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Raymond Briggs, 3 titles: 'When the Wind Blows', London, Hamish Hamilton, 1982, 1st edition, colour illustrated throughout, folio, original pictor...

Russell Hoban; Quentin Blake (illustrated): 'Riddley Walker', London, The Folio Society, 2017, limited edition, number 275 of 1,000 copies only si...

Raymond Briggs: 'The Snowman', London, Hamish Hamilton, 1978, 1st edition, [32]pp colour illustrated leaves throughout, no previous owner names or...

Roald Dahl: 'James and the Giant Peach', London, George Allen and Unwin, 1967, 1st edition, full page and in text b/w ills. by Michel Simeon throu...

Roald Dahl: 'Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator', London, George Allen & Unwin, 1973, 1st edition, b/w illustrations throughout by Faith Jaques ...

Alfred Bestall/Mary Tourtel, seven various Rupert annuals, comprising 'The New Adventures of Rupert', L, Daily Express, 1936 annual, 4to, original...

Alfred Bestall, eleven Rupert annuals comprising 1943 (2), 1944, 1945, 1946 (3), 1947 (2), 1948, 1949, all except 1947 annuals with ownership name...

Rudyard Kipling: 'The Jungle Book', London, Macmillan, 1894, 1st edition, black & white frontispiece + full page and in text b/w ills. by J.L. Kip...

Michael Bond: 'Paddington Takes the Air', London, Collins, 1970, 1st edition, b/w in text ills. by Peggy Fortnum throughout, original cloth letter...

Seven children's & illustrated titles, including Kathleen Hale: 'Orlando (The Marmalade Cat) A Seaside Holiday', L, Country Life, 1952, 1st editio...

Enid Marx, two scarce wartime illustrated juvenile fiction titles: 'Bulgy, the Barrage Balloon', London, Oxford University Press, 1941, 1st editio...

'The Greyfriars Herald', 20 assorted issues 1920, comprising No.'s 11-13, 15-17, 19-32, each original pictorial wraps, No.'s 23 & 31 wraps detache...

Charles Henry Chapman (1879-1972), an original pen & ink cartoon depicting a schoolboy receiving a caning, signed C.H. Chapman and dated 15.6.21, ...

Eight late 19th Century children's titles, including Walter Crane: 'The Baby's Bouquet', L, Routledge, [1878], colour illustrated by Crane through...

Maurice Sendak (illustrated), 7 titles, including 'Hector Protector and As I Went Over the Water', London, Bodley Head, 1967, 1st UK edition, colo...

Fourteen assorted illustrated titles, mainly early 20th Century illustrators including Frank Brangwyn: 'Belgium', New York, Stokes, 1916, 52 b/w e...

P.G. Wodehouse; Philip Dadd (illustrated): 'William Tell Told Again', London, Adam & Charles Black, 1904, 1st edition, 1st impression (title with ...

Philip Pullman: 'The Amber Spyglass', London, David Fickling Books/Scholastic, 2000, 1st edition, signed to title page, His Dark Materials III, or...

J.K. Rowling: 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets', London, Bloomsbury, 1998, 3rd impression, original pictorial boards, dust wrapper

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter Novels, deluxe editions, comprising 'Philosopher's Stone; Chamber of Secrets; Prisoner of Azkaban; Goblet of Fire', Lon...

Cecil Aldin (illustrated), 6 titles, including Washington Irving: 'Old Christmas', London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1908, 1st edition, colour frontis, ...

Cicely Mary Barker, 7 titles, including: 'Spring Songs with Music from "Flower Fairies of the Spring"; Summer Songs...; Autumn Songs...', London, ...

Five late C19th/early C20th juvenile/illustrated titles, including Florence Isabel Codrington: 'Bring-Brother. One of the children-in-blue from th...

Paul Gallico; Peter Scott (illustrated): 'The Snow Goose', London, Michael Joseph, 1946, limited edition, No. 273 of 750 copies only on mould made...

Clifton Bingham; E. Stuart Hardy (illustrated): 'The Fairy Picture Book', London, Ernest Nister, [nd], c.1902, 7 leaves of colour illustrations wi...

Walt Whitman: Margaret C. Cook (illustrated): 'Leaves of Grass', London, J.M. Dent, 1913, 24 tipped in colour plates by Margaret Cook as called fo...

Frances Hodgson Burnett: 'The Secret Garden', New York, Stokes, 1911, 1st U.S. edition, 4 colour plates by Maria Louise Kirk as called for, inner ...

Lewis Carroll [i.e. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There', London, ...

Lewis Carroll; John Tenniel (illustrated): 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There', London, Ma...

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson [i.e. Lewis Carroll]; Stuart Dodgson Collingwood (ed.): 'The Lewis Carroll Picture Book', London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1899, ...

