"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."
— C. S. Lewis
Children's Books
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 fine..... More
The Wind in the Willows.
London: Methuen and Co., 1931. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST SHEPARD ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[8] 312 [8]. With frequent in-text illustrations, and endpaper maps, all illustrated by Shepard. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and gilt decoration to upper. Top edge green. Light occasional spotting, with a...... 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
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.50.
London: Express Newspapers, Printed by Jarrold, 1985. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.101. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price £2.75 intact. A lovely fine copy. More
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The Rupert Annual [Express Newspapers' Rupert Bear], No.51.
London: Express Newspapers, Printed by Jarrold, 1986. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.99. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price £2.95 intact. A lovely fine copy. More
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The Rupert Annual [Express Newspapers' Rupert Bear], No.52.
London: Express Newspapers, Printed by Jarrold, 1987. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.99. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price £3.25 intact. A lovely fine copy. 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
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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
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The Rupert Annual [Express Newspapers' Rupert Bear], No.59.
London: Express Newspapers, 1994. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.93. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price £4.99 intact. A very fine/as new copy. More
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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
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Rupert [Daily Express Rupert Bear Annual], No.44.
London: Express Newspapers, Printed by Purnell, 1979. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (25 x 18cm), pp.115. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Contents very clean. Name within 'book belongs to' box, price-clipped, minor shelfwear. An attractive copy. More