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58517 Andersen, Hans Christian (Michael Hague, illus.) Michael Hague's Favourite Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales Holt, Rhinehart & Winston, New York, 1981. Hardcover, small quarto, 162pp., colour illustrations. Page edges lightly toned and spotted. Dustwrapper lightly worn at edges; chipped and creased at head and tail of spine; professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $30

15144 Ardizzone, Edward Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain Oxford, London, 1955. First printing of revised edition, redrawn and with additional text. Foxed prelims, wear to illustrated boards, slight damage to upper spine. Good only. Edward Ardizzone's picture books about Tim are among the joyful classics of children's literature. The story of little Tim who befriends an old sailor. He stows away aboard a ship and goes on a dangerous adventure. Click here to order $30

9970 Ardizzone, Edward Tim All Alone Oxford University Press, 1956. Quarto hardcover. Foxed endpapers and some scattered spotting, including upper page edges, inscription, penned price, scraped illustrated board edges; good in foxed dustwrapper, some chipping, fairly extensive wear, some tears and small missing segments. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Edward Ardizzone's picture books about Tim are among the joyful classics of children's literature. The story of little Tim who comes home to find the house shut up. He is alone and has many dangerous adventures on land and sea. Click here to order $50

46752 Ashley, Doris (Mabel Lucie Attwell, illus.) Children's Stories from French Fairy Tales Raphael Tuck & Sons London, nd. Hardcover, 136pp., b&w illustrations and colour plates. Endpapers and page edges toned and spotted; small piece torn at corner of p.49, small tear at edge of p.127, pp.108-109 coloured in with crayon which has marked text on opposite page. Publishers quarter tan cloth, pictorial paper boards, front board bowed. Some shelf wear to boards at extremities and back board slightly browned. Very good. Tales included are Baroness d'Aulnoy's Finette Cendron, Graciosa and Percinet, The Blue Bird, The Good Little Mouse, and The Pot of Carnations. Bearskin and the Man in Green may be a version of Madame de Murat's Bearskin. Click here to order $350

58519 Baum, L. Frank (Michael Hague, illus.) The Wizard of Oz Holt, Rhinehart & Winston, New York, 1982. Hardcover, small quarto, 219pp., colour illustrations. Prelims and page edges lightly toned and spotted. Dustwrapper worn at edges; chipped and creased at head and tail of spine; professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Good to very good. Click here to order $35

14558 Beni, Ruth Sir Baldergog The Great Andre Deutsch, London, 1984. Hardcover. Small scape, minor wear. Good to very good. Click here to order $12

58135 Blyton, Enid The Mystery of the Missing Man Being the Thirteenth Adventure of the Five Find-Outers and Dog Methuen, London, 1956. First edition hardcover, b&w illustrations by Lilian Buchanan. Inscription to owner on endpaper. Spotting on prelims; page edges toned and spotted. Illustrated dustwrapper with missing segment on tail of spine and small missing segments on upper edge and corners. Otherwise, very good in protective bookwrap. Click here to order $50

58958 Brent-Dyer, Elinor M The Rivals of the Chalet School Dymocks Book Arcade, Sydney, 1952. First Australian edition, 272pp. Tiny remnant of sticker on front endpaper and surrounding scrape, spotted page edges; else very good in lightly worn and chipped dustwrapper (now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film). Bright copy. Click here to order $50

58959 Bruce, Dorita Fairlie Dimsie Among the Prefects Oxford University, 1950. Reprint, 245pp. Inscription to owner, heavily toned pages, light wear to board edges; else good in worn and chipped dustwrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Click here to order $20

54322 Burningham, John Humbert, Mr Firkin and the Lord Mayor of London: signed copy Jonathon Cape, London, 1973. Hardback, quarto, illustrated. Reprint. Inscription on reverse of front endpaper. Page edges toned, some minor internal spotting. Illustrated boards bowed with minor shelf wear; sunned spine. No dustwrapper as issued. Very good. Signed "Best wishes" and dated 1975. Click here to order $40

56771 Carter, Angela Sea-Cat and Dragon King: first edition and proof copy Illustrated by Eva Tatcheva Bloomsbury, London, 2000. First edition, 94pp., b&w illustrations and uncorrected paperback proof copy. Illustrated dustwrapper and boards. Minor edge wear to dustwrapper but otherwise fine. Red and white covered proof copy with crease on upper front corner. Toned page edges. Minor wear, near fine. Click here to order $50

