New York: Charles E Graham & Co, 1910. Brundage, Frances. 1st Edition. 8vo. Soft cover. 4pp, coloured printed soft covers. A children's book covering the alphabet with little rhymes and an illustration with each letter. Illustrations by Francis Brundage and include 4 coloured full pages, and five b&w with some..... More
1944. Soft cover. Nos 1180-1323. Sept.1 1944 - June 7 1947. 140 comics within that run, lacking 5 numbers. Each in original coloured wrappers, comprising adventure and sporting stories for boys. Staples rusty, otherwise in remarkably good condition. More
1st Edition. 4to. Soft cover. 4pp, coloured printed card cover, a shaped book with the cover with an illustrated little boy. A children's book of amusing poems, c.1950s 38 x 16 cm An very scarce, attractive copy. More
London: Cassell, 1916. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Cloth Cover. Complete set of Chums magazines from September 1915 to September 1916. Plates. Numerous illustrations. Original decorated red cloth. Particularly interesting as this was one of the war years. In very good condition. More
London: Amalgamated Press, 1936. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Cloth Cover. pp. 412. Plate. Numerous illustrations. Original decorated cloth. In very good condition. A near fine copy of this rare issue. More
Oblong 8vo. Soft cover. 12 pp, original coloured front stiff board. Coloured and b&w illustrations in the text. Small piece missing bottom edge of cover. In remarkable condition for a children's book. More
London: C F Cock, 1835. 12mo. Hardcover. pp. 170. Woodcut frontispiece after Parkinson and woodcuts of Otaheitean War Canoe, Death of Cook, etc. Original roan binding, blind stamped Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. A rare miniature children's work. More
London: Warne, 1921. 4to. Hardcover. 20 pp. Numerous illustrations, some hand-coloured by a previous owner. Pictorial boards. More
London: 1905. Simpkin, R. 4to. Hardcover. A 'Toy book', one of a series of Victorian books for children. pp 16. Pictorial wrappers. Graphically illustrated by various noted artists of the day, including R Simkin, W B Wollen etc. Patriotic images of soldiers in action, Victoria Cross winners, heroism, life in..... More
Berlin: Windemann und Sohne, 1865. 12mo. Hardcover. pp 333, adverts, with 9 hand-coloured lithographs by C Köpper. Original illustrated boards. Slightly discoloured on joints.13 x 15 cm A charming children's book from the popular 19th C German author Margarethe Wulff. More
Cleveland, Ohio: Harter Publishing Company, 1831. 1st Edition. 4to. Soft cover. Near fine copy with brilliant full page coloured illustrations. The famous story is retold here, aimed at younger children, with a more simple vocabulary. Illustrated protected covers. A lo ely copy of this fine production. More
London: MacMillan, 1866. 1st Edition. 8vo. Original Cloth. Some foxing. Original cloth professionally and neatly re-cased, slightly darker on spine. All edges gilt. First edition, first issue with page '30' as '3' A very good copy of the extremely rare first edition. More
London: MacMillan, 1872. Orig. Cloth. pp. 224. Frontispiece and illustrations by Tenniel. Original red cloth with minor discolouration affecting the gilt vignette on front board. All edges gilt. First edition, first issue with 'wade' in Jabberwocky, corrected to 'wabe' in subsequent issues. Copy belonged to Sophie Walker, later the society..... More
London: Collins. Finnemore, J. Soft cover. 32 coloured pictures describing the story. 25 x 33 cm. Oblong, original illustrated stiff wrappers. Some creasing and general loss of colour on the covers. A rare children's item with the famous illustrations by J Finnemore. More
Wellington: Valentine Productions. 1st Edition. 4to. Soft cover. 5pp, coloured printed card covers. A children's book of stories, poems, games and puzzles, put out by Disney, lithographed and published n New Zealand. c 1950s. One puzzle coloured in by a child. 37 x 24 cm. An very scarce, attractive copy..... More
London: Beadle, 1865. Sm 8vo. Hardcover. pp 117. 1st London edition. Quarter calf and marbled boards. An attractive copy of the very rare English edition of this early children's book. More
London: Philip, Son & Nephew, 1886. No Binding. A detailed colour map of New Zealand with insert maps of Norfolk Island and Polynesia. The whole mounted on wood and dissected into 10 pieces and contained in the original patterned cardboard box with pictorial label. 31 x 24 cm. A very..... More
London: Farquharson and Roberts, 1890. A Koch. 4to. Hardcover. 12 pp, chromolithographic plates and images. Some minor damage due to offsetting. Original pictorial stiff wrappers. One of the Farquharson English Series No. 4. published towards the of the 19th C. These books were published to encourage "entirely British work", and..... More
London: Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. Stansell, F. 1st Edition. Oblong 4to. Hardcover. pp. 25, complete with 12 chromolithographs. Illustrated boards. A children's book with bright illustrations of examples of bandsmen in full uniform with instruments, in the army in the late 19th C. The accompanying text gives a history..... More
1876. No Binding. 32 hand-coloured plates of children's and women's fashions from France in the 1870s and 80s. The pages come from the Journal des Demoiselles and the Magasin des Demoiselles, 52, Rue Laffitte, Paris. The bright hand-painted coloured lithographs show an array of what now seem quite exotic costumes..... More
London: Birn Brothers, 1951. 4to. Hardcover. Full page illustrations, interleaved by matching stories. Pictorial wrappers. Spine repaired. The author was popular comic illustrator of the time. More
1890. Hardcover. pp 12. Coloured illustrations throughout. Rhyming text. Coloured, pictorial card covers. 25 x 31 cm. Rare copy of a delightfully illustrated children's book c 1890s. More
London: Sansom, 1866. 1st Edition. 8vo. Hardcover. pp 48. 8 hand-coloured lithographs by Phiz. Original full mottled calf, gilt decorations on spine, all edges gilt. Lindon Meadows a pseudonym for Rev Charles Butler Greatrex. Very attractive copy. More
London: Methuen, 1925. Hardcover. In original leather binding with decorations of five figures on the spine and one on front board. An unusually good copy. More
