"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway
Children's Books
Previously.
London: Walker Books, 2007. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Small quarto (25 x 28cm), pp.[32]. With colour illustrations by Ingman to every page. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, and green illustrated endpapers, priced at £10.99 (no jacket as issued). A fine, as-new copy. A fresh look at some classic fairy..... More
Past Eight O'Clock: Goodnight Stories.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1986. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.128. With frequent in-text silhouette illustrations by Pienkowski, some in colour, including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, gilt decoration to upper, and illustrated endpapers. With the brown illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £7.95. A...... More
The BIG-Hearted Book.
London: Hodder Children's Books, 2013. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, paperback. Quarto (24 x 29cm), pp.[32]. Illustrated in colour by the author to every page. SIGNED by the author in black ink in a heart, with 'heart-felt wishes', to title page. Publisher's illustrated soft covers, priced at £6.99. Including an..... More
Mouse Bird Snake Wolf.
London: Walker Books, 2013. [Children's illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 17cm), pp.80. Publishers pictorial paper boards, dust-jacket with printed price of £9.99. Signed by both the author and the illustrator to the half title. A fine/as new copy. Lavishly illustrated by the world-renowned artist Dave McKean. David Almond..... More
The Savage.
London: Walker Books, 2009. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 17cm), pp.79 [1]. Generously illustrated by McKean throughout. SIGNED by both author and illustrator in black marker to title page. Publisher's soft covers, priced at £5.99. Light handling with some rubbing and marks to rear cover. Near..... More
The Colour of the Sun.
London: Hodder Children's Books, 2018. [Children's Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[6] 231 [3]. Publisher's navy cloth with bronze titles to spine and upper, and orange endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by David Litchfield, priced at £12.99. A fine, as-new copy. 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
The Potion Diaries: Royal Tour.
London: Simon and Schuster, 2016. [Young Adult Fantasy] SIGNED FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[6] 368 [10]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's illustrated soft covers, priced at £7.99. 'Signed by the Author' sticker to front cover. A fine, as-new copy. A sequel..... More
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales.
London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1913. [Illustrated Fairy Tales] FIRST HEATH ROBINSON EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.xii; 288 [4]. With 16 chromolithographic plates by Heath Robinson, including a frontispiece, and numerous in-text line drawings. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. Top edge..... More
Cowboy and his Friend.
London: Collins, 1961. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 16cm), pp.[32], unpaginated. In-text illustrations throughout. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in black to spine with black illustration of Cowboy blocked to upper. With the pictorial dust-jacket. Pictorial endpapers. Toning and light spotting to flyleaves, dark spot on edge of pages..... More
The Dolly Dressmaker. Original Book of Cutting and Dressing with Original Artwork of 10 Paintings on board.
Printed in England, B.B. (Birn Brothers) Ltd., 1950's. The Book: Folio. No. 509. Soft pictorial covers with 16 pages, 8 of which are printed in colour. The Artwork: 10 hand painted hard board leaves, same size as the book, being the original artwork for the front and back covers as..... More
Tom Thumb Series: Mikey Moke and his Derby Day; Dilly Duck and his Adventures; Goosey Gander Goes Wandering; Bunny Bunkin and his Friends; Binky Barker Gets into Mischief; Kitty Cat and her New Home.
London: Raphael Tuck and Sons, c.1920s. [Children's illustrated] FIRST EDITIONS, rare complete set of 6 volumes. Small octavos (9 x 8cm), all unpaginated. With numerous in-text line illustrations. Publisher's pictorial paper in red, blue, and yellow over boards. Leaves lightly toned, spotting to some. Tape repairs to guttering in one..... More
The Juvenile Reader; Consisting of Religious, Moral and Intellectual Instruction; Exercises in Spelling, Explanation, and Derivation; and an Appendix, Containing Select Pieces for Recitation. By Preceptor, Member of the College of Preceptors. And Under the Auspices of the Council of Education.
London: Published by Bartholomew Harris, c.1852. [Education] SCARCE COPY. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.216. With numerous in-text woodcuts, a few of which are hand-coloured. Red full calf, with gilt titles and blind-stamped decoration to both boards. Edges speckled red. Interior toned and marked, with a few annotations in black ink..... More
1 2 3. No. 206.
London: Dean's Rag Book Co., no date [circa 1920s]. [Rag Book] ORIGINAL RAG BOOK. Octavo (22 x 19cm), unpaginated. Six double-sided illustrated cloth sheets illustrating numbers one to ten, in cloth covers, sewn to spine. A sturdy example with strong colours and minimal wear. Some fading to covers, and a...... 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
Sam Sheridan: The Secret Service Special, or, the jamboree at "Early Bird" bar. The Aldine "Boys' First-Rate Pocket Library." No. 178.
London: Aldine Publishing Company, n.d. [1893]. ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Octavo, pp.32. In original colour illustrated paper covers. Text browned and brittle. Some chips to leaf edges. Covers less brittle, also chipped in places. Spine reinforced with archival tape. Good considering paper stock. More
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Rupert and the Snow Sports [and Rupert and the Vanishing Pet]. Adventure Series No. 23.
London: Beaverbrook Newspapers, no date [February 1955]. [Children's Cartoon] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), twelve leaves illustrated in colour throughout, including soft covers with two staples. Light rubbing and thumbing to covers. Very good. More
Rupert Winter Adventures [Rupert and the Angry Dolls, and Rupert and Will o' the Wisp]. Adventure Series No. 35.
London: The Oldbourne Book Co., no date [circa 1959]. [Children's Cartoon] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), twelve leaves illustrated in colour throughout, including soft covers with two staples. A section of the margin lost from the first second leaf, about 1 x 3cm. Covers lightly rubbed and detached..... More
Problem Party.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1945. [Children's fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.214; [2]. Publisher's orange cloth, titles in green to spine, decorated front endpapers, dust-jacket designed by Tresilian with printed price of 8s. 6d. net. In-text illustrations by Tresilian. Spotting and toning to edges, cloth bumped..... More
The Wind in the Wood.
London: Hollis and Carter, 1952. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[10]; 143; [1]. With twelve chromolithographic plates including a frontispiece by the author, and wood engraved vignettes to chapter headings. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine and upper board, illustrated dust-jacket priced at 18s. net..... More
Head Kid.
London: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2018. [Children's Humour] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 14cm), pp.[2] 384. SIGNED by the author in black ink to preliminary signature leaf. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Blue patterned endpapers. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by Lenton, priced at £12.99. A fine..... 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
The Battery and the Boiler or, Adventures in the Laying of Submarine Electric Cables.
London: James Nisbet and Co., 1883. [Children's Adventure] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[8] 420 [4]. With six engraved plates after illustrations by the author, including a frontispiece and vignette title page. Publisher's brown cloth, with titles and decoration in gilt and black to spine and upper..... More
Quality Street. A Comedy in four acts. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date [circa 1913]. [Illustrated Drama] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.[4] viii; 198 [2]. With a loose flier for the original exhibition of Thomson's watercolour illustrations for the book, November and December 1913. Complete with 22 colour plates by Thomson, including a frontispiece..... More
The Lonely Rhinoceros.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980. [Children's illustrated] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Small quarto (24 x 26cm), pp.[24]. With colour illustrations by Manhes to almost every page. Publisher's glossy illustrated paper-covered boards, priced at £3.95. Light rubbing and bumping. Near fine. More