Children’s Books

# 29227

WALL, Dorothy (author and illustrator)

Stout fellows : Chum, Angelina Wallaby, Um-Pig and Flip.

Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1940 (reprint). Quarto, pictorial papered boards (edges rubbed), colour frontispiece plate, pp 50, illustrated with black-and-white plates and line drawings in the text by Wall; occasional foxing, otherwise internally clean and sound. Muir 7830

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# 29343

SHUTE, E. L.

I love sixpence, pretty little sixpence

London : Marcus Ward & Co., [1890?]. Square octavo (175 x 140 mm), publisher’s pictorial wrappers (lightly marked), [8] pp, each page with a superb chromolithograph illustration incorporating silver leaf; a couple of pages with light handling marks to the margins, else internally fine; a very good copy. Delightfully illustrated and beautifully printed English nursery …

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# 28533

[BEWICK, Thomas]

Tom Thumb’s Play Book to teach children their letters, by a new and pleasant method

Alnwick : W. Davison, s.n. [circa 1825]. Duodecimo, illustrated paper wrappers, pp. 35, woodcut illustrations, alphabet inside upper wrapper, a couple of pages roughly opened, one leaf unopened, else very good condition. Nineteenth century children’s chapbook illustrated by Thomas Bewick. Hugo 458

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# 28531

[CUNNINHAM, John]; [BEWICK, Thomas]

Day, a pastoral; in three parts, viz. Morning, Noon and Evening

To which is added, The Stubborn Dame. Alnwick : W. Davison s.n. [circa 1825]. Duodecimo, illustrated paper wrappers (small penned name), pp. 36, woodcut illustrations, small worm hole, very good condition. Nineteenth century children’s chapbook illustrated by Thomas Bewick. Hugo 306 : ‘One of the most beautiful productions of Davison’s Press. A charming little book’.

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# 27390

[OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul]. BIBBY, Joseph (editor)

[OUTHWAITE]. Bibby’s Annual; 1920-21

Liverpool: J. Bibby and Sons, 1920. Folio, illustrated wrappers (light edge wear), pp. 64, illustrated. Theosophical periodical edited by the English Christian industrialist, Joseph Biddy (1851 -1940). Includes many illustrations by Sir Joshua Reynolds, a depiction of Admirable Sir David Beatty reading the terms of the Armistice to the German delegates in the fore-cabin of the H.M.S. …

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# 26069

GIBBS, May (1877-1969)

[MAY GIBBS] I’m still at the same old game!

[Melbourne: Osboldstone & Co., circa 1920s]. Post card (85 x 136 mm), recto with colour process design of Gumnut Babies and printed May Gibbs signature, verso with neat inscription, a little marked and a couple of light creases.

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# 28082

[ARNOTT'S]

The amazing adventures of Anthony Arrowroot (first edition)

Sydney : William Arnott Pty Ltd, n.d. [1930]. First printing. Octavo (215 mm tall), illustrated wrappers (small stains, previous owner’s names), pp 32, illustrated with colour plates and black and white illustrations (one with neat juvenile colouring). A children’s book produced as an advertisement for Arnott’s biscuit company. Muir 164.

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# 29365

Anon.

[GOLD RUSH; ABORIGINES] Collection of die-cut scraps with Australian motifs.

[Germany] : s.n., [circa 1880]. Group of 18 embossed die-cut scraps (designed for use in a child’s scrap album), from an Australian-themed series depicting scenes and individual figures including gold diggers, squatters, Aborigines, and ships, and including one scrap printed with the series title Australia; maximum diameter 55 mm, all in good condition. A lovely little …

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# 1342

HUE, Fernand

[GOLD RUSH] Aventures de deux Franca̧is et d’un chien en Australie

Paris : Lecène, Oudin et Cie, Éditeurs, 1892. “Nouvelle Édition.” Octavo, red cloth with gilt embossed armorial crest of the Ville de Paris, spine (a little tender) with gilt lettering, 142 pp (occasional spotting), illustrated; a good copy. Text in French. Muir 3655. An adventure story set on the Victorian goldfields.

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# 24990

McKEOWN, Keith C.

The Magic Seeds: Tessa in Termitaria

Sydney : New Century Press, 1940. Octavo, cloth in dustjacket (light stains, a few chips with loss), previous owner’s name to endpaper, pp. 170, occasional light foxing, illustrated. Scarce.

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# 24707

LOVECHILD, Mrs. (attributed)

A peep at old Asia

Merrill’s Pictorial Gallery. Part III. Concord, N.H. : Rufus Merrill, [1847]. Royal octavo, pictorial yellow wrappers (front lightly marked), stitched, title page with original owner’s presentation inscription, 24 pp, illustrated, internally clean and sound, a very good copy. Although predominantly an introduction for young readers to Chinese culture, this scarce pamphlet also includes text about Maori …

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# 24453

GIBBS, May (1877 - 1969)

The further adventures of Bib and Bub

Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing Company, 1928. First edition. Oblong quarto, publisher’s decorated cloth (slightly sunned and marked), pictorial endpapers, title page, pp. (100), monochrome panelled illustrations throughout, a very good copy, internally pristine. May Gibbs’s Bib and Bub comic strips were first published in the Sydney Sunday News and then issued in book format from …

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# 24452

GIBBS, May (1877 - 1969)

More funny stories about old friends Bib and Bub

Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing Company, 1928. First edition. Oblong quarto, publisher’s decorated cloth (rebacked), pictorial endpapers (with tape repair), contemporary gift inscription in pencil, title page, pp. (94), monochrome panelled illustrations throughout, a good copy. May Gibbs’s Bib and Bub comic strips were first published in the Sydney Sunday News and then issued in book …

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# 19480

LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

The Magic Pudding (first edition, second issue)

: being the adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff. Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1918. Quarto, quarter blue cloth over papered boards (waterstain to upper and lower edges of upper board), in fine original illustrated dust jacket (a couple of light stains, very minor chipping to head and foot …

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# 23178

[DASKEIN] QUIN, Tarella.

Gum Tree Brownie and other Faerie Folk of the Never-Never.

Gum Tree Brownie and other Faerie Folk of the Never-Never. Illustrated by Ida S. Rentoul. Melbourne: George Robertson [1910]. Second edition. Oblong quarto, illustrated orange cloth (marked and rubbed), 184 pp., inscriptions to endpaper, foreword by Ethel Turner, illustrated throughout, internally clean. The third book illustrated by Ida Rentoul, first published in 1907 (a third …

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# 23295

BRAHAM, D.E. (illustrator)

Mistress Mole

London : Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton, [c.1910]. Duodecimo (117 x 82 mm), staple bound within the original grey card wallet, colour pictorial onlay to front with decorative printed gold border, colour frontispiece plate, title page with line-drawn illustration, [10] pages, vignette line-drawn illustrations, printed in green on white paper; a pristine copy; [TOGETHER …

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