Children's And Illustrated Books from Paul Foster Books

Macmillan and Co. London. 1897. FIRST HUGH THOMSON EDITION. 8vo. (7.8 x 5.4 inches). Illustrated with 40 full page line drawings. Publishers original burgundy cloth with decorative blind stamped floral design to both boards, the front board lettered and ruled in gilt. Spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Fore and lower page edges untrimmed. Aside from some browning to the… Read more about this item

Methuen & Co. London. 1929. EARLY PRINTING. Ninth edition. 8vo. Same format as the first edition of 1926. Illustrated throughout with wonderful line drawings by E. H. Shepard. Decorative map endpapers printed in black on green paper. Top edge gilt. A very good, bright copy in the original green cloth, with gilt stamped decorations of Christopher Robin and Pooh to… Read more about this item

Methuen & Co. Ltd. London. 1925. EARLY PRINTING. Eleventh edition. 8vo. The same format as the 1924 First edition, with the addition of decorative endpapers. This is a fine copy of Milne's first children's book in the publishers blue cloth with gilt lettering and illustrations. Illustrated endpapers. Top edge gilt. The book looks unread. In a very good original illustrated… Read more about this item

Wm. Miller. Albemarle Street. London. 1807. FIRST EDITION. Oblong 8vo. (7 x 8.8 inches). Title page with hand coloured vignette and 16 full page hand coloured plates by Atkinson (one folding), each with an accompanying page of text opposite. The text consists of excerpts from James Beresford's The Miseries of human life (1806). An uncut copy in the original brown… Read more about this item

F. Lewis Ltd. Leigh-on-sea, Essex. 1946. FIRST EDITION. Tall 8vo. (10.6 x 7.3 inches). 44pp. Illustrated with 12 striking full page wood engraved plates, comprising the title, the ten commandments and the greatest commandment, by Braby. Limited edition of 1025 copies on mould made paper, with only 1000 for sale. Finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere in attractive full red polished calf… Read more about this item

David Paradine Developments Limited. London. 1977. FACSIMILE OF FIRST EDITION. 8vo.(6.8 x 4.2 inches). Limited edition, one of only 100 copies, this number 17, numbered and signed by Champion British Equestrian Lucinda Prior-Palmer, later Green, to mark the centenary of the book's first publication. Finely bound in publishers delux leather binding of full tan morocco. Spine with raised bands, ruled… Read more about this item

Macmillan and co. London. 1928. Reprint of 1897 edition. 8vo. (7.4 x 4.9 inches). Illustrated with 39 full page line illustrations by Pegram. Tissue guard to the frontis. Creasing to the top outer corner of 20 leaves, otherwise a vary good copy in a fine early leather binding by Riviere and son. Half blue calf. Spine with raised bands, the… Read more about this item

Macmillan & Co. Ltd. London. 1894. FIRST HEIGHWAY EDITION, Large paper issue. One of only 100 copies issued. Large 8vo. (10.5 x 7.4 inches), With notes and an index. Beautifully illustrated throughout with over 100 fine engravings by Heighway. Tissue guard to the frontis. Some minor offsetting to the blank endpapers otherwise a fine and clean copy throughout. In the… Read more about this item

Macmillan and Co. London. 1894. FIRST BROCK EDITION, Large paper issue. One of only 110 copies issued. Large 8vo. (10.5 x 7.4 inches). One hundred fine line illustrations by Brock. Tissue guard to the frontis. Some minor offsetting to the blank endpapers otherwise a fine and clean copy throughout. In the original publishers burgundy cloth binding with printed paper label… Read more about this item

Saccone & Speed Limited. London. 1947. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (9 x 6 inches). Two colour illustrations by Whistler within the book plus colour decoration on boards showing three men cowering behind a wine barrel. Both pastedown endpapers browned by the binders glue, as usual. Some light creasing to the very top of the spine but generally a fine bright copy.

Andersen Press. London. 2000. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED ON HALF TITLE BY STEADMAN. 4to. (11.6 x 8.8 inches). Fine copy in fine colour printed boards.

George Virtue, London. 1851. FIRST EDITION. Folio. (13.2 x 10 inches). Packed with 100's of detailed mono line drawings, the work provides not only a catalogue of the Great Exhibition but its history. A very good copy in attractive early leather binding of full red morocco. Spine with raised bands, the compartments ruled, lettered and fully decorated in gilt. Elaborate… Read more about this item

G. Bell and Sons. Ltd. London. 1936. Reprint of title originally published in 1924. 8vo. (7.4 x 5 inches). Illustrated with 24 mono photographic plates. A bright and clean copy bound, by G. F. Laurence binders of london, in early half burgundy calf. Spine with five raised band. Compartments ruled in blind and lettered and decorated in gilt. Red cloth… Read more about this item

Nonesuch Library. London. 1939. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.7 x 5.1 inches). 1165pp. Finely bound in recent full red morocco leather. Spine with five raised bands. Spine compartments ruled and decorated with gilt stamped Mad Hatter and Playing card devices. Single gilt ruled border to boards. Top edge gilt. A fine copy.

Nonesuch Library. London. 1939. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.7 x 5.1 inches). 1165pp. Finely bound in recent full deep red morocco leather. Spine with five raised bands. Black leather title label, gilt. Spine compartments ruled and decorated with gilt stamped Mad Hatter, March Hare, and Playing card devices. Single gilt ruled border to boards. Top edge gilt. A fine copy.

NP. ND. . FINE LARGE DECORATIVE VELLUM BINDING. Folio. (14.8 x 12.8 inches.). A collection of 211 items of late 19th and early 20th century cards and ephemera including 26 rare, 3-D, movable, lift-up, Valentines and Christmas cards, each mounted onto a white stiff card page and with multiple pieces of ephemera attached around the page. Attractive late nineteenth century… Read more about this item

Hodder & Stoughton. London. No date. 1913. FIRST EDITION. 4to. (11.4 x 9.1 inches). Beautifully illustrated with 24 fine tipped in colour plates, each with a printed tissue guard. The colour plates are mounted onto thick oatmeal paper within a decorative printed border. Illustrated mono title page, with red lettering. Illustrated with many fine, striking, mono illustrations throughout the text.… Read more about this item

MacGibbon & Kee, London. 1972. FIRST RALPH STEADMAN EDITION. 4to. (12.5 x 8.9 inches). Mono illustrations throughout by Steadman. Original black cloth binding with silver lettering to the spine. A little bumping to the top and bottom of the spine but still a near fine copy in the original illustrated dustwrapper which is price clipped to the bottom of the… Read more about this item

George Allen. London. 1894. FIRST HUGH THOMSON EDITION. 8vo. (7.6 x 5.4 inches). Fully illustrated throughout with 101 fine engravings by Thomson. Several of the illustrations (about half of them) have been finely hand coloured by a skilled hand. A beautiful copy of the book, bound in an attractive early fine leather binding of half red morocco by Palmer, Howe… Read more about this item

Random House. New York. 1930. FIRST TRADE ROCKWELL KENT EDITION. 8vo. (7.4 x 5.8 inches). Illustrated by Rockwell Kent with woodcuts throughout the text, with full-page plates, chapter head- and tailpieces, other smaller cuts in the text. Finely bound in recent full black morocco, spine with five raised bands. Red title label. The compartments ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt.… Read more about this item