Children's
A FRENCH LADY. Possible pseudonym of Marin J. George de la Voye.
LE BABILLARD. An amusing introduction to the French Language. By a French Lady.
J. Harris and Son. London. 1823. FIRST EDITION. 12mo. (7 x 4.3 inches). ii, 48, 2pp publishers advert leaf. 12 full page engraved plates with two illustrations on each. Two pages with a few neat notes in black ink otherwise a very good copy in publishers green cloth with printed... Item #9347
Price: £325.00
ANON. (KEAT. Miss. Attributed to).
INFANTINE COMPLAINTS; or, rather, Complaints of Infants, and hints to Mothers.
Dickinson and Son. London. 1842. FIRST, AND ONLY, EDITION. Oblong 8vo. (8.8 x 5.6 inches). Title, 2pp text, 12 full page tinted litho satirical plates illustrating "complaints" of the behaviour of children or parents, each with a leaf of humorous text opposite. The Plates with a little foxing but generally... Item #8644
Price: £225.00
AUSTIN. SARAH.
THE STORY WITHOUT AN END. From the German of Carobe. With illustrations printed in colours by E. V. B (Eleanor Vere Boyle).
Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle. London. 1874. EARLY EDITION. 4to. (10.2 x 7.4 inches). Originally published in 1868. Illustrated with tinted frontis and fifteen colour lithographic prints, each with a printed tissue guard. Publishers dark green cloth with gilt and black decoration to the front board and gilt lettering... Item #9110
Price: £225.00
BABY BOOK.
FINE LEATHER BOUND BABY BOOK.
NP. ND. Fine leather bound baby book. (10.1 x 8 inches). Colour illustrated pages with spaces for new parents to fill in details from the birth, as well as details of family and friends who visited, details of Christening and other important moments in the child's early years as well... Item #8819
Price: £180.00
BANNER. ANGELA.
ANT AND BEE AND THE DOCTOR. Book 11.
Kaye and Ward Ltd. London. 1971. FIRST EDITION. (4.9 x 4 inches). Illustrated in colour throughout by the Author. Original colour illustrated boards. A little rubbing to the edges but overall a very good copy but without the dustwrapper. Item #9651
Price: £60.00
BARKER. CICELY. M.
THE BOOK OF THE FLOWER FAIRIES. Poems and pictures.
Blackie & Son. Limited. London. circa 1930's. 72 COLOUR PLATES. (7.4 x 5.6 inches). Collected edition comprising the Flower Fairies of the Spring, Summer and Autumn. Original green cloth with gilt Flower Fairy to the front board. Spine and front board lettered in gilt. Cloth a but rubbed and bumped... Item #8831
Price: £100.00
BARRIE. J. M.
THE PLAYS.
Hodder & Stoughton. 1930. REPRINT EDITION. 8vo. (8.5 x 5.9 inches). 844pp. Early full burgundy morocco leather binding. Spine with 3 raised bands, ruled in gilt. Green name label, gilt. Gilt lettering and circular devices. Colour leather onlay illustration of Peter Pan on a tree stump, to front board. Single... Item #9744
Price: £750.00
BARRIE. J. M.; Bedford. F. D. Illustrates.
PETER AND WENDY.
Hodder and Stoughton. London.,1911. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (8 x 5.7 inches). Decorative title page and twelve full page plates by Bedford. A fine copy in a recent leather binding of full dark green morocco, spine with raised bands, ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt. Single gilt ruled border on boards... Item #7689
Price: £650.00
BARRIE. J. M.; Bedford. F. D. Illustrates.
PETER AND WENDY.
Hodder and Stoughton. London.,1911. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (8 x 5.7 inches). Illustrated with a decorative title page and twelve full page plates by Bedford. A fine, clean and bright copy in a recent leather binding of full dark green morocco, the spine with five raised bands, ruled, decorated and lettered... Item #7690
Price: £600.00
BARRIE. J. M; BEDFORD. F. D. Illustrates.
PETER AND WENDY.
Hodder and Stoughton. London. No Date. (1911). FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo, (8 x 5.8 inches). Complete with mono illustrated title and twelve full page plates by Bedford. Gilt decorated green cloth boards illustrated with Peter Pan, two Mermaids and the Crocodile, all within a decorative border, on front board. Spine... Item #9867
Price: £875.00
BARRIE. J. M; BEDFORD. F. D. Illustrates.
PETER AND WENDY.
Hodder and Stoughton. London. No Date. 1911. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo, (8 x 5.8 inches). Complete with mono illustrated title and twelve full page plates by Bedford. Gilt decorated green cloth boards illustrated with Peter Pan, two Mermaids and the Crocodile, all within a decorative border, on front board. Spine... Item #9908
Price: £1,000.00
BARRIE.J.M.; .
PETER PAN. Or the boy who would not grow up.
Hodder & Stoughton Limited.London.,1928. FIRST EDITION.8vo.Previous owners neat name & date (1941) on front free endpaper.Bound in publishers original blue cloth with printed paper labels on front board and spine.Very good copy.This is the first edition of the play,and was issued as a volume in the uniform edition of the... Item #6821
Price: £175.00
BAYNES. PAULINE. Born 1922 - died 2008. GRIMM. BROTHERS.
WATER COLOUR PAINTING OF SNOWDROP (SNOW WHITE) AND THE SEVEN DWARVES. Original watercolour Illustration published in Grimm's Fairy Tales.
NP. (Book published by Blackie & Son). Circa 1949. ORIGINAL FULL COLOUR ARTWORK. The watercolour image shows Snowdrop (Snow White) lying asleep at the edge of a forest. Stood over her is a handsome Prince dressed in elaborate multi coloured outfit with a large hat in his hand, complete with... Item #8886
Price: £2,750.00
BELLOC. HILLAIRE. ; Blackwood. Basil. Illustrates.
