Libri per ragazzi

The Happy Prince and Other Tales

Oscar Wilde · 1920 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, Duckworth & Co. 1920 . Cloth. The new edition of this collection of five popular bedtime stories for children by Oscar Wilde, charmingly illustrated throughout by Charles Robinson. The new edition.  In the publisher's original orange cloth binding.  With a tipped-...

The Animal Story Book

Andrew Lang [ed.] · 1896 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, Longmans, Green and Co. 1896 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this charming collection of children's tales about animals by Andrew Lang, illustrated by H.J. Ford. The first edition.  In the publisher's original blue cloth binding.  With sixty-seve...

R. Caldecott&Apos;S Second Collection of Pictures and Songs

R. Caldecott · 1885 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, George Routledge & Sons, [1885]. Cloth. An uncommon collection of nursery rhymes by influential children's book illustrator R. Caldecott, with coloured illustrations throughout. An uncommon work.  In the publisher's original brown cloth binding.  This copy wi...

The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck

Beatrix Potter · 1908 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, Frederick Warne and Co, c1910 . Hardback. An attractive early edition of Beatrix Potter's charming tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, colourfully illustrated throughout by Potter herself. First published in 1908, this is an early edition of Potter's popular work, wi...

The Book of Trades; or, Circle of the Useful Arts

1838 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.80 | $224.63 | ¥35,875)

Glasgow; London, Richard Griffin & Co.; Thomas Tegg & Son, 1838 . Cloth. A highly illustrated guide to a range of trades and arts for younger readers. Fourth edition. In the publisher's original green cloth binding. Featuring an engraved frontispiece, additional vignette ...

Peter Pan & Wendy

J.M. Barrie · 1931 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1931. Cloth. A lovely decorative edition of J.M. Barrie's children's classic, with Golden Age colour illustrations from Gwynedd M. Hudson. A delightful illustrated edition of Peter Pan & Wendy, the fantastical children's classic writt...

The Lost Lamb; Little Paul&Apos;S Christmas; the Pilgrim Children.

0 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

London, The Religious Tract Society, c1870. Paperback. Four very scarce colour-illustrated Victorian children's books, including two examples of The Pilgrim Children. Collection comprised of: The Lost Lamb; Little Paul's Christmas; The Pilgrim Children. All editions ...

Eastern Legendary Tales and Oriental Romances : Being a Representation of Oriental Manners, and Habits, Exhibiting a True Picture of Eastern Society.

John Hobart Caunter · 1838 · Rooke Books

£850.00 (€1,019.01 | $1,123.16 | ¥179,375)

London, Whittaker and Co. [1838]. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce, illustrated first edition of this anthology of eastern tales, collected by John Hobart Caunter. The first edition of this very scarce anthology of eastern tales.  Undated, with the date established from the...

Worzel Gummidge or the Scarecrow of Scatterbrook; Worzel Gummidge Again

Barbara Euphan Todd · 1936 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd. 1936-1937. First edition. Cloth. The first impressions of the first two novelisations of Worzel Gummidge, following the magical adventures of a living scarecrow in Scatterbrook village. The first edition, first impressions of these classic...

The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes

Beatrix Potter · 1911 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

London, Frederick Warne and Co. 1911. First edition. Hardback. A smart first edition copy of this mischievous tale from beloved children's author and illustrator, Beatrix Potter. First edition. Either the first or second impression, which were indistinguishable according ...

The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin

Beatrix Potter · 1903 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London, Frederick Warne and Co. 1903. First edition. Hardback. The first edition of this charming early Beatrix Potter tale about Nutkin the troublesome squirrel, with her colour plates. The first trade edition, first or second issue of this work, without 'Author of The T...

The Life and Adventures of a Fly

Stephen Jones · 1801 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

London, J. Harris, successor to E. Newbery, c1805 . Paperback. Illustrated throughout with vignette woodcuts by John Bewick, this is the highly amusing autobiography of common fly. The work of hack writer Stephen Jones. An early 19th century example of this amusing children&ap...

Mother Goose

Eulalie Osgood Grover [ed.] · 1915 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

Chicago, P. F. Volland and Co. 1915. First edition. Cloth. The first Volland edition of these classic children's nursery rhymes and verses, with Frederick Richardson's vibrant full-page illustrations. The first Volland edition, arranged and edited by children's ...

The Book of the Flower Fairies: Poems and Pictures

Cicely Mary Barker · 1927 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.42 | $654.07 | ¥104,460)

London, Blackie and Son Limited , 1927. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Cicely Mary Barker's beautifully illustrated fairy verses, complete with the scarce original dust wrapper. The first omnibus edition of Barker's works, combining her earlier works - &a...

Alice&Apos;S Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll · 1996 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

New York, Artisan, 1996. Cloth. A charming illustrated edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with artwork by Spanish children's artist Angel Dominguez, with the original bright, unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth with the original br...

The Green Ship

Quentin Blake · 1998 · Rooke Books

£265.00 (€317.69 | $350.16 | ¥55,923)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1998. First edition. Hardback. The signed first edition of a tale of adventure, imagination and wonder over a garden wall, by the iconic children's illustrator Quentin Blake. The signed first edition of The Green Ship, a tale of joy and imagination,...

Alice&Apos;S Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll · 1865 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, Ward, Lock and Co. c1920. Hardback. A charmingly illustrated edition of Lewis Caroll's classic, including twenty-four colour plates from the surrealist story. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the classic surreal children's story, written by Lewis Carrol...

Alice Through the Looking-Glass

Lewis Carroll · 1959 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, W.H. Allen & Co. 1959 . Hardback. A beautifully illustrated copy of Lewis Carroll's sequel to 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', in the scarce original glassine wrapper. In the original pictorial hardback binding. In the scarce original printed gla...

Cassell&Apos;S Children&Apos;S Book of Knowledge

Cassell and Company Ltd · 1922 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Cassell and Company Ltd , 1922-1924. Cloth. A five-volume set of Cassell's Children's Book of Knowledge, with illustrations by Dudley Tennant, Archibald Webb, G.H. Davis and more. Five volumes of Cassell's Children's Book of Knowledge, lacking volum...

Thirty Old-Time Nursery Songs

Joseph Moorat · 1907 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, T. C. & E. C. Jack Ltd, [1907]. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition of this delightful collection of children's nursery rhymes set to music, beautifully illustrated throughout in colour by Paul Woodroffe. First edition.In the publisher's original qua...