Children’s Books
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# 45019
GUILFOYLE, W. R.
Australian botany : specially designed for the use of schools
First Book. Illustrated by the author. Melbourne : A. Mullen, 1878. Octavo, elaborately decorated gilt illustrated green cloth (a little rubbed), edges rubbed, bookplate to upper pastedown, pp. [vi]; 109; errata, wood engravings by Guilfoyle, a very good copy. An attractive primer on botany for Australian students by the Director of the Melbourne Botanic Gardens. …
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# 45075
Anon.
Emigrantskeppet Atlantis undergång.
Stockholm : Adolf Johnsons Förlag, 1895. Series: Folkskrifter no. 18. Duodecimo (142 x 94 mm), publisher’s pictorial yellow wrappers (a few tiny nicks at edges), pp. 21, [10 publisher’s ads.]; illustrated title-page (repeating cover illustration); text in Swedish; a fine copy. Adventure story for juvenile readers about the loss of an emigrant ship in the …
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# 44854
DURACK, Mary (1913 - 1994; DURACK, Elizabeth (1915 - 2000)
Piccaninnies (signed copy)
[Perth?] : [Mary & Elizabeth Durack], [1940]. First edition. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (light stains, small chip to corner, torn along spine and nearly detached), pp. [10], illustrated, light handling wear, signed by Mary Durack on the title page. Muir 2182
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# 44927
LARSSON, Carl
Malergården (from the library of Criss Canning)
Til norsk ved Elisabeth Wikborg Bang. [Oslo] : Damm, 1978. Oblong quarto, illustrated boards, cloth spine, lightly foxed, pp. [34], illustrated. Text in Norwegian. From the library of noted Australian artist Criss Canning, signed in ink on the endpaper. Provenance: Criss Canning, acquired in 2023
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# 44916
CARROLL, Lewis (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), 1832-1898; BLACKMAN, Charles (illustrator)
Alice’s adventures in Wonderland
/ Lewis Carroll / Illustrated by Charles Blackman / Edited by Nadine Amadio. Sydney : A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1982. Quarto, orange boards in pictorial dust jacket (edge word with short tears, spine lightly sunned), illustrated endpapers, light foxing to preliminaries, pp. 128, illustrated in colour with Blackman’s iconic paintings inspired by the famous children’s …
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# 44739
CARROLL, Lewis
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Illustrated by Charles Pears and T. H. Robinson. London & Glasgow : Collins’ Clear-Type Press, c. 1900. Octavo, pictorial cloth (edges rubbed, short tears to head and foot of spine), previous owner’s name cut from endpaper, colour title page and frontispiece, decorative borders, black and white illustrations, an attractive Edwardian edition.
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# 44581
DENNIS, C.J.; GYE, Hal (ill.)
The moods of Ginger Mick
Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1916. First edition. Octavo, illustrated cloth boards (corners rubbed); pp 143; (1); 24 (publisher’s catalogue); illustrations by Hal Gye, printed publisher’s slip in red ink, preliminaries foxed, old news clipping loosely enclosed, a very good copy of the scarce first issue. The first issue of the first edition containing the …
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# 44674
NAPURRULA, Charlotte Phillipus; TJAPANGATI, Thomas Stevens (illustrator)
[PINTUPI-LURITJA LANGUAGE] Yara waṉampitjarra
/ Charlotte Phillipus Napurrulala yara wakanu ; Thomas Stevenslu piitju tjuta wakanu. Alice Springs, N.T. : Papunya Literature Production Centre, 1984. First edition. Quarto (275 x 205 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers, [16] pp. text in Pintupi-Luritja with English translation, with 7 full-page colour illustrations; light foxing to first and last leaves, otherwise very good. Primer …
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# 44802
GIBBS, May (1877-1969)
[MAY GIBBS] The girls I left behind me.
[Melbourne: Osboldstone & Co., circa 1916]. Greeting card (139 x 90 mm), recto with colour process design of Gumnut Babies and printed May Gibbs signature, verso printed ‘The Gumnut Series-6’, fine condition.
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# 44801
GIBBS, May (1877-1969)
[MAY GIBBS] We are the Gumnut Corps, We’re going to the War (We’ll make things hum, by gum!)
[Melbourne: Osboldstone & Co., circa 1916]. Greeting card (139 x 90 mm), recto with colour process design of Gumnut Babies and printed May Gibbs signature, verso printed ‘The Gumnut Series-5’, fine condition.
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# 43783
[RACKHAM, Arthur, 1867 - 1939]
The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. (Deluxe edition)
Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Translated by Mrs. Edgar Lucas. London : Constable & Constable, 1909. Quarto, gilt-decorated vellum (lightly marked), silk ties detached (one present), top edge gilt, others uncut; pp. xv; [I]; 325, text vignettes, numerous tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue guards; very pale foxing to endpapers and preliminaries, a very good copy …
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# 44186
[HARLAND FAMILY]
[BALLARAT] Wesleyan Sabbath School, Scotchman’s Lead : book prize awarded to George Harland, April 1870. (With associated ephemera)
PROSSER, Mrs. (Sophie Amelia). Quality Fogg’s old ledger. London : The Religious Tract Society, [1869]. Square octavo, gilt-decorated brown cloth over boards (rubbed and marked); front free-endpaper inscribed in ink: ‘Presented to George Harland by the Primitive Methodist Sabbath School, Scotchman’s Lead, April 5th 1870’; pp. 162, [6], woodcut illustrations; occasional staining, otherwise sound; [TOGETHER WITH] An …
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# 44444
BONWICK, James
Early days of Melbourne (Gayfield Shaw’s copy)
Melbourne : Jas. J. Blundell & Co., Collins Street, 1857. First edition. Duodecimo, original limp green cloth with printed label to front (chipped), bookseller’s label to front pastedown, pp [iv], 40, wood-engraved frontispiece, a fine copy of this rare early Melbourne imprint, written for a young audience by the prolific author, schoolmaster James Bonwick. Pescott, …
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# 44320
GAZE, Harold (1884 - 1963)
The Billabonga Bird
Melbourne : Whitcombe & Tombs, 1919. Quarto, illustrated card wrappers, string-bound (now perished, spine glued down, edges with expert paper repairs), contemporary bookplate to inside upper wrapper, 30 pp (lightly foxed, short edge tears), 3 tipped-in plates (2 colour, one monochrome), black and white line drawings.The adventures of an imaginary bird, a bush fairy and …
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# 44256
RIALL, Richard
A new bibliography of Arthur Rackham
Bath : Ross Press, 1994. Folio, gilt-decorated cloth, pp. xx; 252, illustrated. Bibliography of Rackham.
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# 44254
SHARF, Frederick Alan
Takejiro Hasegawa : Meiji Japan’s preeminent publisher of wood-block-illustrated crepe-paper books
Salem, Mass. : Peabody Essex Museum, 1994. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 77, illustrated, checklist of books. Scarce.