CAUTIONARY TALES FOR CHILDREN. Verses by H. Belloc. Pictures by B. T. B.
Eveliegh Nash. London. No date. 1907. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo. (9.7 x 8.1 inches). Illustrated throughout with 86 line drawings by Blackwood. Publishers grey paper covered boards with red lettering and black illustration to the front board. New plain grey paper spine to match. Some minor offsetting to the blank... Item #7691
Price: £450.00
BELLOC. HILLAIRE. ; Blackwood. Basil. Illustrates.
CAUTIONARY TALES FOR CHILDREN. Verses by H. Belloc. Pictures by B. T. B.
Eveleigh Nash. London. (No date). 1907. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo. (9.7 x 8.1 inches). Illustrated throughout with 86 line drawings by Blackwood. Publishers grey paper covered boards with red lettering and black illustration to the front board. A few small ink spots to the spine but, importantly the spine is... Item #9648
Price: £550.00
BELLOC. HILLAIRE.; Blackwood. Basil. Illustrates.
CAUTIONARY TALES FOR CHILDREN. Verses by H. Belloc. Pictures by B. T. B.
Eveliegh Nash. London. (No date). 1907. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo. (9.6 x 8.1 inches). Illustrated throughout with 86 line drawings by Blackwood. Small, light damp-stain to the very bottom outer corner (about 0.2 inch into the page at its worst) of the pages in the first half of the book... Item #8291
Price: £350.00
BIRO. VAL.
ORIGINAL WATER COLOUR ARTWORK FOR TALES FROM WIND IN THE WILLOWS. By Kenneth Grahame.
1983. Watercolour painting of Mole walking towards the Wild Wood, painted for the Purnell 1983, abridged for younger readers, edition of Grahame's classic tale. This image was not used in the published book. Image size 3.8 x 3.5 inches. Professionally mounted, framed and glazed, with hardboard backing and strung, ready... Item #8939
Price: £250.00
BLATCHFORD. MARY EDGCUMBE.
THE STORY OF LITTLE JANE AND ME. By M. E. --- & --- POLLY AND THE AUNT. By The Aunt. The Dedication copy.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. The Riverside Press. Boston. U. S. A. 1898 + 1906. FIRST EDITIONS. 2 volumes. 8vo. (7.9 x 5.8 inches). The second work is the dedication copy. The printed dedication leaf reads: " To C. N. R. Thy acceptance Maketh blest". Both volumes are inscribed by the... Item #8499
Price: £1,500.00
BRENT DYER. ELINOR. M.
JANE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL.
W. & R. Chambers, Limited. London. 1964. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Publishers original blue cloth binding with gilt lettering and ruling to the spine. In the original, first issue, colour illustrated dustwrapper with the price (8s. 6d net) still intact on the front inner flap. A couple of small closed tears... Item #8816
Price: £90.00
BROWNING. ROBERT.; Butler-Stoney. T. Illustrates.
THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN.
Nister & Co.Ltd.,Circa 1906. FIRST EDITION WITH THESE ILLUSTRATIONS. Oblong Large 12mo.(10.8 x 8.3 inches). 12 fine colour plates. A lovely copy in publishers glazed boards. The front board in full colour. Green cloth spine. In the rare original dustwrapper which is split along the spine and in two pieces... Item #5637
Price: £125.00
BURNSIDE. HELEN MARION.; WATKINS. JESSIE. Illustrates.
FAIRY FINE-EAR'S FANCIES. 1st Series. The Mermaid & The Zoophite. -- Swinging. -- The Fairies & The Bees. -- The Dewdrop & The Skylark.
Sockl & Nathan. London. ND.,circa 1890. FIRST, AND ONLY, EDITION. Large 12mo. (8.1 x 7.1 inches). 24pp. Each page is lettered and illustrated, plus four plates in colour, using Chromolithography. Decorative endpapers with neat four line presentation poem written out by a previous owner. Inner hinges cracked and repaired but... Item #7288
Price: £150.00
CARROLL, LEWIS.
THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK. an Agony of Eight Fits.
Macmillan & Co. London. 1876. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.4 x 5 inches). Illustrated with nine full page illustrations by Henry Holiday, each protected with a plain tissue paper guard. One of 100 copies bound, at the request of the author, for presentation, in full red cloth with gilt illustrations to... Item #9786
Price: £1,850.00
CARROLL, LEWIS.; .
THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK.
CATALPA PRESS, LONDON.,1974. LIMITED EDITION.Illustrated by BYRON SEWELL.One of only 250 copiess numbered and signed by Sewell. Large 4to. Contains a sixteen foot pullout illustration and nine other mono illustrations, two fold out,one with red overlay to make "baker" disappear. Pocket at rear holds set of interchangeable cards with sections... Item #154
Price: £200.00
CARROLL. LEWIS.
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS. And what Alice found there.
Macmillan and Co. London. 1872. EARLY EDITION. (Twenty-fifth thousand). 8vo. (7.4 x 5.3 inches). Illustrated with fifty line illustrations by John Tenniel. Previous owners neat 3 line name and date (Juy 1872) on the half title page. A Very good clean copy in recent binding of full red Morocco leather... Item #9617
Price: £425.00
CARROLL. LEWIS.
THE WASP IN A WIG. A suppressed episode of Through the looking glass and what Alice found there. With a preface, introduction and notes by Martin Gardner.
Macmillan. London. 1977. FIRST U. K. EDITION. 8vo. (8.7 x 5.6 inches). Fine copy in red cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. In the original dustwrapper. Published in the same year in a limited edition by the Lewis Carroll Society of North America. The missing episode from Through the... Item #9852
Price: £85.00
