"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust
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Snowball the Pony.
London: Lutterworth Press, 1953. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.79 [1]. With a colour frontispiece and frequent in-text illustrations by Gillespie. Publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by Gillespie. Blue ink gift inscription to flyleaf; lightly toned. Spine and board..... More
The Land of Far-Beyond.
London: Methuen and Co., 1942. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4] 163 [1]. Illustrated throughout with wood engravings by Knowles, including a frontispiece. Publisher's yellow cloth with indigo titles to spine and upper board. With white pictorial dust-jacket. Blue ink ownership inscription of Janet Longman to front..... More
The Children at Green Meadows.
London: Lutterworth Press. 1954. [Children's adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.176. With colour frontispiece and illustrations throughout by Grace Lodge. Publisher's green cloth blocked in black, pictorial dust-jacket, priced at 6s. 6d. Neat ink inscription, jacket with a few chips and tears, creased at crown, reinforced to reverse..... More
Five Fall Into Adventure.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1950. [Children's classic] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's red cloth titled in black, pictorial endpapers, in dust-jacket designed by Eileen A. Soper. With illustrations throughout by Soper, some of which are printed with colour accents. Minor spotting, jacket chipped to crown and extremities..... More
The River of Adventure.
London: Macmillan, 1955. [Children's classic] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.277; [1] imprint. Illustrations throughout by Stuart Tresilian Publisher's pictorial yellow cloth blocked in green and black, dust-jacket designed by Tresilian, priced at 8s.6d. A lightly used copy, clean jacket with a few trivial nicks and tears. Near fine..... More
The Wonder World Fairy Tale Book.
London: Cecil Palmer, 1931. [Children's Illustrated]. FINE COLOUR PLATES. Small Quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.xii; 122 [2]. With nine chromolithographic plates by Harold Gaze. Publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine and upper board. Illustrated endpapers. With colour-illustrated dust-jacket. Light spotting and browning. A 2cm square area at the..... More
Bengal Fairy Tales.
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1920. [Children's illustrated] FIRST TAGORE ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[2]; x; 209; [3]. With six chromolithographic illustrations including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration debossed to upper board. With the original blue dust-jacket. Top..... More
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Nurse Matilda [Nanny McPhee]; Nurse Matilda Goes To Town; Nurse Matilda Goes to Hospital.
Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1964; 1967; 1974. SET OF THREE VOLUMES, IN FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (16 x 11 x 6cm). Bound in publisher's gilt decorated paper covered boards, with original dust-wrappers. Ownership in ink to two volumes, one jacket price-clipped. Some acceptable wear and toning. Shows well. An attractive set..... More
Rab and His Friends.
Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1862. [Illustrated] FINE COPPER ENGRAVINGS, later edition. Slim quarto (26 x 21cm), pp.34. With seven fine copper engravings after George Harvey, R.S.A., including a frontispiece. Recently re-backed using original white glazed paper-covered boards, with black titles printed to upper board. Black ink gift inscription to half-title..... More
The Pied Piper of Hamelin. With 35 Illustrations by Kate Greenaway, Engraved and Prnted in Colour by Edmund Evans.
London: George Routledge and Sons, n.d. 4to. Publisher's light brown glazed pictorial boards, dark brown cloth spine, green end papers, all edges tinted green. Corners bumped and frayed, extremities rubbed and slightly scuffed; boards dusty. Inner hinges starting; gathering showing at few places. Very good indeed. As Schuster & Engen..... More
The Piper of Hamelin: A Fantastic Opera in Two Acts.
London: William Heinemann, 1893. [Illustrated Drama] FIRST THOMSON ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.64. With 12 wood engraved plates by Thomson, as well as a decorated title page. Publisher's light green cloth with darker green titles to spine and upper board. Top edge green, others untrimmed. Black ink ownership..... More
Little Lord Fauntleroy.
London: Frederick, Warne and Co., 1886. [Classic children's story]. FIRST UK EDITION, with 1886 date to both title and copyright pages. Octavo (pp.22 x 15cm), pp.x; 269; [1], imprint. Twenty-six illustrations illustrations after Reginald B. Birch. Half green straight-grained morocco, gilt, red leather label to spine, combed marble sides and..... More
There's Going to be a Baby.
