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Children's Books
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The Magical Car. Illustrated by John Burningham.
London: Jonathan Cape and Queen Anne Press, 2014. [Children's illustrated] DELUXE LIMITED EDITION, one of just 50 sets, accompanied by two prints, measuring 297 x 210mm, SIGNED and numbered by John Burningham. Three volumes plus portfolio, housed in a grey cloth slipcase (34 x 24 x 6cm), pp.48; pp.48; pp.48..... More
A Day in a Child's Life.
London: George Routledge, n.d. [1881]. FIRST EDITION. Quarto. pp. 29. With colour illustrations by Kate Greenaway to every page. In publisher's quarter green cloth with green and yellow paper-covered boards. Titles to upper board and green end-papers. Black ink inscription to flyleaf dated 1882. Very light spotting. Edges quite heavily..... More
Grimble.
London: Collins, 1968. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4]; 44. With frequent in-text illustrations by Francis. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine. With the red dust-jacket also illustrated by Francis. Internally fine. Jacket price-clipped and sunned to spine with some small closed tears. Very good..... More
Dragon Rider.
Frome: The Chicken House, 2004. [Children's Fantasy] UNCORRECTED PROOF. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.530. With occasional in-text illustrations by Howard. Publisher's blue soft covers, and proof dust-jacket illustrated by Ian Butterworth, priced at £12.99. Some light handling. Near fine. Originally published in German in 1997, and basis for the 2020..... More
Dragon Rider.
Frome: The Chicken House, 2004. [Children's Fantasy] FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.530. With occasional in-text illustrations by Howard, and colour-illustrated folding pop-up map. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine. With the blue dust-jacket illustrated by Ian Butterworth, priced at £12.99. Jacket Sunned to spine, and map..... More
Undercover Princess.
London: Penguin Books, 2017. [Children's literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.[6]; 378. Publisher's purple cloth, gilt titles to spine, decorative endpapers, dust-jacket designed by Qing Han with printed price of £12.99. Signed by the author to a tipped in title page. Fine. The first instalment of the..... More
The Valley of Song.
London: University of London Press, 1951. [Children's Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.255 [1]. With a colour frontispiece and occasional line-drawn illustrations throughout the text by Spurrier. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt ship device to upper. Top edge red, and illustrated endpapers..... More
The Wind in the Willows.
London: Methuen, 1908. [Children's classic] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.[viii]; 302; [1], blank; [1], imprint. Frontispiece by Graham Robertson. Handsomely bound in full green polished morocco, gilt, by Trevor Lloyd M.B.E., with raised bands, extra gilt back, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, triple gilt fillet to sides, double..... More
The Wind in the Willows.
London: Methuen Children's Books, 1971. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED LIMITED FIRST SHEPARD COLOUR EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[4] 262 [2]. Heavily illustrated with Shepard's drawings, produced in colour for the first time. Number 231 of 250 copies thus, SIGNED by the illustrator in black ink to limitation page. Finely bound..... More
Creeper's Jeep.
Tadworth: World's Work, the Windmill Press, 1973. [Children's Illustrated] REISSUE. Small quarto (24 x 20cm), unpaginated, with colour illustrations printed by offset to every page. Illustrated endpapers. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, with black cloth to spine. With the matching dust-jacket. Black ink gift inscription to verso of flyleaf. Price-clipped jacket..... More
Mother Goose, or the Old Nursery Rhymes.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [circa 1915]. [Children's Illustrated] VINTAGE EDITION with fine colour illustrations. Small octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.52. With fine coloured illustrations by the author, printed by Evans at Rose Place, London. Publisher's green cloth to spine, titled in brown, with glossy colour-illustrated paper-covered boards..... More
The April Baby's Book of Tunes. With the Story of How They Came to be Written.
London: Macmillan and Company, Limited. 1900. FIRST EDITION, CLEAN COPY of Greenaway's final book. Octavo, pp.35. Bound in publisher's light brown cloth blocked in colour, all edges coloured deep red, large title to spine and matching red title to front board, with caption 'By the Author of 'Elizabeth and her..... More
Marigold Garden: Pictures and Rhymes.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [circa 1920]. [Children's Illustrated] ATTRACTIVE REPRINT. Large octavo (25 x 20cm), pp.56. With fine colour illustrations by the author, printed from the original wood blocks by Edmund Evans, to every page. Publisher's illustrated glossy paper-covered boards with black titles to grey cloth spine..... More
Under the Window: Pictures and Rhymes for Children.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [circa 1920]. [Children's Illustrated] ATTRACTIVE REPRINT. Large octavo (25 x 20cm), pp.56. With fine colour illustrations by the author, printed from the original wood blocks by Edmund Evans, to every page. Publisher's illustrated glossy paper-covered boards with green titles to cream cloth spine..... More
Under the Window: Pictures and Rhymes for Children.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [circa 1900]. [Children's Illustrated] ATTRACTIVE REPRINT. Large octavo (25 x 20cm), pp.64. With fine colour illustrations by the author, printed from the original wood blocks by Edmund Evans, to every page. Publisher's illustrated paper-covered boards with green cloth spine and green endpapers. Black..... More
History of my Pets. With Engravings from Designs by Billings.
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851. 8vo. Publisher's embossed red cloth with decorative titles in gilt to spine and upper. Frayed to corners and spine tips with chips. Neat owner's name to first free end paper. A lovely copy of the author's collection of stories, written for young people, of..... More
Recollections of my Childhood. And Other Stories. With Engravings from Designs by Billings.
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. 8vo. Publisher's embossed red cloth with decorative titles in gilt to spine and upper. Frayed to corners and spine tips with chips. Another collection of stories for children from the author of History of my Pets. More
Traction Man Meets Turbodog.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2008. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 23cm), pp.[32]. Illustrated in colour to every page by the author. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's glossy colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, with illustrated endpapers, priced at £10.99. A fine, as-new copy... More
Jack Among the Indians, or, A Boy's Summer on the Buffalo Plains.
New York, NY: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1900. [Children's Old West Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[10] 301 [1]. With eight black and white plates, including a frontispiece, illustrated by Deming. Publisher's green cloth, with red titles and coloured decoration to spine and upper. Some toning to edges..... More
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
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The Rupert Annual [Express Newspapers' Rupert Bear], No.45.
London: Express Newspapers, Printed by Purnell, 1980. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.92. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price £1.60 intact. Minor shelfwear; near fine. The first of the larger-format annuals. More
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The Rupert Annual [Express Newspapers' Rupert Bear], No.47.
London: Express Newspapers, Printed by Purnell, 1982. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.92. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price £2.00 intact. Small bump to rear else a lovely fine copy. More
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The Rupert Annual [Express Newspapers' Rupert Bear], No.48.
London: Express Newspapers, Printed by Purnell, 1983. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.92. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price £2.00 intact. A lovely fine copy. More
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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
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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