Rare Children's Books
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The Story of Little Black Sambo.
BANNERMAN, Helen.Original price £4,800.00 - Original price £4,800.00Original price £4,800.00£4,800.00£4,800.00 - £4,800.00Current price £4,800.00Helen Bannerman originally wrote this story during a long railway journey in India, to send to her two small daughters that she had just left to b...
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Dirty Beasts.
DAHL, Roald; Rosemary Fawcett.Original price £65.00 - Original price £65.00Original price £65.00£65.00£65.00 - £65.00Current price £65.00First American edition; 4to; illustrations by Rosemary Fawcett, a few minor spots to upper endpapers, else fine; publisher's plum cloth, pictorial...
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The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes.
POTTER, Beatrix.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00A near fine example. The story of Timmy and Goody Tiptoes is the only Beatrix Potter story apparently set in North America - although this is impli...
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The Magic Finger.
DAHL, Roald; William Pène du Bois, illustrator.Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £0.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00A near fine copy of Roald Dahl's third children's book The Magic Finger.First UK edition, small 4to, illustrations by William Pène du Bois, very s...
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The Story of Little Black Sambo.
BANNERMAN, Helen.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £4,500.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00Helen Bannerman originally wrote this story during a long railway journey in India, to send to her two small daughters that she had just left to b...
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Bill the Minder.
ROBINSON, W. Heath.Original price £475.00 - Original price £475.00Original price £475.00£475.00£475.00 - £475.00Current price £475.00A collection of 16 children's stories of the exploits of the King of Troy and his boot-cleaner Bill, exquisitely illustrated. The titles are: Bill...
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Stories from the Pentamerone.
GOBLE, Warwick (illustrator).Original price £1,650.00 - Original price £1,650.00Original price £1,650.00£1,650.00£1,650.00 - £1,650.00Current price £1,650.00A rarity in the original binding. The collection of Italian folk-tales by Giambattista Basile, Conte di Torrone, 1566-1632, (who is believed to hav...
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[Dick and Jane].
[GRAY, William].Original price £100.00 - Original price £100.00Original price £0.00£100.00£100.00 - £100.00Current price £100.00The earliest appearance of Dick and Jane.8vo., pictorial wrappers, 40pp., chips to head and tail of spine, interior somewhat soiled, early ownersh...
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Bill the Minder.
ROBINSON, W. Heath.Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £2,750.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00Signed limited edition. Limited to 380 numbered copies, signed by the artist.Limited edition; 4to; finely bound by Zaehnsdorf in full dark green mo...
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Three Little Pigs.
[WALT DISNEY].Original price £550.00 - Original price £550.00Original price £550.00£550.00£550.00 - £550.00Current price £550.00"Story and Illustrations by the staff of the Walt Disney Studios".First English edition. Small 4to (26 x 20 cm), 62pp, 12 colour full-page illust...
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Where the Blue Begins.
RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator); MORLEY, Christopher.Original price £300.00 - Original price £300.00Original price £0.00£300.00£300.00 - £300.00Current price £300.00This edition differs from the Doubleday edition in that there is no gilt blocking to the upper cover. The text pages appear to be identical to the...
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Deviat'sot piatyi [1905].
SVINENKO, Nikolai; IPATOV, Ia.Original price £1,400.00 - Original price £1,400.00Original price £0.00£1,400.00£1,400.00 - £1,400.00Current price £1,400.00Illustrated account of the first Russian revolution of 1905-1907 by Nikolai Svinenko, a student of Vkhutein (known as Vkhutemas before 1927). Ipat...
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When We Were Very Young.
MILNE, A.A.Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £0.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00Signed by both the author and his son. A rare double signature by the author and his son, for whom he wrote some verses that grew into the collecti...
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Alice's Adventures In Wonderland [with] Through The Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There.
CARROLL, Lewis [pseud. DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge]Original price £1,850.00 - Original price £1,850.00Original price £0.00£1,850.00£1,850.00 - £1,850.00Current price £1,850.00A very pretty pair of Lewis Carroll's Alice books. Known as the 'miniature edition', it is prized for its combination of convenient size and reada...
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