Two Day Books & Ephemera Auction

THE BOYS OWN ANNUAL, 1909-10, 1913-14, 1915-16, 1921-22, 1926-27, vols 32, 36, 38, 44, 49, 1st work, 14 (of 15) coloured plates including 4 foldin...

THE BOYS OWN ANNUAL, 1933-34 vol 56, 4 coloured plates as called for, 4to, original pictorial cloth, dust-wrapper, vgc

THE BOYS OWN ANNUAL, 1930-31, vol 53, 12 plates including 8 coloured as list, 4to, original pictorial cloth, dust-wrapper, vgc

OOR WULLIE, Glasgow, London, Dundee, D C Thomson & John Leng [1958] annual, 4to, original cloth backed pictorial boards, vgc ...[more]

MAURICE MAETERLINCK: HOURS OF GLADNESS, ill E J Detmold, London, George Allen, New York, Dodd Mead, 1912, 1st edition, 20 mounted coloured plates ...

RICHARD WAGNER: PARSIFAL, retold by T W Rolleston, ill Willy Pogany, London, Harrap [1912], 1st trade edition, 16 mounted coloured plates as calle...

TUCK'S ANNUAL WITH REALISTIC SURPRISE PANORAMAS, ill C E Brock, Gordon Robinson and others, London, Raphael Tuck [1933] annual, 3 coloured pop-up ...

THE BEANO BOOK, [1965] annual, 4to, original pictorial laminated boards, vgc + THE BEEZER BOOK [1965] annual, 4to, original pictorial laminated bo...

REYNARD THE FOX, A POEM IN TWELVE CANTOS, trans E W Holloway, ill Heinrich Leutemann, Dresden and Leipzig, A H Payne, London, W French [1852], 1st...

CLAUDE HOUGHTON: THE BEAST, ill Alfred E Kerr, Belfast, Quota Press, 1936 (250), 1st edition, numbered but not signed (signature page not present)...

JONATHAN SWIFT: GULLIVER'S TRAVELS INTO LILLIPUT AND BROBINGNAG, ill Jean de Bosschere, London, William Heinemann, 1920, 1st edition, 4 coloured p...

KATE GREENAWAY: UNDER THE WINDOW, London, George Routledge [1876], 1st edition, title page with small part loss at foot, inner joints split, 4to, ...

THE GREYFRIARS HOLIDAY ANNUAL 1920-30, 11 vols, 1920 annual title "The Holiday Annual", original cloth backed pictorial boards (11)

THE SKIPPER BOOK FOR BOYS, D C Thomson [1933, 1936, 1939], 3 vols, coloured frontis pieces, original pictorial boards worn + THE CHAMPION ANNUAL F...

THE GREYFRIARS HOLIDAY ANNUAL, 1931-41, 11 vols, original cloth backed pictorial boards, (11)

RUPERT ANNUAL, [1951-57], 1958-60, 10 vols, 4to, original pictorial boards, mainly vgc (10)

THE NEW RUPERT BOOK, [1946] annual, price unclipped, 4to, original pictorial wraps + MORE ADVENTURES OF RUPERT, [1947] annual, price unclipped, 4t...

RUPERT IN MORE ADVENTURES, [1944] annual, price unclipped, 4to, original pictorial wraps + A NEW RUPERT BOOK, [1945] annual, price unclipped, 4to,...

MORE ADVENTURES OF RUPERT [1942] annual, price unclipped, 4to, original pictorial wraps, vgc ...[more]

MORE RUPERT ADVENTURES, [1943] annual, price unclipped, 4to, original pictorial wraps, vgc

THE CAPTAIN, A MAGAZINE FOR BOYS AND "OLD BOYS", 1908, vol 19, includes P G WODEHOUSE: A COMPLETE STORY "THE LOST LAMBS", 1st thus, contemporary c...

JULES VERNE: IN SEARCH OF THE CASTAWAYS..., Philadelphia, J B Lippincott, 1873, original decorative blue cloth worn

RANDOLPH CALDECOTT: PICTURE BOOKS, 6 titles in one, all pub George Routledge & Sons, ND, comprising RIDE A COCK-HORSE - HEY-DIDDLE-DIDDLE - A FROG...

GEOFFREY WILLANS: 3 titles: DOWN WITH SKOOL, ill Ronald Searle, London, Max Parrish, 1953, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper; WHIZZ F...

RONALD SEARLE: LES TRES RICHES HEURES DE MRS MOLE, Church Hanborough Artist's Choice editions, 2011 (156), 1st edition, special copy, numbered and...

NORAH MARY EDMONDSON: THE LAVENDER GARDEN AND OTHER STORIES, foreword Beatrix Potter, ill Charles T Howard, London and New York, Frederick Warne, ...

SIR JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE: PETER AND WENDY, ill F D Bedford, London, Hodder & Stoughton, [1911], 1st edition, pictorial title and 12 plates as call...

ENID BLYTON: THE ISLAND OF ADVENTURE, ill Stuart Tresilian, London, MacMillan, 1944, 1st edition, contemporary inscription on front free end paper...

REV CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON "LEWIS CARROLL": 2 titles: ALICE IN WONDERLAND, THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK, ill, John Tennie...

W E JOHNS "WILLIAM EARLE": MOSSYFACE, A ROMANCE OF THE AIR, Hertfordshire, John Trendler & Norman Wright, 1994 (300), de luxe edition, original cl...

W E JOHNS: 5 titles: BIGGLES TAKES A HOLIDAY, 1949, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper; BIGGLES FOLLOWS ON, 1952, 1st edition, original clo...

