Children's Books
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A School History of England.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1911. [British History] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 250 [4]. With 10 colour plates by Ford, as well as various maps and drawings. Contemporary navy full calf by RELFE BROS for Langport Grammar School, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration..... More
Captains Courageous. A Story of the Grand Banks.
London: Macmillan and Company, 1908. [Classic seafaring adventure story] FIRST EDITION. Crown octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 245; [1], blank; [2], ads. Bound in publisher's blue cloth, front board shows gilt titles and a scene in gilt of Harvey at hauling on a line in apparently rough seas, gilt titles..... More
Toomai of the Elephants.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1937. [Film Tie-In] ORIGINAL STUDIO PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS, plus First Thus of the film tie-in book. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.[8] 84. Heavily illustrated with black and white photographs. Publisher's tan paper over boards, with black titles and decoration to spine and upper. With the photographic dust-jacket..... More
'Puck of Pook's Hill' (complete parts), and 'Some Fore-Runners of Sherlock Holmes' in The Strand Magazine [Ten monthly parts].
London, George Newnes Jan-Dec.1906. The complete Puck in parts; FIRST APPEARANCE, preceeding the edition in book-form. Original magazine issues; 10 separate parts. Illustrated throughout. Bound in publisher's light blue pictorial wrappers. Some minor chips as expected, some adsverts excised from Feb. and June issues, but generally a very clean, attractive..... More
The Jungle Book [and] The Second Jungle Book.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1894; 1895. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITIONS, first impressions. Two volumes. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 212; pp.[6] 238 [2]. With frequent in-text illustrations by the author's father John, as well as a frontispiece and a number of full page plates to volume I. Publisher's blue cloth..... More
Puck of Pook's Hill.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1906. [Fantasy tales] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[2] x; 306 [2]. With 20 engraved plates by Millar, including a frontispiece. Contemporary green half calf by BUMPUS with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and green cloth over boards. Top edge gilt; marbled..... More
Puck of Pook's Hill.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1906. [Fantasy Tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[4] x; 306 [12]. With 20 black and white illustrations by H.R. Millar, including a frontispiece. Advertisements dated 15.8.06. Elegantly hand-bound in red half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and the original cloth with..... More
Stalky and Co.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1899. [School Story] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.xii; 272; [2], advertisements. Elegantly hand-bound in half red calf, gilt-printed patterned paper-covered sides, top edge gilt, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands. Light and occasional thumbing. A near fine copy in an attractive recent leather binding. Stewart..... More
Stalky and Co.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1899. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xii; 272; [2], advertisements. Elegantly hand-bound in half red oasis morocco leather over original cloth sides gilt with elephant medalion to upper, top edge gilt, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands. A few light marks within; externally..... 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
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