. Prize label to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with some light handling marks. Very Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

Aldin, Cecil. PICKLES. Henry Frowde, Hodder & Stoughton, 1909.

Price: US$363.49 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1st 1909. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Telling the story of Pickles the puppy who is always getting into a pickle! Large format. Brick red cloth spine, with gilt title. Green cloth covers with orange and gilt titles. 24 delightful colour plates. Recased in original covers, joints professionally repaired and rear free-endpaper backed as some loss to edges. Some pages and plates slightly worn to edges where they were loose before repairs. Some creases to pages. Light browning mainly to margins of text pages, plates bright and clean. Inscription in ink and small newspaper clipping (about Peter the lost Budgerigar!) fixed with white tape to verso of front-endpaper. Musty odour to contents. Still a decent copy of a scarce title, now in sound binding. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom

Aldin, Cecil. THE BLACK PUPPY BOOK. Henry Frowde, Hodder & Stoughton, 1909.

Price: US$370.09 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: circa 1909. Very good condition with no wrapper. This is a book about all sorts of puppy dogs and their games and sports. It may serve to amuse you, but should it fail, well, this is only a puppy dog's tale. Pictorial green cloth. B/w text and full page colour illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Front cover lightly marked, rear cover has white vertical stain. Foxing to contents. It is possible that the endpapers have been professionally replaced. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom