Children's Books
London, George Allen & Unwin, 1957.
First edition, second impression. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
Tolkien's whimsical medieval fable about a reluctant hero, Farmer Giles, who must confront a troublesome dragon with wit and cunning rather than traditional bravery. Baynes' illustrations were significant in fantasy fiction of the period, as she would go on to become best known for her work on C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia, contributing a visual style that became iconic in mid-20th century fantasy literature.
Children's Books
or The Story of Mr. Fox and Brer Rabbit
Leicester & London, Raithby, Lawrence, [1939].
Illustrated edition. Small 4to. Title printed in red & black. Original pictorial cloth. Dust-jacket with mounted illustration.
Classic of American children's literature, here illustrated by Harry Rowntree and René Bull.
![Susan Cooper, [The Dark is Rising series], mixed editions/impressions, 1974-73-77.](https://lycanthiabooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/86347-300x300.jpg)
![Alternative view of Cooper (Susan) [The Dark is Rising series].](https://lycanthiabooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/86347_2-300x400.jpg)
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Comprising: Over Sea, Under Stone; The Dark is Rising; Greenwitch; The Grey King; Silver on the Tree
London, Chatto & Windus, 1974-1973-1977.
Over Sea, Under Stone, first edition thus, the rest first editions, first impressions except The Grey King (2nd impression). Together 5 vol. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jackets.
A complete set of Susan Cooper's modern classic of children's literature, introducing readers to a parallel world of old magic and an epic battle between light & dark.
Children's Books
Teatime Tales for Tiny Tots
London, Gawthorn, [1944].
First edition. Large 8vo. Original cloth. Pictorial dust-jacket.
A very good copy of this popular children's books.
Children's Books
"The Other 100 Years War"
Kington, Herts, Roundtower Design, 2004.
First edition. Oblong 4to. Original blue boards. Dust-jacket.
A well-researched and enjoyable history of toy soldiers. Cowan was a well-respected toy soldier & knight maker himself, trading under various names, including Kingcast.
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The Later Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett
London, Martin Secker, 1919.
First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth blocked in green. Dust-jacket, priced 8/-.
The third book of Sylvia Scarlett's adventures, by the author of Whisky Galore. Scarce in dust-jacket.
Children's Books
London, John Hamilton, [1935].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original blue cloth lettered in black to spine. Dust-jacket.
A hard book to find in the original dust-jacket, featuring attractive aeronautical artwork by Stanley Orton Bradshaw.
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from the Walt Disney production
London & Glasgow, Collins, [1944]..
First UK edition. 4to. Original cloth-backed boards with illustration to upper cover.
A very good first UK edition of Roald Dahl's first book, that launched his career as a writer of nuanced children's literature. The story builds on an RAF legend of mischievous/malicious sprites that hamper the missions of fighter & bomber pilots during the Second World War.
Children's Books
London, Methuen, [1908].
Early edition. 8vo. Advertisements dated February 1908. Original pictorial red cloth lettered in gilt to spine.
A handsome copy of this early edition of Mitford's adventure tale, originally published in 1904.
Children's Books
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1942.
Second edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, code 2445 to lower panel.
It's the First World War, and in a desperate game of bluff and counterbluff Biggles is sent to work for the Germans while secretly reporting back to the British.
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
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
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
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, 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, 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.
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.
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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, 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, 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, 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.
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, Collins, 1939.
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6.
The second book in White's series 'The Once and Future King'. It continues the story of the newly crowned King Arthur, his tutelage by the wise Merlyn, his war against King Lot, and also introduces the Orkney clan.
Children's Books
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).
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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.
Children's Books
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.
Children's Books
London, Newnes, 1945.
First edition. 8vo. Original pale green cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
The third of the author's 'Lone Pine' series, set in Shropshire.
Children's Books
New York, Random House, 1942.
First edition. Large 8vo. Original pictorial red cloth. Dust-jacket.
The Adventures of Superman, illustrated by Joe Shuster, co-creator of the original character with Jerry Siegel. The jacket has some uniform sunning which has most notably desaturated the red.
![Walt Disney, Sketch Book [of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs], first edition, 1938](https://lycanthiabooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/84886-300x300.jpg)
[London], Collins, [1938].
First edition. 4to. Original tan cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
One of the more sought-after Disney books from its Golden Era, with no coeval American edition.
Children's Books
London, Cassell, 1941.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original brown cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6.
The original Lassie novel, which led to numerous films and TV series, first published in Chicago in 1940. Uncommon in such nice condition.
![Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland[-]Through the Looking-Glass, 1911](https://lycanthiabooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/84706-300x300.jpg)
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.
Children's Books
London, Blackie, 1886.First edition. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth.Henty's tale of the Luddite Riots.
Children's Books
The Final Adventure of the Swiss Family Robinson
London, Sampson Low, Marston, n.d..
8vo. Original red pictorial cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/6.
A decent early jacketed edition of this extension to the adventures of the Swiss Family Robinson.
Children's Books
Courier of the Czar
London, Sampson Low, Marston, n.d..
8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 5/-.
Early jacketed edition.
Children's Books
Loughborough, Wills & Hepworth, 1948.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue pictorial boards. Dust-jacket, priced 2/6.
Charming first edition of the first of six books recounting the adventures of Wonk the koala, illustrated by the artist & writer Joan Kiddell-Wonk.
Children's Books
London, Ward Lock, 1917.
First edition. Publisher's File Copy. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth, with publisher's file copy label to upper cover. Dust-jacket, with publisher's file copy label to upper panel.
A truly wonderful first edition by Australian author Lilian Turner, enhanced by being the publisher's file copy. Jackets from this period are scarce, especially in this condition, and in this case the jacket has preserved the book beneath splendidly.
![Clifton Bingham, The Animals' Rebellion, first edition, [c.1890]](https://lycanthiabooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/84613-300x300.jpg)
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
London, Ward, Lock, 1940.
First edition. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 6/-.
One of the last books by a prolific author who had enjoyed literary success since 1900, as well as some controversy for her 1916 Sci-Fi book, The Last Weapon, A Vision, the anti-sentiment contained within resulting in the book being banned. Wilson was a founding member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Children's Books
London, John Shaw, n.d. [c.1930]..First edition. 8vo. original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Dust-jacket.An uncommon title, with charming illustrative artwork by the author & artist Gladys Peto, distinctly rare in the dust-jacket.
Children's Books
his travels and perils
London, S.O. Beeton, n.d. [1865/66].
First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth, gilt tooled spine.
The rare true first edition in book form of this adventure tale, serialised previously in Boys Own in 1865. Ward Lock took over Beeton in 1866 and republished the title that year under their own imprint.
Children's Books
London, Collins, 1972.
First UK edition. Large 8vo. Original pictorial boards, issued without jacket.
One of the good Doctor's most famous titles, a topical tale of environmental awareness.