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97329 Adams, Richard (illus. Nicola Bayley) The Tyger Voyage Jonathan Cape, London, 1976. First edition. Hardcover, quarto; illustrated boards; red endpapers; 30pp., colour illustrations. Scattered spotting throughout; toned and lightly spotted text block edges; spine slightly faded. Very good otherwise. No dustwrapper. Click here to order $25

215572 Attwell, Mabel Lucie Going-to-Bed Tales Michael O'Mara Books, London, 1994. First edition thus; quarto hardcover; illustrated boards and decorated endpapers; 126pp., colour & b&w illustrations. Faint spotting to text block edges with a small mark on lower edges. Illustrated dustwrapper with tiny tear and scrape on head of spine panel, now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Near fine. Click here to order $30

204455 Attwell, Mabel Lucie Lucie Attwell's Annual Dean & Son Ltd., London, nd. (c.1937). Quarto; hardcover, with illustrated boards and upper board titles; unpaginated (120pp.), with 3 colour plates and many monochrome and duotone illustrations. Moderate wear; slightly rolled; spine extremities softened, boards rubbed and corners bumped; spine tail pulled; text block edges spotted; light scattered foxing throughout along with some marks; previous owner's ink inscription to the front pastedown; many illustrations carefully coloured-in; a crude tape repair to the fore-edge of pages 21-22. No dustwrapper. Very good. Click here to order $150

209823 Awdry, Rev. W. (C. Reginald Dalby, John T. Kenney & Gunvor & Peter Edwards, illus.) The Complete Railway series - 26 volumes Kaye & Ward Ltd., London, 1967-1979. Reprints: 26 volumes, landscape duodecimo; hardcover, with illustrated boards; 539pp., with many colour illustrations. Minor wear; some volumes rolled; light scuffing to the boards; some discolouration to the boards of Volume 21. No dustwrappers as issued. Very good. Click here to order $150

98870 Barrie, J.M. (Michael Foreman, illus.) Peter Pan and Wendy Pavilion Books Ltd., London, 1988. First edition: quarto; hardcover, with silver-gilt spine titles and illustrated endpapers; 158pp., with many colour illustrations. Minor wear; some slight bumps to the board edges. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good to near fine. Click here to order $22

91168 Beetles, Chris (Mabel Lucie Attwell, illus.) Mabel Lucie Attwell - signed copy Pavilion, London, 1988. Inscribed quarto hardcover; illustrated boards with blue spine titling; 120pp., colour and monochrome illustrations. Minor wear only; slight wear to dustwrapper edges and corners (now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film). Otherwise near fine. Owner's bookplate. Click here to order $35

98731 Brent-Dyer, Elinor The Chalet School and The Lintons W R Chambers, London, 1964. Reprint. Hardcover, octavo; blue boards with gilt spine titling; 319pp. Minor wear; mild offset to endpapers; spotting to text block upper edge; illustrated dustwrapper chipped at spine panel extremities and corners. Very good in protective wrap. Click here to order $60

98733 Brent-Dyer, Elinor The New House Mistress Thomas Nelson & Sons, London, nd. Reprint. Hardcover, octavo; blue boards with dark blue spine and upper board titling; 94pp. Minor wear; scattered spotting throughout; spotting to text block and page edges; illustrated dustwrapper with missing segment on upper spine panel edge with chipping at corners; foxing to rear pane. Very good and wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film with white paper backing. Click here to order $60

98734 Brent-Dyer, Elinor The Princess of the Chalet School W & R Chambers, London, 1951. Reprint. Hardcover, octavo; green boards with black spine titling; 304pp. Minor wear; offsetting to endpapers; toned text block with a few marks; rubbed illustrated dustwrapper with wear and scraping to edges; tiny tear on upper rear edge. Very good with wrapper now in protective wrap. Click here to order $60

98730 Brent-Dyer, Elinor (illus. Nina Brisley) Jo Returns to the Chalet School W R Chambers, London, 1936. First edition: hardcover, octavo; blue boards with gilt upper board and spine titling; 303pp., monochrome illustrations. Spotting to text block edges and one or two scattered spots internally; rear hinge a little tender. No dustwrapper. Very good in protective wrap. Click here to order $85

62834 Briggs, Raymond Fungus the Bogeyman Hamish Hamilton, London, 1977. First edition: quarto hardcover; illustrated boards and decorated endpapers; 40pp., colour illustrations. Minor wear only; slight rubbing to boards. Near fine otherwise. No dustwrapper. Click here to order $25

