Rare Children's Books

First edition, first printing with correct 195/195 price; large 8vo (230 x 165 mm.); colour illustrations and pictorial endpapers by Barney Tobey, ink name on title-page otherwise internally fine; publisher's pictorial boards, fine, dust-jacket with some minor creasing and toning but overall very good.

First edition, signed by the author & illustrator; folio; colour illustrations throughout; publisher's boards, pictorial dust-jacket, an excellent copy.

4to (330 x 240 mm.); 8 amusing moving tableaux comprising: A Butterfly Catcher, Woman at the opera, Billiard Player, a boy presenting flowers to his Granny, A Beer Drinker, A boy Stealing Apples, The Angler, The Latchkey and the Arrest of the Turk, each with a rhyme printed opposite, finger-soiling and some light offsetting from rusty rivets but colours still bright; publisher's illustrated, paper-covered boards, cloth spine rebacked, dust-soiled, rubbed and chipped on extremities but all considered very good.

Square 8vo (210 x 155 mm.); pictorial title printed in red & black, 24 colour plates by John Elliott, a little minor spotting, gift inscription to front free endpaper; publisher's gilt-pictorial cloth blocked in dark brown, an attractive copy.

First edition, one of 100 numbered copies; 16mo (138 x 108 mm.); usual light browning to free endpapers; publisher's green cloth, dust-jacket, an excellent copy.

First edition, first printing with portrait of the author and correct titles to jacket; large 8vo (235 x 170 mm.); silhouette illustrations on colour paper throughout, pictorial endpapers; publisher's pictorial boards, dust-jacket, a little rubbed at head of spine, but a fine example.

First edition; small 4to (245 x 180 mm.); numerous illustrations, some toning and light foxing mostly to margins, contents otherwise clean; publisher's pictorial boards, spine very slightly faded, extremities a little rubbed, dust-jacket, gift inscription to verso, some chipping and creasing to edges and spine ends, but overall a very good example.

First edition; small 4to (250 x 195 mm.); 4 colour plates, numerous illustrations including full-page, usual mostly marginal toning; publisher's colour pictorial boards, slightly bumped and rubbed at corner and spine-ends, otherwise very good, dust-jacket, some wear with small sections of loss to spine ends and a few mostly closed tears, overall very good.

First edition, one of 1,000 copies, signed on front free endpaper; 4to; numerous illustrations, mostly in colour; publishers cloth boards, illustrated dust-jacket, a fine copy.

First Edition. 16mo, 94 pp., title vignette, 15 colour plates and numerous black and white vignettes within text, modern full tan morocco, gilt, original pictorial pastedown to upper cover, green lettering piece to spine, original pictorial endpapers and all edges gilt; small mark to lower outside corner of p.7 otherwise internally very good indeed.