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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
Broken Heart Club.
London: Puffin Books, 2016. [Teen Novel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[6] 307 [7]. SIGNED by the author in gold to title page. With occasional illustrations by Erin Keen. Publisher's blue and white heart-illustrated paper-covered boards (no titles), with blue endpapers and promotional bookmark loosely inserted. With the..... More
Our Sentimental Garden.
London: William Heinemann, 1914. First Robinson Illustrated Edition. Quarto. Bound in recent half brown morocco, with raised bands and gilt titles to spine; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers, front board and spine of publisher's original green cloth binding with gilt titles bound in at rear. 8 full page colour illustrations..... More
Lady Midnight. The Dark Artifices Book One.
London: Simon and Schuster, 2016. [Young Adult Fantasy] FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION WITH EXCLUSIVE FAN ART. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6]; 668; [42]. Publisher's card wraps with printed price of £12.99 to rear panel. A special edition produced for W.H. Smith's with exclusive fan art to the inside faces of the..... More
Mummy Never Told Me.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2003. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (25 x 26cm), pp.[32]. Illustrated in colour by the author throughout. Publisher's illustrated glossy paper-covered boards, priced at £10.99, SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page, light grey endpapers. Autograph obtained at an event at Illustration..... More
Princess Smartypants and the Missing Princes.
London: Hodder Children's Books, 2016. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[8] 130 [6]. Illustrated by the author throughout. SIGNED by the author in black ink to half-title. Publisher's illustrated soft covers, priced at £5.99. A fine, as-new copy. More
Truelove.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2001. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (25 x 26cm), pp.[32]. Illustrated in colour by the author throughout. Pink endpapers. Publisher's illustrated glossy paper-covered boards, priced at £9.99. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Autograph obtained at an event at Illustration Cupboard..... More
Doctor Who: Combat Magicks.
London: BBC Books / Penguin Random House, Ebury Publishing, 2018. [Children's Science Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[6] 264 [2]. 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
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. In Seven Parts. Presented by Willy Pogany.
London: George G. Harrap, 1910. [Illustrated] FIRST POGANY ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (32 x 24cm), unpaginated. With black and white decorations within the text, two colour tints and twenty mounted colour plates. Publisher's pale green cloth with bevelled edges, elaborately stamped in gilt and colour to spine and upper, illustrated endpapers..... More
The Supernaturalist.
London: Puffin Books, 2004. [Fantasy adventure] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[xii]; 291; [1], blank. Publisher's blue cloth with rich yellow endpapers in a metallic effect dust-jacket. Fine/as new. More
Artemis Fowl, The Arctic Incident.
London: Puffin Books, 2002. [Fantasy Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[xii]; 288; [4], blank. Publisher's black cloth in a metallic effect dust-jacket. A fine/as new copy. This sequel to "Artemis Fowl" finds old enemies Holly Short and Artemis Fowl working together for the first time. A bold and..... More
Artemis Fowl, The Eternity Code.
London: Puffin Books, 2003. [Fantasy adventure] FIRST EDITION. Publisher's black cloth with rich yellow endpapers and bright red metallic lettering in a red metallic effect dustjacket. A fine copy. Artemis requires the help of the fairy folk once more as he is tricked into handing over the C Cube super..... More
The Hawk of Aurania.
London: Collins, 1944. [Science Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.235 [1]. With a photogravure frontispiece reproducing the jacket art. Publisher's orange cloth with silver titles to spine. With the illustrated dust jacket priced at 3s. Black ink ownership to front free endpaper, some toning to edges. Jacket sunned..... More
The Romance of the Echoing Wood.
Newport: R.H. Johns, the "Directory" Press, 1937. [Welsh Fairy Tale] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[8] 43 [5]. Number 50 of just 220 copies, SIGNED by all the contributors, including the publisher, to the limitation page. With wide marginal illustrations and three full page plates all engraved..... More
The Story of a Puppet or the Adventures of Pinocchio. Translated from the Italian by M.A. Murray. Illustrated by C. Mazzanti.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. [Fairy tale] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.[6]; 232. Publisher's white cloth with blue floral decoration, blue title to spine and upper. Edges and endpapers repeating the design of the cloth. Illustrated with a tissue protected frontispiece and numerous in-text illustrations by..... More
Lionboy: The Chase.
London: Puffin, 2004. [Children's Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 16cm), pp.[10]; 320; [6]. With occasional illustrated maps and diagrams by Fred van Deelen. SIGNED by the author/s in black ink to the title page. Publisher's green cloth with red titles to spine. Orange endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated..... More
The Faber Book of Favourite Fairy Tales.
London: Faber and Faber, 1988. [Anthology] FIRST EDITION, REVIEW COPY. Octavo ( 25 x 17cm), pp.xii; 244. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket priced at £9.95. Illustrated throughout with full page colour illustrations and decorative head and tailpieces to each story. With the publisher's review slip loosely inserted..... More
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Race Against Time.
London: Macmillan Children's Books, 2012. [Childrens adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.[6]; 234. Illustrated by Joe Berger. Publisher's purple cloth hardcover blocked in gilt to the spine, endpapers illustrated in colour, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £10.99. A fine/as new, unread copy. A new Chitty adventure from the..... More
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again.
London: Macmillan Children's Books, 2011. [Children's adventure novel] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by the author with his usual car doodle motif. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.[6]; 216; [2], blank. Illustrated by Joe Berger. Publisher's red cloth hardcover blocked in silver to the spine, endpapers illustrated in colour, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at..... More
Runaway Robot.
London: Macmillan Children's Books, 2019. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[8] 272 [10]. SIGNED by the author in black ink, with robot sketch, to preliminary leaf. With frequent in-text illustrations by Lenton. Publisher's yellow cloth with black titles to spine and black illustration to upper, and..... More
The Wizards of Once.
London: Hodder Children's Books, 2017. [Children's literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.392. With frequent black and white illustrations by the author. SIGNED by the author in black ink to bookplate on verso of flyleaf. Also with a loose black and white print on fine art card. Publisher's..... More
The winter of the Birds.
London: Faber and Faber, 1975. [Children's fiction]. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.204. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Anthony Maitland. Signed and inscribed to flyleaf: "For Caroline | with very best | wishes | Helen Cresswell | Old Church Farm | 1978"..... More
Moonrise.
London: Bloomsbury, 2018. [Children's Literature] SIGNED FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[6] 385 [9]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's yellow and blue soft covers, priced at £7.99. 'Signed by the Author' sticker to front cover. A fine, as-new copy. More
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Rupert [Daily Express Rupert Bear Annual], No.40.
London: Express Newspapers, Printed by Purnell, 1975. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (25 x 18cm), pp.115. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price 80p inked out. Name within 'book belongs to' box, contents otherwise clean, minor shelfwear. An attractive copy. More
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Rupert [Daily Express Rupert Bear Annual], No.41.
London: Express Newspapers, Printed by Purnell, 1976. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (25 x 18cm), pp.115. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price 90p intact. Child's ownership to front, a few light marks within, contents otherwise clean, minor shelfwear. An attractive copy... More