The Child's Own Book for 1838 -
1838 - Richard Davis, London
Illustrated with wood engravings, including frontispiece. A potpourri of informational and inspirational writings, with much on missionaries in far off lands, "The profits to be devoted to Sunday School Objects."
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The Magic Picture Book -
c 1860 - D. u. V. v. Tauber & Geek, Germany
A small booklet with pictorial boards showing a wizard . This is a trick book, which allows the performer to make the pictures disappear of change into something else, ‘to the grand astonishment of the spectator’.
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What Miranda Knew - Gladys Adshead
1950 - Brockhampton Press, Leicester
A pretty little book with colour illustrations by Elizabeth Orton Jones. In original grey boards with a picture of small girl with fairies wings on front and title in dark blue on spine.
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Fairy Tales - Hans C. Andersen
1924 - Hodder & Stoughton, London - First Thus : Illustrated by Kay Nielsen
Contains sixteen of Andersen's fairy tales, including The Snow Queen and "The Princess and the Pea" Wonderfully illustrated by Kay Nielsen with twelve mounted colour plates, including frontispiece, with captioned tissue guards, and seventeen full page black and white drawings, decorated initials and endpieces. Nielsen's career was severely disrupted by the First World War and this edition of Andersen's Fairy Tales was his first book since "East of the Sun and West of the Moon" (1914).
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Fairy Tales and Sketches - Hans Christian Andersen
1875 - George Bell & Sons, London - New Edition
Over 80 fairy tales and sketches, illustrated with 81 vignettes by Otto Speckter, and other illustrations by Cooper, Bayes et al.
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The Chaos Clock - Gill Arbuthnott
2003 - Kelpies, Edinburgh - First Edition
This is the first edition of the Author’s first novel. Signed and dated by the author. In wrappers as issued.
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Captain Swing - A Tale of the 1830 Riots - Harold Avery
1907 - Thomas Nelson & Sons, London - First Edition
An adventure story for boys. Illustrated with 6 colour plates by P. Hicklin. In bright boards with picture of the rioters on the front. The true story of the ‘Captain Swing Riots’ was far more serious, and caused by the introduction of the mechanical threshing machine into Kent & Sussex at a time of rural poverty, and little work. Typically a farmer would receive an anonymous note, often signed by "Captain Swing", telling him that unless he destroyed his threshing machine then his barns, haystacks and house would be burned down, probably while he and his family were asleep.
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National Velvet - Enid Bagnold
1935 - William Heinemann Ltd., London - First Edition
Illustrated throughout with pretty line drawings by Laurian Jones. The classic story of a teenage girl who rides her horse to victory in the Grand National. In 1944 it was turned into a film starring the then 12 year old Elizabeth Taylor and Mickey Rooney.
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