Two Day Book Auction

THE BOYS OWN ANNUAL, 1917-20 vols 40-42, all plates present but some misbound, 4to, contemporary cloth + SIR JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE: PETER PAN AND W...

RUDYARD KIPLING: THE JUNGLE BOOK - THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK, London and New York, MacMillan, 1895, 1895, August reprint, December reprint, 2 vols, 1...

JOSEPH CUNDALL: THE PLAYMATE, London, 1847, 6 coloured plates for May-October, original cloth backed boards, rebacked preserving original spine, n...

ERNEST SETON-THOMPSON: 2 titles: THE WILD ANIMAL PLAY FOR CHILDREN..., London, David Nutt, 1900, 1st edition, original pictorial cloth soiled; WIL...

EUSTACE FULCRAND BOSANQUET "S ASHTON": PEGGY AND JILL, A DAY-DREAM, ill Dorothy Furniss, London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, [1902], 1...

JAMES ROOSE-EBANS: ODD & THE GREAT BEAR - ELSEWHERE & THE GATHERING OF THE CLOWNS - THE SECRET OF TIPPITY WITCHIT - THE LOST TREASURE OF WALES, In...

HEINRICH HOFFMANN: THE ENGLISH STRUWWELPETER, Frankfurt and London, circa 1875, 4to, original card wraps v worn, mixed condition + HAROLD BEGBIE: ...

PATTIE PRICE: THE AFRIKANER LITTLE BOY, ill Hume-Henderson, London, Methuen, 1935, 1st edition, later signed and inscribed, 8pp Afrikaans lyrics l...

JOHN RONALD RUEUL TOLKIEN: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING - THE TWO TOWERS - THE RETURN OF THE KING, London, George Allen & Unwin, 1966, 2nd edition, ...

CLIVE STAPLES LEWIS: PRINCE CASPIAN, THE RETURN TO NARNIA, ill Pauline Baynes, London, Geoffrey Bles, 1951, 1st edition, original cloth, d/w (smal...

EDWARD HUGESSEN KNATCHBULL-HUGESSEN: 2 titles: HIGGLEDY-PIGGLEDY OR STORIES FOR EVERYBODY AND EVERYBODY'S CHILDREN, London, Longmans, Green & Co, ...

PADRAIC COLUM: THE BOY APPRENTICED TO AN ENCHANTER, ill Dugald Stuart Walker, New York, The MacMillan Co, 1920, 1st edition, original pictorial cl...

EUGENE FIELD: LULLABY-LAND, SONGS OF CHILDHOOD, ed Kenneth Grahame, ill Charles Robinson, London, John Lane, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons [18...

JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL: POPULAR RHYMES AND NURSERY TALES..., London, John Russell Smith, 1849, 1st edition, lacks pp 265-268, 12mo, original blin...

MRS BARBARA HOFLAND: THE HISTORY OF A MERCHANT'S WIDOW AND HER YOUNG FAMILY, London, printed for A K Newman & Co, [1857], new edition, added engra...

GEORGE BURDER: EARLY PIETY OR MEMOIRS OF CHILDREN EMINENTLY RELIGIOUS..., London, printed by Cave & Co for The Religious Tract Society and sold by...

EDWARD ARDIZZONE: 2 titles: THE YOUNG ARDIZZONE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FRAGMENT, New York, The MacMillan Co, 1970, 1st edition, original cloth, d/w; ...

EDWARD ARDIZZONE: 2 titles: LUCY BROWN AND MR GRIMES, London, The Bodley Head, 1970, revised and redrawn edition, original pictorial boards, d/w; ...

Box: EDWARD ARDIZZONE interest including CECIL DAY-LEWIS: CHRISTMAS EVE, London, Faber & Faber, [1954], Ariel poem, original wraps, original envel...

J B PHILLIPS (TRANS): ST LUKE'S LIFE OF CHRIST, ill Edward Ardizzone, London, Collins, 1956, 1st edition, original cloth, d/w (price clipped) + W...

JAMES REEVES: THE JAMES REEVES STORY BOOK, ill Edward Ardizzone, London, Books for Children by arrangement with William Heinemann, 1978, original ...

EXPLOITS OF DON QUIXOTE RETOLD BY JAMES REEVES, ill Edward Ardizzone, London, Blackie, 1959, 1st edition,signed on half title original pictorial c...

CECIL DAY-LEWIS: THE OTTERBURY INCIDENT, ill Edward Ardizzone, London, Putnam, 1948, 1st edition, original cloth, d/w (small part losses)

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

JULES VERNE: ABANDONED (THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND PART II), trans W H G Kingston, London, Samson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1876, 2nd edition...

EDWARD LEAR: MORE NONSENSE, PICTURES, RHYMES, BOTANY ETC, London, Robert John Bush, 1872 [1874], 1st edition, comprising Nonsense Botany (14pp), O...

J K ROWLING: 3 titles: HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX, London, Bloomsbury, 2003, 1st edition, 2 copies, original pictorial boards, d/w;...

J K ROWLING: HARRY POTTER GIFT SET COMPRISING HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE - CHAMBER OF SECRETS - PRISONER OF ASKABAN - GOBLET OF FIRE...

J K ROWLING: THE HARRY POTTER BOXED SET COMPRISING HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE - CHAMBER OF SECRETS - PRISONER OF ASKABAN - GOBLET OF...

