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1. ANDERSEN, Hans Christian. A Picture Book Without
Pictures... From the German Translation of De La Motte Fouque by Meta
Taylor.
London, David Bogue, 1847.
The first English translation of Hans Christian Andersen's Billedbog Uden
Billeder.
First English edition, small, 8vo.,age toned, rear inner joint cracked but sound,
original decorated boards by Leighton and son, Angel Street, Strand (small
label to rear paste-down), small contemporary Edinburgh bookseller’s label to
upper paste-down, spine darkened, covers worn, otherwise a very good copy.
£275 [ref: 95401]
2. ARDIZZONE, Edward. Tim’s Last Voyage.
London, The Bodley Head, 1972.
A unique presentation copy from the author, inscribed ‘To all my Grandhildren/
Edward Ardizzone/ Oct 1972’.
First edition, inscribed by the Author to recto of front free endpaper; 4to; numerous
illustrations, both in colour and black & white, by the author, slight age-toning,
near-fine; publisher’s pictorial boards with corresponding dust-jacket, rubbed at
extremities, some creasing to upper edge, otherwise very good.
£425 [ref: 98280]
3. BEMELMANS, Ludwig. Madeline's Rescue.
New York, The Viking Press, 1953.
A very good first edition of the second in the Madeline book series, which
won the 1954 Caldecott Medal for ‘most distinguished picture book’. The
author/illustrator courted some controversy when the work won this prize,
seemingly joking with two Time magazine reporters that the whole tale was
in fact an allegory for a far more mischievous tale of prostitutes, brothels
and unplanned pregnancy; unfortunately this ‘joke’ was taken at face value
and printed in Time, outraging the Caldecott Prize committee and provoking
Bemelmans to threaten to sue the magazine.
First edition, first printing; folio; illustrations and pictorial endpapers by Bemelmans,
contemporary ownership inscription on half-title; publisher’s cloth, pictorial wrap-
around dust-jacket, a few small chips and closed tears with slight loss to head of
spine, but overall a very good, fresh example.
£650 [ref: 102323]
4. BOND, Michael; MCKEE, David (illustrator). Paddington and the
Marmalade Maze.
London, Collins, 1987.
An attractive illustrated Paddington first edition, with illustrations by David
McKee, famously the creator of Elmer the Patchwork Elephant. Signed by the
author Michael Bond on the title-page.
First edition, signed by the author on title-page; square 8vo (155 x 155 mm.); colour
illustrations by David McKee; original pictorial boards, very slight rubbing to corner-tips
but overall a fine copy.
£220 [ref: 101693]
bound by asprey 5. CARROLL, Lewis [pseud. DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge]; TENNIEL, John (illustrator). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. New Edition. [with] Through the Looking Glass.... ‘Forty-Second Thousand’. New York & London, Macmillan & Company, 1880-77. A handsome pair of 19th-century editions of the classic tales for children by Lewis Carroll, recounting Alice’s adventures full of nonsensical and amusing characters; bound superbly for Asprey of Bond Street. Provenance: Nicole and William M. Keck II. 2 vols; 8vo; illustrations by John Tenniel; uniformly bound in full red morocco to style of publisher’s cloth for Asprey, ruled in gilt, pictorial gilt stamps of Alice and the Red Queen to upper covers, gilt-ruled dentelles, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, presented in red morocco-backed cloth slipcase. £3,750 [ref: 100060]
the snark was a boojum, you see...
6. CARROLL, Lewis [pseud. DODGSON, Charles]. The Hunting of the Snark. An agony in eight fits. By
Lewis Carroll. With nine wood-engraved illustrations by Henry Holiday.
London, Macmillan, 1876.
First edition, first printing, with ‘Baker’ for ‘Banker’ on page 83. The Easter Greeting was reprinted in 1880 with
correction. This example is a genuine 1876 issue and less common than one might imagine.
First edition, first impression; 8vo; cover designs and nine illustrations by Henry Holiday, xi, [3], 83, [3]pp. including one page
of advertisements. Tipped onto the front free endpaper is a copy of the first issue of the privately printed first issue of An
Easter Greeting to Every Child Who Loves “Alice”. Hinges tender, with minor cracking to the rear, one or two corners turned,
cloth a little darkened. Still a very nice copy.
Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 115.
£975 [ref: 102714]
rare first uk edition of pinocchio
7. COLLODI, Carlo [pseud. LORENZINI, Carlo]. The Story of a Puppet
or The Adventures of Pinocchio. Translated from the Italian...
London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1892.
The rare first UK edition of Collodi’s classic for children, originally published in book-form
in Florence, Italy in 1883. Previously serialised in a children's newspaper, Giornale per i
bambini (1881-83) the work started out as La storia di un burratino, changed later to Le
Avventure di Pinocchio. The author Lorenzini, a journalist & educationalist, took the name
Collodi from his mother's native village in Tuscany.
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.
Osborne p.1007
£2,800 [ref: 100129]
8. DAHL, Roald; BURKERT, Nancy Ekholm (illustrator). James and the Giant Peach. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. An unusually fine example of the scarce first book written by Roald Dahl for children. The British edition wasn't published until six years later. First edition, second issue with 4-line colophon; large 8vo; frontispiece, plates and illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert, original cloth, dust-jacket, spine slightly dulled as usual, otherwise fine. £650 [ref: 101735] 9. DAHL, Roald; SCHINDELMAN, Joseph (illustrator). Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. New York, Alfred A Knopf, 1964. A solid first edition of Roald Dahl’s masterpiece of modern children’s literature, preceding the UK edition by three years. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory introduced the world to one of Dahl’s most enduring characters, Willy Wonka, and his wacky & wonderful confectionary creations, as well as the Oompa- Loompas of course. The book went on to become Dahl’s most famous work, adapted for film successfully twice, starring Gene Wilder & Johnny Depp respectively as the chief music maker and dreamer of dreams... First edition, first printing, first issue (with 6-line colophon); 8vo; illustrations by Joseph Schindelman, mustard endpapers, some minor marking to extreme fore-edge of some ff.; publisher’s burgundy blind-tooled cloth, a very good copy, first issue dust-jacket correctly priced ‘$3.95’ on upper flap and without ISBN number on the rear panel, some slight toning, lightly rubbed & creasing to edges, chipped at spine ends with minor loss, overall very good. £2,250 [ref: 102284] 10. DAHL, Roald; SCHINDELMAN, Joseph (illustrator). Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. The continuing adventures of the Bucket family and the splendid Willy Wonka, catapulted into the heavens via Wonka’s special glass elevator, where they encounter the Vermicious Knids, Gnoolies and more. The American edition of Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator precedes the first UK edition. First edition, first printing; 8vo; frontispiece and illustrations by Joseph Schindelman, internally fine; publisher’s cloth-backed pictorial boards, near-fine, dust-jacket, price- clipped, but overall a near fine, bright example with no fading to spine. £375 [ref: 102294]
ITEM 8 ITEM 9
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11. DETMOLD, Edward J. (illustrator); AESOP. The Fables of Aesop. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1909 A handsomely illustrated edition comprising twenty-five fables by the master of that genre, Aesop. Detmold’s complex & arresting illustrations are the perfect accompaniment to these tales. Limited edition, number 62 of 740 copies signed by the artist; large 4to; 25 tipped-in colour plates by Detmold, light toning to endpapers; publisher’s pictorial cloth gilt, a little toned and rubbed at extremities, a few small splits to rear joint but firm, dent to spine, otherwise very good and internally near fine. £1,100 [ref: 95920]
signed by the model for the blue fairy
12. DISNEY, Walt; COLLODI, Carlo [pseud. LORENZINI, 14. DISNEY, Walt. The Mickey Mouse Fire Brigade.
Carlo]. Walt Disney's version of Pinocchio. London, Collins, [1936].
New York, Random House, 1939.
