Children’s Books

# 41307

TERRITORY OF PAPUA. DEPARTMENT OF NATIVE EDUCATION

[NEW GUINEA] Papuan junior reader no. 5. 1943.

At head of title: Territory of Papua. Native Education. Canberra : L.F. Johnston, Commonwealth Govt. Printer, 1943. Octavo (185 x 125 mm), original printed stiff wrappers, pp [8], 198; photomechanical process and line-drawn illustrations throughout; text in English; an exceptional copy, in pristine condition; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the …

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# 41159

[ZAHN, August, editor]

Papua-Märchen : gesammelt von Missionaren der Neuendettelsauer Mission. 3 Teil.

Neuendettelsau, [Germany] : Verlag des Missionshauses 1923. Part 3. First edition. Series: Verlag des Missionshauses, Nr. 52. Octavo, (220 x 140 mm), original pictorial wrappers (detached) with illustrated front by Lina Burger and illustrated advertisement on rear for Das Kinderblatt (the Mission’s newspaper for children), pp 20, with line-drawn illustrations and decorations; contents very good. …

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# 41158

[ZAHN, August, editor]

Papua-Märchen : gesammelt von Missionaren der Neuendettelsauer Mission. 1 Teil. 2 Auflage.

Neuendettelsau, [Germany] : Verlag des Missionshauses (1918) 1922. Part one. Second edition. Series: Verlag des Missionshauses, Nr. 37. Octavo, (220 x 140 mm), original pictorial wrappers illustrated in red front and rear (sunned at edges, front with crease at bottom corner), stapled, pp 16, with line-drawn illustrations and decorations; contents very good, a clean copy. …

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# 41157

[ZAHN, August, editor]

Papua-Märchen : gesammelt von Missionaren der Neuendettelsauer Mission. 2 Teil. 2 Auflage.

Neuendettelsau, [Germany] : Verlag des Missionshauses (1918) 1922. Part two. Second edition. Series: Verlag des Missionshauses, Nr. 38. Octavo, (220 x 140 mm), original pictorial wrappers illustrated front and rear (mild sunning at edges, slightly bruised at head of spine), stapled, pp 24, with line-drawn illustrations and decorations; contents very good, a fine copy. Second …

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# 40975

DEAN AND SON

Dollie’s Dinner Party

London : Dean & Son, circa 1880. Shape book in octagonal format, bound in the centre, chromolithograph wrappers (heavily worn along the spine of the lower wrapper, with loss to the edges), pp. [32], illustrated in colour. A worn copy of a rare an unusual Victorian shape book.

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# 40828

PEDLEY, Ethel C. (1859 - 1898)

Dot and the Kangaroo.

With 19 illustrations by Frank P. Mahoney. Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1920. Quarto, illustrated boards, cloth spine, newspaper clippings loosely enclosed with offsetting to endpapers, contemporary gift inscription to verso of frontispiece, frontispiece illustration and black and white plates by Frank Mahoney, pp. [viii]; 81, small tear with old tape stain to margin of …

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# 40825

RENTOUL, Annie I. and RENTOUL, Ida S

Mollie’s Staircase

Melbourne: M. L. Hutchinson, 1906. Oblong quarto, lettered wrappers (worn and stained), original ribbon ties, early inscription to title page which is toned and stained, pp. [52], 12 black and white plates by Ida S. Rentoul, plus illustrations in text, contemporary pencil inscription to title page, a few pages lightly marked and foxed, but a …

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# 40130

YOUNG, I. S. Hunter

Victorian geographical and biographical charades. Intended as a pastime for winter evenings, combining amusement with instruction.

Melbourne : Stillwell and Knight, Collins Street East, 1870. First and only edition. Large octavo (215 x 170 mm), publisher’s blind-blocked ultramarine cloth, upper board and spine lettered in gilt (a few light marks, but nice and bright); edges stained red; original brown endpapers, pp. xi, [1 blank], 100; front hinge cracked (but the binding …

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# 40422

BINGHAM, Clifton

The animals’ trip to sea. Being a true and veracious history of the eventful voyage of the S. S. “Crocodile” from nowhere in particular to anywhere in general.

Described by Clifton Bingham. Pictured by G. H. Thompson. London : Ernest Nister and New York : E. P. Dutton, c. 1900. Printed in Bavaria. Oblong octavo, glazed pictorial boards with cloth spine (edges rubbed), contemporary gift inscription to front pastedown, patterned endpapers, pp. [32], charming chromolithographed plates, a couple of short sealed tears. A …

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# 40135

WAGNER, Hermann; LEUTEMANN, Heinrich (1824-1905) (illustrator)

Zonen-Bilder. Nach Aquarellen von Heinrich Leutemann.

Mit erklärenden Schilderungen für die Jugend von Hermann Wagner. Stuttgart : K. Thienemann’s Verlag (Jul. Hoffmann), [1867]. First edition. Oblong quarto (230 x 290 mm), publisher’s cloth-backed pictorial papered boards (superb), pp. [4], 40 (text in German in Fraktur), plus [20] magnificent chromolithographic plates of animals from different regions around the globe; pristine throughout. An …

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# 39931

GIBBS, May (1877-1969)

Little Ragged Blossom & more about Snugglepot & Cuddlepie

Sydney : Angus & Robertson, [c.1920]. First edition. Quarto, illustrated boards, cloth spine (light edge wear), illustrated endpapers, pp. 98, illustrated in colour and black and white; a fine copy. Muir 2752.

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# 39530

MERRY, Andrew

“The chincha” and other poems for children

Illustrations by Ninon Phillips. [Maryborough, Vic.? : Andrew Merry?, 1944?]. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. [36], illustrated. Very rare with only two copies recorded in libraries (NLA, SLV). Muir 4975

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# 39861

SPOWERS, Ethel (1890-1947).

Cuthbert and the dogs

Melbourne : Digest Juvenile Productions, n.d. [c. 1948]. Oblong quarto, illustrated papered boards (slightly edgeworn), illustrated in colour and black and white, some pale toning. A rare children’s book written and illustrated by the noted artist Ethel Spowers, who studied under Claude Flight at the Grosvenor School, and is known for her modernist design. Prize …

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# 39285

Anon.

The Child’s Companion and Juvenile Instructor. (An unbroken run from 1848 – 1861)

London : Religious Tract Society, 1848 – 1861. Fourteen volumes, duodecimo, the 1848 and 1849 issues in half-calf over marbled papered boards, the remaining 12 volumes in gilt-lettered original cloth, lightly rubbed, chromolithograph frontispieces by Baxter, Kronheim and others, each pp. 380, wood-engraved vignette illustrations; a very good unbroken run of this child’s literary journal.

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# 38609

TEAGUE, Violet; REDE, Geraldine; GREGORY, Ina; ASHLEY, Alf (illustrators)

Birds of the sunny south, with Australian flowers / produced entirely by Australians

At the head of title: Greetings from Australia. Melbourne : Pater’s Printery, [c.1911]. Square duodecimo, original pictorial wrappers with yapp edges (edges worn, a couple of small chips), original string tie, printed title page, [11] eleven chromolithographic plates of Australian birds in natural settings; a good copy. Muir 704. A rare publication – both a …

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# 38927

[OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul].

The fairy story that came true.

Melbourne: British Imperial Oil, [c. 1922]. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (silverfished, handling wear, edges with small chips, also along spine), 16 pp., five colour plates, black and white decorations, map. A delightful illustrated story by Outhwaite, created as a promotion for Shell oil, ‘few copies of these booklets have survived’ (Muir and Holden, p. 58). Muir …

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