Rare Children's Books

First edition, first impression; small folio (285 x 210 mm); illustrations throughout, pictorial endpapers; publisher's pictorial glossy boards, slightly rubbed at spine ends and corners, but overall very good; first issue dust-jacket with correct price '295/295', 3 small closed tears, some minor creasing, but overall very good.

First edition; 8vo; vignettes and illustrations by A.H. Watson, some light spotting; publisher's pictorial cloth, colour pictorial dust-jacket by Watson, some chipping and fraying, a little light marking, but overall a very good copy.

First trade edition, first issue with date on title-page and a single-page endpaper repeated four times; 16mo; 27 full-page colour illustrations, title vignette and pictorial endpapers by the author; publisher's dark green boards with inset colour illustration, presented in later cloth solander box.

First editions, each with signed bookplate mounted on inside front cover, [presumed one of 25 or 26 such sets]; 13 vols, 8vo; publisher's bookplate mounted onto inside front cover of each volume, illustrations; publisher's pictorial wrappers, fine copies.

Sixth edition; oblong folio (190 x 310 mm.); 6 double-page panels mounted onto 12 card sections, with the first & last forming the cover, joined into one continuous strip to form a panorama, the hand-coloured scene with rhyming couplets beneath, folded concertina style with cloth hinges, paper splitting along most hinges, cover hinges slightly splitting and ends a little worn, variable toning possibly from the glue, some spotting, front cover with hand-coloured pictorial paper label, minor edge wear but overall a very good.

First edition in English, first issue with illustrator's name misprinted as 'C. Mazzanti'; 12mo; half-title and title printed in red & black, frontispiece (with tissue guard) and illustrations by Enrico Mazzanti, a few small marks to a couple of pages, contemporary gift inscription to half-title, overall internally very good, patterned endpapers; publisher's patterned cloth, slight toning to spine and top edge, very light small red stain to foot of lower cover near spine, but overall a good copy.

First edition; oblong 4to; 32 full-page, colour illustrations, numerous sepia decorations within text; publisher's quarter cloth over colour-illustrated boards, near-contemporary ink ownership to front free endpaper, mild rubbing to extremities, some very mild age-creasing to paper covering boards, otherwise exceptionally clean and original, extremely scarce thus.

First edition, first printing; 8vo, (21 x 19 cm); illustrated throughout with full-page and vignette colour lithographs by the Author, slight age-toning, otherwise fine; publisher's printed cloth, a couple of minor marks, slight rubbing to spine extremities, discreet bookseller's label to rear pastedown, pictorial dust-jacket, price-clipped, few small corner nicks not touching letters, clean split along front and spine panel fold but all considered a good copy.

Autographed letter, two A5 sheets of pale blue headed paper, 4pp., dated '8.7.61', with crease where folded, else fine.

First edition, first printing; large 8vo (260 x 185 mm.); colour illustrations throughout, pictorial endpapers, contemporary gift inscription on front pastedown; publisher's pictorial boards, a very good example.