Children's and illustrated books
Large collection of works, many signed
£3,024
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 28 September 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
Pullman, Philip. Northern Lights. London: Scholastic Limited, 2008. 2 copies, signed limited editions, each one of 3000 copies signed and numbered by Pullman, original boards, dust jackets, slipcases;
Hughes, Ted. Collected Animal Poems. London: Faber & Faber, 1995. First collected edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, original boards, dust jacket, single slipcase, signed by Ted Hughes and illustrator Chris Riddell on volume 1 half-title;
Idem. Flowers and Insects, some Birds and a Pair of Spiders. London: Faber and Faber, 1986. First edition, 8vo, original boards, dust jacket, signed by Ted Hughes on the title-page, and inscribed by Lisa Baskin (wife of the illustrator Leonard Baskin and an artist in her own right) on front free endpaper;
Idem. Ffangs the Vampire Bat and the Kiss of Truth. London: Faber and Faber, 1986. First edition, 4to, original boards, dust jacket, signed by illustrator Chris Riddell on the title-page;
Idem. How the Whale Became and Other Stories. Illustrated by Jackie Morris. London: Faber and Faber, 2000. First edition thus, 4to, original pictorial boards, signed and with an original pen-and-ink sketch by the illustrator on the title-page
Pratchett, Terry. Eric. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1990. First edition, 4to, original boards, dust jacket, signed by Terry Pratchett on the title-page;
Bond, Michael. Paddington's Storybook [and:] Paddington and the Grand Tour. London: Collins [-HarperCollins], 1983 & 2002. 2 works, 4to, original boards, dust jackets, respectively inscribed and signed by the author, second work jacket price-clipped;
Rackham, Arthur (illustrator). Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. A New Edition. London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited, c.1920. 4to, recent green full morocco, tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards;
Ransome, Arthur. Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp. In Rhyme. Illustrated by Mackenzie. London: Nisbet & Co., c.1920. 4to, original pictorial cloth, tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards;
Nielsen, Kay (illustrator). Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen. London: Hodder and Stoughton, c.1920. 4to, original green moiré cloth with lavish pictorial design to sides, spine sunned, torn dust jacket laid in;
Idem. In Power and Crinoline. Fairy Tales retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. London: Hodder and Stoughton, c.1920. 4to, original quarter cloth, tipped-in colour plates, binding slightly soiled, front inner hinge cracked;
Doyle, Richard and J. R. Planché. An Old Fairy Tale Told Anew in Pictures and Verse. London: George Routledge and Sons, [1865?]. Presumed first edition, 4to, original green cloth gilt, sig. B working loose;
and 15 others, including works by Kathleen Hale, Michael Morpurgo (signed), Michael Foreman (signed), Ivor Cutler (signed), and more