Children's Books
Artemis Fowl.
London: Viking, 2001. [Children's Fantasy Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.viii; 278 [2]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles in Gnommish to spine. With the bronze metallic effect pictorial dust-jacket designed by Tony Fleetwood, priced at £12.99. A fine, as-new copy. The first in the series, and basis..... More
Bertie and the Big Red Ball.
London: John Murray and Gallery Five Ltd., 1982. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (25 x 20cm), pp.[32]. With colour illustrations by Cook to every other page. Publisher's glossy colour-illustrated hard covers, priced at £4.95. Light spotting to endpapers, and a small tear to the lower edge of the first..... More
Biggles of the Camel Squadron.
London: John Hamilton Ltd., no date [c.1934]. [Aviation adventure] FINE LEATHER BINDING. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.254. With colour frontispiece and four black & white plates by Howard Leigh. Elegantly bound in half navy calf over matching cloth sides, spine gilt-titled in six compartments with traditional raised bands. Contents clean..... More
Uncle.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2]; 160; [2]. With in-text line drawings by Blake throughout. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to half-title. Recently re-bound in red half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and matching cloth over boards..... More
My Friends the Miss Boyds.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1959. [Children's Literature] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[4] 282 [2]. INSCRIBED by the author in ink to the fly-leaf. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrative dust-jacket designed by Virginia Smith with printed price of 15s to front flap. Toning to..... More
The Recreation: MDCCCXLII. A Gift-Book for Young Readers: Embracing Such Subjects as are Particularly Fitted to Interest and Improve the Youthful Mind. Embellished With Engravings.
Edinburgh: John Menzies, London: Tilt and Bogue, 1842. [Children's] FIRST EDITION, scarce. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.x; [2]; 322; 6. With four engraved plates, a frontispiece, and vignette engraving. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to upper and spine. Pictorial gilt design to upper and spine, tooling in blind to both..... More
The David Walliams novels. Comprising The Boy In The Dress, Mr. Stink, Billionaire Boy, Gangsta Granny, Ratburger, Demon Dentist, Awful Auntie, Grandpa's Great Escape, The Midnight Gang, Bad Dad, The Ice Monster, The Beast of Buckingham Palace, Code Name Bananas, Gangsta Granny Strikes Again!, and SpaceBoy.
London: Harper Collins, 2008-2022. [Children's humour books] FIRST EDITIONS. Octavos (22 x 14 cm). 15 volumes, SIGNED to title page in The Boy in the Dress. Various illustrators. Publisher's glossy pictorial hardcovers in illustrated dust-jackets. No owner names or inscriptions, very light handling and wear. Jacket rear flap activity cut..... More
Stories from the Arabian Nights, Retold by Laurence Housman.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1907. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST DULAC ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.136. With 49 colour plates by Dulac, including a frontispiece, mounted on grey card and collected at rear, each with a tissue guard. Publisher's brown cloth, titled and decorated in gilt and dark grey to..... More
Island Nights' Entertainments. Consisting of The Beach of Falesa, The Bottle Imp, The Isle of Voices.
London: Cassell & Company, 1893. [South-Sea Novellas] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with hand-corrected price on page facing half-title. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.xii; 277 [19]. Advertisements dated 3.93. With 28 illustrated plates, including a colour map and a frontispiece. Publisher's light blue grained cloth, with gilt titles and decoration to..... More
A Child's Garden of Verses.
London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1905. [Illustrated Children's Poetry] FIRST UK WILLCOX SMITH EDITION. Large octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.xii; 125 [1]. With 12 colour plates, as well as numerous in-text line drawings by Willcox Smith, as well as a colour-illustrated vignette title page. Publisher's dark navy cloth with gilt..... More
The Juvenile Reader; Consisting of Religious, Moral and Intellectual Instruction; Exercises in Spelling, Explanation, and Derivation; and an Appendix, Containing Select Pieces for Recitation. By Preceptor, Member of the College of Preceptors. And Under the Auspices of the Council of Education.
London: Published by Bartholomew Harris, c.1852. [Education] SCARCE COPY. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.216. With numerous in-text woodcuts, a few of which are hand-coloured. Red full calf, with gilt titles and blind-stamped decoration to both boards. Edges speckled red. Interior toned and marked, with a few annotations in black ink..... More
Granny.