78002 The Brothers Grimm (Lisbeth Zwerger, illus.) Little Red Cap Neugebauer Press, London, 1983. First edition. Small square quarto hardcover, unpaginated with colour illustrations. Light foxing to rear endpaper and pastedown and lightly spotted text block edges. Very good to near fine. No dustwrapper. Click here to order $20

92540 Brunhoff, Jean de Babar at Home Methuen & Co. Ltd., London, 1946. Fourth English edition: folio; hardcover, quarter-bound in illustrated papered boards with decorated endpapers; 40pp., with many coloured illustrations. Moderate wear; boards well-rubbed, sunned and edgeworn, with some minor marks; joints professionally repaired with tape; text block edges toned; some mild spotting throughout, mainly to the endpapers and preliminaries; some pages with small tears at the fore-edge. No dustwrapper. Very good, withal. Click here to order $75

209157 Burningham, John (with Jan Pienkowski) Around the World in Eighty Days Jonathan Cape, London, 1972 First edition. Quarto; hardcover, with gilt spine and upper board decorations and titles and decorative endpapers; 97pp., with many colour illustrations. Mild wear; slightly rolled; boards rubbed and bumped; text block edges toned and top edge dusted; mild offset to the preliminaries; previous owner's ink inscriptions to the half-title page. Dustwrapper rubbed and scuffed with some edgewear; sunned along the spine panel; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Good to very good. Click here to order $35

65158 Byron, May (illustrated by Millicent Sowerby) The Counterpane Book Henry Frowde/Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1913. Duodecimo-sized small folio; paperback, with illustrated and gilt-embossed wrappers, stab-sewn with green ribbon ties; unpaginated (50pp.), with a colour frontispiece and many line drawings. Some mild scattered foxing throughout; previous owner's ink inscription to first page of text; dark stain to the upper wrapper, near spine head; else very little wear indeed. Housed in original illustrated box which is torn and split with missing segments from top and sides. Remarkable copy. Click here to order $250

93077 Carroll, Lewis (Barry Moser, illus.; James R. Kincaid & Selwyn H. Goodacre, eds.) Lewis Carroll's Alice Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Pennyroyal edition University of California Press, Berkeley CA, 1982. Quarto; hardcover, quarter-bound in cloth with metallic-purple spine titling and marbled endpapers; 145pp., top edges dyed red, with many monochrome illustrations. Minor wear; slight browning to board edges; faint spotting to text block edges. Mildly rubbed dustwrapper with one or two spots to the front panel; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Near fine. Click here to order $60

99009 Carroll, Lewis (illus. Michael Hague) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Methuen, London, 1985. First edition thus. Quarto hardcover; quarter bound in blue papered boards with red cloth spine and silver gilt spine titling, dark red endpapers; 122pp., colour illustrations. Inscription. Dustwrapper slightly faded and browned along spine and edges. Very good to near fine and wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Click here to order $30

56769 Carter, Angela (Eros Keith, illus.) Miss Z The Dark Young Lady Simon & Schuster, New York, NY, USA, 1970. First edition: octavo; hardcover, with upper board title; 32pp., with a coloured frontispiece and many full-colour illustrations likewise. Boards rubbed with some pen marks; binding slightly rolled; text block edges lightly browned. Lacks dustwrapper. Very good to near fine. Click here to order $25

207108 [Collins] (Anne Anderson, illus.) The Cosy Corner Book Collins Clear-Type Press, London, nd. Quarto; hardcover, quarter-bound in cloth with an illustrated upper board and decorative endpapers; 48pp., with thirteen full colour plates and many monochrome illustrations and decorations. Moderate wear; shaken; boards well rubbed and marked with bumps to the corners and edges; spine extremities softened; boards somewhat fanned; text block edges toned; top hinge starting; light offset to the endpapers; retailer's bookplate to the front pastedown; light scattered foxing to the preliminaries; some internal marks and colouring-in. No dustwrapper. Very good. Click here to order $100

214956 d'Aulnoy, Marie (jan Vladislav, ed.; Mirko Hanak, illus.) The Bluebird A traditional French fairy tale Artia/The Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd., London, 1970. Quarto; hardcover, full cloth with decorated boards and decorative endpapers; 56pp., top edges dyed yellow, with many colour illustrations. Mild wear; text block top edge a little dusty. Price-clipped dustwrapper is a little rubbed with a few small tears to the panel edges; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $20

