Children's Books
A Child's Garden of Verses.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1908. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST SOWERBY ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Large octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 125 [3]. With 12 colour plates including a frontispiece, as well as occasional vignette illustrations. Contemporary crushed blue half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards. Top..... More
Treasure Island.
London: Ernest Benn, 1927. [Illustrated classic] FIRST DULAC EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.xiv; 15-256. Contains 12 full page colour illustrations by Dulac, including frontispiece. Publisher's brown buckram binding with leather title label to spine lettered in gilt, boards trimmed in gilt. Contents clean, neat gift inscription to f.e.p., label..... 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
Biggles and the Plane that Disappeared. A Story of the Air Police.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1963. [Children's adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.159; [1] blank. Publisher's red cloth, titles in black to spine, dust-jacket designed by Studio Stead with printed price of 8s 6d net. With six black and white illustrations by Stead. Contents clean, no inscriptions. A bright..... More
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
London: Bloomsbury, 2017. [Harry Potter] 20th Anniversary hardbacks, complete set of four in the Hogwarts 'house colours' bindings. FIRST EDITIONS thus (Gryffindor is first reprint). Octavos (21 x 14 x 11cm), pp.352 each. Publisher's black cloth hardcovers, coloured endpapers in pictorial dust-jackets priced at £14.99, bold striped edges, '20th anniversary'..... More
Shadowmancer.
Whitby: Mount Publishing, 2002. [Christian Children's Fantasy] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.252. SIGNED and dated by the author in black ink to title page, October 2002. Publisher's blind stamp also to title page. With a bookmark promoting the 2003 Faber & Faber edition. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers..... More
The Blackbird's Nest. A Tale for Youth.
Philadelphia, PA: Johnson and Warner, 1812. [Children's Antiquarian]. EARLY EDITION. Vigesimo-quarto (13 x 9cm), pp.36. With occasional vignette wood engravings. Recently re-backed in matching grey card with original grey illustrated paper covers laid over. Remarkably crisp and clean, with some wear to original cover edges. Very good. A fine wholesome..... More
Flora's Feast: A Masque of Flowers.
London: Cassell & Company, 1889. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (26 x 19cm), pp.40 [10]. With fine colour illustrations by the author to every page. Publisher's catalogue dated August 1889. Publisher's illustrated paper-covered boards with green cloth to spine and endpapers patterned in orange. Light repair to split upper..... 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
Stalky and Co.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1899. [School Story] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.xii; 272; [2], advertisements. Elegantly hand-bound in half red calf, gilt-printed patterned paper-covered sides, top edge gilt, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands. Light and occasional thumbing. A near fine copy in an attractive recent leather binding. Stewart..... More
Tales From Shakespeare. [Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, etc.]
London: The Temple Press, 1909. [Children's Illustrated] RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION, an early reissue. Quarto (23 x 17cm), pp.xii; 304. With 12 colour plates, including a frontispiece, as well as numerous in-text line drawings, all by Rackham. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. With the..... More
Five Go Adventuring Again.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1943] 1948. [Children's Adventure] FIRST EDITION, Third Impression. Small octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.192. With colour frontispiece and full page b & w illustrations by Soper. Publisher's pale blue cloth, with black titles to spine and upper, dust-jacket also illustrated by Soper, priced at 6s. Large..... More
Five Go To Smuggler's Top.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1945] 1949. [Children's Classic] FIRST EDITION, Third Impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. With colour frontispiece and frequent in-text illustrations by Soper. Publisher's black cloth, dust-jacket also illustrated by Soper, priced at 6s. A particularly fine early copy, in the original style jacket with the slanted..... More
Puck of Pook's Hill.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1906. [Fantasy Tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[4] x; 306 [12]. With 20 black and white illustrations by H.R. Millar, including a frontispiece. Advertisements dated 15.8.06. Elegantly hand-bound in red half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and the original cloth with..... More
Milligan's Ark.
Surrey: M. and J. Hobbs, 1971. SIGNED FIRST EDITION.Quarto. Publisher's illustrated laminated boards, in matching pictorial dust jacket. Signed boldly by Spike Milligan to title page. A bright copy, near fine, in similar wrapper. A collection of cartoons and funny verses about animals, all by famous people, to help the..... More
Rebecca of Sunny Brook Farm.
London: Gay and Bird, 1903. FIRST UK EDITION: Publisher's orange Buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine and boards. Minimal fading and wear to spine. Some faint scattered foxing to first and last pages, neat ink ownership to front free end paper. A good tight copy. 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
Five on a Treasure Island.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1942] 1948. [Children's Adventure] FIRST EDITION, fifth impression. Small Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.191 [1]. With thirty-two full page illustrations by Soper. Publisher's pale yellow cloth, with black titles to spine and upper, dust-jacket also illustrated by Soper, priced at 6s. Contents clean, some dustiness/spotting to..... More
Five Run Away Together. The Third Story of the Adventures of the Four Children and their Dog.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1949. [Children's Adventure] THIRD IMPRESSION. Small Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.192. With a colour frontispiece (same image as jacket), and numerous in-text illustrations, some coloured blue or red, by Soper. Publisher's light blue cloth, with black titles to spine and upper, and blue pictorial endpapers. With..... More
Stalky and Co.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1899. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xii; 272; [2], advertisements. Elegantly hand-bound in half red oasis morocco leather over original cloth sides gilt with elephant medalion to upper, top edge gilt, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands. A few light marks within; externally..... More
Sir Ned and the Nasties.
London: Andersen Press, 2017. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 25cm), pp.[28]. With colour illustration by David McKee to every page. SIGNED by the illustrator in black ink to title page, with an additional signature and drawing to copyright page. Publisher's illustrated paper-covered boards, priced at £11.99. A...... 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
Oswald Bastable and Others. Illustrated by Charles E. Brock and H. R. Millar.
London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., 1905. [Children's classic] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.x; [vii-viii], seemingly misbound; 1-369; [1], blank; [9], ads; [1], blank. Text in first state. Publisher's burgundy cloth, blocked in gilt to spine and upper board, t.e.g. Illustrated with plates (all present) and one drawing..... More
Mrs Strang's Play Books. Little Chicks Play Book; Happy Days Play Book; [and] Merry Days Play Book.
London: Humphrey Milford, no date [circa 1930s]. [Children's] THREE CHILDREN'S CONCERTINA BOOKS. Slim quartos (26 x 20cm). Each formed of six boards with cloth hinges that concertina out, printed in colour to both sides. Featuring illustrations by Millicent Sowerby, E. Dorothy Rees and Anne Anderson. Not dated but likely from..... 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