Children's Books
Quidditch Through the Ages [with] Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them [and] Beedle The Bard. [Harry Potter Series].
London: Bloomsbury, 2001, 2001, 2008. [Harry Potter] FIRST EDITION COLLECTION, all first impressions. Three volumes (two paperback originals, one hardcover). A fine, as-new set. A pair of charitable publications issued in March 2001 (for Comic Relief), being amusing replicas of school textbooks borrowed from Hogwarts Library. The final volume, which..... More
William's Treasure Trove.
London: George Newnes Limited, 1962. [Children's Literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. With occasional in-text illustrations by Henry. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. With the red illustrated dust-jacket, also by Henry, priced at 10/6. Minor toning and spotting to edges and..... More
Oiling The Wheels.
London: A. White and Co., 1957. [Oil Industry Advertisements] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 29cm), pp.[26]. A full page colour illustration by Kneebone to face every page of text. Publisher's pink illustrated paper over boards, showing a mustachioed gentleman with an oil can against a pink background to upper; rear..... 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
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
Previously.
London: Walker Books, 2007. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Small quarto (25 x 28cm), pp.[32]. With colour illustrations by Ingman to every page. SIGNED by the illustrator, with a doodle, in black ink to title page. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, and green illustrated endpapers, priced at £10.99 (no..... 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
Biggles Forms a Syndicate.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1961. [Adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.160. With a colour frontispiece and occasional in-text illustrations by Stead. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine and a black design to upper board. With the dust-jacket illustrated in colour, also by Stead, priced at..... More
Biggles Takes A Hand.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1963. [Children's Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.160. With 12 in-text black and white illustrations by Stead. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated in colour by Stead, priced at 8/6. Contents clean, no inscriptions. A lovely bright, crisp..... More
All Round the Clock.
London: Griffith, Farran and Company, no date [1887]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (24 x 19cm), pp.64. Chromolithographed by Ernest Rister of Nuremberg. Publisher's quarter green cloth with glossy colour-illustrated paper over boards. Patterned endpapers. Browning to endpapers and preliminaries. Tiny damp mark to foot of upper board, rubbing..... More
The Scarecrow and his Servant.
London: Doubleday, 2004. [Children's Illustrated] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[8] 230 [2]. With frequent in-text line drawings by Bailey, somewhat in the style of Ardizzone. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to title page: 'Greetings to Oliver — | Philip Pullman.' Publisher's green cloth with gilt..... 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
Fighter Aircraft of Today.
London: Juvenile Productions, no date [circa 1939]. [Second World War Aircraft] FIRST EDITION, and the only edition. Oblong octavo (19 x 28cm), pp.[20]. With a page of text facing a full-page colour illustration of each of the nine aircraft featured, as well as a colour-illustrated title page. Publisher's colour-illustrated card..... More
The Third Holiday Book.
London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., no date [1948]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (25 x 20cm), pp.192. With four double-sided colour plates by Boswell, and frequent in-text illustrations by various artists. Publisher's green quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine, and also to orange paper over boards. Red..... More
The Hunting of the Snark.
London: Harper and Brothers, 1903. [Children's Illustrated Literature] FIRST EDITION THUS, deluxe binding. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[2]; xiii; [1]; 248. Publisher's cream cloth lettered in gilt to upper board and spine. Seventeen illustrations including the tissue-guarded frontispiece, decorative borders in green. Some small tears around name card holder to..... More
William and the Moon Rocket.
London: George Newnes Limited, 1954. [Children's illustrated] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.248. With occasional in-text illustrations by Henry. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. With the red dust-jacket also illustrated by Henry, priced at 8/6. Moderate spotting to edges and endpapers, otherwise..... More
Mother Goose, or the Old Nursery Rhymes.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [circa 1915]. [Children's Illustrated] VINTAGE EDITION with fine colour illustrations. Small octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.52. With fine coloured illustrations by the author, printed by Evans at Rose Place, London. Publisher's green cloth to spine, titled in brown, with glossy colour-illustrated paper-covered boards..... 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
The Shadow in the Plate [The Shadow in the North].
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. pp. 236. Publisher's blue cloth, lettered in silver, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Barrie Thorpe. Large water stain to upper board and front cover of jacket, not immediately visible. Very good overall. Sequel to 'The Ruby in the Smoke' (1985), and later..... More
The Edge Chronicles: Vox
London: Doubleday, 2003. [Children's Fantasy Adventure] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.395; [6], blank. With illustrations. SIGNED by author-illustrator Chris Riddell in black ink to the title page. Publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt, cartographic endpapers, dust-jacket designed by Riddell, priced at £12.99. Text block a little dusty..... More
Harri Potter a Maen yr Athronydd.
London Bloomsbury, 2003. [Children's Fantasy] FIRST EDITION IN WELSH, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6] 245 [5]. Publisher's paper-covered boards illustrated by Thomas Taylor. With the matching dust-jacket, priced at £11.99. A small red ink note to fly-leaf, and moderate toning to edges, otherwise internally clean. Jacket shows some..... More
Our Darlings.
London: John F. Shaw and Company Ltd., c.1920. Quarto, pp. 1 [advertisements]; 288. Edwardian children's annual bound in red publisher's cloth with pictorial paper boards (advertisement for Allenbury's Foods pasted to rear board), depicts a young boy in a sailor's outfit with a young girl on his shoulders carrying a...... More
Collins' Fairy Folks' Annual.
London: Collins' Clear-Type Press, no date [1924]. [Illustrated Fairy Tales] FIRST THUS. Quarto (27 x 21cm), pp.[4] 160. With numerous engraved illustrations by various artists, including a colour frontispiece and decorated title page, and around 30 other illustrations with colour. Publisher's tan quarter cloth with blue titles and decoration to..... More
Stage Premiere of His Dark Materials: Parts One and Two [How To Read The Alethiometer].
London: The National Theatre, 2003. [Theatre Programme] ORIGINAL PROGRAMME, BOOKMARK AND SIGNED BOOKLET. Octavo (24 x 14cm), pp.[80]. Including interviews with both Wright and Pullman about the creation of the play, and profiles of the cast. Also including the rare fold-out booklet 'How to Read the Alethiometer,' loosely inserted. Publisher's..... More
Five on Kirrin Island Again.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1947] 1950. [Children's Adventure] FIRST EDITION, fourth impression. Small octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.192. With numerous in-text illustrations, some coloured in red, by Soper. Publisher's red cloth, with black titles to spine, and blue pictorial endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated in colour by Soper, showing the..... More