Search Results: Children's Books from Lansdowne Books

Orig. Green papered boards with blue spine-strip. D.j slightly chipped but now in protective mylar cover. Charming book filled with the photographs of Monro, who was an official war photographer during WWII.. 116 pages of Black/white photography with blue and white illustrated end pages. A clean, straight book. Size: 10 X 7 1/2"

A delightful 1940s Australian children's book with charming illustrations & colour plates. Written & illustrated by D.H. Gilmore. Includes colour frontispiece, plus all 5 additional colour plates, as issued. Also with several smaller b&w illustrations throughout (some full page). HARDCOVER with DUSTJACKET. Dustjacket with wrap around artwork, also by D.H. Gilmore. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair with small tears so now in protective Mylar. Tightly bound in original creme paper boards with bright red lettering & design to both boards & spine, in publisher's unclipped pictorial dustjacket. Pages are clean, unmarked and tight. Scarce title.Rare First Edition. First edition, with "1946" to both title page & copyright page with no later reprint dates. Printed in Australia by Halstead Press

Hardback, Very nice blue pebbled/textured cloth with decorative black paneling to front with coloured vignette plate of a small boy in centre of front cover, with gilt lettering to spine and front. In very good condition. Corners slightly bumped, rear top corner slightly rubbed at edge. Cover clean and smart. Some minor darkening and minor foxing to free endpapers. Inside pages all very clean and tight (bright semi-gloss type paper) Illustrated with 22 B&W illustrations from original drawings by L. Rossi

Four stories with numerous coloured illustrations, bound in stiff illustrated boards. A very good copy printed on quality paper. Cover shows signs of wear but pages are very clean and tight. Illustrated by Hans Heysen and sixteen other Australian artists. First Edition First Impression

1st edition pictorial boards. Large octavo 133 pp., col. frontis., b/w ill., Gladys Henriques Lister (1887–1957) was the seventh of ten children, and was born in Hawthorn, Victoria. Her family had emigrated to Australia from America, though her mother's ancestry was Irish. After leaving school, Gladys Lister studied painting under Julian Ashton; married in 1913.Lister's stories used what happened to her life, as well as current events. During the Second World War, some British children were evacuated to Australia, and her book Jennifer Stands By featured evacuees and their adventures. Gladys Lister had always owned a pony, to which she ascribed her love of horses. Includes descriptions of post-war sea voyages made by Lister to North America, England and Europe.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy.

First edition.Second Printing Octavo. Decorative green cloth stamped in light blue and gilt, illustrated paper label mounted on front board. On laid paper, with mounted coloured frontispiece and 15 mounted coloured plates, free endpapers mildly browned; green cloth upper board lettered in gilt with mounted coloured illustration, a very good, bright copy.Book plate...Prize from St Hilda's School for Girls From the "British Artists" series

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+ Norman Lindsay (illustrator). 1954 Reprint. The text is illustrated with both coloured and black-and-white drawings by the author, some full page, some half page and some three-quarter page. Pale coloured boards with dark blue coloured illustration and titles to the front panel and dark blue coloured titles to the spine. The famous children's story of a Christmas pudding that seemed to have a life of its own, and other adventures of the friends Bunyip Bluegum, Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff. A nice copy. Illustrator: Norman Lindsay. Inscription of previous owner. No other annotations.

Hardback Near Fine. Near Fine in unclipped dust jacket. This book is beautifully illustrated by the award-winning artist, Bagram Ibatoulline. This lovely first printing of this award-winning book is protected in a Brodart cover.

8 full page colour plates plus the paper covers, with a colour illustrations on boards. Other illustrations in text. Original papered hardcover boards with some wear, linen spine, pages are tight with some light markings. No tears. No dust jacket issued. Pepita & Pip the Mice and their family through an elegant Christmas Party.

1st edition.Reprinted 1953. Very good copy in the original colour printed boards and dust jacket no in protective mylar. Well-preserved; tight, bright, clean covers and pages.Pookie has an adventure beyond the wood, finding himself captured by gypsies and made to perform in their circus, before eventually making his escape and returning home

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression. 1914 Condition: V.G+ . Beige cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Some yellowing to pages due to age. 13 tipped-in colour plates, and frontispiece of HRH Princess Mary. Other b/w drawings throughout. 'All profits from sale are given to The Queen's Work for Women" Overall a very nice copy.British Great War fund-raising album assembled with the approval of Buckingham Palace and directed at children. Princess Mary was the only daughter of King George V and was 17 years old when the Great War began. Her portrait was pasted-in as the frontispiece of the book. The fourteen tipped-in color plates include:'So nobody can quite explain Exactly where the rainbows end' (Arthur Rackham)'True Spartan Hearts' (Edmund Dulac)'The Ant Lion' (E.J. Detmold)'A Holiday in Bed' (W. Russell Flint)'.

Hodder and Stoughton, 1915. First Edition 4to. Blue binding, blue titles & Royal Emblem.A Very Good copy of a beautiful book that is illustrated with 12 full-colour plates in impeccable condition and drawn by artists of that period, including Rackham, W. Heath Robinson, E. Blumpied, and others. 160 pages of illustrated stories that includes works by Arthur Conan Doyle, J. M. Barrie, and John Buchan, Ernest Thompson Seton and other well known authors.

In 2 volumes, frontispiece with titles to each volume (including tissue-guarded to first volume), illustrations in text throughout.
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded is in the people's edition cover with original uncancelled title page First Edition, Reprint
Slight rubbing and marking to covers and to endpapers; with bumping to corners, some foxing and marking to first and last few leaves of second volume, both volumes in good condition , green cloth, red and black illustration to upper boards with red borders and black decorative titles, black decorative titles with red detail to lower boards and spines.

Near Fine condition Near fine dust-jacket now in protective mylar.
WINNER OF THE NEWBERY MEDAL!Kate DiCamillo introduces a hero for all time!Welcome to the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse who is in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea. It is also the story of a rat called Roscuro, who lives in the darkness and covets a world filled with light. And it is the story of Miggery Sow, a slow-witted serving girl who harbors a simple, impossible wish. These three characters are about to embark on a journey that will lead them down into a horrible dungeon, up into a glittering castle, and, ultimately, into each other's lives. And what happens then? As Kate DiCamillo would say: Reader, it is your destiny to find out.From the master storyteller who brought us BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE comes another classic, a fairy tale full of quirky, unforgettable characters, featuring twenty-four stunning black-and-white illustrations by Timothy Basil Ering, in an elegant design that pays tribute to the best in… Read More