58091 Cott, Jonathon (ed.) Beyond the Looking Glass Extraordinary Works of Fairy Tale and Fantasy. Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, London, 1974. Hardcover, small quarto, 519pp., b&w illustrations. Page edges lightly toned and spotted. Binding slightly rolled. Dustwrapper toned with some spotting; chipping and creasing to head and tail of spine; tear to head of spine; a few small tears to upper edge of rear panel; several scrapes and creases to all edges; scuffed corners; professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Else very good. Bringing together the most extraordinary examples of fantasy novels, stories and poetry from the richest and most cultivated period of children's literature. Rooted in folklore, supernatural and popular fantasy fiction, these works illustrate projections of our innermost fears and desires, in all their myriad and fantastic dimensions. Essays by Jonathon Cott and Leslie Fiedler place these works in their historical and literary perspectives, exploring the spiritual, psychological and even political ideas in these works. Click here to order $30

14580 Crane, Walter Flowers From Shakespeare's Garden A posy from the plays, pictured by Walter Crane. Studio Vista, London, 1980. Hardcover. Boards slightly worn at corners and spine edges. Owner's book-plate on endpaper. Upper page edges spotted. Tear on dustwrapper over upper spine. Otherwise near fine in like dustwrapper. Click here to order $20

30920 Crompton, Richmal William - the Explorer George Newnes/Dymocks Book Arcade, Sydney, 1964. First Australian edition. Foxed prelims and spotted page edges; else very good in lightly worn dustwrapper, tiny tear. Click here to order $70

54326 Cutler, Ivor (Helen Oxenbury, illus.) Meal One: signed copy Heinemann, London, 1971. Hardcover, small quarto, colour illustrations. Signed by Oxenbury on reverse of endpaper. Page edges lightly toned. Illustrated boards have minimal shelf wear but spotting to front and rear. Dustwrapper not price clipped; toned with rippling to front panel; light wear to edges. Very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $50

9966 Dahl, Roald Esio Trot Jonathan Cape, London, 1990. First edition. Foxed prelims, spotted upper page edges; very good in like dustwrapper, foxing to inner folds. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $25

14582 Dahl, Roald Rhyme Stew Illustrated by Quentin Blake Jonathan Cape, London, 1989. First edition. Upper and fore page edges slightly spotted. Minor spotting to inside flaps of dustwrapper. Otherwise, fine. Click here to order $40

33322 Dahl, Roald Roald Dahl's Even More Revolting Recipes Illustrated by Quentin Blake Jonathan Cape, London, 2001. First edition. Hardcover, 64pp., colour illustrations throughout. Page edges spotted; illustrated boards very slightly worn; no dustwrapper. Otherwise very good. From Plushnuggets to Nishnobblers, Tummticklers to Spitsizzlers, this scrumptious book is packed with disgusterously delicious recipes. A marvellous treat for Dahl fans and discerning chefs everywhere. Click here to order $25

36908 Dahl, Roald (Quentin Blake, illus.) Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes: signed (Blake) copy Jonathan Cape, London, 1994. First edition. Some marks to endpapers and a few stains (matching recipe) to two pages only; else very good in illustrated boards. Signed by Blake on title page. 'Treats were always a part of Roald's life - never too many, never too few and always perfectly timed. He made you feel like a king receiving the finest gift in the land.' This is a book for children based the many wonderful and varied foods that appear in his books. Revolting Recipes is an interpretation of some of the scrumptious and wonderfully disgusting dishes which appear in Roald's books. Click here to order $50

9790 Edwards, Sylvia The Golden Yacht: signed copy World Distributors, London, 1961. First edition. Foxed endpapers and pastedowns, spotted page edges, half-title page removed, moderate wear; good in slightly worn and chipped dustwrapper. Inscribed by author on front endpaper. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] The sixteenth book in the series. Click here to order $35

39447 Ende, Michael The Grey Gentlemen Burke Books, London, 1974. First edition. Fine monochrome illustrations. Spotting to page edges, minor wear; very good in like dustwrapper with lightly sunned spine panel. Momo, the ragged girl without a past but with the ability to really listen, discovers the chilling ambitions of the Grey Gentlemen, in whose power the whole town and her friends are unwittingly held . . . The Grey Gentlemen see Momo as an intolerable threat to their evil plans through the very quality of simple steadfast honesty which has won her popularity. It is Momo, with nothing to lose but a flower in her hand and a tortoise under her arm, who offers the only hope of saving Mankind. Click here to order $75

