Children's Books
Biggles and the Poor Rich Boy. Another case from the records of Biggles and the Special Air Police.
Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1961. [Boy's adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.182; [2]. With a chromolithographic frontispiece and occasional in-text illustrations by Leslie Stead. Publisher's brown cloth with green titles to spine. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by Stead, priced at 8/6. A child's blue ink ownership to..... More
The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1874. [Children's Classic] FINELY BOUND, a later edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[8] 388 [2]. With four illustrated plates including a frontispiece. Contemporary tan full calf by BICKERS & SON, with raised bands, gilt titles to contrasting red and green labels, and further gilt tooling to..... More
Gulliver's Travels.
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, October 1922. [Classic Literature] FINE PRIZE BINDING, a later printing thus. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[2] xx; 279 [7]. With occasional maps and illustrations. Contemporary navy half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to a red label, and further gilt tooling to spine. Blue cloth..... More
The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Translated by Margaret Armour.
London: William Heinemann, 1910. [Norse Saga] FIRST RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION, SIGNED LIMITED ISSUE. Quarto (30 x 24cm). Illustrated with tipped-in colour plates. Publisher's full parchment over boards pictorially blocked in gilt, top edge gilt. A lightly used copy with very gentle spotting, and little marking to covers, silk ties wanting..... More
I will not ever Never eat a tomato.
London: Orchard Books, 2010. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED LIMITED TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION. Small quarto (29 x 26cm). Number 130 of 1250 copies SIGNED by the author to slipcase. Publisher's colour-illustrated white cloth with red and white titles. With the illustrated white cloth-covered slipcase, priced at £30.00. Book still in the original..... More
Artemis Fowl, The Eternity Code.
London: Puffin Books, 2003. [Fantasy adventure] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.329. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with rich yellow endpapers and bright red metallic lettering to spine. With the red metallic effect dust-jacket, priced at £12.99. Together with a...... More
Artemis Fowl, The Arctic Incident.
London: Puffin Books, 2002. [Fantasy Adventure] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xii; 288 [4]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the blue metallic-effect dust-jacket, priced at £12.99. Together with a fine copy of 'The Seventh..... More
The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean, teld by hisself.
London: Puffin, 2011. [Young Adult Dystopia] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 256 [8]. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles and decoration to spine and upper. All edges black, and blue decorated endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £12.99. A fine, as-new copy. More
Semolina Silkpaws Comes to Catstown.
London: Methuen, 1962. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.56. With numerous in-text illustrations and a frontispiece by Ferns. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine, and illustrated endpapers. With the orange illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 9/6. A lovely crisp, clean example, with just a touch of..... More
Wet Magic.
London: Ernest Benn Ltd., 1958. [Children's Fantasy] NEW EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; 274 [2]. With wood engraved plates by Millar. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Illustrated dust-wrapper priced at 12/6. Charming gift note to flyleaf, jacket a little edge worn and slightly sunned. A very..... More
Jim's Lion.
London: Walker Books, 2014. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.82 [2]. A new edition illustrated partly as a comic strip by Deacon, and SIGNED by him in black ink to the dedication page, dated June 2014. Publisher's illustrated paper-covered boards. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced..... More
The Iron Woman.
London: Faber and Faber, 1993. [Children's fiction] FIRST EDITION. REVIEW COPY with illustrated press release and review slip loosely inserted. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.87. Publisher's black cloth in black pictorial dust-jacket priced £9.99. A fine copy in slightly nicked and rubbed jacket. Ted Hughes' classic of environmental children's fiction..... More
The Sixpence that Rolled Away.
London: Faber and Faber, 1956. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.24. With five colour plates and six line drawn illustrations by Bawden. Publisher's colour illustrated paper covered boards, with the matching dust-jacket, priced at 10/6. Some offsetting to endpapers, otherwise internally clean. Wear to extremities and some..... More
Faerie Wars.
London: Bloomsbury, 2003. [Children's Fantasy] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.368. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to fly-leaf. Publisher's paper-covered boards illustrated by Carol Lawson and Ian Butterworth, with the matching dust-jacket priced at £12.99. A fine, as-new copy. The first of five volumes in the..... More
Pink Furniture. A Tale for Lovely Children with Noble Natures.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1930. [Children's Fantasy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.251 [5]. With 25 line-drawn illustrations by Gurney. Publisher's variegated pink and cream cloth, with blue titles to spine and upper. With the dust-jacket illustrated in colour by O.G. Bourne, priced at 7/6. A little toning to edges..... More
The Valley of Song.
London: University of London Press, 1951. [Children's Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.255 [1]. With a colour frontispiece and occasional line-drawn illustrations throughout the text by Spurrier. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt ship device to upper. Top edge red, and illustrated endpapers..... More
Rip Van Winkle. With drawings by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann, 1905. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST RACKHAM EDITION, the trade issue. Small quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.viii; 62. With 51 mounted colour plates by Rackham, including a frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. All edges blue;..... More
Doctor Dolittle and the Green Canary.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1951. [Children's Literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.286 [2]. With a colour frontispiece, colour-illustrated endpapers, and frequent in-text illustrations by the author. Publisher's green cloth with darker green titles to spine and upper. Toning and spotting to edges. A little toning to spine, and..... More
Doctor Dolittle in the Moon.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. [Children's Literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.320. With a colour frontispiece, one colour plate, colour-illustrated endpapers, and frequent in-text illustrations by the author. Publisher's grey cloth with deep purple titles to spine and upper. Blue ink gift inscription to verso of fly-leaf. Toning..... More
Doctor Dolittle's Caravan.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. [Children's Literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.319 [1]. With a colour frontispiece, colour-illustrated endpapers, and frequent in-text illustrations by the author. Publisher's grey cloth with purple titles to spine and upper. Toning and marks to edges. Spine heavily toned, with a strip of..... More
Rip Van Winkle. With drawings by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann, February 1907. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST RACKHAM EDITION, the trade issue, second impression. Small quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.viii; 62. With 51 mounted colour plates by Rackham, including a frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Elegantly rebound in half dark green oasis morocco, tooled in gilt to..... More
The Sleeping Beauty. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann, 1920. [Children's illustrated classic] FIRST RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.110; [1], imprint; [1], blank. Tipped-in colour plate to first chapter; illustrated throughout with Rackham's silhouettes. Publisher's illustrated paper-covered boards with cloth spine; titles and decoration in black and pink, illustrated green endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket..... More
Told Again: Traditional Tales Told by Walter de la Mare.
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1927. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.viii; 320. With six colour plates, and numerous in-text line drawings, by Watson. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. A nice clean copy, with some offsetting to fly-leaf only. Light toning to spine, and..... More
Biggles in the South Seas.
London: Oxford University Press, 1940 [circa 1942]. [Children's Adventure] EARLY REPRINT. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.255 [1]. With a colour frontispiece and six other black and white illustrations by Howard. Publisher's tan cloth with brown titles to spine and upper, and brown decoration matching the First to upper only. With..... More
Biggles Flies South.
London: Oxford University Press, 1938. [Children's Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.255 [1]. With a colour frontispiece by Leigh, and a sketch-map and six black and white illustrations by Nicolle. Publisher's tan cloth with brown titles and decoration to spine and upper. Top edge brown. School prize inscription..... More