Search results for: 'the works'
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[WARNER, Susan.] WETHERELL, Elizabeth. The Wide, Wide World.New York : 1851
First edition of Susan Bogert Warner's first novel, written under the pseudonym of Elizabeth Wetherell, in bright condition. Warner (1819-1885) began writing The Wide, Wide World in 1848. It was to become one of the most popular American novels of its time, however initially had difficulty finding a publisher. "Even when George P. Putnam accepted the... Learn More£2,650.00Stock Code: 139641
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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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CARROLL, Lewis. The Complete Works.London : 1939
First collected edition, first impression. A handsomely bound copy of Carroll's works. Learn More£550.00Stock Code: 129190
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CARROLL, Lewis. The Complete Works.New York : [c.1940]
A handsomely bound volume of Carroll's works complete in one volume. Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 139188
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DAHL, Roald. The Commemorative Limited Edition of the Works.London : 1991
The Commemorative Edition, limited to 500 sets of which this is number 323. This edition was published to celebrate Dahl's 75th birthday on 13th September 1991. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 143271
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DAHL, Roald; JAQUES, Faith (illus.) Original artwork for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.London : [c.1973]
Original cover artwork, signed by the artist on the verso, for the first paperback edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, annotated with printing details to the margins and depicting Willy Wonka, Charlie and the other Golden Ticket-winners gathered around the Everlasting Gobstopper Machine. Original artwork for Roald Dahl's books is rare, and... Learn More£8,500.00Stock Code: 142906
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MACDONALD, George. Works of Fancy and Imagination.London : 1871
First collected edition of the works of George MacDonald, a friend and mentor of Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and a pioneering figure in the development of English fantasy writing. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 132658
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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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![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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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, one 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 Rackham... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 69790
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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.); 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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WAITE, Arthur Edward. Belle and the Dragon.London : 1894
First edition, in bright condition, of this uncommonly found allegorical children's fantasy. The work, set in the mythic land of Ravendale, features lightly disguised versions of Waite and his cohort. In "all his work Waite presented himself as a non-denominational mystic", here named "the Mystic", and depicted at page 95 (ODNB). Copies have been traced... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 141596
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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 Geschichten... Learn More£18,500.00Stock Code: 137787
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BAUM, L. Frank - Ruth Plumly Thompson. The Silver Princess in Oz.Chicago : 1938
First edition, first printing, first state "A" binding with spine illustration of Handy Mandy's face. The 31st Oz book, one of the works. Scarce in such good condition. Learn More£800.00Stock Code: 99736
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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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PENROSE, Elizabeth as MARKHAM, Mrs. A History of France with Conversations at the End of each Chapter.London : 1828
First edition, in an attractive contemporary binding, of Elizabeth Penrose's pseudonymously published second popular history for children. Penrose's pioneering and influential juvenile works were distinguished by her use of an explicatory narrative technique which concludes each chapter with dialogue between the author and her fictional pupils.
The... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 117710
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POTTER, Beatrix. Plays based on the published stories.London : 1930-62
A group of six theatrical versions of Beatrix Potter stories, three titles with one or two variant issues. The Tailor and Gloucester and Ginger and Pickles were dramatized by Potter in collaboration with the character actor and director Ernest George Harcourt Williams; the others were adapted from her books without her direct involvement.
(i,... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 109504
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WILLIAMS-ELLIS, Amabel. Fairy Tales from the British Isles.London & Glasgow : 1960
First edition, first impression, signed by the illustrator on the half-title and with an impish correction of the title from "Fairy", which she crossed out, to "Mouse Tales". Baynes (1922-2008) had already worked with Williams-Ellis on her previous publication, The Arabian Nights (1957). She had also very successfully illustrated several of J. R. R.... Learn More£900.00Stock Code: 138071
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POTTER, Beatrix. Original drawing of a mouse curtsying in front of a tea cup from the Tailor of Gloucester.[Near Sawrey,] : 1927
Signed and dated November 1927 in pen lower right and inscribed "From the "Tailor of Gloucester", Copyright of F Warne & Co" by Potter. This is a delightful image from one of Potter's most famous works, a redrawing of the illustration first published in The Tale of Gloucester, London, 1902.
