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Good 3/4 leather hardcover. No DJ. Text unmarked. Pages with foxing spots. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Previous owner has pasted an obituary of "Toddie's" Death on front end paper. Previous owner's name on end paper.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Foxing/tanning to edges and/or ends. No dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription/signature inside cover. Undated, inscription dated 1935. Wear/marking to cover. Photograph available on request.

16mo,160pp text.Good in half calf with dark green boards,no title.Internally clean and tight.Calf rubbed,browning on end papers and half title,small name on front paste down.

Good 3/4 leather hardcover. No DJ. Text unmarked. Pages with foxing spots. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Previous owner has pasted an obituary of "Toddie's" Death on front end paper. Previous owner's name on end paper.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Undated. 186pp. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Sun-faded spine, lightly bumped ends and front corners. Wear to covers. Top text block edge dusty. Binding a bit loose, gutters stretching. Foxing front endpapers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Story of what happened when a man went to take charge of his nephew and niece whilst they went on vacation. 16mo.

Undated copy, but inscription to inside front cover is dated Xmas 1924. Account of an uncle left to care for his two young tearaway nephews. Black design and lettering to front board and spine. Corners, spine and edges worn and bumped. Page edges tanned and internal pages discoloured. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

Boston. Poor with no dust jacket; Cloth; Loring Pub ; 1876. Green cloth with black & gilt design, cloth split on outer hinge, title page loose, end page missing, signatures loose, soiling, 206 pgs . Poor with no dust jacket; Cloth; Loring Pub ; 1876

Good 3/4 leather hardcover. No DJ. Text unmarked. Pages with foxing spots. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Previous owner has pasted an obituary of "Toddie's" Death on front end paper. Previous owner's name on end paper.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

185pp. Interior in nice clean condition. No names or inscriptions but armorial bookplate of Whitmore. All edges marbled. Picture of this book available.

Original maroon faux leather on boards, which has cracked full length of joint but is still secure. This is a gently whimsical account by a 28-year-old bachelor of two weeks' babysitting his sister's darling boys, Budge and Toddie. 185 pp. of good, clean fun, for the reader, at least ! Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall

124pp. Still well bound. Interior in nice clean condition. No names or inscriptions. Red speckled edges. Gilt titling to spine. Author's name not shown but now known to be Habberton.

Presumed FIRST EDITION. The original publisher's decorative black and gilt stamp decorated green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, cloth slightly spotty with light wear. Brown endpapers, pages slightly age-toned. No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall in VERY GOOD PLUS condition. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

G. An unwary uncle agrees to spend his vacation with his sister & her children. Green binding gold embossed lettering, edge wear. 1st ed.

Loring Publisher, Boston, 1876. Hard Cover. No Jacket. First Edition. Very good. Green Cloth with gilt lettering. Some rubbing to edges, but overall excellent condition. Books for Young Ladies listed in the back as well as ads for English Novels. An obituary is pinned in the back concerning Habberton's son, "Toddie", in the book. He was only five at the time of his death. (CK)

206 pages. Some wear to the covers, mainly at edges, but altogether a complete and clean example of a fragile book. Rare first edition in paper covers that reproduces the title page with "Loring's Tales of the Day." above the title and "Price, 50 Cents." at the bottom.

16mo.Emerald green cloth with gilt and black lettering and decorations. 206pp, (6pp ads). Very good. Mild edgewear and touch of rubbing; tiny chip on front flyleaf and odd glossy bookplate of a J.D. Williamson on front pastedown; nonauthorial gift inscription on inner flyleaf. A tight, attractive later state of the first hardbound printing (6 ad pages instead of 2) of this popular humorous novel.

16mo. Emerald green cloth with gilt and black lettering and decorations. 206pp, (6pp ads). Very good. Mild edgewear and touch of rubbing; tiny chip on front flyleaf and odd glossy bookplate of a J.D. Williamson on front pastedown; nonauthorial gift inscription on inner flyleaf. A tight, attractive later state of the first hardbound printing (6 ad pages instead of 2) of this popular humorous novel.

16mo. Emerald green cloth with gilt and black lettering and decorations. 206pp, (6pp ads). Very good. Mild edgewear and touch of rubbing; tiny chip on front flyleaf and odd glossy bookplate of a J.D. Williamson on front pastedown; nonauthorial gift inscription on inner flyleaf. A tight, attractive later state of the first hardbound printing (6 ad pages instead of 2) of this popular humorous novel.

Hard Cover. No Jacket. First Edition. HB NODJ, 1877, 1st UK edition, Green embossed decorated cloth with Gold Gilt lettered in black & Gold Gilt, VG-/VG, AS-IS, NODJ, Cover some rub wear & tiny dings extremities, some internal Fox intermittently thruout O/W NIce, Tight Clean,

Engraved frontispiece of Budge and Toddie to Other People's Children. Two Volumes (PRESENTATION COPY of Other People's Children from the AUTHOR) housed in double SLIPCASE with red chemises/gilt letter spine labels, from the ESTELLE DOHENY Collection. 1st Title: small octavo grey with fancy gilt titles to cover & spine & black decorations (tips bit worn) 206pp + publisher's ad leaf captioned "Books for Young Ladies" p207 and "Loring's Standard English Novels" p.208 Neat name J.E. Heard & repaired tear without loss to fly leaf. Leather gilt bookplate of Estelle Doheny. 2nd Title: red cloth with gilt children's heads & black lettering to cover and gilt titling to spine (tips worn/rebacked with one hinge split and spine relaid) vii +303pp +[8]pp publisher's books, endpapers have further publisher's lists. First six leaves with tiny corner off. Inscription reads "Thos. B. Preslau, with hearty regards of John Habberton" and ex libris of Estelle Doheny. *A bachelor's vicissitudes looking after the two children of his sister and written in "baby talk". A lovely set of the first books that were a literary success by this author and became a great humorous classic in rather scarce first editions and one with nice inscriptions. From the library of Estelle Doheny (1875-1958) a noted bibliophile whose magnificent collection was sold by Christie's in 1988. 2 volumes.