Children's Books
Rupert [Daily Express Rupert Bear Annual], No.22.
London: Express Newspapers, Printed by Oldbourne, no date [1957]. [Children's Annual] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (25 x 18cm), pp.107. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy illustrated card covers, with pictorial endpapers. Title page price-clipped. 'The Book Belongs To' section filled out in black ink. Colouring sections at front and rear..... More
The Magic Finger.
London: Viking, 1995. [Children's Adventure] FIRST BLAKE EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.64. With frequent in-text illustrations by Blake; large print. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green illustrated dust-jacket, not priced. Moderate toning to paper, as usual, jacket with a few small nicks, spine gently..... More
The Minpins.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1991. [Children's story] FIRST EDITION. Large format hardcover (28 x 22cm), pp.48, colour illustrations throughout. Publisher's illustrated covers, red endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket. Contents clean, no inscriptions. Binding moderately handled; a very good copy with a little sunning/toning to spine. "Beware, Beware, the Forest of Sin! None come..... More
Harry Potter and the The Deathly Hallows.
London: Bloomsbury, 2007. [Fantasy adventure] FIRST EDITION, first impression, SIGNED by the artist. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.607 [1]. Publisher's pictorial paper over boards, with the matching dust-jacket illustrated by Cockcroft, priced at £17.99, SIGNED to the upper panel in black marker by the artist Jason Cockcroft. Edges gently toned..... More
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The Magical Car. Illustrated by John Burningham.
New York, NY: Random House, 1964 [1965]. [Childrens classic] Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.118. Dated 1964 but issued in 1965. Publisher's hardcover, top edge coloured black, in pictorial jacket. This is the Book Club issue (often mistaken as the first US edition). Exhibits some minor toning and handling; price-clipped as..... More
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The Magical Car. Illustrated by John Burningham.
New York, NY: Random House / Columbus, OH: Weekly Reader Children's Book Club, 1964 [1965]. [Childrens classic] Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.116. Dated 1964 but issued in 1965. Publisher's illustrated boards, pictorial endpapers in black and white, no jacket was issued. Contents clean, no inscriptions. Covers show some use with..... More
Harry Potter and the The Half-Blood Prince.
London: Bloomsbury, 2005. [Children's Classic] FIRST EDITION, first impression, SIGNED by the artist to the front panel of the dust-jacket. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.607 [1]. Publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards, with the matching dust-jacket illustrated by Jason Cockroft, priced at £16.99. A fine, as-new copy, dark-stored by ourselves since publication..... More
Black Beauty. The Autobiography of a Horse. Illustrated by Eighteen Plates in Colour Specially Drawn For This Edition by Cecil Aldin.
London: Jarrold Publishers, no date [1912]. [Children's classic] FIRST ALDIN ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (25 x 20cm), pp.[2] xviii; 291 [5]. With 18 colour plates including a frontispiece, and other in-text illustrations, by Aldin. Recenty re-bound in green half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and the..... More
Biggles Forms a Syndicate.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1961. [Adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.160. With a colour frontispiece and occasional in-text illustrations by Stead. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine and a black design to upper board. With the dust-jacket illustrated in colour, also by Stead, priced at..... More
Five on a Treasure Island. An Adventure Story for Boys and Girls.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1951. [Children's Adventure] EIGHTH IMPRESSION. Small Octavo. pp.191 [1]. With a black and white frontispiece, as well as numerous in-text illustrations by Soper. Publisher's burgundy cloth, with black titles to spine and upper, and blue pictorial endpapers. With original dust-jacket illustrated in colour by Soper, priced..... More
The Lost Planet.
London: Burke, 1953. [Science fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[2] 186. Publisher's dark blue cloth, green titles blocked to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at 7s 6d to front flap. Publisher's advertisements to rear. Light toning internally, some faint offsetting to endpapers. Sunning to cloth..... More
The Doomed City; or, the Last Days of Durocina. A Tale of the Anglo-Saxon Conquest of Britain, and the Mission of Augustine.
