Libri per ragazzi

All Play: Stories and Pictures for the Little Ones

Mabel Mackintosh [editor] · 1928 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, John F. Shaw & Co. Ltd, 1928. Cloth. A charming collection of children's stories, with illustrations throughout. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, seven colour plates, and numerous in-text images. A charming collection of stories for young readers, including...

Children in Verse: Fifty Songs of Playful Childhood

Thomas Burke [editor] · 1913 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Duckworth & Company, 1913. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this brightly illustrated collection of children's verses. First edition. Illustrated with a tipped in colour frontispiece, seven tipped in colour plates with tissue guards, and numerous in-...

The Meeting-Pool a Tale of Borneo

Mervyn Skipper · 1929 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Elkin Mathews & Marrot Limited, 1929 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this delightfully illustrated collection of short stories for children, surrounding topics discussed in a jungle in Borneo, at The Meeting Pool. The first edition. Bound in the publisher&...

The Princess of Hearts

Sheila E. Braine · 1899 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London; Glasgow, Blackie & Son Limited, 1899. Cloth. A scarce children's story by Sheila E. Braine, with charming illustrations by Alice B. Woodward. A scarce work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Previous owner's bookplate to the front free end paper....

The Nursery Rhyme Book

Andrew Lang · 1898 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London; New York, Frederick Warne and Co. 1898. Cloth. An early edition of Andrew Lang's book of nursery rhymes, delightfully illustrated by L. Leslie Brook. An early edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with pictorial gilt to the spine. Al...

Butterscotia, or a Cheap Trip to Fairy Land

Edward Abbott Parry · 1896 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

London, David Nutt, 1896 . First edition. Cloth. A very scarce Limited Edition of Edward Abbott Parry's charming children's tale, illustrated throughout and signed by the publishing house. The very scarce Limited Edition of this work; number 26 of 85 copies printed o...

The Golem&Apos;S Eye: The Bartimaeus Trilogy

Jonathan Stroud · 2004 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

New York, Miramax Books, 2004. Hardback. A very smart first US edition of the second volume from the Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud, signed by the author. First US edition, first printing. Signed by the author to the title page. The second book of the Bartimaeus Trilogy...

The Lionboy Trilogy

Zizou Corder [Louisa Young and Isabel Adomakoh Young] · 2003 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Puffin, 2003-2006. First edition. Cloth. The first editions of this exciting children's trilogy from Louisa Young and her daughter, signed by the author. Complete in three volumes. First edition, first impression. Signed by the author to the half title or title pa...

The Cry of the Icemark

Stuart Hill · 2005 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Somerset, The Chicken House, 2005. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition, first impression of the first novel in the Icemark Chronicles from British author Stuart Hill, signed by the author. First edition, first impression. Signed by the author to the title page. Th...

The Cry of the Icemark

Stuart Hill · 2005 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Somerset, The Chicken House, 2005. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition, first impression of the first novel in the Icemark Chronicles from British author Stuart Hill, signed by the author. First edition, first impression. Signed by the author to the title page. Th...

Dark Tales of Time and Space

Sean Wright · 2005 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Norfolk, Crowswing Books, 2005. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this chilling story for young adults from English author Sean Wright, signed by the author. First edition, first impression. Signed by the author to the title page. The chilling story of two ve...

The Bad Child&Apos;S Book of Beasts, Together with More Beasts for Worse Children, and Cautionary Tales for Children

H. Belloc · 1950 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Duckworth, c1920. Hardback. Two imaginative and cautionary children's books by the French writer, Hilaire Belloc, with illustrations throughout by Basil Temple Blackwood. Two volumes. Both undated, and dated by copies held institutionally. Illustrated throughout...

William the Superman

Richmal Crompton · 1968 · Rooke Books

£159.00 (€190.59 | $210.06 | ¥33,544)

London, George Newnes, 1968. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of Richmal Crompton's penultimate Just William novel. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.'William the Superman' is the penultimate book in the &...

Third Bubble Book: Singing Games

Ralph Mayhew; Burges Johnson · 1918 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Hodder-Columbia; Hodder and Stoughton, 1918 . First edition. Hardback. The first edition of this charming children's work containing loosely inserted records of children's rhymes. The first edition.Illustrated with colour vignettes by Rhoda Chase.Collated; &a...

The Amber Spyglass

Philip Pullman · 2000 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.26 | $726.63 | ¥116,033)

London, David Fickling Books/ Scholastic, 2000. First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of the third impression of the final work in Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' series. The first edition, third impression. With a postcard taped to the verso o...

The Daydreamer

Ian McEwan · 1994 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,207)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1994 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of Ian McEwan's children's work, illustrated by Anthony Browne. The first edition, first impression.Signed to the title page 'to Shirley with very best wishes Ian McEwan&apos.Inscribe...

The Silent Planet, a Story of Two Boys and a Daring Rescue from Outer Space

Philip Briggs · 1957 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Lutterworth, 1957 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this children's science fiction novel, in the scarce original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this work.In the scarce publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.An entertaini...

The Sabbath School Class Book: Comprising Copious Exercises on the Sacred Scriptures

E. Lincoln · 1831 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

Boston , Lincoln and Edmands, 1831. Hardback. A very scarce Sabbath school exercise book with questions and prompts for learning the scriptures, signed by the author. With a signed inscription by the author to the front free endpaper, dedicated to Rev. John Dyer.The very scarc...

My Dog

Maurice Maeterlinck; A. Teixeira de Mattos · 1913 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, George Allen & Company, Ltd. 1913. Cloth. A charming children's book telling the amusing tale of a young bulldog, the first edition to be illustrated with colour plates by Cecil Aldin. An illustrated work in the publisher's original cloth binding, the first e...

Legends from Fairy Land

Holme Lee [Harriet Parr] · 1907 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London; Philadelphia, S.T. Freemantle; J.B. Lippincott, 1907. Cloth. A very scarce, charmingly illustrated edition of this fairy tail anthology by Holme Lee, with illustrations by Reginald L. Knowles and Horace J. Knowles. A very scarce edition of this work by Harriett Parr, p...