Children's Books
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The Whispering Mountain
London: Jonathan Cape, 1968. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION, with SIGNED CARD tucked in. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.240. With title-page illustration and jacket design by Pat Marriott. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, map endpapers printed in colour, pictorial dust-jacket priced at 21s. A few light marks to..... More
Past Eight O'Clock: Goodnight Stories.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1986. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.128. With frequent in-text silhouette illustrations by Pienkowski, some in colour, including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, gilt decoration to upper, and illustrated endpapers. With the brown illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £7.95. A...... More
Little Lord Fauntleroy.
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
Little Lord Fauntleroy.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. [Children's Literature] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION, second issue. Square octavo (21 x 17cm), pp.xii; 209 [19]. With 26 illustrations after Reginald B. Birch. The second issue, showing J.J. Little on the copyright page. In a very fine binding of green full morocco, with..... More
Grimble.
London: Collins, 1968. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4]; 44. With frequent in-text illustrations by Francis. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine. With the red dust-jacket also illustrated by Francis. Internally fine. Jacket price-clipped and sunned to spine with some small closed tears. Very good..... 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
The Enchanted Castle.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1907. [Children's Fantasy Adventure] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.352 [2]. With 47 engraved illustrations by Millar, including a frontispiece. Recently re-bound in red half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and the original publisher's gilt-decorated red cloth over boards. Top edge..... More
Wet Magic.
London: Ernest Benn Ltd., 1958. [Children's Fantasy] NEW EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; 274 [2]. With wood engraved plates by Millar. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Illustrated dust-wrapper priced at 12/6. Charming gift note to flyleaf, jacket a little edge worn and slightly sunned. A very..... More
New Treasure Seekers. Illustrated by Gordon Browne and Lewis Baumer.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1904. [Adventure story] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.328. Illustrations throughout. Elegantly bound in full crimson morocco by Baytun-Riviere, with gilt titles, all edges gilt, combed marble endpapers, inner gilt dentelles, publisher's cloth bound in at rear. A fine copy, inside and out. The third..... More
Oswald Bastable and Others. Illustrated by Charles E. Brock and H. R. Millar.
London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., 1905. [Children's classic] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.x; [vii-viii], seemingly misbound; 1-369; [1], blank; [9], ads; [1], blank. Text in first state. Publisher's burgundy cloth, blocked in gilt to spine and upper board, t.e.g. Illustrated with plates (all present) and one drawing..... More
The Story of the Treasure Seekers. Being the Adventures of the Barnstable Children in Search of a Fortune.
London: T. Fisher Unwin. 1899. [Children's classic]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; [2]; 296; [2]; [2 of advertisements]; [8 of publisher's advertisements]. Publisher's blue-green cloth, blocked in gilt to spine and upper board, all edges gilt. Illustrated with seventeen plates. Slight reading lean, contents shaken within case. plate..... More
The Story of the Treasure Seekers. Being the Adventures of the Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1899. [Children's classic] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; [2]; 296; [2]; [2 of advertisements]; [8 of publisher's advertisements]. Publisher's blue-green cloth, blocked in gilt to spine and upper board, all edges gilt. Illustrated with seventeen plates. Contents clean, owner's stamp to flyleaf, binding shows..... More
The Return of Sherlock Holmes [and] Dixon's Return [and] The Ebony Box [and] Eyes of Terror [and] Gervais of Blois [and] The Iron Maiden [and] The King and I [and] The Land Ironclads [and] Lawyer Quince [and] Liar and an Elephant [and] The Phoenix and the Carpet [and] Point of Law [and] The Country of the Blind [and] Dialstone Lane [and] Echo [and] Golden Bars [and] Sadi the Fiddler [and] Billy the King [and] The Diver's Story [and] The Girl on the Sands [and] An Irish Gentleman [and] The Messenger in Mufti [and] The Mistress of the Chateau [and] The Ring and the Lamp [and] A Splendid Rogue [and] The Temptation of Samuel Burge [and] That Brute Simmons [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 26, 27 and 28, complete.
London: George Newnes, July 1903 to December 1904. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Three volumes. Octavo (24 x 27cm), pp.[4] 804; pp.[4] 724; pp.[4] 804. With frequent black and white illustrations, including Paget's famous illustrations for the Holmes stories. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spines and black titles and..... More
The Adventure of the Dying Detective [and] The Horror of the Heights [and] How it Happened [and] The Poison Belt, Chapter 6 [and] To the South Pole: Captain Scott's Own Story [and] Back to Back [and] Keeping Watch [and] The Weaker Vessel [and] Bits of Life [and] The Journal of Aura Lovel [and] Keeping it from Harold [and] The Torch [and] Wet Magic [in] The Strand Magazine. Volume 46, complete.
London: George Newnes, July to December 1913. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.iv; 802; viii. With frequent black and white, and occasional dichromatic, illustrations. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spines and black titles and decoration to uppers. All edges speckled red. Ink library stamps of..... More
Stalky and Co. [in] The Windsor Magazine. Volume 9.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., December 1898 to May 1899. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.vi; 754. With numerous photogravure illustrations. Publisher's green cloth over boards, with gilt and brown titles and decoration to spine and upper. Floral-patterned endpapers. Pink 'Book Fund' book plate to front pastedown..... 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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