Children's Books

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£300



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.

Children's Books

Barrie (J.M.) Peter Pan,

£250


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.

£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.

£1,950



London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1943.

First edition. Tipped-in official autograph slip signed by the author to front free endpaper. 8vo. Original blue boards. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.

Another Famous Five classic from the pen of Blyton, here with an original autograph of the author tipped-in on a slip with her portrait.

£95



London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1954.

First edition. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.

A very good first edition of the 13th 'Famous Five' book by Enid Blyton.

£150



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.

£150



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.

£125



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.

£95



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".

£150



London, Newnes, 1936.

First edition. 8vo. Original brown cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6.

Maritime treasure-hunting thriller for children; listed in Hubin.

£750


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.

£195



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'.

£225



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.

£150



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.

£150



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.

£1,250



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.

£60



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.

£95


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.

£50



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'.

£50



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'.

£45



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'.

£50



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'.

£95



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.

Children's Books

Barrie (J.M.) Peter Pan

£825


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.

£325



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.

£750

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.

£195



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.

£150



London, Methuen, 1945.

First edition. 8vo. Original yellow cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.

A good first edition of the sixth book in Blyron's St Clare's series.

£325



London, Methuen, 1935.

First edition. 8vo. Original green pictorial cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 5s.

An uncommon early work by Enid Blyton, which focuses on the sorts of real animals you may find on Britain's waysides across a collection of stories. Distinctly uncommon in the jacket.

£75



Leicester, Brockhampton, [1948].

First edition. 4to. Original pictorial boards.

Uncommon 'forties Blyton title, charmingly illustrated by regular Blyton collaborator Eileen Alice Soper.

£395



London, George Newnes, 1945.

First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.

The third of the 'Naughtiest Girl' series by Enid Blyton, recounting the ongoing adventures & misadventures of Elizabeth Allen & chums at the progressive boarding school Whyteleafe. The series was rebooted in 1999 by British author Anne Digby. Due to the war-time production values the Blyton titles from the series are all tricky to find in good condition.

£250



Edinburgh & London, W. & A.K. Johnston, 1934.

First edition. 8vo. Original sewn pictorial wrappers.

A scarce early Blyton work, featuring alongside the titular teapot a pixie called Dimble Dumble, Mr Tweaky and his Magic Pockets and the Chocolate Cock... the last two mentioned fortunately not connected...

£6,750



London, Collins, 1958.

First edition. Signed & dated by the author in the month of publication. 8vo. Original pink cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 8s 6d.

"Things are always happening to me. I'm that sort of bear".

The book that started it all! When the Peruvian bear with a penchant for marmalade sandwiches tootled into everyone's lives in 1958, few could have predicted what a phenomenon Paddington Bear would become, subsequently starring in over twenty books by Michael Bond, as well as numerous TV series and film adaptations. The first book is a known rarity, but exceedingly uncommon signed and dated thus in the year of publication. A cornerstone of 20th century children's literature.

£450



London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1941.

First UK edition. Oblong 4to. Original pictorial boards. Dust-jacket, priced 6/-.

An appealing first UK edition of this enduring children's classic, in part the inspiration for Stephen King's Charlie the Choo-Choo: From the World of The Dark Tower (2016).

£395


and Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice found there
London, Macmillan, 1911.

8vo. Original red cloth lettered and stamped in gilt.

A pleasing copy of Alice's adventures, including sixteen colour plates by Tenniel.

£250



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.