Children's Books
Fairy Tales and Romances.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1849. [Continental Fairy Tales] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[2] vi; 562 [2]. With a frontispiece etching of Count Hamilton. In a fine later binding of brown half crushed morocco by Roger de Coverly, with gilt titles and decoration to spine..... More
A Patch of Skye.
Uig, Isle of Skye: Scot and Flanders, 2006. [Children's Illustrated] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.99; [1]. Publisher's pictorial paper boards, with the dust-jacket of matcing design. Illustrations throughout, including title page. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to flyleaf. As New. Ben is a wandering sheep..... More
The Rupert Annual [Express Newspapers' Rupert Bear], No.49.
London: Express Newspapers, Printed by Jarrold, 1984. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.92. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price £2.25 intact. Picture to rear pastedown coloured in, some light wear to extremities, small tear to rear joint at the foot of..... More
The Rupert Annual [Express Newspapers' Rupert Bear], No.55.
London: Express Newspapers, Printed by Jarrold, 1990. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.99. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price £4.25 intact. With commemorative jacket, featuring a colour poster of Rupert to reverse side. Absolutely fine/as new. Designated '70th Anniversary Edition' (Rupert..... More
The Rupert Annual [Express Newspapers' Rupert Bear], No.56
London: Express Newspapers, Printed by Jarrold, 1991. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.99. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price £4.25 intact. A very fine/as new copy. More
The Rupert Annual [Express Newspapers' Rupert Bear], No.60.
London: Express Newspapers, published by Pedigree, 1995. [Children's annual] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.109. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price £5.50 intact. A very fine/as new copy. Designated '75th Anniversary Edition' (Rupert first appeared in the Daily Express in 1920;..... More
The Rupert Annual [Express Newspapers' Rupert Bear], No.61.
London: Express Newspapers, published by Pedigree, 1996. [Children's annual] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.109. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price £5.99 intact. A very fine/as new copy. More
The Rupert Annual [Express Newspapers' Rupert Bear], No.62.
London: Express Newspapers, published by Pedigree, 1997. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.109. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price £6.99 intact. A very fine/as new copy. More
The Rupert Annual [Express Newspapers' Rupert Bear], No.63.
London: Express Newspapers, published by Pedigree, 1998. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.109. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price £6.99 intact. A very fine/as new copy. More
The Rupert Annual [Express Newspapers' Rupert Bear], No.64.
London: Express Newspapers, published by Pedigree, 1999. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.109. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price £6.99 intact. A very fine/as new copy. More
The Rupert Annual [Express Newspapers' Rupert Bear], No.65.
London: Express Newspapers, published by Pedigree, 2000. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.109. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price £6.99 intact. A very fine/as new copy. More
The Rupert Annual [Express Newspapers' Rupert Bear], No.66.
London: Express Newspapers, published by Pedigree, 2001. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.109. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price £6.99 intact. A very fine/as new copy. More
The Rupert Annual [Express Newspapers' Rupert Bear], No.67.
London: Express Newspapers, published by Pedigree, 2002. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.109. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price £6.99 intact. A very fine/as new copy. More
The Rupert Annual [Express Newspapers' Rupert Bear], No.68.
London: Express Newspapers, 2003. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.109. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price £7.50 intact. A very fine/as new copy. More
The Rupert Annual [Express Newspapers' Rupert Bear], No.69.
London: Express Newspapers, 2004. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.109. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price £7.50 intact. A very fine/as new copy. More
The Rupert Annual [Express Newspapers' Rupert Bear], No.71.
London: Express Newspapers, 2006. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.109. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price £7.50 intact. A very fine/as new copy. More
The Queen of the Pirate Isle. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
London: Chatto and Windus, no date [1886]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (22 x 17cm), pp.58. Liberally illustrated with very fine in-text colour-printed wood engravings after Kate Greenaway's drawings. Publisher's cream cloth with titles in both gilt and black and a colour illustration to both boards. Titles also..... More
Bill the Minder. Written and Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
London: Constable and Co., 1912. [Children's classic] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.xivi; 256. Beautifully illustrated with sixteen full colour plates, including frontispiece, with captioned tissue guards and numerous black and white illustrations throughout. Elegantly bound in dark blue half morocco over marbled sides, with gilt decoration to spine..... More
Darkmouth.
London: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2015. [Children's Adventure] UNCORRECTED PROOF. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.411 [5]. With several illustrations by de la Rue. Publisher's black soft covers with titles in orange and green. Price, format and publicity details to inside cover and first leaf. Spine very slightly sunned. A hand-written number..... More
The Joker and Jerry Again.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, no date [1932]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (22 x 18cm), pp.[12]; 171; [1]. With twelve illustrations by Cecil Aldin including a frontispiece, many coloured pleasingly by a former owner. In publisher's cream cloth with red titles to spine. With original pictorial dust-jacket. Black ink..... More
The Cat of Bubastes. A Tale of Ancient Egypt. With eight full page illustrations by J.R. Weguelin.
London: Blackie and Son, 49 and 50 Old Bailey, E.C., 1889. [Children's classic] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.iv; [5]; 10-352; 32 of publisher's advertisements. Publisher's brown cloth blocked in gilt, red, and black. Olivine edges, dark blue coated endpapers. With eight half tone plates printed in sepia, including..... More
Ruby, Blue and Blanket.
Brighton: Scribblers, 2013. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 27cm), pp.[26]. With colour illustrations by the author to every page. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, and illustrated endpapers. With the matching dust-jacket, priced at £10.99. A fine, as-new copy. More
La Corona and the Tin Frog.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1979. [Children's illustrated] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR. Slim quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.[32] unpaginated. Publisher's glossy illustrated boards with printed price of £3.50 to rear board, dark blue endpapers. Signed by Nicola Bayley to the title page. Illustrated throughout. One tiny scuff to rear panel..... More
Jim's Lion.
London: Walker Books, 2014. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.82 [2]. A new edition illustrated partly as a comic strip by Deacon, and SIGNED by him in black ink to the dedication page, dated June 2014. Publisher's illustrated paper-covered boards. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced..... More
Soonchild.
London: Walker Books, 2012. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.142 [2]. With in-text sketches by Deacon. SIGNED by the illustrator in purple ink to title page. Publisher's illustrated cream paper over boards, with black titles to spine and upper, and blue illustrated endpapers. With the illustrated..... More