The paper, dimensions, signature and date indicate... Learn More£20,000.00Stock Code: 144268
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HUGHES, Ted. The Iron Man.London : 1968
First edition, first impression. 6,000 copies were printed, of which the majority we have seen have come from school libraries, making this title perhaps the scarcest of Hughes trade editions. It is however the most popular of all the poet's many works for children, and this novella was subsequently made into both a rock opera by Pete Townshend (1993)... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 138689
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DAHL, Roald. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More.London : 1977
First edition, first impression, of Dahl's collection of seven short stories. Aimed at a slightly older readership than his other works, the collection includes two semi-autobiographical stories, respectively based on Dahl's experience as a fighter pilot in the Second World War, and his motivation to become a writer. Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 144561
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![[The Time Quintet:] A Wrinkle in Time;](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/1/111206comp.jpg)
L'ENGLE, Madeleine. [The Time Quintet:] A Wrinkle in Time;New York : 1962, 1973, 1978, 1986, 1989
First editions, first impression, inscribed and signed set, of the complete Time Quintet. A Wrinkle in Time, with a signed slip laid in, in the second state jacket (Newbery Prize sticker residue to front panel), together with signed or inscribed first impressions of the four sequential Time Quintet titles (an assembled set, with inscriptions to different... Learn More£8,750.00Stock Code: 111206
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![The Jungle Book; [together with:] The Second Jungle Book.](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/3/136560.jpg)
KIPLING, Rudyard. The Jungle Book; [together with:] The Second Jungle Book.London : 1894 & 1895
First editions in book form of Kipling's best-known prose work. 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... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 136560
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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. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 116758
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BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. Tarzan of The Apes.Chicago, : 1914
First edition, first printing, with printer's name to copyright page in old English type. A wonderful example of the Chelsea Bindery's work. Learn More£4,000.00Stock Code: 124600
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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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NIELSEN, Kay (illus.) East of the Sun and West of the Moon.London : [1914]
Signed limited edition, number 5 of 500 copies signed by the artist. The richness of the Danish Nielsen's colour images for this lavish illustrated book of Norse pagan mythology was achieved by a four-colour process, in contrast to many of the illustrations prepared by his contemporaries, such as Rackham and Dulac, which characteristically utilised... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 106880
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BUTLER, William. An Introduction to Arithmetic. Designed for the Use of Young Ladies. By William Butler, Private Teacher of Writing, Accounts, and Geography.London : [1806]
A reworking of the author's 1784 and 1788 publications, with a companion work of exercises. The first part has only 4 prefatory pages of letterpress dated November, 1806, in which Butler claims to have printed over 4000 copies of his text:
"In the course of nearly forty years attendance on ladies' schools, I have frequently observed, that their... Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 137843
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DE ANGELI, Marguerite. The Door In The Wall.Garden City, New York : 1949
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by author to Julie F. Carter on the verso of the title page, 'For Julia Carter, with my warm greetings and in memory of a happy dinner party long ago, affectionately Marguerite De Angeli, 1949.' Winner of the 1950 Newbery Medal. Julia F. Carter, was the first full time children's librarian at the New York Public... Learn More£775.00Stock Code: 89564
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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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POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse.London : 1910
First edition in the scarce jacket, only listing books published prior to 1910 and with the price of 1/- on the spine panel. The first two impressions of this work are indistinguishable. Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 130717
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DAHL, Roald. The BFG.London : 1982
First edition, first impression. A wonderful example of the Chelsea Bindery's work. Dahl's fantastical tale was expanded from a short story within his 1975 book Danny, the Champion of the World. A film adaptation, directed by Steven Spielberg, was released in 2016. Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 132372
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PEACHEY, Emma. The Little Flower Maker.London : 1869
First edition. A rare, beautifully produced work designed by 'Mrs Peachey, a first rate artist in her department... favourably known to the public, by a former work on Modelling Wax Flowers to enable her youthful friends, who have often admired specimens of her skill, to become adepts in the charming art of paper flower making'. The techniques of paper... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 136827
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GRAHAME, Kenneth; PAYNE, Wyndham (illus.) The Wind in the Willows.London : 1927
First Wyndham Payne edition, first impression. The Wind in the Willows was only published with a frontispiece when it first appeared in 1908. Wyndham Payne is the first British illustrator of this work, preceding E. H. Shepard by four years. "Payne's contribution was to place the characters in unmistakably English countryside. His inspired conception... Learn More£700.00Stock Code: 137879
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DULAC, Edmund (illus.) Stories from the Arabian Nights.London : 1907
Signed limited edition, number 302 of 350 copies numbered and signed by the artist. It was this book that first announced Dulac's status as a popular artist, confirming him as "a direct challenger in the illustrated gift book market to the work of Arthur Rackham... The exotic stories he illustrated struck a new chord in Dulac. They allowed him to enlarge... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 131648
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POTTER, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester.[London : 1902
First edition, first impression, one of 500 copies privately printed for the author a year before Warne's trade edition, issued in the same month and in a similar format to the second privately-printed Peter Rabbit.
