A little bumped and rubbed at extremities, but overall VG.
Illustrations by ‘J. Abberwock’ (Allan Fea).
£95
London, Becks, 1950.
Sole edition. Signed by the author. 4to. Original cloth-backed boards.
Historian Fea’s homage to Lewis Carroll’s classics for children, replacing Alice with ‘Little Lu’. An attractive copy.
In stock
A little bumped and rubbed at extremities, but overall VG.
Illustrations by ‘J. Abberwock’ (Allan Fea).
London, Hodder & Stoughton, [c.1920].
Large 8vo. 14 plates with captioned paper guards. Original blind-tooled blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Dust-jacket, priced 10/6.
A wonderful copy of Dulac's illustrated stories of Hans Christian Andersen, originally published in a different format in 1911. Rare in the original dust-jacket, especially in such condition.
Children's Books
London [&c.], George G. Harrap, 1937
First UK edition. 8vo. Colour frontispiece. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
A lovely first UK edition of this title by the creator of Anne of Green Gables.
Children's Books
A "Biggles Squadron" Story of the Second Great War
London, OUP, 1943.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Frontispiece, illustrations. Original cloth with illustration stamped in black to upper cover. Dust-jacket priced at 5/-.
A rare Biggles first edition, with no jacketed copies in commerce that we could find at time of cataloguing. Biggles and his ominously named 666 squadron set up camp in the mountains of Borneo and embark on a campaign of terror strikes on the Japanese forces.