Poems for Children. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. Pp. 64, illustrated in two colours throughout (alternating black & peach or green & black); f'cap. 4to; fore-corners of boards faintly bruised; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split, with surface graze to back panel near top fore-corner; bookseller's sticker at..... More
Retold by Kathleen Lines. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. Pp. 48, illustrated throughout in colour and sepia; small roy. 8vo; pictorial papered boards, lightly foxed; dust wrapper, slightly soiled and foxed, the backstrip and adjacent portion of front panel lightly browned; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, outer leaves and..... More
Featuring 24 Creators of Australian Children's Books. Pp. 104(last blank), numerous black & white illustrations; narrow demy 4to; pictorial glazed paper wrappers; top fore-corners of leaves lightly bruised; Omnibus Books, Adelaide, 1991. First edition. *Memorabilia (family snapshots, letters, manuscript extracts and rough sketches) of authors including Kerry Argent, Terry Denton..... More
Illustrations by James Barkley. Pp. [x]+118(last colophon), full page illustrations; qr. black cloth, spine lettered in silver, grey papered boards; price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly worn, edges rubbed and a trifle split; Harper & Row, New York, 1969. First edition. *Winner of the Newbery Medal in 1970; the basis for a...... More
Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout, no text; pictorial boards; dust wrapper, faintly soiled, edges rubbed and split; small mark below top edge of upper free endpaper; Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1979. *A counting book. More
Famous Dwellings in Children's Fiction. Pp. [104], illustrated throughout in colour and black & white; demy 4to; dust wrapper, with small bookseller's sticker at foot of front flap; Dragon's World Children's Books, London, 1984. First edition. More
Pp. 54(last blank), illustrated in colour throughout; small cr. 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed; issued without free endpapers, top edges of leaves lightly foxed; Weatherhill/Heibonsha, New York, 1975. First edition. More
Translated by Roslyn Lacks. Illustrations by Danny Kerman. Pp. [iv]+44, printed in red & black; pictorial glazed papered boards; the free endpapers partly stuck to pastedowns; Adama Books, New York, 1985. First U.S. edition. *Inscribed (to Melbourne bookseller Albert Ullin) and signed by the author, dated 1994, on the half-title..... More
Illustrated in colour and black & white by Mabel Lucie Atwell. Pp. viii+186(last colophon), coloured frontispiece and 11 plates, black & white pictorial title page and text illustrations; cr. 4to; pictorial blue calf, lettered in gilt and decorated in gilt, dark blue and cream, top fore-corner of lower board a...... More
Pp. 192(last blank), 2 full page maps; pictorial glazed paper wrappers; text block lightly browned at edges; Viking, Melbourne, 1991. First edition. White (Volume 3) 605. *Inscribed and signed on the title page by the author and also by Jane Tanner (the dust wrapper illustrator), to Melbourne bookseller Albert Ullin..... More
Pp. 144, full page illustrations; dust wrapper; Thomas Nelson, Melbourne, 1985. First Australian edition. White (Volume 2) 667. *Inscribed and signed by the author (to Melbourne bookseller Albert Ullin) on the upper free endpaper. Alan Baillie was born in Scotland but moved to Australia with his family when he was..... More
140+[4](advertisements, partly unopened); bottom fore-corner of lower board a trifle bruised; dust wrapper; Thomas Nelson, Melbourne, 1988. First edition. White (Volume 2) 681. More
Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; demy 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; Walker Books, London, 2000. First U.K. edition. White (Volume 3) 672. *Baker was born in England but lives in Australia. Her collage constructions, although designed to illustrate picture books, have also been exhibited individually as works of art..... More
How to build and fly your very own kits - from simple sleds to complex stunters. Pp. 80, illustrated in colour throughout; med. 4to; bottom fore-corners of boards lightly bruised; dust wrapper, faintly scuffed, edges a trifle rubbed, with short closed tear to top edge of front panel; New Burlington..... More
Written and Illustrated by Jan Baldwin. Pp. [84], illustrated throughout in colour and black & white (many full page), 2 full page sketch maps, list of important dates in Henley, further reading; oblong 4to; pictorial papered boards, bottom fore-corners faintly bruised, tiny snag at head of spine; minor production (gluing)..... More
From the Library of Ruth M. Baldwin. Pp. xii+296, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white; demy 4to; blue/grey cloth, spine lettered in gilt, upper board decorated in black, corners a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper, slightly scuffed, edges slightly rubbed and split; Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, 1972. First..... More
Pp. 32, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, glossary, further reading, index; small demy 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; Macmillan Education Australia, Melbourne, 1994. First Australian edition. More
Illustrated by Noel Young. Pp. [vi]+138; dust wrapper; edges of leaves lightly foxed; Angus & Robertson, London, 1989. First edition. White (Volume 3) 687. *The third book in the popular Ghostseries. More
With pictures by Donna Rawlins. Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; wide demy 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; Ashton Scholastic, Sydney, 1990. First edition. White (Volume 3) 693. More
Illustrated by Diz Wallis. Pp. 80, illustrated in colour throughout (some full page); med. 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed and split, the laminate lifting slightly at bottom fore-corner of back panel; Kingfisher, London, 1995. First edition. *Giselle, Swan Lake, Petrushka, The Nutcracker, etc., including brief..... More