An unusually good first edition example of this rare Mickey Mouse book
A very good example of this first edition of the book version of Walt by Disney, replete with the scarce dust-jacket, a rare survivor given
Disney's second feature-length animated motion picture, scarce with the the vigourous handling such books experienced from their young and
whale plate intact and in the original dust-jacket. This copy further elevated enthusiastic readership.
by the gift inscription from the dancer & actress Marge Champion, who
worked as a dance model for Disney Studios, notably for the Blue Fairy in First edition; small 4to (245 x 180 mm.); numerous illustrations, some toning
Pinocchio and for Snow White. and light foxing mostly to margins, contents otherwise clean; publisher’s
pictorial boards, spine very slightly faded, extremities a little rubbed, dust-
First Disney edition, first printing, gift inscription from Marge Champion to jacket, gift inscription to verso, some chipping and creasing to edges and
verso of front free endpaper; 4to (283 x 210 mm.); colour pictorial title, spine ends, but overall a very good example.
double-page plate of the whale, colour and monochrome illustrations, vignette
line illustrations, pictorial endpapers; publisher’s cloth-backed pictorial boards, £825 [ref: 99356]
pictorial wrap-around dust-jacket, some minor edge wear, a few tears, with loss
to lower fore-corner of upper panel and foot of spine, but overall very good.
15. [DISNEY, Walt]. Mickey Mouse Circus.
£550 [ref: 100311] [London], Birn Brothers, [1936].
Mickey Mouse and friends bring the circus to the town in this charming
13. DISNEY, Walt. Peculiar Penguins. FROM A WALT DISNEY SILLY Walt Disney first edition, scarce in this condition and in the original
SYMPHONY. pictorial dust-jacket.
Philadelphia, David Mckay Company, 1934.
First edition; small 4to (250 x 195 mm.); 4 colour plates, numerous illustrations
A lovely copy of this bookform rendering of an early Disney animation. including full-page, usual mostly marginal toning; publisher’s colour pictorial
boards, slightly bumped and rubbed at corner and spine-ends, otherwise very
First edition; 8vo; colour illustrations throughout; publisher’s red cloth with good, dust-jacket, some wear with small sections of loss to spine ends and a
colour illustration mounted on upper board, slight darkening to image at top- few mostly closed tears, overall very good.
& fore-edge, overall very good.
£750 [ref: 99337]
£250 [ref: 98344]ITEM 12 ITEM 13 ITEM 14 ITEM 15
one of only 50 copies - signed by the artist 16. DULAC , Edmund (illustrator); STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Treasure Island. London, Ernest Benn, Ltd., 1927. A very rare deluxe Dulac edition, considerably at odds stylistically with the more well-known Edwardian and Inter-War deluxe editions produced by Hodder & Stoughton et al. Writing of this work in her bibliography of the artist, Ann Conolly Hughey states that the watercolours ‘...show a new Dulac style... The detailing and design of the pictures present some of Dulac's most careful and superb painting. He himself liked these illustrations best of all his work’. Provenance: by direct descent within the Benn family,. First Dulac deluxe edition, one of only 50 copies signed by the artist; small 4to; colour frontispiece, 11 plates and numerous black & white decorations and illustrations by the artist, a little light foxing; publisher’s vellum with morocco spine label, t.e.g., slight bowing as usual, but otherwise a very good copy. £5,500 [ref: 96505]
18. GRAHAME, Kenneth; PARRISH, Maxfield (illustrator).
Dream Days. London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1902.
A collection of children’s stories.
First illustrated edition; 8vo, (21 x 16 cm); 10 full-page gravure plates with captioned
‘when i was your age, television was called books’ tissue-guards, 6 black & white tail pieces and pictorial endpapers, the usual slight
17. GOLDMAN, William. The Princess Bride. S. Morgenstern’s Classic toning, otherwise fine; publisher’s pictorial cloth gilt, embossed in brown, green, black
Tale of True Love and High Adventure. and terracotta, a hint of of rubbing to extremities, otherwise an exceptionally fine copy.
New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1973.
£300 [ref: 100553]
A superb copy - based on the time-honoured form of an abridgement of
an existing (but entirely fictional) text by a certain ‘S. Morgenstern’, William 19. GRAHAME, Kenneth; PARRISH, Maxfield (illustrator). The
Goldman’s The Princess Bride artfully folds high adventure, laughs, pathos and a Golden Age. London & New York, John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1904.
brilliant meta-narrative into one of the great comic novels of the 20th century
- it is a fairy tale like no other! Early edition; 8vo; frontispiece, pictorial title, 17 plates with captioned tissue-
guards, and pictorial endpapers, all by Maxfield Parrish; contemporary ownership
First edition, first impression, 8vo; internally fine; publisher’s grey boards, lettering inscription to preliminary blank; publisher’s pictorial cloth, gilt, small split to spine
to spine in black and red; dust-jacket, near fine. near head, some minor rubbing; t.e.g., others uncut.
