Children's Books
The Rupert Annual [Express Newspapers' Rupert Bear], No.71.
London: Express Newspapers, 2006. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.109. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price £7.50 intact. A very fine/as new copy. More
The Queen of the Pirate Isle. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
London: Chatto and Windus, no date [1886]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (22 x 17cm), pp.58. Liberally illustrated with very fine in-text colour-printed wood engravings after Kate Greenaway's drawings. Publisher's cream cloth with titles in both gilt and black and a colour illustration to both boards. Titles also..... More
Bill the Minder. Written and Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
London: Constable and Co., 1912. [Children's classic] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.xivi; 256. Beautifully illustrated with sixteen full colour plates, including frontispiece, with captioned tissue guards and numerous black and white illustrations throughout. Elegantly bound in dark blue half morocco over marbled sides, with gilt decoration to spine..... More
Darkmouth.
London: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2015. [Children's Adventure] UNCORRECTED PROOF. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.411 [5]. With several illustrations by de la Rue. Publisher's black soft covers with titles in orange and green. Price, format and publicity details to inside cover and first leaf. Spine very slightly sunned. A hand-written number..... More
The Joker and Jerry Again.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, no date [1932]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (22 x 18cm), pp.[12]; 171; [1]. With twelve illustrations by Cecil Aldin including a frontispiece, many coloured pleasingly by a former owner. In publisher's cream cloth with red titles to spine. With original pictorial dust-jacket. Black ink..... More
The Cat of Bubastes. A Tale of Ancient Egypt. With eight full page illustrations by J.R. Weguelin.
London: Blackie and Son, 49 and 50 Old Bailey, E.C., 1889. [Children's classic] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.iv; [5]; 10-352; 32 of publisher's advertisements. Publisher's brown cloth blocked in gilt, red, and black. Olivine edges, dark blue coated endpapers. With eight half tone plates printed in sepia, including..... More
Ruby, Blue and Blanket.
Brighton: Scribblers, 2013. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 27cm), pp.[26]. With colour illustrations by the author to every page. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, and illustrated endpapers. With the matching dust-jacket, priced at £10.99. A fine, as-new copy. More
La Corona and the Tin Frog.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1979. [Children's illustrated] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR. Slim quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.[32] unpaginated. Publisher's glossy illustrated boards with printed price of £3.50 to rear board, dark blue endpapers. Signed by Nicola Bayley to the title page. Illustrated throughout. One tiny scuff to rear panel..... More
Jim's Lion.
London: Walker Books, 2014. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.82 [2]. A new edition illustrated partly as a comic strip by Deacon, and SIGNED by him in black ink to the dedication page, dated June 2014. Publisher's illustrated paper-covered boards. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced..... More
Soonchild.
London: Walker Books, 2012. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.142 [2]. With in-text sketches by Deacon. SIGNED by the illustrator in purple ink to title page. Publisher's illustrated cream paper over boards, with black titles to spine and upper, and blue illustrated endpapers. With the illustrated..... More
Little Lord Fauntleroy. Collection of British Authors. Tauchnitz Edition. Vol. 2479.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1887. COPYRIGHT EDITION (TAUCHNITZ). Octavo, pp. 279; 13 [advertisements]. Bound in publisher's soft paper covers with publishing details, titles, etc. printed to front. Fore edge and tail edge deckled. In good condition, very clean internally, with some age toning to covers, and general edgewear. Binding remains tight..... More
Time Stops For No Mouse. A Hermux Tantamoq Adventure.
London: Puffin Books, 2000. [Children's Adventure] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[6] 262 [4]. With illustrated head-pieces for each chapter. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Christopher Inns, priced at £9.99. Also featuring a publisher's clock-shaped bookmark, and..... More
The Glassmaker's Daughter.
London: Francis Lincoln Children's Books, 2017. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Quarto (28 x 25cm), pp.[32]. With fine colour illustrations by Ray to every page. SIGNED by both author and artist in black ink to title page. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, and green endpapers, priced at £12.99. A...... More
Granny.
