Libri per ragazzi

National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs

J. W. Elliott · 1937 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London; New York, Novello and Company, Limited; The H. W. Gray Co. c1870. Cloth. A delightful collection of classic nursery rhymes, compiled and set to music by James William Elliott and featuring a number of engravings by the Brothers Dalziel. In the publisher's original...

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire; Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

J.K. Rowling · 2000 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)

London, Bloomsbury, 2000-2003. First edition. Cloth. The first editions of the fourth and fifth books in the iconic Harry Potter series, seeing Harry and friends become embroiled with wizarding events outside the world of Hogwarts. The first editions of Harry Potter and the Go...

Little Brother & Little Sister and Other Tales by the Brother&Apos;S Grimm

Arthur Rackham · 1917 · Rooke Books

£645.00 (€773.13 | $852.14 | ¥136,075)

London, Constable & Co Ltd, 1917. First edition. Cloth. A pleasing, signed limited edition of this charming illustrated collection of forty tales from the Brother's Grimm, by Rackham. A signed limited edition of this illustrated collection of forty tales from the Brother&...

Who&Apos;S There

Edric Vredenburg · 1896 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Raphael Tuck and Sons, c1896. Hardback. A very scarce children's picture book about getting ready for Father Christmas, published by the world's largest postcard company, with intricate colour illustrations. Who's There?, a very scarce children's pi...

Appley Dapply&Apos;S Nursery Rhymes

Beatrix Potter · 1917 · Rooke Books

£185.00 (€221.75 | $244.41 | ¥39,029)

London, Frederick Warne and Co. 1917. First edition. Hardback. The first edition of Beatrix Potter's first collection of nursery rhymes, complete with her beloved colour illustrations. First edition. Quinby No. 23, endpapers Plates XII and XIV as called for. In the origi...

National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs Set to Original Music

J. W. Elliott · 1884 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Novello, Ewer and Co. c1869. Cloth. A charming nineteenth-century, illustrated music book of popular nursery rhymes. A pleasing early edition of children's nursery rhymes, in the original publisher's cloth binding, set to music by J. W. Elliott with vignette ...

Le Voyage de Babar

Jean de Brunhoff · 1932 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

Paris, Jardin des Modes , 1932 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Jean de Brunhoff's second Babar the Elephant tale, charmingly illustrated throughout in colour. In the original French.The first edition of this charming work, authored and illustrated by Jean de ...

The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse

Beatrix Potter · 1910 · Rooke Books

£650.00 (€779.13 | $858.74 | ¥137,130)

London, Frederick Warne, 1910 . First edition. Hardback. An exceptional first edition of Beatrix Potter's delightful illustrated story about housekeeping and the blight of insect invaders. The first edition of this charming tale from Beatrix Potter, with 1910 to the title...

The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck

Beatrix Potter · 1908 · Rooke Books

£1,150.00 (€1,378.46 | $1,519.31 | ¥242,614)

London, Frederick Warne and Co, 1908 . First edition. Hardback. The sought after first edition of Beatrix Potter's charming and beautifully illustrated tale about Jemima Puddle-Duck. The first edition of one of Beatrix Potter's most popular tales, one of the first th...

The Lost Princess of Oz

L Frank Baum · 1917 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

Chicago, The Reilly and Lee Co. c1940. Cloth. An illustrated edition of this work from the Land of Oz series. Scarce with original dustwrapper, which is price clipped. Although the copyright states 1917, this edition was published c1940 as in 1935 the colour plates were discon...

Out in the Silver West

Gordon Stables · 1840 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.62 | ¥6,327)

London, Religious Tract Society, c1900. Leather. A nicely bound copy of Gordon's Out in the Silver West Bound in half red leather with gilt lettering and gilt pictorial spine William Gordon Stables MD, CM. RN (1840 – 1910) was a Scottish-born medical doctor in the Royal N...

The Child&Apos;S Companion, and Juvenile Instructor

Anonymous · 1850 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, The Religious Tract Society, 1850. Cloth. A scarce volume of children's stories published by the Religious Tract Society. The Religious Tract Society, founded in 1799, was a major British publisher of Christian literature intended initially for evangelism, and inc...

The New Tom Merry&Apos;S Own

Martin Clifford and Frank Richards · 0 · Rooke Books

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

London , Mandeville Publications, c1950. Cloth. A charmingly illustrated copy of one of the popular Tom Merry annuals. Published by Mandeville publications, the first of these was originally titled Tom Merry's Annual, and all subsequent volumes were labelled Tom Merry&apo...

The Camp on the Severn

Rev. A.D. Cracke, B.A. · 1886 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.89 | $92.47 | ¥14,766)

London , Mowbray, 1886. Cloth. An attractive edition of this novelisation of the Tenth Persecution during the Roman occupation of Britain. Augustine David Crake was an English celric and author known for his devotional works and for his historical fiction for children much of ...

The English Spelling-Book

William Mavor · 1885 · Rooke Books

£235.00 (€281.68 | $310.47 | ¥49,578)

London , George Routledge and Sons, 1885. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this spelling book by William Mavor. Illustrated throughout by Kate Greenaway, the work offers "a progressive series of easy and familiar lessons" for children, and is a charming example of Vict...

Wild Nature in Pictures, Rhymes and Reasons

F. Carruthers Gould · 1844 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London , John Lane The Bodley Head, c1907. Cloth. A scarce copy of this beautifully illustrated children's book. Colour plates throughout. With no date; dated from Copac. Francis Carruthers Gould (2 December 1844 - 1925), British caricaturist and political cartoonist, was...

Blue Goops and Red: A Manual of Polite Deportment for Children Who Would Be Good, Showing How and How Not to Behave Everywhere

Gelett Burgess · 1909 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.07 | $918.19 | ¥146,623)

New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1909. First edition. Cloth. A wonderful didactic children's book that takes as its theme 'turning over a new leaf', from an important figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary renaissance of the 1890s First Edition. The...

The History of Sir Thomas Thumb

[Charlotte Yonge] · 1855 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

Edinburgh , Thomas Constable and Co. 1855. Cloth. The classic tale of Tom Thumb, here retold for the first time by Charlotte Mary Yonge. Illustrated throughout by J.B. (Jane Blackburn). With publisher's catalogue to the rear. Bound by John Cray of Edinburgh (label to rear...

Domestic Ditties

Alfred Scott-Gatty · 1901 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, C. Arthur Pearson, [1901]. First edition. Hardback. The first edition of this scarce musical children's work in the publisher's original paper-covered boards, with verses and music by Alfred Scott-Gatty and heavily illustrated throughout by J.S. Scott-Gatty. ...

What the Children Like

Anonymous [int. by F.E. Weatherly] · 1897 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

London, Ernest Nister, 1897. Cloth. A scarce children's pop-up book from Ernest Nister, the first publisher to design pop-up books, with this particular example including children's poems and short stories, including by Frederic Weatherly. What The Children Like, a s...