Two-day Books & Ephemera Auction

L L WEEDON, EVELYN FLETCHER & OTHERS: THE MODEL MENAGERIE WITH NATURAL HISTORY STORIES, London, E Nister, New York, E P Dutton [1896], 1st edition...

ROUTLEDGE'S NURSERY ALBUM FOR CHILDREN, London and New York, George Routledge & Sons, [1874], first edition, 72 kronheim colour printed plates as ...

A B C IN LIVING MODELS, [London], circa 1950, Bookano Series 'A', repaired tear, original pictorial boards, a little worn plus THE PICTURE ALPHABE...

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

DAVID BLAIR: READING EXERCISES FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS..., London for Longmans Rees Orme Brown and Green, 1826, new edition corrected, wood engrave...

CARL GILES: DAILY EXPRESS AND SUNDAY EXPRESS CARTOONS, [1945 first series], price unclipped, oblong 4to, original wraps a little worn ...[more]

THE HIGH CHAPARRAL ANNUAL: 1970-73, 4 vols, 4to, original pictorial laminated boards vgc plus EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS' TARZAN ANNUAL: 1970, 4to, orig...

ANON: THE BOOK OF BOATS, London, SPCK, 1849, 1st edition, 16mo, contemporary grained morocco gilt ...[more]

KATE GREENAWAY: ALMANACK FOR 1883: L George Routledge [1882], original cloth backed, yellow pictorial boards a little worn, schuster Ia, ALMANACK ...

SIDNEY SAGE, STAND-UP, THE TALE OF PETER RABBIT: Aeron, Ohio, The Saalfield Publishing Co [1934], STAND-UP COMPLETE AND NOT USED: original pictori...

EDWIN CHISHOLM (ED): THE JOLLY BOOK, London, Thomas Nelson [1919-20], 10th and 11th year, two vols both with 16 coloured plates as called for, art...

JOHN RONALD REUEL TOLKIEN: THE SILMARILLION, London, George Allen & Unwin, 1977, first edition, original cloth, spine gilt decorated and lettered,...

CHARLES KINGSLEY: THE WATER-BABIES, ill Warwick Goble, London McMillan, 1910 re-issue, 16 coloured plates as list, inscription Recto of frontis, o...

ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL: CRANFORD, ill Hugh Thomson, London McMillan, 1892, reprint, original pictorial cloth gilt, all edges gilt plus DAYS WI...

SIR JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE: PETER AND WENDY, ill F D Bedford, London, Hodder & Stoughton, [1911], first edition, illustrated title page, 12 plates a...

ENID BLYTON: HEYO BRER RABBIT! TALES OF BRER RABBIT AND HIS FRIENDS RETOLD FROM THE ORIGINAL, ill Kathleen Nixon, London, George Newnes, 1938, fir...

ENID BLYTON: THE MYSTERY OF THE SPITEFUL LETTERS, ill J Avvey, London, Methuen, 1946, first edition, original cloth, d/w, (small part losses and o...

ENID BLYTON: A BOOK OF NAUGHTY CHILDREN, ill Eileen Soper, London, Methuen, 1944, first edition, original cloth soiled, d/w, (small part losses an...

CLIVE STAPLES LEWIS: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER, ill Pauline Baynes, London, Geoffrey Bless, 1952, first edition, inscription verso of front f...

NORA CHESSON & OTHERS: FATHER TUCK'S ANNUAL, Ed Edric Vriedienburg Brundage, ill F Brundhee, Louis Wain & Others, London, Raphael Tuck, 1903, 6 ch...

THE ROBBER, A BRIDEGROOM, A FAIRY TALE FROM GRIMM, ill H J Owen, London, A & C Black, 1922, first edition, 8 mounted coloured plates as list, larg...

THE DANDY MONSTER COMIC, London, Manchester, Dundee, D C Thomson and Co, 1939 annual, the first Dandy annual, 4to, original pictorial boards worn,...

THE BEANO BOOK, [1954] ANNUAL, 4to, original pictorial boards, a little worn otherwise vgc ...[more]

WALTER DE LA MARE: THIS YEAR NEXT YEAR, ill Harold Jones, London, Faber & Faber, 1937, first trade edition, 4to, original pictorial boards a littl...

WALTER CRANE: FLORA'S FEAST A MASQUE OF FLOWERS, London, Cassell, 1889, first edition, 9pp, adverts at end, dated October 1888, inscription verso ...

THE RUSSIAN STORY BOOK..., retold by Richard Wilson, ill Frank C Pape, London, McMillan, 1916, first edition, 16 coloured plates as list, original...

RODNEY DALE AND LOUISE WAIN: THE MAN WHO DREW CATS, London, William Kimberley, 1968, first edition, original cloth ...[more]

THE MAGIC BEANO BOOK, [1950], annual, neat inscription on 'This Book Belongs to' panel, contents vgc, 4to, original pictorial boards a little worn...

EOIN COLFER: 3 titles: THE WISH LIST, London, Puffin Books, 2002, advance proof for first paperback edition, original wraps; ARTEMIS FOWL, London,...

MALO RENAULT (ILL): CHANSHONS DE FRANCE, Paris, Hachette, 1926, first edition, coloured ills including twelve full page folio, original cloth back...