£1,800 [ref: 100873] £130 [ref: 99764]20. LOFTING, Hugh. Doctor Dolittle’s Caravan. London, Jonathan Cape, 1927. First Edition, First Impression; 8vo; colour frontispiece, pictorial title, illustrations and endpapers by the author. Publisher’s grey cloth, titles to upper board and spine in purple. With the dust jacket. Spine gently rolled and a little faded but an excellent copy in the nicked and lightly tanned dust jacket. £175 [ref: 102708] 21. LOFTING, Hugh. Doctor Dolittle's Puddleby Adventures. London, Jonathan Cape, 1953. First edition; 8vo; colour frontispiece, pictorial title, illustrations and endpapers by the author, ink name on front free endpaper; publisher’s pictorial cloth in very good condition, dust-jacket, a very good example. £180 [ref: 98765]
unique presentation copy signed by the author 22. MILNE, A .A .; SHEPARD, E.H. (illustrator). Winnie-the-Pooh. London, Methuen & Co., 1926. An exceptional association and presentation copy. The inscription in Milne's hand reads: ‘For Soldier from Christopher Robin and A. A. Milne, 14.xi.26’ on front free endpaper; beneath this inscription is the signature of Louis Goodrich, the ‘soldier’ referred to above. ‘Alan clearly tried his best to create a happy childhood for his son, and once even arranged for an actor called Louis Goodrich, who he had met at the Garrick Club, to dress up in full military uniform to surprise Christopher. At the time Christopher was fascinated by soldiers, but later suggested that Alan may have regretted introducing him to Louis as they struck up an unlikely friendship: It was difficult for him, of course, Christopher said. For there was Nanny always in the way. Nanny who claimed so much of my affection. And on the rare occasions when Nanny was out of the room, there was my mother in her place. Where did he fit in? Nowhere special. And now here was Soldier. You could see how my eyes lit up at the very thought of Soldier, at the mere mention of his name. You could see (or you could be told) how he made me laugh, how I adored him. No, my father couldn't compete.’ (The Extraordinary Life of A. A. Milne, by Nadia Cohen). First edition, inscribed by the author; 8vo; illustrations by E.H. Shepard, map endpapers (light browning); publisher’s pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt,near fine, pictorial dust-jacket, spine darkened, extremities slightly chipped and soiled, more so to spine, otherwise good and unrestored. £15,000 [ref: 102897]
the ‘monogram’ edition
23. MILNE, A .A .; SHEPHARD, Ernest H. (illustrator).
[The Christopher Robin Books]. When We Were Very Young, Winnie-the-Pooh,
Now We Are Six and The House at Pooh Corner.
London, Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1930-28.
An unusually fine set of the deluxe ‘Monogram’ edition of the Winnie-the-
Pooh books, so named for the author’s gilt-stamped initials to the upper
cover. Produced as the first "collected" set, issued after publication of the
final Christopher Robin book, The House at Pooh Corner (1928), the text block
and Shepard illustrations are taken from the concurrent trade editions but
presented in special leather bindings. Especially scarce in the publisher’s card
box, albeit the latter with splits and wear.
[The ‘Monogram’ edition], mixed impressions; 4 vols,
8vo; illustrations and pictorial endpapers by E.H.
Shepard, brown satin page marker in each vol., internally
fine, uniformly bound in publisher’s full brown leather
with gilt initials ‘AAM’ within decorative geometric
device and rule borders to upper covers, spines with
gilt designs after the original editions, gilt edges, fine
examples presented in the original plain brown card
box (worn and with splits).
£1,900 [ref: 101197]24. NESBIT, E. The Railway Children.
London, Wells Gardene, Darton & Co. Ltd., 1906.
A particularly near-fine example of this increasingly rare and ever-popular children’s classic,
immortalised by the 1970 film directed by Lionel Jeffries and staring Jenny Agutter, Bernard
Cribbins and Dinah Sheridan.
