Libri per ragazzi

Jalopy at the Rally

Louise Cochrane · 1960 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,770)

London , Chatto & Windus, 1960. Cloth. A lovely copy of this '60s children's book. Louise Cochrane (1918 – 2012), an American-born writer and television producer best known for creating the BBC Children's TV programme Rag, Tag and Bobtail in the early 1950s Wit...

Chapel Street Childen

Edith Farmiloe · 1900 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,660)

London , Grant Richards, 1900. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this collection of children's tales from Edith Farmiloe. Illustrated throughout with numerous plates and vignettes. Including tales such as Naughty Lily, Tit-Bits, Bill's Promise and many ...

The Scarlet Herring and Other Stories

His Honour Judge Edward Abbott Parry · 1899 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.81 | $211.42 | ¥33,765)

London , Smith, Elder & Co, 1899. Cloth. Limited edition, signed copy of The Scarlet Herring and other stories. Direct from the library of the late Hugh Selbourne MD (1906-1973) a noted book collector and diarist. Number six of 50 copies printed on to Japanese vellum, and sign...

The Vacant Chair and Other Tales

John Mackay Wilson · 0 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.94 | $52.84 | ¥8,439)

London , Gall and Inglis, c1901. Cloth. A collection of short stories from numerous authors, including Professor Gillespie, Oliver Richardson, J. M. Wilson and others. With an engraved frontispiece. Part of the Stirring Tales series. In a blue cloth binding. Externally, quite ...

The Fifth Dorm at St Dominics a School Story

Talbot Baines Reed · 1902 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, The Religious Tract Society, c1890. Cloth. A famous school story by Talbot Baines Reed. The Fifth Dorm is the best known of Reed's school stories. The book started a tradition of boarding school stories in British juvenile fiction that lasted until the end of Worl...

The Story of a Short Life

Juliana Horatia Ewing · 1842 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, c1885. Hardback. A charming copy of Juliana Horatia Ewing work of children's fiction, and with illustrations by Gordon Browne. Mrs. Juliana Horatia Ewing (Gatty) (1842 - 1885) was a writer of children's stories, daug...

Two Little Pilgrim&Apos;S Progress

Frances Hodgson Burnett · 0 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London , Frederick Warne and Co. c1895. Cloth. A charming illustrated children's story by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Illustrated frontispiece plate and numerous illustrations throughout by R. W. Macbeth. Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett was an English playwright and author. Sh...

Das Jahr de Bauren

Ernst Georg Ruegg · 1941 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,770)

Zurich, Atlantis Kinderbucher, 1941. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated German children's work, lavishly illustrated with colour autolithographs. In the original German.'Das Jahr de Bauern', or, 'The Year of the Farmers', is a charming children's wo...

Quatre Histoires de Betes

Honore de Balzac · 1945 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

Paris, Se Trouve A Paris Chez L'Editeur, 1945. Hardback. A charmingly illustrated collection of children's animals stories. A charmingly illustrated collection of children's animals stories. Printed in French. Honore de Balzac was a French novelist and playwrigh...

Le Commis de M. Bouvat Illustrãƒâ© de 119 Vignettes Dessinãƒâ©Es M. Bouvat&Apos;S Clerk

Jules Girardin · 1923 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Paris , Librairie Hatchette, 1923. Cloth. A most handsome edition of this parochial children's story, illustrated with a prolific number of fine art-nouveau plates. Jules Girardin was born at Loches in 1832. He trained as a teacher and taught at number of local schools be...

Orlando (the Marmalade Cat): His Silver Wedding

Kathleen Hale · 1944 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London, Country Life, 1944. First edition. Paperback. The first edition of a very charming and witty children's book following Orlando the Marmalade Cat and his loveable family, with warm illustrations throughout by Kathleen Hale. The first edition of Orlando (The Marmala...

Jumper

Nicholas Kalashnikoff · 1948 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

London, Peter Lunn , 1948 . Cloth. A smart copy of this beautifully illustrated children's novel about a war horse based on the author's wartime experience. An early edition, first published in 1944 by Scribner. In the original brown cloth binding. With the very sca...

Grimm&Apos;S Fairy Tales

[Jacob Grimm] · 1911 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, A & C Black Limited, 1911 . Cloth. Beautifully illustrated edition of the classic Brothers Grimm fairy-tale collection, featuring eight colour plates by Charles Folkard. In publisher's original pictorial cloth binding.Illustrated with eight colour plates, includin...

Rollo and Tricksy Dauntless Patty the Tapestry Room

Florence E. Burch; E. L. Haverfield; Mrs Molesworth · 1901 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London; Edinburgh; New York, Thomas Nelson and Sons; Henry Frowde, Hodder & Stoughton; Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1901; [1909] (Undated, dated fro. Cloth. London; Edinburgh; New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons; Henry Frowde, Hodder & Stoughton; Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1901; [1...

Snickerty Nick

Julia Ellsworth Ford; Witter Bynner · 1919 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.66 | $383.19 | ¥61,199)

New York, Moffat, Yard & Co. 1919. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this charmingly illustrated title, featuring colour and monochrome artwork by Arthur Rackham. A scarce first edition of this children's title by American author, socialite and philanthropist Julia Ellswor...

Posters by Maurice Sendak

Maurice Sendak · 1986 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

New York, Harmony Books, 1986. First edition. Paperback. A charming first edition, full of 'gallery-quality prints', in rich full colour. A lovely first edition, in original pictorial covers, with complete number line.Featuring a colour frontispiece, and 22 further c...

The Squire&Apos;S Grandchildren

Josephine Turle · 1906 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. Ltd. [1906] (Undated, dated from a co. Cloth. London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. Ltd. [1906] (Undated, dated from a copy held by the British Library). Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 7.5" by 5". J. Ayton Symington. A charming, and very scarce illu...

The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony, in Eight Fits

Lewis Carroll · 1916 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1916 . Leather. A charming Macmillan edition of Carroll"s beloved nonsense classic, complete with Henry Holiday"s original illustrations. Bound in a quarter roan binding with marbled paper boards.With nine illustrations by Henry Holiday, incl...

Aunt Louisa&Apos;S London Gift Book

Laura Valentine · 1867 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Frederick Warne and Co, 1867 . First edition. Cloth. Illustrated throughout with vibrant chromolithographic plates, this is the scarce first edition of Laura Valentine's collection of poems and tales for children. The scarce first edition of this work.Laura Valent...

Redwall

Brian Jacques · 1986 · Rooke Books

£390.00 (€467.54 | $515.33 | ¥82,302)

New York, Philomel, 1986 . First edition. Cloth. Billed as 'a powerful tale of fantasy, adventure and knightly romance', this is the scarce first US edition of Brian Jacques' first 'Redwall' novel, about a young mouse novice monk named Matthias. A publ...