Lot 275
Illustrated children's books
A collection
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
Barrie, J.M. Peter and Wendy. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. 8vo, first American Edition (simultaneous with first UK edition), original green cloth, 12 plates (incl. frontispiece), inscription to free endpaper;
Kipling, Rudyard. The Second Jungle Book. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1899. 8vo, original blue cloth;
Dahl, Roald. Danny The Champion of the World. London: Jonathan Cape, 1975. First edition, 8vo, original boards, dust jacket, owner's inscription to free endpaper;
Idem. Matilda. London: Jonathan Cape, 1988. 8vo, original boards, dust jacket; and 7 further works by Dahl:
Peake, Mervyn (illustrator). The Hunting of the Snark, An Agony in Eight Fits by Lewis Carroll. London: Chatto & Windus, 1941. 8vo, first edition, original illustrated boards;
Idem. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. London: Zodiac Books, 1949. 8vo, first edition, original illustrated boards, some foxing and 2 small tears to spine;
Idem. Witchcraft in England by Christina Hole. London: B.T. Batsford, 1945. First edition, second impression, original cloth faded, dustwrapper with tear and small area of loss; and 13 further titles illustrated by Peake;
Searle, Ronald (author and illustrator). The Rake's Progress. London: Perpetua, 1955. First edition, second impression, original black cloth, dustwrapper price-clipped; and 10 further titles illustrated by Searle;
Hughes, Ted. How the Whale Became and Other Stories. London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1963. First edition, original blue cloth, dustwrapper price-clipped; with 16 further works by the author;
and approx. 30 poetry books including T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Edward Thomas and Edith Sitwell;
together with further children's books illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, Quentin Blake and similar