On his return from filming Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang in the U.S. and without anything else to
read, Lionel Jeffries borrowed his 13 year old daughter’s copy of The Railway Children and said
of the experience; ‘I found the climate of the... story just right for me, a way in which to start
entertaining people and help not destroy our industry. There are hardly any films being made
for children and for middle-aged and older age groups. I thought this could be one.’
He bought a six-month option on the film rights for £300 and wrote the screenplay. ‘I've kept
to the story, it would be an imposition not to – after all, E. Nesbit's survived 50 years.’
Provenance: The estate of Lionel Jeffries (1926-2010), (director of
the film version of The Railway Children (1970), by family descent).
First edition; 8vo; half-title, pictorial title and 20 black & white plates
including frontispiece by C. E. Brock, 10pp publisher's adverts at
rear, slight age-toning, as usual; publisher’s gilt-blocked maroon
cloth, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, very slight rubbing to
extremities and darkening to spine, otherwise a fine copy.
£2,900 [ref: 102152]25. POTTER, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester.
[Strangeways, London], 1902.
A remarkably fine copy of Beatrix's first privately printed edition of The Tailor of Gloucester;
this work was developed from an illustrated letter, given by Potter to Freda Moore. Based on a
true story about a tailor, one Mr. Prichard, whose headstone in Gloucester reads 'The Tailor of
Gloucester', told to her by Caroline Hutton during a stay at Harescombe Grange near Stroud,
Gloucestershire, for which the author took sketches of Gloucester landmarks & streets, and
even tore a button off her own coat so she could watch a tailor in Chelsea at work.
This edition incorporates many of the author's favourite rhymes & verses, which were removed
or reduced in the Warne edition published a year later, though even for the privately printed
edition Beatrix was obliged to sacrifice some 1,100 words from her original manuscript. The
Tailor of Gloucester was the author's favourite among all her works, writing of this edition "I find
that children of the right age - 12 - like it best; the smaller ones who could learn off the short
sentences of Peter find this one too long.
Provenance: Leslie Linder collection, and thence by private gift.
First edition, first issue, [one of 500 copies]; 16mo; 16 colour
plates by the author, one plate with pencil initials or flourish
beneath, internally excellent, original pink boards lettered and
illustrated in black with rounded spine, a superb copy.
Linder 420 & pp.114; Quinby 3; Taylor, Whalley, Hobbs, Battrick
pp.59-60; Gottlieb/Morgan 221; Osborne, p. 379.
£6,000 [ref: 101253]presentation copy with an original ink drawing
26. SENDAK, Maurice. In the Night Kitchen.
London, Bodley Head, 1971.
Presentation copy to the children’s author Aidan Chambers and his wife
Nancy, with an original ink drawing by Sendak depicting Mickey with the
words ‘with pleasure!’.
Described by Sendak as the first in a developmental trilogy, to come before
Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen (first published in the USA
the previous year) recounts the dream of a small child. Highly acclaimed,
though controversial, the book received several awards, including the
1971 Caldecott Medal.
First UK edition, inscribed by the author; 4to in 8s and 4s, (286 x 224 mm);
printed in full-page colour throughout, a very clean copy; publisher’s colour-printed Provenance: Nancy and
paper boards, with colour-printed dust-jacket, very slight crease to upper board and Aidan Chambers, July 1971
minimal wear at extremities; [40]pp. (inscribed by the author to
front free endpaper).
£2,250 [ref: 99176]27. SEUSS, Dr [pseud. GEISEL, Theodor Seuss]. The Cat in the Hat. New York, Random House, 1957. The first edition of the most famous of the works of Dr Seuss, introducing young readers in America (and not much long after, around the world) to the indubitably mischievous but not maliciously motivated ‘Cat in the Hat’, in unusually good condition. The dust-jacket here conforms to all the issue points called for by Younger & Hirsch, but has had the price clipped, removing the most well-known issue identifier. First edition, first printing; large 8vo (230 x 165 mm.); colour printed throughout, pictorial endpapers; publisher’s matte paper boards, slightly rubbed and bumped at extremities but overall very good, dust-jacket, some rubbing and superficial creasing, slight wear to corner-tips, otherwise a very good, neatly price- clipped example. Younger & Hirsch 7. £950 [ref: 102641] 28. SEUSS, Dr [pseud. GEISEL, Theodor Seuss]. The Cat in the Hat Comes Back. New York, Beginner Books distributed by Random House, 1958. Back due to public demand, The Cat in the Hat Comes Back sees Dr Seuss’s most famous creation return to torment Sally and her brother once more. A superior first edition. First edition, first printing; large 8vo (230 x 165 mm.); colour printed illustrations throughout, pictorial endpapers; publisher’s pictorial boards, dust-jacket, an unusually good example. Younger & Hirsch 11. £525 [ref: 101545]
ground-breaking work for the prevention of animal cruelty 29. SEWELL, Anna. Black Beauty: His Grooms and Companions. The
Autobiography of a Horse. Translated from the Original Equine.
