20th Century Children's Books
including
£550
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 23 June 2021 at 11:00 BST
Description
Barker, Cicely M. The Book of the Flower Fairies. n.d., pictorial cloth, dustwrapper; Austin, Paul B. The Wonderful Life & Adventures of Tom Thumb. Stockholm, 1954-55, 2 volumes, 12mo, illustrations by Mervyn Peake, original wrappers, owner's name on 1 title, wrappers lightly soiled; Bone, Stephen and Mary Adshead. The Little Boys & Their Boats. 1953, original cloth, dustwrapper frayed; Hennell, Thomas. Lady Filmy Fern. 1980, 3 copies, dustwrappers; Chesterton, G.K. The Coloured Lands. 1938, dustwrapper; Gorey, Edward. The Dwindling Party. A Pop-up Book. [n.d.]; Wesker, Arnold. Say Goodbye. 1974, 4to, dustwrapper; Stone, Bernard & Ralph Steadman. Quasimodo Mouse. 1984, 2 copies, both signed by author and illustrator, pictorial boards; Logue, Christopher and Wayne Anderson. The Magic Circus. 1979, 4to, signed by Logue, pictorial boards; Ratsmagic. 1979, signed by Logue, pictorial boards; Columbus, editor. Good Afternoon Children. [n.d.], pictorial yellow cloth, dustwrapper, bookplate of Duff Cooper; Bell, Quentin. The True Story of Cinderella.1957, presentation copy from Bell to Dot, pictorial boards, dustwrapper frayed with some loss to lower wrapper; Thompson, Kay. Eloise. 1957, first edition, dustwrapper lightly frayed; Gregorson, Edith R. and Peter Scott. Lemuel. 1947, number 19 of 250 copies signed by author and illustrator, brown calf, lightly rubbed; Fenolloosa, Mary. Blossoms from a Japanese Garden. 1913, coloured mounted plates, pictorial cloth slightly worn, and 11 others (31)