Pictures by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. Pp. [x]+148+[2](blank, colophon), pictorial double title page, plus numerous text illustrations; pictorial boards, lightly foxed, fore-corners a trifle bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly soiled and foxed, edges rubbed and slightly chipped, with signs of sticker removal (including small surface graze) to backstrip and front panel..... More
Illustrated by Declan Lee. Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; wide demy 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; dust wrapper, faintly scuffed; Penguin/Viking, Melbourne, 2006. Second printing. More
A post-apocalyptic fairy tale. Pp. 134(last colophon), illustrated in colour throughout; pictorial papered boards, a couple of tiny bruises to bottom edges; Windy Hollow Books/Helen Chamberlin, Melbourne, 2015. First edition. *Graphic novel, inscribed and signed by the illustrator (to Melbourne bookseller Albert Ullin) on the title page. With related ephemera..... More
Pp. [iv]+140, endpaper sketch map; edges of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper; Houghton Mifflin Australia, Melbourne, 1989. First edition. White 2108. More
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
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..... More
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
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
A Play in Three Acts. With music by Stephen McNeff and illustrations by Yvonne Gilbert. Introduction by Richard Williams. Pp. 118, frontispiece, text illustrations (some full page), printed music; med. 8vo; dust wrapper, bookseller's sticker a t foot of front flap; Kestrel Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1981. First edition. *'Translation and..... More
Illustrated by Rodney McRae. Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; demy 4to; black cloth, spine lettered in white, edges of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper, faintly scuffed; Margaret Hamilton Books, Sydney, 1988. First trade edition thus. White (Volume 2) 1558. *Originally published in the 1870s, Who Killed Cockatoo was..... More
Pp. [vi]+68; lower board a trifle warped; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split, backstrip slightly browned; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper free endpaper, edges of leaves lightly foxed; Heinemann, London, 1967. First edition. Pyramid Books series. More
By A Lady. Pp. 16 (including wrappers), illustrated with 12 woodcut vignettes plus a larger woodcut on the lower wrapper; 48mo; pale yellow self wrappers, stabbed & tied, faintly faded and soiled, with early [York] bookseller's stamp ( J. H. Carr, printer & stationer, 31 Fossgate) on the upper wrapper..... More
Illustrated by Rodney McRae. Pp. 160, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, pictorial endpapers, index; cr. 4to; corners of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper, faintly scuffed; Hodder & Stoughton, Sydney, 1987. First edition. White (Volume 2) 1625. *Anthology of stories, songs, rhymes and activities which 'reflect the..... More
Illustrated by Heather Hummel. Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; med. 4to; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, stapled, edges lightly rubbed, the bottom fore-corners slightly creased; a few corners faintly creased; Sandcastle, Fremantle, 1999. More
Letters to Pauline Chase. With illustrations by Albert Rothenstein. Pp. xvi+[16](facsimile letters)+64, coloured frontispiece portrait with tissue guard, black & white pictorial title page and numerous text illustrations, folding map of The Never Never Land at end; light brown pictorial cloth, lettered and decorated in red, white & black, slightly..... More
Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; demy 4to; pictorial papered boards, tiny scratch near centre of upper board; Lothian Books, Melbourne, 2004. First edition. *The dedicatee's copy. Inscribed and signed by author and illustrator on the title page. The inscriptions are to Melbourne Bookseller Albert Ullin, to whom the book..... More
A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest. Illustrated by Lynne Cherry. Pp. [40](including the endpapers), illustrated in colour throughout; wide demy 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; dust wrapper with publisher's publicity sticker on front panel; Harcourt, Brace & Company, San Diego, CA, 1998. First edition. More
Illustrations by John H. Bacon, Arthur Dixon & others. Edited by Edric Vredenburg. Pp. 122+[4](pictorial advertisements), 8 coloured plates (including frontispiece), black & white full page portrait of Tennyson and numerous text illustrations; small cr. 4to; cloth backed pictorial glazed papered boards, lightly soiled and worn, edges rubbed and slightly..... More
Polar Sledge Dogs. Pp. 42(including the lower free endpaper), illustrated in colour and black & white, pictorial endpapers, 2 maps, glossary, further reading list, index; demy 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; Margaret Hamilton Books, Sydney, 1994. First edition. White (Volume 3) 2332. More
Illustrated by Lezlie Tilley. Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; small demy 4to; corners of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper, faintly soiled; Hodder & Stoughton, Sydney, 1987. First edition. White (Volume 2) 1653. *Signed by the illustrator on verso of half-title page. More
Illustrated by David Small. Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; oblong 4to; qr. cream cloth, spine lettered in black, red papered boards, upper board decorated in black, with a faint indentation to upper board near top fore-corner; price-clipped dust wrapper, a trifle soiled; Bradbury Press, New York, 1990. First U.S...... More
Pp. [viii]+230(last colophon), frontispiece; cr. 8vo; orange/red cloth, lettered and decorated in black, bottom fore-corners slightly rubbed, small faded patch at foot of spine, the cloth a trifle bubbled along fore-edge of lower board; dust wrapper, lightly soiled and worn, edges rubbed and split, with a few short closed tears;..... More
Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout, black & white pictorial endpapers; narrow demy 4to; pictorial papered boards; inked gift inscriptions on verso of upper free endpaper; Gecko Press, Wellington, 2006. First New Zealand edition. *Chih-Yuan Chen, three-time winner of the prestigious Hain Yi Picture Book Award, is an illustrator and..... More
Pp. 38 (including wrappers), illustrations, index; pictorial paper wrappers, tiny chip at head of backstrip, short closed tear from top edge into front panel; Children's Book Council of Victoria, Melbourne, 1967. Third edition. More
A select list. Pp. 32, illustrations, index; pictorial stiff paper wrappers; Children's Book Council of Victoria, Melbourne, 1962. Second edition. More