Children's
Rare first editions, signed and inscribed copies, deluxe and collectible editions of books, pamphlets, and ephemera relating to books written for children or juveniles.
First editions of children's classics, including Roald Dahl, Beatrix Potter, J. K. Rowling, A. A. Milne and J. M. Barrie.From the blog: 'Dear Boys and Girls': Enid Blyton's personal brand
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DICAMILLO, Kate. Because of Winn-Dixie.Cambridge, MA : 2000
First edition, first printing. Author's first book and a 2001 Newbery Honor title. Story of a young girl who claims a stray dog as her own to save him. Basis for the 2005 film. Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 95851
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![Pannekakeboken [Pancakes! Pancakes!]](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/9/7/97044comp.jpg)
CARLE, Eric. Pannekakeboken [Pancakes! Pancakes!]Oslo : 1975
Second edition in Norwegian. Inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf: "Bill, I enjoyed meeting you in Peter Rabbits. Eric Carle, March 1976." Originally published in 1970 by Simon and Schuster, New York; the first edition in Norwegian appeared in 1971. Learn More£100.00Stock Code: 97044
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ATKINSON, Mary Evelyn. Smugglers' Gap.London : 1939
First edition, first impression of the fourth title in Atkinson's Lockett children series. Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 97878
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DUVOISIN, Roger (illus.); FATIO, Louise. The Happy Lion's Rabbits.New York : 1974
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author and illustrator on the half-title, "To Max, affectionately and with thanks for his help and in making the text beautiful, Louise Fatio (Loulou) and Roger." Learn More£550.00Stock Code: 98006
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LANGSTAFF, John; ROJANKOVSKY, Feodor (illus.) Frog Went a-Courtin'.New York : 1955
First edition, first printing, of this picture book retelling of the folk song. Recipient of the 1956 Caldecott Medal, Frog Went a-Courting met with both popular and critical success, with the Saturday Review of Literature calling it "one of the gayest of picture books" (14 May, 1955). Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 98718
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REY, Margret & H. A. Pretzel and the Puppies.New York : 1946
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the authors on the front pastedown, together with an original drawing of Pretzel, "the longest Dachshund in the world". Learn More£1,650.00Stock Code: 98810
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JOHNSON, Crockett. Harold and the Purple Crayon.New York : 1955
First edition, first printing, of the first book in the series. A very attractive copy of this charming story of what imagination and one crayon can bring. Learn More£2,875.00Stock Code: 98938
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BAUM, L. Frank - Ruth Plumly Thompson. Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz.Chicago : 1929
First edition, first printing. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 99842
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SENDAK, Maurice. In the Night Kitchen.New York : 1970
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Sendak on the half title, "For Arnold Larsen, with best wishes! Maurice Sendak Feb. 71." A 1971 Caldecott Honor title. This title was a banned book and is rank 25th by the American Library Association on its "100 most frequently challenged books of 1990-2000" list. Learn More£1,100.00Stock Code: 100588
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[GOREY, Edward.] Dogear Wryde. Postcards: Whatever Next? Series.N.p. : 1990
Signed limited edition, one of 26 lettered sets signed by Edward Gorey, this one being "W", from a complete edition of 250 sets. Learn More£1,200.00Stock Code: 100674
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RIGGS, Ransom. Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children.Philadelphia : 2011
First edition, first printing. Signed by Riggs to the title page. A young adult novel creatively crafted around the use of vernacular photographs.
Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 100680
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CROFTS, Freeman Wills. Young Robin Brand Detective.London : 1947
First edition, first impression of the author's only children's mystery book. Scarce. Bookplate to front free endpaper: Douglas Charles Harrod (1910-1994), former senior lecturer in pharmacy at King's College, London. Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 100772
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SENDAK, Maurice. Outside Over There.New York : 1981
First edition, first printing. Pre-publication presentation copy, signed by the author a month prior to publication on the front free endpaper, dated 13 May 1981, and with his sister's inscription above: "Natalie Sendak Lesselbaum (Maurice's sister). I gave him his first book." A lovely association copy. Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 100941
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DOMANSKA, Janina. Din Dan Don It's Christmas.New York : 1975
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the title page, " To Ada with much love Janin August 1975." A Polish christmas carol. Learn More£100.00Stock Code: 101553
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![The Castle and the Cave. [With the original artwork for the dust jacket by John S. Goodhall].](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/0/101678comp.jpg)
FINLAY, Winifred. The Castle and the Cave. [With the original artwork for the dust jacket by John S. Goodhall].London : 1960
First edition, first impression. Signed by the author on the title page and with John S. Goodhall's original ink and watercolour artwork for the dust jacket, which bears the publisher's stamp on the back. The Castle and the Cave is the story of a seventeen year old English girl sent to the Dordogne region of France to work as an au pair. Learn More£525.00Stock Code: 101678
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STEADMAN, Ralph, & Fiona Saint. The Yellow Flowers.London : 1968
First edition, first impression. Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 103767
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PEAKE, Mervyn. Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor.London : 1945
First procurable edition, as the original, published by Country Life in 1939, is of legendary scarcity; as explained on the jacket blurb of the present edition "the original edition of this book was published early in the war but destroyed by enemy action. The artist has coloured the plates for this edition presumably a reference to the spot colour".... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 103786
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DIXON, Franklin W. The Tower Treasure.New York : 1927
First edition, first printing, of the first Hardy Boys title, long considered one of the holy grails of American children's book collecting. Developed by the American publisher Edward Stratemeyer, The Hardy Boys books were part of a range of juvenile detective fiction released by the Stratemeyer Syndicate, and was so successful that they launched Nancy... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 104563
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DIXON, Franklin W. The Hardy Boys: The Shore Road Mystery.New York : 1928
First edition, first state and format. The sixth Hardy Boys title. Learn More£4,250.00Stock Code: 104570
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DIXON, Franklin W. The Hardy Boys: The House on the Cliff.New York : 1927
First edition, first state and format of the second Hardy Boys title. Learn More£4,250.00Stock Code: 104571
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[UPTON, Florence K.] UPTON, Bertha. The Golliwogg's Christmas.London : 1907
First edition, first impression. Scarce with the jacket. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 105021
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LAWSON, Robert. Rabbit Hill.New York : 1944
First edition, first printing. Winner of the 1944 Newbery Medal, distinguishing it as a top children's book for that year. Story of a family of rabbits cohabiting the land with their human counterparts. Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 106201
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DULAC, Edmund (illus.); ANDERSEN, Hans Christian. Stories from Hans Andersen.London : 1911
Signed limited edition, deluxe issue. Number 23 of 100 specially bound copies, signed by the artist and printed on Japanese vellum. Learn More£3,850.00Stock Code: 107391
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SALTEN, Felix. Bambi: A Life in the Woods.New York : 1928
First edition in English, first printing (July 1928); originally published in German (Berlin: Ullstein Verlag, 1923). With an excellent photographic portrait of Salten mounted opposite the title page and inscribed: "for Mr Nelson Craig cordially Felix Salten, 1935". The portrait is the same as that used by Salten on his press card for the Union of Foreign... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 107906
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CARROLL, Lewis. "Bruno's Revenge."London : 1867
First edition of the story that formed the nucleus for Sylvie and Bruno. The editor, Margaret Gatty, was delighted: "the story is delicious. It is beautiful and fantastic and child-likeSome of the touches are so exquisite, one would have thought nothing short of intercourse with fairies could have put them into your head" Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 108913
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DAHL, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.New York : 1964
First edition, first printing with the six line colophon on the last page (this was cut to five in all subsequent printings). This US edition precedes the English by three years. Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 109131
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POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse.London : 1918
First edition, first impression, with the dropped "N" from London on the imprint. Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 109275
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WILDER, Laura Ingalls. These Happy Golden Years.New York : 1943
First edition, first printing. The eighth of nine titles in Wilder's Little House on the Prairie books. Learn More£1,225.00Stock Code: 109342
