Children's Books
In the Days of Drake, Being the Adventures of Humphrey Salkeld, how he was Carried Away to Mexico: how he There Underwent Many Torments at the Hands of the Inquisitors; and Finally, how he fell in with the Great Captain, Francis Drake, and Escaped to England (A.D. 1578-1580).
London, Glasgow, Dublin, Bombay: Blackie and Son, N.d. [c.1896]. [Children's Adventure] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. With three halftone plates, including a frontispiece. Contemporary brown full calf, gilt armorial device to upper, boards gilt-ruled. Spine with gilt-lettered brown label, raised bands, and gilt-tooling. Dentelles in blind to..... More
Poo-Poo and the Dragons.
London: Michael Joseph, 1942. [Children's illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.188. With in-text illustrations and endpapers by Lawson. Publisher's yellow cloth, designs and titles blocked in red to upper and spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at 7/6. Mild toning throughout. Typographic bookplate of Trevor Hickman to front..... 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
The Magic Mirror. A Round of Tales for Old and Young.
London: Alexander Strahan, 1866. [Illustrated Children's] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp. [vi]; 290. 84 small in-text illustrations by W. S. Gilbert. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, gilt illustration to front board, gilt edges of textblock, embossed illustration to back board. Spotting to pages, darkening of..... 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 & Co., 1922. [Children's classic] VINTAGE COPY, the 12th edition. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[8] 302 [10]. Frontispiece by Graham Robertson. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and in blind to upper. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Largely clean, with a few minor spots..... More
The Wind in the Willows.
London: Methuen and Co., 1931. [Children's classic] FIRST SHEPARD ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[vi]; 312; 10, advertisements dated 10.[19]31. Lavishly illustrated by Shepard. Publisher's green cloth with Mole, Rat, and Mr Toad in gilt to front board, gilt titles to spine; top edge green, cartographic endpapers. Illustrated jacket..... 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
Grimm's Fairy Tales.
London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, no date [circa 1920]. [Illustrated Fairy Tales] FIRST THEAKER ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.344. With 48 colour plates by Theaker, including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with darker green titles to spine and upper, and a colour illustration laid onto upper board..... 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
Orlando's Evening Out.
London: John Murray, 1962. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST HARDBACK EDITION. Oblong octavo (19 x 23cm), pp.32. With illustrations by the author to every page, some in colour. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, with the matching dust-jacket. Black ink gift inscription to first leaf, dated Christmas 1965. A 2cm marginal tear also to..... 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
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