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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 that relate closely... Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 126466
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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.); GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows.
London : 1951
Deluxe edition, number 323 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: 110662
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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.); IRVING, Washington. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
Philadelphia : 1928.
Limited edition, one of 125 copies issued for the US, this copy out of series (there were also 250 issued for the UK). Learn More£2,950.00Stock Code: 77874
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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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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: 123059
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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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NORTON, Mary. The Borrowers.
London : 1952
First edition, first impression. Winner of the 1952 Carnegie Medal, on the 70th anniversary celebration of the medal in 2007, The Borrowers was named one of the top ten Medal-winning works. Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 127494
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DULAC, Edmund (illus.); ANDERSEN, Hans Christian. Stories from Hans Andersen.
New York and London : 1911
First English trade edition. The first edition containing Dulac's illustrations for Hans Christian Andersen was originally published in 1911. Although the page-size of this later edition is smaller, the illustrations are reproduced at their original sizes. The collection comprises six stories: "The Snow Queen", "The Swineherd", "The Nightingale", "The... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 126094
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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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BAUM, L. Frank. The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus.
Indianapolis : 1902
First edition, first printing. Baum is best known for the Wizard of Oz books, in two of which Santa Claus features as a guest of Oz. Learn More£3,950.00Stock Code: 107961
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MILNE, A. A. [The Pooh books:]
London : 1924-8
First editions, first impressions. When We Were Young is a first first state, with the contents page ix unnumbered and also has a presentation stamp to the title page. The little bear described by Christopher Milne in his autobiography as his "inseparable companion" has also become the inseparable companion of generations of children, often remaining... Learn More£9,750.00Stock Code: 133547
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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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CARROLL, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; [together with:] Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.
London : 1866 & 1872
Handsomely bound 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.... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 142375
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RANSOME, Arthur. Swallows and Amazons.
London : 1931
First fully illustrated edition, published a year after the first edition. Ransome disliked the proposed illustrations by Steven Spurrier for the first edition, and it had been issued only with a frontispiece. Learn More£2,950.00Stock Code: 133864
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); IBSEN, Henrik. Peer Gynt.
London : 1936
Deluxe edition, number 6 of ten "special copies" reserved by the publisher, presented in a specially commissioned luxury binding and including a delightful full-page original pen-and-ink and watercolour drawing by Rackham (signed "Arthur Rackham 36"), showing Peer Gynt being swarmed by the trolls and surrounded by anthropomorphic trees. Describing his... Learn More£25,000.00Stock Code: 135675
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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