Libri per ragazzi

The Orchard Book of Aesop&Apos;S Fables

Aesop; Michael Morpurgo · 2004 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Orchard Books, 2004. First edition. Hardback. A very smart first edition, first impression of this collection of the fables of Aesop, retold for children, with bright illustrations throughout. First edition, first impression. Illustrated in colour throughout. A collect...

The Panjandrum Picture Book

0 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Frederick Warne & Co, c1895. Cloth. A comical volume of poems for children, complete with striking colour plates by Randolph Caldecott. A volume of entertaining poetry for children, containing 'Come Lasses and Lads, 'Ride a Cock-Horse to Banbury Cross', ...

A Apple Pie

Kate Greenaway · 1945 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Frederick Warne & Co. LTD, 1945. Cloth. A colourful education on the alphabet by Kate Greenaway, in a custom clamshell. In a custom cloth clamshell, in a near fine condition.A charming educational work on the alphabet for children, though the work curiously did not inc...

Aesop; Samuel Croxall

Aesop; Samuel Croxall [trans.] · 0 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.87 | $151.96 | ¥24,268)

London, Frederick Warne and Co. c1868 . Cloth. A very scarce edition of The Fables of Aesop translated by Samuel Croxall, featuring eighty woodcut illustrations. In the publisher's original in mahogany cloth binding with blind stamp decorations. Undated, dated from inscri...

Fables of Aesop

Aesop; Philip Grushkin · 1946 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

New York, Archway Press, 1946. Cloth. A very scarce, beautifully reproduced hand-written and illustrated edition of the Fables of Aesop by Philip Grushkin, with the publisher's original slipcase. In the publisher's original cloth binding.With the publisher's ori...

Lions and Lobsters and Foxes and Frogs

Ennis Rees · 1971 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

Reading, Massachusetts , Young Scott Books, 1971. First edition. Cloth. A colourful collection of Aesop"s fables adapted into verse, illustrated by Edward Gorey, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. With the publisher's...

The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

Ruth Manning · 1977 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Angus & Robertson, 1977 . First edition. Hardback. A charming illustrated edition of Aesop"s timeless fable The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, brought to life by Harold Jones"s whimsical illustrations In the publisher's original pictorial hardback. This edition...

2 Vols a Selection of Aesop&Apos;S Fables from a New Translation for Modern Readers

Various · 1953 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton College of Art, 1953 . First edition. Cloth. A lovely two-volume collection of A Selection of Aesop's Fables, featuring one copy uniquely rebound by Eric Sweet and the other in its original binding with dust wrapper, both housed in a mint gree...

Baby&Apos;S Own Aesop

Aesop · 1887 · Rooke Books

£265.00 (€317.69 | $350.16 | ¥55,923)

London, Frederick Warne, 1887 . First edition. Cloth. A vibrant example of the first edition of this charmingly illustrated children's edition of Aesop's moral tales, in the scarce original dust wrapper. The first edition of this work.In the scarce publisher's o...

First Reader: Aesop and Mother Goose (Literature Readers)

Louis P. Nash · 1897 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

Boston, Thompson, Brown and Co. 1897. First edition. Cloth. A vanishingly scarce guide to reading and writing using Aesop's Fables. A vanishingly scarce work, with one copy found institutionally. In the publisher's original illustrative cloth binding.Intended for ch...

Nouveaux Souvenirs D&Apos;Une Mere de Famille

Catherine-Therese Rieder Wolliez · 1855 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

Tours, France, Mame et Cie, 1855 . Cloth. A charmingly bound collection of moral tales on virtue, faith and family, by Madame Woillez. In the publisher's original green cloth binding with gilt decoration and blind stamping. With six woodcut illustrated plates, including ...

Etude de la Nature

A. Fontaine · 1881 · Rooke Books

£129.00 (€154.65 | $170.46 | ¥27,223)

Rouen, Megard, 1881 . Hardback. Beautifully bound in the publisher's decorative cartonnage binding, this is a very scarce work of natural history aimed at the young. In the original French.A very scarce work, with this being the 'nouvelle eÃÂOedition revue et co...

La Providence Des Noirs

L. Jacquard · 1880 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

Rouen, Megard, 1880 . Hardback. L. Jacquard's very scarce juvenile novel set in Saint-Domingue, beautifully bound in the publisher's decorative cartonnage binding. In the original French.L. Jacquard's very scarce novel.From the 'Bibliothèque Morale de la J...

Little Peter

Mabel Lucie Attwell · 1922 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

Dundee & London, Valentine & Sons, c1913 . First edition. Hardback. A delightful and exceptionally scarce 'Valentine's Dolly Book' from artist and illustrator Mabel Lucie Attwell. A very scarce first edition.From the 'Valentine's Dolly Books' seri...

Four G.A. Henty Novels

G. A. Henty · 1903 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, Blackie, 1903-1908. First edition. Cloth. Four thrilling historical adventure novels by G. A. Henty, three of which are first editions. A collection of four works of historical adventure fiction from prolific author G. A. Henty. Three of these novels are first editions...

The Lion of the North; with Clive in India

G. A. Henty · 1884 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Blackie & Son, 1884 [1883] -1886 [1885] . First edition. Cloth. The first editions of two scarce thrilling G. A. Henty children's historical adventure novels, illustrated throughout and in the publisher's decorative cloth bindings. Two first edition historica...

The Bravest of the Brave: Or with Peterborough in Spain

G. A. Henty · 1887 · Rooke Books

£249.00 (€298.51 | $329.02 | ¥52,546)

London, Blackie & Son, 1887 [1886] . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this thrilling historical adventure by G. A. Henty, following a young British soldier fighting in the War of the Spanish Succession. The scarce first edition of this work, correctly dated 18...

Eight G.A. Henty Novels

G. A. Henty · 1894 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

London, Blackie & Son; Partridge, 1894-1902. First edition. Cloth. A wonderful collection of eight thrilling adventure novels from G. A. Henty, illustrated throughout and in the publisher's original decorative cloth bindings. A collection of eight first edition G. A. Hent...

A Little Book of Alphabets for Little Folks

Anonymous · 1907 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Sands & Compy. 1907 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Tom R. Rigby's delightfully illustrated Edwardian juvenile work, used for teaching children the alphabet. The first edition of this very scarce children's work, aiming to teach them the alphabet...

A Collection of Just William Stories

Richmal Crompton · 1942 · Rooke Books

£235.00 (€281.73 | $310.52 | ¥49,592)

London, George Newnes, Limited, 1942-1949. Cloth. A smart collection of Just William stories and adventures from English writer Richmal Crompton Lamburn, with illustrations. Eleven volumes. Illustrated throughout. The Just William stories follow the adventures of William Brown...