London, Jarrold and Sons, [1877].
An unusually good example of this famous equestrian tale, told from the
perspective of a horse. Black Beauty was Quaker author Sewell’s only
publication, written during periods of ill health between 1871 & 1877, often
through dictation to her mother.
The book was not immediately a big seller, but word of it soon spread and it
quickly became a much-loved classic of children’s literature, as well as a bastion
for the prevention of cruelty to animals, both in the UK and the US. The aim of
the book, Anna Sewell wrote at the time, was to ‘induce kindness, sympathy,
and an understanding treatment of horses’ (Mrs Bayly, The life and letters of Mrs
Sewell, 1889). Black Beauty is often now recognised as a game-changer in the
way that horses were looked after and trained, particularly relating to the usage
of the notorious bearing-rein.
The author died just five months after publication. ‘Anna Sewell has been
neglected by history. In ironic contrast, her only book has achieved phenomenal
success. Pirated in America in 1890, its sales broke publishing records. It is said
to be “the sixth best seller in the English language”’ (E.B. Wells & A. Grimshaw,
The Annotated 'Black Beauty',1989).
The binding on this copy is known as ‘Carter’s variant “C”’, relating to a
bibliography of binding variants; not the most uncommon issue recorded, but
extremely uncommon in such good condition.
First edition; small 8vo (165 x 100 mm.); wood-engraved frontispiece, 8pp.
advertisements, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper, brown-coated
endpapers with some loss to paper at hinges possibly due to the adhesive used for the
pastedowns; publisher’s green cloth blocked in black with gilt title to spine and upper
cover and gold medallion containing horse’s portrait to upper cover, a little rubbed at
corners, slight rolling of spine, but overall very good.
Wolff 6250a; Carter, More Binding Variants p.37.
£6,000 [ref: 103081]beautifully bound by sangorski & sutcliffe 31. SPYRI, Johanna. Heidi kann brauchen, was es gelernt hat. Eine
geschichte für kinder und auch für Solche, welche die kinder lieb haben.
30. SMITH, Dodie; GRAHAME-JOHNSTONE, Janet & Anne
Gotha, Friedrich Andreas Perthes, 1881.
(illustrators). The Hundred and One Dalmatians.
London, William Heinemann, 1956. The scarce first edition of the continuation to Spyri’s classic Heidi (1880), the
tale of a young Swiss girl who lives in the Alps. Both volumes are rare to find
First edition of the popular children’s classic The Hundred and One Dalmatians
in the original cloth, especially in such good condition.
by Dodie Smith, bound in full morocco with silver puppies by Sangorski &
Sutcliffe. First edition of the second Heidi book; 8vo; woodcut device to title, some minor
finger-marking and spotting, neat contemporary ownership inscription to head of
First edition; 8vo; modern full black morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with abstract
title, patterned endpapers; publisher’s dark brown cloth, elaborately tooled in blind
design of Dalmatian puppies on the front cover, Japanese endpapers and all edges
& black with gilt titling, a little rubbed and bumped at corners and spine ends, but
silvered, a stunning copy.
overall very good.