54541 Fix, Philippe (Story told by Janine Ast and Alain Gree) The House that Beebo Built Paul Hamlyn, London, 1969. First English edition. Few light marks to title page and faint crease to corner, overall toning to pages, final page has a few soil marks and small stain to edge and in corresponding position on pastedown. Boards moderately worn, some score marks and two small stains; corners bumped. The sequel "Beebo and Fizzimen" advertised on rear board as publication was already scheduled. Very rare. Click here to order $500

14894 Garfield, Leon & Blishen, Edward The Golden Shadow Illustrated by Charles Keeping Kestrel, Middlesex, 1978. Reprint. Owner's name, foxed prelims, minor wear only. Very good in like dustwrapper. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] A sequel to The God Beneath the Sea and held to be amongst the best modern retellings of the Greek myths. Click here to order $20

35339 Grasso, Mario Metamorfosia: signed copy Sphinx, Basel, 1976. Large quarto, unpaginated. Foxed prelims, moderate wear to illustrated boards, crease to front board, bumped corners, splitting to head and tail of spine (repaired with archival tape). Good. Signed in red and blue crayon with artist's stamp. Text in German. Bizarre full-colour images with captions. Click here to order $25

40897 Green, Roger Lancelyn The Tale of Ancient Israel Illustrated by Charles Keeping J M Dent, London, 1969. Hardcover, page edges lightly spotted. Edges and corners of dustwrapper worn and chipped. Very good otherwise. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $20

40838 Herge The Adventures of Tintin Reporter for "Le Petit Vingtieme" in the Congo Casterman, London, 1991. Quarto hardcover, b&w illustrations. Page edges foxed. Cover scuffed with a few spot stains, edge and corner wear. Very good. Click here to order $75

14555 Hurlimann, Bettina Three Centuries of Children's Books in Europe World Publishing, Ohio, 1968. First American edition. 297pp., mainly b&w illustrations. Upper page edges yellowed with minor spotting to page edges. Near fine in dustwrapper with slight edge wear. Bettina Hurlimann has drawn upon her own collection of children's books to write a personal survey of this vast field. In a lively rather than academic style she covers aspects of children's literature that includes: nursery rhymes, fairy tales, nonsense, fantasy and reality, cowboys and Indians, photography, politics and picture-books. At the time of publishing this, a supplementary volume, Picture-Book World, was in preparation. Click here to order $45

58358 Jarrell, Randall (Maurice Sendak, illus.) Fly By Night Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1976. First edition. Hardback, b/w illustrations. Minor toning to page edges. Dustwrapper chipped and creased at head and tail of spine and corners; small stain to upper rear panel; other minor wear to edges; professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Else very good. Click here to order $30

43802 Kushner, Tony (Maurice Sendak, illus.) Brundibar Walker Books, London, 2004. Oblong hardcover. Unpaginated. Fine in like dustwrapper. Illustrated by Sendak. Based on a Czech opera of the same name. The opera was performed 55 times by the children of Terezin, the Nazi concentration camp. Click here to order $20

41118 Lang, Andrew (ed.) The True Story Book With Numerous Illustrations by L. Bogle, Lucien Davis, H.J. Ford, C.H.M. Kerr and Lancelot Speed Longmans Green & Co, London, 1893. Smudges to initial pages, scattered light foxing, binding slightly rolled; gilt decorated blue boards, few indistinct stains, rubbing to edges, tiny scrapes to head and tail of spine, scrape to rear board, small light-coloured stain. Good. Click here to order $200

34145 Lobel, Arnold (Anita Lobel, illus.) The Rose in My Garden Julia McRae Books, London, 1984. Hardback. Quarto. Colour illustrations. Light foxing to endpapers. Inscription inside front cover. Wear to spine and tops of boards. Good. A cumulative round involving flowers and insects. Click here to order $18

