Libri per ragazzi

Cookie Count: A Tasty Pop-Up

Robert Sabuda · 1997 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

New York, Little Simon (Simon and Schuster), 1997. First edition. Hardback. A smart first edition of this charming pop-up book for young children to help with counting. First edition. Illustrated with ten intricate and brightly coloured pop-up pages. Collated complete and in p...

Those Fabulous Flying Machines

Seymour Reit · 1985 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

New York, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1985. First edition. Hardback. A very smart first edition of this pop-up book on flying machines, with a punch-out model plane. First edition. Illustrated with six pop-up folding pages. Collated complete with all features in perfect working...

A Masque of Dead Florentines

Maurice Hewlett · 1895 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, J. M. Dent & Co, 1895. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this charming tale in verse by Maurice Hewlett, an illustrated historical tale set in Florence. The first edition.In the first issue coarse brown cloth binding with black titles.'A Masque of Dead Fl...

The Laughing Hour, and, Laugh Another Day

M. Forster Knight · 1937 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, LTD, 1937-38. First edition. Cloth. Two very scarce works for children by Mary Forster Knight, both signed by the author. Two very scarce first edition works by Mary Forster Knight.Both volumes are signed by the author to the half-title. Two c...

The Child&Apos;S Own Magazine Sixty-Sixth Annual Volume

Various · 1899 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London , The Sunday School Union, 1899. Hardback. A very scarce magazine for children containing short stories, poems and puzzles, charmingly illustrated throughout. A very scarce magazine aimed at children, published by The Sunday School Union.The 66th annual volume.Contains ...

Thirty Old-Time Nursery Songs

Joseph Moorat · 1907 · Rooke Books

£114.00 (€136.67 | $150.64 | ¥24,057)

London, T. C. & E. C Jack Ltd, 1907. Cloth. A charming collection of nursery rhymes from olden times, set to music, and illustrated throughout. Illustrated throughout with many colour figures. A collection of classic nursery rhymes for children set to music, including: Old Kin...

The Animal World

0 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

London, Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd. c1900. Cloth. A very scarce panorama of the animal world for children, with colour images of different creatures. Very scarce work. From Father Tuck's Panorama Series intended for play. With eight colour panels illustrated with animals inc...

Oh! Poor Amelia Jane!

Kathleen Ainslie · 1905 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London , Castell Brothers Ltd. 1905 . First edition. Paperback. The first edition of this charming Victorian children's book by Kathleen Ainslie, with wonderful colour illustrations by the author. The first edition of this uncommon work. Dated using Jisc from copies of th...

The Toys and Games ABC

Edith Nesbit · 1898 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Ernest Nister, 1898 . First edition. Paperback. The very scarce first edition of this charming picture book from beloved author Edith Nesbit, illustrated throughout in colour. A very scarce first edition.A delightful children's poem, arranged in four line stanzas....

The Fairy Book: The Best Popular Fairy Stories Selected and Rendered Anew

Mrs. Dinah Craik · 1913 · Rooke Books

£425.00 (€509.50 | $561.58 | ¥89,688)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1913 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Dinah Craik's beautifully bound and vibrantly illustrated volume of fairy tales, with plates by Warwick Goble. The first edition of this charming work.Illustrated with thirty-two colour plates by ...

Haustochterchens Kochschule Fur Spiel Und Leben

Anna Jager · 1900 · Rooke Books

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

Ravensburg, Otto Maier, c1900 . Cloth. An early edition of Anna Jager's charming children's cookery work, in the vanishingly scarce publisher's original dust wrapper. In the original German, printed in black letter type. A circa 1900 edition of this work, in the...

The 1st, 2nd and 3rd &Apos;St Michael&Apos; Book of Rupert Favourites

Mary Tourtel · 1978 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Purnell Books (for Marks and Spencer), 1978-80. First edition. Hardback. Three volumes of Marks and Spencer's Rupert anthologies, containing colour illustrated short stories about the beloved comic strip character, Rupert Bear. The first edition of the 'St Mi...

Rupert Daily Express Annual

The Daily Express · 1949 · Rooke Books

£34.00 (€40.76 | $44.93 | ¥7,175)

London, Daily Express, 1949. First edition. Paperback. A charming illustrated Rupert Bear book, with an array of delightful stories and interactive puzzles. In the publisher's original illustrated wraps.A charming contemporary drawing on trace paper tipped in by previous ...

Mrs. Tree

Laura E. Richards · 1902 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

Boston, Dana Estes & Company, 1902 . First edition. Cloth. Laura E. Richards's own copy of the first edition of this children's novel, inscribed to the author by her publishers. The author's own copy of this charming first edition.Inscribed 'with the compli...

Ride a Cock-Horse; and Other Nursery Rhymes

1972 · Rooke Books

£58.00 (€69.53 | $76.64 | ¥12,240)

London, Chatto and Windus, 1972. Cloth. A lovely copy of this charming collection of nursery rhymes, illustrated by the well-known artist Mervyn Peake. A reissue of the 1940 edition of this work in the publisher's original pictorial boards, with the original unclipped dus...

Alphabet Gallery an ABC of Contemporary Illustrators

Gina Pollinger [ed] · 1999 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Mammoth, 1999. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this beautifully illustrated showcase of art from popular children's book illustrators, commissioned to raise money for 'The Dyslexia Institute&apos. The first edition.In the publisher's original ...

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

Robert Browning · 1917 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Frederick Warne and Co Ltd, c1920. Hardback. A beautifully illustrated children's book written by Robert Browning and illustrated by the celebrated illustrator Kate Greenaway. A later edition.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and full colour vignettes and ful...

Fungus the Bogeyman

Raymond Briggs · 1977 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London , Hamish, 1977. First edition. Hardback. A first edition of this brightly illustrated book from Raymond Briggs. First edition. Illustrated with forty pages of colour images, by Raymond Briggs. A day in the life of Fungus the Bogeyman, a working class bogeyman with the...

Prince Darling and Other Stories: Based on the Tales in the &Apos;Blue Fairy Book&Apos;

Andrew Lang · 1890 · Rooke Books

£1,200.00 (€1,438.60 | $1,585.63 | ¥253,235)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1890 . First edition. Cloth. The vanishingly scarce first edition of this collection of short stories taken from Andrew Lang's 'Blue Fairy Book&apos. The vanishingly scarce first edition of this work, published the year after the &apo...

Noddy at the Seaside, Noddy Gets Into Trouble, Noddy Has an Adventure

Enid Blyton · 1954 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co. LTD.; The Richards Press; C. A. Publications, 1954-60. First edition. Hardback. A nice set of three entertaining Noddy tales for children, a colourful set containing two first editions. Three entertaining Noddy tales by Enid Blyton. This set ...