Children's Books
The Master of the Moon.
London: The Museum Press, 1952. [Science Fiction Adventure] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.223 [1]. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to fly-leaf: 'Tony Ashby | with best wishes from | Patrick Moore.' Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Clothier..... More
The Island of Fear.
London: The Museum Press, 1954. [Science Fiction Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 7/6. Toning to edges, otherwise a crisp, clean copy internally. Cloth shows moderate wear and some bumping. Heavy wear to jacket..... More
The Island of Fear.
London: The Museum Press, 1954. [Science Fiction Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. Light toning and spotting to edges and endpapers. Boards show light wear and some bowing. Very good. Following 'The Master of the Moon' (1952), this is the..... More
The Master of the Moon.
London: The Museum Press, 1952. [Science Fiction Adventure] FIRST EDITION, Publisher's File Copy. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.223 [1]. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With a 'Christy & Moore Ltd.' literary agents bookplate to fly-leaf, and a pencil note stating the publication date. Moderate toning to edges..... More
Five go off in a Caravan. Being the Fifth Adventure of Julian, Dick, George, Anne and Timmy the Dog.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1965. [Children's Adventure] VINTAGE COPY, the fourteenth impression. Small Octavo. pp.182 [2]. With numerous in-text illustrations by Soper. Publisher's red cloth, with black titles to spine and upper. With original dust-jacket illustrated in colour by Soper, priced at 7/6. A little light spotting to edges, otherwise..... More
The Enchanted Castle.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1907. [Children's Fantasy Adventure] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.352 [2]. With 47 engraved illustrations by Millar, including a frontispiece. Recently re-bound in red half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and the original publisher's gilt-decorated red cloth over boards. Top edge..... More
The Cat in the Hat.
London: Collins and Harvill, [circa 1970s]. [Children's Illustrated] VINTAGE UK COPY, a later issue following the merger of William Collins and the Harvill Press. Small quarto (24 x 17cm), pp.[2] 61 [1]. Illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy illustrated paper-covered boards, not priced. Blue and red illustrated endpapers. Moderate bumping..... More
Perkin the Pedlar.
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1932. [Educational] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.[4]; 206. With numerous in-text lithographic illustrations, including a frontispiece, by Clare Leighton. Blue pictorial cloth over boards. Light toning throughout leaves, with minor foxing to preliminaries and edges. Spotting to cloth boards, mostly lower. Rubbing to..... More
Time Stops For No Mouse. A Hermux Tantamoq Adventure.
London: Puffin Books, 2000. [Children's Adventure] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[6] 262 [4]. With illustrated head-pieces for each chapter. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Christopher Inns, priced at £9.99. Also featuring a publisher's clock-shaped bookmark, and..... More
Bill the Minder. Written and Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
London: Constable and Co., 1912. [Children's classic] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.xivi; 256. Beautifully illustrated with sixteen full colour plates, including frontispiece, with captioned tissue guards and numerous black and white illustrations throughout. Elegantly bound in dark blue half morocco over marbled sides, with gilt decoration to spine..... More
Biggles Investigates.
Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1964. [Children's Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.184. With a colour frontispiece by Stead. Publisher's grey cloth with orange titles to spine. With the blue dust-jacket illustrated by Stead, priced at 8/6. A touch of spotting to edges, with some light wear to jacket extremities..... More
By the Sandhills of Yamboorah.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1965. [Children's Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.174 [2]. Publisher's orange cloth with metallic blue titles to spine. With the orange and blue dust-jacket designed by Clyde Pearson. Some gentle toning to edges and jacket. Jacket price-clipped, with a touch of wear to edges. Near..... More
A School History of England.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1911. [British History] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 250 [4]. With 10 colour plates by Ford, as well as various maps and drawings. Contemporary navy full calf by RELFE BROS for Langport Grammar School, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration..... More
[Complete Artemis Fowl]. Artemis Fowl; The Arctic Incident; The Eternity Code; The Opal Deception; The Lost Colony; The Time Paradox; The Atlantis Complex; The Last Guardian.
