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Flannel Flowers and Other Bush Babies -
May Gibbs
Circa 1920 - Angus & Robertson Ltd, Sydney - First Edition, Early Printing (First printed 1917).
A scarce early printing of the third of five booklets in May Gibb’s famous Gum Nut series, which laid the way for her series of ten longer books relating the adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie (and their friends and relations) over the next quarter of a century.
Charmingly illustrated with a colour plate tipped onto the front covers, a colour frontispiece, pictorial title page, and eleven full page sepia-tinted plates. One plate with later water colouring, and one with partial colouring.
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Circa 1920 - Angus & Robertson Ltd, Sydney - First Edition, Early Printing (First printed 1917).
A scarce early printing of the third of five booklets in May Gibb’s famous Gum Nut series, which laid the way for her series of ten longer books relating the adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie (and their friends and relations) over the next quarter of a century.Charmingly illustrated with a colour plate tipped onto the front covers, a colour frontispiece, pictorial title page, and eleven full page sepia-tinted plates. One plate with later water colouring, and one with partial colouring.
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The Wind In The Willows -
Kenneth Grahame
1926 - Methuen & Co. Ltd., London - Nineteenth Edition (First published 1908)
An early edition in the original binding of Kenneth Grahame’s timeless children’s tale, with frontispiece illustration by Graham Robertson.
‘And you really live by The River? What a jolly life!’
‘By it and with it and on it and in it,’ said the Rat... ‘It’s my world, and I don’t want any other. What it hasn’t got is not worth having, and what it doesn’t know is not worth knowing.’
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1926 - Methuen & Co. Ltd., London - Nineteenth Edition (First published 1908)
An early edition in the original binding of Kenneth Grahame’s timeless children’s tale, with frontispiece illustration by Graham Robertson.‘And you really live by The River? What a jolly life!’
‘By it and with it and on it and in it,’ said the Rat... ‘It’s my world, and I don’t want any other. What it hasn’t got is not worth having, and what it doesn’t know is not worth knowing.’
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Almanack for 1924 -
Kate Greenaway
1923 - Frederick Warne and Co. Ltd, London - First Edition
Yellow cloth-backed colour pictorial glazed boards, page edges dark blue. Twenty four panels with colour illustrations by Greenaway, engraved and printed by Edmund Evans.
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1923 - Frederick Warne and Co. Ltd, London - First Edition
Yellow cloth-backed colour pictorial glazed boards, page edges dark blue. Twenty four panels with colour illustrations by Greenaway, engraved and printed by Edmund Evans.
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Almanack for 1885 -
Kate Greenaway
1884 - George Routledge & Sons, London - First Edition
The third of Greenaway’s popular little illustrative children’s Almanacks, which started with the 1883 edition and was published annually from 1883 through 1897 with one exception in 1896. With twenty four pages of colour illustrations engraved and printed by Edmund Evans.
In the publisher’s original glazed pictorial boards.
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1884 - George Routledge & Sons, London - First Edition
The third of Greenaway’s popular little illustrative children’s Almanacks, which started with the 1883 edition and was published annually from 1883 through 1897 with one exception in 1896. With twenty four pages of colour illustrations engraved and printed by Edmund Evans.In the publisher’s original glazed pictorial boards.
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Almanack for 1886 -
Kate Greenaway
1885 - George Routledge & Sons, London - First Edition
A near fine, pretty little Almanack, twenty four pages with colour illustrations by Greenaway, engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. The fourth of Greenaway’s popular little illustrative children’s Almanacks, which started with the 1883 edition and was published annually from 1883 through 1897 with one exception in 1896
In the scarce deluxe of faux pigskin, gilt decorated and lettered pebbled white boards, bordered in blue lines, yellow-orange endpapers, all edges gilt. There was also a standard edition of glazed pictorial boards.
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1885 - George Routledge & Sons, London - First Edition
A near fine, pretty little Almanack, twenty four pages with colour illustrations by Greenaway, engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. The fourth of Greenaway’s popular little illustrative children’s Almanacks, which started with the 1883 edition and was published annually from 1883 through 1897 with one exception in 1896In the scarce deluxe of faux pigskin, gilt decorated and lettered pebbled white boards, bordered in blue lines, yellow-orange endpapers, all edges gilt. There was also a standard edition of glazed pictorial boards.
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A Day in a Child's Life -
Kate Greenaway
1881 - George Routledge and Sons, London - First edition, first state
Charmingly illustrated with colour wood cuts throughout by Kate Greenaway, engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. The accompanying musical score is by Myles B. Foster.
Nine songs, with music, starting with Waking through Playtime; Grace Before Meal; A Romp; Tired and finally Sleeping.
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1881 - George Routledge and Sons, London - First edition, first state
Charmingly illustrated with colour wood cuts throughout by Kate Greenaway, engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. The accompanying musical score is by Myles B. Foster.Nine songs, with music, starting with Waking through Playtime; Grace Before Meal; A Romp; Tired and finally Sleeping.
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Les Livres de L'Enfance du XVe au XIXe Siècle. Préface de Paul Gavault -
Gumuchian
1930 - Gumuchian & Compagnie, Paris - The deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies on Papier de Hollande, this being number 10
Possibly the most important catalogue of children's books ever Issued. Two large quarto volumes, text in French and English, illustrated with 336 colour and black and white plates.
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1930 - Gumuchian & Compagnie, Paris - The deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies on Papier de Hollande, this being number 10
Possibly the most important catalogue of children's books ever Issued. Two large quarto volumes, text in French and English, illustrated with 336 colour and black and white plates.
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Tom Brown’s Schooldays. By an Old Boy. -
Thomas Hughes, Edmund J. Sullivan (illustrator)
1911 - Macmillan & Co., London - Early Illustrated edition
A pretty edition of this classic of English children's literature, and one of the earliest books written specifically for boys. It tells a story central to an understanding of Victorian life, but its freshness helps to distinguish it from the narrow schoolboy adventures that it later inspired.
Wonderfully illustrated throughout with black and white drawings by Edmund J. Sullivan, together with two folding colour maps to the rear, one of Rugby School and the other of Rugby and its environs.
Thomas Hughes (1822-1896) was an English lawyer and author and the idea for ‘Tom Brown's Schooldays’ came one day when he was wondering what to say to his son, aged 8, before he went off to Rugby. He decided that ‘good might be done by writing a real novel for boys, written in a right spirit but distinctly aimed at being interesting’. I believe his son still went to Rugby after hearing his father’s stories.
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1911 - Macmillan & Co., London - Early Illustrated edition
A pretty edition of this classic of English children's literature, and one of the earliest books written specifically for boys. It tells a story central to an understanding of Victorian life, but its freshness helps to distinguish it from the narrow schoolboy adventures that it later inspired.Wonderfully illustrated throughout with black and white drawings by Edmund J. Sullivan, together with two folding colour maps to the rear, one of Rugby School and the other of Rugby and its environs.
Thomas Hughes (1822-1896) was an English lawyer and author and the idea for ‘Tom Brown's Schooldays’ came one day when he was wondering what to say to his son, aged 8, before he went off to Rugby. He decided that ‘good might be done by writing a real novel for boys, written in a right spirit but distinctly aimed at being interesting’. I believe his son still went to Rugby after hearing his father’s stories.
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Price HK$ 1,500