The text of this edition is considerably longer than that of the first trade and the cover incorporates a vignette illustration... Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 146722
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GRAHAME, Kenneth; BRANSOM, Paul (illus.) The Wind in the Willows.New York : 1913
First illustrated edition, rare in the dust jacket. The classic work was first published in 1908, illustrated only with a frontispiece. It is published for the first time here with illustrations accompanying the text, by American artist Paul Bransom. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 122601
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); GRIMM, Jacob & Wilhelm. The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm.New York : 1909
Deluxe US edition, one of 50 copies signed by the illustrator on the verso of the half-title. This is a revised and expanded edition of the work originally published in 1900, with new illustrations and others redrawn and coloured. Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 86981
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WHITE, T. H. The Sword in the Stone.London : 1938
Rare original page proofs for The Sword in the Stone, with a manuscript annotation to the title page, bound with the original wrappers. The Sword in the Stone is "a delightful blend of medieval lore and humorous commentary and in many ways the finest light fantasy of the century" (Bleiler).
It was the most significant contribution to Arthurian... Learn More£6,500.00Stock Code: 138836
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ROBINSON, W. Heath. Bill The Minder.London : 1912
Signed limited edition, number 253 of 380 copies signed by the author and illustrator, who in this work "notably in the line drawings, surpassed himself" (ODNB). Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 118626
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LANGLEY, Noel. The Tale of the Land of Green Ginger.London : 1937
First edition, first impression, small paper issue. A scarce title, especially so in the dust jacket. It was largely on the basis of this work that Langley was selected as a screenwriter for The Wizard of Oz (1939). Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 129978
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LANGLEY, Noel. The Tale of the Land of Green Ginger.New York : 1938
First US edition, first printing. A scarce title, especially so in the dust jacket. It was largely on the basis of this work that Langley was selected as a screenwriter for The Wizard of Oz (1939). Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 116265
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NESBIT, Edith. The Story of the Amulet.London : 1906
First edition, first impression, of the concluding work in Nesbit's children's trilogy. Preceded by Five Children and It and The Phoenix and the Carpet, Nesbit's time-travelling narrative is notable for including a trip into the future, featuring Nesbit's vision of a socialist utopia in which H. G. Wells is venerated as a reformer. Nesbit was one of... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 140035
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WHITE, E. B. Typed letter signed to the publisher John Gilbert.8 August 1961
Typed letter signed from E. B. White to the publisher John Gilbert at Books for Pleasure: "Dear Mr. Gilbert: Thanks for your letter inviting me to write an introduction to a book of photographs. I am sorry that I cannot accept this assignment. My life at this point is a matter of catching up with jobs already begun, and with no time for new work. But... Learn More£575.00Stock Code: 139160
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NIELSEN, Kay (illus.) East of the Sun and West of the Moon.London : [1914]
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the illustrator on the verso of the front free endpaper, "To Miss Bernadine Murphy with my kindest regards, Kay Nielsen, April 1947". Loosely inserted is a one-page autograph letter signed by Nielsen to the book's owner and dated October 10, 1948. Nielsen thanks Murphy for what seems to have been her attempt... Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 79481
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DISNEY, Walt (inscr.); THOMAS, Bob. Walt Disney: the Art of Animation.New York : 1958
First edition, first printing, inscribed by Walt Disney on the verso of the front free endpaper, "To Vita Best Wishes Walt Disney", of one of the pillars of Disney bibliography and the definitive work on Disney animation to that date.
Additionally it is inscribed by Roy Disney and contains the signatures of more than 100 other people in the... Learn More£8,750.00Stock Code: 138684
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[LONGUEVILLE, Peter.] The English Hermit; or the Adventures of Philip Quarll.Gainsborough : 1807
Scarce provincial printing in chapbook form of the immensely popular tale of Philip Quarll, first published in Westminster in 1727.
