London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1949. [Children's Adventure] THIRD IMPRESSION. Small Octavo. pp.192. With a colour frontispiece (same image as jacket), and numerous in-text illustrations, some coloured blue or red, by Soper. Publisher's light blue cloth, with black titles to spine and upper, and blue pictorial endpapers. With original dust-jacket illustrated..... More

London: Bloomsbury, 2003. [Children's Fantasy] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.368. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to fly-leaf. Publisher's paper-covered boards illustrated by Carol Lawson and Ian Butterworth, with the matching dust-jacket priced at £12.99. A fine, as-new copy. The first of five volumes in the..... More

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

London: Walker Books, 2014. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (31 x 27cm), pp.24. With colour illustrations by the author to every page. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black paper-covered boards, and marbled-illustrated endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £12.99. Light surface scratches..... More

London: Simon and Schuster, 2014. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST THUS, a revised translation. Square octavo (16 x 16cm), 14 leaves, with text facing full colour illustrations by the author. SIGNED by the translator in black ink to copyright page at rear. Publisher's illustrated glossy paper-covered boards. A fine, as-new copy..... More

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

London: National Theatre, 2003. [Theatre] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.120. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. SIGNED by both Butler and Pullman in blue ink to title page. Publisher's black soft covers, priced at £12.99. A fine, as-new copy. All about how the 'His Dark Materials'..... More

London: George Routledge & Sons, no date [1884]. [Children's Illustrated] EARLY EDITION. Square octavo booklet (21 x 24cm), pp.24. Illustrated by Caldecott to every page, including several colour plates. Publisher's yellow illustrated paper covers, sewn. Rear adverts suggest the first year of publication 1884, but perhaps not the first issue..... More

London: Published by Hodder and Stoughton Limited, for Boots Pure Drug Co., no date [circa 1932]. [Children's Illustrated] RARE JACKET, the Centenary Edition. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[10] 180 [2]. With 12 colour plates by Hudson, including a frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Publisher's red cloth with gilt..... More

London: Macmillan and Co., 1872 [1871]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[14] 224 [2]. 'Wade' for 'Wabe' p.21. With fifty wood-engraved illustrations by John Tenniel, including a frontispiece. Contemporary red half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to a black label on the spine, and marbled paper..... More

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

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

London: Orchard Books, 2010. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED LIMITED TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION. Small quarto (29 x 26cm). Number 130 of 1250 copies SIGNED by the author to slipcase. Publisher's colour-illustrated white cloth with red and white titles. With the illustrated white cloth-covered slipcase, priced at £30.00. Book still in the original..... More