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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
Doctor Dolittle's Garden.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1928. [Children's Literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.317 [3]. With a colour frontispiece, colour-illustrated endpapers, and frequent in-text illustrations by the author. Publisher's grey cloth with orange titles to spine and upper. A little spotting to blanks and facing leaves. Toning to edges, otherwise..... More
Doctor Dolittle's Return.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1933. [Children's Literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.288. With a colour frontispiece, colour-illustrated endpapers, and frequent in-text illustrations by the author. Publisher's grey cloth with orange titles to spine and upper. A little spotting to fly-leaves and facing leaves. Toning to edges, otherwise a...... More
Doctor Dolittle's Zoo.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1926. [Children's Literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.320. With a colour frontispiece, colour-illustrated endpapers, and frequent in-text illustrations by the author. Publisher's grey cloth with blue titles to spine and upper. Black ink gift inscription to verso of fly-leaf. Toning to edges, otherwise a...... More
Sketches of Little Girls: The Good-Natured Little Girl. The Thoughtless, the Vain, the Orderly, the Slovenly, the Forward, the Snappish, the Persevering, the Modest, and, the Awkward Little Girl. Embellished with seven elegant coloured engravings.
London: Thomas Dean & Co., no date [circa 1843]. [Children's Illustrated] FIFTH EDITION, with HAND-COLOURED PLATES. Small octavo (16 x 13cm), pp.63 [1]. With seven hand-coloured engravings, including a frontispiece, depicting the various types of girl. Publisher's salmon cloth with blind decoration and gilt titles to upper. Light toning to..... More
Playtime and Company: A Book for Little Children.
London: Methuen and Co., 1925. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 18cm), pp.95; [1]. With wood engravings by Shepard to every page. Publisher's pink quarter cloth with titles printed to paper label laid over spine. Glossy paper-covered boards with colour illustrations by Shepard. Yellow endpapers. Tiny ownership to flyleaf..... More
A Cat Book. The Dumpy Books for Children No. 6.
London: Grant Richards, 1900. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Vigesimo (13 x 8cm), pp.[8]; 121; [3]. With twenty nine lithographic illustrations by Smith. Publisher's green cloth with darker green titles to spine and upper board. Pencil ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Textblock a little shaken with some gathers standing proud..... More
Throne of Glass.
London: Bloomsbury, 2018. [Young Adult Fiction] COLLECTOR'S EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm). Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and boards. Still in the original shrink-wrap, priced at £16.99. A fine, as-new copy. The author's phenomenally popular first book, originally published in 2012. More
The Pearl Seekers. A Tale of the Southern Seas. Illustrated by Edward S. Hodgson.
London/Glasgow: Blackie and Son, n.d. The INSCRIBED later printing, with fantastic full page illustrated plates by Hodgson. Octavo, pp.ix; 363. Bound in publisher's pictorial blue cloth, with striking shipwreck design blocked in black, mint green, and orange. Additional illustration showing man with gun blocked in like to spine. Titles in..... More
All Round the Clock.
London: Griffith, Farran and Company, no date [1887]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (24 x 19cm), pp.64. Chromolithographed by Ernest Rister of Nuremberg. Publisher's quarter green cloth with glossy colour-illustrated paper over boards. Patterned endpapers. Browning to endpapers and preliminaries. Tiny damp mark to foot of upper board, rubbing..... More
The Poetic Parrot.
London: Faber and Faber, 1952. [Childrens illustrated] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.96. Publisher's yellow cloth titled in green to spine, pictorial dust-jacket priced at 6s. 6d. net, numerous in-text illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Internally clean and bright. A few faint marks to cloth. Wrapper a little rubbed..... More
Nail Soup.
London: Francis Lincoln Children's Books, 2007. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (24 x 29cm), pp.[26]. With colour illustrations by Hess to every page. SIGNED by the illustrator in gold with some doodle to title page. Publisher's glossy illustrated paper-covered boards, and illustrated endpapers. With the matching dust-jacket, priced..... More
The story of Porky Peek.
