"Outside of a dog, man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx

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
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
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
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
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
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
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