207255 Dulac, Edmund (illus.) Sinbad the Sailor & Other Tales from The Arabian Nights Calla Press/Dover Publications Inc., Mineola NY, 2016. Quarto; hardcover. full decorated cloth with gilt spine and upper board titles and decorations and decorative endpapers; 224pp., all pages decorated, with a colour frontispiece and 22 plates likewise. Minor wear; text block top edge very lightly dusted. No dustwrapper. Very good. Click here to order $50

204430 [Edmund Dulac] Housman, Laurence (Edmund Dulac, illus.) Stories from the Arabian Nights Retold by Laurence Housman Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., London, 1911. Abridged (selected from the 1907 edition): octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles and upper board decorations with a tipped-on illustration; unpaginated (132pp.), with a colour frontispiece and 23 colour plates, each with a captioned tissue guard. Moderate wear; boards dished; spine extremities softened; spotting to the text block edges; offset to the endpapers; mild scattered foxing throughout; previous owner's name in ink to the flyleaf. No dustwrapper. Very good. Lacks gift box in which the book was originally issued. The Arabian Nights is the most celebrated collection of tales in all of literature. The best of these tales are collected here by Laurence Housman. Edmund Dulac masterfully captures the fantastic elements of the tales using brilliantly coloured characters against soft, impressionistic backgrounds and in other scenes, achieves a brooding and dark mysterious atmosphere. Click here to order $250

97112 Eliott, E.C. (A. Bruce Cornwell, illus.) Kemlo and the End of Time Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., Melbourne Vic., 1957. First edition: octavo; hardcover; with upper board and spine titles and decorations; 196pp., with 6 full-page monochrome illustrations. Moderate wear; frontispiece removed; corners mildly bumped; text block edges spotted; previous owner's ink inscription to the flyleaf now scraped cleanly away; offset to the endpapers; mild scattered foxing to the preliminaries. Price-clipped dustwrapper rubbed and edgeworn with small tears to the edges and flap-turns; hinges scraped; now backed by archival-quality white paper and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $35

206098 Eliott, E.C. (R.J. Jobson, illus.) Kemlo and the Zones of Silence Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., Melbourne Vic., 1954. First edition: octavo; hardcover; with upper board titles and decorations; 202pp., with a colour frontispiece and 6 full-page monochrome illustrations. Moderate wear; slightly rolled; spine extremities softened; boards mildly fanned; text block edges spotted; retailer's bookplate to the front pastedown; previous owner's pencilled inscription to the flyleaf; offset to the endpapers; scattered foxing to the preliminaries. Price-clipped dustwrapper rubbed and edgeworn with mild chipping to the edges and flap-turns; hinges scraped and spine sunned; now backed by archival-quality white paper and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $40

214234 Fleischman, Sid (Quentin Blake, illus.) Here Comes McBroom! Chatto & Windus, London, 1976. First edition: octavo; hardcover, with an upper board illustration; 63pp., with monochrome illustrations. Mild wear; two small tape marks to the upper board; retailer's sticker to the front pastedown; faint spotting to the text block edges. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $35

202154 Grimm, Wilhelm (Maurice Sendak, illus.; Ralph Mannheim, trans.) Dear Mili Viking Kestrel/Penguin Books (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Ringwood Vic., 1988. First edition: landscape quarto; hardcover, with gilt spine titles and a blind-stamped upper board decoration; unpaginated (40pp.) with colour illustrations. Mild wear; some initial pages very lightly creased. Dustwrapper slightly edgeworn. Very good. Click here to order $25

11806 Gurney, James Dinotopia A Land Apart from Time Crawford House Press, Bathurst NSW, 1992. First Australian printing: quarto; hardcover, with gilt spine and upper board titles and decorative endpapers; 160pp. with many colour and monochrome illustrations. Minor wear; some light scuffing to the spine extremities. Dustwrapper a little rubbed. Near fine. Click here to order $35

215642 Harnett, Cynthia The Load of Unicorn Methuen, London, 1979. Reprint. Octavo hardcover; brown boards with gilt spine titling, map endpapers; 239pp., b&w illustrations by the author. Inscription. Mild rubbing and bumping to board edges and corners. Orange illustrated dustwrapper with sunned spine and mildly worn edges and corners; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $40

