Children's Books
The Giant at the Ford, and Other Legends of the Saints.
London: The Bodley Head, 1980. [Children's Hagiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.183 [1]. With occasional line drawings by Felts. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket, also illustrated by Felts, priced at £4.50. Lightly handled, with slight sunning to jacket spine. Near fine. Fifteen..... More
The Singing Bones.
London: Walker Studio an imprint of Walker Books Ltd., 2016. [Children's Illustrated] LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (32 x 21cm), pp.208. Limited edition presented in a toggle fastened clamshell box accompanied with two signed and numbered prints. Housed in the original printed cardboard mailing box. Still in the publisher's shrink-wrap. Fine/as new..... More
Shadowmancer
London: Faber and Faber 2003. [Fantasy adventure] SIGNED FIRST EDITION thus, with additional chapter and foreword. Fine in jacket. SIGNED by the author. British hardcover printing of the highly acclaimed debut. More
Shadowmancer.
London: Faber and Faber, 2003. [Supernatural Fantasy adventure] UNCORRECTED PROOF of the British First Printing. A paperback original. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[vi]; 300. With illustrated map and decorative chapter headings. A fine, unread/unused copy. 'Hailed as the biggest event in children's fiction since Harry Potter' -The Times... More
Shadowmancer.
Whitby: Mount Publishing, 2002. [Christian Children's Fantasy] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.252. SIGNED and dated by the author in black ink to title page, October 2002. Publisher's blind stamp also to title page. With a bookmark promoting the 2003 Faber & Faber edition. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers..... More
Marvin and Molly.
London: Sheepsy, 2012. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 24cm), pp.[34]. With colour illustrations by the author to every page. SIGNED by the author in black in, with some doodles, to half-title. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers, priced at £6.99. A fine, as-new copy. More
Marvin Gets MAD!
London: Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2008. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (28 x 25cm), pp.[32] With fully intact sticker sheet at rear, and colour illustrations to every page by the author. SIGNED by the author in black ink, with a doodle to copyright page. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers, priced..... More
The Goldfish Boy.
London: Scholastic, 2017. [Children's fiction] SIGNED PAPERBACK, nineteenth printing. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[4]; 393; [3]. Publisher's softcovers. Signed by the author to the dedication page. 'Signed by the Author' sticker to front cover. Uncommon signed. A fine/as new copy. More
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Parts One and Two. Special Rehearsal Edition Script.
London: Little, Brown, 2016. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[vi]; 343; [1]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt device on front board. Gold illustrated endpapers. Illustrated dust-wrapper designed by Duncan Spilling, with printed price of £20. Some light edgewear, otherwise fine, as-new. A two-part..... More
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again.
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1995. [Children's Fantasy Adventure] LEATHER-BOUND SIXTH EDITION, First Thus. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] 272. With 13 illustrations by the author, including five colour plates. Recently re-bound in green half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, matching cloth over boards, and green endpapers. With the original..... More
Rupert Little Bear More Stories.
London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co, 1939. [Children's illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm). Illustrative front and back boards with red and black lettering picturing the characters from the Rupert stories. Coloured illustrative frontispiece, two colour title page, two coloured text used throughout, illustrations throughout. Shaken in case, toning..... More
Mary Poppins Comes Back.
London: Lovat Dickson and Thompson Ltd., 1935. [Classic Children's Fantasy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.303; [1], imprint; [1], blank. With black and white illustrations. Publisher's cream cloth blocked in green, illustrated endpapers, top edge green, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 5s. Some marginal soiling to pp.80-81 else contents clean..... More
Fabulous Histories. Designed for the Instruction of Children, Respecting their Treatment of Animals.
London: T. Longman, 1791. [Natural History] FOURTH EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.[6] 215 [5]. Recently rebound in dark brown full calf, with gilt titles on red label to spine, gilt embossed bands to spine, and gilt ruling to turn-ins. Placard marbled endpapers. Bound by Alan Winstanley of Salisbury, with..... More
London Toy Books: Aunt Louisa's Sea Side.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [1867]. [Children's Illustrated] FINE CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS. Quarto (27 x 23cm), six leaves of text printed to recto only, with six very fine chromolithographic plates. Publisher's brightly illustrated pink card covers, with titles to front cover and advertisements to back cover. Some light browning and..... More
The Story of Wilbur the Hat. Being a True Account of the Strange Things Which Sometimes Happen in a Part of the World Which Does not Exist.
New York City: Horace B. Liveright, 1925. [Children's illustrated] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.112. With numerous full-page lithographic illustrations by Van Loon. Pictorial endpapers. Pictorial paper over boards, black cloth with titles to spine. Interior bright and mostly clean, some marking and spotting here and there..... More
Little Innocents: Childhood Reminiscences.
London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1932. [Childhood Anthology] DELUXE FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii, 124 [4]. In contemporary full vellum with gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt; others untrimmed. Binder's label for Leighton Straker Bookbinding Co. to copyright page. A little toning to edges, and some light marks and discolouration..... More
The Recreation: MDCCCXLII. A Gift-Book for Young Readers: Embracing Such Subjects as are Particularly Fitted to Interest and Improve the Youthful Mind. Embellished With Engravings.
Edinburgh: John Menzies, London: Tilt and Bogue, 1842. [Children's] FIRST EDITION, scarce. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.x; [2]; 322; 6. With four engraved plates, a frontispiece, and vignette engraving. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to upper and spine. Pictorial gilt design to upper and spine, tooling in blind to both..... More
Our Darlings.
London: John F. Shaw and Company Ltd., c.1920. Quarto, pp. 1 [advertisements]; 288. Edwardian children's annual bound in red publisher's cloth with pictorial paper boards (advertisement for Allenbury's Foods pasted to rear board), depicts a young boy in a sailor's outfit with a young girl on his shoulders carrying a...... 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
Round the Fire Stories [and] The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings [and] Miss Cayley's Adventures [and] Glimpses of Nature [and] Safety Match [and] Smoked Skipper [and] Clochette [and] The Gray Parrot [and] The Madness of Mr. Lister [and] Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation [and] The Stolen Body [and] Underground Passages and Trap-Doors [and] Where the Air Quivered [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 15 and 16, complete.
London: George Newnes, January to December 1898. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Two volumes. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.[4] 804; pp.[4] 804. With frequent black and white illustrations. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spines and black titles and decoration to uppers. All edges speckled red. Clean internally, with moderate..... 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
Collins' Fairy Folks' Annual.
London: Collins' Clear-Type Press, no date [1924]. [Illustrated Fairy Tales] FIRST THUS. Quarto (27 x 21cm), pp.[4] 160. With numerous engraved illustrations by various artists, including a colour frontispiece and decorated title page, and around 30 other illustrations with colour. Publisher's tan quarter cloth with blue titles and decoration to..... 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