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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
John Burningham.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2009. [Autobiography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Royal quarto (31 x 24cm), pp.224. With a foreword by Maurice Sendak, and an introduction by Brian Alderson. Illustrated in colour throughout. Signed by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the..... More
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The Magical Car. Illustrated by John Burningham.
London: Puffin Books, 2008. [Children's Adventure] SIGNED FIRST EDITION THUS, signed by the illustrator. Quarto (26 x 221cm), pp.[8]; 113; [7]. Publisher's red cloth in metallic glossy pictorial dust-wrapper. A fine unused copy, the shiny jacket showing a couple of small scratches. A classic adventure story featuring a high-spirited family..... More
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The Magical Car. Illustrated by John Burningham.
London: Jonathan Cape and Queen Anne Press, 2014. [Children's illustrated] LIMITED EDITION. In three volumes, complete. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.48; pp.48; pp.48. Publisher's white hardcovers in glossy pictorial dust-wrappers, the three volumes are presented in a racing green slip-case. A facsimile of the first edition of Ian Fleming's famous..... More
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The Magical Car. Illustrated by John Burningham.
London: Jonathan Cape and Queen Anne Press, 2014. [Children's illustrated] DELUXE LIMITED EDITION, one of just 50 sets, accompanied by two prints, measuring 297 x 210mm, SIGNED and numbered by John Burningham. Three volumes plus portfolio, housed in a grey cloth slipcase (34 x 24 x 6cm), pp.48; pp.48; pp.48..... More
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The Magical Car. Three signed Lithographs.
London: Jonathan Cape and Queen Anne Press, 2014. [Artwork] Three lithographs signed and numbered by illustrator John Burningham, each being number 3 of 15. Three lithograph prints on art paper (297 x 420 mm), with publisher's off-white mounts. The prints show the gangsters being apprehended, Chitty flying over the Goodwin..... More
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The Magical Car. Illustrated by John Burningham.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1981. [Children's classic] Single volume hardback reprint, originally published in three volumes. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.128. Illustrated by John Burningham. Gilt-titled orange cloth with green endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper. No inscriptions, jacket clipped else a bright, near fine copy. Many copies of the one volume hardback appear..... More
The Wind in the Willows.
London: Kestrel Books, 1983. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST BURNINGHAM-ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.240. With frequent in-text illustrations, and six double-sided colour plates. Publisher's yellow / green cloth with silver titles to spine and blue endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket priced at £7.95. Also with the illustrated slipcase. A fine..... More
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