57367 MacDonald, George The Lost Princess: A Double Story Children's Illustrated Classics. Dent, London, 1976. Hardcover. B/w and colour illustrations. Endpapers and page edges toned and slightly spotted. Binding slightly rolled. Dustwrapper has minor wear to edges and some fading to spine. Very good. Originally titled The Wise Woman, but reissued under its current title, The Lost Princess ranks among MacDonald's great works, alongside The Princess and the Goblin and The Princess and Curdie, according to C.S. Lewis. It is the double story of Rosamund, the spoilt princess, and Agnes, the shepherd's daughter, who both come mysteriously to the dwelling of the Wise Woman, and experience the wonders (and the terrors) of her strange abode. Click here to order $18

58371 Mayer, Mercer Professor Wormbog in Search for the Zipperump-a-Zoo Golden Press, New York, 1976. Hardcover, square folio, 44pp., colour illustrations. Page edges toned. Illustrated boards scraped at head and tail of spine; bumped and split corners; split laminate at front spine hinge. Else very good. Click here to order $50

41512 Mitchell, Elyne The Silver Brumby Hutchinson, London, 1958. First edition. Owner's name and address penned to front endpaper, foxing to prelims and further scattered, quite heavy spotting to page edges, minimal wear to red boards; very good in dustwrapper worn at edges, some light chipping to head and tail of spine. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Click here to order $350

35014 Montgomery, L.M. Anne's House of Dreams A L Burt, New York, 1917. Published same year as first edition. Remnant of presentaion sticker on front endpaper, toning of pages, light wear to boards. Pasted illustration to front board bright. Good to very good. Click here to order $45

59827 Montgomery, L.M. The Golden Road Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1938. First Australian edition. Owner's name, spotted prelims and page edges; else very good in chipped dustwrapper (now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film). Click here to order $35

13682 Morris, Ethel Jackson The White Butterfly and Other Fairy Tales: signed autograph edition C.J. DeGaris Publishing Company, Melbourne, 1921. Quarto. Foxed endpapers, spotted page edges, one page edge torn; scrape to lower spine, minor discolouration to internal edge of rear boards. Two shallow gnawed indentations to upper edges of both boards affecting pages. Four line plates and decorative elements lightly coloured in by child. Eleven colour plates. Copy no. 203 of the autograph edition of 250 copies. One sunny afternoon little Marjorie followed a White Butterfly through the long grass beyond the Wattle trees. When she spotted the two large blue spots underneath her wings she knew it was a fairy butterfly... Click here to order $600

58298 Nichols, Beverley The Wickedest Witch in the World W.H. Allen, London, 1971. First edition. Hardcover, b&w illustrations. Owner's name on endpaper. Endpapers and page edges heavily toned and spotted. Boards have spotting to upper and lower edges and spine; scraping to lower front edge. Dustwrapper clipped; toned and spotted; significant portion of lower front edge is missing; sunned spine; scuffed corners; professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Good. Click here to order $120

32131 Niland, Kilmeny Bright Eyes and Bushy Tails Hodder & Stoughton, Lane Cove, 1984. First edition. Quarto. Fine in slightly worn dustwrapper. Sequel to Feathers, Fur and Frills. Each animal is exquisitely portrayed in the artist's detailed painting with accompanying description of the animal, its life and habitat. Click here to order $20

55364 Oktober, Tricia Bush Babies Hodder, Rydalmere, 1993. Quarto hardcover, illustrated boards, 30pp., colour illustrations. Minor wear, near fine. Click here to order $65

8734 Paterson, Katherine Lyddie: signed copy Victor Gollancz, London, 1991. First edition. Owner's name, upper page edges slightly spotted; else fine in dustwrapper. Inscribed on title page. Click here to order $25

8724 Paterson, Katherine Parzival: The Quest of the Grail Knight: signed copy Lodestar Books, New York, 1998. First edition. Fine in like dustwrapper. Inscribed on title page. Paterson's Parzival is based upon the early thirteenth century story by Wolfram von Eschenbach. This is the story of Parzival, the innocent, the fool, who meets King Arthur and his knights and faces many challenges to find the Holy Grail. Click here to order $25

14214 Prichard, Katharine Susannah (Elaine Haxton, illus.) Moggie and her Circus Pony: signed copy F.W.Cheshire, Melbourne, 1967. Quarto. Worn and chipped dustwrapper, tear to front inner fold and creasing, scraping to board edges. Good only. Inscribed and separately signed by artist. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Moggie is a circus girl, and Frisky a small Shetland pony, daughter of Melba the cleverest star. They are all born to circus life. Jess, the show-off but pretty sister of Moggie, tries to tame Frisky to her will, but the Big Man and Moggie understand Frisky's rebellion. Click here to order $25

