Children's

Christmas card signed by Roald Dahl; 180 x 250 mm. (unfolded); colour illustration of 'Mother Christmas' by Quentin Blake to front cover, with printed poem ''Where art thou, Mother Christmasý' by Roald Dahl to verso and printed Christmas greetings to facing, with additional autograph of Roald Dahl to head thereof and inscribed by original sender 'Love Josie X' below printed greetings.

First edition, first impression; 8vo; map endpapers; publisher's blue cloth lettered in silver to spine, dust-jacket, with artwork by George Adamson and photographic portrait of the author, rubbed at fore-corners, a few closed tears and some chipping around spine ends, but overall very good.

First edition, first printing; 8vo; 5 plates by John Coleman Burroughs, 1p. advertisements, ink name to verso of front free endpaper; publisher's blue cloth, slightly dulled at spine, dust-jacket with design by John Coleman Burroughs, a little dulled at spine, a couple of minor clean splits, but really an excellent example.

First edition, number 35 of 350 copies for England; small 4to (190 x 135 mm); pictorial title, part-titles, end-piece and decorations by Walter Crane; publisher's parchment-backed blue boards, spine tanned, a sharp copy, partly uncut.

First edition; 8vo; 2pp. facsimile of the ms. 'The Toys' by Coventry Patmore as frontispiece, title vignette, further decorations; publisher's near-black cloth with yapp fore-edges, gilt decoration to one corner, printed spine label (browned), a little bumped & rubbed, top edge gilt, partly uncut.

First edition; 8vo; title printed in black & red, frontispiece portrait of the author, numerous photographic plates and illustrations, some light foxing, bookseller's small blind-stamp to rear free endpaper; publisher's gilt-tooled blue cloth, a little rubbed and bumped, top edge gilt, others uncut.

First edition, first issue(ý); 8vo; frontispiece, pictorial title, 5 plates and woodcut initials by Housman, 16pp. advertisements, 10-line errata loosely inserted, patterned endpapers, bookplate to front pastedown; publisher's green cloth with interweaving gilt pattern to upper cover and spine, a very good, sharp copy, uncut.

First edition, first impression. 4to. Original green cloth-backed pictorial boards. With the Peake-designed dust jacket. Some mild, typical browning early and late but an excellent copy in the somewhat frayed dust jacket with minor loss at the spine ends and one corner.

Film tie-in edition; 8vo; line illustrations by Mabel Lucie Attwell, spotting to extremities of text block; publisher's red boards, a little rubbed at corners, dust-jacket with image of Betty Bronson as Peter Pan to upper wrappers, a few closed tears, some wear at corners, but overall very good.

First edition, first issue(ý); 8vo; frontispiece, pictorial title and illustrations by Charles Robinson, 12pp. advertisements, contemporary ink name and spotting to front endpapers; publisher's green straight-grain gilt pictorial cloth, spine slightly browned, light sunning, gilt edges; with 4 other, variant issues of the same, and the first US edition.