Children's Books
London, Grant Richards, 1903.
Early edition. Small 4to. Original pictorial brown cloth.
Helen Bannerman (1862-1946) wrote this story during a long railway journey in India, and sent it to her two small daughters whom she had just left to be educated in her native Scotland. It was eventually published as the fourth title in the "Dumpy Books" series, in 1899, and its success apparently inspired the format of Beatrix Potter's "Peter Rabbit" books. It is today quite a controversial juvenile, but since the original publication it has gone through countless printings and translations as well as sequels, imitations, and parodies.
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or, The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1928.
First play edition. 8vo. Original blue boards with printed title label to spine and upper cover. Dust-jacket,
An uncommon edition in the jacket, which has done a great job of preserving the book beneath. Barrie's classic tale for children, re-rendered for the stage.
Children's Books
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.
Children's Books
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1952.
First edition. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
An attractive first edition of the 11th Famous Five title.
Children's Books
London, Lutterworth Press, 1947.
First edition. 8vo. Original pale brown cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 6s.
Lovely wrap-around jacket artwork on this lesser-known Blyton tale about an interfering aunt.
Children's Books
London, Ward, Lock, c.1933.
4to. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Dust-jacket.
A very attractive example of this edition of Carroll's classic for children, splendidly illustrated by Margaret Tarrant throughout.
Children's Books
London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1934.
First UK edition. Small 4to. Original pictorial boards. Dust-jacket, priced 2/6.
"Story and Illustrations by the staff of the Walt Disney Studios".
Children's Books
London, Newnes, 1936.
First edition. 8vo. Original brown cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6.
Maritime treasure-hunting thriller for children; listed in Hubin.
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Dulac (Edmund).- Quiller-Couch (Sir Arthur) The Sleeping Beauty
and other fairy tales from the old French
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1910.
First Dulac edition. Deluxe issue, one of 1000 numbered copies signed by the artist. 4to. Original brown morocco gilt.
A handsome copy of the superior issue of Dulac's rendering of these fairy tale classics.
Children's Books
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1964.
First edition. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket, priced 8s6d.
Biggles investigates a tourist charter in France, uncovering and thwarting a dangerous smuggling gang's operations.
Children's Books
Leicester, Brockhampton, 1965.
First edition. 8vo. Original black boards. Dust-jacket, priced 10/6.
Biggles rescues a kidnapped scientist from pirates on a remote island to secure a fortune in pearls.
Children's Books
Leicester, Brockhampton, 1968.
First edition. 8vo. Original burgundy boards. Dust-jacket, priced 10/6.
The mystery of a remote island in the Bay of Bengal offers a fresh mission for Biggles and chums.
Children's Books
Leicester, Brockhampton, 1966.
First edition. 8vo. Original pale turquoise boards. Dust-jacket, priced 10/6.
Biggles is on the track of international gun-runners. A very good first edition.
Children's Books
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1963.
First edition. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket, priced 8s6d.
Biggles & chums track a vanishing aircraft and a mysterious passenger.
Children's Books
Leicester, Brockhampton, 1965.
First edition. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6.
Biggles and the team are stuck in the Sahara trying to track down a missing archaeologist.
Children's Books
Leicester, Brockhampton, 1966.
First edition. 8vo. Original green boards. Dust-jacket, priced by 10/6.
Mystery and drama in India challenge Biggles & co.
Children's Books
Leicester, Brockhampton, 1964.
First edition. 8vo. Original pale boards. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6.
Eight Biggles stories with a detective fiction theme.
Children's Books
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1965.
First edition. 8vo. Original orange boards. Dust-jacket.
Biggles has dinner with old enemy, and now friend, Erich von Stalhein, who asks him if he ever wonders what happened to Marie Janis, a young girl Biggles fell in love with during the First World War.
Children's Books
Leicester, Brockhampton, 1967.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue boards. Dust-jacket, priced 10/6.
Biggles on the trail of a jewel thief. A very good first edition.
Children's Books
London, New York & Bombay, Longmans, Green,, 1906.
First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth extensively decorated in gilt to spine and upper cover.
