R.T.S. Illustrated by Barbara Briggs. Octavo, original pictorial boards, 12 colour plates printed on stiff board. R.T.S. (Religious Tract Society) 'Untearable' Series. Watercolour illustrations of birds by Barbara Briggs. N.d., c. 1920s. Corners rubbed. Good condition.
London: Dean & Son Ltd. 4to, original pictorial boards, colour frontis, colour plate, colour and b&w illus, pp 124. N.d., c. 1938. Cover shows Bonzo with a skipping rope. Edges rubbed, some fraying head and foot of spine, child's name in "belongs to" box, o/w clean, v.g.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1963. 32 books in 16 volumes, pictorial boards, b&w illustrations. Very good condition. Photographs available on request. Extra postage will apply: please inquire. 32 children's classics: Andersen's Fairy Tales/Grimms' Fairy Tales; Tom Sawyer/Huckleberry Finn; Pinnochio/King Arthur and His Knights; Arabian Nights/Aesop's Fables; Edward Lear's Nonsense.....
Auckland: Johnston Cardboard Box Co. Quarto, colour pictorial wraps, b&w illus, unpag. N.d. (c. 1940s.) Closed tear front wrap, some fraying head and foot of spine. Good condition. 15 short stories.
London: Juvenile Productions, (c. 1930). 4to, pictorial boards, illustrations in red and black (many full-page), pp 126. N.d., c. 1930s. No author stated. Rubbing to boards, small split in cloth to spine, previous owner's name ffep. Pages and illustrations are toned but clean and complete. The adventures of a panda.....
London: Amalgamated Press, 1933. No. 124, Vol 5, Jue 24th 1933. 4to, coloured paper wraps, b&w and col line drawings, 24 pp. Some wear to wraps, scattered light foxing to edges, faint name in pencil to rear wrap, internally clean, good condn. Boys' weekly magazine.
London: Amalgamated Press, 1933. No. 117, Vol. 5, May 6th 1933. 4to, coloured paper wraps, b&w and colour line drawings, 24 pp. Some wear to wraps, small closed tear to one page, internally clean, good condn. Boys' weekly magazine.
London: "The Schoolgirls' Own" 1928. 4to, pictorial boards, colour plates, b&w text illus, pp 224. Edges rubbed, first two pages (ffep and frontis) loose, previous owner's inscription ffep, o/w good.
London: 1917. 4to, original pictorial cloth boards, colour frontis, b&w illus, pp 780, Boards rubbed, fraying to spine, hinges cracked, pages toned, fair, protected. Illustrated stories and articles for scouts. From No. 438 Vol XII, September 2, 1916 to No. 488 Vol XII, August 18, 1917 inclusive (fifty-one issues, bound).....
London: Blackie & Son Limited. Pictorial board Cecily May Barker; colour frontis Mabel Lucie Attwell; b&w text illus Ruth Cobb et al. 4to, original cloth, pictorial front board, colour frontis, b&w text illus, illus endpapers, unpag. N.d., early 1920s. Edges rubbed, rear hinge cracked, gift inscription ffep, o/w good.
London: Dean & Son Ltd. 4to, pictorial boards, b&w plates, b&w text illus, pp 124. N.D. (1930s). Rubbed to edges, gift inscriptions ffep, title and description handwritten on cloth spine, fair condn. Stories and articles on flying, with photographs and illustrations of classic aircraft.
London: Grant Richards, 1913. 8vo, orig green cl boards w/ stamp decoration, b&w frontis, b&w plates, pp. 227. Light wear to boards, slight darkening to spine, front hinge weak, no marks internally good condn. Guide to stamps and stamp collecting.
Perth: C.H. Pitman, 1946. Irene Carter (Illus). 1st ed., pp.88, 14 col plates and b&w text illus by Irene Carter, original bds, some restoration to remains of stained & taped d.j., contents very good condition. Signed by author and illustrator (6 August 1946) and inscribed by a member of the.....
London: M.J. Godwin and Co., 1822. 1st ed., sm. octavo, pp.(ii), (3)-19, 9 hand-coloured engravings, incl t.p. vignette, publisher's advert rep, most cnrs missing now repaired, scattered foxing, pages soiled, tanned with staining and creasing, child's scribble to recto p.19, sections of orig wraps missing, woodcut on front darkened and.....
Melbourne: Bookman Press, 1993. 8vo, green cl bds, d.j., b&w illus in text, pp. 831. 2 small marks on rear of d.j, o/w d.j and boards v.g., text clean, binding sound, very good condn. An anthology of stories intended as a moral reference point for children, edited by a former.....
London: Blackie & Son Limited. Illustrated by John de Walton. 8vo, pictorial cloth boards, b&w frontis, b&w plates, endpaper maps, pp. 208. N.d. but possible first [1927]. Presentation label half-title dated 1931. Gently rubbed at corners, o/w clean, firm, very good condn. Adventure story set in the far north of.....
London: Methuen, 1943. Illus Horace Knowles. Octavo, original yellow illustrated cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w illus, pp 164. With full-page b&w illustrations by Horace Knowles. Light foxing to the spine of the cloth boards, which are generally clean. Minor chipping to dustjacket, including a small area of loss at the front.....
London: Thomas Nelson, c. 1910. Octavo, original cloth boards with blindstamped decoration and gilt decoration, b&w frontis plate, b&w plates, pp 247, iii. School prize plate front free endaper. Very good condition. Short stories for children by a Norwegian-American author.
London: Walker Books, 2014. Isabelle Arsenault (Illus). 1st UK Ed., translated by Christelle Morelli and Susan Ouriou, quarto, pp.103, col and sepia-toned illus., prev. owner's name to ffep, orig pictorial bds. Very good condn. First published in French language in Canada (2012).
London: Frederick Warne, ( 1907). Small quarto, original boards with pictorial onlay, colour plates, b&w illus, illus endpapers. N.d., presumed first (1907), or early reprint. One plate loose, good condn.
Nedlands: Cygnet Books (UWAP), 1998. 1st ed., octavo, pictorial boards, colour plates. Ex-UWA Press stamp, very good condition. The Western Pygmy Possum. Children's Literature.
Nedlands: Cygnet Books (UWAP), 1993. Revised ed., quarto, pictorial boards, colour and b&w illus. Ex-UWA Press stamp, otherwise fine. The Western Pygmy Possum. Children's natural history, illustrated.
London: Collins, c. 1955. Hilda Boswell. Quarto, original decorated cloth boards, dustjacket, complete with colour frontis plate plus 3 other colour plates by Hilda Boswell, many b&w illus (some full page), pp 128. N.d., c. 1955. Gift inscription front free endpaper. Small closed tears in dustjacket with loss to head.....
Macmillan, (1882) 1979. Illus. Walter Crane. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w illus, pp x, 269. Dustjacket worn and rubbed with some light loss. Book in very good condition. Facsimile of the 1882, edition, with many illustrations by Walter Crane.
London: Duckworth and Co., 1910. Illustrations drawn by Arthur Rackham and coloured by Harry Rountree. 1st ed., octavo, pp. (xii) 130, colour frontis, colour plates, b/w illustrations by Arthur Rackham, previous owner's inscription, light foxing scattered throughout, endpapers tanned, front hinge cracked. Original cloth boards, colour plate front board, edges.....