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Biggles Makes Ends Meet.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1957. [Children's Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. With six colour plates, including a frontispiece, by Stead. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket, also illustrated by Stead, priced at 10s / 50p. Light spotting to edges. Jacket clipped, though..... More
Biggles Makes Ends Meet.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1957. [Children's Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. With six colour plates, including a frontispiece, by Stead. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket, also illustrated by Stead, priced at 8/6. Both book and jacket lightly handled; some edge wear..... More
Biggles and the Black Peril.
London: Dean and Son Ltd., by arrangement with Thames Publishing Co., no date [circa 1960]. [Children's adventure] ATTRACTIVE REPRINT. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.184. Publisher's cornflower blue cloth, titles in black to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket. Neat gift inscription to flyleaf. Minimal bumping to spine and corners with very slight..... More
Biggles and the Poor Rich Boy. Another case from the records of Biggles and the Special Air Police.
Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1961. [Children's Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.182; [2]. With a chromolithographic frontispiece and occasional in-text illustrations by Leslie Stead. Publisher's brown cloth with green titles to spine. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by Stead, price obscured. Very light spotting to edges. Bruising and very..... More
Biggles Hunts Big Game.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1948. [Children's adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.211; [1], advertisement. With sepia illustrations by Leslie Stead. Publisher's red cloth blocked in black, dust-jacket also illustrated by Stead, priced at 6s. Bookshop ticket to pastedown. A little spotting and marking, jacket rather fresh with..... More
Biggles Hunts Big Game. A Story of Sergeant Bigglesworth C.ID. and his Special Air Police.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1948. [Children's adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.211; [1], advertisement. With sepia illustrations by Leslie Stead. Publisher's red cloth blocked in black, dust-jacket also illustrated by Stead, priced at 6s. Both book and jacket lightly handled; some edge wear, rear panel dusty, rubbed..... More
Biggles in the Underworld.
Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1968. [Children's Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.184. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Studio Stead, original printed price of 10/6 (uncommon thus, seemingly most copies are clipped and repriced by the publisher). Binding rubbed to extremities. Jacket..... More
Biggles in the South Seas. Illustrated by Norman Howard.
London: Oxford University Press, 1940. Early paperback. Publisher's grey paper wraps, titles printed in green to spine and upper. An uncommon early printing with text and illustrations (including the colour frontispiece) as per the first edition hardback book. Internally fine, boards are fine, spine a little rolled with some wear..... More
Biggles and The Black Peril.
London: Regent Classics / Thames Publishing Co., no date [circa 1950s]. [Aviation adventure] Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.246. Publisher's red cloth boards blocked in black, illustrated dust-wrapper. A few marks to page edges, some toning, jacket with a few small nicks, sunned to spine. Very good. This edition being one..... More
Biggles Flies West.
London: Oxford University Press, 1937. [Aviation adventure] 'Pyramid' Edition, dated 1937. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.255; [1], blank. Illustrated with coloured plates. Publisher's blue cloth boards blocked in black with the generic cover design of a biplane flying over the ancient Egyptian tombs and palm trees. Gift note to flyleaf..... More
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The Magicians of Caprona. [Chrestomanci Series].
London: Macmillan Children's Books, 1980. [Young Adult Fantasy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.223 [1]. Publisher's light brown cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Ionicus, priced at £4.95. Slight wear to board and jacket edges. Near fine. The second in the acclaimed Chrestomanci series..... More
Fairy Tales.
New York, NY: Schocken Books, 1982. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST US EDITION. Small quarto (29 x 21cm), pp.128. With a mixture of full colour plates and black and white vignettes by Foreman. SIGNED by both author and illustrator in black ink, each to a separate bookplate on the verso of..... More
Peeps at Many Lands: Holland.
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1909. [Netherlands] THIRD IMPRESSION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.viii; 82 [10]. With 12 colour-illustrated plates by Nico Jungman, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt tiles to spine, green titles to upper, and a colour illustration laid over upper. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, not..... More
The Baby Snatcher.
