Children's from E C Books

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1911 A good to very good copy of the 5th edition, published in November 1911, just a month after the first. In original decorative cloth binding with black and white frontispiece, decorative title and 10 further black and white plates by F D Bedford. The front board has gilt decoration which is slightly dulled and there… Read more about this item

London and New York : Longmans, Green, and Co., 1891 A very good copy of the first edition in the original blue gilt-decorated cloth binding with numerous black and white illustrations by Speed and H J Ford. All page edges gilt. Part of the Fairy Book series, this was the third published. The binding is bright and clean with bright… Read more about this item

London, New York, Bombay and Calcutta: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1907 A very good copy of the 1st edition in the original light green decorative cloth binding with 8 colour plates, 20 full page black and white plates, and 22 in text illustrations. All page edges gilt. The front board is very bright with a tiny spot mark towards the… Read more about this item

London and New York: Longmans, Green & Co, 1892 A very good copy of the 1st edition, 1st impression of the Green Fairy Book in the original green decorative cloth binding with gilt designs and title. With the original endpapers and aeg. With full page and text illustrations by H J Ford. The binding is in very good clean condition… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan and Co. Limited , 1910 A very good copy of the 1st trade edition in the original decorative cloth binding with tipped in colour frontispiece and 39 further colour plates by Warwick Goble. The binding is bright and clean. There is light scuffing to corners and spine joints, and there is pulling to the top and bottom of… Read more about this item

London, New York and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1902 A good copy of the 1st edition in the original blue gilt decorated cloth binding with tissue-guarded colour frontispiece and 7 further colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations by H J Ford as called for. With decorative endpapers with different designs front and rear. All page edges gilt.… Read more about this item

London, New York, & Bombay: Longmans, Green, & Co, 1897 A good to very good copy of an unusual tale of supremely confident infants, a sensitive dragon and wicked people. Rosamund Praeger is best known as a sculptor, but was also an artist, illustrator, poet and writer. She wrote and illustrated a number of books for children which tend to… Read more about this item

London : Hodder and Stoughton A very copy of this classic work with 24 tipped in colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations and designs by Kay Nielson. Undated but circa 1924 (there is an ink inscription on the fep dated 1924) and the third issue of this work by Hodder. The deep yellow cloth binding has black titles… Read more about this item

London: Methuen and Co Ltd, 1915 A good copy of the scarce 6th edition of Wilde's work, being the first illustrated by Jessie M King. In the original decorative cloth binding with colour title page, 16 tipped-in colour plates and decorative endpapers. The binding has a bright front board with some scuffing and slight cloth loss to corners. Edges including… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Margaret Tait, 1959 Scarce original copy of The Grassy Stories in the original paper covered card binding. Margaret Tait is better known as a film-maker and as a poet, and was particularly inspired by the beauty of nature. Grassy Stories is a set of 9 short tales for children using names based around grasses and other plants. This copy… Read more about this item

London: Chatto & Windus, 1945 A very good copy of Bettina's first work in good wrapper. The yellow binding has a title and the outline of a donkey in red on the front board. It is in very good clean condition with some browning to the bottom edges and light turning to corners. The contents are very clean and sound.… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited , 1917 A very good copy of the 1st UK edition in the original decorative cloth binding with new matching leather spine and red title label. With 16 colour plates (including the frontispiece), 7 full page black and white plates and numerous designs by Arthur Rackham. The front board is very clean with bright gilt… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan and Co. Limited , 1910 A near fine copy of the 'edition de luxe' of which only 500 copies were issued. The original vellum binding has been replaced with a half calf binding with cream spine with title label and matching cream cloth. It is in fine condition. Contents with tipped in colour frontispiece, rubricated title and 39… Read more about this item

London : Hodder and Stoughton , 1911 A good copy of the first trade edition, in the original decorative cloth binding with 28 fine tipped in colour plates by Edmund Dulac. Dulac designed the edition and the work has decorative endpapers, decorative borders to pages and decorated leaves before each tipped in plate. The plate images have been much reproduced… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited , 1912 A very good copy of the limited Edition du Lux of which 150 copies were issued. In the original full vellum binding with gilt decoration and titles to the front board and spine. Top page edges gilted; remainder untrimmed. With tipped in frontispiece and 31 colour tipped-in plates by Warwick Goble. Goble (1862-1943)… Read more about this item

Paris : H Piazza, 1919 A near fine copy of the French edition of East of the Sun and West of the Moon - Contes Anciens du Nord, limited to 1,500 copies of which this is no. 1370, printed on 12 November 1919. Printed on Japan paper with red and black title page and 24 colour plates by Kay Nielsen.… Read more about this item

London, New York, and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1897 A good copy of the 1st edition in the original pink decorative cloth binding with all page edges gilt. With numerous black and white illustrations by H J Ford. The binding has delicate gilt illustration to the front board which is bright. The spine is very sunned and… Read more about this item

London : Hodder and Stoughton A near fine copy of the 2nd Hodder edition of this classic work with 24 tipped in colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations and designs by Kay Nielsen. Undated but circa 1915. With original red cloth with gilt illustration to front board, and new leather spine, with gilt-lined raised bands and title… Read more about this item

London and New York : William Heinemann and Doubleday Page & Co, 1909 A good to very good copy of the 1st limited edition signed by Arthur Rackham in the original full vellum binding with tipped in frontispiece and 14 further tipped in colour plates. No 116 of a 1,000 printed. Top page edges gilted, remainder untrimmed. The untrimmed edges… Read more about this item

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1910 A very good copy of the limited edition of Sleeping Beauty signed by Edmund Dulac. No 598 of 1,000. In the original full morocco leather binding with gilt decoration to boards and spine, with tipped-in frontispiece and 29 further colour plates. Top page edges gilted. The binding has been rebacked, preserving the original spine which… Read more about this item