Books & Ephemera

Five children's & illustrated titles, including 'The Secret Garden', illustrated Charles Robinson, 1913, 8 coloured plates as called for, small 4t...

A.A. Milne: 'The House at Pooh Corner', illustrated E.H. Shepard, London, Methuen, 1928, 1st edition, full page and in text black & white illustra...

A.A. Milne: 'Now We Are Six', illustrated E.H. Shepard, London, Methuen, 1927, 1st edition, full page and in text black & white illustrations thro...

A.A. Milne: 'Winnie-The-Pooh', illustrated E.H. Shepard, London, Methuen, 1926, 1st edition, full page and in text black & white illustrations thr...

Mary Tourtel: 'Margot the Midget and Little Bear's Christmas', London, Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd, [1922], 1st edition, 68pp, illustrations througho...

Walter Crane: 'Flora's Feast. A Masque of Flowers', London, Cassell, 1899, 1st edition, 40 leaves of colour illustrations and letter-press by Walt...

Walter Crane: 'Mrs Mundi - At Home - The Terrestrial Ball - R.S.V.P.', London, Marcus Ward, [nd], 2nd edition (1st edition 1875, no date given for...

James Stafford Ransome (1860-1931), freelance journalist and author and founder of the British Engineers' Association, collection of satirical wor...

Gerard Hoffnung (1925-1959), artist, cartoonist, illustrator & musician, collection of titles including some signed/with original pen & ink cartoo...

(Pop-up book) Doris Davey after Helen Waite: 'My Dolly's Home', London, Arts and General Publishers, [1921], 1st edition, 12pp letterpress + 52 fi...

(Pop up) Vojtech Kubasta: 'Tip + Top Build a Motorcar', London, Bancroft & Co, 1961, 1st edition, six double page colour illustrated pop up scenes...

'The Dandy Book', seven Dandy annuals 1953-1959 consecutive, all published D.C. Thomson, internally leaves with some usual toning, but else leaves...

'The Beano Book', six Beano annuals 1953, 1955-59 consecutive, all published D.C. Thomson, internally leaves with some usual toning, but else leav...

Eleven 1950's children's annuals, comprising five Lion annuals 1955-1959 & six various Superman annuals and Superman Adventure Books 1954-1960, in...

'Rupert Annual 1953', internally leaves clean/VGC, no names, price intact, original pictorial paper covered boards (v small loss head of spine, sl...

Collection of seventeen 1930's small format children's books, all edited by Mrs Herbert Strang and in the Tippenny-Tuppenny, Teeny-Weeny & Henny-P...

(Beatrix Potter) Six Jig Saw puzzles based on characters from Beatrix Potter's books: Peter Rabbit, Jeremy Fisher, Squirrel Nutkin, Tom Kitten, Ta...

J.R.R. Tolkien: 'The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King', London, George Allen & Unwin, Novemb...

J.R.R. Tolkien: 'The Hobbit', London, George Allen & Unwin, 1955, 7th impression overall, colour frontis, full page black & white illustrations, m...

Enid Blyton, 'Secret Seven', complete set of the 15 adolescent detective series novels, all 1st editions, 1st impressions, all published Brockhamp...

A collection earlier 20th Century children's books etc, including Beatrix Potter: 'The Tale of Little Pig Robinson', London, Frederick Warne, 1930...

Late 19th/early 20th Century pictorial cloth, juveniles etc, including J. Thomson: 'Public and Private Life of Animals', illustrated J.J. Grandvil...

Tove Jansson, 2 titles: 'The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My', London, Ernest Benn, 1953, 1st UK edition, 24 colour illustrated pages, cut...

Dr. Seuss [i.e. Theodore Seuss Geisel]: 'The King's Stilts', London, Hamish Hamilton, 1942, 1st UK edition, illustrated leaves throughout, 4to, or...

Charles Kingsley: 'The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby', illustrated J. Noel Paton, London and Cambridge, 1863, 1st edition, without 'l...

Andrew Lang, 3 titles: ‘The Green Fairy Book’, London, Longmans, 1892, 1st edition, frontispiece plus numerous other black & white full page plate...

Two titles illustrated W. Heath Robinson, comprising ‘Mediaeval Stories by Professor H. Shuck, translated from the Swedish by W.F. Harvey’, London...

Ethel Jackson Morris: ‘The White Butterfly and other Fairy Tales’, Melbourne, C.J. DeGaris Publishing House, 1921, limited edition, (91/250), numb...

Two early 20th Century titles designed, written out and illuminated by Alberto Sangorski (1862-1932), ‘The Sermon on the Mount’, 1911, and ‘Prayer...

Louis Wain (illustrated): ‘Full of Fun’, London, Ernest Nister, c.1912, tipped in coloured frontis + black & white illustrations throughout by Lou...