London: The Bodley Head, 1952. First edition. Octavo. Publisher's light green cloth titled in green to spine. Light sunning to extremities, near fine. In a near fine dustwrapper, just a touch of sunning to the spine panel. A rather bizarre mystery with a child detective investigating disappearing babies... More
Mister Cleghorn's Seal.
London: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2015. [Children's Illustrated] DELUXE FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.94 [2]. With a wrapped print loose to preliminaries. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine, and navy endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket, and the paper-covered slipcase, priced at £25. A fine, as-new copy, still..... More
Mog Time: Six Stories about Mog the Forgetful Cat.
London: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2016. [Children's Illustrated] SECOND EDITION. Quarto (29 x 23cm), unpaginated. Publisher's glossy illustrated paper-covered boards, and red endpapers. With the matching dust-jacket, priced at £19.99. A fine, as-new copy. A Mog omnibus first published in 2004, including: Mog the Forgetful Cat; Mog and Bunny; Mog's Bad..... More
The Tiger Who Came to Tea.
London: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2013. [Children's Illustrated] AUTHOR'S NINETIETH BIRTHDAY EDITION. Quarto (30 x 23cm), pp.[32] With colour illustrations by the author to every page. Publisher's glossy colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, and yellow endpapers. With the matching dust-jacket, priced at £14.99, and the blue and orange illustrated paper-covered slipcase, also priced..... More
The Tiger Who Came to Tea.
London: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2015. [Children's Illustrated] 'CELEBRATION' EDITION. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.[32] With colour illustrations by the author to every page. Publisher's orange quarter cloth, with colour-illustrated paper over boards, and orange endpapers, priced at £12.99 (no jacket issued). A fine, as-new copy. The classic and simple tale..... More
The Sheep-Pig.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1983. [Children's classic] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.118 [2]. With frequent in-text illustrations by Rayner. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by Rayner, priced at £5.50. Some light handling. A fine copy. Basis for the Oscar-winning film..... More
The Water-Babies. A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1885. [Children's Illustrated] FINELY BOUND, first Sambourne illustrated edition. Small quarto (21 x 17cm), pp.[8]; 371; [3]. With frequent in-text wood engravings by Sambourne. In slightly later green full crushed morocco by BAYNTUN for Charles E. Lauriat, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine;..... More
The Water-Babies.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION THUS. Large octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.x; 212 [2]. With 12 fine colour plates, including a frontispiece, and frequent in-text illustrations by Smith. Publisher's grey cloth with red titles and decoration to spine and upper. Matching grey endpapers with red decoration..... More
The Jungle Book. With illustrations in colour by Maurice and Edward Detmold.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1908. [Children's classic] First Detmold colour illustrated Edition. Octavo (22 x 4.5 cm); pp.xii, 314, [2] advertisements. With 16 full-page colour plates. Publisher's red cloth pictorially blocked in gilt, top edge gilt. Contents clean, a little shelfwear/rubbing to binding. Near fine. Charles Maurice Detmold and Edward..... More
Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories. Wee Willie Winkie, Under the Deodars, The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Stories.
London: Macmillan and Co. 1899. Uniform Edition, Colonial Issue. Octavo. pp. 358 [7]. In publisher's coloured paper wraps with red titles to spine and front cover. Fairly clean and tight in plastic jacket, with some cracking and chips to spine cover. Slight spotting and yellowing to pages, especially edges and..... More
'Puck of Pook's Hill', and 'Some Fore-Runners of Sherlock Holmes' in The Strand Magazine.
London, George Newnes Jan-Dec.1906. The complete Puck in parts; FIRST APPEARANCE, preceeding the edition in book-form. Original magazine issues; 10 separate parts. Illustrated throughout. Bound in publisher's light blue pictorial wrappers. Some minor chips as expected, some adsverts excised from Feb. and June issues, but generally a very clean, attractive..... More
Puck of Pook's Hill.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1906. [Fantasy tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.306; [4] advertisements dated 15.8.06. Twenty black and white illustrations by H.R. Millar. Elegantly bound in red half morocco over marbled boards, top edge gilt, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands. Internally fine with just..... More