Book very good; jacket a little creased and chipped at extremities, otherwise very good.
Illustrations by Sylvia I. Venus.
£175
London, Newnes, 1946.
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 6/-.
A nice first edition of this collection of stories featuring the naughty doll Amelia Jane.
In stock
Book very good; jacket a little creased and chipped at extremities, otherwise very good.
Illustrations by Sylvia I. Venus.
Children's Books
London, Gawthorn, [1944].
First edition. Oblong 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
An uncommon first edition in the original jacket, very much in keeping with the format and vogue of an earlier era...
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.
Children's Books
The Story of a Boy...with an introduction by E.V. Lucas
London, Jonathan Cape, 1932.
First illustrated edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
Jefferies' famous "story of a boy", illustrated for the first time by Pooh illustrator E.H. Shepard; uncommon in the original dust-jacket. Accompanied by original printed prospectus.
Children's Books
London, Blackie, 1886.First edition. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth.Henty's tale of the Luddite Riots.
Children's Books
London, Juvenile Productions, [1937].
Merlin Series' edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
Lewis Carroll's classic for children, here illustrated by D.R. Sexton and issued for the Merlin Series.