Children’s Books

  • [MAORI] Children brought to Christ. = Ka mau-ria nga ta-ma-ri-ki ki Te Ka-rai-ti.

    # 26476

    [JONES, William]

    [MAORI] Children brought to Christ. = Ka mau-ria nga ta-ma-ri-ki ki Te Ka-rai-ti.

    [Sydney, N.S.W. : Jones, Printer, Bridge Street, c.1833]. Broadsheet, 450 x 390 mm, letterpress printed; old horizontal and vertical crease, pale foxing, a very good example. Text in English and Māori. A rare broadside printed around 1833 by William Jones of Bridge Street, Sydney, for use in Church Missionary Society schools. It is a lesson …

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  • [CHILDREN’S] Un oncle d’Australie

    # 34643

    PECH, Émile

    [CHILDREN’S] Un oncle d’Australie

    Paris : Ancienne Libraire Furne, Jouvet &​ Cie, 5 rue Palatine, [c 1895]. Quarto, contemporary half red cloth over marbled boards, spine with gilt lettering, (joints weakened, edges rubbed with chips to spine), 286 pp (scattered foxing), illustrated with 73 gravures in the text. A fair copy. A French children’s story in which much of …

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  • The Fairy World of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

    # 34619

    MUIR, Marcie and HOLDEN, Robert

    The Fairy World of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

    Sydney : Craftsman House, 1985. First edition.  Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, 171 pp. extensively illustrated. The definitive reference on Outhwaite, one of Australia’s and Britain’s most loved children’s authors and illustrators. A very good copy of the first edition.

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  • Blue Brander : a story of adventure and Australian school life

    # 33706

    THOMPSON, D. (Duncan) Lindsay

    Blue Brander : a story of adventure and Australian school life

    London and Melbourne : Ward Lock & Co., 1927. First edition. Thick octavo (190 x 130 mm), pictorial cloth (some flecking to to both boards, but otherwise bright and unmarked), front free-endpaper with school prize certificate dated 1946, pp 313, [6 publisher’s advertisements], illustrated with numerous b/w plates; light foxing to half title, else very …

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  • Before the lamps are lit

    # 34502

    QUIN, Tarella; OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul (ill.)

    Before the lamps are lit

    Melbourne : George Robertson & Co., [1911]. Oblong quarto, illustrated cloth boards (minor rubbing), inscription on front endpaper, pp 189. A compilation of six children’s stories with engravings by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. Muir 1907.

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  • Gray's hollow

    # 33707

    BRUCE, Mary Grant (1878-1958)

    Gray’s hollow

    London and Melbourne : Ward, Lock & Co., [c.1920]. Thick octavo (190 x 130 mm), green textured cloth with pictorial onlay to front (boards only lightly rubbed, spine ends a little softened), front free-endpaper with gift inscription dated 1942, pp [1 publisher’s advertisement], 304 + [16 advertisements], illustrated with a b/w frontispiece (loss at top …

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  • Dean's Welcome Library, for little folks.

    # 33892

    DEAN & SON

    Dean’s Welcome Library, for little folks.

    With chromo illustrations. London : Dean & Son, circa 1880. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth with chromolithograph inlay, endpapers discoloured, unpaginated, children’s stories with chromolithograph illustrations. Includes Three kittens, House that Jack Built, Bo-Peep and Boy Blue and Johnny Green.  Rare.

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  • The South Seas book

    # 33811

    REASON, Joyce (editor)

    The South Seas book

    London : Livingstone Press, 1946. Small quarto, illustrated papered boards (edges slightly rubbed, lightly bowed), presentation bookplate from the London Missionary Society to Iris Pepper on the front free endpaper, pp. 96, illustrated. A book for children about the missionary activities in the South Sea islands, with descriptions of local people and their customs, including …

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  • Bottersnikes and other lost things. A celebration of Australian illustrated children’s books

    # 34476

    O'CONOR, Juliet

    Bottersnikes and other lost things. A celebration of Australian illustrated children’s books

    Melbourne : The Miegunyah Press, 2009. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 262, thoroughly illustrated. An extensive insight into the history of children’s books in Australia, with detailed sections on great artists and authors such as Norman Lindsay, Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, May Gibbs, Harold Gaze, Pixie O’Harris, Graeme Base etc. An essential reference book.

