The Book of Common Prayer is common enough, and Eyre and Spottiswoode were a large mainstream publisher. The nice binding is indeed what will...
Perhaps from the Méret Oppenheim collection of teaware?
The larger one is "Klyu**kin" or Klyu**kim". Can't quite make out the middle letter/s
Why doubt the evidence of eBay, especially if you see several sold (or worse, unsold) examples? It's true, there are bargains to be found there -...
Here is a link to Chicago-area dealers who are members of the MidWest Antiquarian Bookseller's Association:...
Good luck!
Yes. So this is certainly late enough not to be of special value, sorry. Here's one of the same vintage in the jacket in the UK:...
Also, looking at listings on Abebooks, the 6-digit code on the colophon page, 479.851, may be a date code, indicating August of 1951, though I can...
OK. These endsheets were first used in 1910 and 1909, and were the ones still in use as of 1971. The tan covers are the usual British version -...
In the case of Peter Rabbit, pictures of the endsheets (the inside of the covers & page opposite) are also diagnostic. I'm looking at Linder's...
Or at least stop peering over @2manybooks shoulder, offering suggestions....
There should be the portrait, the folding table, both as seen, and a folding map. Often maps (and portraits) are extracted by their collectors,...
Reprinted frequently, without date of publication. If the spine is missing, it is unlikely to be of any value. Nonetheless, what color are the covers?
I did NOT know Gavarni, another brilliant French illustrator all but unknown in the English-speaking world. It is interesting how some artists...
In books, Collier, later P. F. Collier & Son, was primarily a publisher of inexpensive reprints, of greater or lesser quality. These look to be...
FWIW, if that book were mine, I'd put the jacket in a protective cover such as Demco or Brodart sells - the jacket is a great percentage of the...
Thank you! We'll see if I can find time to get into REAL trouble!
Thank you! I knew a Grasshopper Ed once, on another forum....
Catching up, though!
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