London, Oxford: A.R. Mowbray and Co., 1901. [Historical fiction] FINE PRIZE BINDING, revised edition. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.320. With a frontispiece in black and decorative chapter headpieces. Green full calf, boards gilt-ruled, gilt armorial device to upper. Spine with red label lettered in gilt, raised bands, and gilt-tooling. Dentelles..... More
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
London: Bloomsbury, 2005. [Children's Classic] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.607 [1]. Publisher's glossy pictorial paper-covered boards, with matching dust-jacket illustrated by Jason Cockroft, priced at £16.99. A near fine copy showing some light wear to boards, and some light toning and a few marks to edges..... More
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
London: Bloomsbury, 2003. [Children's Classic] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.766 [2]. Publisher's glossy pictorial paper-covered boards with matching dust-jacket illustrated by Jason Cockroft, priced at £16.99. A fine, as-new copy, dark-stored by ourselves since publication. The fifth Harry Potter adventure which was shortlisted for Prometheus Award..... More
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Race Against Time. Illustrated by Joe Berger.
London: Macmillan Children's Books, 2012. [Childrens adventure novel] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by the author with his usual car doodle motif, additionally SIGNED by the illustrator Joe Berber, with an ORIGINAL DRAWING of Count Zborowski. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.[6]; 234. Publisher's purple cloth hardcover blocked in gilt to the spine..... More
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Race Against Time.
London: Macmillan Children's Books, 2012. [Childrens adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.[6]; 234. Illustrated by Joe Berger. Publisher's purple cloth hardcover blocked in gilt to the spine, endpapers illustrated in colour, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £10.99. A fine/as new, unread copy. A new adventure featuring Ian Fleming's..... 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
Rupert [Daily Express Rupert Bear Annual], No.41.
London: Express Newspapers, Printed by Purnell, 1976. [Children's Annual] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (25 x 18cm), pp.115. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Original printed price 90p intact. Contents clean with no doodles or names, minor wear to covers. Near fine. More
Biggles Goes To War.
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege / Oxford University Press, 1952. [Aviation adventure] Vintage hardcover. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. With illustrations within the text by Martin Tyas. Publisher's light green cloth with black titles to spine, 'Flying Jacket' series wrapper priced at 6/-. Contents clean, no inscriptions, some expected spotting to edges..... More
Biggles Sees It Through.
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege / Oxford University Press, 1947. [Children's Adventure] Vintage hardcover. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.254; [2], blank. With a colour frontispiece and six full-page black and white illustrations by Alfred Sindall. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine, 'Flying Jacket' series wrapper on economy paper (another jacket..... More
The Minpins.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1991. [Children's story] FIRST EDITION. Large format hardcover (28 x 22cm), pp.48, colour illustrations throughout. Publisher's illustrated covers, red endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket. A clean, fine copy, inside and out. "Beware, Beware, the Forest of Sin! None come out, but many go in!" This was the author's final..... More
Dirty Beasts.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1983. [Childrens Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Slim Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.[32]. Illustrated with hilarious and gruesome plates by Fawcett. Bound in publisher's pictorial paper boards, showing titles and a terrified child tucked up in bed to the front cover, titles to spine, yellow endpapers. No inscriptions, contents..... More
The Lord of the Rings Official Movie Guide.
London: Harper Collins, 2001. [Film Reference] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.120. With photographic illustrations throughout. Publisher's pictorial hardcovers in dust-jacket priced at £16.99. A fine, as new copy, carefully dark-stored by ourselves since publication. Advertised as the 'Collector's Hardback Edition', this book was simultaneously issued as..... More
Princess Smartypants and the Missing Princes.
London: Hodder Children's Books, 2016. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[8] 130 [6]. Illustrated by the author throughout. SIGNED by the author in black ink to half-title. Publisher's illustrated soft covers, priced at £5.99. A fine, as-new copy. More
Biggles and the Gun Runners.
London: Brockhampton Press, 1966. [Children's] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.182; [2]. Publisher's light blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Leslie Stead with printed price of 10/6 net in U.K. Contents clean with no inscriptions, edges show some spotting. Jacket is bright and fresh; a fine..... More