Search results for: 'chelsea bindery'
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ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.London : 2003
First edition of the fifth Harry Potter novel, a sparkling example of the Chelsea Bindery's work. The Order of the Phoenix is the fifth book in the Harry Potter series. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 116758
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SEUSS, Dr. The Cat in the Hat.New York : 1957
First edition, first issue, with the price listed on the dust jacket as 200/200 and the boards not laminated as in later issues. Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 99963
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DULAC, Edmund (illus.); STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Treasure Island.London : 1927
First Dulac edition, signed limited issue, number 49 of 50 copies signed by the illustrator, bound in vellum and printed on handmade paper, and notably rare due to the unusually small limitation. Hughey describes Dulac's watercolour illustration for Treasure Island as his "most careful and superb painting", and Dulac himself considered them... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 131651
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COLLODI, Carlo. The Story of a Puppet or the Adventures of Pinocchio.1892
First edition in English. The London and New York editions are from the same sheets and both dated 1892, although the inscription here suggests that the London edition at least was issued the previous year, presumably for the Christmas gift market. First issued in magazine instalments in the Giornale dei bambini (Rome, 7 July 1881 on), Pinocchio was... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 44582
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WHITE, T. H. The Sword in The Stone.London : 1938
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 131983
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HOFFMANN, Heinrich. The English Struwwelpeter.Leipzig : 1848
Scarce first edition in English of the children's picture book Der Struwwelpeter, among the rarest of all children's books due to the fragility of the publication.
A publishing phenomenon that is still in print today, The English Struwwelpeter first appeared as a German children's Christmas picture book, Dr Heinrich Hoffmann's Lustige... Learn More£18,500.00Stock Code: 137787
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ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.London : 1997
First edition, first impression, the preferred case-bound issue, with all the requisite points of first printing: Bloomsbury imprint, 10-down-to-1 number line, and in the list of equipment on p. 53 "1 wand" appearing twice. Only 500 copies of the first printing of Philosopher's Stone were issued in this hardback format, of which some 300 were... Learn More£110,000.00Stock Code: 141198
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); BARRIE, J. M. Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens.London : 1906
First Rackham edition. Inscribed by the author to the half-title "To George Shelton from his old friend J. M. Barrie Christmas 1906." George Shelton was the first actor to play Smee on stage.
Barrie asked Rackham to illustrate not the play Peter Pan (which remained unpublished until 1928) but make a new book from those chapters from The Little... Learn More£5,750.00Stock Code: 137773
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WILLIAMS, Margery; William Nicholson (illus.) The Velveteen Rabbit or How Toys Become Real.London : 1922
First edition, first impression, with the rare dust jacket. The first impression of this beautiful and much-loved collaboration between Margery Williams and William Nicholson is notable for the chromolithographic printing of Nicholson's illustrations. They were replaced by a cheaper process in subsequent printings. "It is loved by parents and teachers... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 138352
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DISNEY, Walt (inscr.); PALMER, H. Marion. Walt Disney's Surprise Package.New York : 1944
First edition, first printing. Inscribed on the verso of the front free endpaper in crayon to "Mimi Bonesteel, Happy Easter, Walt Disney." Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 89991
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FARLEY, Walter. The Black Stallion.New York : 1941
First edition, first printing; copies in the dust jacket are notably uncommon. Winner of the Young Reader's Choice Award for 1944, this was the first in the long-running series of Black Stallion books, "which have charmed young readers for nearly 50 years... and won Farley international acclaim. More than 12 million copies... have been sold, in 14 countries"... Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 108553
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BAUM, L. Frank. The Wizard of Oz Waddle Book.New York : 1934
First edition, first state, with publisher's imprint to the spine. A most unusual toy book; the reader was invited to take the die-cut figures and assemble them into three dimensional models which, when placed on the provided sloping runway, would move or "waddle" down on their own. A very scarce Oz title, this is one of very few known copies containing... Learn More£13,000.00Stock Code: 98934
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STEVENSON, Robert Louis. A Child's Garden of Verses.London : 1885
First edition, one of 1,000 copies published. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 132801
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![The House at Pooh Corner. [With an original pen and ink drawing of Winnie-the-Pooh.]](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/3/138703comp.jpg)
(SHEPARD, E. H.) MILNE, A. A. The House at Pooh Corner. [With an original pen and ink drawing of Winnie-the-Pooh.]London : 1929
Third edition. With an original pen and ink drawing on the title page by Shepard of Winnie-the-Pooh in full traditional Russian costume including a fur hat and playing a balalaika, signed beneath the image. Rare thus.