SIR JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE: PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS, ill A Rackham, London, Hodder & Stoughton, circa 1930, 16 coloured plates (6 detached),...

FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT: THE SECRET GARDEN, ill Charles Robinson, London, William Heinemann, 1911, 1st edition, 8 coloured plates as list, 6pp adv...

EVELYN EVERETT-GREEN: 8 titles; SMOULDERING FIRES, ill E H Shepard, London, Edinburgh, Dublin and New York, Thomas Nelson [1905], 1st edition, 6 c...

A P HERBERT: THE WATER GIPSIES, London, Methuen, 1930, 1st edition, 8pp adverts at end, original cloth, dust wrapper (tiny part losses) + MARY NOR...

ALAN ALEXANDER MILNE: THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER, ill E H Shepard, London, Methuen, 1928, 1st edition, original pictorial cloth gilt, dulled with so...

ALAN ALEXANDER MILNE: WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG, ill E H Shepard, London, Methuen, 1924, 6th edition, original pictorial cloth bright gilt

REV CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON "LEWIS CARROLL": THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK, ill Henry Holiday, London, MacMillan, 1876, 16th thou, page 83 "baker", fr...

FRIEDRICH HEINRICH KARL LE MOTTE-FOUQUE: UNDINE, ill A Rackham, London, William Heinemann, New York, Doubleday Page & Co, 1925, 15 tipped in colou...

WALT DISNEY: MICKEY MOUSE ANNUAL, London, Dean & Sons [1935], coloured frontis, contents clean, contemporary inscription on front free end paper, ...

GREGOR IAN SMITH: THE CRUISE OF THE "MARJERY DAW", Leicester, Edmund Ward [1946], 1st edition, oblong, 4to, original cloth backed pictorial boards...

HONOR ELWES: SLAMINAYRIAF STORIES, London, Clement Ingleby [1923], 1st edition, 9 photographic plates as list, errata slip tipped in, uncut, origi...

MARY ALICIA OWEN: OLD RABBIT THE VOODOO AND OTHER SORCERERS, ill Juliette A Owen and Louis Wain, London, T Fisher Unwin, 1893, 1st edition, fronti...

JOHN RONALD REUEL TOLKIEN: THE HOBBIT, London, George Allen & Unwin, 1937, 2nd impression, 4 coloured plates and one black and white plate as call...

ANON: SUNBEAMS PICTURES AND STORIES FOR LITTLE FOLK, ill T B Stoney & others, London, Glasgow and Dublin, Blackie & Sons [1902], 1st edition, colo...

ROBERT MICHAEL BALLANTYNE: DEEP DOWN, A TALE OF THE CORNISH MINES, London, James Nisbet & Co, 1869, 1st edition, added engraved vignette title, 5 ...

ROBERT MICHAEL BALLANTYNE: MARTIN RATTLER OR A BOY'S ADVENTURES IN THE FORESTS OF BRAZIL, London, T Nelson & Sons, 1858, 1st edition, 4 engraved p...

MAYNE REID: THE YOUNG YAGERS OR A NARRATIVE OF HUNTING ADVENTURES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA, ill William Harvey, London, David Bogue, 1857, 1st edition, ...

JULIANA HORATIA EWING: A SOLDIER'S CHILDREN AND FIVE OTHER TALES IN VERSE, ill R Andre, London, SFPCK [1888], 1st edition, 172pp, oblong, small 4t...

ENID BLYTON: 14 Mary Mouse strip book titles, all pub Brockhampton Press; HURRAH FOR MARY MOUSE, [1949], 1st edition; WE DO LOVE MARY MOUSE, [1950...

JOHN RUSKIN (ED): DAME WIGGINS OF LEE AND HER SEVEN WONDERFUL CATS..., ill Kate Greenaway, Orpington Kent, George Allen, 1885, 1st edition, origin...

RICHARD DOYLE: THE STORY OF JACK AND THE GIANTS, London, Griffith & Farran, 1858, new edition, added hand coloured title and 7 plates as called fo...

KATHLEEN AINSLIE: 2 titles: AT GREAT-AUNT MARTHA'S, London, Castell Bros [1904], 1st edition, 16 full page coloured ills, oblong, original pictori...

E F HERBERT: THE STORY OF BLOSSOM, THE BRAVE BALLOON, ill Philip Zec, London, Frederick Muller, 1941, 1st edition, original pictorial wraps

BEATRIX POTTER: 3 titles: THE TALE OF PETER RABBIT, [1903], 4th printing, page 51 "shed big tears", 16mo, original dark green boards, pictorial pa...

MME DE NOUVRAY: ROBINSON DU JEUNE AGE OU AVENTURES LES PLUS CURIEUSES DE ROBINSON CRUSOE, Paris, circa 1859, engraved vignette title, 6 plates on ...

A NEW HIEROGLYPHIC BIBLE, Liverpool, E Willmer, London, Thorp & Burch, circa 1828, hand coloured vignette title, some text ills, hand coloured, fi...

"JOHN THE GIANT KILLER": FOOD FOR THE MIND OR A NEW RIDDLE-BOOK..., London, Leadenhall Press [1900], facsimile reprint of the 1778 edition, Forgot...

[ELIZABETH TURNER]: THE COWSLIP OR MORE CAUTIONARY STORIES IN VERSE, London, Leadenhall Press [1899], facsimile reprint of the 1811 edition, Forgo...

ANON: THE COURTSHIP, MARRIAGE AND PIC-NIC DINNER OF COCK ROBIN AND JENNY WREN WITH THE DEATH AND BURIAL OF POOR COCK ROBIN, London for A K Newman,...