Children's Books
Granny.
London: Walker Books, 1994. [Children's] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 14cm), pp.157; [3]. Publisher's yellow cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Tony Ross priced at £8.99 to front flap. Top edge lightly spotted. Some gently bumping to jacket extremities. Otherwise, near fine. A tale about..... More
The Willows in Winter.
London: HarperCollins, 1993. [Children's adventure novel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.295; [1] note. Publisher's blue cloth with titles and silhouette of Mr Toad to in gilt to spine, cartographic endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper shows Mole striding across winter scene, priced at £12.99. Signed in black ink to title..... More
The Terror of Villadonga. [The Spanish Cave].
London: Hutchinson and Co., n.d. [1936]. [Nautical Thriller]. FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (23 x 18cm), pp.160. With six lithographic illustrations by "Cuneo", including a frontispiece. In publisher's blue cloth with darker blue titles to spine and upper board. Black ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Heavy external wear; titles..... More
Stories from the Arabian Nights, Retold by Laurence Housman.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1907. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST DULAC ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.136. With 49 colour plates by Dulac, including a frontispiece, mounted on grey card and collected at rear, each with a tissue guard. Publisher's brown cloth, titled and decorated in gilt and dark grey to..... More
Our Little Manchurian Cousin.
Boston, MA: L.C. Page & Company, 1933. [Children's Illustrated] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 106 [6]. With six half-tone illustrations, including a colour frontispiece. INSCRIBED by the author rather lavishly in green ink to fly-leaf: 'Miss Mabelle Aubrey | a very princessly [?] | lovely soul. |..... More
Dixie O'Day, Up, Up and Away!
London: The Bodley Head, 2015. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[12] 124. With dichromatic illustrations by Vulliamy throughout. SIGNED by the illustrator in black ink to verso of flyleaf. Publisher's illustrated paper-covered boards, and red patterned endpapers. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by Vulliamy, priced..... More
The Iron Woman.
London: Faber and Faber, 1993. [Children's fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.87. Publisher's black cloth in black pictorial dust-jacket priced £9.99. Internally clean and free from spotting; spine-ends a touch bumped. Dust-wrapper is rubbed with minor chips and tears at spine ends. Very Good. Ted Hughes' classic of..... 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 Ingoldsby Legends, or, Mirth and Marvels. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1907. [Children's Illustrated] RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION, DELUXE SIGNED ISSUE, number 347 of 560 copies. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.xx; 549 [3]. With twenty-four mounted coloured plates, captioned tissue guards, twelve illustrations with tint, and sixty-six line drawings. Publisher's gilt decorated white vellum with fore-edge ties..... More
The Ingoldsby Legends, or, Mirth and Marvels.
London: Richard Bentley, 1842-1847. [Strange Tales and Humour] FIRST AND EARLY EDITIONS, volume I a third edition, volumes II and III first editions. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xii; 339 [1]; pp.x; 288; pp.viii; 364. With a total of 18 engraved plates, including a frontispiece to volume..... More
A Child's Book of Hours.
London: Humphrey Milford, n.d. [1921]. FIRST EDITION. Folio (37 x 25cm), unpaginated, printed on 16 thick card leaves with 12 fine chromolithographic plates. In publisher's quarter tan cloth with tan paper-covered boards. Titles and clock illustration printed in colour to upper board. With rare original dust-jacket, mirroring upper board. Very..... 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
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
Poesia, en Prosa y Verso (1902-1932), escojida para los ninos por Zenobia Camprubi Aymar.
Madrid: Signo, 1932. [Spanish Poetry] FIRST THUS. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.133 [3]. All text in Spanish. Publisher's red quarter cloth, with red titles to plain grey pasteboards. Heavy browning to edges and margins. A small numbered sticker and stamp to front pastedown. Pencil ownerships to page facing title page..... More
Biggles Goes To War.
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege / Oxford University Press, 1952. [Aviation adventure] Vintage hardcover. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. With illustrations within the text by Martin Tyas. Publisher's light green cloth with black titles to spine, 'Flying Jacket' series wrapper priced at 6/-. Contents clean, no inscriptions, some expected spotting to edges..... More
Biggles and the Black Raider. Another Adventure of Air Detective-Inspector Bigglesworth and his Air Police.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1953. [Adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Contains six boldly coloured plates, all by Leslie Stead, cartographic endpapers. Publisher's red cloth, original pictorial dust-wrapper. No inscriptions, a little soiling to rear e.p., jacket lightly used with shallow loss at crown, some dustiness, a...... 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 Sees It Through.
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege / Oxford University Press, 1947. [Children's Adventure] Vintage hardcover. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.254; [2], blank. With a colour frontispiece and six full-page black and white illustrations by Alfred Sindall. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine, 'Flying Jacket' series wrapper on economy paper (another jacket..... 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
Biggles Delivers the Goods. A 'Biggles Squadron' Story.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1946 [October 1949]. [Children's adventure] FIRST EDITION, third printing. Crown octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.182. With 10 illustrations including colour frontispiece by Leslie Stead. In publisher's pale blue cloth with silver titles to spine and upper board. Carlographic endpapers to front. With original colour illustrated dust-jacket..... 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 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 Investigates.
Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1964. [Children's Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.184. With a colour frontispiece by Stead. Publisher's grey cloth with orange titles to spine. With the blue dust-jacket illustrated by Stead, priced at 8/6. A touch of spotting to edges, with some light wear to jacket extremities..... 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
Biggles and the Black Peril.
London: Dean and Son Ltd., by arrangement with Thames Publishing Co., no date [circa 1960]. [Children's adventure] ATTRACTIVE REPRINT. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.184. Publisher's cornflower blue cloth, titles in black to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket. Neat gift inscription to flyleaf. Minimal bumping to spine and corners with very slight..... More