Children’s Books

  • [GAME] Crazy Post.

    # 44525

    G. N. RAYMOND PTY. LTD. (Melbourne)

    [GAME] Crazy Post.

    Indoors or out, a kind of treasure hunt! For young & old. Collingwood, Vic. : G. N. Raymond Pty. Ltd., by arrangement with Universal Publications Ltd., London, [1941]. Publisher’s box with pictorial lid, 180 x 120 x 35 mm, containing 12 destination cards each printed with the detachable names of 32 Australian towns including Bunbury, …

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  • Album with original humorous and satirical drawings and sketches by members of a talented Scottish family, circa 1900.

    # 43550

    [MacNAUGHTON FAMILY]

    Album with original humorous and satirical drawings and sketches by members of a talented Scottish family, circa 1900.

    Square octavo (180 x 145 mm), original grey cloth over boards (minor staining), the front board embroidered in blue thread ‘Album’; front pastedown with small ownership label of C. J. MacNaughton; containing approx. [30] pages with original drawings by three competent amateur artists, mainly in pen and ink but some in watercolour or pencil, which …

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  • Emigrantskeppet Atlantis undergång.

    # 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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  • Piccaninnies (signed copy)

    # 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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  • The moods of Ginger Mick

    # 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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  • [PINTUPI-LURITJA LANGUAGE] Yara waṉampitjarra

    # 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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  • [MAY GIBBS] The girls I left behind me.

    # 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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  • [MAY GIBBS] We are the Gumnut Corps, We’re going to the War (We’ll make things hum, by gum!)

    # 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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  • The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. (Deluxe edition)

    # 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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  • [BALLARAT] Wesleyan Sabbath School, Scotchman's Lead : book prize awarded to George Harland, April 1870. (With associated ephemera)

    # 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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  • The Billabonga Bird

    # 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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  • A new bibliography of Arthur Rackham

    # 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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  • Mason Judy (deluxe edition)

    # 44123

    TODD, Trevor; JUNIPER, Robert

    Mason Judy (deluxe edition)

    Illustrated by Robert Juniper. Sydney : Methuen, 1977. Quarto, quarter leather over cloth, illustrated slipcase (sunned), pp. [74], faint light foxing, illustrated. The deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies signed by artist and author, this copy signed by both but out of series. “Mason Judy is lonely and unhappy when his family move to a …

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  • The Fairy World of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

    # 44263

    MUIR, Marcie and HOLDEN, Robert

    The Fairy World of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

    Sydney : Craftsman House, 1985. First edition.  Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, 171 pp. extensively illustrated. The definitive reference on Outhwaite, one of Australia’s and Britain’s most loved children’s authors and illustrators. A very good copy of the first edition.

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  • [MAY GIBBS] Washing day

    # 44212

    GIBBS, May (1877-1969)

    [MAY GIBBS] Washing day

    [Melbourne : Osboldstone & Co., circa 1916]. Greeting card (139 x 89 mm), recto with colour process design of Gumnut Babies and printed May Gibbs signature, verso printed ‘The Gumnut Series-4’; short written inscription to verso, otherwise condition is fine.

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  • La mésaventure des petits kanguroos

    # 42920

    CANDIDE, P.

    La mésaventure des petits kanguroos

    Paris : Editions Nilsson, n. d. [c. 1920s].  Oblong octavo (19 x 25 cms), wooden board book comprising 6 boards (12 pp.) each printed with text and illustrations, original hand colouring, the cloth spine expertly renewed, two leather tabs with working clasps, light wear and soiling, a very good copy. A charming board book for …

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