Lewis Carroll [i.e. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], 2 titles: 'Alice's Adventures Under Ground. Being a Facsimile of the original MS. book afterwards d...

Margaret Tempest (1892-1992), a series of 15 original charcoal illustrations on one large continuous roll of paper, illustrations various sizes (a...

Children's & Illustrated, 25 assorted titles, including J.M. Barrie: 'Peter Pan and Wendy', London, Hodder & Stoughton, c.1921, 12 tipped in colou...

Archive collection of 42 signed copies of the classic Giles cartoon series, issued yearly at Christmas. "He draws from the largest and finest sele...

Louis Wain: 'Cats at Play', London, Blackie, [1917], 1st edition, 12 unnumbered pages of colour illustrations, folio (33 x 26cm), original pictori...

Maurice Maeterlinck; E.J. Detmold (illustrated): 'The Life of the Bee', London, 1911, illustrated edition, 13 mounted coloured plates by Detmold a...

Edmund Dulac (illustrated): 'The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam', translated Fitzgerald, London, Hodder, circa 1910, 20 tipped-in colour plates as calle...

Arthur Rackham (illustrated); J.M. Barrie: 'Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens', London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1906, 1st trade edition, 50 tipped in co...

Five assorted illustrated/art realted titles, including John Ruskin: 'Giotto and His Works in Padua: Being an Explanatory Notice of the Series of ...

Six late C19th colour illustrated books by Walter & Thomas Crane, including Walter Crane, 4 titles: 'Pan-Pipes', London, Routledge, 1883, 1st edit...

Noel Langley: 'The Land of Green Ginger', London, Arthur Barker, 1947, 2nd edition, black & white illustrations throughout by the author as called...

(Estonia, Folk Lore, Kalevipoeg.) William Forsell Kirby: 'The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of that Country', Lond...

Enid Blyton, three Adventure Series first editions, all published London, Macmilan, all original pictorial cloth, all in dust wrappers: 'The River...

Enid Blyton, a collection of twenty Famous Five series children's novels, all published Hodder & Stoughton, all illustrated by Eileen Soper, first...

Nineteen assorted children's titles, many Enid Blyton, including: 'Five on a Treasure Island', L, Hodder & Stoughton, August 1942, 1st edition, fu...

Conor O'Brien: 'Two Boys Go Sailing', London, J.M. Dent, 1936, 1st edition, b/w frontis + 12 b/w plates & map end papers by B. Ganly as called for...

six assorted children's and illustrated books, including Sophia Rosamund Praeger: 'The Tale of The Little Twin Dragons', London, Macmillan, 1900, ...

J.R.R. Tolkien; Christopher Tolkien (edited): 'The Silmarillion', London, George Allen & Unwin, 1977, 1st edition, large folding map of Beleriand ...

J.R.R. Tolkien: 'The Hobbit', London, George Allen & Unwin, 1975, 3rd edition, 10th impression, map end papers, original pictorial green cloth, du...

J.R.R. Tolkien: 'The Lord of the Rings. The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King', London, George Allen & Unwin, 3 volum...

Juvenile Science-Fiction and Fantasy, sixteen titles, including Eric Frank Russell, six 1st editions, all orig. cloth, all in dust wrappers: 'Sini...

Arthur C. Clarke: 'The Young Traveller in Space', London, Phoenix House, 1954, 1st edition, colour frontis + b/w plates, ills. diagrams as called ...

Margaret Atwood: 'In Other Worlds. Science Fiction and the Human Imagination', London, Virago Press, 2011, 1st edition, Guardian and Observer Book...

Susan Hill: 'The Woman in Black', London, Jonathan Cape, 1983, 1st edition, signed bookplate loosely inserted, illustrations by John Lawrence thro...

Cynthia Asquith: 'This Mortal Coil', Sauk City, WI, Arkham House, 1947, 1st edition, one of 2,609 copies, signed & inscribed by the author to Davi...

Edward Maitland: 'Anna Kingsford Her Life, Letters, Diary and Work', London, George Redway, 1896, 1st edition, 2 volumes, photogravure portrait fr...

(Fantasy, Esoteric, Mystical), Arthur Edward Waite: 'The Quest of the Golden Stairs. A Mystery of Kinghood in Faerie', London, The Theosophical Pu...

(Supernatural, Occult, Ghost Stories.) James Reynolds: 'Gallery of Ghosts', New York, Creative Age Press, 1949, 1st edition, colour frontis + 23 f...

Thea von Harbou: 'Metropolis', London, Reader's Library, September 1927, 1st edition, 4th printing, 250pp, small 8vo, original publisher's burgund...

Arthur C. Clarke: 'A Fall of Moondust', London, Gollancz, 1961, 1st edition, ex library, original cloth, dust wrapper, Jules Verne: 'Twenty Thousa...

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