Children's Books
Cinderella [together with] The Sleeping Beauty. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann, 1919, 1920. [Children's] FIRST EDITIONS THUS. 2 volumes, large octavos (26 x 20cm). Tipped-in colour frontispiece to each volume and numerous black and white silhouettes and three-tone illustrations. Publisher's red and yellow pictorial covers, cloth spines lettered in black, illustrated green endpapers to first volume, pictorial dust-wrappers..... More
Westward Ho! or the Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the County of Devon, in the reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1889. [Adventure Novel] FINE PRIZE BINDING, an new edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] viii; 591 [3]. With a frontispiece engraving of the author. Contemporary blue full calf for King Edward's Grammar School, Stourbridge, with raised bands, gilt titles to red label and further gilt decoration..... More
Harry and Lucy Concluded; being the Last Part of Early Lessons.
London: Printed for R. Hunter [etc.], 1827. [Children's Literature] SECOND EDITION, corrected. Complete in four volumes. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.iii-xviii; 287 [1]; pp.[4] 342; pp.[4] 319 [1]; pp.[4] 350. Contemporary brown quarter morocco (possibly an early publisher's binding), with gilt titles to spines, and marbled paper over boards. Lacking..... 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
Biggles of the Special Air Police. The Kingston Library.
London: The Thames Publishing Co., no date [circa 1956]. [Children's Adventures] EARLY REPRINT. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.247 1]. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket. Browning to low grade paper, with a little spotting also to edges and endpapers. Price-clipped jacket rubbed to edges..... More
The Shadow in the Plate [The Shadow in the North].
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. pp. 236. Publisher's blue cloth, lettered in silver, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Barrie Thorpe. Large water stain to upper board and front cover of jacket, not immediately visible. Very good overall. Sequel to 'The Ruby in the Smoke' (1985), and later..... More
Come Lasses and Lads.
London: George Routledge & Sons, no date [1884]. [Children's Illustrated] EARLY EDITION. Square octavo booklet (21 x 24cm), pp.24. Illustrated by Caldecott to every page, including several colour plates. Publisher's yellow illustrated paper covers, sewn. Rear adverts suggest the first year of publication 1884, but perhaps not the first issue..... More
Rupert and the Bottled Moonbeams [and Rupert and the Frosties]. Adventure Series No. 28.
London: Oldbourne Book Co., no date [April 1956]. [Children's Cartoon] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), twelve leaves illustrated in colour throughout, including soft covers with two staples. Light rubbing and thumbing to covers. Very good. More
Rupert and the Snow Sports [and Rupert and the Vanishing Pet]. Adventure Series No. 23.
London: Beaverbrook Newspapers, no date [February 1955]. [Children's Cartoon] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), twelve leaves illustrated in colour throughout, including soft covers with two staples. Light rubbing and thumbing to covers. Very good. More
Rupert Winter Adventures [Rupert and the Angry Dolls, and Rupert and Will o' the Wisp]. Adventure Series No. 35.
London: The Oldbourne Book Co., no date [circa 1959]. [Children's Cartoon] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), twelve leaves illustrated in colour throughout, including soft covers with two staples. A section of the margin lost from the first second leaf, about 1 x 3cm. Covers lightly rubbed and detached..... 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
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 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
Sindbad [Sinbad] the Sailor, & Other Stories From the Arabian Nights.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date [1914]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST DULAC ILLUSTRATED EDITION, trade issue. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.[2] 222 [2]. With 23 stunning colour plates by Dulac, including a frontispiece, each mounted with captioned tissue guards. Publisher's brown cloth, extensively decorated in green and gilt to spine and..... More
Fish Dream of Trees, and Other Curious Verses.
London: Two Hoots, 2017. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, first impression. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.[48]. Illustrated in colour throughout by Scheffler. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards with cyan endpapers, untitled. Publisher's illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £12.99. Promotional sticker to jacket. A fine, as-new copy. First published in German..... More
Tom Gates: Biscuits, Bands, and Very Big Plans.
London: Scholastic Children's Books, 2018. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 16cm), pp.[8] 264. Illustrated throughout by the author. SIGNED by the author in black ink to fly-leaf, with accompanying stamp. Publisher's glossy illustrated hard covers, priced at £12.99 (no jacket issued). 'Signed by the Author' sticker to..... More
Willy's Stories.
London: Walker Books, 2014. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (31 x 27cm), pp.24. With colour illustrations by the author to every page. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black paper-covered boards, and marbled-illustrated endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £12.99. Light surface scratches..... More
Unwitting Wisdom: An Anthology of Aesop's Animal Fables.
Dorking: Templar Publishing, 2004. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.[64]. With colour illustrations by the author to every page. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, and black endpapers. With the contrasting illustrated dust-jacket, priced at ££14.95. Top corners..... More
The Promise.
London: Walker Books, 2013. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Small quarto (27 x 26cm), pp.40. With colour illustrations to every page by Carlin. SIGNED by the artist in black ink to half-title. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, and pavement illustrated endpapers. With the contrasting illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £12.99..... More
Fairy Tales.
New York, NY: Schocken Books, 1982. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST US EDITION. Small quarto (29 x 21cm), pp.128. With a mixture of full colour plates and black and white vignettes by Foreman. SIGNED by both author and illustrator in black ink, each to a separate bookplate on the verso of..... More
Helen Oxenbury: a life in illustration.
London: Walker Books, 2018. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (28 x 25cm), pp.264 [24]. Illustrated throughout with a mixture of fine colour photographs and reproductions of Oxenbury's artwork. Publisher's photographic cloth with blue and maroon titles to spine, and red endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £30. Some..... 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
The Tiger Who Came to Tea.
London: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2015. [Children's Illustrated] 'CELEBRATION' EDITION, first thus. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.[32] With colour illustrations by the author to every page. Publisher's orange quarter cloth, with colour-illustrated paper over boards, and orange endpapers, priced at £12.99 (no jacket issued). A fine, as-new copy. The classic and..... More
The Tiger Who Came to Tea.
London: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2013. [Children's Illustrated] AUTHOR'S NINETIETH BIRTHDAY EDITION, first thus. Quarto (30 x 23cm), pp.[32] With colour illustrations by the author to every page. Publisher's glossy colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, and yellow endpapers. With the matching dust-jacket, priced at £14.99, and the blue and orange illustrated paper-covered slipcase..... 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