Results for: Children's

Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1970. First printing of the English edition. 48pp: colour cartoon story. Contents clean and fresh and unmarked. Large quarto, in the pictorial laminated boards. Clean, firm and bright, corners sharp, laminate peeling slightly along lower joint. A very nice fresh copy of the first Asterix adventure. Near Fine.

Price: £50.00

London: Macmillan, 1872. First edition. [xii], 224, [ii], with Tenniel's illustrations including the guarded frontis of Alice with the Knight. 'wade' for 'wabe' on p.21. Early ownership name to half title. With some foxing to the tissue guard, and a considerable amount of soiling to some of the pages, chiefly at the beginning of the book. Four pages are stuck to their neighbours at the inner margins, so dont open well, and one page has some edge damage from having been formerly detached. Pastel oak-leaf design endpapers appear to be early but not original. All edges gilt. In the original red boards, ruled and decorated in gilt, with some staining and bubbling, very rubbed, corners restored; with a later spine in quite matching colour and style, gilt bright, spine ends puckered. A worn copy, firm, with a fresh spine. G.

Price: £180.00

London: The Bodley Head, 1975. New Edition (first printing thereof). [40]pp, unpaginated, illustrated in colour throughout. Very faint marks on the verso of the front free endpaper: contents otherwise very clean and fresh and unmarked. In the original pictorial paper-covered boards, with a little foxing to the top edge, and very slight browning to the bottom margin: corners good, spine ends very slightly blunted. In the protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket. This has light soiling, cup rings, and foxing, and a number of closed edged tears, with creasing and a faint stain from former sellotape adjacent to one of them, and tiny chips at extremities. Tears fixed with archival tissue. Early hardback copy in exceptional condition, with jacket. Near Fine in G dust-jacket.

Price: £145.00

London: Kaye & Ward, 1972. First edition. 80pp, illustrated in colour throughout. A little faint soiling to the title page. Pages otherwise very fresh and clean. In the usual Ant and Bee format, 4 x 5 ins, firm in the original bright laminated pictorial boards. These have some pressure indentations which catch the light, but are otherwise very bright and clean. An exceptionally fresh bright copy of the original edition. Very Good+.

Price: £80.00

Michael- Slains publication, 1966. First edition. [36]pp, unpaginated: printed on stout paper, with 8 tissue-guarded plates. The delicately-told tale of a Peke. Contents clean and fresh, but for a slight crease to one of the tissue guards. 10.8 x 8 ins, in pictorial card covers, and bound with an orange ribbon. Some faint soiling or spotting to covers. Very Good+.

Price: £42.00

London: Jonathan Cape, 1946. Reprint. 190pp, with pictorial endpapers and many illustrations. Contents clean and fresh and unmarked. In the original binding of red cloth, with lobster on front and spine titled in black. Clean and bright, with slight mottling or fading to board edges and spine: spine ends puckered. In protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket, slightly soiled, with some wear to edges, and small chips (max 3mm), chiefly to spine ends. Scuffs to joints, tide stain to lower corner of back panel, and spine red title sunned to oblivion. Very Good+ in G+ dust-jacket.

Price: £34.00

London: Lawrence & Jellicoe, n.d. (c.1912). First edition. [32]pp, including the 16 colour plates, and with line drawings on all the text pages. Very minor soiling to a few pages, and the rusty staples visible in gutter at title and at back: contents otherwise unmarked and notably fresh and bright. This is the full size version: quarto, 10.2 x 8.6 ins, in colour pictorial boards and with the original red cloth spine. Firm and bright, with some tiny marks, corners restored, and edges slightly scuffed. A very nice copy. Very Good+.

Price: £280.00

London: Ernest Nister (No. 4208); and E.P.Dutton, New York: n.d. [c.1900?] Presumed first edition. [56]pp, with four colour plates. Anthropomorphic illustrations throughout, accompanying humorous verses: including some (not the plates) signed by Wain, and others in Wain's style signed E.Nister. Early gift inscription to front free endpaper, and new back endpapers. Minor soiling to a few pages, but otherwise contents very clean. Small quarto (9.2 x 7 ins), in laminated colour pictorial boards (bears, and a snowball thrown) by G.H.Thompson (lower board plain), with the original green cloth spine: bright and firm, with light scuffs to the edges. Very nice copy of a scarce title. Very Good.

Price: £160.00

London: Home and Colonial School Society, 1861. Fifth Edition. viii, 200pp. Lacks front free endpaper. Small stain to text at p.34, and corner crease to p101-102. Contents otherwise very clean and unmarked. Designed to provide 'such facts and information as appear necessary for teachers to be acquainted with before giving lessons to young children on any of the objects..': brass, walnuts, bees, etc - classified under the main sections of mineral, vegetable and animal. A splendid educational resource of the period. In the original binding of brown grained cloth, decorated in blind and titled in gilt: slightly marked, extremities blunted, and an indentation half way down the spine: but firm and clean, a very nice copy. Very Good+.

Price: £60.00

London: Collins, 1969. First edition. 159pp. Contents extremely fresh and clean and unmarked. In the original dark green cloth-textured binding lettered in silver, clean, bright and firm, corners good, very slight blunting of the spine ends. In the protected unclipped pictorial dustjacket by Jawdokimov: clean and bright, with scuffed extremities, 7mm closed edge tear, and some scuffing to edges, folds and joints. Near Fine in good dust-jacket.

Price: £245.00