Libri per ragazzi

The Lamb and the Child

Dean Frye · 1964 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London , The Bodley Head , 1964. First edition. Hardback. A lovely illustrated adaptation of Second Shepherd's Play, in the original dust wrapper. A charming first edition copy of this simple adaptation of the fifteenth century Second Shepherd's Play from the Wakefie...

Playbox Annual

Various · 1909 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

London, Playbox Annual, 1909-1930. Cloth. A bright selection of ten early twentieth century volumes of the annual of charming children's periodical 'Playbox&apos. Illustrated throughout in colour, and featuring hundreds of short stories and fairy tales. Ten volumes o...

The Green Fairy Book

Andrew Lang · 1906 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1906. Cloth. The seventh impression of Lang's Green Fairy Book, beautifully illustrated by Henry Justice Ford. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. All edges gilt. 13 plates including the frontispiece, and numerous ill...

Tim&Apos;S Last Voyage

Edward Ardizzone · 1972 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Sydney, Toronto, The Bodley Head, 1972 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this beautifully illustrated children's story book in the original dust wrapper written and illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. First edition of Tim's Last Voyage by Edward Ardiz...

Orlando (the Marmalade Cat) His Silver Wedding

Kathleen Hale · 1946 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.81 | $211.42 | ¥33,765)

London, Country Life Limited , 1946. Cloth. A charming illustrated copy of this children's book from the popular, Orlando (the Marmalade Cat), series. The third impression of the first edition. In the original quarter cloth pictorial binding with the publisher's uncl...

Jeannie Jemima Jones the Adventures of a Runaway Girl on a Desert Island

Blunderland Cartoonist · 1905 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London , Simpkin Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, 1905. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition copy of Jeannie Jemima Jones, with illustrations throughout. A scarce first edition copy of this children's book Jeannie Jemima Jones The Adventures of A Runaway Girl on a D...

Christmas Improvement; or, Hunting Mrs. P. A Tale, Founded on Facts. Intended As a Christmas Box for Those Who Wish to Begin the New Year without Her

Anonymous · 1834 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, N. Hailes , 1834. First edition. Leather. A delightful, first edition, collection of children's stories written by a mother for her children. The very scarce first edition. With an engraved frontispiece. A collection of tales, written for children, with a Christia...

The Child&Apos;S Own Story Book; or, Tales and Dialogues for the Nursery

Mrs. Jerram [Jane Elizabeth Holmes] · 1864 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London , Darton & Hodge, 1864. Cloth. A charming illustrated edition of this volume of children's tales. A first series, twelfth edition of The Child's Own Story Book; or, Tales and Dialogues for The Nursery, by Mrs. Jerram, or Jane Elizabeth Holmes. This volume of ...

May the Mare the Life Story of a Horse

George Jennison · 1933 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, A. & C. Black, Ltd. 1933 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce reprint edition of this all ages fiction novel told as an autobiography of a horse in the very scarce original dust wrapper. Early reprint edition of May the Mare The Life Story of a Horse by George Jennison i...

Seven Simeons, a Russian Tale

Boris Artzybasheff · 1937 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London, Cassell and Company Limited , 1937. First edition. Cloth. A beautiful, first edition, copy of this illustrated Russian folktale. The first UK edition, published simultaneously with the American first edition. In the publisher's green cloth binding with the origina...

What Can You Do with a Shoe?

Beatrice Shenk de Regniers · 1997 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

New York, Margaret K. McElderry Books, 1997. First edition. Cloth. Bright first edition thus of this children's book by Beatrice Shenk de Regniers with illustrations by Maurice Sendak, recoloured. First recoloured edition of this children's book by Beatrice Shenk de ...

The Sly Cormorant and the Fishes, New Adaptations Into Poetry of the Aesop Fables

Brian Patten · 1977 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Harmondsworth, Kestrel Books , 1977. First edition. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated collection of Aesop's fables translated into poetry by Brian Patten. The first edition. In the original cloth binding with unclipped dust wrapper. With a frontispiece, illustrated title p...

Une Retraite de Premiere Communion

Emmanuel Viau · 1924 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

Avignon, Aubanel Freres, 1924. Leather. An early twentieth-century guide to a child's first communion, handsomely bound in half morocco and in the original French. An early twentieth-century guide to a child's first communion, a Christian tradition during which a chi...

Alice and Thomas and Jane

Enid Bagnold · 1946 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, William Heinemann, 1946. Cloth. An early impression of this delightful work of children's literature by Enid Bagnold, illustrated throughout by the author and Laurian Jones. A delightful work of children's literature about three children who are mischievous a...

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

J. M. Barrie · 1906 · Rooke Books

£1,100.00 (€1,318.72 | $1,453.50 | ¥232,133)

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1906 . First edition. Cloth. Beautifully illustrated with colour plates from Arthur Rackham, this is a wonderful first trade edition of J. M. Barrie's iconic children's tale. The first trade edition of Arthur Rackham's illustrated edi...

In Fairyland: A Series of Pictures from the Elf-World

William Allingham; Richard Doyle · 1870 · Rooke Books

£1,900.00 (€2,277.78 | $2,510.59 | ¥400,956)

London, Longmans, Green, Reader, & Dyer, 1870 . First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition copy of Richard Doyle and William Allingham's beautifully illustrated fairy tales, illustrated throughout with Doyle's plates. The first edition of this beautifully illustrat...

Little Miss Rosenburgh. A Story of Cornwall

Crona Temple · 1886 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, The Religious Tract Society. Cloth. A charming edition of Crona Temple"s captivating children"s tale, "Little Miss Rosenburgh. A Story of Cornwall." Beautifully illustrated with a colour plate frontispiece. A very scarce edition of Crona Temple"s charming children"s ta...

Looking-Glass Annual

Various Contributors · 0 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)

Not Stated , Middleton Publications LTD. c1930. Hardback. A scarce annual for boys and girls containing moving pictures, complete with the red and green spectacles. A scarce annual for boys and girls containing numerous adventure, fairy, and other stories and illustrations, so...

Josephine&Apos;S Birthday

Mrs H. C. Cradock · 1920 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, Glasgow, and Bombay, Blackie and Son Limited, 1920. First edition. Cloth. A wonderful first edition copy of Cradock's children's book, with a range of illustrated plates by Honor C. Appleton. First Edition.Illustrations include a frontispiece, seven colour pl...

The Diddakoi

Rumer Godden · 1972 · Rooke Books

£1,850.00 (€2,217.84 | $2,444.52 | ¥390,405)

London, Macmillan, 1972 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this children's novel about a Romani child from British author Rumer Godden. The first edition, first impression of this children's novel from English author Rumer Godden, in the publisher&apos...