Children’s Books
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# 43956
Youth Annual : December 1930.
Sydney : W. H. Honey, 1 December 1930. Special number of the children’s periodical “Youth”. Large quarto (310 x 255 mm), publisher’s paper wrappers with French flaps (chipped edges, small loss around foot of spine, rear flap with split); pp. 82, texts by various Australian writers including Ed Dyson, Zora Cross, J. H. M. Abbott, …
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# 43855
OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul (1888 - 1960)
Untitled [bunny rabbit with dancing elves]
Pen and ink on card, 225 x 145mm (mount line), signed lower right I.R.O., untitled, numbered ’24’ upper left, framed. A charming original work by one of Australia’s most beloved children’s illustrators. The pencilled titles and number indicate it was most likely prepared for publication. Provenance : private collection, Melbourne, since the 1970s
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# 43852
OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul (1888 - 1960)
The platypus sang a duet
Pen and ink on card, 110 x 178 mm (mount line), signed lower right I.R.O., titled in the image in pencil, numbered ’17’ upper left, framed. A charming original work by one of Australia’s most beloved children’s illustrators. The pencilled titles and number indicate it was most likely prepared for publication. Provenance : private collection, …
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# 43851
OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul (1888 - 1960)
I keep my baby in my pocket!
Pen and ink on card, 140 x 175mm (mount line), signed lower right I.R.O., titled in the image in pencil, numbered ‘1’ upper left, framed. A charming original work by one of Australia’s most beloved children’s illustrators. The pencilled titles and number indicate it was most likely prepared for publication. Provenance : private collection, Melbourne, …
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# 43849
OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul (1888 - 1960)
The Flying Ace [and] The Chariot Race
Pen and ink on card, 270 x 188 mm (mount line), the lower illustration cut out as a rondelle, signed lower right I.R.O., titled in the image in pencil, numbered ’13’ upper left, framed. A charming original work by one of Australia’s most beloved children’s illustrators. The pencilled titles and number indicate it was most …
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# 42550
DEAN & SON
[LAW] Truant Bunny
London : Dean & Son, c. 1860. “Papa Lovechild’s series”. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, short split to bottom of spine; pp. 8, printed on one side only, full-page illustrations throughout, with original hand colouring; a very good to fine copy. To modern sensibilities – and probably for children of the time – this morality tale about …
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# 42552
'M. J. C."
Squire Gray’s Fruit Feast :
With an account of how he entertained all his young friends; and some of the pretty tales he gave to them as prizes. With twelve elegant engravings. London : Thomas Dean & Son, c. 1850. Octavo, decorated wrappers, pp. 31, engraved illustrations. A charming book of children’s stories.
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# 25706
[GIBBS, May, after]
A pair of printed bookmarks in the shape of gumleaves
[Sydney? : Effarbees Series, circa 1940]. A matching pair of diecut printed bookmarks in the shape of gumleaves, printed on coated card stock, versos blank, each showing a gum nut baby inspired by May Gibbs, printed with the word ‘BOOKMARK’, 155 mm tall with folding printed panels with greeting sentiment, inscribed to two different recipients …
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# 26028
LAMP, Jean-Frédéric
Abrégé de géographie pour les écoles.
Par J. F. Lamp. A Paris : Chez F. G. Levrault, libraire, rue de la Harpe, no. 81 ; Strasbourg : rue des Juifs, no. 33, 1833. Troisième édition. Duodecimo (165 x 105 mm), original pink paper-covered boards printed in black, the upper board with vignette illustration of a globe, lower board with publisher’s advertisements, …
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# 42619
BRUCE, Mary Grant (1878 - 1958)
Seahawk
London : Ward, Lock & Co., 1934. First edition. Octavo, pictorial cloth, illustrated dustjacket (price-clipped, edges chipped with small areas of loss to edges and spine, foxed), frontispiece and illustrations, pp. 256, a few spots of foxing.
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# 42931
HOUGHTON, Suzanne
Goat on a boat (original cover art for the publication)
Colour pencil and watercolour on artist’s card, 310 x 295 mm, signed lower right, accompanied by a signed letter and related ephemera. The original cover illustration for the children’s book Goat on a boat (Sydney : Omnibus, 2019), written by Nick Dent and illustrated by Suzanne Houghton. ‘When a goat arrives on a rocky island, the …
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# 42697
KELL, Julius
Reise nach der Verbrecher-Colonie Neu-Südwales
[=Voyage to the penal colony of New South Wales]. Series: Neueren Entdeckungsreisen Nach grösseren Reisewerken für die Jugend; Band 3. Leipzig : Julius Meissner, 1848. Small octavo, contemporary half blue morocco over marbled papered boards, 240 pp, illustrated with [4] steel-engraved plates, scattered foxing and browning (particularly to the plates), a small faint damp stain …
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# 42700
RACKHAM, Arthur
The Wendy Calendar by Arthur Rackham
London : Hodder & Stoughton [1911]. Thick card envelope (284 x 367 mm, some stains and edge wear), printed title and tipped-on colour plate by Rackham, containing The Wendy Calendar, consisting of six cards printed in colour, each card with a pasted on colour plate by Rackham and a small calendar for two months of …
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# 42868
BOOTHBY, Mabel F. (1870 - 1944)
An autobiography of a laughing jackass
Melbourne : P.T. Law & Co., [1916]. Second edition. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (light edge wear), string bound, a few marks to the lower wrapper, gift inscription to title page, dated 1916, pp. 12, one colour and one folding black and white plate, light toning, a good example. A charming children’s book about the daily life …
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# 17121
BRUCE, Mary Grant (1878-1958)
The cousin from town
… For children aged 10 to 12 years. Melbourne : Whitcombe and Tombs, [1939]. Series: Whitcombe’s story books ; no. 522. Small octavo, publisher’s pictorial wrappers with original Whitcombe and Tombs sticker to front, frontispiece illustration by Esther Paterson, 108 pp; an exceptional copy. Muir 1110.
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# 41289
LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)
The Magic Pudding. (First U.S. edition, 1934-36)
: being the adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff. New York : Farrar & Rinehart, [1934-36]. Octavo, black-lettered red cloth, original dust jacket (chipped at corners and head of spine), a couple of small edge tears, contemporary inscription to endpaper, pp. [159], illustrated throughout by Lindsay; a very good …