151. Wynne, May / Cecily M. Rutley / Nancy Howard / Pauline Dunstan / Ethel Talbot / Jessie Pope / Agnes Grozier Herbertson etc. etc.

The Story Wonder Book for Boys and Girls. With Seven Colour Plates and Hundreds of Two-Colour and Other Pictures [by Margaret Tarrant, Mary Brooks, Anne Anderson, May Smith and others].

London / Melbourne, Ward, Lock & Co., No year [c.1930]. 18.5 cm x 25.5 cm. 224 pages. Original Illustrated Hardcover with coloured illustrations. The often damaged and worn book was recently restored and professionally rebound and is now a tight and firm version for generations to come. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of pre-owner on endpaper in pen and pencil. A few marks on endpaper and content page. Otherwise in very good condition. [The Wonder Book Series].

152. Yoshimura, Saisei [Yoshimura Utagawa (1846 – 1887)].

Jurui Gafu [Album of Animals].

First and only edition. Tokyo, Ohashido, no. year [c.1880]. Octavo. 20 pages plus rear cover [Illustrated Cover plus 19 illustrated pages including illustrated pastedown]. Illustrated cover with an Edo-period hunting-scene in ukiyo-e style. The booklet itself illustrated with polychrome woodblock-illustrations in colour, showing 51 animal species. Illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear and some fraying to the outer borders. One corner with paper-loss. A very, very rare publication, dated in ink by its previous owner “Brighton, 1881”.

153. Zinger, Oleg/ Windmüller, Ilse.

Ist das ein Löwe ? Ein Bilderbuch von Oleg Zinger nach einer Idee von Ilse Windmüller

Erste Auflage. Berlin, Der Kinderbuchverlag, 1950. 28,5 x 21 cm. Unpaginiert: Titelblatt, 15 ganzseitige Illustrationen mit gegenübergestelltem Text. Hardcover/ Gebundene Ausgabe. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur minimalen Gebrauchsspuren (Minimal stockfleckig auf den Innendeckeln – Text und Illustrationen sehr sauber).

154. Zoomers-Vermeer, J.P. / [Langeler, Freddie]

Joosje uit de Heidehut. [With Illustrations by Freddie Langeler].

Amsterdam, Van Holkema & Warendorf’s Uitgevers-Maatschappij, c.1928. 17 cm x 24 cm. 252 pages with 2 plates of balck and white illustrations. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rubbed and discoloration on cover. Minor stains and rubbed throughout the book. Spine is slightly worn but binding is very firm. Name of the previous owner on half-title page. Dutch edition. First page of bookplate is coloured by pre-owner in colour pencil. The book includes wonderful, rare illustrations by dutch women illustrator Freddie Langeler.