Estate / Collection: Property from the Collection of Alistair Bradley Martin

[CHILDRENS BOOKS]
A miscellany of children's literature. Eight works, 6 leather bound, 2 in leather backed cases, includes first and later editions. Includes a nicely bound wide-margined copy of The Four Gardens by Handasyde, 1924, new edition, full green morocco with floral inlays to covers by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine faded and pulled; POTTER, BEATRIX. The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse. New York: Warne, [1918]. First American edition (without "LTD." on title-page), nicely bound in full morocco gilt signed for "ABM" and with Alastair Bradley Martin's leather booklabel, the binding preserving the original endpapers, spotting; MASON, GEORGE. Snip and Snap and the Billy Goat, 1914, original pictorial boards housed in a morocco backed case, booklabel laid-in, fine; GRUELLE, JOHNNY. Little Sunny Stories, 1919, three-quarters morocco signed for "ABM" and with Alastair Bradley Martin's leather booklabel; and three others including a defective copy of a modern edition of Anderson's Fairy Tales in a morocco case; a single-volume edition of Alice in Wonderland and a later printing of Jacobs' Short Cruises.