Item 11333The Last Man Alive
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1938. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Uncommon. Some chipping and edgewear to the jacket, owner's name to front endpaper and a little discolouration to the rear.
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Item 13671The North Pole and How Charlie Wilson Discovered It
London: Griffith and Farran, 1876. W.H. Overend. First Edition / First Impression. Hardback. Very good condition. Preceding the actual date that man first planted a boot on the North Pole by three decades. A children's adventure. A little bumping to the spine tips and corners, some offsetting and two unobtrusive.....
Item 13813Concise History of Parrott
East Grinstead, West Sussex: Nituglo Erzeugnisse, 1980. Limited Edition Hardback. Near fine condition. 403 of 500 copies. Signed by the author, as issued. A little wear to the wrapper, scratch to the head of the spine, but a pleasing copy overall. An obscure speculative fiction, heavily illustrated.
Item 11865The Mammoth Hunters (A Tale of Sexton Blake)
London: The Amalgamated Press, 1909. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. The second Sexton Blake novel after Jungle Boy. Rebound in plain cloth. Original wrappers bound in, possibly trimmed. Paper toned, boards a little tanned. A nice copy overall. Sexton Blake was a fictional detective running between 1893.....
Item 11583Changeover
London: Macmillan, 1970. First / First. Hardback. A good copy. The author's first book. Two tears to the top of the jacket, not price clipped. A few areas of wear and a small red stain transferred from the cloth. Leaves tanned as is common. Diana Wynne Jones (1934-2011) was one.....
Item 11987Father Christmas: The Children's Casket of Pictures
London: The London Illustrated News, 1894. Louis Wain. First Paperback. Good condition. Seemingly rare. Publishes 39 poems by Nesbit, each illustrated by Wain. Wrappers fixed with archival tape, rusting to the staples and some chipping to the edges. But nice enough overall.
Item 10728Up The Faraway Tree
London: Newnes, 1951. Dorothy M. Wheeler. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. In the rare jacket. Fourth in the series, and veering away from the format of the first three by being fully illustrated with captions beneath. The jacket is faded to the spine with a number of.....
Item 10923A Watcher in the Woods
New York: Atheneum, 1976. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. An uncommon book, adapted by Disney in 1980 - an adaptation that was somewhat unsuccessful and resulted in a reshoot for the ending which didn't make sense. A couple of short tears to the lower edge, one both.....
Item 9860Harlequinade
London: Frederick Muller, 1937. Grace Reed Harding. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy of this rare children's story. Inscribed by the author noting that it's the first copy and dated three days prior to pubication. A well presented copy with a bit of wear to the spine tips.....
Item 11484Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales
London: A. & C. Black, 1912. A. Duncan Carse. Limited Hardback. A very good copy. Number 156 of 250 copies, issued signed by the publisher and a Haleem St Aubyn Thomas (no idea who he is or if that's even his name). Fantastic edition of Andersen's timeless tales. Some bumping.....
Item 12651The Harry Potter Books - The Deluxe Issue, each inscribed by the author.
London: Bloomsbury, 1999-2007. Later Hardback. Near fine copies. Eight volumes, being the complete run of the Harry Potter books and Beedle the Bard. All eight volumes are inscribed and personalised by the author. The recipients of the books were the nephews and niece of Fiddy Henderson, Rowling's PA. All are.....
Item 10434Cloudland and Shadowland
London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin, nd [1886]. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Bunce's first book, a children's tale. Uncommon. Some rubbing and bumping to the boards, gift inscription for 1869, owner's plate, hinges starting and block a little loose.
Item 13564The Wind in the Willows - With Artist's Proof
London: The Folio Society, 2005. Charles van Sandwyck. First Edition Thus / First Impression. Hardback. A fine copy in the slipcase, without jacket as issued. This is the first printing of this edition, with the addition of having the artist's proof of laid down, signed and noted by the artist.....
Item 13493The Eggchild
London: Faber & Faber, 1978. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy, just a little toning to the spine, some light fading to the edges of the boards.
Item 13771The White Rose and the Black
London: Faber & Faber, 1979. First Edition / First Impression. Hardback. Near fine condition. A children's story involving the little furry Moes and the lost race of the Mys. Some toning to the spine and a little handling wear. A nice copy overall. From the flap: "The Peat Hag sat.....
Item 11921Tom, Unlimited: A Story for Children
London: Grant Richards, 1897. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy. Inscribed by the author's wife to 'Iolo', to which someone has amended in pencil 'Williams'. A children's fantasy. Some bumping to the spine tips and a little rubbing to the boards, spnie a touch toned. Owner's reference in.....
Item 11740The Dragons Remembered w/ Original Jacket Studies from Val Biro
London: Brockhampton Press, 1956. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy of the book, but we're not overly interested in the book, rather it's the two Val Biro paintings that steal the show. One is clearly a study for the final design, but the other is in many ways.....
Item 9762The Welkin's Roar
London: Dryden Press, 1886. First / First. Paperback. A very good copy. Wonderful little book. A quirkly little book in the vein of Lear. There's a particularly nice section in the centre involving Japanese art, with illustrations. Particularly uncommon, only one copy located - TPL. 35pp. Two leaves of adverts.....
Item 12709War Horse
Tadsworth, Surrey: Kaye & Ward, 1982. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Spine tips bumped, corners a little too. Internally neat. Adapted in 2011 by Steven Spielberg for the big screen, and is currently on its second run in the UK in the West End after a hugely.....
Item 13569Beauty and the Beast
London: Dean & Son, 1854. First Edition / First Impression. Paperback. Good condition. Uncommon. Included is a manuscript sheet outlining all of The Beast's lines, presumably from someone learning their lines. Some chipping and tears to the spine, a little toning. Some separation at the spine. Seller's label to the.....
Item 12084Lost - Two Little Girls: A Story for Children
New York: John B, Alden, 1889. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy. A rare US children's book involving an inhabited Mars. A lovely copy, spine tips and corners a touch bumped, cloth a little rubbed. Front endpaper has a pair of tears and an associated crease, gift inscription.....
Item 12704The Little Ape and Other Stories
London: Hendersons, 1921. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Inscribed by John Austen, the book's illustrator. This was the first book Austen illustrated. Collects seven short stories.The jacket has a couple of tears, some staining and creasing. The boards are grubby and the spine is tanned - probably.....
Item 9049The Jungle Book
London: Macmillan & Co., 1908. Maurice and Edward Detmold. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy. One of the highlights of book illustration. Spine tips a touch rubbed and bumped. Two ownership inscriptions to front endpaper, but overall a very nice copy. Complete. First Detmold edition. A classic work.....
Item 11414Pears' Annual 1924 [inc. Arthur Rackham, Kay Nielsen, Charles Robinson, E.J. Detmold, E.H. Shepard and Edmund Dulac Plates]
London: A. & F. Pears, 1924. First / First. Paperback. A near fine copy. A fantastic selection of golden age illustrators. The Rackham plate, Winter Frolic, is a particularly nice two-page spread. Some tanning to the covers and an ink mark that penetrates the first few leaves. Staples rusted but.....
Item 9764Ubero the Robot
London: Arthur H. Stockwell, 1935. Minouvis. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy. Uncommon. Four copies located on JISC. A light-hearted book of poetry involving our robot Ubero. A children's book really, but an early example of a robot (i.e. the word associated with the machine) in literature. Boards.....