The Tale Of Tom Tiddler by Eleanor Farjeon - 1929

Frederick A. Stokes Company. Collectible - Acceptable. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1930. 2nd printing. 8vo Hardcover 244 pgs. 27 B/W illustrations. Good. Slightly dampstained top-edge Inquire if you need further information.

No DJ, Ex Library, the cloth-covered boards are lightly stained, show edgewear and the spine has minor distress, there is a small light pen mark on the cover text. The textblock is slightly shelf-cocked; there is a margin split at pgs 164 and 165. Pages are tanned and have light foxing, otherwise are clean of marks. With 27 B&W full plate line illustrations throughout, including frontispiece
This tale is about characters with names based on places in London: King Lud, the Lady of Threadneedle Street, the Chalk Farmer, the Spaniard, and the quest for a key to lock up a giant.

London, Collins' Clear-Type Press, reprinted c. 1936.. 191pp. 8vo. Original gilt decorated boards in defective pictorial dustwrapper,. Black and white illustrations throughout. Prize inscription on ffe. Worn patch on upper board, otherwise a very good copy.

Collins Clear-Type Press. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Blue cloth. Undated. VG copy. No dustwrapper.

London: Collins. Bumped and lightly marked blue cloth covered boards, with gilt picture of a boy with a key running from a goat to front. Hinges good and pages clean and unfoxed. No date, possibly from 1929. A wonderful children's story, first published in 1929, of a journey around London meeting characters with names based on places: King Lud, the Lady of Threadneedle Street, the Chalk Farmer, the Spaniard, et al, on Tom Tiddler's quest for the key to lock the giant Gogmagog in the Leaden Hall. No Jacket. . Good. Hardcover.

London: Collins. Lightly bumped red buckram boards, with green picture of a boy and goat with a blacksmith in his forge. Hinges good and pages clean with foxing to prelims and edges.. No date, presentation bookplate from 1939 to front endpaper. A wonderful children's story, first published in 1929, of a journey around London meeting characters with names based on places: King Lud, the Lady of Threadneedle Street, the Chalk Farmer, the Spaniard, et al, on Tom Tiddler's quest for the key to lock the giant Gogmagog in the Leaden Hall. No Jacket. . Very Good. Hardcover.

W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. London. 1929. W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. London. 1929. First edition. No DW. Original royal blue cloth, decorated in gilt, slightly worn with a small water stain to top right corner of front cover. Top edge of pages gilt. Gorgeous b/w plates and illustrations in text by an un-named artist with initials TNC in a round. Very occasional light foxing otherwise contents clean and fresh.

London: Collins' Clear-Type Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. [c1930?]. Hardcover. Previous owner's heavy signature on front endpaper has left impressions on frontispiece and title leaf. Dust-jacket with some rubbing and creasing, small 5mm tears at head and tail of dust-jacket spine, 8mm chip at corner. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; Early reprint. No date [c1930?]. 191, [1] pages. Colour frontispiece within the pagination. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and front board, gilt silhouette illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 205 x 144mm. Illustrated. "Tom Tiddler was born in a hollow oak, in a buttercup-and-daisy field." - page 11. .

London: Collins, 1929 (500 gram rate) light rubbing to joints, gilt decorated and titled cloth, ink inscription to fep dated 1939 but internal evidence suggests this is the undated 1929 first edition, some minor foxing , unattributed illustrations in b&w plus a colour frontis, 191pp, folk tales pertaining to the city of London. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Collins, 1930. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. No date, c. 1930. Brown cloth with gilt stamped and lettered cloth, in dust jacket. Light bumping to the spine ends, else about fine, clean throughout and the binding tight and square, the dust jacket printed in dark brown, with an illustration in colour mounted to the front cover. With black and white illustrations throughout. A nice copy.