London: Walker Books Ltd., 2010. [Children's illustrated] DOUBLE SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Slim quarto (27 x 26cm), pp.[48] unpaginated. Publisher's printed paper covered boards, decorative endpapers, dust-jacket with printed price of £12.99. Signed by both Oxenbury and Burningham to the half title page. With a Hatchards 'signed' promotional wraparound band. Illustrated..... More
Molly Moon Stops the World.
London, Macmillan 2003. FIRST EDITION, 8vo. Fine in like dust-jacket. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page. More
The Curious Adventures of a Field Cricket.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1881. [Children's Illustrated] SECOND UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 15cm), pp.viii; 272. With frequent engravings by Renard. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles, and gilt and black decoration to spine and upper. Grey patterned endpapers; all edges gilt. Black ink ownership to flyleaf..... More
The Hunting of the Snark. An Agony in Eight Fits.
London: Methuen 2000. Illustrations by Mervyn Peake, including the previously unpublished 'Snark Sketchbooks'. Slim octavo. Publisher's cloth in dustwrapper. Fine throughout. This new edition is SIGNED and inscribed by Sebastian Peake, who released his father's drawings for this publication. A glorious review of Mr. Carroll's nonsense by the scintillating and..... More
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Alice I Underlandet. [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland].
Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag, 1966. FIRST JANSSON ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo, pp.112. All text in Swedish. With frequent illustrations by Tove Jansson, some full page, including 11 in colour. In publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original colour-illustrated cream dust-jacket. Green endpapers. Jacket lightly browned; near-fine. The elegant..... More
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Snarkjakten [The Hunting of the Snark]. Illustrated by Tove Jansson.
Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag, 1959. FIRST THUS. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.56. Publisher's illustrated wraps. Pictured throughout by Tove Jansson. Very clean within; one small tear and brown mark to foot of spine. A near fine copy. The elegant, scarce and desirable Swedish translation of 'The Snark', being illustrated by..... More
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Snarkjakten [The Hunting of the Snark]. Illustrated by Tove Jansson.
Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag, 1959. FIRST THUS. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.56. Publisher's illustrated wraps. Pictured throughout by Tove Jansson. A fine copy. The elegant, scarce and desirable Swedish translation of 'The Snark', being illustrated by the much-loved and award-winning creator of the Moomins. More
The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1939. [Classic literature] FINELY BOUND. First Nonesuch Press edition. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xiv; [2]; 1165; [1]. Handsomely bound in recent red half morocco over marbled boards, top edge red. With occasional in-text illustrations. Textblock a little toned, edges a little more so, else a fine..... More
Alice in Wonderland.
London: John F. Shaw and Co., no date [circa 1933]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST SEXTON ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.192. With eight chromolithographic plates including a frontispiece, 23 full page wood engravings, and numerous in-text illustrations. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards. With the matching colour-illustrated dust-jacket. Some spotting to preliminaries..... More
The Nursery Alice.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1890. [Children's illustrated] FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[viii]; 56; [1], blank; [3], An Easter Greeting; [1], Christmas Greetings; [2], ads; [1], Specimen Page. Priced at Four Shillings. With twenty coloured enlargements from Tenniel's illustrations to Alice in Wonderland. Handsomely bound in deep red..... More
Alice in Wonderland.
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, no date [circa 1920]. [Children's Illustrated] EARLY ATTWELL-ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.148. With 12 colour plates, including a frontispiece, as well as frequent in-text illustrations by Attwell. Recently re-bound with a robust red cloth spine, plain paper title label, and original boards..... More
Rhyme? and Reason?
London: Macmillan and Co., 1888. [Children's Illustrated] SECOND EDITION, the fourth-thousand. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.xii; 214 [6]. With sixty-five wood engraved illustrations by Frost and Holiday including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt illustration to upper board. All edges gilt; black coated..... More
Take the Key & Lock Her Up. Embassy Row 3.
London: Orchard, 2017. [Young Adult Novel] SIGNED FIRST UK PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.335 [1]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's soft covers, priced at £6.99. A fine, as-new copy. Third in the 'Embassy Row' series, beginning with 'All Fall Down' (2015)... More