Childrens Books
LITTLE DEVIL'S 123.
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
CHILDREN'S LITERARY HOUSES.
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
FOLK TALES FROM ASIA FOR CHILDREN EVERYWHERE. Book One.
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
IT'S ME.
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
THE AUSTRALIAN BOY'S ANNUAL.
Containing stories and articles by Sir Harry H. Johnston, G.C.M.G., Frank H. Shaw, D. H. Parry, Richard Kearton, T. C. Bridges, Captain Gilson, S. Walkey, R. S. Warren Bell, Eric Wood, Percy F. Westerman, H. Mortimer Batten, Captain Oswald Dallas, and many others. Pp. 232, mostly printed double column, coloured..... More
UNDER PADLOCK AND SEAL.
Pp. 132, coloured frontispiece, black & white text illustrations, the title page printed in red & black; cr. 8vo; pictorial grey cloth, lettered and decorated in black and pale yellow, with coloured pictorial onlay on upper board, the lower board slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed; Sunday School prize bookplate on..... More
THE CHINA COIN.
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
LITTLE BROTHER.
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
MEGAN'S STAR.
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
THE HIDDEN FOREST.
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
MAKING KITES.
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
HENLEY HERITAGE.
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
100 NINETEENTH-CENTURY RHYMING ALPHABETS in English.
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
FOODS & FEASTS IN ANCIENT EGYPT.
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
JEREMY'S TAIL.
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
TALES FROM THE BALLET.
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
SPIRIT OF YOUTH.
Children's Anthology. With a Foreword by Field-Marshal Earl Wavell. Pp. [136], frontispiece, plus 14 plates, index; f'cap. 4to; corners of boards a trifle rubbed; price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly soiled and worn, edges rubbed and split, the backstrip browned, torn at extremities and slightly tape marked; name in ink on upper..... More
AN OBA OF BENIN,
Pp. [32], illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, endpaper map; demy 4o; pictorial papered boards, edges lightly rubbed, the upper board slightly foxed; price-clipped dust wrapper, faintly soiled; edges of leaves lightly foxed; Macdonald & Janes, London, 1976. First edition. Worlds of Yesterday series. More
THE SACK MAN.
Illustrated by Lynda Taylor. Pp. [32] illustrated in colour throughout; cr. 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; dust wrapper; Viking Kestrel, Melbourne, 1987. First hardback edition. White (Volume 1) 782 *First published in paperback in 1986. More