78056 Hauptmann, Tatjana A Day in the Life of Petronella Pig ("Ein Tag im Leben der Dorothea Wutz") Ernest Benn Ltd., London, 1980. Reprint: square quarto; hardcover, with illustrated boards and decorated endpapers; 28pp., printed on heavy stock and die-cut, with many illustrations. Boards well-rubbed; else very good. Click here to order $40

78057 Hauptmann, Tatjana Hurray for Peregrine Pig ("Hurra, Eberhard Wutz ist wieder da!") Ernest Benn Ltd., London, 1980. Square quarto; hardcover, with illustrated boards and decorated endpapers; 48pp., printed on heavy stock and die-cut, with many illustrations. Boards well-rubbed; else very good. Click here to order $40

209250 Haydon, Arthur Lincoln (ed.) (W. Douglas Almond, et al., illus.) The Boy's Own Annual, Volume 37, 1914-15 "Boy's Own Paper" Office, London, 1915. Quarto; hardcover, illustrated boards with bevelled edges, decorative spine with gilt spine titles and illustrated endpapers; 760pp., with a colour frontispiece, illustrated title page, 11 colour and monochrome plates (some folding and one with a tissue guard) and many monochrome illustrations. Mild wear; slightly shaken; spine heel softened and spine sunned; mild wear and rubbing to the boards; light corner-bumping; text block edges well toned; some mild insect damage along the top joint; scattered foxing to the preliminaries; previous owner's contemporary ink inscription to the verso of the frontispiece; some light foxing and embrowning to the plates. Lacks dustwrapper. Very good. Rarely found in such good condition, especially with all of the folding plates intact. Click here to order $300

204291 Helps, Racey The Upside-Down Medicine A Barnaby Littlemouse Book Collins, London, 1946. First UK edition. Landscape octavo; hardcover, with illustrated boards and decorative endpapers; 48pp., with many colour illustrations. Moderate wear; covers rubbed and edgeworn; bumping to the corners and the spine extremities; repaired spine; some old tape stains and small surface tears; text block edges toned; minor offset to the endpapers; scattered foxing throughout; some minor marks; some coloured pencil scribbles to page 46. No dustwrapper. Good. Author's second book. Click here to order $40

200407 Hoban, Russell (illus. Quentin Blake) A Near Thing for Captain Najork Jonathan Cape, London, 1975. First edition. Quarto hardcover; illustrated boards; unpaginated with colour illustrations. Cover spine and edges sunned; browned text block edges and spotting to page edges. Very good. No dustwrapper. Click here to order $25

212671 Hodeir, Andre (Tomi Ungerer, illus.) Warwick's 3 Bottles Grove Press Inc., New York NY, 1966. First edition. Folio; hardcover, with upper board decoration; unpaginated (32pp.), with many colour illustrations. Mild wear; text block top edge faintly dusted; previous owner's name in ink to the flyleaf. Dustwrapper a little rubbed and edgeworn with some scuffing; small tears to the spine panel extremities with associated creasing; now backed by archival-quality white paper and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $25

14555 Hurlimann, Bettina Three Centuries of Children's Books in Europe World Publishing Company, Cleveland, OH, USA, 1968. First US edition: quarto; hardcover, with gilt upper board decoration and spine-titling; 297pp., many monochrome illustrations and 28pp. of colour and monochrome plates. Text block upper page edge yellowed with minor spotting to other edges. Near fine in dustwrapper with slight edge wear, now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Bettina Hurlimann has drawn upon her own collection of children's books to write a personal survey of this vast field. In a lively rather than academic style she covers aspects of children's literature that includes: nursery rhymes, fairy tales, nonsense, fantasy and reality, cowboys and Indians, photography, politics and picture-books. At the time of publishing this, a supplementary volume, Picture-Book World, was in preparation. Click here to order $35

95563 Kastner, Erich (Eileen Hall, trans.; Walter Trier, illus.; Introduction by Walter de la Mare) Emil and the Detectives Jonathan Cape, London, 1967. Reprint: octavo; hardcover, with upper board illustration and titles; 191pp., with many monochrome drawings. Moderate wear; some scuffing to the boards; text block edges spotted with some marks; light offset to the endpapers; previous owner's ink inscription to the flyleaf. Price-clipped dustwrapper is rubbed and sunned along the spine panel; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $18