London: Walker Books, 1994. [Children's] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 14cm), pp.157; [3]. Publisher's yellow cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Tony Ross priced at £8.99 to front flap. Top edge lightly spotted. Some gently bumping to jacket extremities. Otherwise, near fine. A tale about..... More
The Willows in Winter.
London: HarperCollins, 1993. [Children's adventure novel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.295; [1] note. Publisher's blue cloth with titles and silhouette of Mr Toad to in gilt to spine, cartographic endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper shows Mole striding across winter scene, priced at £12.99. Signed in black ink to title..... More
The Terror of Villadonga. [The Spanish Cave].
London: Hutchinson and Co., n.d. [1936]. [Nautical Thriller]. FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (23 x 18cm), pp.160. With six lithographic illustrations by "Cuneo", including a frontispiece. In publisher's blue cloth with darker blue titles to spine and upper board. Black ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Heavy external wear; titles..... More
Stories from the Arabian Nights, Retold by Laurence Housman.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1907. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST DULAC ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.136. With 49 colour plates by Dulac, including a frontispiece, mounted on grey card and collected at rear, each with a tissue guard. Publisher's brown cloth, titled and decorated in gilt and dark grey to..... More
Our Little Manchurian Cousin.
Boston, MA: L.C. Page & Company, 1933. [Children's Illustrated] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 106 [6]. With six half-tone illustrations, including a colour frontispiece. INSCRIBED by the author rather lavishly in green ink to fly-leaf: 'Miss Mabelle Aubrey | a very princessly [?] | lovely soul. |..... More
Dixie O'Day, Up, Up and Away!
London: The Bodley Head, 2015. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[12] 124. With dichromatic illustrations by Vulliamy throughout. SIGNED by the illustrator in black ink to verso of flyleaf. Publisher's illustrated paper-covered boards, and red patterned endpapers. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by Vulliamy, priced..... More
Bye, Bye Birdie.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2009. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (31 x 22cm), pp.[4] 25 [3]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to half-title. Illustrated with line-drawings by the author throughout. Blue endpapers. Publisher's paper-covered boards, priced at £12.99. A few minor marks to boards and rear endpapers. Near..... More
The Iron Woman.
London: Faber and Faber, 1993. [Children's fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.87. Publisher's black cloth in black pictorial dust-jacket priced £9.99. Internally clean and free from spotting; spine-ends a touch bumped. Dust-wrapper is rubbed with minor chips and tears at spine ends. Very Good. Ted Hughes' classic of..... More
The Iron Woman.
London: Faber and Faber, 1993. [Children's fiction] FIRST EDITION. REVIEW COPY with illustrated press release and review slip loosely inserted. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.87. Publisher's black cloth in black pictorial dust-jacket priced £9.99. A fine copy in slightly nicked and rubbed jacket. Ted Hughes' classic of environmental children's fiction..... More
The Ingoldsby Legends, or, Mirth and Marvels. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1907. [Children's Illustrated] RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION, DELUXE SIGNED ISSUE, number 347 of 560 copies. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.xx; 549 [3]. With twenty-four mounted coloured plates, captioned tissue guards, twelve illustrations with tint, and sixty-six line drawings. Publisher's gilt decorated white vellum with fore-edge ties..... More
The Ingoldsby Legends, or, Mirth and Marvels.
London: Richard Bentley, 1842-1847. [Strange Tales and Humour] FIRST AND EARLY EDITIONS, volume I a third edition, volumes II and III first editions. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xii; 339 [1]; pp.x; 288; pp.viii; 364. With a total of 18 engraved plates, including a frontispiece to volume..... More
A Child's Book of Hours.
London: Humphrey Milford, n.d. [1921]. FIRST EDITION. Folio (37 x 25cm), unpaginated, printed on 16 thick card leaves with 12 fine chromolithographic plates. In publisher's quarter tan cloth with tan paper-covered boards. Titles and clock illustration printed in colour to upper board. With rare original dust-jacket, mirroring upper board. Very..... More