Preface by Bryan Holme. Pp. [32], illustrated in colour, red & black and black & white, pictorial endpapers printed in green; wide post 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards, slightly scuffed, the bottom fore-corners lightly worn; Thames & Hudson, London, 1981. First U.K. edition. thus. *Both alphabets were originally published separately..... More
A book of old rhymes with new dresses by Walter Crane. The music by the earliest masters. Engraved & printed in colour by Edmund Evans. Pp. 56, printed and illustrated in colour throughout (11 full page, including the frontispiece), with music scores to 36 nursery rhymes; small square 4to; red..... 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
A boy's adventure. Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; square 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; Lothian, Melbourne, 2005. First edition. *The true story of fifteen-year-old John Murphy, who was one of the survivors of Ludwig Leichhardt's ill-fated Northern Territory expedition in 1844. With publisher's publicity sheet loosely inserted. 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
Illustrated by Alan Marks. Pp. [ii]+42, illustrated in colour throughout; f'cap. 8vo; pictorial glazed papered boards; Heinemann, London, 1985. First edition. Banana Books series. *Novella; winner of the Carnegie Medal in 1985. For the 70th anniversary of the Medal in 2007, Storm was named one of the top ten winning..... 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. [172], illustrated throughout in colour and occasional black & white; f'cap. 8vo; pictorial stiff paper wrappers; Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2005. First edition. *Inscribed and signed by the author/artist (to Melbourne bookseller Albert Ullin, dated 19.5.05) on verso of upper wrapper. Born in London, Neil Curtis (1950-2006) emigrated to..... 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
Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout, with 13 gatefold pages; demy 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards, the bottom fore-corners bruised; Thomas C. Lothian, Melbourne, 1999. First edition. White (Volume 3) 3405. *'A giant lift-the-flap guessing-game book for the very young' [cover blurb]. 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