A good example of this collection of fairy tales, one of Lang's twenty-five 'Rainbow Fairy Books'.
Children's Books
London, Gardner, Darton, 1908.
Fifth edition. 8vo. Original yellow/gold pictorial cloth. Pictorial dust-jacket.
Attractive collection of fairy tales, in the highly uncommon dust-jacket.
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London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1945.
Second edition. 4to. Original cloth lettered in green. Dust-jacket, priced 7s6d.
An attractive example of the second edition of Peake's first published book, the first edition mostly being destroyed in a warehouse bombing during the blitz. Peake's reworking of the images for this edition included colour for the first time. Rare in such condition.
Children's Books
London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, [1888].
First UK edition. 8vo. Original pictorial teal cloth decorated in black, silver and gold.
Set in Germany, Otto of the Silver Hand was one of the first historical novels written for children by an American, influencing many later historical novels for children.
Children's Books
London, Raphael Tuck, [c.1906].
No. 6256. 4to. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards.
An attractive edition of this insight into the mind of Louis Wain, who recently enjoyed a cinematic representation courtesy of Benedict Cumberbatch, in The Electrical Life of Louis Wain.
Children's Books
London, Adan & Charles Black, 1903.
First edition. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth.
"Most of these stories originally appeared in The Captain... The rest are from the Public School Magazine. The story entitled 'A Shocking Affair' appears in print for the first time. 'This was one of our failures.'" - Preface.
Children's Books
London, Sampson Low, 1953.
First edition. 8vo. Original pictorial boards and matching dust-jacket.
A good copy of this title from the 'Cherubs' series of books, uncommon in the dust-jacket. Hodgetts was most famous as the creator of the character Toby Twirl, a Rupert-the-bear-esque character based on a soft toy owned by the illustrator for the series, Edward Jeffrey.
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Agg (Howard) and Cecile Adair. Meetoo and the Little Creatures.
The Story of an Adventure
London, Harrap, 1941.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 6/-.
Lovely illustrations and jacket artwork complement and enhance this cute book for children, about animals who save themselves from a flooding river by sailing off in a top hat.
Children's Books
London, Edmund Ward, 1964.
First edition. Oblong 12mo. Original dark blue pictorial boards. Dust-jacket, priced 5/6.
First edition of the nineteenth book in the Rev. Awdry's famous 'Railway Series'.
Children's Books
London, Edmund Ward, 1967.
First edition. Oblong 12mo. Original dark-blue pictorial boards. Dust-jacket, priced 6/-.
First edition of the twenty-second book in the Rev. Awdry's famous 'Railway Series'.
Children's Books
London, Edmund Ward, 1963.
First edition. Oblong 12mo. Original pictorial boards. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
First edition of the eighteenth book in the Rev. Awdry's famous 'Railway Series'.
Children's Books
London, Edmund Ward, 1959.
First edition. Oblong 12mo. Original pale yellow pictorial boards. Dust-jacket, priced 5/-.
First edition of the fourteenth book in the Rev. Awdry's famous 'Railway Series'.
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Barrie (J.M.) and May Byron. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
London, Hodder & Stoughton, c.1929.
Small 4to. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/6.
Barrie's famous Peter Pan, in a rerendering by May Byron and featuring Rackham's splendid illustrations.
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The original text of Peter & Wendy...newly illustrated by Edmund Blampied
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1939.
First Blampied edition. Small 4to. Illustrations and plates. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 10/6.
A wonderful illustrated edition of Barrie's classic for children.
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Children's Books
London & New York, Ernest Nister, [c.1890].
Oblong 4to. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards.
Comical verses by Nister's popular lyricist Clifton Bingham, perfectly illustrated by C.H. Thompson. Vintage Victorian children's book.
Children's Books
First edition, Macmillan, 1913. Author’s presentation copy to Louis Parker. Louis Napoleon Parker was an English dramatist, composer and translator. Signed ‘from AB (author)’ on front end paper. Very rare survival in a jacket especially inscribed.
Children's Books
London, The National Magazine Co. Ltd, 1946.
True first edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
A scarce first edition of this collection of the quirky and imaginative short stories by the Famous Five and Noddy creator.