"Longueville's The Hermit... became an enormously popular work, rivalling Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, of which it is possibly the best imitation. It tells the story of one Philip Quarll, shipwrecked on a small island... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 137834
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DAHL, Roald. The Minpins.London : 1991
First edition, first impression. This was Roald Dahl's final work written for children, published posthumously. Minpin was the nickname Dahl used for his daughter, Ophelia. Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 128885
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LANG, Andrew (ed.) The Olive Fairy Book.London : 1907
First edition, first impression, a very nice copy of The Olive Fairy Book. The 11th of Lang's "Fairy Books", this work contains 29 fairy tales such as "The Green Knight", "The Satin Surgeon", and "The Silent Princess".
Though it is Andrew Lang's name which appears as the author of the fairy books, they were largely the result of the work of others,... Learn More£800.00Stock Code: 121820
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LANG, Andrew (ed.) The Olive Fairy Book.New York : 1907
First US edition, first printing, of the eleventh and penultimate of Lang's "Fairy Books". This work contains 29 fairy tales such as "The Green Knight", "The Satin Surgeon", and "The Silent Princess". The UK edition was published the same year.
Though it is Andrew Lang's name which appears as the author of the fairy books, they were largely the... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 132392
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DAHL, Roald. The Minpins.London : 1991
First edition, first impression, number 67 of 500 special presentation proof copies, with the publisher's limitation sticker to half-title. This was Roald Dahl's final work written for children, published posthumously. Minpin was the nickname Dahl used for his daughter, Ophelia, to whom he dedicated the book. Learn More£325.00Stock Code: 145152
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LANG, Andrew (ed.) The Brown Fairy Book.New York, London, and Bombay : 1904
First US edition, first printing, of the ninth instalment in Lang's Fairy Books series. Lang gathered exotic tales from North America, Brazil, Australia, Africa, Persia, India, Lapland and the Pacific Islands.
Though it is Andrew Lang's name which appears as the author of the fairy books, they were largely the result of the work of others, most... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 120638
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[JOHNSTON, George Liddell; James Albert Buchanan Jay.] The Alphabet Illustrated.[Herefordshire, : c.1858]
A finely executed alphabet book of captioned pen-and-ink drawings, featuring personified letters in the Victorian grotesque tradition. The drawings were executed by a talented amateur artist, carefully copied from a rare, privately-published work, The Alphabet Illustrated, by Reverend George Liddell Johnston, a feature of which is the caricatured, oversized... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 137720
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LANG, Andrew (ed.) The Grey Fairy Book.London : 1900
First edition, first impression, of the sixth instalment in Lang's Fairy Book series, with tales "deriving from many countries - Lithuania, various parts of Africa, Germany, France, Greece, and other regions of the world" (Lang's preface), many of them highly phantasmagorical and strange.
Though it is Andrew Lang's name which appears as the author... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 128645
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LANG, Andrew (ed.) The Orange Fairy Book.New York : 1906
First US edition, first printing, of the tenth of Andrew Lang's Fairy Books, gathering folk stories from Africa to Jutland. "The series became a landmark in the presentation of traditional tales, for it introduced children to selections of old and new tales of every kind, known and unknown, and from many different sources, at a time when interest in... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 132395
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[GREENE, Graham.] CRAIGIE, Dorothy, illus. The Little Train.London : 1946
First edition, first impression, of the first of Greene's children's books, inscribed by the illustrator, "My love to you, Dorothy Craigie", on the title page. All foru of Graham Greene's children's books were illustrated by Craigie. The first two books, the present work and The Little Fire Engine (1950), were not credited to him until the 1950s. This... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 125171
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LANG, Andrew (ed.) The Grey Fairy Book.London : 1900
First edition, first impression, of the sixth instalment in Lang's Fairy Book series, with tales "deriving from many countries - Lithuania, various parts of Africa, Germany, France, Greece, and other regions of the world" (Lang's preface), many of them highly phantasmagorical and strange. Lang's preface contains the intriguing observation, "The stories,... Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 127577
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LANG, Andrew (ed.) The Orange Fairy Book.London : 1906
First edition, first impression, of the tenth of Andrew Lang's Fairy Books, gathering folk stories from Africa to Jutland, here a particularly fine copy preserving - most unusually - the original dust jacket, without restoration.
"The series became a landmark in the presentation of traditional tales, for it introduced children to selections of... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 143082
