Children’s Books

# 16932

TEMPLE, Frances; CORRIGAN, Mabel (illustrator)

Shopping in Creepyville

Melbourne : Georgian House, 1946. First edition. Large octavo, original cloth backed pictorial boards (corners bumped, a few tiny silverfish marks), illustrated endpapers, [21] pp; illustrated with colour plates and line drawings in the text; one leaf with small closed tear at fore-edge, else very good throughout. Muir 7278. Scarce. A rhyme on each facing …

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# 16732

STEELE, John V. (illustrator)

The bush pets’ party.

s.l. [Australia] : s.n., [1930-39]. “Australian copyright no. 6593. Printed in Japan” (front cover). Folio, original illustrated stiff wrappers, pp. [12], all colour illustrations with captioned text; black-and-white illustrations inside covers; a near fine copy of a very scarce Australian children’s picture book. Muir, 7082. Copies are recorded in five Australian collections (National Library of …

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# 16978

ROUNTREE, Harry

The animal game book

London : George Allen, 1903. Quarto, pictorial boards with an image of a kangaroo and a bear, cloth spine, pp. 64, pictorial title page and 15 black and white plates, occasional marks but a fine copy. A charming children’s book featuring a cast of animal characters (many Australian) engaged in game playing.

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# 17086

GILMORE, D.H. (David Hunter)

The cruise of the Saucy Walnut

Sydney Angus & Robertson, 1948. First edition. Small quarto, original pictorial boards (fine) in dust jacket (small mark to front panel, otherwise very good), 47 pp, illustrated with [5] full-page colour plates, numerous full-page black and white plates and drawings in the text; a fine copy.

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# 10196

ARNOTT'S LTD.

The amazing adventures of Anthony Arrowroot

Sydney : William Arnott Pty Ltd, n.d. [1940]. Second printing. Octavo (215 mm), illustrated wrappers (small stain and lightly sunned), pp 32, illustrated. A children’s book produced as an advertisement for the Arnott’s biscuit company. Muir 165.

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# 17004

SETH-SMITH, David; TRIER, Walter (illustrator)

[KANGAROO; KOALA] Jolly families by the zoo man of the B.B.C. (David Seth-Smith)

Ewell, Surrey, U.K. : Studley Press, [1946]. Series: Tally-ho books for children ; no. 12. Obong quarto, publisher’s leather-backed pictorial yellow boards (slightly bowed towards the front, lightly marked on front and back and some wear along the edges), colour illustrated endpapers, 31 pp, full-page illustrations of animals to rectos (including the kangaroo and koala), …

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# 16473

GIBBS, May (1877-1969)

Gumnut babies.

At head of title: ‘Words and pictures by May Gibbs’. Sydney : Angus & Robertson Ltd, [between 1917 and 1919]. Tall octavo (220 x 142 mm), publisher’s printed brown wrappers with pictorial onlay to front (some silverfishing), original ties; inside front wrapper with later ex libris, pp [28], first page with early gift inscription dated …

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# 16003

AMERICAN SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION

[CHAPBOOK] Memoir of Elizabeth

Philadelphia : American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, [c.1850]. Duodecimo (110 x 70 mm), woodcut illustration to upper wrapper; 16 pp, woodcut illustration at head of text; lower wrapper with ‘A Hymn’; wrappers foxed and re-stitched; contents with scattered foxing.

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# 15814

STOCK, [Arthur], Archdeacon (1810-1901)

Astronomy for beginners, who live in the southern hemisphere

Wellington, N.Z. : T.A. Bowden, 1874. Duodecimo, original cloth backed printed card covers, endpapers with advertisements for The Colonial Series of Elementary School Books, early printed ownership label of ‘Mr. R. Wilson, Craigielea, Benhar, Otago’ to blank facing title page (mild off-setting), pp i-iv, 5-44, illustrated with diagrams; a very good copy. The first edition of …

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# 11900

OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul (illustrator)

[SHEET MUSIC] Musical nursery rhymes picture book

Cover: To sing and play with the watcher-bird. Melbourne : Murfett, 1945. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, 16 pp, 8 full-page colour illustrations by Outhwaite, a very good copy. Muir 5610.

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# 11799

WARWICK, Muriel; LODGE, Grace (illustrator)

My big puff-puff

London : Oxford University Press, [c.1935]. Series: Easy steps for tiny folks. Square octavo, publisher’s pictorial wrappers, [8] pp, colour illustrations, a very good copy.

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# 10853

OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul (illustrator)

[SHEET MUSIC] Musical nursery rhymes picture book

Cover: To sing and play with the watcher-bird. Melbourne : Murfett, 1945. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (corners worn), 16 pp, 8 full-page colour illustrations by Outhwaite, a good copy. Muir 5610.

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# 6022

[RUFUS MERRILL]

[TAHITI] People of the Old World

[Cover title]. Concord, N.H. : Rufus Merrill, [1854]. Duodecimo, original illustrated wrappers (lightly marked, paper loss around edges of the rear wrapper, water stain to lower right corner of front wrapper and all leaves), stitched, title page printed 'Part IV People of the Old World', 16 pp (some water staining to edges, particularly fore-edge of …

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# 7820

Anon.

Two menus handmade and illustrated by a French child, 1918-19.

Two handmade menus, written in French and illustrated in pencil on individual sheets of thick paper, each 240 x 160 mm, one dated December 8 1918 and the other February 2 1919, the menus occupying a single side of each sheet.

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# 13125

HOLDEN, Robert

The golden age of Australian fantasy. Children’s book illustrations : 1910 – 1950

Melbourne : Museum of Victoria, 1986. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 12, with numerous illustrations after Ida Rentoul Outhwaite.

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