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The Magic Finger.

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1968.

First British edition of this classic children’s novel. Octavo, original pictorial boards, illustrated by William Pène du Bois. In near fine condition.

$175.00 Item Number: RRB-147109

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Carle, Eric

10 Patitos De Goma.

China: Harper Collins Publishers, 2006.

First Spanish language edition of 10 Patitos De Goma. Quarto, original publisher’s pictorial boards, patterned endpapers. Presentation copy inscribed by the author “Quack for Dr. J. Robert Dopin...

$175.00 Item Number: RRB-149051

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Rosen, Michael. Illustrated by Priscilla Lamont

Lovely Old Roly.

London: Frances Lincoln Limited, 2002.

Early printing of Rosen’s story about a beloved family cat, old Roly. Quarto, original illustrated boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated by Priscilla Lamont. Signed and dated by the author op...

$175.00 Item Number: RRB-114406

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Tudor, Tasha

Pumpkin Moonshine.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.

First printing of this edition of the author’s first book and the first title in her “Calico” series. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Tasha Tudor on the title page. Fine in a fine...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-1149

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Kipling, Rudyard

Puck of Pook’s Hill.

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1906.

First Tauchnitz edition of Kipling’s collection of historical fantasy tales. Octavo, original wrappers. In good condition.

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-125313

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Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Our Charley, and What to Do With Him.

Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Company, 1858.

First edition of this classic novella by the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. 12mo, original publisher’s cloth elaborately stamped in blind with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-142502

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Rushdie, Salman

Luka and the Fire of Life.

New York: Random House, 2010.

First edition of the Booker Prize-winning author’s dazzling modern classic. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth. Boldly signed by Salman Rushdie on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-150730

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Henty, George Alfred [G.A.]

A March On London: Being a Story of Wat Tyler’s Insurrection.

London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1898.

First edition of Henty’s classic historical adventure tale. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, with eight illustrations by W. H. Margetson. In...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-122907

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Kipling, Rudyard

Songs From Books.

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912.

First edition of this selection of songs from Kipling’s children’s stories. Octavo, original illustrated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. In near fine condition.

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-121421

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Kipling, Rudyard

The Just So Song Book: Being Songs From Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories. Set to Music by Edward German.

Macmillan and Co., Limited: London, 1918.

Early printing of Kipling’s Just So Song Book. Quarto, original illustrated boards. In very good condition.

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-126592

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Viorst, Judith

Suddenly Sixty: And Other Shocks of Later Life.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.

First edition of this comical work by the author of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Small octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Laurie Rosenwald. Presentation copy, inscr...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-142476

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Reeve, Philip

Infernal Devices.

London: Scholastic Press, 2005.

First edition of the third novel in Reeve’s award-winning Mortal Engines quartet. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Signed by Philip Reeve on the title page. Near fine in a near fine...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-126739

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Schulz, Charles M

Christmas Is Together-Time.

London: Paul Hamlyn, 1966.

First British edition of this early work by the creator of Peanuts. Duodecimo, original pictorial boards, illustrated throughout. Fine in a very good dust jacket.

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-152142

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Pullman, Philip. Illustrated by David Mostyn

Spring-Heeled Jack: A Story of Bravery and Evil.

London: Corgi Yearling Books, 1998.

First Corgi Yearling edition of Pullman’s fantastic adventure story. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “Best wishes Eilee...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-89122

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Kipling, Rudyard

His Apologies.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1932.

First edition of Kipling’s classic poetic tribute to his beloved Scottie. Octavo, original half cloth over illustrated boards. With drawings by Cecil Alden. In very good condition. Ownership nam...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-123048

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Kipling, Rudyard

The Brushwood Boy.

New York: Doubleday and McClure Company, 1899.

First separate American edition of Kipling children’s classic. Octavo, original illustrated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, pictorial endpapers, illustrated by Orson Lowell, tissu...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-121634

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[Hughes, Thomas]

Tom Brown’s School-Days.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1897.

Finely bound example of the author’s popular and influential work. Octavo, bound in three quarters crushed levant morocco by Morrell, gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments with...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-139643

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Kipling, Rudyard

The Two Jungle Books.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1932.

Later printing of Kipling’s Two Jungle Books in one volume. Octavo, original red cloth decorated in gilt with illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling and W.H. Drake. In very good condition. Bookpla...

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-135221

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Grahame, Kenneth

The Golden Age.

London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, c. 1920.

Finely bound example of the author of Wind and the Willows, Kenneth Grahame’s collection of short stories for children. Small octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over cloth covered boards wi...

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-111086

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Rosen, Michael. Illustrated by Sami Sweeten

Nuts About Nuts.

London: Diamond Books, 1999.

Early printing of British children’s author Michael Rosen’s illustrated book of poetry about nuts. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Signed and dated by Michael Rosen on the verso of th...

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-88124

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Pullman, Philip. Illustrated by Peter Bailey

I Was A Rat! …or The Scarlet Slippers.

London: Doubleday, 1999.

First edition of Pullman’s classic adventure story. Octavo, original illustrated boards, illustrated by Peter Bailey. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Eil...

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-114586

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Martineau, Harriet. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

Feats on the Fiord.

London: J. M. Dent & Sons Limited, n.d.

Early printing of Martineau’s classic collection. Octavo, original publisher’s blue cloth elaborately decorated in gilt, color pictorial onlay to the front panel, illustrated by Arthur Rac...

$95.00 Item Number: RRB-142418

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Ford, Julia Ellsworth

Imagina.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1923.

Second edition of Ford’s melancholic children’s tale. Quarto, original cloth, with illustrations in color by Arthur Rackham and Lauren Ford. Very good in the original dust jacket which sho...

$95.00 Item Number: RRB-142358

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