Children's Books
Biggles And The Blue Moon.
London: Brockhampton Press, 1965. [Children's] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.181; [3]. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Leslie Stead with printed price of 10/6 net. Tiny pen mark to top edge. Dust-jacket lightly handled to extremities, but completely bright and unfaded. Fine. The title..... More
Comrades in Arms. Stories of 'Biggles' of the R.A.F., 'Worrals' of the W.A.A.F. and 'King' (Gimlet) of the Commandos.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1947. [Children's adventure story collectionl] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.227; [1], blank. With six green-tinted double spread illustrations by Stead, colour frontispiece and title page on pale green coated paper. Bound in publisher's blue cloth blocked in gilt, pictorial price-clipped dust-jacket. Lacks free endpaper..... More
Little Lord Fauntleroy.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. [Children's Literature] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION, second issue. Square octavo (21 x 17cm), pp.xii; 209 [19]. With 26 illustrations after Reginald B. Birch. The second issue, showing J.J. Little on the copyright page. In a very fine binding of green full morocco, with..... 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
New Treasure Seekers. Illustrated by Gordon Browne and Lewis Baumer.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1904. [Adventure story] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.328. Illustrations throughout. Elegantly bound in full crimson morocco by Baytun-Riviere, with gilt titles, all edges gilt, combed marble endpapers, inner gilt dentelles, publisher's cloth bound in at rear. A fine copy, inside and out. The third..... More
The Red True Story Book.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1895. [Childrens illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 419; [1], blank. With numerous engraved illustrations by Ford. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration to upper board, coated black endpapers, all edges gilt. Light and occasional spotting else contents..... More
The True Story Book.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893. [Childrens illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 337; [1], blank; [1], advertisement; [1], blank. With numerous engraved illustrations by Ford, Speed and others. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration to upper board, coated black endpapers, all edges..... More
Sally Lockhart Trilogy: The Ruby In The Smoke, The Shadow in the Plate and The Tiger in the Well.
Oxford University Press and Viking Books 1985, 1986, 1991. [Children's Literature] COMPLETE FIRST EDITIONS. Three volumes, octavos (23 x 15 x 8cm), the first being SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Publisher's hardcovers in illustrated jackets. Autograph of Philip Pullman in blue ink to title page of the first volume. Some expected..... More
A Book of Nonsense.
London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1863. [Children's Illustrated] FOURTEENTH EDITION. Oblong (15 x 23cm), pp.[4] 112. Printed on the recto of each leaf only. All the original illustrations and verses, plus some new ones. Rebound in the mid twentieth century in brown half cloth with the original yellow illustrated cover..... More
The Cat in the Hat Comes Back.
New York: Beginner Books, Random House, 1958. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.63. Publisher's glossy pictorial boards, with the matching dust-jacket, not priced. Minor edge soiling, owner's name discreetly hidden under flap. Jacket has small loss to the tail of spine, is rubbed and lightly creased..... 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
William's Television Show.
Sydney: Dymock's Book Arcade, 1958. [Children's Short Stories] FIRST AUSTRALIAN EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.248. With occasional in-text illustrations by Henry, as well as a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, not priced. Extremely heavily browned throughout to low quality paper. Small..... More
The Pie and the Patty-Pan.
London: Frederick Warne and Company, No date [circa 1915]. [Children's Illustrated] EARLY EDITION. Octavo (19 x 15cm), pp.52. Ten colour plates including frontispiece, and numerous in-text illustrations. Publisher's maroon paper over boards, with white titles to spine and upper, circular illustrated plate laid onto upper, lilac illustrated endpapers. Ownership inscriptions..... More
The Tired Train, and other stories.
London: Max Parrish, No date [circa 1952]. [Children's Illustrated] COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS. Octavo (22 x 19cm), pp.36. Colour illustrations throughout. Publisher's blue cloth, with gilt titles to spine and gilt motif to upper. Light spotting and toning to preliminaries. Sunning to spine and board top edges, tearing to spine head. Very..... More
The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales. From the Old French. [Including: Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Blue Beard, and Beauty and the Beast, etc.]