CHRISTINA ROSETTI: GOBLIN MARKET, ill A Rackham, London, George G Harrap, 1939, 1st softback edition, coloured frontis, original pictorial wraps, ...

CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI: ERAGON, London, Doubleday, 2004, 1st edition, signed, original bookmark loosely inserted, original cloth, d/w, vgc

G P TAYLOR: SHADOWMANCER, London, Faber & Faber, 2003, 1st "Special" edition, signed, original cloth, d/w, vgc ...[more]

EOIN COLFER: 7 titles: ARTEMIS FOWL, London, Viking, 2001, 2nd printing, original cloth, d/w; ARTEMIS FOWL THE ARCTIC INCIDENT, London, Puffin, 20...

EOIN COLFER: 10 titles: ARTEMIS FOWL THE ARCTIC INCIDENT, London, Puffin, 2002, 1st edition, original cloth, d/w; ARTEMIS FOWL THE ETERNITY CODE, ...

KATHLEEN HALE: 2 titles: ORLANDO (THE MARMALADE CAT) KEEPS A DOG, London, Country Life [1949], 1st edition, folio, original cloth backed pictorial...

HORACE J KNOWLES: PEEPS INTO FAIRYLAND, London, Thornton Butterworth, 1924, 1st edition, 6 coloured plates as called for, School prize label on fr...

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX: POEMS OF PASSION AND PLEASURE, ill Dudley Tennant, London, Gay & Hancock, [1912] (500), numbered (69) and signed by author an...

GEORGETTE AGNEW: LETS PRETEND, ill E H Shepard, London, J Saville & Co, 1927, (160) (150), 1st edition, numbered (118), and signed by author and a...

FRANCES H LOW: QUEEN VICTORIA'S DOLLS, ill Alan Wright, London, George Newnes, 1894, 1st edition, coloured frontis, full page coloured ills and te...

SIR JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE: PETER AND WENDY, ill F D Bedford, London, Hodder & Stoughton [1931], frontis and 12 full page ills, original pictorial c...

WILLIAM DANA ORCUTT: THE PRINCESS CALLISTO AND OTHER TALES OF THE FAIRIES, ill Harriette Amsden, London and Edinburgh, T C & E C Jack, 1905, 1st e...

MARJERY WILLIAMS BIANCO: POOR SECO, ill A Rackham, New York, George H Doran, 1925, 1st trade edition, 1st issue, pictorial end papers, 7 coloured ...

WASHINGTON IRVING: RIP VAN WINKLE, ill A Rackham, London, William Heinemann, 1910, 51 tipped in coloured plates including one double page as calle...

PETER ASBJORNSEN & JORGEN ENGEDRETSEN MOE: EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOON, ill Kay Nielson, New York, George H Doran, ND, 25 coloured plates...

LOUIS WAIN'S ANNUAL 1914, London, John F Shaw, 6 mounted coloured plates, 4to, original pictorial wraps worn, lacks backstrip

CHARLES LUDWIDGE DODGSON "LEWIS CARROLL": ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND, ill John Tenniel, Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press, 1977, origin...

SIR JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE: PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS, ill A Rackham, London, Hodder & Stoughton [1912], new edition, 50 tipped in coloured pl...

BEATRIX POTTER: THE TALE OF PETER RABBIT, ill Virginia Albert, New York, The Saalfield Publishing Co, 1916, pirated edition, coloured title, 11 co...

ALAN ALEXANDER MILNE: 2 titles: WINNIE-THE-POOH, ill E H Shepard, London, Methuen, 1926, 1st edition, contemporary inscription on first blank, som...

TED HUGHES: 2 titles: THE DREAM FIGHTER AND OTHER CREATION TALES, London, Faber & Faber, 1995, 1st edition, signed on title page, further signed a...

ENID BLYTON: THE ISLAND OF ADVENTURE, London, MacMillan, 1944, 1st edition, original bright pictorial cloth, d/w (price clipped and part losses)

ENID BLYTON: THE CASTLE OF ADVENTURE, London, MacMillan, 1946, 1st edition, inscription on ffep, original bright pictorial cloth, d/w (part losses)

ENID BLYTON: THE VALLEY OF ADVENTURE, London, MacMillan, 1947, 1st edition, original bright pictorial cloth, d/w (small part losses)

ENID BLYTON: THE SEA OF ADVENTURE, London, MacMillan, 1948, 1st edition, contemporary inscription on ffep, original pictorial cloth (some toning t...

ENID BLYTON: THE MOUNTAIN OF ADVENTURE, London, MacMillan, 1949, 1st edition, original bright pictorial cloth, d/w, (very minor losses), otherwise...

ENID BLYTON: THE SHIP OF ADVENTURE, London, MacMillan, 1950, 1st edition, original bright pictorial cloth, d/w (minor losses)

ENID BLYTON: THE CIRCUS OF ADVENTURE, London, MacMillan, 1952, 1st edition, original bright pictorial cloth, d/w (minor losses)

ENID BLYTON: THE RIVER OF ADVENTURE, London, MacMillan, 1955, 1st edition, original bright pictorial cloth, d/w, vgc

ENID BLYTON: 2 titles: THE SECRET SEVEN ADVENTURE, Leicester, Brockhampton Press, 1950, 1st edition, contemporary inscription on ffep, original pi...

ENID BLYTON: 4 titles: FIVE HAVE A WONDERFUL TIME, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1952, 1st edition, inscription on half title, original cloth, d/w (...