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  • Australian Fairy Tales.

    # 33477

    COOK, Hume

    Australian Fairy Tales.

    With illustrations by Christian Yandell. Melbourne : J. Howlett-Ross, 1925. Quarto, decorated cloth, in the rare illustrated dustjacket (edge tears and chips at head and foot of spine), previous owner’s name to endpaper, 140 pp., tipped-in colour frontispiece, light foxing to preliminaries and edges, colour and black and white plates by Christian Yandell (later Waller). …

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  • Alice’s adventures in Wonderland

    # 34063

    CARROLL, Lewis (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), 1832-1898; BLACKMAN, Charles (illustrator)

    Alice’s adventures in Wonderland

    / Lewis Carroll / Illustrated by Charles Blackman / Edited by Nadine Amadio. Sydney : A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1982. Quarto, orange boards in pictorial dust jacket (lightly sunned and foxed, handling creased to lower panel and a short tear to upper panel), illustrated endpapers, light foxing to preliminaries, pp. 128, illustrated in colour with Blackman’s …

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  • [HEYSEN] Blossom in "The Land of Sunshine" gift book.

    # 34343

    WHITEFIELD'S INSTITUTE

    [HEYSEN] Blossom in “The Land of Sunshine” gift book.

    Hindmarsh [S. Aust.] : Whitefield’s Institute, 1930. Quarto, publisher’s cloth backed pictorial papered boards (lower board sunned), pp [65], with photographic plates, monochrome and bichrome drawings, and 2 colour plates of Hans Heysen paintings (the accompanying poems initialed in pencil ‘C.J.B.’ i.e. Constance Jean Bonython); internally very clean and sound, a fine copy. Muir 742. An …

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  • Animalia (signed copy with small sketch)

    # 34317

    BASE, Graeme (1958 - )

    Animalia (signed copy with small sketch)

    Melbourne : Penguin, 1988 (reprint).  Folio, pictorial laminated boards, pp. [32], lavishly illustrated, a very good copy. Signed by Graeme Base (for Fran) with a small ink sketch of a kangaroo. Within the pages of this book You may discover, if you look Beyond the spell of written words, A hidden land of beasts and …

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  • The Flyaway Highway.

    # 34244

    LINDSAY, Norman.

    The Flyaway Highway.

    Melbourne : Lansdowne Press, 1973. First published in 1936. Large octavo, boards in Lindsay decorated dustjacket (sunned), pp. 108., light foxing to preliminaries, with numerous Lindsay illustrations. Lindsay’s second children’s book, the first being The Magic Pudding.

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  • Storytime : a little book for little people

    # 34141

    STRANG, Mrs. Herbert (pseud.)

    Storytime : a little book for little people

    London : Henry Frowde, [1912?] Quarto, decorated wrappers with pictorial inlay, stringboard, colour frontispiece by Arthur Rackham, pp. [38], colour plate by Rosa Petherick, numerous text illustrations, some with red block colour signed by L. A. Govey and L. Runoff, pale foxing, housed in the publisher’s original illustrated card envelope, with manuscript address dated 1913. …

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  • [CHILDREN'S GAME] Histoire naturelle

    # 34046

    Maker unknown.

    [CHILDREN’S GAME] Histoire naturelle

    [France : s.n., circa 1900]. Wooden box with hinged lid, 400 x 350 x 60 mm, original decorative paper covering with chromolithographed onlay to lid, with the title ‘Histoire naturelle‘ lettered in gold on red; the box contains 72 wooden puzzle cubes with chromolithographed paper surfaces, from which the child can potentially create a total …

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