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A Apple Pie. Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1886. First edition. Hardback. Pictorial paper covered boards with red cloth spine. Red endpapers. An alphabet book for children using the picture story of an apple pie! Boards a little darkened and rubbed at fore edge. Overall quite good condition with no markings. 215 x 265 mm (8½ x 10½ inches).
Book ID: 3890More details Price: £150.00 -
A Bibliography of American Children's Books. Printed Prior to 1821.
American Antiquarian Society and Barre Publishers, 1972. First edition. Hardback in green cloth, with gilt title to spine. Both book and contents in fine condition. lxvi, 495 pp. + index. 260 x 190 mm (10¼ x 7½ inches).
Book ID: 3693More details Price: £30.00 -
A Child's Garden of Verses with Illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith
Book ID: 3849More details Price: £150.00 -
A Masque of Days
London: Cassell & Company, 1901. A very nice copy of this first edition. Clean and tidy boards. Restored with renewed spine (there is no title to the spine). A touch of bumping to the corners of the boards. Internally in excellent condition throughout. Slight foxing to prelims and final page. Double page title, 40 illustrated page panels and finis page. French folds. 290 by 210mm (11½ by 8¼ inches).
Book ID: 3489More details Price: £120.00 -
A Noisy Book!
Aylesbury: Abelard-Schuman Ltd, 1971. First edition. Hardback blue cloth boards, inside the original unclipped dust jacket. Pre-school book that's simple and funny. 32 unnumbered pages. 235 x 205 mm (9¼ x 8 inches).
Book ID: 3659More details Price: £60.00 -
A pair of Victorian miniatures of Pixies
Book ID: 3439More details Price: £480.00 -
Aesop's Fables. Retold by Blanche Winder. With 48 colour plates.
London: Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, 1924. First edition thus, as first with Rountree's wonderful illustrations. Green cloth hardback, with black lettering and colour illustration onlaid to the front board. The colour plates include full colour pictorial endpapers.
Including favourites such as, "The Hare and the Tortoise", "The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse", and "Crying Wolf". Complete with colour frontis and all plates. Has a prize bookplate to the front, dated 1927 - from 'Wyggeston Grammar School for Girls' in Leicester (UK). This school's emblem is also attractively gilt-stamped on to the rear board. 340, [4]pp. publisher's catalogue. A good copy, with some sun fading to the spine. Light general signs of use only.. 210 x 155 mm (8¼ x 6 inches).Book ID: 2678More details Price: £45.00 -
Aladdin. Ou la lampe merveilleuse. Livres d'images. 6me Série
Épinal: Imagerie Pellerin, 1879. Original edition Livres d'images booklet. Hand coloured illustrations. Unpaginated. A little age toned. 18 pages. 255 x 185 mm (10 x 7¼ inches). Édition originale Livres d'images. Illustrations colorées à la main. Non paginé. Un peu d'âge. 18 pages. 255 × 185 mm
Book ID: 3782More details Price: £100.00 -
All About Copy-Kitten Copy-Kitten and More About Copy-Kitten published as one book
Chicago: Rand McNally & Co, 1944. First edition thus. Hardback navy blue cloth with gold titles. In original unclipped dust jacket. With pictorial endpapers. Now in Mylar wrap for protection. Unpaginated. 200 x 175 mm (7¾ x 7 inches). Copy-Kitten likes copying other animals and this book contains over forty wonderful illustrations by the talented Helen and Alf Evers.
Condition: Dust jacket has shelf-wear to edges, light chipping to spine ends, and an area of creasing / closed tear to back. Neat small owners name to front end paper. Pages inside have some transference (shown in pictures). Overall still a lovely little book.
Book ID: 2888More details Price: £28.00 -
Alphabet de la Phosphatine Falières.
