Children's Books
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
London: Bloomsbury, 1999. [Fantasy] FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, third state (see below). Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.317; [5]. Publisher's pictorial hardcovers in dust-jacket illustrated by Cliff Wright, priced at £10.99. A lovely fine copy with the usual speckling to the endpapers (poor paperstock was chosen). Shows extremely well. The first..... More
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
London: Bloomsbury, 1999. [Fantasy] SECOND IMPRESSION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.317 [3]. Publisher's pictorial hardcovers, with the matching dust-jacket illustrated by Cliff Wright, priced at £10.99. A crisp, clean copy showing some toning to edges and margins. Slight sunning to jacket spine, otherwise a near fine copy. More
Harry Potter and the The Deathly Hallows.
London: Bloomsbury, 2007. [Fantasy adventure] FIRST DELUXE EDITION, SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.607; [1], blank. Publisher's black cloth, all edges gilt, purple endpapers, gilt titles to spine and upper with pictorial illustration laid down. Signed by the artist Jason Cockroft to the upper board. A fine..... More
Quidditch Through the Ages [with] Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them [and] Beedle The Bard. [Harry Potter Series].
London: Bloomsbury, 2001, 2001, 2008. [Harry Potter] FIRST EDITION COLLECTION, all first impressions. Three volumes (two paperback originals, one hardcover). A fine, as-new set. A pair of charitable publications issued in March 2001 (for Comic Relief), being amusing replicas of school textbooks borrowed from Hogwarts Library. The final volume, which..... More
Outside Over There.
London: The Bodley Head, 1981. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST UK EDITION. Oblong octavo (24 x 26cm), pp.[20]. Every page illustrated with designs by Sendak and Atha Tehon. Calligraphy provided by Jeanyee Wong. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. With the illustrated dust-jacket. Light rubbing and creasing to..... More
Outside Over There.
New York, NY: Harper and Row, 1981. [Children's] FIRST EDITION. Oblong octavo (24 x 26cm), unpaginated. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine and upper board, pictorial dust-jacket. A couple of small marks to cloth. Fine. More
Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories. Including: Gertrude McFuzz and The Big Brag.
New York: Random House. 1958. First Edition; slim Quarto. Publisher's green and blue illustrated boards, with matching dust jacket. Titles in black and white to upper board and spine. Beautifully illustrated throughout by the author, including endpapers. Binding a little rubbed to extremities. Dust jacket showing light rubbing, frayed to..... More
The Cat in the Hat Comes Back.
New York: Beginner Books, Random House, 1958. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.63. Publisher's glossy pictorial boards, with the matching dust-jacket, not priced. Minor edge soiling, owner's name discreetly hidden under flap. Jacket has small loss to the tail of spine, is rubbed and lightly creased..... More
The Cat in the Hat.
New York, NY: Random House, 1957. [Children's reading book] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with all points present. Quarto (23 x 17cm), pp.62. Illustrated throughout. Bound in publisher's pictorial blue boards, in illustrated dust-jacket repeating the cover design. Contents clean, page edges toned, jacket is edgeworn, one-inch chip to foot of..... More
The Cat in the Hat.
London: HarperCollinsChildren's Books, 1997. [Children's Illustrated] ANNIVERSARY EDITION. Small quarto (29 x 21cm), pp.[2] 61 [1]. Illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's dark grey quarter cloth, with silver titles to spine, red cloth over boards, and light blue endpapers. With the light blue illustrated dust-jacket. Minor handling; jacket price-clipped. Near fine..... More
The Cat in the Hat.
London: Collins and Harvill, [circa 1970s]. [Children's Illustrated] VINTAGE UK COPY, a later issue following the merger of William Collins and the Harvill Press. Small quarto (24 x 17cm), pp.[2] 61 [1]. Illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy illustrated paper-covered boards, not priced. Blue and red illustrated endpapers. Moderate bumping..... More
Black Beauty. The Autobiography of a Horse. Illustrated by Eighteen Plates in Colour Specially Drawn For This Edition by Cecil Aldin.
London: Jarrold Publishers, no date [1912]. [Children's classic] FIRST ALDIN ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (25 x 20cm), pp.[2] xviii; 291 [5]. With 18 colour plates including a frontispiece, and other in-text illustrations, by Aldin. Recenty re-bound in green half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and the..... More
Laneton Parsonage. A Tale for Children on the practical use of a portion of the Church Catechism.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. [Christian Novel] FINELY BOUND, a New Edition. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[4] 550 [2]. Contemporary brown half calf, with gilt titles to black label, further gilt decoration to spine, and marbled paper over boards. All edges speckled red; grey endpapers. Small black ink..... More
The Lord of the Rings Official Movie Guide.
