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Zustand: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket (occupations, juvenile poetry) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

Grant Richards. 1898. First edition. Large landscape 4to. Green hesian spine, illustrated paper covered boards. Illustrated throughout in colour. Each page has a blank verso - probably to allow plates and verses to be framed. A book version of Disney's "It's a Small World" Ride. Front free endpaper torn out. Light foxing and spotting. Inner hinge visible but holding. Generally clean and sound.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original colour illustrated paper covered boards, gilt title lettering to the olive cloth spine. Landscape 9½'' x 12½''. Contains printed pages of text to one leaf with full-page colour illustration opposite. At some stage the pages had worked loose and been taped back-in, this old tape has now been removed and the books pages have been re-glued to the spine, this has stabilised and made the book more presentable, but has left old tape shadows to some of the inner margins, rubbing to the edges of the covers, ink ownership marking to the front free end paper, a little finger soiling to the some pages. Member of the P.B.F.A. ILLUSTRATED (Picture Book).

8vo., 96pp., printed on quality Japanese vellum paper, finely illustrated throughout by Ernest H. Shepard, original, bound in fine cream vellum boards with title and author's name printed in gilt on upper cover. A remarkably fine bright clean copy. This is the superior SIGNED LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION OF ONLY 15 COPIES, signed by both E.V. Lucas and Ernest H. Shepard and printed on Japanese vellum. A charming collection of poetry and verse by the prolific Edward Verrall Lucas with Ernest H. Shepard's wonderful illustrations. Shepard is best known as the illustrator of books by A. A. Milne, including Winne the Pooh.