Children’s Books

  • The adventures of Billy Bee

    # 17059

    CARTER, Margaret; HILL, I.G. (illustrator)

    The adventures of Billy Bee

    London : Background Books [by arrangement with Domus Publishing, Melbourne], 1946. First UK edition. Small quarto, publisher’s cloth backed pictorial papered boards (fine) in the original dust jacket (edge wear and rubbing, pale stain around the tail of spine), 79 pp, with 5 colour plates and line illustrations in the text; internally spotless, a fine …

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  • Grandpa Easy's New Mother Goose and the Golden Eggs

    # 37283

    GRANDPAPA EASY'S SERIES.

    Grandpa Easy’s New Mother Goose and the Golden Eggs

    London : Dean & Son, circa 1840. Octavo, illustrated self wrappers, gift inscription upper margin, pp. 16, hand-coloured illustrations, a couple of leaves detached and one with old running stitched repair.  

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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, fourteen colour plates, text illustrations by Souter, occasional light scattered foxing, a very good copy. Muir 3721

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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, cloth spine with paper label, edges rubbed, lacking the front free endpaper, pp. 103, 8 colour and 8 black and white plates. One of the classic illustrated Outhwaite titles, originally published in …

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  • Rainbow. 20 original hand coloured lino-cuts.

    # 35929

    SIBLEY, Irena (1944 - 2009)

    Rainbow. 20 original hand coloured lino-cuts.

    Melbourne : Gryphon Books, 1980. First edition. Folio (545 x 380 mm), quarter-morocco over silver-lettered buckram, title label to spine, 20 original hand coloured lino-cuts (each signed and numbered), additional lino-cut title page, three additional proof linocuts loosely enclose. Limited to 67 signed copies of which 60 were for sale, this is copy number 4. …

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  • The Australian babes in the wood : a true story told in rhyme for the young

    # 19720

    "Author of Little Jessie" [pseud. of Sarah Maria FOY]

    The Australian babes in the wood : a true story told in rhyme for the young

    / by the author of ‘Little Jessie,’ etc. ; illustrated by Hugh Cameron, J. M’Whirter, G. Hay, J. Lawson, etc., and engraved by R. Paterson. London : Griffith and Farran, 1866. Small octavo, original blind blocked blue cloth boards, upper board with lettering and pictorial device stamped in gilt (boards lightly marked, spine sunned), hinges cracked, …

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  • Happy hearts. A picture book for boys and girls.

    # 30695

    TURNER, Ethel

    Happy hearts. A picture book for boys and girls.

    London : Ward Lock & Co., 1908. Quarto, illustrated glazed boards, cloth spine (a little edge wear but a very good copy), illustrated endpapers, pen inscription to front endpapers, colour frontispiece with tissue guard, eight further plates by D. H. Souter, numerous text illustrations by Louis Wain and others. An unusually good copy of one …

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  • Before the lamps are lit

    # 34502

    QUIN, Tarella; OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul (ill.)

    Before the lamps are lit

    Melbourne : George Robertson & Co., [1911]. Oblong quarto, illustrated cloth boards (minor rubbing), inscription on front endpaper, pp 189. A compilation of six children’s stories with engravings by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. Muir 1907.

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  • Australian fairy tales.

    # 33477

    COOK, Hume; YANDELL, Christian (artist)

    Australian fairy tales.

    With illustrations by Christian Yandell. Melbourne : J. Howlett-Ross, 1925. Quarto, decorated cloth, in the rare illustrated dustjacket (edge tears and chips at head and foot of spine), previous owner’s name to endpaper, 140 pp., tipped-in colour frontispiece, light foxing to preliminaries and edges, colour and black and white plates by Christian Yandell (later Waller). …

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  • The garden of Edens / by Judy Brown ; illustrated by Roderick Shaw.

    # 18120

    BROWN, Judy; SHAW, Roderick (1915-1992), illustrator

    The garden of Edens / by Judy Brown ; illustrated by Roderick Shaw.

    [Sydney] : Imprinted by Richard Edwards & Roderick Shaw at the Barn on the Hill over St. Columbkille’s, [1939]. Quarto, vibrant patterned cloth with paper printed label to upper board, spine a little sunned, pp. 34, illustrated with seven colour linocuts, line drawings and a handcoloured frontispiece by Shaw; a fine copy. One of the …

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  • The calming of Harry

    # 35984

    SIBLEY, Irena (1943-2009); SIBLEY, Andrew (1933- )

    The calming of Harry

    Albert Park, Vic. : Lilly Pilly Books, 1987. ONE OF ONLY TWELVE. ‘The first edition of “The calming of Harry” is limited to ten numbered copies and two artist’s proof copies. This edition is handwritten on French “lana” paper and the illustrations which are hand printed on Japanese mulberry paper are each individually coloured by …

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  • When the sun took the colour away. (Richard Griffin's copy)

    # 35983

    SIBLEY, Irena (1943-2009)

    When the sun took the colour away. (Richard Griffin’s copy)

    Albert Park, Vic. : Lilly Pilly Books, 1987. ‘The first edition … is limited to fifteen numbered copies. The text and illustrations were cut and hand-coloured by Irena Sibley and printed by Benedict Sibley. This book is copy No. fourteen [signed in pen] Irena Sibley, 1987.’ Folio, bound by Richard Griffin in contrasting red and …

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  • [GOLD RUSH]. The Book of Adventures

    # 35298

    "HAWTHORNE, Alice" (WINNER, Septimus, 1827 - 1905)

    [GOLD RUSH]. The Book of Adventures

    Philadelphia: Charles H. Davis, 1854. First edition. Duodecimo, illustrated papered boards over cloth spine, rubbed, contemporary pencil gift inscription to endpaper, pp. 128; 16 (publisher’s catalogue) illustrated with wood-engravings; a very good copy. Children’s adventure stories, including ‘Encounters with a boa constrictor’, ‘Ascent of the Wetterhorn’, ‘Attacks of the cult-fish’, ‘The Greenland Whale fishery’ etc., …

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  • Miranda-with-the-Mouse

    # 35439

    PEARSON, Margaret Mary

    Miranda-with-the-Mouse

    Sydney; Australasian Publishing Co, 1947. Oblong quarto, illustrated papered boards (edges rubbed), illustrated endpapers, pp. 58, illustrated. Muir 5904. Scarce.

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  • [GOLD RUSH]. The Book of Adventures

    # 34950

    "HAWTHORNE, Alice" (WINNER, Septimus, 1827 - 1905)

    [GOLD RUSH]. The Book of Adventures

    Philadelphia: Charles H. Davis, 1855 (first published 1854). Duodecimo, blind-embossed purple cloth, lettered in gilt to spine (faded), pp. 128, illustrated with wood-engravings; a very god copy. Children’s adventure stories, including ‘Encounters with a boa constrictor’, ‘Ascent of the Wetterhorn’, ‘Attacks of the cult-fish’, ‘Perils of the Sperm-Whale fishery’ etc., as well as ‘The gold-mines …

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  • [BLAMIRE YOUNG] Magic casements.

    # 34852

    WALLACE, Helen E.; YOUNG, Blamire (1862-1935) (illustrator)

    [BLAMIRE YOUNG] Magic casements.

    With three plates from watercolours by Blamire Young. Melbourne: Brown, Prior & Co., 1926. Deluxe edition of one thousand copies (this is no. 399; only the first 150 copies were signed by author and artist). Quarto, gilt-titled ivory buckram (lightly marked), dustjacket (spine slightly toned), 104 pp, the plates tipped-in; a very good copy. Muir …

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