Libri per ragazzi

The Enchanted Land, Tales Told Again

Louey Chisholm · 1906 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, T.C. and E.C. Jack, 1906. Cloth. A colourfully illustrated collection of beloved fairy tales by Louis Chisholm, a striking copy with plates by Katherine Cameron. An early twentieth-century collection of children's fairy tales, Including 'The Snow Queen',...

The Life and Perambulations of a Mouse

1860 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.81 | $218.02 | ¥34,820)

London, Griffith and Farran, 1860. Cloth. A scarce children's tale concerning a mouse's life, a new edition. Dorothy Kilner's best known work, published anonymously. A charming children's tale telling of the life of a mouse, originally published in 1784. Sc...

The Water-Babies a Fairy Take for a Land-Baby

Charles Kingsley · 1863 · Rooke Books

£1,375.00 (€1,648.39 | $1,816.87 | ¥290,166)

London , Macmillan and Co. 1863. First edition. Leather. A scarce first edition, first issue of Kingsley's noted work, The Water Babies, with the exceptionally scarce L'envoi leaf. The first edition, first issue with the exceptionally scarce L'envoi leaf. During...

Dem Kind Zur Freude

0 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

Unknown, Unknown, c1930. Hardback. A very scarce oblong children's picture book with poems concerning the animal kingdom. A very scarce German picture book for children, containing a series of nursery rhymes concerning the animal world. Printed on thick panels featuring a...

Childhood

Githa Sowerby · 1907 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

London, Chatto and Windus, 1907. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this colourful collection of children's poetry by the sister duo Millicent and Githa Sowerby, complete with Millicent's twelve colour plates. The first edition of this work.A collection of ni...

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

Robert Browning · 1846 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Frederick Warne and Co. Ltd. c1920. Cloth. An early illustrated edition of Browning's children's poem, which retells the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, with illustrations by Kate Greenaway. With a frontispiece and numerous colour illustrations throughout...

The Margaret Tarrant Nursery Rhyme Book

Margaret Tarrant · 1944 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Collins, 1944. First edition. Cloth. A colourfully illustrated first edition copy of Margaret Tarrant's nursery rhyme book, with colour plates by the author herself. Scarce First Edition.Illustrations include sixteen full-page colour illustrations, as well as in-t...

Jack: Told by Himself

Kathleen A. Lund · 1917 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Dean & Son, c1917. First edition. Cloth. A scarce work of fiction for children written from the point of view of Jack the dog. A scarce work of fiction, of which there is only one institutional copy. Dated from Copac. A charming children's tale by Kathleen A. Lund...

The Schoolgirls&Apos; Own Annual

Various · 1926 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, The Schoolgirls' Own, 1926-27. Cloth. Two charming volumes of the popular 'Schoolgirls' Own Annual', containing a whole variety of thrilling stories and articles for the young girls of 1920s. Two volumes of the charming 'Schoolgirls' Own A...

A Christmas Posy

Mrs. Molesworth [Mary Louisa Molesworth] · 1902 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Macmillan, 1902. Cloth. A charming children's Christmas tale illustrated by Walter Crane. The second edition of this early twentieth century Christmas themed children's work from Mary Louisa Molesworth, who wrote a large number of tales for children under the...

His Dark Materials

Philip Pullman · 2007 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.62 | $429.44 | ¥68,585)

London, Scholastic, 2007. Cloth. A complete collection of Philip Pullman's acclaimed 'His Dark Materials' trilogy, with a loosely inserted signed slip by the author. With a loosely inserted signed slip.One of the most successful fantasy series of all time rivall...

Never Run from the Lion and Another Story

Antonia Ridge · 1958 · Rooke Books

£37.00 (€44.36 | $48.89 | ¥7,808)

London, Faber and Faber, 1958 . First edition. Cloth. A scarce and charmingly illustrated first edition children's book from Antonia Ridge and Barbara Freeman, in an exceptionally colourful illustrated dust wrapper. The scarce first edition of these two children's st...

Fairbrass: A Child&Apos;S Story

T. Edgar Pemberton · 1895 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

1895, Cornish Brothers , 1895. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition of this story for children by Thomas Edgar Pemberton, the author's presentation copy signed to the half title. The first edition of tis very scarce children's story, an allegorical fairy...

The Emerald Crown

Violet Needham · 1944 · Rooke Books

£67.00 (€80.32 | $88.53 | ¥14,139)

London, Collins, 1944 . Cloth. A smart early printing of Violet Needham's children's work, with illustrations throughout by Anne Bullen. An exciting, ruritanian piece of fantasy set in the Kingdom of Flavonia.Written by Violet Needham, an English writer known for her...

I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild&Apos;S Pocket Book

Iona and Peter Opie [ed.] · 1992 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

London, Walker Books, 1992. First edition. Hardback. The first edition thus with embellishments by Maurice Sendak of this extremely charming book containing numerous traditional rhymes for children, collected by Iona and Peter Opie. The first edition thus, with many embellishm...

Pa Cats and Ma Cats and Their Kittens

1902 · Rooke Books

£1,250.00 (€1,498.54 | $1,651.70 | ¥263,787)

London, Ralphael Tuck & Sons LTD, 1902. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition copy of one of Louis Wain's charming children's works, illustrated with his trademark colour plates of anthropomorphised cats. The very scarce first edition of this work.Illustr...

Tales and Adventures for the Young

0 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

Edinburgh, Thomas Laurie , c1869. Paperback. A very scarce copy of this charming book of tales for children. A very scarce copy held institutionally by the Cambridge University Libraries only. Dated from Jisc c1869. By the author of Home and its Duties, being Thomas Laurie&a...

The Story without an End

Fredrich Wilhelm Carove; Sarah Austin · 1868 · Rooke Books

£475.00 (€569.45 | $627.65 | ¥100,239)

London, Sampson, Low, Son, and Marston, 1868. Leather. Eleanor Vere Boyle's beautifully illustrated English translation of Carove's classic German fairy tale, illustrated in colour. A classic German children's story by Friedrich Wilhelm Carove, a charming and mo...

Animal Land Where There Are No People

Sybil Corbet; Katharine Corbet; Andrew Lang · 1898 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London, J. M. Dent & Co, 1898. Cloth. A very scarce third edition of this charming and very entertaining children's collection of poems on a land where there are only animals. A very scarce work. The third edition of this work. All editions are very scarce. This work is a...

In Fairyland a Series of Pictures from the Elf-World

Richard Doyle; W Allingham · 1875 · Rooke Books

£2,500.00 (€2,997.08 | $3,303.40 | ¥527,574)

London, Longmans, Green and Co, 1875. Cloth. A very bright and clean copy of this important illustrated second edition of Richard Doyle's 'In Fairyland&apos. 'In Fairyland' comprises of sixteen coloured plates depicting fairy scenes by prolific Victorian il...