214766 Klickmann, Flora (ed.) The Girl's Own Annual, Volume 50 The Woman's Magazine, London, nd. (circa. 1908-1931). Quarto; hardcover, with illustrated spine and upper board (with tipped-on plate) and illustrated endpapers; 704pp., many monochrome illustrations and a full-colour frontispiece and decorated title page, protected by a tissue guard. Moderate wear; shaken; softening to the spine extremities; boards edges lightly worn and bumped at the corners; text block edges mildly toned; foxing and offset to the preliminaries; previous owner's ink stamp and ink inscription to the verso of the frontis. Dustwrapper is rubbed, foxed and edgeworn with some chipping to the spine panel extremities and flap-turns. Very good. Click here to order $200

89250 Louie, Ai-Ling (illus. Ed Young) Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China Philomel Books, New York, 1982. First edition. Hardcover; quarto; green boards with gilt spine titling, mauve endpapers; unpaginated with colour illustrations. Minor wear; mild scuffing to lower board corners and dustwrapper spine very slightly faded. Near fine otherwise and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Click here to order $22

206543 "Mark Twain" (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (Introduction by E.L. Doctorow; Harry Brockway, illus.) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Folio Society edition The Folio Society, London, 2005. First printing: octavo; hardcover, quarter-bound in cloth with decorated boards and gilt spine titles; 232pp., with a monochrome illustrated title page and 15 plates likewise. Very minor wear. Near fine in a like slipcase. Click here to order $30

83018 Milligan, Spike A Book of Milliganimals Dennis Dobson, London, 1968. First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine title and decorated endpapers; 88pp. with many monochrome illustrations. Slightly rolled; text block edges mildly spotted; very mild offset to the endpapers. Dustwrapper is spotted and with insect damage along the flap turns and spine panel and top edges. Very good. Wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive archival film and paper backing. Click here to order $20

93082 Moon, Sarah, & Charles Perrault Little Red Riding Hood Creative Editions, Mankato, 2002. First edition thus. Quarto hardcover; brown cloth boards with pale blue spine titling and upper board embossed titling, beige endpapers; unpaginated with monochrome photographic illustrations. Very minor wear only; near fine in like dustwrapper. Click here to order $60

204921 Moran, Philip (Michael Foreman, illus.) Soggy and the Giant - signed Mabecron Books Ltd., Plymouth Devon UK, 2015. Quarto; hardcover, with illustrated boards and endpapers; unpaginated (32pp.), with many colour illustrations. Minor wear; signed in ink by the author to the first page. No dustwrapper as issued. Near fine. Click here to order $20

89275 Morimoto, Junko My Hiroshima Collins, Sydney, 1987. First edition. Quarto hardcover; illustrated boards and monochrome illustrated endpapers; unpaginated, with colour and monochrome illustrations. Minor wear; mildly spotted text block edges. Very good to near fine. No dustwrapper. Protected in mylar wrap. Click here to order $35

215384 Morimoto, Junko The White Crane William Collins Pty. Ltd., Sydney NSW, 1983. First edition: square quarto; hardcover, with illustrated boards; unpaginated (32pp.), with many colour illustrations. Minor wear; boards lightly rubbed. No dustwrapper. Very good. Click here to order $30

210815 Oakley, Graham The Church Mice at Bay Macmillan Publishers Ltd., London, 1978. First edition: landscape quarto; hardcover, with illustrated boards; unpaginated (36pp.) with many colour illustrations. Moderate wear; some bumping to the spine extremities and board edges; mild spotting to the endpapers. Price-clipped dustwrapper is lightly rubbed and edgeworn; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $35

78600 Oxenham, Elsie Jeanette Peggy and the Brotherhood The Girl's Own Paper Office, London, 1938. Reprint: octavo; hardcover, with upper board title; 240pp., untrimmed, with a full-colour frontispiece. Somewhat rolled; text block edges mildly stained and spotted; offset to endpapers; mild scattered foxing confined mainly to the preliminaries; minor insect damage to the boards. Reproduction dustwrapper, now backed by archival-quality white paper and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive film. Good. Click here to order $70

212621 Oxenham, Elsie Jeanette (Margaret Horder, illus.) An Abbey Champion Frederick Muller Ltd., London, 1946. First edition. Octavo; hardcover; 219pp., with a monochrome frontispiece and many illustrations likewise. Moderate wear; a little cocked; spine extremities softened; boards a little rubbed; text block edges toned with some spotting; offset to the endpapers; retailer's bookplate to the front pastedown; previous owner's ink inscription to the flyleaf. Price-clipped dustwrapper has been varnished on the upper and lower panels and spine panel - this addition has yellowed with age; chipping to the spine panel extremities and flap-turns (no loss of text or images); now backed with archival-quality white paper and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $120

