ROYAL ROAD READERS Book Five
Chatto and Windus, 1956. 1st edn. 8vo. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (VG). Pp. 48, illus with coloured drawings in text by Clarke Hutton (no inscriptions). More
Children's Books
ROYAL ROAD READERS Book Three
Chatto and Windus, 1955. 1st edn 2nd imp. 8vo. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (VG). Pp. 48, illus with coloured drawings in text by Biro (no inscriptions). More
ROYAL ROAD READERS Book Three A
Chatto and Windus, 1956. 1st edn. 8vo. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (VG). Pp. 48, illus with coloured drawings in text by Clarke Hutton (no inscriptions). More
AZTEC GOLD
Oxford University Press, 1958. Oxford Children's Library. 8vo. Original blue lettered yellow cloth (minor marks on page edges, otherwise VG), dustwrapper (lightly scratched; extrems a little worn, otherwise VG in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. 256, illus with b&w frontispiece by P. A. Jobson (some page margins very lightly..... More
BLACK CROW La colline de sang
Grenoble: Editions Glénat, 2009. 9782723466592. 1st edn. 4to. Original laminated pictorial boards (Fine). Pp. 46, illus with coloured cartoon strip throughout (no inscriptions). [French text]. More
PSAMMYFORSHORT Rex Imp
Methuen, 1929. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt decorated red cloth (spine slightly faded with small mark - otherwise VG), no dustwrapper. Pp. 103, illus coloured frontispiece with tissue-guard and b&w plates and drawings by Frank Adams (top third of front free endpaper removed; rear endpapers spotted; no inscriptions). More
THE TOYMAN And Other Songs of India for Children.
Humphrey Milford, 1924. 1st edn. 8vo. Original cloth-backed paper-laid boards (page edges a little spotted - otherwise VG). Pp. 52, illus with b&w plates and pictorial borders (previous owner's neat 1924 gift inscription on front endpaper). More
PEOPLE OF IMPORTANCE
Country Life, 1934. 1st edn. 4to. Original gilt lettered turquoise blue cloth backed paper-laid boards with title in blue on upper board (page edges tanned - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (spine tanned; extrems chipped - in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. 83, with b&w illus (endpapers lightly tanned; no inscriptions)..... More
SOUTH OF PATAGONIA
Frederick Warne, 1946. 1st edn. 8vo. Original black lettered red cloth (spine and part of boards faded and some light marks to upper board), no dustwrapper. Pp. 256, illus with coloured frontispiece (front free endpaper slightly creased with large pencil inscription; half title spotted with crease to top corner). More
CAMERONS ON THE TRAIN
Children's Book Club [&] Macmillan & Co., 1963. Book club edn. 8vo. Original black lettered blue cloth (a few faint spots on fore-edge - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (spine ends chipped; lower cover tanned/spotted - in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. 127, illus with b&w drawings by Victor Ambrus (no..... More
FILLETS OF PLAICE
Collins, 1971. 1st edn 2nd printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (page edges spotted - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (light wear at edges - in protective cover, price clipped). Pp. 191 (no inscriptions). More
ROSY IS MY RELATIVE
Collins, 1968. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth (small marks on top edge - otherwise bright VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 255 (small biro inscription on front endpaper). More
JOUR J T11 La nuit des tuileries
Delcourt, 2012. 9782756027517. 4to. Original pictorial boards (Fine). Pp. 63, illus throughout with coloured cartoon strip (no inscriptions). [French text]. More
THE CURIE SOCIETY
MIT Press, 2021. Uncorrected proof. 8vo. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (Fine). Pp. 163, illus with b&w cartoon strip throughout (no inscriptions). More
THE CURIE SOCIETY
MIT Press, 2021. Uncorrected page proof. 8vo. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (Fine). Pp. 163, illus throughout with b&w strip drawings (no inscriptions). More
FOUND IN THE FOREST
Frederick Warne & Co.,1958. 1st edn. 8vo. Original black lettered green cloth (head of spine darkened - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (worn at edges with partial loss at head of spine - in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 222, illus with b&w drawings by D.G. Valentine (endpapers and page edges..... More
GERTRUDE THE GREEDY GOOSE
Frederick Muller, 1939. 1st edn. 4to. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-laid boards (chipped and bumped at corners - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (poor- loss of top third of lower cover and diagonal tear upper cover and generally rather chipped and creased - in protective wrapper). Pp. 58, illus with coloured plates and..... More
THE SECRET OF THE SINGING TOWER
New York: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1953. 1st edn. 8vo. Original black lettered grey cloth (casing with slight lean - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (lightly worn at edges - in protective cover, price clipped). Pp. 243, illus with b&w drawings by the author (no inscriptions). More
MIRIAM'S AMBITION
Blackie & Son, c. 1925. 8vo. Original black lettered red cloth (bright VG), dustwrapper (edges a little creased and with small closed tear at edge of spine on lower cover - in protective wrapper, price clipped). Pp. 224, illus with 3 b&w plates by Norman Sutcliffe (previous owner's neat inscription..... More
MARY'S MEADOW And Letters from a Little Garden.
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, c. 1886. 8vo. Original pictorial paper-laid boards (spine worn and boards a little tanned). Pp. 96, with b&w illus by Gordon Browne (endpapers heavily tanned; from Elizabeth Jane Howard's library her bookstamp on front endpaper and Ursula Vaughan-Williams's and another's inscriptions on front endpapers). More
LE MORT DE STALINE
Dargaud, 2010. 1st edn. 4to. Original laminated pictorial boards (Fine). Unpaginated, illus with coloured cartoon strip (no inscriptions). [French text]. More
THE CAT DID IT.
Oxford University Press, 1951. 1st edn signed and inscribed by author on half title. 8vo. Original silver lettered red cloth (casing with slight lean and a little rubbed at edges), dustwrapper (spine torn with partial loss and tears at edges - in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 194, illus..... More
THE WALLYPUG AT PLAY
Raphael Tuck & Sons, n.d. c. 1901. 1st edn. 4to. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards (poor - spine rubbed at head and tail and boards chipped at corners and rubbed at edges). Unpaginated, illus with full page coloured plates and coloured drawings in text (most pages loose and some with nicks..... More
POLICING THE CITY An Ethno-Graphic.
New York: Other Press, 2022. 9781635422504. 1st edn 1st printing. Tall 8vo. Original pictorial laminated boards (Fine), no dustwrapper issued. Pp. 100, illus throughout with coloured comic strip drawings (no inscriptions). More
THE BRYDONS ABROAD
Lutterworth Press, 1963. 1st edn 2nd imp. 8vo. Original black lettered red cloth (some light rubbing at edges - otherwise VG), no dustwrapper. Pp. 167, illus with coloured frontispiece and b&w drawings by T.R. Freeman (previous owners' inscriptions on front endpaper, one heavily crossed-out). More