Printed in Venice by Vindelinus de Spira in 1476, with a translation, 'The Story of Lionbruno', by Beatrice Corrigan. Pp. 40, 2 illustrations; pale blue cloth, lettered in silver and decorated in pink, edges and spine faintly faded; Friends of the Osborne and Lillian H. Smith Collections/Toronto Public Library, Toronto..... More
Pp. [28](including the free endpapers), illustrated in colour throughout; oblong 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; Bodley Head, London, 1984. U.K. edition. *Australian author. More
Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; square 4to; dust wrapper; Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1990. First edition. White (Volume 3) 3074. *Inscribed and signed by the author/artist (to Melbourne bookseller Albert Ullin, dated 17.10.90) on verso of upper free endpaper. The date is when th book was officially launched in..... More
Illustrated by Walter Crane. Pp. [40], illustrated in colour throughout, patterned endpapers printed in green; small square 4to; green cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, with slight signs of sticker removal at foot of front flap; Green Tiger Press, New York, 1993. *The text and illustrations were selected from..... More
Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; tall demy 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; Benchmark/Cygnet Books, in association with University of Western Australia Press, Melbourne, 1999. First edition. White (Volume 3) 3234. *Inscribed and signed by the author (to Melbourne bookseller Albert Ullin) on the title page and the upper free..... More
A novel. Pp. [vi]+186(last blank), 2 text illustrations; edges of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper; text block slightly browned, a little light foxing; William Heinemann Australia, Melbourne, 1990. First edition. White (Volume 3) 3242. *Inscribed and signed by the author (to Melbourne bookseller Albert Ullin) on the title page..... More
A novel. Pp. [vi]+186(last blank), 2 text illustrations; dust wrapper; text block faintly browned; William Heinemann Australia, Melbourne, 1990. First edition. *Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year for Older Readers, 1991. More
Pp. [28](including the free endpapers), illustrated in colour throughout; demy 4to; pictorial papered boards; Lothian Books, Melbourne, 2004. First edition. *Robert Ingpen is the only Australian to have won the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for illustration. More
Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; square 4to; pictorial glazed paper wrappers; Lothian Books, Melbourne, 2003. Paperback edition. White (Volume 3) 3298. *With publisher's publicity sheet for this edition loosely inserted. First published in 1999; winner of the Australian Publishers Association Design Award in 2000, and a Children's Book Council..... More
Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; square 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards with Children's Book Council of Australia Notable Book sticker near bottom fore-corner of upper board, the upper board featuring several die-cuts in the style of a kaleidoscope viewer which reveal the title on the page beneath; Lothian, Melbourne..... More
Pp. 48, illustrated in colour throughout; demy 4to; pictorial glazed papered board, the top fore-corners bumped, and with a couple of tiny bruises to bottom edges; top fore-corners of leaves faintly creased; Lothian Books, Melbourne, 2000. First edition. White (Volume 3) 3303. More
Pp. [iv]+172(last blank); dust wrapper, faintly scuffed; Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1994. First edition. More
Pictures by Peter Melnyczuk. Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; oblong 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; Orchard Books, London, 1989. First edition. *Signed by the author on the title page. More
Pp. [49](including recto of the lower free endpaper), illustrated in colour throughout; pictorial papered boards; Tate Gallery, London, 2015. First U.K. edition. *With the author/artist's signed inscription [to Melbourne bookseller Albert Ullin] in red pencil on the upper free endpaper. Beneath her inscription, Kitty Crowther has sketched in coloured pencil..... More
Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; pictorial papered boards; Tate Gallery, London, 2014. First U.K. edition. *With the author/artist's signed inscription [to Melbourne bookseller Albert Ullin] in red pencil on the upper free endpaper. Beneath her inscription, Kitty Crowther has drawn in coloured pencil a sketch of Mia reading a...... More
Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; square 4to; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, the fore-corners a trifle creased; Lothian Books, Melbourne, 2003. More
Pp. 242+[14](advertisements), frontispiece, plus 7 plates; cr. 4to; light brown pictorial cloth, lettered and decorated in black & brown, slightly soiled; the free endpapers lightly offset, hinge starting near centre, corners of a few leaves slightly creased, a little light foxing; Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, London, 1923. First edition..... More
Pp. [x]+198(last blank); beige cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt; price-clipped dust wrapper; Clarion Books, New York, 1996. First edition. More
Pp. [vi]+122; qr. tan cloth, spine lettered in gilt, brown papered boards, upper board decorated in gilt; price-clipped dust wrapper; Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin, New York, n.d.[1995]. Second impression. *Winner of the Newbery Medal in 1996. More
With illustrations by Charles Folkard and others. Four small nursery rhyme books, each 28 pages (including the free endpapers), illustrated in various colours and black & white, series endpaper maps printed in blue; f'cap. 16mo; pictorial glazed papered boards; presented within a sturdy rocking-horse shaped card box (which does rock);..... More
With illustrations by Charles Folkard and others. Four small nursery rhyme books, each 28 pages (including the free endpapers), illustrated in various colours and black & white, with series endpaper maps printed in blue; f'cap. 16mo; pictorial glazed papered boards; presented within a sturdy rocking-horse shaped card box (which does..... More
Pp. [28](including the free endpapers), illustrated in colour throughout; small demy 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; WilliamHeinemann Australia, Melbourne, 1988. First Australian edition. More
A story for children about a family's holiday spent on an Australian sheep station. With illustrations by leading Australian artists . . .. Foreword by Sir Robert Menzies. Pp. [48], illustrated in colour and black & white (several full page), artist biographies; square 4to; pictorial boards, slightly soiled, corners a...... More