215670 Prelutsky, Jack & Lane Smith Dr. Seuss: Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! Collins, 1998. First edition thus. Quarto hardcover; illustrated boards and decorated endpapers; unpaginated with colour illustrations. Minor wear; owner's name on rear endpaper; tiny tear on lower rear corner. No dustwrapper. Very good. Click here to order $18

89270 Pullman, Philip (illus. Sophy Williams) Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp Scholastic Press, London, 2004. First edition. Large square quarto hardcover; illustrated papered boards with orange spine and silver gilt spine and upper board titling, orange endpapers; unpaginated, with colour illustrations. Minor wear only. No dustwrapper. Fine. Click here to order $25

210821 Ransome, Arthur (Uri Shulevitz, illus.) The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship Hamish Hamilton Children's Books Ltd., London, 1970. First UK edition. Quarto; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; unpaginated (46pp.), with a colour frontispiece and many illustrations likewise. Mild wear; spine extremities softened and corners lightly bumped; retailer's bookplate to the front pastedown. Price clipped dustwrapper is a little rubbed and edgeworn; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $50

98575 Rego, Paula Nursery Rhymes Thames & Hudson, London, 1994. First edition. Quarto hardcover; quarter bound in illustrated boards with red cloth spine and gilt spine titling; monochrome illustrated endpapers; 70pp., colour & monochrome illustrations. Light spotting to upper text block edges with one or two spots otherwise. Very good to near fine. No dustwrapper, as issued. Click here to order $25

99059 [Rupert the Bear] More Adventures of Rupert The Daily Express Annual The Daily Express, London, nd. (c.1945) Quarto; paperback, perfect bound in illustrated wrappers; 120pp., with many colour illustrations. Moderate wear; rolled; spine extremities softened; covers well rubbed and edgeworn with some marks; text block edges lightly toned with some marks; previous owner's ink inscription to the first page; pages lightly tanned; a tear to the top edge of the lower cover. Now protected by a Mylar wrapper. Very good. Click here to order $80

99060 [Rupert the Bear] The Rupert Book The Daily Express Annual The Daily Express, London, nd. (c.1945). Quarto; paperback, perfect bound in illustrated wrappers; 120pp., with many colour illustrations. Moderate wear; spine extremities softened; covers well rubbed and edgeworn with some marks, ink stamps and pen scribbles; text block edges lightly toned; pages lightly tanned; ink scribbles to the inside front cover; previous owner's name in ink to the first page; some repeated ink stamping to the inside rear cover with offset. Now protected by a Mylar wrapper. Good to very good. Click here to order $80

91114 Sendak, Maurice Outside Over There Bodley Head, London, 1981. First UK edition. Oblong quarto hardcover; red cloth boards with gilt upper board and spine titling; unpaginated with colour illustrations. A few scattered spots on upper edges of half-title and title pages and faint spotting to upper text block edges. Illustrated dustwrapper with scraping along edges and corners; rear panel faded with some creasing at edges and corners and scraping along spine edge. Very good otherwise and wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Click here to order $50

206392 Smith, Dodie (Vanessa Julian-Ottie, illus.) The Hundred and One Dalmatians William Heinemann Ltd./Reed Consumer Books Ltd., London, 1993. First edition thus. Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine and upper board titles and a blue ribbon; 195pp., with 8 colour plates and many monochrome illustrations. Mild wear; board edges lightly scraped; text block edges lightly toned. Dustwrapper lightly rubbed and edgeworn; light sunning along the spine panel; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $25

214939 Stein, Gertrude (Giselle Potter, illus.) To Do A Book of Alphabets and Birthdays Yale Books, New Haven CT, 2011. Square quarto; hardcover; 126pp., with many colour illustrations. Minor wear. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good to near fine. Click here to order $25

77991 Stone, Bernard & Ralph Steadman (illus.) Quasimodo Mouse Andersen Press Ltd./Hutchinson Publishing Group (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., London, 1984. First edition: quarto; hardcover, with illustrated boards; unpaginated (32pp.) with many colour illustrations. Minor wear; covers lightly rubbed. No dustwrapper. Very good to near fine. Click here to order $25

