Children’s Books

  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (First Australian edition - a very fine copy)

    # 49214

    ROWLING, J. K.

    Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (First Australian edition – a very fine copy)

    London : Bloomsbury, 1997 [1998]. Printed and bound in Australia by Australian Print Group, Maryborough, Vic. First issue of the first Australian edition. Octavo, laminated boards (slightly canted, very slight bruising at foot of spine) in illustrated dust jacket (pristine); pp. 223, a very faint trace of foxing along the top edge, entirely clean and …

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  • Now we are six

    # 49196

    MILNE, A.A. / SHEPARD, E.H. (illustrator)

    Now we are six

    London : Methuen, 1927. First edition. Octavo, publisher’s gilt-illustrated cloth (edges lightly rubbed), top edge gilt, illustrated endpapers (juvenile owner’s inscription in black marker), pp. x; [ii]; 103, light toning to preliminaries, charming illustrations by Ernest H. Shepherd, a very good copy. The third book in Milne’s series on Christopher Robin and his friends Winnie-the-Pooh, …

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  • Santa Claus and a sun-dial. An Australian Christmas fantasy

    # 49295

    EMERSON, E. S.

    Santa Claus and a sun-dial. An Australian Christmas fantasy

    Illustrations and decorations by Percy Lindsay. Melbourne : George Robertson, [1909]. Quarto, illustrated cloth (lightly worn), hinges cracked, early ownership inscription to front free endpaper, pp. [viii]; 88, illustrated by Percy Lindsay.

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  • Songs of Innocence (signed by the illustrator)

    # 49390

    BLAKE, William (1757 - 1827)

    Songs of Innocence (signed by the illustrator)

    Illustrated by Jacynth Parsons. With a preparatory letter by W. B. Yeats. London and Boston : The Medici Society, 1927. Second impression. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth (a couple of small stains), in scarce illustrated dustjacket (stained at lower corner, chip with loss at head of spine, old tape repairs verso), offsetting to endpapers, pp. xii; 42, …

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  • [COOK] Costumes de différentes nations, en miniature. Avec des descriptions.

    # 47286

    [WAKEFIELD, Priscilla; MILLS, Alfred, illustrator]

    [COOK] Costumes de différentes nations, en miniature. Avec des descriptions.

    Paris : Guyot et de Pelafol, 1816. 32mo (68 x 60 mm), original calf, boards with decorative borders in gilt, spine lettered and decorated in gilt (a little worn at the junctions of the head and outer joints), marbled endpapers; 96 pp. with a frontispiece and 47 copperplate illustrations of people of the world; binding …

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  • Bottersnikes and other lost things. A celebration of Australian illustrated children’s books

    # 49318

    O'CONOR, Juliet

    Bottersnikes and other lost things. A celebration of Australian illustrated children’s books

    Melbourne : The Miegunyah Press, 2009. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, corners slightly bumped; gift inscription in biro to front endpaper, pp. 262, thoroughly illustrated. An extensive insight into the history of children’s books in Australia, with detailed sections on great artists and authors such as Norman Lindsay, Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, May Gibbs, Harold Gaze, Pixie …

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  • Kankie Kangaroo ... who couldn't hop

    # 49074

    ROSS, Roselle

    Kankie Kangaroo … who couldn’t hop

    Illustrated by Charles E. Bracker, covers by Paul Kaloda. New York : Maxton, 1945. Children’s book, die-cut shape book, the illustrated wrappers of the mother kangaroo with a slip cut where the kangaroo joey is placed, light handling marks but a fine example, pp. [16], illustrated.

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  • [BOARD GAME] The National Yacht Race.

    # 46859

    NATIONAL GAME COMPANY

    [BOARD GAME] The National Yacht Race.

