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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 bit..... More
Seven Little Australians.
London: Ward, Lock, & Co., no date [circa 1909]. [Australian Children's Literature] VINTAGE COPY. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.236 [20]. With three black and white plates, including a frontispiece, by Johnson, and frequent in-text illustrations. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. Arms of West..... More
Not Now, Bernard.
London: Andersen Classics, 2015. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED LIMITED THIRTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION. Small quarto (28 x 23cm), pp.[26]. With colour illustrations by the author to every page. One of just 300 copies SIGNED by the author in black ink to a bookplate on the fly-leaf. Publisher's colour-illustrated cloth with purple endpapers..... More
The Ship That Sailed to Mars. A Fantasy.
London: George G. Harrap, no date [1923]. [Children's Fantasy] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (31 x 24cm). 48 pages of text, and 48 colour plates illustrated by the author, all mounted on thick grey leaves. Publisher's quarter vellum with elaborate gilt titles and decoration to spine, and grey paper-covered boards titled to..... More
The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage.
London: David Fickling, 2017. [Young Adult Fantasy] FIRST EDITION, Special Waterstones Edition. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.546. Publisher's gilt and silver decorated blue cloth, Oxford skyline endpapers. Publisher's price sticker to rear board. One light scratch to upper, and a bump and scratch to spine, otherwise crisp, clean and unread..... More
Black Beauty. The Autobiography of a Horse. Illustrated by Eighteen Plates in Colour Specially Drawn For This Edition by Cecil Aldin.
London: Jarrold Publishers, no date [1912]. [Children's classic] FIRST ALDIN ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (25 x 20cm), pp.xii; 13-291; [1], blank. Eighteen colour plates and other illustrations. Handsomely bound in green half morocco, over original green cloth covers elaborately blocked in gilt. Some spotting to the thick paper stock, exterior is..... More
Cinderella. Together with The Sleeping Beauty. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann, 1919 and 1920. FIRST EDITIONS thus. 2 volumes, large octavos. Publisher's red and yellow pictorial covers, cloth spines, in red and grey illustrated dust-wrappers. Tipped-in colour frontispiece to each volume and numerous black and white silhouettes and three-toned illustrations. Owner name to 'Cinderella', some edge spotting to..... More
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