Milne began planning his final Pooh book in 1927. Three years of intense publicity were taking their toll on the family, and Milne... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 138703
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KINGSLEY, Charles; Warwick Goble (illus.) The Water Babies. A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby.London : 1910
First octavo edition of Goble's Water Babies, following the quarto edition of the previous year. "Goble moved into the big time in 1909 when he became the resident gift book illustrator for the large publishing firm of Macmillan. The first of his classic de luxe volumes in the Macmillan series was The Water Babies, by Charles Kingsley. Containing 32... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 31785
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SENDAK, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are.New York : 1963
First edition, first printing, first issue, inscribed by the author on the half-title: "For Janet Anderson, Maurice Sendak 4/15/82". With the ticket for a book signing at Newcomb Hall Bookstore at the University of Virginia loosely inserted, signed by Anderson on the back; Janet Anderson served as a book designer at the University of Virginia Press.
There... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 133220
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ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.London : 2000
First edition, first impression, dedication copy, inscribed by the author on the dedication page with an arrow from the printed dedication ("to Susan Sladden who helped Harry out of his cupboard"): "and, though we didn't want it in print, helped me out of my cupboard. With unending gratitude and equal love Jo a.k.a. (again) JK Rowling x". The printed... Learn More£75,000.00Stock Code: 128864
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(ROBINSON, W. Heath.) HUNTER, Norman. The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm.London : 1933
First edition, first impression, of the first Professor Branestawm title, the first in an unusually extended series, written over a 50-year period, and the only one illustrated by Heath Robinson. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 138696
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KIPLING, Rudyard. Just So StoriesLondon : 1902
First edition, first impression, second state binding, of Kipling's famous collection of twelve stories and twelve poems, including "How the Camel Got His Hump" and "How the Leopard Got His Spots." The first impression exists in two issues of the binding. The first, on which the white blocking failed to adhere, was superseded by this more stably blocked... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 130603
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BAUM, L. Frank. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.Chicago : 1900
First edition, in the rare and desirable first state of both text and binding. The text has the following points: on p. 2, the publisher's advertisement has a box; on p. 14, line 1 has the misprint "low wail on the wind"; p. 81, line 4 from bottom has "peices" uncorrected; p. 227, line 1 begins: "While Tin Woodman"; the colophon is in 11 lines within... Learn More£55,000.00Stock Code: 115135
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![Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; [together with:] Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/3/136041.jpg)
CARROLL, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; [together with:] Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.London : 1866 & 1872
First published editions of both Alice in Wonderland books. Adventures in Wonderland is the first published edition, the second overall: the book was originally printed in Oxford at the Clarendon Press in June 1865, but was suppressed when Carroll heard that the book's illustrator was dissatisfied with the quality of the printing. He recalled the few... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 136041
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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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MILNE, A. A. The House at Pooh Corner.London : 1928
Signed limited edition, large paper copy, number 85 of 350 copies signed by both the author and the illustrator. The House at Pooh Corner, the final Pooh book, was received by critics with a delight tinged by sadness. "The Times Literary Supplement congratulated Milne on avoiding 'the temptation to repeat his successful formula mechanically',... Learn More£5,750.00Stock Code: 131996
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SEUSS, Dr. The Lorax.New York : 1971
First edition, first issue. Seuss's environmental masterpiece. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 101765
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ROBINSON, Charles (illus.); STEVENSON, Robert Louis. A Child's Garden of Verses.London : 1896
First Charles Robinson edition. A Child's Garden of Verses was originally published in 1885. Learn More£1,850.00Stock Code: 132890
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DAHL, Roald. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More.London : 1977
First edition, first impression. With the author's signed inscription to the verso of the half-title. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 99107
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SMITH, Dodie. The Hundred and One Dalmatians.London : 1956
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 88962
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); POLLARD, Alfred W. The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of The Round Table.London : 1917
Signed limited edition, number 130 out of 500 copies signed by the artist. The Romance of King Arthur was a wartime book, commissioned to reflect the nations' mood of patriotism and military endeavour.