Henry Rider Haggard: ‘She: A History of Adventure’, London, Longmans, 1887, 1st edition, 1st issue (with all misprints), 2 chromolitho plates, [2]...

J.M. Barrie: ‘Peter Pan and Wendy’, illustrated F.D. Bedford, Henry Frowde; OUP; H & S, [1915], authorised school edition, 8 black & white plates ...

G.E. Farrow, 3 titles: 'The Escape of the Mullingong, a Zoological Nightmare', illustrated Gordon Browne, London, Blackie, 1907, 1st edition, fron...

Peter Newell: ‘The Slant Book’, New York, Harper & Brothers, 1910, 1st edition, 22 full page illustrations as called for, some leaves with closed ...

William Strang: ‘A Book of Giants’, London, The Unicorn Press, 1898, 1st edition, wood engraved title page + 12 full page woodcut ills. by William...

Richard Doyle (illustrated): ‘The Story of Jack and the Giants’, London, Cundall & Addey, 1851, 35 engraved illustrations by Doyle engraved by the...

Donald Hall: 'Andrew the Lion Farmer', illustrated Ann Reason, London, Methuen, 1961, 1st UK edition, [46]pp, leaves illustrated throughout, illus...

Michael Bond: 'A Bear Called Paddington', illustrated Peggy Fortnum, Collins, 1958, 1st edition, 128pp, black & white ills. throughout, original c...

Bret Harte: 'An Episode At Fiddletown and Other Sketches', London, George Routledge, [1873], xix,137,[1]pp + [4]pp ads at end, final ad leaf with ...

Anna Sewell: 'Black Beauty: his Grooms and Companions. The Autobiography of a Horse', London, Jarrold and Sons, [1877], 1st edition, wood engraved...

Erle Wilson: 'The Green Frog and Other Far-Away Stories', illustrated Ernest Aris, London, W & R Chambers, [1939], 1st edition, full page and in t...

Charles Vildrac: 'Les Lunettes du Lion', illustrated Edy Legrand, Paris, Paul Hartmann, 1932, frontis, title page, numerous full page and in text ...

First editions of the first four Puffin Story Books for children, comprising Barbara Euphan Todd: 'Worzel Gummidge, or the Scarecrow of Scatterbro...

Various 19th Century children's/juvenile titles, including Lewis Carroll [i.e. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]: 'Alice's Abenteuer im Wunderland', illus...

Lewis Carroll [i.e. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', illustrated John Tenniel, London, Macmillan, 1869, 14th thousan...

Percy Billinghurst (ill.): 'A Hundred Fables of La Fontaine', London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1900, viii,202pp + [2]pp ads at end, profusely il...

A collection of mainly mid 20th Century children's books, including C.S. Lewis: 'Prince Caspian The Return to Narnia', L, Bles, 1957 reprint, colo...

Patrick Moore: ‘Crater of Fear’, London, Burke, 1962, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper

Mrs Burden: 'The Three Baskets: or, how Henry, Richard, and Charles were Occupied while Papa was Away', London, Thomas Dean, [circa 1848], 7 hand-...

(Anonymous early moralising children's book) 'Scripture Characters, by a Parent for His Children. Bad People.', London, William Darton, [c.1810], ...

W.B. Yeats: 'The Celtic Twilight', London, Bullen, 1902, 2nd edition, portrait frontis, ex Repton School Library, original cloth gilt (slightly wo...

Lord Dunsany, Edward Plunkett, 4 titles: ‘The Book of Wonder. A Chronicle of Little Adventures at the End of the World’, illustrated S.H. Sime, Lo...

Alfred Perceval Graves: 'The Irish Fairy Book', London, T. Fisher Unwin, [1909], 1st edition, colour frontis plus numerous full page and in text i...

Edith Somerville & Martin Ross [i.e. Violet Martin], Irish novelists, collection of 20 titles, including 'A Patrick's Day Hunt', London, Archibald...

George MacDonald, 8 titles: ‘A Rough Shaking’, L, Blackie, 1891, [1890], 1st edition, 12 full page black & white plates by W. Parkinson as called ...

Greville MacDonald, 2 titles: ‘Billy Barnicoat A Fairy Romance for Young and Old’, illustrated Francis D. Bedford, London, George Allen, 1922, 1st...

Adrian Bell, Suffolk Trilogy, comprising 'Silver Ley', London, Cobden-Sanderson, 1931, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper, 'The Cherry...

Adrian Bell, countryside, etc, collection of 21 titles, including 'Men and the Fields', illustrated John Nash, London, Batsford, 1939, 1st edition...

Adrian Bell, countryside, etc, collection of 21 titles, including Suffolk Trilogy 'Corduroy - Silver Ley - The Cherry Tree', 1951, Country Book Cl...

Adrian Bell, countryside, etc, collection of 21 titles, including 'Apple Acre', London, 1942, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper, 'The Open...