Children's Books
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Problem Party.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1945. [Children's fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.214; [2]. Publisher's orange cloth, titles in green to spine, decorated front endpapers, dust-jacket designed by Tresilian with printed price of 8s. 6d. net. In-text illustrations by Tresilian. Spotting and toning to edges, cloth bumped..... More
Poo-Poo and the Dragons.
London: Michael Joseph, 1942. [Children's illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.188. With in-text illustrations and endpapers by Lawson. Publisher's yellow cloth, designs and titles blocked in red to upper and spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at 7/6. Mild toning throughout. Typographic bookplate of Trevor Hickman to front..... More
Emil Und Die Detektive. Ein Roman Für Kinder.
Berlin-Grunewald: Williams, 1934. [Children's] GERMAN LANGUAGE EDITION, 88th to 100th thousand. Octavo (21 x 17cm). pp.198 [2]. With numerous in-text illustrations by Walter Trier. Publisher's pictorial oatmeal cloth, with the matching pictorial dust-jacket. Interior lightly toned with a few pencil marks, fore-edge faintly spotted. Some toning to top of cloth..... More
[Original Artwork for Biggles]. [Unpublished].
no date [circa 1940s]. [Children's Adventure Artwork] ORIGINAL PAINTING (38 x 57cm). Gouache painted directly onto a Winsor & Newton Fashion-Plate Drawing Board, details printed on reverse. A little rubbed, chipped and bumped to edges, but clean and bright generally. Very good. An original painting produced by Leslie Stead, or..... More
Mary Poppins Comes Back.
London: Lovat Dickson and Thompson Ltd., 1935. [Classic Children's Fantasy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.303; [1], imprint; [1], blank. With black and white illustrations. Publisher's cream cloth blocked in green, illustrated endpapers, top edge green, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 5s. Some marginal soiling to pp.80-81 else contents clean..... More
London Toy Books: Aunt Louisa's Sea Side.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [1867]. [Children's Illustrated] FINE CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS. Quarto (27 x 23cm), six leaves of text printed to recto only, with six very fine chromolithographic plates. Publisher's brightly illustrated pink card covers, with titles to front cover and advertisements to back cover. Some light browning and..... More
Round the Fire Stories [and] The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings [and] Miss Cayley's Adventures [and] Glimpses of Nature [and] Safety Match [and] Smoked Skipper [and] Clochette [and] The Gray Parrot [and] The Madness of Mr. Lister [and] Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation [and] The Stolen Body [and] Underground Passages and Trap-Doors [and] Where the Air Quivered [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 15 and 16, complete.
London: George Newnes, January to December 1898. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Two volumes. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.[4] 804; pp.[4] 804. With frequent black and white illustrations. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spines and black titles and decoration to uppers. All edges speckled red. Clean internally, with moderate..... More
The Sanctuary Club [and] Hilda Wade [and] A Master of Craft [and] The Seven Dragons [and] The "Southern Cross" Antarctic Expedition [and] The Croxley Master [and] Whereyouwantogoto: or, The Bouncible Ball [and] Kind Little Edmund; or, The Caves and The Cockatrice [in] The Strand Magazine. Volume 18, numbers 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, and 108.
London: George Newnes, July 1899 to December 1899. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Six octavo magazines (28 x 19cm), pp.xl; 120; xli-xlviii; pp.xxxii; 121-240; xxxiii-xl; pp.xxxvi; 241-360; xxxvii-xliv; pp.xl; 361-480; xli-xlviii; pp.xlviii; 481-600; xlix-lvi; pp.lvi; 601-804; lvii-lxviii [8]. With frequent in-text illustrations. Publisher's pale blue paper covers titled in dark blue..... More
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