    Ballarat and Melbourne : National Game Co., [between 1912 and 1915?]. “Copyright no. 2607”. Thin board with original cloth backstrip, 310 x 480 mm, folding; chromolithographed game board in red, blue, yellow and black; pictorial onlaid title label to outer board; an extremely god example. This appears to be an early version of the Yacht …

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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, with fourteen colour plates and text illustrations by Souter; occasional scattered light foxing, a very good copy. Muir, …

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  • Little Ragged Blossom and more about Snugglepot and Cuddlepie

    # 38424

    GIBBS, May

    Little Ragged Blossom and more about Snugglepot and Cuddlepie

    Sydney : Angus & Robertson, [c.1920]. First edition. Quarto, pictorial cloth-backed boards in dust jacket (short splits and minor chipping); illustrated endpapers; pp. 98, illustrated in colour and black-and-white; an excellent copy. Mui, 2752

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  • The little green road to Fairyland.

    # 35841

    RENTOUL, Annie R. and OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul.

    The little green road to Fairyland.

    New York : E. P. Dutton & Company, 1922. First American edition, printed by Billing and Son in Guildford, U.K. Quarto, papered boards (edges rubbed), cloth spine with paper label; lacking the front free endpaper; pp. 103, with 8 colour and 8 black-and-white plates. One of the classic illustrated Outhwaite titles, originally published in London …

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  • Cuthbert and the dogs

    # 39861

    SPOWERS, Ethel (1890-1947)

    Cuthbert and the dogs

    Melbourne : Digest Juvenile Productions, [c.1948]. Oblong quarto, pictorial papered boards (a little edge-worn); prize bookplate to pastedown.illustrated in colour and black-and-white; some pale toning, but overall in very good condition, and rarely found thus. A scarce children’s book written and illustrated by the noted artist Ethel Spowers, who studied under Claude Flight at the …

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  • Australian children’s books : a bibliography

    # 49311

    MUIR, Marcie; WHITE, Kerry

    Australian children’s books : a bibliography

    Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press ; Portland, Or. : International Specialized Book Services, 1992-2004. Miegunyah Press series. Three volumes, quarto, cloth boards in dust jackets (light handling marks), v.1. 1774-1972 /​ Marcie Muir; v. 2. 1973-1988 /​ Kerry White; v. 3. 1989-2000 /​ Kerry White; xxi+547; xxii+477; xxiv+690pp; an as very good set of …

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  • [INDIAN MUTINY] First Geography for Natives : or, guide to the map of the world

    # 48451

    [CLIFT, Horace William]

    [INDIAN MUTINY] First Geography for Natives : or, guide to the map of the world

    Calcutta : printed at the Calcutta School-Book Society’s Press, and sold at their Depository, Circular Road, 1846. Sixth edition. Octavo (177 x 110 mm), original plum cloth (faded and with scattered stains); ownership inscription to front free endpaper: ‘R. Moore of the 1 Company 6 Bn. Bengal Artillery Feby. 12 the [sic] 1857 Anno Domino …

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  • Tableau géographique des quatre parties du monde;

    # 47042

    [Anon.]

    Tableau géographique des quatre parties du monde;

    orné de treize gravures coloriées, représentant les costumes des Peuples qui habitent les différentes parties du Globe; suivi d’un Traité de la Grammaire française, d’Arithmétique ancienne et décimale; de principes d’Écriture et de Dessin, gravés d’après les meilleurs maîtres … … A Paris : chez L. Duprat-Duverger, rue des Grands-Augustins, n. 21, 1811. Duodecimo (170 x …

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  • Over the sea : stories of two worlds

    # 48109

    MARTIN, Mrs. Patchett

    Over the sea : stories of two worlds

    By Mrs. Campbell Praed, Countess De la Warr, “Tasma,” Frederick E. Weatherly, Mrs. Patchett Martin, Hume Nisbet, Miss M. Senior Clark, H.B. Marriott Watson ; edited by A. Patchett Martin ; illustrated in colour by H.J. Johnstone, T.J. Hughes, R. Carrick ; and in black and white by Emily J. Harding, Marcella Walker, A.W. Wall …

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