200342 [S.W. Partridge & Co.] The Infants' Magazine Volume XXXI S.W. Partridge & Co. Ltd., London, 1896. Octavo; hardcover, quarter-bound in cloth with illustrated boards and decorative endpapers; 188pp., with a colour frontispiece and many engraved monochrome illustrations. Mild wear; rolled; boards rubbed and corners bumped; text block and page edges toned; mild offset to the endpapers; some occasional slight tears to the page edges. No dustwrapper as issued. Very good. Click here to order $75

201227 Thompson, Colin How to Live Forever Julia McCrae Books, London, 1995. First edition. Quarto hardcover; illustrated boards with brown endpapers; unpaginated with colour illustrations. Tiny tears on base of dustwrapper spine panel and corners. Very good to near fine otherwise and wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Click here to order $25

77097 Tolkien, J.R.R. Mr. Bliss George Allen & Unwin Australia Pty. Ltd., North Sydney, NSW, Australia, 1982. First edition: landscape octavo; hardcover, with illustrated boards; unpaginated (105pp.) with many full-colour illustrations. Minor wear only; near fine in like dustwrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Click here to order $50

87552 van Loon, Joan, with Gabriel Gate (Chantal Stewart, illus.) The Chocolate Lovers - signed A children's story and cookbook Sue Hines Books/Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest NSW, 2001. Quarto; hardcover, with illustrated boards; unpaginated (32pp.), with many full-colour illustrations. Mild wear; signed by Gabriel Gate in ink on the front free endpaper. No dustwrapper. Very good to near fine. Click here to order $24

66568 Varda, Minka Popcorn The Story of a Nonsense Horse Faber and Faber, London, 1964. First edition. Hardcover, octavo, 48pp, coloured line drawings. Foxed preliminaries, spotted text block edges, crease to extreme tip of front endpaper, slight superficial splits to hinges, few tiny stains to decorated boards. Good to very good. Click here to order $25

74721 Various Chums Annual 1940 For King and Empire The Amalgamated Press, London, 1940. Quarto; hardcover, with illustrated stamped upper board and spine and gilt spine and upper board titling; folio, 348pp., many monochrome illustrations, a full-colour frontispiece and 3 colour plates. Text block edges embrowned and spotted; pages toned; mild scattered foxing to the endpapers and page edges. Dustwrapper is mildly rubbed and sunned with shelfworn edges and minor tears; chipping to the corners and spine, especially to the spine head, where a missing segment has occluded the title somewhat; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive archival film and white paper backing. Very good. Click here to order $100

62340 White, E.B. Charlotte's Web Pictures by Garth Williams Harper & Row, New York, 1952. First edition (stated, I-B denoting September 1952). Hardcover, octavo, 184pp. Beige boards, blue decorative titling. Inscription on half-title text block, toning to text block edges. Boards foxed with one small stain to front board. A little rubbing and a hint of fraying to head of spine. Good. Now clothed in protected facsimile dustwrapper. Click here to order $250

77997 Wilde, Oscar (Lisbeth Zwerger, illus.) The Selfish Giant Hutchinson Group (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Richmond Vic., 1984. First Australian edition: quarto; hardcover, with illustrated upper board; unpaginated (24pp.) with many colour illustrations. Mild wear; light foxing throughout; offset to the endpapers. Dustwrapper lightly edgeworn. Very good. Click here to order $25

89286 Wolkstein, Diane (Ed Young, illus.) The Red Lion A Tale of Ancient Persia Thomas Y. Crowell Co., New York NY, 1977. First edition: quarto; hardcover, with gilt spine-titles and blind-stamped upper board decorations; unpaginated (24pp.), with many full-colour illustrations. Minor wear; some mild offset to the endpapers and preliminaries. Price-clipped dustwrapper is lightly rubbed and sunned along the spine panel; now backed by archival-quality paper and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $22

98573 Zwerger, Lisbeth & Heinz Janisch (trans. Anthea Bell) The Merry Pranks of Till Eulenspiegel Picture Book Studio, 1990. First edition. Quarto hardcover; illustrated boards; unpaginated with colour illustrations. Mild spotting to pastedowns; tiny tear on heel of spine and tiny bumps on board edges. Very good. No dustwrapper. Click here to order $20

99861 Zwerger, Lisbeth (illus.) Stories from the Bible North South Books, New York NY, 2002. First edition. Quarto; hardcover, with illustrated boards and a green ribbon; 160pp., with many colour illustrations. Minor wear; softening to the spine extremities and some mild corner-bumping. Dustwrapper lightly rubbed; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $30