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Click here to subscribeBlyton, Enid. Rumble and Chuff, illustrated by David Walsh, published by Juvenile Productions Ltd, 1958, illustrated paper boards, 4to; My Brer Rabbit Book, illustrated by Grace Lodge, published by Purnell, c. 1956, 4to; Ramble with Uncle Nat, illustrated by Nora S Unwin, published by the Nat Magazine Co., c. 1950, dustwrapper, 4to. (3)
Blyton, Enid. The Enid Blyton Book of Bunnies; The Book of Fairies; The Book of Brownies, the last two in dustwrappers, illustrated by K Nixon, Ernest Aris and Lola Onslow with map drawn by E B, published by G Newnes, c. 1930-4, several line illustrations prettily coloured in, inscription to the “Fairies” on endpaper dated 1934, illustrated paper boards, 4to. (3)
Cradock, Mrs H. C. & Appleton, Honor C. A collection of early-20th century Josephine and associated titles including Where the Dolls Lived, The Big Book of Josephine, Josephine Goes Travelling, Josephine’s Christmas Party, Peggy & Joan (last 3 in wrappers, remainder in cloth or paper boards), published by Blackie & Son, c. 1918-25, 4to, most good/vg (17)
Blyton, Enid. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. The Bird Book + The Animal Book, colour plates by Roland Green, Warwick Reynolds and L R Brightwell, 1926/7, illustrated paper boards, light wear, 4to. Inscribed in ink by author, “Tina and Margaret with much love from the author”, and, “Tina and Margaret Norris with much love from the author”, both signed at top of half-titles (2)
ENID BLYTON AUTOGRAPH LETTERS. A small group of 17 SIGNED letters to Nicholas Bebbington, one-time Chief Constable in the Cambridge Police and later author with Blandford Press. Dates ranging from 1947-1953, many with handwritten envelopes, one on card, one typed with signature. The correspondence relates to safety and road safety, and a decline in injuries in 1953, something she discusses in a new magazine, as well as Safety First, a colouring book that she’s working on (published version featured in this sale). In one letter, she discusses W E Johns and Richmal Crompton doing safety books. Tog. w/ The Wholesale Corruption of Children’s Minds in the USA, “they read the cartoon strips as adults in the 96-page newspapers and then throw it away without reading the news.” A total of 25 pieces of correspondence & envelopes, all but one handwritten (25)NB. Nicholas Bebbington is believed to be the model for Inspector Jenks in the mystery books
Blyton, Enid. SIGNED letter and H Van Beek Noddy postcard addressed to Miss Joyce Johnson, 1950-52, discussing the new cover for a book, “The 3 Golly---s”, and describing how she has received 500 letters, hence the short card. In the 1-page letter she states, “as you know, I only write to children” (2)
Blyton, Enid. ASSOCIATION COPY. Noddy in Toyland, the book of her famous play, published by Sampson Low, n.d., c. 1935. A near fine copy in a repaired dustwrapper, featuring a typed letter from Mrs Valerie Monahan whose son had it from Margery Waters [Enid Blyton’s sister-in-law], the letter, dated 1984, to Mrs J Sesemann. 4to.
Blyton, Enid. SIGNED COPY. Nature Lovers Book, published by Evans Bros, 1944. Fine copy in dustwrapper, 4to. Signed and presented to Mary Thomson, “With best wishes from Enid Blyton”, and, added in pencil on 23 June 1944, “given me when she came to thank us for having taken in her friend when a V1 bomb destroyed her home”
Blyton, Enid. SIGNED COPY. Comic Movies Flicker Book. The Story of Red Riding Hood told in moving pictures, published by Books & Pictures Publishers Ltd, Clarendon Rd, London, W11. Small oblong soft card booklet, rusted staple binding covers, very clean as are the contents. Signed on inside cover to the side of 1st page (no title page, not missing, printed without one), “Janet, love from Enid Blyton”*All signed books in this collection have been books written, edited or connected to Enid Blyton. This could potentially be a cheaply produced, unrecorded Enid Blyton book, though no association came to light when researching
Blyton, Enid. ASSOCIATION COPY, SIGNED by Vita Sackville West. Here Comes Noddy Again, illustrated by H van Beek, published by Sampson Low Ltd, fine in near fine dustwrappers, small slim 8vo, West’s signature in the ‘Belongs To …’ box, tog. w/ another Vita Sackville West book, Nursery Rhymes, 1950 (2)
Bingham, Clifton. The Wangleboo Book, colour litho illustrations by John Hassall, published by Siegle Hill & Co, c. 1905, paper boards, pasted illustration on board damaged; Emanuel, Walter. The Zoo, illustrated by John Hassall, published by Alston Rivers, c. 1908, paper boards handled, large 4to, and two others on/by J Hassall, various sizes (4)
Blyton, Enid. The Famous Five Special, 1959 in dustwrapper, 2 copies; The Famous Five Big Book, dustwrapper, 1964, all 1st editions; presentation copy of The Island of Adventure, 1982 TV Series, volume with letter to Ms Sesemann & others, inc. stamps, coat pins, paperbacks; Tony Summerfield, 1922-42, illustrated bibliography; VHS tape of the TV series, numbered 109/500 only, and others, a small qty
Tarrant, Margaret W. The Birthday Book, mounted colour plates, c. 1930; The Nursery Rhyme Book, 1951; In Wheelabout and Cockalone, by Grace Rhys, London, 1919; The Water Babies, a Fairy Tale for Land Babies, by C Kingsley, published by J M Dent, London, dustwrapper, 1927, 3rd thus, and 7 others illustrated by this artist, c. 1919-51 (10)
Barker, Cicely Mary. Flower Fairy books inc. Spring, Summer, Autumn, Groundsel and Necklaces, Fairies of the Trees, of the Garden, of the Wayside, Alphabet, plus 2 others without dustwrappers, and 2 copies of Fairies of the Flower Trees and Flower Fairies Collected Edition, in dustwrappers, n.d., c. 1955, tog. w/ a Jessie M King illustrated booklet with an ink inscription, “Cicely Mary Barker, Her Book”, in a child’s hand, c. 1907, and others, various sizes (22)
Greenaway, Kate. A Day in a Child’s Life, Published by G. Routledge, large slim 4to; The Queen of the Pirate Isle, by Bret Harte, 1st issue with gilt edges, 1886; The “Little Folks” Painting Book, frontispiece has been neatly hand coloured, all clear internally, soft card covers, c. 1900, and two others, all illustrated by KG, various sizes (5)
Pitman, Norman Hinsdale. A Chinese Wonder Book, colour plates, published by Dent, London, 1909, oblong 8vo; Princess Elizabeth Gift Book in torn wrappers, various contributors, c. 1931-32, 4to; The Royal Children of English History with colour chromolitho plates, a Raphael Tuck book by Edith Nesbit, c. 1903, glazed paper boards, 4to, and various other illustrated books (24)
The Looking-Glass Annual, illustrated with 3-D imaging lens in envelope on FFEP, Middleton Publications, c. 1940; Rippey, S Cory & Wright, Blanche Fisher. The Goody-Naughty Book, reverse reading for good and naughty children, published by Rand McNally, USA, 1913, both clean copies with light wear, 4to (2)
Cole, Carol Cassidy. Velvet Paws and Shiny Eyes, with 8 stand-alone figures of various woodland animals and birds, each in its own small envelope, these by Leo L Stead, other illustrations by Dudley Ward, published by Hodder & Stoughton, c. 1922; The Lovesome Book for Little Folk, an activity/games book, Epworth Press, c. 1935, dustwrapper, 4to, and 2 other pop-up books, c. 1930 (4)
Greenaway, Kate. Book of Games, colour litho illustrations, glazed paper boards, some foxing to endpapers, back board at corner a little damage, otherwise a bright copy, c. 1891; Under the Window, paper boards, cloth spine and corners, some foxing at prelim pages, good+, c. 1905, and two others (4)
Pop-Up & Moveable. Little Pets Panorama, 4 chromolitho 3-D pop-up plates, published by E Nister, London, 1896; Come and Go, a Novel Book for children, 6 chromolitho scenes with string-pulls to control movements of vehicles & characters, several not working, c. 1899; The Children’s Holiday Coach, which consists of one large coach/cricket scene, 3-D with large coach and 29 figures in original card fold-out covers, oblong folio (3)
Weatherly, Fred E. More Pleasant Surprises, 9 moveable dissolving scenes controlled by tabs, all appear to be working but 4 tabs are later, hinges loose, contents shaken, glazed illustrated litho printed paper boards, clean with edge wear and a little surface loss, large folio, tog. w/ Here and There, a Book of Transformation Pictures, c. 1897, amateur repairs to dissolving scenes, 4to, sold with all faults (2)
Nister, Ernest. Vanishing Pictures, dissolving picture book, 6 chromolitho scenes with tabs that rotate 270 degrees to reveal hidden pictures beneath, all working, vg, no repairs, chromolitho illustrated paper boards, near fine, most of original flimsy dustwrapper present, rare in this condition, 4to, c. 1890
Carroll, Lewis. Alice in Wonderland, “come to life” panorama edition, double-page pop-up scene of all the characters, 2 colour plates and illustrations, illustrated paper boards, published by R Tuck Ltd, c 1920-22, 4to, tog. w/ another Alice book, 2 double-page pop-up scenes, c. 1952, large slim folio (2)
Moveable. Such Fun for Everyone, a late-Victorian book of circus acts with 6 moveable chromolitho scenes operated by pull-tabs, 1 difficult but all clean with fine chromolitho cover, small 4to, tog. w/ Van Leens, F. H. Van Prinsestje Tot Koningin Een Ardie Tooverboak, a Dutch colour litho moveable picture book, 4 scenes with alternate scenes beneath window flaps, soft covers, c. 1900 (2)
Giraud, Louis. “Bookano” series of pop-up books with pictures that “spring to life”, each with 3 to 5 pop-up double page colour 3-D scenes or figures, all pop-ups working, no losses, paper boards have some wear and cracks to surfaces but generally vg, tog. w/ 1 other similar format book, Strand Publications, London, 1930s, all 4to (17)
Potter, Beatrix. The Story of Miss Moppet, 45pp, 13 plates, colour illustrated endpapers, circular paste-down on grey paper boards, embossed titles in green, vg, c. 1913, 1st in book form; The Story of the Fierce Bad Rabbit, c. 1913, also a 1st in book form, tan cloth, paste-down on cover, titles in dark brown, split spine but still intact (2)
Potter, Beatrix. Cecily Parsley’s Nursery Rhymes, 2 copies, 1922, 1st edition, red paper boards, lettering in white, one copy in paler variant boards; Wag-by-Wall, with woodcuts by J J Lankes, published by the Horn Book Inc, 1944, 1st edition; Peter Rabbit’s Christmas, by Duff Graham, published by Henry Altemus Co, Philadelphia, 1917 (4)
Kingsley, Charles. The Water Babies, illustrated by Jessie Wilcox Smith, c. 1929, 12 tipped-in colour plates, tinted vignette illustrations, green and gilt embossed cloth, tissue guard to frontispiece loose, cloth clean, 4to; Robinson, Charles (Illust.). Big Book of Fables, by Walter Jerrold, 1912, red cloth, gilt embossed covers, these faded and worn in places, large heavy 4to. (2)
Curzon, Hon. George. N. M.P., 'Persia and the Persian Question', in two volumes, Volume I & II, first edition, published by Longmans, Green & Co. London, 1892, cloth bound with gilt decoration. (2)(B.P. 21% + VAT) Both have owners signatures to inside of cover. Both have minor wear/scuffs and small marks to binding and some wear to edges of pages, Vol I has a large crease and some damage to the back of the book and the first page is loose. Voll II has some loose pages in the middle of the book but appears complete. All illustrations and maps are present.
Two Victorian Gothic style book slides,comprising a coromandel and walnut example, with brass ends,the largest 36cm widetogether with an oak book trough,with a brass stand, 36cm wideand a yew wood letter rack,9cm high (4)Condition ReportBoth slides operate correctly. Some knocks and blisters to the veneer. Visible glue and gaps to the yew piece. Please see the additional images.
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