In preparing for the commission, Rackham turned to his own copy of Beardsley's Morte D'Arthur. Like Beardsley's illustrations Rackham's designs... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 133865
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MILNE, A. A. Now We Are Six.London : 1927
First edition, first impression. Following the success of When We Were Very Young Milne began planning a second book of poetry for children. In a January 1926 letter to his brother Ken he included it as number one in a list of "things which ought to be done": "A book of verses (about 15 done to date) to appear in 1927 or 1928" (Thwaite, p. 293). By... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 133436
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MILNE, A. A. When We Were Very Young.London : 1924
First edition, first impression, second state, with the page number ix present in the preliminaries (in copies of the first state the contents page ix is unnumbered). Milne composed most of When We Were Very Young as entertainment during a dreary holiday in Wales. Many of the poems first ran as weekly instalments in Punch, charmingly illustrated... Learn More£8,750.00Stock Code: 138208
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows.London : 1951
Deluxe edition, number 381 of 500 copies. This is 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£2,950.00Stock Code: 130874
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LEWIS, C. S. The Last BattleLondon : 1956
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 32958
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); STEPHENS, James. Irish Fairy Tales.London : 1920
Signed limited edition of 520 unnumbered copies signed by the artist. Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 135277
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LEWIS, C. S. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.London : 1950
First edition, first impression. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 132390
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows.New York : 1940
Signed limited edition, number 1077 of 2,020 numbered copies signed by the designer Bruce Rogers. Rackham had been asked to illustrate the first edition of 1908 but was unable to accept the commission. He deeply regretted the decision, but just before his death he was able to illustrate this Limited Editions Club edition. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 122097
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); STEPHENS, James. Irish Fairy Tales.London : 1920
Limited edition of 520 unnumbered copies signed by the artist. Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 122376
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(SHEPARD, E. H.) GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows.London : 1931
First Shepard edition, the first illustrated edition of this children's classic, which was first published in 1908. Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 127194
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RACKHAM, Arthur. Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures.London : 1913
Signed limited edition, one of 1030 copies signed by the artist. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 48431
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RACKHAM, Arthur. Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures.London : 1913
Signed limited edition, number 166 of 1,030 copies signed by the artist. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 61468
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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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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); IRVING, Washington. Rip Van Winkle.London : 1905
First Rackham edition. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 35892
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KIPLING, Rudyard. The Two Jungle Books.London : 1924
First thin paper edition. An immediate success on publication, The Jungle Book was reprinted twice in 1894 and twice again the following year. "Kipling followed with The Second Jungle Book (1895), but the two sets of stories have rarely been united, despite the fact that the later book completed the Mowgli saga with five stories... Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 126466
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SEUSS, Dr. The Cat in the Hat.New York : 1957
First edition, first printing, inscribed by Dr. Seuss on verso of front endpaper, "for Brent, best wishes, Dr. Seuss". This is the first issue, with the price code on the jacket 200/200 and the boards not laminated as in later issues. This is an exceptionally nice example of the landmark children's book, entirely unrestored. Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 138697
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LEWIS, C. S. The Silver Chair.London : 1953
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 86668
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows.London : 1951
Deluxe edition, number 86 of 500 copies. This is 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£2,950.00Stock Code: 122630
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); EVANS, C. S. The Sleeping Beauty.London : 1920
First trade edition. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 94962
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(SHEPARD, Ernest H.) GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows.London : 1931
Signed limited edition, number 172 of 200 large paper copies signed by both author and artist. Wind in the Willows was first published in 1908 with only a frontispiece for illustration. Well-known for his illustrations of A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh series, Shepard was asked to illustrate a new edition, following Milne's popular adaptation of the... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 138548
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ROBINSON, W. Heath. Bill The Minder.London : 1912
Signed limited edition, one of 380 copies, of which this number 167 signed by the artist. Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 18290
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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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OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul. Bunny and Brownie. The adventures of George & Wiggle.1930
First edition, first impression. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 60020
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ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.London : 1997
First edition, first impression, paperback issue, inscribed by the author "To Paul, Best Wishes, J K Rowling" on half-title and dated "18/3/98". Rowling signed this copy during a school visit in Wales for a young boy who had been given the book as a present by his aunt.
This is one of 5,150 copies in wrappers, with all the requisite points of... Learn More£30,000.00Stock Code: 135240
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SEUSS, Dr. On Beyond Zebra.New York : 1955
First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author together with an original drawing on the verso of the original front free endpaper, "For Daisie Ford Wright with kindest regards Dr. Seuss". An alphabet book which picks up after the letter Z. Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 111745
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows.London : 1951
Deluxe edition, number 305 of 500 copies. This is 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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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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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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BUSCH, Wilhelm. Max und Moritz:Munich : [1865]
Rare first edition, first impression, of the book widely regarded as the prototype of the children's comic. The first printing was 4,000 copies, but the nature of the book and the juvenile readership led to a very high attrition rate. This is a remarkably well-preserved copy.
After Struwwelpeter, Max und Moritz is the best known German children's... Learn More£45,000.00Stock Code: 138250
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SEUSS, Dr. Thidwick. The Big-Hearted Moose.New York : 1948
Early printing. Inscribed by the author at the bottom of the dedication page "For the Hessels with best wishes Dr. Seuss." Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 98906
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PARRISH, Maxfield (illus.); SAUNDERS, Louise. The Knave of Hearts.New York : 1925
First Edition, First Printing. Parrish was especially well-served here by a beautifully printed volume with superbly done colour reproductions. The publisher spared no expense, and priced the book at 10.00, a very high price for the day. Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 90269
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SEUSS, Dr. The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins.New York : 1938
First edition, later printing with the hats on the endpapers going from small to large. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the bottom of the verso of the original front free endpaper "With best wishes to Jack Macpherson Dr. Seuss." Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 80761
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GOODALL, John Strickland. Manuscript maquette for Creepy Castle.London : 1975
The original manuscript maquette of Goodall's wordless picture book, Creepy Castle, which would be published in 1975 by Macmillan in London and Atheneum in New York. While the published book conveys Goodall (1908-1996)'s inventive approach to the picture book format, it fails to fully transmit the delicate lines and colouring of the artist's lively... Learn More£9,750.00Stock Code: 98985
