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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
Westward Ho! or the Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the County of Devon, in the reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1889. [Adventure Novel] FINE PRIZE BINDING, an new edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] viii; 591 [3]. With a frontispiece engraving of the author. Contemporary blue full calf for King Edward's Grammar School, Stourbridge, with raised bands, gilt titles to red label and further gilt 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
Stalky and Co.
London: Macmillan, 1899. [School Story] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.xii, 272 [2]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt elephant motif to upper board. Top edge gilt. Illustrated bookplate of Steven R. Lomax to front paste-down. Light sunning to spine, otherwise very good. Kipling's famous tales about adolescent..... 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' (complete parts), and 'Some Fore-Runners of Sherlock Holmes' in The Strand Magazine [Ten monthly parts].
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
Puck of Pook's Hill.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1906. [Fantasy tales] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[2] x; 306 [2]. With 20 engraved plates by Millar, including a frontispiece. Contemporary green half calf by BUMPUS with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and green cloth over boards. Top edge gilt; marbled..... More
Puck of Pook's Hill.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1906. [Fantasy Tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[4] x; 306 [12]. With 20 black and white illustrations by H.R. Millar, including a frontispiece. Advertisements dated 20.9.06. Elegantly hand-bound in red half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and the original cloth with..... More
The Complete Stalky and Co.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1929. [School stories] FIRST EDITION. The entire Stalky episodes collected in book form for the first time. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.447. Illustrated by L. Raven-Hill. Publisher's gilt decorated red cloth, top edge gilt. Some dustiness, covers a little sunned. A very good, presentable copy. Kipling's..... More
Stalky and Co.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1899. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xii; 272; [2], advertisements. Elegantly hand-bound in half red oasis morocco leather over original cloth sides gilt with elephant medalion to upper, top edge gilt, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands. A few light marks within; externally..... More
Oiling The Wheels.
London: A. White and co., 1957. Quarto. Bound in publisher's pictorial paper boards, showing a mustachioed gentleman with an oil can against a pink background to front board, rear board shows Shell logo and slogan "Leadership in Lubrication". A curious book, illustrated throughout with colour plates by Kneebone. Binding is..... More
Mr. Bear, Postman.
London: Macdonald and Jane's, 1979. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Small quarto (25 x 25cm), pp.[26]. Every page fully illustrated in colour by Kakimoto. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, with the matching dust-jacket priced at £3.50. Wear and chipping to edges and corners. One tape burn and some other marks..... More
The Art of Maurice Sendak: 1980 to the Present.
New York, NY: Abrams, 2003. [Children's Book Illustration] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 30cm), pp.223. Publisher's navy cloth, with the colour-illustrated dust-jacket priced at $65. A fine, as-new copy, still in the original shrink-wrap (shrink wrap damaged along the fore-edge). More
The Yellow Fairy Book.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894. [Fairy Tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 321 [3]. With 104 illustrations, including a frontispiece, by Ford. Publisher's yellow cloth with gilt titles to spine, and gilt decoration to spine and upper. Black endpapers; all edges gilt. Minor colouring to plate facing..... More
The True Story Book.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893. [Childrens illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 337; [1], blank; [1], advertisement; [1], blank. With numerous engraved illustrations by Ford, Speed and others. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration to upper board, coated black endpapers, all edges..... More
The True Story Book.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893. [Children's illustrated] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 337; [1], blank; [1], advertisement; [1], blank. With numerous engraved illustrations by Ford, Speed and others. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration to upper board, coated black endpapers, all edges..... More
The Animal Story Book.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1896. [Childrens illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xiv; 400. With numerous engraved illustrations by Ford. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration to upper board, coated black endpapers, all edges gilt. Some minor spotting to first and final leaves..... More
The Brown Fairy Book.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906. [Fairy Tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xiv 350; [2], blank. With eight full-page colour plates and numerous engraved illustrations by Ford. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration to upper board, pictorial endpapers, all edges gilt. A moderately..... More
The Grey Fairy Book.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900. [Fairy Tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 387; [1], blank. Illustrated throughout by Ford. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration to upper board, coated black endpapers, all edges gilt. Some light spotting and toning to contents, a...... More
The Red True Story Book.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1895. [Childrens illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 419; [1], blank. With numerous engraved illustrations by Ford. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration to upper board, coated black endpapers, all edges gilt. Light and occasional spotting else contents..... More
The Red Book of Heroes.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1909. [Childrens illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 377; [2], blank. With eight full-page colour plates and numerous engraved illustrations by A. Wallis Mills. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration to upper board, illustrated endpapers, all edges gilt..... More
Little Songs of Long Ago. More Old Nursery Rhymes. Illustrated by H. Willebeek Le Mair.
London: Augener Ltd, c. 1912. Folio. Publisher's yellow cloth with gilt titles to spine, gilt titles and pasted down colour illustration to upper board. Corners slightly bumped. Pictorial dustwrapper, bright with small chips and tears to edges. 30 (+2) Beautiful full-page colour illustrations to accompany each song. A very good..... More
A Book of Nonsense.
London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1863. [Children's Illustrated] FOURTEENTH EDITION. Oblong (15 x 23cm), pp.[4] 112. Printed on the recto of each leaf only. All the original illustrations and verses, plus some new ones. Rebound in the mid twentieth century in brown half cloth with the original yellow illustrated cover..... More
The Last Battle. A Story for Children.
London: The Bodley Head, 1956. [Children's classic] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.184. Publisher's light blue cloth, titles in silver to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Baynes, who also contributes numerous in-text line drawings. Some spotting to endpapers and preliminaries, textblock generally very clean and bright. Price clipped dust-jacket..... More