£1,500 [ref: 95601] £1,500 [ref: 100497]32. TEFFI, Nadezhda Alexandrovna; PARAIN, Nathalie (illustrator). Баба-Яга . [Baba-Yaga]. Paris, YMCA Press, 1932. Baba Yaga is a tale about the witch-like character who lives in the forest and frequently appears in Russian folklore tales. Since Alexander Afanaseev began to collect & publish fairy tales in the mid 19th century many numerous illustrated versions have appeared but this émigré publication is of particular rarity & charm. Nathalie Parain (1897-1958) was born in Kiev and was a student at the Imperial Academy of Arts until the Revolution of 1917 forced an end to her studies. She moved to Moscow in order to gain a state recognised art degree at Vkhutemas and it was here that under the direction of Petr Konchalovsky her artistic style veered towards the avant-garde. First edition; 4to; 24pp.; illustrated throughout by Parain; original publisher’s lithographed wrappers. £650 [ref: 100629] 33. THOMPSON, Kay; KNIGHT, Hilary (illustrator). Eloise in Moscow. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1959. A very nice copy of fourth Eloise book by Kay Thompson, inspired by a trip to Moscow undertaken by the author & illustrator in 1959, and in part by the author’s god-daughter Liza Minelli. Following its publication, Kay Thompson suddenly pulled all but the original Eloise title from the publisher and printer, seemingly unhappy with the quality of these three works. A fifth title, conceived on a trip to Rome in 1964, was also never published in the author’s lifetime. Further reprints of the sequels did not appear until after her death in 1998. First edition, first printing; 4to; two-tone illustrations throughout including pictorial endpaper, by Hilary Knight, contemporary gift inscription to head of front free endpaper; publisher’s pictorial boards, minor bumping; dust-jacket, browned at spine, some fraying and chipping to upper corners and head of spine, closed tear to foot of upper panel, some light marking & toning, but overall a good example. £300 [ref: 99071]
A number of errors were discovered and then corrected during the
printing of the first edition. Copies with the earliest, uncorrected
states are always sought after by collectors. In this copy, the title-
page is a cancel with the copyright notice dated 1884 (C, BAL second
state, with the first state only noted in the publisher's prospectuses
and advanced sheets), while the frontispiece is in the first state with
the tablecloth visible and unsigned on the finished edge of the bust
(A, BAL first state).
Furthermore, the following issue points are respected: on p.13, the
illustration captioned ‘Him and another Man’ is wrongly listed as
being on p.88 (A, BAL first state); p.9 with the misprint ‘Decided’
(A, BAL first state); p.57, the eleventh line from the bottom reads
‘with the was’ instead of ‘with the saw’ (A, BAL first state); p.143,
missing 'l' in the illustration (A, BAL first state); p.155, the final '5'
in the pagination is missing (A, BAL first state), and on p.161, the
signature mark is absent (A, BAL first state).
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer ‘let fresh air into
the minds of parents who had shut the door on their own childhood,
34. TWAIN, Mark [pseud. CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne]. Adventures of and they will be classics the world over as long as there are boys’
Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade). (Grolier, 100 American Books).
New York, Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.
First American edition, first state (see note); small 4to; portrait frontispiece
‘All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called of the author after the bust by sculptor Karl Gerhardt, illustrations by
Huckleberry Finn’ (Ernest Hemingway, The Green Hills of Africa). Edward W. Kemble, small ink stain on fore-edge otherwise internally fine;
publisher’s green cloth blocked in gilt & black, some very minor rubbing to
A superb first American edition of this ground-breaking Mark Twain novel, extremities, but overall an excellent copy.
simultaneously a classic of children’s and American literature. Sold by subscription, BAL 3415; Grolier (American), 87.
Huckleberry Finn was illustrated and finely bound in leather bindings (sheep or
half morocco), in blue cloth for those who wanted it uniform with Tom Sawyer £16,500 [ref: 99598]
(1877), and, as here, in green cloth. There is no established priority between
them, and all were available to the public on the same day in February 1885.35. WHITE, E.B. The Trumpet of the Swan. New York, Evanston & London, Harper & Row, 1970. ‘While not quite so sprightly as Stuart Little, and less rich in personalities and incident than Charlotte's Web - that paean to barnyard life by a city humorist turned farmer - The Trumpet of the Swan has superior qualities of its own; it is the most spacious and serene of the three, the one most imbued with the author's sense of the precious instinctual heritage represented by wild nature’ ( John Updike, The New York Times). A fine first edition example of the popular author’s novel for children. First edition, first printing (with number line on final page); 8vo; frontispiece and illustrations by Edward Frascino; publisher’s cloth, dust-jacket, 1970 Honor Book prize sticker to upper panel, inner front flap clipped but correct price $4.50 present. £175 [ref: 102480]
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