Children's The Bookshop catalogue 2019

First edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to half-title verso; 8vo; publisher's boards, dust-jacket, price-clipped, price sticker to upper flap, spine very slightly faded, otherwise excellent.

First edition; 12mo; 27 full-page colour illustrations after the author printed by Edmund Evans, pages 4-5 with old repair to gutter, new endpapers; publisher's pale green cloth lettered and blocked in darker green, slight lean and bumping, very minor marking, overall a very attractive copy, presented in modern cloth-backed solander box.

First edition; small 4to; illustrations in colour and tone by Dorothy Craigie, pictorial endpapers; publisher's cloth with gilt lettering and illustration, dust-jacket, price-clipped, rubbed with minor wear to corners and head of spine, but overall an attractive copy.

First trade edition; 4to; frontispiece and 15 colour plates with captioned tissues guards and 126 black and white illustrations throughout by W. Heath Robinson, light spotting to endpapers and extreme edges, else very good; publisher's blue cloth gilt, the upper cover mounted with a pictorial plate, age-toned, bumped on spine ends and a little rubbed, otherwise a decent copy.

First editions; 2 vols, oblong 4t; pictorial titles and colour lithographed plates by Elinor Darwin, the first with some very light marginal staining; publisher's paper-covered boards, the first with red imitation wax medallioin, the second pictorial, some minor rubbing and bumping, light dust-soiling and toning but overall very good copies.