Children's Books
My Friends the Miss Boyds.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1959. [Children's Literature] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[4] 282 [2]. INSCRIBED by the author in ink to the fly-leaf. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrative dust-jacket designed by Virginia Smith with printed price of 15s to front flap. Toning to..... More
Harry and Lucy Concluded; being the Last Part of Early Lessons.
London: Printed for R. Hunter [etc.], 1827. [Children's Literature] SECOND EDITION, corrected. Complete in four volumes. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.iii-xviii; 287 [1]; pp.[4] 342; pp.[4] 319 [1]; pp.[4] 350. Contemporary brown quarter morocco (possibly an early publisher's binding), with gilt titles to spines, and marbled paper over boards. Lacking..... More
Cinderella [together with] The Sleeping Beauty. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann, 1919, 1920. [Children's] FIRST EDITIONS THUS. 2 volumes, large octavos (26 x 20cm). Tipped-in colour frontispiece to each volume and numerous black and white silhouettes and three-tone illustrations. Publisher's red and yellow pictorial covers, cloth spines lettered in black, illustrated green endpapers to first volume, pictorial dust-wrappers..... More
Cinderella. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann, 1919. [Children's classic] FIRST RACKHAM EDITION, SIGNED LIMITED ISSUE. Large octavo (29 x 23cm), pp.110; [1], imprint; [1], blank. Mounted colour plate as frontispiece, with numerous silhouette illustrations. Publisher's linen-backed paper covered board with illustration to upper, pictorial green endpapers, top edge gilt, other untrimmed. Internally very..... More
Cinderella. Together with The Sleeping Beauty. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann, 1919 and 1920. FIRST EDITIONS thus. 2 volumes, large octavos. Publisher's red and yellow pictorial covers, cloth spines, in red and grey illustrated dust-wrappers. Tipped-in colour frontispiece to each volume and numerous black and white silhouettes and three-toned illustrations. Owner name to 'Cinderella', some edge spotting 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
The Quiet Woman and the Noisy Dog.
London: Andersen Press, 2009. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (24 x 28cm), pp.[26] With naive colour illustrations by Busby to every page. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's matt colour-illustrated paper over boards, with illustrated endpapers, priced at £10.99 (no jacket issued). Some minor..... More
The Quiet Woman and the Noisy Dog.
London: Andersen Press, 2009. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (24 x 28cm), pp.[26] With naive colour illustrations by Busby to every page. Publisher's matt colour-illustrated paper over boards, with illustrated endpapers, priced at £10.99 (no jacket issued). A fine, as-new copy. More
Perkin the Pedlar.
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1932. [Educational] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.[4]; 206. With numerous in-text lithographic illustrations, including a frontispiece, by Clare Leighton. Blue pictorial cloth over boards. Light toning throughout leaves, with minor foxing to preliminaries and edges. Spotting to cloth boards, mostly lower. Rubbing to..... More
The Dwindleberry Zoo.
London: Blackie and Son Limited, 1909. [Children's Literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.xii; 208 [16]. With 62 illustrations by Browne, including a frontispiece. Publisher's cyan cloth, with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. All edges gilt, with grey endpapers. School prize bookplate to front..... More
Dear 007.
New York:Simon & Schuster, 1966. [Fan letters] FIRST EDITION. Slim quarto (29 x 22cm), unpaginated. Hardback in glazed boards, 'Annual' format, illustrated with drawings by Paul Bacon. Cheap paper toned as expected, covers rubbed. Very good. Rather scarce. A curious collection of fanmail to 'James Bond 007'. The illustrator Paul..... More
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The Magical Car. Illustrated by John Burningham.
New York, NY: Random House / Columbus, OH: Weekly Reader Children's Book Club, 1964 [1965]. [Childrens classic] Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.116. Dated 1964 but issued in 1965. Publisher's illustrated boards, pictorial endpapers in black and white, no jacket was issued. Contents clean, no inscriptions. Covers show some use with..... More
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The Magical Car. Illustrated by John Burningham.
New York, NY: Random House, 1964 [1965]. [Childrens classic] Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.118. Dated 1964 but issued in 1965. Publisher's hardcover, top edge coloured black, in pictorial jacket. This is the Book Club issue (often mistaken as the first US edition). Exhibits some minor toning and handling; price-clipped as..... More
A School History of England.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1911. [British History] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 250 [4]. With 10 colour plates by Ford, as well as various maps and drawings. Contemporary navy full calf by RELFE BROS for Langport Grammar School, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration..... More
In the Days of Drake, Being the Adventures of Humphrey Salkeld, how he was Carried Away to Mexico: how he There Underwent Many Torments at the Hands of the Inquisitors; and Finally, how he fell in with the Great Captain, Francis Drake, and Escaped to England (A.D. 1578-1580).
London, Glasgow, Dublin, Bombay: Blackie and Son, N.d. [c.1896]. [Children's Adventure] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. With three halftone plates, including a frontispiece. Contemporary brown full calf, gilt armorial device to upper, boards gilt-ruled. Spine with gilt-lettered brown label, raised bands, and gilt-tooling. Dentelles in blind to..... More
Poo-Poo and the Dragons.
London: Michael Joseph, 1942. [Children's illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.188. With in-text illustrations and endpapers by Lawson. Publisher's yellow cloth, designs and titles blocked in red to upper and spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at 7/6. Mild toning throughout. Typographic bookplate of Trevor Hickman to front..... More
Grimble.
London: Collins, 1968. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4]; 44. With frequent in-text illustrations by Francis. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine. With the red dust-jacket also illustrated by Francis. Internally fine. Jacket price-clipped and sunned to spine with some small closed tears. Very good..... More
Dragon Rider.
Frome: The Chicken House, 2004. [Children's Fantasy] UNCORRECTED PROOF. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.530. With occasional in-text illustrations by Howard. Publisher's blue soft covers, and proof dust-jacket illustrated by Ian Butterworth, priced at £12.99. Some light handling. Near fine. Originally published in German in 1997, and basis for the 2020..... More
Dragon Rider.
Frome: The Chicken House, 2004. [Children's Fantasy] FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.530. With occasional in-text illustrations by Howard, and colour-illustrated folding pop-up map. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine. With the blue dust-jacket illustrated by Ian Butterworth, priced at £12.99. Jacket Sunned to spine, and map..... More
The Magic Mirror. A Round of Tales for Old and Young.
London: Alexander Strahan, 1866. [Illustrated Children's] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp. [vi]; 290. 84 small in-text illustrations by W. S. Gilbert. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, gilt illustration to front board, gilt edges of textblock, embossed illustration to back board. Spotting to pages, darkening of..... More
Undercover Princess.
London: Penguin Books, 2017. [Children's literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.[6]; 378. Publisher's purple cloth, gilt titles to spine, decorative endpapers, dust-jacket designed by Qing Han with printed price of £12.99. Signed by the author to a tipped in title page. Fine. The first instalment of the..... 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
The Wind in the Willows.
London: Methuen & Co., 1922. [Children's classic] VINTAGE COPY, the 12th edition. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[8] 302 [10]. Frontispiece by Graham Robertson. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and in blind to upper. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Largely clean, with a few minor spots..... More
Creeper's Jeep.
Tadworth: World's Work, the Windmill Press, 1973. [Children's Illustrated] REISSUE. Small quarto (24 x 20cm), unpaginated, with colour illustrations printed by offset to every page. Illustrated endpapers. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, with black cloth to spine. With the matching dust-jacket. Black ink gift inscription to verso of flyleaf. Price-clipped jacket..... 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