Children’s Books

# 47128

TEAGUE, Violet; REDE, Geraldine

Night fall in the ti-tree

Woodcuts by Geraldine Rede and Violet Teague. Melbourne and London : Sign of the Rabbit and Elgin Mathews, 1906. Small folio, ribbon-tied woodcut-printed wrappers (lightly rubbed, ribbons replaced, the original silk ribbon as always deteriorated, and preserved separately), illustrated endpapers, fourteen leaves folded in the Japanese manner illustrated with original woodcuts by Teague and Rede, …

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# 46886

HAMER, Heather (1885 - 1962)

Old Sinhalese nursery rhymes and folk songs

Collected and illustrated by Heather Hamer. With a Foreword by Sir Solomon Dias Bandaranaike, K.C.M.G. Ceylon : The Colombo Apothecaries Co., Ltd., 1935. Quarto, gilt-lettered diced road, lightly scuffed and worn, pp. [36], illustrated with twelve full page black and white illustrations by Hamer, with tissue guards, illustrating in modernist style the nursery rhymes. Heather …

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# 46683

BRIGHTWELL, L[eonard] R[obert] F.Z.S. (1889 - 1983)

Wild Friends at Home (original cover art)

Gouache on paper, measures 430 x 310mm, being the original painting illustrating the cover of E. Chivers Davies’ ‘Wild Friends at Home’ (London : 1920). In this volume a little boy enters the imaginary worlds of the wild animals whose pictures decorate the walls of his nursery. The fifteen short tales include his adventure with …

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# 46559

RENTOUL, Annie R.; OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul (illustrator); PETERSON, Georgette (music)

[SHEET MUSIC] More Australian songs for young and old

Words by Annie R. Rentoul. Music by Georgette Peterson. Pictures by I. Rentoul Outhwaite. Melbourne: George Robertson & Company, [1913]. Oblong quarto (245 x 310 mm), pictorial wrappers with original ties (wrappers very lightly foxed, lengthy paper split along spine), title page with early gift inscription, 36 pp., illustrated.; internally very good. Muir 6349.

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# 46693

JONES, Luke

Australian Toys

Melbourne : Melbourne : Books, 2019. Quarto, laminated pictorial boards, pp. 358, illustrated. ‘Australian Toys is an illustrated history of Australian manufactured toys from 1900-1965, drawing on the author’s authoritative collection. The book documents the production of each toy with beautiful colour photographs accompanied by relevant text about the toy and manufacturer.’

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# 46567

HOUFE, Simon

The dictionary of British book illustrators and caricaturists 1800 – 1914

London: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1978 (revised edition 1981). Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 520, illustrated. A comprehensive reference.

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# 46568

GIBBS, May (1877-1969)

Bib and Bub : their adventures.

Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing Company, 1925. First edition. Quarto (240 x 210 mm), publisher’s blue cloth decorated in black (boards discoloured and very slightly warped), pictorial endpapers (front endpaper with off-setting), half-title, title, pp. 79, (1), colour panelled (i.e. comic strip format) illustrations throughout; contents with occasional toning and scattered foxing (more pronounced on preliminaries and last …

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# 46563

RENTOUL, Annie R.; RENTOUL, Ida S. (illustrator)

The lady of the blue beads

/ Her book, being an account of her first blue moon spent on Sun Island. Melbourne: George Robertson & Co., [1908]. Quarto (280 x 220 mm), publisher’s oatmeal cloth boards, the upper board decorated in orange and blue (bright and unrubbed); pp. 102, with 13 full-page monochrome plates and in-text illustrations and decorations by Ida …

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# 46558

RENTOUL, Annie R.; RENTOUL [OUTHWAITE], Ida S. (illustrator); PETERSON, Georgette (music)

[SHEET MUSIC] Australian songs for young and old

Words by Annie R. Rentoul. Music by Georgette Peterson. Illustrations by Ida S. Rentoul. Melbourne: Allan & Co., [1924]. Imperial edition 335. Oblong quarto (230 x 310 mm), pictorial wrappers (light brown and red version, with early ownership inscription to upper wrapper; paper split to head of spine, lower wrapper with a few marks), staple …

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# 40913

SIBLEY, Irena (1943-2009)

Rainbow

Albert Park, Vic. : Lilly Pilly Books, 1988. Second edition. Folio, bound by Richard Griffin in contrasting red and yellow embossed morocco, with inset linoleum block print to upper board, red endpapers; [42] pp of linoleum block-print plates and calligraphic text (calligraphy by Irene Sibley); all edges uncut, in fine condition. “67 copies of ‘Rainbow’ …

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# 44506

LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

The Magic Pudding (first edition, first issue)

Being the adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff. Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1918. Quarto, quarter-cloth over papered boards (a couple of small stains), lettered in gilt on the spine, in unrestored original illustrated dust jacket (lightly foxed, a couple of small edge tears), patterned green A & R …

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# 46025

NATIONAL GAME COMPANY

[BOARD GAME] Boy scouts. For any number of players.

[Ballarat and Melbourne : National Game Co., c.1920]. “Copyright no. 3273”. Thick board, 310 x 475 mm, folding, original cloth backstrip, fold-out game board printed in colour, small split to fold, exterior sunned, edges rubbed, title label perished, a good copy. The design features the Australian Red Ensign with seven-pointed Commonwealth star. The Red Ensign was …

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# 29410

HUDSPETH, B. M.

Santa Claus and the shadow

Sydney : S. T. Leigh & Co., circa 1892. Quarto, lithographed papered boards, lithographed title page (reproducing the cover). pp. 69, text in sepia with border rule, a fine copy. A collection of Christmas stories for children by ‘Miss B..M. Hudspeth, of Hobart, a lady who has already favourably established her name as an acceptable contributor to current Australian …

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# 41190

MILLING, Jessie J. (compiler)

Monogram album compiled in the late 1860s by a young Englishwoman, Jessie J. Milling.

Small quarto (200 x 160 mm), original gilt-ruled red morocco, upper board stamped in gilt ‘Arms, Crests and Monograms’ (expertly rebacked, boards a little scuffed); moire endpapers, the front free-endpaper with ownership signature and date of ‘Jessie. J. Milling, July 9th 1867’, with off-setting from the front pastedown which has a tipped-in pencil portrait of …

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# 42551

DEAN & SON

Mirthful moments; or, how to enjoy holidays.

A new book of games and forfeits : with plain directions for crying the forfeits, and a number of amusing and diverting penances for little ladies and gentlemen. London : Thomas Dean & Son, [c.1860]. Octavo, decorated wrappers, pp. 31, engraved illustrations. A charming book of children’s parlour games for the Christmas holiday season.

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# 45339

SMITH, Thomas

Le Cabinet du jeune naturaliste, ou Tableaux intéressants de l’histoire des animaux … …

Paris : chez Maradan, libraire, rue des Grands Augustins, no. 9, 1810. Six volumes, octavo, uniform contemporary bindings of green straight-grain morocco, boards with double-gilt rule, spines with titles, volume numbers and animal vignettes in gilt; pastedowns all with the beautiful illustrated ex libris of Jean-Marie-Philippe Sauzey, avocat, pastedown of first volume also with ticket …

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