London: Walker Books, 1994. [Children's] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 14cm), pp.157; [3]. Publisher's yellow cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Tony Ross priced at £8.99 to front flap. Top edge lightly spotted. Some gently bumping to jacket extremities. Otherwise, near fine. A tale about..... More
The Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet; Perelandra; That Hideous Strength.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1938; 1943; 1945. [Science Fiction] COMPLETE FIRST EDITIONS, First Impressions. Three volumes. Octavo (20 x 13 x 10cm), pp.xii; 264 [6]; pp.256; pp.476 [2]. Recently re-bound in green half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spines, matching cloth over boards, and top edges..... More
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
London: Bloomsbury, 2000. [Fantasy adventure] FIRST DELUXE EDITION, SIGNED by the author. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.636; [4], blank. Publisher's purple cloth, all edges gilt, gilt titles to spine and upper with pictorial illustration laid down, autographed by Greenfield. This copy autographed by J.K.Rowling at the 2004 Edinburgh International Book..... More
Mary Poppins Comes Back.
London: Lovat Dickson and Thompson Ltd., 1935. [Classic Children's Fantasy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.303; [1], imprint; [1], blank. With black and white illustrations. Publisher's cream cloth blocked in green, illustrated endpapers, top edge green, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 5s. Some marginal soiling to pp.80-81 else contents clean..... More
Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London, George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1932. [Fairy tales] FIRST RACKHAM EDITION, SIGNED LIMITED deluxe issue. Large octavo (26 x 19cm), pp.288. SIGNED by Rackham to the limitation page. With twelve full-page coloured plates with tissue guards and many full page and in-text black and white illustrations. Publisher's gilt-stamped..... More
Swallows and Amazons.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. [Children's Adventure] VINTAGE COPY, the 34th impression thus. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.351. With 24 wood engraving by the author, including a frontispiece, and two maps illustrated by Steven Spurrier. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and blind to upper. With the green illustrated..... 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
Tales From Shakespeare. With Twelve Illustrations in Permanent Photography from the Boydell Gallery.
London: Bickers and Son, 1888. [Shakespeare] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[10]; 386; [2]. With twelve photogravure illustrations including a frontispiece. Red full calf to boards, double-ruled in gilt. Green label with gilt titles, gilt tooling, and raised bands to spine. Gilt dentelle to board edges and turn..... More
Stories from Hans Andersen. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1911. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.viii; 250 [2]. With 28 colour plates illustrated by Dulac, including a frontispiece. An out-of-series copy numbered 0000, from a series numbered officially at 750 copies thus, SIGNED by the illustrator in black ink to the..... More
Emmett's Pig. Pictures by Garth Williams.
London: The World's Work, 1963. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.61; [3]. Publisher's quarter green cloth, colour illustrated paper over boards, titles in green and black to upper. Title page in green and black, colour illustrations throughout. Internally clean and crisp. Light wearing to board edges with..... More
Minou.
Santa Barbara, CA: Advocacy Press, 1987. [Children's Illustrated] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (31 x 24cm), pp.64. With colour illustrations by Maeno to every page, including endpapers. INSCRIBED by the illustrator in black ink to verso of the fly-leaf: 'to Mr. Paris | Best wishes | thank you! | Itoko' with..... More
The English Roses.
London: Puffin, 2003. [Children's] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 21cm), pp.46; [2]. With colour illustrations by Fulvimari to each page. Pictorial endpapers. Publisher's pictorial paper over boards. With the dust-jacket of the same design priced at £12.99 to front flap. Fine, as-new. A moral tale about learning not to judge..... More
Quality Street. A Comedy in four acts. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date [circa 1913]. [Illustrated Drama] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.[4] viii; 198 [2]. With a loose flier for the original exhibition of Thomson's watercolour illustrations for the book, November and December 1913. Complete with 22 colour plates by Thomson, including a frontispiece..... More
Fungus the Bogeyman.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1977. [Childrens classic] FIRST EDITION. Slim folio (30 x 22cm), pp40. Illustrated in colour throughout. Original pictorial glazed boards, patterned endpapers. Birthday greeting in ink to pastedown, foot of spine rubbed; very good. Cult illustrated story book by the award winning author. More