London: Frederick Warne, 1962. FIRST EDITION. Small octavo, unpaginated. Publisher's pictorial boards in matching dust-jacket. Dust-jacket has been clipped to the top right of the front flap, but not where the price is printed. Slight rubbing to extremities, dust-jacket slightly faded to spine. A very good example of a scarce..... More
Little Peter: A Christmas Morality for Children of any Age.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co., 1888. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION, ex libris Maurice Baring. Octavo (20 x 16cm), pp.viii; 168. With nine wood engraved plates by Hardy, including a frontispiece, as well as in-text illustrations. Publisher's green cloth with titles in gilt and illustrations in black to spine and..... More
Helen Oxenbury: a life in illustration.
London: Walker Books, 2018. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (28 x 25cm), pp.264 [24]. Illustrated throughout with a mixture of fine colour photographs and reproductions of Oxenbury's artwork. Publisher's photographic cloth with blue and maroon titles to spine, and red endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £30. Some..... More
The Children of Africa. Written for all English-Speaking Children.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1886. [Christian-Colonial Ethnology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 18cm), pp.viii; 262 [2]. With frequent engraved illustrations, and a large folding map of Africa to preliminaries. Publisher's blue cloth with elaborate gilt, orange and black titles and decoration to spine and upper. All edges gilt; dark brown..... More
The Novice. Summoner, Book One.
London: Hodder Children's Books, 2015. [Young Adult Fantasy] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 390 [4]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's navy cloth with silver titles to spine and silver apotropaic device to upper, with blue patterned endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed..... More
Guess How Much I Love You.
London: Walker Books, 2014. [Children's Illustrated] TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION. Quarto (28 x 26cm), pp.[32]. Illustrated in colour throughout by Jeram. Light blue endpapers. Publisher's light blue paper-covered boards, with the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £12.99. A fine copy. More
Doctor Who: Molten heart.
London: BBC Books / Penguin Random House, Ebury Publishing, 2018. [Children's Science Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[4] 195 [9]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards with Forbidden Planet 'Signed' sticker to upper board, and barcode sticker to lower..... More
Sir Ned and the Nasties.
London: Andersen Press, 2017. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 25cm), pp.[28]. With colour illustration by David McKee to every page. SIGNED by the illustrator in black ink to title page, with an additional signature and drawing to copyright page. Publisher's illustrated paper-covered boards, priced at £11.99. A...... More
Belinda Brown.
London: Andersen Press, 2018. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 25cm), pp.[26]. With colour illustrations by the author to every page. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page, and with an additional signature and a drawing to copyright page. Publisher's illustrated paper-covered boards, and illustrated..... More
The Conquerors.
London: Andersen Press, 2004. [Children's Illustrated] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (25 x 29cm), pp.[26]. With naive colour illustrations by the author to every page. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to copyright page: '& for John - my dealer, | David McKee 2004.' Publisher's glossy colour-illustrated paper over boards..... More
Tusk Tusk.
London: Andersen Press, 1978. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (24 x 21cm), pp.[28]. With colour illustrations by the author to every page. Publisher's glossy illustrated paper-covered boards, priced at £3.00. Blue ink ownership to title page. Light rubbing and bumping, and a little grubbiness to boards. Very good. The..... More
World's Children. Illustrated by Mortimer Menpes.
Adam and Charles Black, London, 1903, First and Limited Edition to 500 of which this is No 82, SIGNED by the Artist. Late 20th century full grey morocco with twin brown title labels and extra gilt to spine, gilt border to boards, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, marbled end papers..... More
More Goon Cartoons.
London: M. and J. Hobbs, in association with Michael Joseph, 1983. INSCRIBED First edition. Illustrated by Michael Clarke. Quarto. Publisher's illustrated boards. Inscribed by Milligan to copyright page with a charming doodle of a flower. Near fine, very minor edgewear. Internally clean. More