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Chatto & Windus, 1936. Third Edition, circa 1936. hardcover. 90pp, original pictorial boards, professionally recased with new spine with original laid on, tear on one leaf, VG-. A very scarce title.. No.3 in The Sambo Books.. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1959. Hardcover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Third reprint of the 1951 edition. A rare copy with red pictorial boards. Dust jacket is not price clipped. Dust jacket is scuffed top and bottom with small tears. Pages are clean and binding is tight. A very contentious title and content. 1959

London:: Chatto & Windus,, 1951.. First printing.. Hardcover. Near Fine/poor. 54pp, with illustrated endpapers. 1953 gift inscription to front free endpaper. Alternate pages of characterful illustrations in black and red, and rather feeble verse. Contents clean and firm. Small book, 14x11cms, in very clean pictorial red paper-covered boards, with little scuffs at the spine ends. In the protected unclipped, but torn, pictorial dust jacket, to the same design. This has some slight soiling, and has one-inch chips from the upper corners, with small loss from the other extremities, and some repairs with archival tape to the reverse. The book seems to be riding on the popularity of Helen Bannerman's books, her Little Black Sambo being advertised on the front dust jacket flap, and this being in the same format, but never so popular. A good copy of a cultural relic. (More photographs of this book can be seen on my website)

[London:: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd.,, no date.. publisher's boards printed in color.. Extremities of spine frayed; corners and edges of boards a little rubbed. . Folio,. Illustrated in color.. Father Tuck's Nursery Series, No. 9170.

nelson london [nd]. Imperial octavo illus heavy card covers [first edition] unpaginated VG- (colour illus card boards w.cream cloth spine,rubbed and soiled,wear and chipping to extrems.w.some surface losses,heavy card leaves,some sl.soiling to contents,sl.surface loss to lower corner of rear pastedown, last page possibly missing)

Chatto & Windus. Used - Acceptable. Third edition [3rd]. No publication date stated, previous owner's inscription dated 1936. Black and red illustrations throughout.

London: Juvenile Productions Softcover; small square 4to; unpaginated. Rare. No date [1930s, 1940s?]. A unique cultural item, part of the Americas' and the U.K.'s history of racism. A picture and rhyme book derivative of the folk song "Ten Little Indians", purportedly adapted by Frank J. Green. This book's rhyme became popular in minstrel shows for decades. This text was the inspiration for Agatha Christie's novel of the same name, later retitled "Then There Were None". Stapled booklet in colour card covers. One staple rusting. Booklet in colour, some 20 pages overall. Ten in full colour, ten in b&w and orange. Lightly soiled and yellowed, else in nice condition. VG. Softcover. Very Good.

England: Juvenile Productions Ltd. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. (1940s). Presumed First UK Edition. Paperback. Oblong Stapled Slim book in colour card covers. One staple just slightly rusting. Illustrated in full colour throughout. 20 pages plus covers. Ten in full colour, ten in tones of brown and oranges. Corners very slightly 'turned'/creased otherwise in excellent condition. Scarce - and even scarcer in this condition. No date circa later 1930s, 1940s/Early 1950s? . Now supposedly very Un-PC. The verse Ten Little Nigger Boys is now a part of History. A unique cultural item, part of the Americas' and the U. K's Black history/ Racism. A picture and rhyme book derivative of the folk song "Ten Little Indians", purportedly adapted by Frank J. Green. The rhyme became popular originally in minstrel shows for decades. The text the inspiration for Agatha Christie's novel of the same name, later retitled "Then There Were None". Beautifully illustrated in vibrant colour by an unknown Artist with the… Read More

(Black Interest - Racist)
COUSIN KEN: The Ten Little Seaside Nigger Boys.
[London:] Renwick of Otley, ca.1930s.Publisher's address given as: 180 Fleet Street E.C.4 = London
16 leaves of ink page mock-up pre-production for the book,
comprising manuscript text and illustrations, 6 with color plate
separations plus 1 full ink (British Production) and watercolor design for the cover. Loose.
Some pages signed "Ken".

London: Dean & Son, ca. 1890.. The best illustrated version with 12 high quality chromolithographs. "Untearable cloth. Price 2/- ". Oblong 4to with shaped decorative trimming along the top left and right side. Few minor defects on front cover, else an attractive if aged copy. The Gold Medal Series was completed in 85 parts and was printed in Holland between 1888 and 1919 (Osborne, volume 2, p. 215). On the back cover: 'The only recipient of a Gold Medal for children's publications.'