London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date [1910]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST DULAC TRADE EDITION. Quarto (28 x 23cm), pp.xviii; 131 [1]. With 30 beautiful tipped in colour plates, including a frontispiece, each protected with tissue guard. Publisher's brown full pebble-grain leather-effect cloth, with titles and ornate decoration in gilt to spine..... More
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales with Pictures that Spring to Life. Bookano Series.
London: Strand Publications, no date [circa 1938]. [Pop-Up Fairy Tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 18cm), pp.[62]. With four colour-illustrated pop-up scenes, a colour frontispiece and vignette title page, and several line-drawn illustrations, all by Wickham, and design and arrangement by Giraud. Publisher's colour illustrated paper-covered boards, with endpapers illustrated..... More
Fabulous Histories. Designed for the Instruction of Children, Respecting their Treatment of Animals.
London: T. Longman, 1791. [Natural History] FOURTH EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.[6] 215 [5]. Recently rebound in dark brown full calf, with gilt titles on red label to spine, gilt embossed bands to spine, and gilt ruling to turn-ins. Placard marbled endpapers. Bound by Alan Winstanley of Salisbury, with..... More
Peggy's Twins.
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, no date [1920]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.63 [1]. With 10 illustrations by Appleton, including four colour plates. Publisher's green cloth with black titles to spine and upper, and decoration in black, white and pink to upper. Line-drawn illustrations..... More
The Girls of St. Gabriel's, or, Life at a French School.
London and Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, 1905. [Girls' School Story] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[8] 296 [32]. With six black and white illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, by Tarrant. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles, and black, white and pink decoration, to spine and upper. Dark brown..... More
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1903. [Children's Literature] FIRST EDITION, later issue showing 'October sun' for 'October noon' p.327. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4] x; 327 [3]. Publisher's green cloth, with titles and decoration in green, grey, pink, brown and white to spine and upper. Black ink..... More
Dangerous Assignment. An Adventure Story.
London: Hennel Locke, 1950. [Children's Adventure] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. With a colour-illustrated frontispiece. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to front pastedown: 'For Doreen Stevens | —who typed it— | from, | 'Peter Blythe' | —who wrote it—'. Publisher's pink cloth with gilt titles..... More
A Series of Unfortunate Events [Complete]. The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room, The Wide Window, The Miserable Mill, The Austere Academy, The Ersatz Elevator, The Vile Village, The Hostile Hospital, The Carnivorous Carnival, The Slippery Slope, The Grim Grotto, The Penultimate Peril, The End, and The Unauthorized Autobiography.
London: Egmont, 2001 to 2006. [Children's Fantasy] COMPLETE UK FIRST EDITIONS. 14 volumes. Octavo (19 x 13 x 28cm). With in-text illustrations by Helquist. Volumes 5, 7, and the autobiography complete with wrap-around bands. Volume 8 with the dust-jacket. All in publisher's colour paper-covered boards illustrated by Helquist. Light wear..... More
The Menagerie. No. 102, Dean's Fluffidown Rag Books, Patented.
London: Dean's Rag Book Co., no date [circa 1910s]. [Rag Book] ORIGINAL RAG BOOK. Octavo (21 x 17cm), unpaginated. Five double-sided illustrated cloth sheets showing various exotic animals, in cloth covers, sewn to spine. Strong sewing, but for some fraying to head of spine. All colours except the red on..... More
The Famous Jimmy.
London: Frederick Muller, 1936. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.58 [6]. With colour illustrations by Rabier to every page. Publisher's blue quarter cloth, with black titles to spine, and colour-illustrated paper over boards, and illustrated endpapers. Light spotting to endpapers and edges, otherwise quite clean internally. Heavy..... More
Whaler 'Round the Horn.
London: Museum Press, 1953. [Children's Adventure Novel] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 244. With a colour frontispiece, as well as numerous in-text illustrations, by Shenton. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by Shenton, priced at 7/6. A touch of spotting..... More