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First editions of major works of children's literature, including the works of Lewis Carroll, Beatrix Potter, A. A. Milne, Roald Dahl, J. K. Rowling, and other major writers in these fields.
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(WYETH, N. C.) STEVENSON, Robert Louis.
Kidnapped. The Adventures of David Balfour. 1913
£375
First Wyeth edition, first printing.
Quarto. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt, full colour illustration mounted on upper board, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour... Read more
WYETH, N. C.
Robin Hood. 1917
£575
First Wyeth edition, first printing. A lovely copy.
Quarto. Original green cloth, titles and panelling to spine and upper board gilt, full-colour illustration mounted on upper board, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt.... Read more
WOODWARD, Alice B., & Daniel O'Connor.
The Peter Pan Picture Book. 1907
£375
First edition, first impression. One of 150 copies printed on handmade paper with the plates mounted.
Octavo. Original grey-brown cloth, titles and illustrations to covers gilt, titles to spine gilt. Light staining and discolouration to covers, gilt faded to spine,... Read more
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
The Gold Bat. 1904
£2,000
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and upperboard in black, blue, and yellow. Prize bookplate. Spine faded, binding a little rubbed... Read more
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
The White Feather. 1907
£1,000
First edition, first impression and scarce.
Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spines gilt, pictorial decoration and titles to upper board in black and white. Bookseller's ticket to front pastedown,... Read more
WILSON, Jacqueline.
Between the Lines. 2006
£1,500
An illustrated story written for the charity Book Aid International by the world famous child super star Tracy Beaker. Signed by Jacqueline Wilson.
A3 broadsheet. Autograph story, illustrated and signed. Mounted, glazed and framed. Read more
WILLIAMSON, Henry.
Tarka The Otter. 1948
£150
Reprint. With the author's inscription to the front free endpaper, "John Heygate from Henry Williamson July 1953." Williamson visited Heygate in Germany where he became interested in...
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe, A.R.A. Small bump to top of spine, tips a little rubbed, in... Read more
WILLIAMS, Margery.
The Velveteen Rabbit Or How Toys Become Real. [1922]
£3,750
First US edition with the first issue sheets from the English edition.
Quarto. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in pale tan morocco, titles and decoration to spine in black, pictorial onlay of the Velveteen Rabbit to front board,... Read more
WILLIAMS, Margery.
The Velveteen Rabbit or How Toys Become Real. 1922
£15,000
First edition, first impression, notable for its chromolithographic illustrations, which were replaced by cheaper, less luminous colour printing in subsequent versions. Copies in...
Quarto. Original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. With 7 colour plates, of which 3 are double-page. Lightly rubbed at extremities, faint... Read more
(WILCOX SMITH, Jessie) KINGSLEY, Charles.
The Water Babies. c.1918
£280
Boots Edition of this Willcox Smith's classic.
Quarto. Recent dark green morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, roll to boards, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. With 12 tipped-in colour plates,... Read more
WHITE, T. H.
The Sword in The Stone. 1938
£1,375
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in burgundy morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards, twin rule to turn-ins, dark... Read more
WHITE, T. H.
The Witch in the Wood. 1940
£1,500
First UK edition, first impression of White's second Arthurian book. This edition is preceded by the American edition published at New York by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1939.
Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine in green. With the dust jacket. Very slight bump to lower corner. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket. Read more
WHITE, T. H.
Verses. 1962
£1,500
First Edition, Sole Printing. One of just 100 numbered copies signed by the author. This copy additionally has the author's signed presentation inscription to the verso of the title...
Octavo. Original japon-backed red boards, titles to spine gilt, top edge gilt others untrimmed, marbled endpapers. With the unprinted acetate dust jacket. Frontis... Read more
WHITE, E. B.
Charlotte's Web. 1952
£1,500
First edition, first printing.
Octavo. Original light brown boards, titles to spine and upper board in black an blue, blue spider-web patterned endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrated... Read more
WHITE, E. B.
Stuart Little. 1945
£875
First edition, first printing.
Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and upper board in green and white, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrated... Read more
WHITE, E. B.
Stuart Little. 1945
£1,850
First edition, first printing.
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full green morocco, titles to spine gilt, two raised bands, multi-coloured pictorial onlay of Stuart Little to the front... Read more
WEBB, Clifford.
Butterwick Farm. 1933
£150
First edition.
Large quarto. Original white cloth, front side lettered and illustrated in turquoise and brown, endpapers illustrated in brown, with dust jacket. Colour illustrations... Read more
(WAIN, Louis) OWEN, Alicia Mary.
Old Rabbit the Voodoo and Other Sorcerers. 1893
£400
First Edition, First Impression. Traditional Black-American folklore.
Octavo. Original illustrated boards, titles to upper board in black, titles to spine gilt. Illustrated by Juliette A. Owen and Louis Wain. Bumped, foot of spine... Read more
(WAIN, Louis) OWEN, Alicia Mary.
Old Rabbit the Voodoo and Other Sorcerers. 1893
£250
First Edition, First Impression. Traditional Black-American folklore.
Octavo. Original illustrated boards, titles to upper board in black, titles to spine gilt. Illustrated by Juliette A. Owen and Louis Wain. Bumped, spine a little... Read more
VENNING, Mary Anne.
A Geographical Present; 1817
£575
Uncommon first edition of this highly attractive juvenile geography. "Like her early-nineteenth-century contemporary Priscilla Wakefield, Venning seems to have been a woman who...
Duodecimo (147 × 88 mm). Modern red morocco, title gilt to spine, raised bands, floral devices within single fillet panels to the compartments, gilt panels with... Read more
VEDDER, David.
The Story of Reynard The Fox. [c.1860]
£375
A handsomely bound and illustrated copy. The Reynard tales were first printed in England by Caxton in 1481 and continued to enjoy enormous popularity in the following centuries.
Quarto. Contemporary red morocco, decoration to bands, gilt boarders with title and pictorial block of a fox to centre in gilt to the front board and in blind to the... Read more
VAN ALLSBURG, Chris.
The Polar Express. 1985
£750
First edition, first printing.
Oblong quarto. Original burgundy cloth, titles to spine and bell design to upper board in silver, brown endpapers. With the dust jacket. Colour illustrations by the... Read more
[UPTON, Florence K.] UPTON, Bertha.
The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls. [1895]
£375
First Edition, First Impression.
Oblong quarto. Original brown cloth spine, pictorial upper board, decorative endpapers. With colour illustrations by Florence K. Upton. Light wear to edges, boards... Read more
[UPTON, Florence K.] UPTON, Bertha.
The Golliwogg at the Sea-Side. 1898
£250
First Edition, First Impression.
Oblong quarto. Original green cloth spine, pictorial upper board, decorative endpapers. With colour illustrations by Florence K. Upton. A little wear to edges, ten... Read more
TRAVERS, P. L.
Mary Poppins Opens the Door. 1944
£500
First edition, first impression. Extremely scarce.
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and pictorial decoration to upper board in blue, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and illustrations... Read more