London: Harper Collins, 2001. [Film Reference] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.120. With photographic illustrations throughout. Publisher's pictorial hardcovers in dust-jacket priced at £16.99. A fine, as new copy, carefully dark-stored by ourselves since publication. Advertised as the 'Collector's Hardback Edition', this book was simultaneously issued as..... More
Fred.
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST US EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 22cm), pp.[24]. With colour illustrations by the author to every page. Publisher's glossy colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, with the matching dust-jacket, priced at $9.95. Lightly handled with one small closed tear to jacket. Fine. Two..... More
Lulu and the Flying Babies.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1988. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (25 x 22cm), pp.[24]. With colour illustrations by the author to every page. Publisher's glossy colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, priced at £5.95. Just a little bumping to corners, otherwise a fine copy. More
Come On, Daisy!
St Helens: Ted Smart, 1998. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED COPY, a book-club edition. Small quarto (27 x 25cm), pp.[32]. With charming colour illustrations by the author to every page. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page, also with a doodle. Publisher's glossy colour-illustrated paper-covered boards. Light bumping and..... More
A Yankee's Adventures in South Africa.
Chicago, IL: Rhodes and McClure Publishing Company, 1898. [Children's literature]. SECOND EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14 cm), pp.234; [12]. With 33 illustrations, including a frontispiece of Cecil Rhodes. In publisher's green cloth with elaborate silver titles and decoration to spine and upper board. Green patterned endpapers. Heavily browned paper stock;..... More
A Series of Unfortunate Events [Complete]. The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room, The Wide Window, The Miserable Mill, The Austere Academy, The Ersatz Elevator, The Vile Village, The Hostile Hospital, The Carnivorous Carnival, The Slippery Slope, The Grim Grotto, The Penultimate Peril, The End, and The Unauthorized Autobiography.
London: Egmont, 2001 to 2006. [Children's Fantasy] COMPLETE UK FIRST EDITIONS. 14 volumes. Octavo (19 x 13 x 28cm). With in-text illustrations by Helquist. Volumes 5, 7, and the autobiography complete with wrap-around bands. Volume 8 with the dust-jacket. All in publisher's colour paper-covered boards illustrated by Helquist. Light wear..... More
Poems of Childhood.
London: Henry Frowde, Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1912]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (24 x 19cm), pp.[8]; 46; [2]. With twelve chromolithographic plates including a frontispiece by Millicent Sowerby. In publisher's quarter cream cloth with textured cream red and green cloth over boards. Gilt titles to spine and..... More
The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books, 1566-1910. A Catalogue.
Toronto: Toronto Public Library, 1975. CORRECTED EDITION. In two volumes. Octavo. pp. xxiv, 562; xii, 563-1138. With occasional illustrations, many in colour to volume one. In publisher's pictorial green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Green end-papers. A fine copy. First published in 1958, and reprinted with corrections in 1966..... More
[Original Artwork for Biggles]. [Unpublished].
no date [circa 1940s]. [Children's Adventure Artwork] ORIGINAL PAINTING (38 x 57cm). Gouache painted directly onto a Winsor & Newton Fashion-Plate Drawing Board, details printed on reverse. A little rubbed, chipped and bumped to edges, but clean and bright generally. Very good. An original painting produced by Leslie Stead, or..... More
A Child's Garden of Verses.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1908. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST SOWERBY ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Large octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 125 [3]. With 12 colour plates including a frontispiece, as well as occasional vignette illustrations. Contemporary crushed blue half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards. Top..... More
A Child's Garden of Verses.
London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1905. [Illustrated Children's Poetry] FIRST UK WILLCOX SMITH EDITION. Large octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.xii; 125 [1]. With 12 colour plates, as well as numerous in-text line drawings by Willcox Smith, as well as a colour-illustrated vignette title page. Publisher's dark navy cloth with gilt..... More
Island Nights' Entertainments. Consisting of The Beach of Falesa, The Bottle Imp, The Isle of Voices.
London: Cassell & Company, 1893. [South-Sea Novellas] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with hand-corrected price on page facing half-title. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.xii; 277 [19]. Advertisements dated 3.93. With 28 illustrated plates, including a colour map and a frontispiece. Publisher's light blue grained cloth, with gilt titles and decoration to..... More