56375 Richards, Frank Big Chief Bunter Cassell, London, 1963. First edition, b&w illustrations. Page edges toned and spotted. Dustwrapper price clipped; sunned with some marking to rear panel; chipping and creasing to head and tail of spine; other minor scrapes and wear to edges; scuffed corners; professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $120

14578 Ridley, Michael & Neary, Bryan The Book of Gremlins J M Dent, London, 1980. Boards slightly worn at edges. Spotting to upper page edges. Owner's prize sticker on endpaper. Otherwise near fine in like dustwrapper. Click here to order $20

40393 Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Bloomsbury, London, 1999. First edition. Copyright Joanne Rowling, full number sequence: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1, slipped text on p.7. Tiny spot on front pastedown, moderate wear and a few markings to page edges, slight rolling of binding, bumped corners of pictorial boards, wrapper worn at edges, tiny scrapes to head and tail of spine panel. A good and quite acceptable copy. Estimates vary as to how many copies were printed before the errors were identified between 500 and a thousand copies. A good part of the edition was famously sent to Australia. Click here to order $850

41071 Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: deluxe edition Bloomsbury, London, 1999. Deluxe edition, 2nd impression (sequence: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2). Light offsetting of pages, some minor marks to gilt page edges, light rubbing to edges of green decorated boards, one tiny stain. Very good. Click here to order $200

54325 Ruskin, John (Arthur Rackham, illus.) The King of the Golden River Harrap, London, 1932. First edition. Card covers, 47pp., line drawings and 4 colour plates, incl. frontispiece. Inscription, owner's name inscribed on both front and rear folds of dustwrapper. Unfortunately the line drawings have been coloured - if meticulously - by the previous owner. Page edges rough cut and toned with some spotting. Covers have bumped edges and toning with minimal spotting on inside rear. Dustwrapper is toned and spotted with chipping at head and tail of spine and two small holes scraped in rear panel; stain on upper rear panel. Would otherwise be a very good copy. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $60

39448 Sackville-West, Vita Nursery Rhymes: An Essay Michael Joseph, London, 1950. First trade edition. Foxed endpapers, lightly spotted endpapers; else very good to near fine in lightly worn dustwrapper with few tiny chips. In this delightful book, Miss Sackville-West writes on nursery rhymes, of their history and of their place in childhood and childhood's memories with charm and wit, and in a prose style that is a constant delight. Click here to order $65

58087 Sinclair, Catherine Holiday House A Book for the Young. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1972. Hardcover. Page edges lightly toned and spotted. Dustwrapper lightly worn at edges; spine sunned. Very good. First published in 1839, Holiday House's chief claim to fame is that, in a most un-Victorian fashion, it actually approves of naughtiness. The two main characters, Harry and Laura Graham, have a positive penchant for wickedness, mainly of a destructive nature; their days are strewn with wreckage, and their misdeeds are spectacular: "Oh dear! oh dear! what shall I do?" cries Harry, who has somehow managed to set his grandmother's house on fire . . . Click here to order $22

57523 Thiele, Colin Storm Boy: signed copy Rigby Limited, Adelaide, 1963. First edition. Owner's name on endpaper. Signed on title page. Endpapers and page edges lightly toned and spotted. Dustwrapper not price clipped; toned with some spotting; 2 small tears at lower spine edge and upper front edge; chipping and creasing to edges; scuffed corners; professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $180

58514 Todd, Trevor (Robert Juniper, illus.) Mason Judy: signed copy Methuen, Sydney, 1977. Hardcover, quarto, not paginated, b&w and colour illustrations. Signed by artist on dedication page. Page edges lightly toned and spotted. Dustwrapper lightly worn at edges; professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $40

38575 Westerman, Percy The "Dark Secret" Blackie and Son, London, nd (1954). First edition. Light spotting to page edges, light rubbing to board edges; else very good in dustwrapper worn at edges, some light creasing to head of spine, small segment missing from tail, further small tear to lower edge of rear panel (professionally protected in reinforced covering). Click here to order $200

58521 Williams, Margery (Michael Hague, illus.) The Velveteen Rabbit Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York, 1983. Hardcover, small quarto, 33pp., colour illustrations. Inscription on half title. Page edges lightly toned and spotted. Dustwrapper chipped and creased at head and tail of spine; professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $23