The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne - 1928

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. First edition. First edition. Original First State Dust Wrapper (without "Smoky" on rear), price $2.50 clipped. First issue of book without ad for Smoky in rear. Book near fine with very slight damp-stain on spine, wrapper in near fine condition with slight rubbing to spine, some very small chips and edge-wear. Color pictorial title-page, endpapers and 14 full-page color plates by N.C. Wyeth.

n.p. (Made in Germany), n.d.. Eighteenth edition. Some cover scratching, but VG+ solid condition. Eighteenth edition. Folio box. 21 pages with eight full-page chromolithographs, the box with nine pull tabs on strings that make the corresponding animal sounds (8 in working order). The box is of red cloth with pictorial color image on upper cover, the edges are of gilt carved wood.

New York: Frederick Warne & Co, 1908. First American edition. First American edition. Original maroon cloth over beveled boards, color cover insert, gilt and green lettering on cover. Full-page color plates and black and white illustrations by Potter. Potter's first large format book. A very nice, tight and clean copy.

London: W. & R. Chambers, 1912. First Edition. N. Parker. First edition of this justly famous children's book with anthropomorphised kangaroo characters - 'perhaps the best known story entirely devoted to the kangaroo' (Robert Holden 'The Mint Exhibition' 1985). Twelve stories of kangaroos told in verse with many small drawings in sepia and twelve beautifully printed, full-page, partially-coloured plates. Quarto, full colour pictorial boards, edge rubbing, corner wear, chipping of paper at spine ends and along spine edges, two pages with minor nicks at page edge, clean and bright, a very good copy indeed overall.

RANSOME, Arthur. The Big Six. London: Jonathan Cape [1940]. 12mo, 400pp. Green cloth stamped in gilt on spine and blind-stamped on front. Two-color map endpapers; b&w illustrations throughout. Spine ends and corners slightly rubbed, light foxing on fore-edge of sheets – but not extending internally, endpapers minutely foxed, in original color pictorial dust jacket (light edgewear, some soiling, spine lightly sunned).
First edition. The ninth book in Arthur Ransome's beloved Swallows and Amazons series. Ransome returns once more to his beloved Norfolk Broads where trouble is again brewing between the three boatbuilders' sons (who more or less live full-time aboard the Death and Glory) and the three Coots, Tom, Dorothea and Dick. The problem arises when the boats are constantly being set adrift, and all the evidence points squarely to the boatbuilders' sons. In a clever bit of detective work, and with some help from a sophisticated photographic trap, the two trios come together as the Big Six and… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. First edition. First edition. Original First State Dust Wrapper (without "Smoky" on rear), price $2.50 clipped. First issue of book without ad for Smoky in rear. Book near fine with very slight damp-stain on spine, wrapper in near fine condition with slight rubbing to spine, some very small chips and edge-wear. Color pictorial title-page, endpapers and 14 full-page color plates by N.C. Wyeth.

n.p. (Made in Germany), n.d.. Eighteenth edition. Some cover scratching, but VG+ solid condition. Eighteenth edition. Folio box. 21 pages with eight full-page chromolithographs, the box with nine pull tabs on strings that make the corresponding animal sounds (8 in working order). The box is of red cloth with pictorial color image on upper cover, the edges are of gilt carved wood.

New York: Frederick Warne & Co, 1908. First American edition. First American edition. Original maroon cloth over beveled boards, color cover insert, gilt and green lettering on cover. Full-page color plates and black and white illustrations by Potter. Potter's first large format book. A very nice, tight and clean copy.

London: W. & R. Chambers, 1912. First Edition. N. Parker. First edition of this justly famous children's book with anthropomorphised kangaroo characters - 'perhaps the best known story entirely devoted to the kangaroo' (Robert Holden 'The Mint Exhibition' 1985). Twelve stories of kangaroos told in verse with many small drawings in sepia and twelve beautifully printed, full-page, partially-coloured plates. Quarto, full colour pictorial boards, edge rubbing, corner wear, chipping of paper at spine ends and along spine edges, two pages with minor nicks at page edge, clean and bright, a very good copy indeed overall.

RANSOME, Arthur. The Big Six. London: Jonathan Cape [1940]. 12mo, 400pp. Green cloth stamped in gilt on spine and blind-stamped on front. Two-color map endpapers; b&w illustrations throughout. Spine ends and corners slightly rubbed, light foxing on fore-edge of sheets – but not extending internally, endpapers minutely foxed, in original color pictorial dust jacket (light edgewear, some soiling, spine lightly sunned).
First edition. The ninth book in Arthur Ransome's beloved Swallows and Amazons series. Ransome returns once more to his beloved Norfolk Broads where trouble is again brewing between the three boatbuilders' sons (who more or less live full-time aboard the Death and Glory) and the three Coots, Tom, Dorothea and Dick. The problem arises when the boats are constantly being set adrift, and all the evidence points squarely to the boatbuilders' sons. In a clever bit of detective work, and with some help from a sophisticated photographic trap, the two trios come together as the Big Six and… Read More