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POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes.London : 1911
First edition, deluxe issue, in red cloth. Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 109492
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ESTES, Eleanor. A Little Oven.New York : 1955
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy from the author, charmingly inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Genevieve, This story of another Genevieve and of Helena - with lots of little 'ovin's and 'ugging - Eleanor Estes. Happy Birthday! October 16 1966"; this is a reference to the character of Helena in the book, whose mother picks her... Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 109643
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PEAKE, Mervyn. Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor.London : 1939
First edition, first impression of the author's rare first book. "One of the first casualties of the blitz was Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor. The warehouse containing all available copies of the book was among the first to be bombed. Every copy was destroyed, cutting off Mervyn's income from that source and turning into rarities such copies as... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 109937
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GRAY, Millicent Etheldreda (illus.); QUILLER-COUCH, Mabel & Lilian. A Book of Children's Verse.London : [1911]
First and limited edition, number 37 of 100 numbered copies signed by the illustrator. Millicent Etheldreda Gray (1873-1957) is little known but her charming work here is full of atmosphere; she also illustrated an edition of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 110552
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DICKENS, Charles. A Child's History of England.London : 1852-4 [1851-3]
First editions in book form. Dickens's history of England for children, "intensely anti-aristocratic and anti-monarchical" (ODNB), originally appeared anonymously in Household Words between January 1851 and December 1853, with the volumes published in book-form in the December of those years, post-dated to the following years. In style, subject and... Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 111255
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HAUPTMANN, Tatjana. Hurray for Peregrine Pig.1980
First UK edition, originally published as Hurra, Eberhard Wutz ist wieder da! in 1979. No text, story told in pictures. Learn More£100.00Stock Code: 18182
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ALDIN, Cecil. Time I Was Dead. Pages from My Autobigraphy.1934
First edition, first impression. Signed limited edition. Limited to 100 copies of which this is number 59 signed by Cecil Aldin. Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 44392
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MARTIN, J. P. Uncle and His Detective.1966
First edition. The fourth of the Uncle books and one of the scarcer titles, particularly in such nice condition. Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 47793
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LEGGE, Janie. A Little Book of Legends for Children.1925
First edition, first impression. Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 50737
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SAVILLE, Malcolm. Not Scarlet But Gold. A Lone Pine Adventure.1966
First edition, first impression. Number 14 in the Lone Pine Adventure series. Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 62404
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AIKEN, Joan. All You've Ever Wanted. And Other Stories.London : 1953
First edition, first impression of the author's first book. Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 67849
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SMITH, Jessie Willcox (illus.); UNDERWOOD, Priscilla. When Christmas Comes Around. Sketches of Children.New York : 1915
First edition, first printing. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 68208
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DUVOISIN, Roger. A small archive of Christmas greetings cards and other correspondence.Gladstone, NJ : 1970s
An attractive collection of correspondence from the Swiss-born American writer and illustrator Roger Duvoisin (1900-1980) and his wife Louise (Loulou) Fatio to their friends, Helen and Max. Roger Duvoisin won the 1948 Caldecott Medal for White Snow, Bright Snow, written by Alvin Tresselt (D. Lothrop Co., 1947). He and his wife created together the Happy... Learn More£1,350.00Stock Code: 116252
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SMITH, Dodie. The Hundred and One Dalmatians.Melbourne, London, Toronto : 1956
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 72239
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OXENHAM, Elsie Jeanette. Rosamund's Castle.London : 1939
First edition, first impression, of the 27th title in the popular Abbey series. The publishing house Collins published the majority of the Abbey series, but Rosamund's Castle is one of only three to be published by The Girls Own Paper Office (G.O.P), a British story paper catered to young girls. Although a popular magazine with some notable contributors,... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 80999
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![The Story of Little Jane and Me. [With] Polly and the Aunt. By the Aunt.](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/8/3/83337.jpg)
BLATCHFORD, Mary Edgecumbe. The Story of Little Jane and Me. [With] Polly and the Aunt. By the Aunt.Boston and New York : 1898 and October 1906
First editions, both inscribed by the author (the second work being the dedication copy) to Caroline Nelson Russell, "with the author's love" on the first blanks, with "Cambridge, June 9, 1905" in the first work, and "Cambridge, October 6, 1906" in the second work. The Story of Little Jane and Me bears M. E. Blatchford's own bookplate, making this her... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 83337
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); GRIMM, [Jacob & Wilhelm]. The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm.New York : 1909
Deluxe American Edition. Limited to 50 copies. Signed by Arthur Rackham on the verso of the half-title. This is a revised edition of the work originally published in 1900 with some new illustrations and others redrawn and coloured. Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 86981