London: Viking [and] Puffin, published by the Penguin Group, 2001-2012. [Fantasy Adventure] COMPLETE FIRST EDITIONS, first impressions. Eight volumes. Octavo (23 x 14 x 25cm). Publisher's black cloth with variously-coloured titles to spines. One volume in colourful glossy paper-covered boards, and another in silver cloth. Each with illustrated dust-jacket, priced..... More
Lyra's Oxford.
London: David Fickling Books, 2003. [Fantasy] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.55. Publisher's red cloth boards, titles in black to spine, paper title label to upper board. Grey endpapers, with fold-out map. A touch of light wear to cloth. A crisp, near fine copy. 'Lyra's Oxford' is..... More
Octagon Magic.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1968. [Children's Literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.160. Publisher's teal cloth lettered in gilt to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket designed by Faith Jaques, with printed price of 16s to front flap. Some toning and spotting to edges of textblock, rolling to spine, wearing..... More
The Rectory Umbrella and Mischmasch. With a Foreword by Florence Milner.
London: Cassell and Company, 1932. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION. Octavo (22 x 19cm), pp.[xvi]; 193; [3]. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine and upper, decoration to upper, top edge tinted black. Illustrations throughout. Occasional spotting to textblock edge, a neat ownership inscription to front endpaper in black ink..... More
Fred.
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST US EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 22cm), pp.[24]. With colour illustrations by the author to every page. Publisher's glossy colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, with the matching dust-jacket, priced at $9.95. Lightly handled with one small closed tear to jacket. Fine. Two..... More
Lulu and the Flying Babies.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1988. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (25 x 22cm), pp.[24]. With colour illustrations by the author to every page. Publisher's glossy colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, priced at £5.95. Just a little bumping to corners, otherwise a fine copy. More
Toomai of the Elephants.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1937. [Film Tie-In] ORIGINAL STUDIO PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS, plus First Thus of the film tie-in book. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.[8] 84. Heavily illustrated with black and white photographs. Publisher's tan paper over boards, with black titles and decoration to spine and upper. With the photographic dust-jacket..... More
A Christmas Book. An Anthology for Moderns.
London: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1928. [Christmas stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xix; 320 [2]. With in-text illustrations and music transcriptions by A.C. Harradine, as well as a colour frontispiece. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Top edge tinted red. With the dust-jacket illustrated..... More
The Story of the Treasure Seekers. Being the Adventures of the Barnstable Children in Search of a Fortune.
London: T. Fisher Unwin. 1899. [Children's classic]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; [2]; 296; [2]; [2 of advertisements]; [8 of publisher's advertisements]. Publisher's blue-green cloth, blocked in gilt to spine and upper board, all edges gilt. Illustrated with seventeen plates. Slight reading lean, contents shaken within case. plate..... More
The Wooden Bowl. Japanese Fairy Tale Series No. 16.
Tokyo, T. Hasegawa, 1888. [Japanese folk literature] FIRST CREPE-PAPER EDITION. Sextodecimo (15 x 10cm), pp.[24]. Washi leaves with text and woodblock-printed colour illustrations by Tosa Matabei. Pictorial woodblock design and black titles to cover. With fukuro-toji pouch binding and Yamato-toji silk stab-ties. Toning to leaves, a few marks here and..... More
Rough Riders of the Pampas. A Tale of Ranch Life in South America.
London: Blackie and Son, 1909. [Children's adventure] ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[2] 366 [17]. With six halftone plates, including a frontispiece, by Stanley L. Wood. Catalogue at rear. Grey endpapers. Publisher's green cloth to boards, gilt titles and pictorial designs to cover and spine. All edges green..... More
Rupert Little Bear More Stories.
London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co, 1939. [Children's illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm). Illustrative front and back boards with red and black lettering picturing the characters from the Rupert stories. Coloured illustrative frontispiece, two colour title page, two coloured text used throughout, illustrations throughout. Shaken in case, toning..... More