Paris: Chassaing & Cie, 1905. First edition. Sewn booklet of 20 unnumbered pages, charming colour illustrations, but also charts and phonetic spellings for young French speakers. WorldCat suggests circa 1905. Covers are age toned, and a little soiled. Spine area starting to split, but overall good. 205 x 160 mm (8 x 6¼ inches). Première édition. Livret cousu de 20 pages non numérotées, de charmantes illustrations en couleurs, mais aussi des grilles et des orthographes phonétiques pour les jeunes francophones. WorldCat suggère vers 1905. Les couvertures sont vieillies et un peu sales. La zone de la colonne vertébrale commence à se fendre, mais globalement bonne. 205 × 160 mm
Book ID: 3625More details Price: £40.00 -
Angelo.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1970. First Edition. In hardback illustrated boards with matching original dust jacket. Very tight and neat, appears almost unread. Angelo is an Italian boy who travels with his family performing gymnastics and walking a tightrope to entertain people. One day he sees a girl in the crowd who is crying, and so he sets his mind that he must do something to cheer her up. Not one of Blake's best known titles, but a fun and colourfully illustrated children's book with a lovely message! 270 x 215 mm (10¾ x 8½ inches).
Book ID: 3531More details Price: £60.00 -
As Orações. Illustrações em cõres de J. Hebbelynck
Bruges: Desclée De Brouwer, 1938. First edition. Very scarce. Small hardback with blue cloth spine. Cover design and 16 beautifully illustrated full-page plates, with gold embellishments, all by Jeanne Hebbelynck. Unpaginated [40 pages]. Appears virtually new / unopened, and is in glassine protection. 140 x 115 mm
Book ID: 3619More details Price: £50.00 -
Aventures D'Alice Au Pays Des Merveilles. Par Lewis Carroll, illustrées par Arthur Rackham
Edition: First Thus
Book ID: 1886More details Price: £250.00 -
Babar at Home.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1938. Publisher's quarter blue cloth and colour pictorial boards. Text in English. 39 [1] pp. 365 x 265 mm (14¼ x 10½ inches).
Condition: In a good condition. Boards lightly rubbed / handled, and with some light scrapes (area of light pen scribble). Back board has some sun fading. Both head and tail of spine have been slightly bumped / appear restored. Some pages have been neatly repaired at the bottom (see photos).
Book ID: 2723More details Price: £80.00 -
Baby Bunting's Big Bedtime Book
London: Ward, Lock And Co, 1926. First Edition. Hardback colour illustrated boards, with red cloth spine. Fully illustrated in b/w, and with four full-page colour plates (including frontis). Lovely stories with text in large print for children. Boards are partially age tones, a little rubbed and the spine is faded. Ink mark to front board. B/w illustrated endpapers, front one has small red stain on it. Title page a little foxed, rest of contents clean and fresh. 64 pages. 250 x 185 mm (9¾ x 7¼ inches).
Book ID: 3323More details Price: £50.00 -
Baby's Own Aesop
Book ID: 2117More details Price: £200.00 -
Better Than Toys for Girls and Boys. At Home Within. Please Bring your Paints or Chalks.
London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co, 1894. Original yellow hardback. buckram spine. A touch of bumping to the edges only. Unpaginated. 15 coloured lithographs with a black and white copy of each opposite for children to colour themselves. This copy largely uncoloured, although the first black and white image has a very feint colour wash to it. 240 by 175mm (9½ by 7 inches).
Book ID: 2478More details Price: £48.00 -
Bombonnel, de pantherjager, William Rice, de tijgerjager en andere reis- en jagtavonturen voor de jeugd. Met 14 gekleurde platen.
Leiden: D. Noothoven van Goor, 1862. Scarce. First edition. Hardback children's story book based on tales of hunting wildlife. Complete with all 14 hand coloured lithographic plates, with tissue guards. Text in Dutch. Boards are light brown buckram with an embossed design and gilt embellishments. [112] pp. Archival tape repair / reinforcement to the first gather. 190 x 125 mm (7½ x 5 inches).
Book ID: 3605More details Price: £90.00 -
Casse-Noisette et le Roi des Rats
Book ID: 2589More details Price: £20.00 -
Charlie Malarkey and The Belly-Button Machine.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1987. First British edition. Hardcover. First printing. Signed on half-title by the illustrator Glen Baxter. Glen Baxter's illustrations are infamous. "A kind of mad cross between Magritte, S. J. Perelman and Pulp Fiction" said Mel Gussons in the New York Times. A fine copy in illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. 40 pages. 235 x 220 mm (9¼ x 8¾ inches).
Book ID: 2691More details Price: £30.00