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WELLS, H. G. Floor Games.London : 1911
First edition, first impression. Written for the author's two sons, Floor Games explores the possibilities of imaginative play, city building, exploration, and war. Rare in the dust jacket. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 90331
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MALKUS, Alida Sims. Eastward Sweeps the Current.Chicago : 1937
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author to Julia F. Carter on the half-title verso, "For Miss Julia Carter, with warm appreciation of her kindness. Alida Malkus Cincinnati Nov. 5 1937." Julia F. Carter was the first full time children's librarian at the New York Public Library. Miss Carter was also the first national president of the... Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 93380
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MORAN, Jim; Roger Duvoisin (illus.) Sophocles the Hyena.New York : 1954
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to his literary agent, Carlton Cole, "who expertly piloted this book thru perilous publishers shoals and brought it safely into port with crew and cargo intact. This despite hazards on the high seas of book-commerce which would have scuttled any ordinary man. My Thanks, Jim Moran.... Learn More£575.00Stock Code: 107018
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BARRY, Fanny. Soap-Bubble Stories.New York : 1892
First edition, first printing. Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 107034
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows.London : 1951
Deluxe edition, number 305 of 500 copies. This the one-hundredth edition of Grahame's timeless classic, which was originally published in 1908, with just a frontispiece, by Graham Robertson. Rackham's illustrations for the text first appeared in the Limited Editions Club edition of 1940, and it was the last work he illustrated. "During his last illness... Learn More£4,250.00Stock Code: 107331
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); CARROLL, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.London : [1907]
Limited edition of 1,130 copies. Unusually, Rackham did not sign this limited edition, as he was out of the country while it was in preparation. Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 107351
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CARROLL, Lewis. Rhyme? And Reason?London : 1883
First edition. A remarkable presentation copy inscribed by the author to John Tenniel on the half-title in purple ink: "J. Tenniel, with sincere regards from the Author. Dec. 7/83." Never a close personal friend of the author, Tenniel famously refused further commissions from Dodgson after Through the Looking-Glass, but out of respect Dodgson kept him... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 108890
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[POTTER, Beatrix.] HEELIS, Beatrix. The Fairy Caravan.Philadelphia : 1929
First edition, signed limited issue. Number 11 of 100 copies signed by the author. Learn More£12,000.00Stock Code: 109178
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POTTER, Beatrix. The Roly-Poly Pudding.London & New York : 1908
First edition, second impression, with 1908 on the title page, but the words "All rights reserved" omitted from the foot of the title page. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 109223
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WYETH, N. C. (illus.); VERNE, Jules. Michael Strogoff,New York : 1927
First edition, first printing, of Wyeth's illustrated version of Verne's tale. Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 109348
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![Penelope's Progress being such extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton as relate to her Experiences in Scotland [and] Penelope's English Experiences.](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/1/110167comp.jpg)
WIGGIN, Kate Douglas. Penelope's Progress being such extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton as relate to her Experiences in Scotland [and] Penelope's English Experiences.Boston and New York : 1900
First illustrated editions, both copies inscribed and signed by Wiggin on the front free endpapers and Penelope's Progress with the title page additionally signed and dated 1901, and an autograph note signed tipped in. Penelope's Progress is inscribed quoting the first sentence of the book: "We have travelled together before, Salemina, Francesca, and... Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 110167
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STREATFEILD, Noel. Osbert.New York, Chicago & San Francisco : 1950
First edition, first printing, presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper, "June, you missed typing this which was a good thing as it was heavy work!! but here it is with my love Noel". This book comes from the library of June Allen, Streatfeild's amanuensis and proof-reader - a nice association. Very scarce signed. Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 111049
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GRAHAME, Kenneth. Dream Days.New York, : 1902
First US edition of the illustrated edition, variant binding with Dodd Mead copyright, John Lane title page, Dodd Mead spine imprint. First printed in London the same year by John Lane. A sequel to Grahame's Golden Age. Dream Days is best noted for it's inclusion of the story, The Reluctant Dragon, which served as the basis for the 1941 Walt Disney... Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 112013
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SEUSS, Dr, & Chuck Jones. An original production cel from the MGM animation Dr Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas.1966
Originally broadcast by CBS on 18 December 1966, How the Grinch Stole Christmas became a perennial feature of US festive season television - the position occupied by Raymond Briggs's The Snowman for British audiences. Superbly voiced by Boris Karloff and with ear-catching music by Albert Hague and Eugene Poddany, it was Chuck Jones's inspired direction... Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 112736
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); BIANCO, Margery Williams. Poor Cecco.New York : 1925
First Rackham Edition, predates UK edition. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 18103
