Libri per ragazzi

Animals and Their Young

0 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Raphael Tuck & Sons LTD, c1910. Hardback. A vanishingly scarce volume on natural history for children, a colourful education on animals and their babies. A vanishingly scarce work.Part of Father Tuck's 'Natural History' Series. A charming educational wo...

The New Picture Book

Nicholas Bohny · 1860 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

Edinburgh, Edmonston & Douglas, 1860. Cloth. A scarce educational work for children by Nicholas Bohny, the second edition, complete with thirty-six hand-coloured plates. The second edition of this scarce work.A charming work educating children on form, comparison, and number t...

The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales from the Old French

A. T. Quiller-Couch · 1910 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.36 | $726.75 | ¥116,066)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, [1910]. First edition. Cloth. Edmund Dulac's stunning illustrated edition of the beloved fairy tale 'The Sleeping Beauty', among other famous tales, with Dulac's brilliant colour plates. The first trade edition of this Edmund D...

Treasure at Amory&Apos;S; Strangers at Witchend; Where&Apos;S My Girl?; Saucers over the Moor

Malcolm Saville · 1969 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, Collins , 1969-1972. Cloth. A lovely set of four books from Malcolm Saville's 'Lone Pine' children's adventure series, two of which are first editions. Includes the first edition, first impressions of 'Strangers at Witchend' and 'Wher...

Tom Brown&Apos;S School Days

An Old Boy [Thomas Hughes] · 1894 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.67 | $369.98 | ¥59,088)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1894 . Leather. A lovely prize-bound edition of Thomas Hughes's beloved fictionalised account of life at Rugby School, with illustrations from Arthur Hughes and Sydney Prior Hall. Thomas Hughes' popular children's novel follows the expl...

The Red Book of Animal Stories

Andrew Lang [editor] · 1928 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1928. Cloth. A smart new impression of this illustrated collection of stories about creatures and animals both real and imagined, from Andrew Lang. New impression. Illustrated with a frontispiece, numerous vignettes, and thirty-one plates. Coll...

Anatole

Benjamin Rabier · 1935 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

Paris , Editions Jules Tallandier , 1935. First edition. Hardback. A scarce copy of this children's animal comic book from influential French illustrator Benjamin Rabier. First edition of this scarce work. In the publisher's original quarter cloth, with illustrated ...

Clara in Blunderland; Lost in Blunderland

Caroline Lewis [Edward Harold Begbie, J. Stafford Ransome, and Michael Henry Temple) · 1902 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London, William Heinemann, 1902-1903 . First edition. Cloth. The first editions of two highly entertaining parodies of Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking-Glass&apos. Both volumes are present in the first edition...

The Little Wee Bear and Goldenhair

May Byron · 1935 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, [1935]. Hardback. A scarce retelling of Goldilocks and the Three Bears by May Byron, complete with colour plates. A scarce work.A charming rendition of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, in which the Little Bear goes to find Goldi...

Nouveaute! Livre de Metamorphoses

Anonymous · 1850 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

Paris, Not Stated, c1850 . Paperback. A very scarce, vibrantly illustrated children's lift the flap book, presenting a vast array of unusual characters. A vanishingly scarce work.Illustrated in colour, this work displays twelve unusual and vibrantly illustrated figures, w...

Peeps Into Fairyland

F. E. Weatherly · 1896 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€899.12 | $991.02 | ¥158,272)

London; New York, Ernest Nister; E. P. Dutton & Co, [1896]. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this beautiful and uncommon volume of fairy tale pop-up scenes by Ernest Nister. The first edition of this uncommon work.Complete with six pop-up chromolithograph scenes, all...

A Dream of Sadler&Apos;S Wells

Lorna Hill · 1952 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Evans Brothers Limited, 1952. Cloth. A very smart fourth impression of this illustrated children's book from English author Lorna Hill. Fourth impression. Illustrated throughout. Veronica wanted more than anything to dance The Lilac Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty at...

King Willow & Minor and Major

George Mills · 0 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Spring Books, c1938-c1939 . Cloth. A bright pair of children's novels surrounding a boys cricket team, written by George Mills and published as part of Spring Books Fanfare series. A pair of works published by Spring Books as part of their Fanfare Series. Each in ...

Six Cousins Again

Enid Blyton · 1950 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.83 | $191.60 | ¥30,599)

London, Evans Brothers Limited , 1950 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this delightful children's novel written by Enid Blyton, the second of her works to feature the "Six Cousins", presenting their adventures on the farm. First edition, first impression. Unco...

Scripture History, Including the Lives of the Most Celebrated Apostles, &C

Rev. I. B. Watkins · 1826 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Jones and Co, 1826. Leather. A beautifully illustrated children's guide to scriptural history and the apostles and saints of the Bible, with over one hundred plates. This scarce work was first published in twenty-five parts in 1822.A wonderful work of scriptural h...

Underwater Adventure; South Sea Adventure

Willard Price · 1955 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, The Children's Book Club , 1955-1956. Cloth. Two volumes from Willard Price's series of children's adventure novels, chronicling the adventures of teenagers Hal and Roger Hunt. Containing the UK Children's Book Club edition of 'Underwater Adven...

Camerons Calling

Jane Duncan [Elizabeth Jane Cameron] · 1966 · Rooke Books

£99.00 (€118.68 | $130.81 | ¥20,892)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1966. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this uncommon illustrated children's book from Scottish author Jane Duncan. First edition. Uncommon work. Illustrated throughout. A charming children's novel following Shona, Neil...

The Children&Apos;S Bells: A Selection of Poems

Eleanor Farjeon · 1957 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1957. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated collection of children's poetry from English writer Eleanor Farjeon. First edition. Illustrated throughout. A collection of charming poems for children and young readers...

Nine Years Old

Eliza Tabor Stevenson · 1872 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1872. Cloth. A very scarce early edition of this charming children's novel from American author Eliza Tabor Stephenson. Early UK edition. Very scarce. Illustrated with a frontispiece, title vignette, and three plates. Lacking three plate...

Wood Nuts from a Fairy Hazel Bush. Cracked for Little People.

Jean D'Ensinge · 1873 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, Hatchards, 1873 . Cloth. Jean D'Ensinge's very scarce collection of fairy tales, charmingly illustrated throughout. First published in 1869, this work is very scarce in all editions.A very charming collection of sixteen fairy tales written by Kentish-based au...