REV CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON 'LEWIS' CARROLL: ALICE IN WONDERLAND, ill D R Sexton, London, John F Shaw [1933], first edition, eight coloured plate...

THE RUPERT BOOK [1948] annual, price unclipped, 4to, originall pictorial wraps plus THE NEW RUPERT BOOK, [1951] annual, price unclipped, inscripti...

RUPERT, 1978-79 annuals, both signed and inscribed by artist John Harrold on front paste downs, 4to, original pictorial boards, very fine conditio...

MORE ADVENTURES OF RUPERT, [1947] annual, price unclipped, pencil inscription on 'This book belongs to', 4to, original pictorial wraps worn + THE ...

W E JOHNS: BIGGLES DELIVERS THE GOODS, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1946, first edition, original cloth, BIGGLES BREAKS THE SILENCE, London, Hodder...

W E JOHNS: 3 titles: SOME MILESTONES OF AVIATION, London, John Hamilton [1935], 1st edition, inscription on ffep, original red cloth spine slightl...

'FLIGHT - LIEUTENANT': ACE HIGH, London, The Ace Publishing Company, [1938], four coloured plates as list, includes four W E Johns Stories, contem...

W E JOHNS: BIGGLES IN THE ORIENT, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1944, first edition, original cloth (some soiling), BIGGLES DELIVERS THE GOODS, Lond...

ANDREW LANG (ED): 3 Titles, THE BLUE POETRY BOOK, London, Longmans Green, 1891, first edition, twelve plates as list, original pictorial cloth, to...

LAURENCE DE BRUNHOFF: PICNIC AT BABAR'S, London, Methuen, 1950, first edition, folio, original cloth back, pictorial boards vgc ...[more]

ROBERT E MACK (ED): THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF ART AND SONG, ill R A Bell, London, Ernest Nister, [1890], first edition, sixteen full page coloured il...

LOUIS WAIN: SIX MOUNTED COLOURED LITHO PRINTS, Pub, Raphael, Tuck circa 1905, comprising Robinson Crusoe, Beauty and the Beast, The Forty Thieve...

RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN: THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL, ill Hugh Thomson, London, Hodder & Stoughton [1911], first trade edition, twenty five coloured ...

JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE: QUALITY STREET, ill Hugh Thomson, London, Hodder & Stoughton, [1913], first trade edition, twenty two tipped in coloured pla...

HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN: FAIRY TALES, ill Harry Clarke, London, George G Harrap, 1931, reprint, forty plates including fifteen coloured as list, 4...

PRINCESS BADOURA: A TALE FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS RETOLD BY LAURENCE HOUSMAN, ill E Dulac, [1913], first trade edition, ten tipped in coloured plat...

STORIES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS, ill E Dulac, London, Hodder & Stoughton, for Boots, circa 1923, twenty tipped in coloured plates as list, inscrip...

CLIFTON BINGHAM: FULL OF FUN, ill Louis Wain, London, Ernest Nister [1908], mounted coloured frontis, inscription on ffep, 4to, original cloth bac...

HENRY DRUMMOND: THE MONKEY THAT WOULD NOT KILL, ill Louis Wain, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1898, first edition, sixteen plates as list, inner joi...

MARY QUEEN CONSORT OF FERDINAND KING OF ROMANIA: PEEPING PANSY, ill Mabel Lucie Attwell, London, Hodder & Stoughton [1919], first edition, eight t...

RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN: THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL, ill Hugh Thomson, London, Hodder & Stoughton [1911], first trade edition, twenty five tipped in...

SIR JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE: PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS, ill A Rackham, London, Hodder & Stoughton [1912], first trade new edition, fifty tipped...

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A MIDSUMMER-NIGHTS DREAM, ill A Rackham, London, William Heinemann, 1919, new impression, (38 of 40), tipped in coloured plat...

SIR ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH (INTRODUCTION): ARTHUR RACKHAM'S BOOK OF PICTURES, ill A Rackham, London, William Heinemann, 1913, first trade edition, f...

FRIEDRICH HEINRICH KARL, FREIHERR DE LA MOTTE-FOUQUE: UNDINE, ill A Rackham, London, William Heinemann, 1920, new impression, fifteen tipped in co...

J & W GRIMM: LITTLE BROTHER AND LITTLE SISTER AND OTHER TALES, ill A Rackham, London, Constable, 1917, first trade edition, twelve tipped in colou...

HENRIK IBSEN: PEER GYNT, ill A Rackham, London, George G Harrap, 1936, first trade edition, twelve coloured plates as list, 4to, original cloth gi...

ARTHUR RACKHAM (ILL): SOME BRITISH BALLADS, London, Constable [1919], first trade edition, 16 tipped in coloured plates as list, inscription on fr...

WASHINGTON IRVING: RIP VAN WINKLE, ill A Rackham, London, William Heinemann, 1917, twenty four coloured plates as list, 4to, original pictorial bo...

RICHARD WAGNER: (2 Titles) THE RHINEGOLD AND THE VALKYRIE, ill A Rackham, London, William Heinemann, 1912, third impression, thirty four tipped in...