Children’s Books

  • Bib and Bub : their adventures.

    # 24450

    GIBBS, May (1877-1969)

    Bib and Bub : their adventures.

    Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing Company, 1925. First edition. Quarto, publisher’s decorated cloth (rubbed along lower edge upper board), dust jacket with colour illustrations (very slight rubbing to extremities), pictorial endpapers, contemporary gift inscription in pencil to half-title, title page (small wet stamp of previous owner), pp. 79; (1), coloured panelled illustrations throughout; a fine copy. ‘Rare: …

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  • Old Sinhalese nursery rhymes and folk songs

    # 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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  • Bubbles. His book

    # 34948

    SOUTER, D. H.

    Bubbles. His book

    Written by R. F. Irvine. Illustrated by D. H. Souter. Sydney and Brisbane : William Brooks & Co., [1899]. Quarto, lettered blind-embossed cloth over bevelled boards, edges lightly rubbed, illustrated endpapers (light offsetting), colour title page, pp. 111, fourteen colour plates, text illustrations by Souter, occasional light scattered foxing, a very good copy. Muir 3721

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  • Le magasin des petits explorateurs

    # 47125

    BONDAZ, Julien (editor)

    Le magasin des petits explorateurs

    sous la direction de Julien Bondaz. [Arles] : Actes sud ; [Paris] : Musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, [2018]. Quarto, illustrated papered boards, pp. 365, illustrated. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, Paris, France, May 23-October 7, 2018. A fascinating examination of how foreign cultures were …

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  • Allan, le jeune déporté a Botany-Bay.

    # 30679

    FOUNIET, Ernest

    Allan, le jeune déporté a Botany-Bay.

    Paris : Martial Ardant, 1845. Third edition. Duodecimo, contemporary blue boards with embossed gilt ornament (rubbed), spine with gilt title and ornament (bumped at head and tail), engraved frontispiece, 260 pp, illustrated; text in French; scattered light foxing, a good copy. A very early children’s book set in Australia. Muir 2598.

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  • Wild Friends at Home (original cover art)

    # 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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  • Peg's fairy book

    # 46870

    MALTBY, Peg (author and illustrator)

    Peg’s fairy book

    Written & illustrated by Peg Maltby. Melbourne : Murfett Pty. Ltd., [1944]. First edition. Folio, decorated papered boards, cloth spine, edges rubbed, a little silverfished, pp. [48], colour plates, vignette illustrations, a good copy. Muir 4742

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  • Australian Toys

    # 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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  • The dictionary of British book illustrators and caricaturists 1800 - 1914

    # 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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  • Bib and Bub : their adventures.

    # 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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  • The lady of the blue beads

    # 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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  • [SHEET MUSIC] Australian songs for young and old

    # 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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  • Rainbow

    # 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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  • The Magic Pudding (first edition, first issue)

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

    # 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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  • Santa Claus and the shadow

    # 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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