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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
Biggles Flies North.
London: Oxford University Press, 1939. 'Pyramid' Edition. Octavo, pp.256. Publisher's blue cloth boards with illustration to spine and upper, titled in black. A very good copy indeed. Illustrated with coloured plates. Binding is somewhat rubbed to joints, a little frayed at spine ends, bumped to corners, slight lean. No inscriptions..... 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
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Illustrated and Decorated by Frank Brangwyn.
London: T.N. Foulis, 1920. 4to. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine and pictorial upper board, edges untrimmed. With 15 illustrations in colour tipped on to grey laid paper. Decorative frame to text. Slight rubbing to extremities; corners bumped. A lovely copy. 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. With Illustrations in Colour by Warwick Goble.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1909. [Childrens classic] FIRST GOBLE ILUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (25 x 20cm), pp.[2]; x; 274; [2], advertisements. Thirty-two mounted colour plates with captioned tissue guards. Finely bound in recent half green morocco, gilt, with raised bands, original cloth sides pictorially blocked in gilt, all edges gilt. Contents..... 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
Captains Courageous. A Story of the Grand Banks.
London: Macmillan and Company, 1908. [Classic seafaring adventure story] FINELY BOUND. Crown octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.vi; 282. Uniform edition, finely bound in an elegant Edwardian binding of half red calf with gilt-decorated spines, cloth sides, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Modernist bookplate of Thomae Zamoyski. Spine pleasingly sunned otherwise..... 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
The Five Nations.
London: Methuen. 1903. First Edition. Octavo, pp. xiii, 215, 38 of adverts. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine, gilt top edge. Upper inner joint just starting, some browning to endpapers, occasional light spotting mostly to prelims and edges, gilt top edge is dulled. Some light wear to the covers..... More
Just So Stories. For Little Children. Illustrated By The Author.
London: Macmillan and Company, 1902. [Illustrated] FIRST EDITION, in First Issue binding. Large Octavo (24 x 19cm), pp.[6]; 249; [3] With illustrations by the author. Publisher's decorative red cloth boards, blocked in white and black depicting notable incidents from the stories. Armorial bookplate. Internally clean, binding sound, but for the..... 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
The Two Jungle Books. With Illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling, C.I.E., and W.H. Drake.
London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1932. Thin paper edition in one volume, reset in 1932 (first thus). Colour frontispiece illustration and black and white plates throughout. Publisher's gilt decorated red cloth with pictorial dust-jacket. Ink ownership to half-title, jacket with some chips and tears (one with gummed paper backing). remains..... More
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Stalky and Co. [in] The Windsor Magazine. Volume 9.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., December 1898 to May 1899. [Literary Magazine]. FIRST APPEARANCES. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.vi; 754. With numerous photogravure illustrations. Contemporary deep burgundy half calf with gilt titles to spine and foliate patterned green cloth over boards. Yellow coated endpapers. Reading lean; preliminaries a little loose..... 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
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
Stories for My Children.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1884. [Children's Illustrated] DECORATIVE BINDING, a later re-issue. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.iii-xii; 373; [3]. With seven wood engraved plates including a frontispiece, as well as a wood engraved vignette title page. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt and black titles and decoration to spine and..... 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
Tales From Shakespeare. [writings/plays including Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, etc.]
London: J.M. Dent and Co., 1909. First Rackham Illustrated Edition. Quarto, with 12 colour plates and other black and white drawings. Publisher's red cloth with titles and decoration in gilt to spine and upper, top edge gilt, others tinted green, illustrated endpapers, in original dust-wrapper. Book is near fine, jacket..... More
Tales From Shakespeare.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [circa 1904]. [Children's literature] ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[viii]; 312; [ii], blank. Red half calf binding and marbled paper lettered in gilt to spine, raised bands to spine with gilt decoration, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. Black and white pictorial in-text illustrations. Ownership..... More
Bedlam. Skulduggery Pleasant.
London: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2019. [Children's Fantasy] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 584. SIGNED by the author in black marker to 'Limited Special Edition' preliminary leaf. Publisher's black cloth with white titles to spine, and black endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Tom Percival, priced at £14.99..... More
Skulduggery Pleasant: The Dying of the Light.
London: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2014. [YA fantasy] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.605. Publisher's black cloth with titles in silver to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Tom Percival. Signed by the author to the title page. 'Signed by the author' sticker to cover. Fine. The final novel..... More