Libri per ragazzi

Tom Brown&Apos;S School Days

An Old Boy [Thomas Hughes] · 1875 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Macmillan & Co. 1875. Leather. A nice Mudie bound copy of Thomas Hughes's iconic children's fiction novel Tom Brown's School Days A Mudie bound 1875 copy of Thomas Hughes's popular children's fiction book Tom Brown's School Days. This edit...

Little Barbara&Apos;S Dream

Edith Greeves · 1899 · Rooke Books

£34.00 (€40.75 | $44.92 | ¥7,173)

London, Robert Culley , [1899]. Cloth. A scarce copy of this children's tale by Edith Greeves. Children's tale by Edith Greeves, author of 'Eric's Hymn,' 'Banners and Battlefields,' 'Our Martha,' &c. A scarce copy. Found in only fou...

1925 the Flying Carpet

Cynthia Asquith · 1925 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London , Partridge & Co. 1925. Cloth. London : Partridge & Co. 1925. Cloth. Good. 10" by 7.5". Mabel Lucie, Attwell, J. R. C. Bodley, L. R. Brightwell, H. M. Brock, Harold Earnshaw, Daphne Jerrold, E. Barnard Lintott, Hugh Lofting, George Morrow, Susan Pearse, T. Heath Robinso...

Picture Gallery of Pets

0 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Ernest Nister , c1900. Hardback. A very scarce and colourful picture book illustrative of pets for children. A very scarce picture book for children, containing a series of colourful illustrations of a wide variety of pets, from chickens to bunny rabbits, swans, horses...

Bill the Minder

W. Heath Robinson · 1982 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1982. Cloth. A twentieth century reprint of this work of nineteenth century fiction by W. Heath Robinson, profusely illustrated throughout. A excellent reprint copy of this work, written and illustrated by W. Heath Robinson. W. Heath Robinson was ...

Winning His Name: A Romance of Stuart Days

Herbert Strang · 1922 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, 1922. First edition. Cloth. A nicely illustrated children's novel by Herbert Strang, the pseudonym of Ely and L'Estrange, in the very scarce original dust wrapper. First Edition. In the very scarce dust wrapper, which...

Castaways of the Flying Dutchman

Brian Jacques · 2001 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Viking, 2001. First edition. Cloth. A wonderful first edition copy of the first book in Brian Jacques' 'Castaways' series, with in-text illustrations. First edition, first impression. Signed by the author to the half-title page. In the original unclipped...

The New Rupert Book

Alfred Bestall · 1938 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.70 | $290.65 | ¥46,413)

London, Daily Express Publications, 1938. Cloth. A lovely illustrated Rupert Bear annual, the third ever published, complete with the colour illustrations by Alfred Bestall. The third Rupert Bear annual, containing a selection of the classic and charming comic strips.Rupert Be...

The Magic Walking-Stick and Stories from Arabian Nights

John Buchan; Francis Jenkins Olcott · 0 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Associated Newspapers, Ltd. c1935. Cloth. A delightful volume containing two popular works for children, illustrated with colour plates and bound in bright decorative cloth. 'The Arabian Nights' Entertainment' is a collection written in Arabic during the...

Friends and Foes from Fairy Land

Lord Bradbourne [Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen] · 1886 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1886. Cloth. An extremely scarce, illustrated collection of short stories from nineteenth century British politician Baron Brabourne. A very scarce volume of fairy tales from Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1st Baron Brabourne, a British p...

The Golden Age

Kenneth Grahame · 1915 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1915. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition thus to be illustrated with full page colour plates by R J E Moony of Kenneth Grahame's celebrated reminiscences of childhood. The first edition thus embellished with nineteen stunni...

Truths and Fancies from Fairy Land

W. H. D. A. · 1867 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

London, Edinburgh and New York, T. Nelson and Sons, 1867. Cloth. A scarce collection of fairy tales compiled by William H. Adams, with four steel plate illustrations. Containing seven fairy tales, including 'The Wood-Elves', 'The Fairy Palace', 'A Stor...

The Water Babies

Charles Kingsley · 1919 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,865)

Nottingham & London, Boots the Chemists, 1919. Cloth. A beautiful later edition of Charles Kingsley's renowned children's work 'The Water Babies', lavishly illustrated with colour plates and complete with a dust wrapper. 'The Water-Babies' was ori...

R. Caldecott&Apos;S Picture Book : No. 1 with the Diverting History of John Gilpin the House That Jack Built the Babes in the Wood an Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog

William Cowper; Randolph Caldecott · 0 · Rooke Books

£34.00 (€40.75 | $44.92 | ¥7,173)

London, Frederick Warne and Co. c1900. Leather. A charming picture book containing four stories for children, illustrated in colour by the noted illustrator Randolph Caldecott. Rebound, lacking the title page and publication information. R. Caldecott's Picture Book number...

The Magic Circus

Christopher Logue · 1979 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1979. First edition. Hardback. A lovely uncommon signed first edition of this children's book illustrated by Wayne Anderson and written by Christopher Logue. The first edition. Signed by Christopher Logue to the title page. A lovely copy of this ent...

Lady Filmy Fern or the Voyage of the Window Box

Thomas Hennell · 1980 · Rooke Books

£42.00 (€50.34 | $55.49 | ¥8,861)

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1980. First edition. Hardback. A lovely first edition copy of this interesting children's book by Thomas Hennell, illustrated in colour by Edward Bawden. The first edition of this work.A lovely copy of this children's book by Thomas Hennell, ...

In Fairyland

Richard Doyle; W Allingham · 1870 · Rooke Books

£1,700.00 (€2,037.72 | $2,245.94 | ¥358,647)

London, Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1870. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition copy of this charmingly illustrated, famous work by Richard Doyle. 'In Fairyland' comprises of sixteen coloured plates depicting fairy scenes by prolific Victorian illustrato...

The Water-Babies

Charles Kingsley · 1916 · Rooke Books

£270.00 (€323.64 | $356.71 | ¥56,962)

New York, Dodd, Mead, & Company, 1916. Cloth. A colourfully illustrated edition of Charles Kingsley's immensely popular Victorian children's novel, illustrated in colour throughout by Jessie Willcox Smith. The first thus of Jessie Willcox Smith's illustrations.&...

Jack&Apos;S Year of Trial

Annie S. Swan · 1887 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1887. First edition. Fine Binding. A beautiful edition of suffragist Annie S. Swan's classic Victorian novel for children. An attractively bound, charming and simple novel detailing a particularly challenging year in the life of 'Jack&apos...

Os Animaes Divertem-Se

None · 1921 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

Rio-de-Janeiro, H. Garnier, 1921. Cloth. A very scarce Portuguese children's work, containing colorful and humorous illustrations of animals. A very scarce work. In Portuguese. A collection of humorous amphomorphic animal colour illustrations. With fifty color plates. Ill...