Children’s Books

  • The Magic Pudding. (First U.S. edition, 1934-36)

    # 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 …

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  • The Flyaway Highway

    # 41890

    LINDSAY, Norman.

    The Flyaway Highway

    Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1936. First edition. Large octavo, Lindsay decorated papered boards, illustrated dust jacket (front flap neatly detached and absent, several edge tears and chips with area of loss), 120pp., light foxing, with numerous Lindsay illustrations. First edition of Lindsay’s second children’s book, the first being The Magic Pudding. A good copy, rare …

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  • Bushland tales

    # 17018

    MARTIN, Marianne

    Bushland tales

    Cover: “From the George Edwards radio production, The search for the Golden Boomerang.” Sydney : Winn &​ Co., 1945. Small quarto, original pictorial stiff wrappers, 40 pp, illustrated with [3] colour plates and black and white drawings in the text, a very good copy. Muir, 4854. “This book is the work of Miss Marianne Martin” …

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

    # 42014

    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, 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 O’Harris, Graeme Base etc. An essential reference book.

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  • [NEW ZEALAND] The new London spelling book: or, The young gentlemen and ladies guide to the English tongue ...

    # 41724

    VYSE, Charles (active 1770-1815)

    [NEW ZEALAND] The new London spelling book: or, The young gentlemen and ladies guide to the English tongue …

    A new edition, with alterations, improvements and additions. London : printed for G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, by J. Crowder and E. Hemsted, Warwick-Square, 1803. Small octavo, contemporary brown cloth boards (rubbed and stained), pastedowns and front endpaper with contemporary child’s scribbling, front endpaper with modern biro inscription dated 1984; frontispiece engraved portrait of Charles …

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  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (First Australian edition)

    # 41700

    ROWLING, J. K.

    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (First Australian edition)

    London : Bloomsbury, 1998 (but possibly 1999). Printed and bound in Australia by Australian Print Group, Marlborough, Vic. First issue of the first Australian edition, with number line 10 9 8 7 6 4 3 2 1. Octavo, laminated boards (slight bump to corners and head and foot of spine) in illustrated dustjacket (lightly edge …

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  • [GEOGRAPHY] Lärobok i allmänna geographien, enligt de nyaste politiska förändringarne,

    # 41472

    STEIN, Christian Gottfried Daniel (1771-1830)

    [GEOGRAPHY] Lärobok i allmänna geographien, enligt de nyaste politiska förändringarne,

    af. Chr. Gottfr. Dan. Stein; efter 9:de upplagan af år 1819, översätt och försedd med en serskild artikel öfver Skandinavien, af C. Netherwood. Med ett fullständigt Register, som säljes särskildt, och varigenom arbetet tillika kan begagnas som Lexicon. Stockholm : Zacharias Haeggström, 1819. Small octavo (146 x 113 mm), contemporary half-calf over marbled papered boards (lightly …

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  • En utvandrares äfventyr samt efter skeppsbrottet. Två berättelser från Australien.

    # 41554

    LISTNER, Carl & GERSTÄCKER, Friedrich

    En utvandrares äfventyr samt efter skeppsbrottet. Två berättelser från Australien.

    Öfversättning. [=An emigrant’s adventure and After the shipwreck. Two stories from Australia. Translation]. Stockholm : S. Flodins boktryckeri, 1873. Small octavo (183 x 120 mm), contemporary marbled papered boards, black leather spine repaired with black tape; pp. [4], 95; text in Swedish (translated from the German); inner hinges a little weak, front pastedown with mark caused …

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  • Nybyggarne på Van Diemens Land : en berättelse från det Australiska nybyggarlifvet

    # 41550

    ROWCROFT, Charles (1798-1856)

    Nybyggarne på Van Diemens Land : en berättelse från det Australiska nybyggarlifvet

     / af Charles Rowcroft ; öfversatt från den tyska bearbetningen för ungdom af Julius Hoffmann. Stockholm : Tryckt hos Eric Westrell, 1861. Octavo (185 x 120 mm), publisher’s printed papered boards (lightly marked, backstrip replaced), pp. [4], 128, with [4] leaves of chromolithographed plates; text in Swedish; front pastedown with partially erased ownership inscription dated …

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  • Dot and the Kangaroo. (First Australian edition)

    # 31673

    PEDLEY, Ethel C. (1859 - 1898)

    Dot and the Kangaroo. (First Australian edition)

    With six illustrations by Frank P. Mahoney. Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1906. Octavo, gilt-lettered red cloth (edges lightly rubbed), small booksellers labels to pastedowns, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper, frontispiece illustration and five black and white plates by Frank Mahoney, pp. [vi]; 204; (2); (32 – publisher’s advertisements dated June 1906), occasional …

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  • Ethel Turner birthday book : a selection of passages from the books of Ethel Turner (Mrs. H.R. Curlewis)

    # 31721

    TURNER, Ethel (1870 - 1958)

    Ethel Turner birthday book : a selection of passages from the books of Ethel Turner (Mrs. H.R. Curlewis)

    Arranged by L.T.T. With foreword by Coulson Kernahan. London, Melbourne and Toronto : Ward, Lock, & Co., 1910. Duodecimo, gilt-lettered crushed green morocco, edges lightly rubbed, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, presentation inscription dated November 1910 to preliminary blank, portrait frontispiece, pp. [190], calendar with quotes from Ethel Turner’s published works, a few spaces filled in …

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  • The history of the Hoppers

    # 17322

    PARKER, Bessie; PARKER Nancy (illustrator)

    The history of the Hoppers

    London : W.R. Chambers, [c.1912]. Quarto, pictorial papered boards (overall very good, the upper board with a vertical wrinkle at left side with a couple of tiny sections of paper loss, some mild ink spotting across lower edge, top corner with small amount of paper loss, other corners bumped; lower board with a mild scratch …

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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, n.d. [c. 1920]. Quarto, illustrated boards, dust jacket with short splits and minor chipping, cloth spine, illustrated endpapers, pp. 98, illustrated in colour and black and white, fine condition. Muir 2752. First edition.

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  • Bib and Bub : their adventures.

    # 24450

    GIBBS, May (1877-1969)

    Bib and Bub : their adventures.

    Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing Company, 1925. First edition. Quarto, publisher’s decorated cloth (rubbed along lower edge upper board), dust jacket with colour illustrations (very slight rubbing to extremities), pictorial endpapers, contemporary gift inscription in pencil to half-title, title page (small wet stamp of previous owner), pp. 79; (1), coloured panelled illustrations throughout; a fine copy. ‘Rare: …

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  • The painted princess

    # 17333

    BOYD, Martin (1893-1972)

    The painted princess

    A fairy story by Martin Boyd. Illustrated by Jocelyn Crowe. London : Constable & Co., 1936. Quarto, blue cloth (sunned at ead and foot of spine) in illustrated dus tjacket (a few short tears and loss to head and foot of spine), blind stamp to title page, pp. 71, illustrated in colour; a very good …

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  • Louis Wain's Baby's picture book.

    # 41358

    WAIN, Louis

    Louis Wain’s Baby’s picture book.

    London : James Clarke & Co., 1903. First edition. Small quarto (240 x 195 mm), publisher’s pictorial papered boards (lightly rubbed), with advertisements for Cadbury’s Cocoa and Pear’s Soap to lower board; title page with mild off-setting, original owner’s name Bertha Irene Ricardo neatly inscribed in upper margin of first page of text, pp. [60], …

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