GOOD MORNING.
Pp. [12](including the covers), illustrated in colour throughout; small square 4to; pictorial glazed papered card; Macmillan Children's Books, London, 1983. First U.K. edition. *A board picture book, with no text. More
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GOOD MORNING.
Pp. [12](including the covers), illustrated in colour throughout; small square 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards, tiny stain near centre of lower board; Macmillan Children's Books, London, 1983. First U.K. edition. *A board picture book, with no text. More
GOOD NIGHT.
Pp. [12](including the covers), illustrated in colour throughout; small square 4to; pictorial glazed papered card; Macmillan Children's Books, London, 1983. First U.K. edition. *A board picture book, with no text. More
MIFFY IS PLAYING!
Pp. [16](including verso of boards and four shaped leaves), illustrated in colour throughout, with brief text; small square 4to; pictorial glazed card with rounded fore-corners, a trifle soiled, edges slightly rubbed; Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Sydney, 1997. First Australian edition. Flip-book series. More
MIFFY'S BICYCLE.
Pp. [28], illustrated in colour throughout, pictorial upper endpaper; small square 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Sydney, 2001. Australian edition, reprinted. *Inscribed and signed by the author on the upper pastedown. More
POPPY PIG GOES TO MARKET.
Pp. [28](including the free endpapers), full page coloured illustrations, the title page printed in green & black, cherry patterned endpapers; small square 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards, faintly soiled; Methuen, London, 1981. First U.K. edition. *Inscribed and signed by the author (dated 19.9.1981) on the title page. More
WHEN I'M BIG.
Pp. [26], full page coloured illustrations, the title page printed in red & black; small square 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards, a trifle soiled, the top fore-corners lightly bruised; Methuen, London, 1981. First U.K. edition. *Inscribed and signed by the author (dated 19.9.1981) on verso of upper board. More
HUFF PUFF HICKORY HILL.
Pp. [32](including the free endpapers), illustrated in colour throughout; tall post 4to; boards a trifle marked, corners lightly worn; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges rubbed and split, with a couple of small chips; inked inscription (dated 1956) at head of upper free endpaper, edges of leaves lightly foxed; Lothrop... More
THE CRAIGS OF COLLINS STREET.
Pp. [viii]+136(last blank), text illustrations, pictorial endpapers; cr. 4to; edges of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper, lightly worn; a couple of spots of foxing; The Hawthorn Press, Melbourne, 1971. First edition. Muir 1195. *Story of a family living in Melbourne in the 1860s. More
I AM THE MUMMY HEB-NEFERT.
Illustrated by David Christiana. Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; impl. 8vo; pictorial papered boards; dust wrapper; Koala Books, Sydney, 1997. First Australian edition. More
A LONG TRIP TO TEATIME.
With twenty-one line drawings by Fulvio Testa. Pp. 120, frontispiece, plus 20 full page illustrations, marbled endpapers; small cr. 4to; edges of boards slightly flecked and rubbed, the bottom fore-corner of lower board lightly bruised; dust wrapper, slightly scuffed, edges lightly rubbed, with small tape repair to short split at... More
CLIPPER SHIP.
Pp. 184, pictorial double title page, text illustrations; top fore-corner of boards slightly bruised; dust wrapper, lightly worn, edges rubbed and split, with a couple of small tears; text block slightly browned; name in ink at head of upper free endpaper; Paul Hamlyn, Sydney, 1974. Paul Hamlyn Action series. White... More
NINE FAIRY TALES BY KAREL CAPEK and One More Thrown in for Good Measure.
Translated by Dagmar Herrmann. With illustrations by Josef Capek. Pp. [vi]+254(last blank), illustrated (several full page); post 8vo; dust wrapper; Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois, 1990. First edition thus. *Nine stories by Karel Capek and one by his brother Josef. 'Like traditional fairy tales, Capek's stories contain marvels and supernatural... More
THE GATHERING.
Pp. [viii]+280; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed; Dial Books, New York, 1993. First U.S. edition. *Joint winner of the Children's Peace Literature Award Best Book (1993) ; winner of the C hildren's B ook C ouncil of A ustralia Book of the Year Award: Older Readers (1994). More
THE CLINKER.
Pp. [iv]+140, endpaper sketch map; edges of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper; Houghton Mifflin Australia, Melbourne, 1989. First edition. White 2108. More
THE WISE MEN OF GOTHAM.
Pp. 48, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white; tall cr. 4to; pictorial papered boards, slightly soiled; dust wrapper; edges of leaves a trifle foxed; outer leaves faintly offset; Collins, London, 1973. First edition. *Stories based on a fifteenth century chapbook, The Foles of Gotyam. More
ALICE IN POP-UP WONDERLAND.
Illustrations and design by J. Otto Seibold. Paper engineering by James R. Diaz. Pp. [14](including the endpapers), 7 elaborate double page coloured pop-ups, with several lift-up flaps and tab-operated movables; oblong 4to; pictorial papered boards, the corners lightly bruised; Scholastic, New York, 2003. First edition. *With the original pictorial publicity... More
ALICE I UNDERLANDET.
[Alice in Wonderland, text in Swedish, illustrated by Tove Jansson]. Pp. 112, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white (a couple full page); med. 8vo; dark brown cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, top fore-corner of lower board faintly bruised; dust wrapper, slightly soiled and foxed, edges and backstrip... More
ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND.
The 125th Anniversary Edition. Illustrated by Pixie O'Harris. Pp. 128,14 full page line drawings, silhouette text decorations; small cr. 4to; pictorial paper wrappers; Carroll Foundation, Melbourne, 1990. First edition thus. *The drawings are intended to be coloured-in by the owner, and the book includes 6 blank leaves for extra original... More
ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND.
An 1865 printing re-described and newly identified as the Publisher's "File Copy". With a revised and expanded Census of the Suppressed 1865 "Alice" compiled by Selwyn H. Goodacre. To which is added, a short-title index identifying and locating the original preliminary drawings by John Tenniel for Alice and Looking-Glass, catalogued... More
THE RHYTHM OF OUR FOOTSTEPS.
A collection of modern verse by Australian children. Pp. 88(last blank), index; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, lightly browned; top edges of leaves a trifle foxed; Lowden Publishing Co., Kilmore, Victoria, 1969. First edition. More
MADATAN.
Illustrated by Victor G. Ambrus. Pp. [vi]+208(last blank), text illustrations, full page map; boards a trifle canted, with a couple of tiny bruises to bottom edge of upper board; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges slightly creased and with thin strips of the original lamination remaining on reverse, the flaps a trifle... More
HYRAM AND B.
Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; demy 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards, lower board a trifle soiled; Hodder Children's Books, Sydney, 2003. First edition. *Inscribed and signed by the illustrator, Matt Ottley, on the title page. The inscription, to Melbourne bookseller Albert Ullin, is above a small inked sketch of... More