Children's Books from Tapsell's Books and Music

London: Heinemann, 1956. 191 pages. Pictorial endpapers and many b/w text illustrations. Neat name of a previous owner on flyleaf. Original blue boards with silver titling on the spine. Very slight mark on bottom edge. The price-clipped dustwrapper is very slightly worn and has a brown mark on the lower rear panel. Bright, beautiful and scarce!. First Edition. Hard Cover.… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Gunn and Taylor. Not dated (about 1940s). 16 pages. 36.5cm x 25cm. No. 88, an Australian Production. Many illustrations in b/w and colour. Pictorial card wrappers (staple-bound). Scarce.. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

Melbourne: Murfett. 16 pages. Not dated (1940s). 36.5cm x 25cm. Illustrated in colour and sepia. Pictorial card wrappers (staple-bound). Lightly worn. Scarce.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

Melbourne: Gunn and Taylor. Not dated (about 1940s). 16 pages. 36.5cm x 25cm. No. 83, an Australian Production. B/w text illustrations and four full-page colour illustrations. Pictorial card wrappers (staple-bound). Scarce.. Soft Cover. Fine.

Melbourne: Gunn and Taylor. Not dated (about 1940s). 16 pages. 36.5cm x 25cm. No. 94, an Australian Production. B/w text illustrations and four full-page colour illustrations. Pictorial card wrappers (staple-bound). Scarce.. Soft Cover. Fine.

Melbourne: Murfett 16 pages. Not dated (1947). 36.5cm x 25cm. Illustrated in colour and b/w. Pictorial card wrappers (staple-bound). School presentation plate inside front cover. Scarce.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

Canberra: Primary English Teaching Association and Murray -Darling Basin Commission, 1997. Oblong quarto. 128 pages. Frontispiece map. Profusely illustrated in colour and b/w. Pictorial card wrappers. Scarce.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Heatherton: Hinkler Books, 2010. Not paginated (12 pages). 24.7cm x 25.7cm. Four fairy stories, each with a large pop-up scene and many colour illustrations. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Illus. by Shelagh McNicholas.

Matraville: Lonsdale Publishing, 1989. 22.5cm x 15cm. 71 pages. Many b/w photos. Pictorial laminated boards (slightly marked on upper board). Scarce. *"Ä personalised mini-novel based on 'Neighbours', the award-winning Grundy Television Serial" (cover blurb).. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

London: Juvenile Productions Not dated (about 1938). 125 pages. Pictorial endpapers and pictorial title page. Four colour plates, including frontispiece. Profusely illustrated with a full-page illustration (printed in red and black) facing each page of text. The ownership details written in ink on the This Book Belongs To page are dated August, 1938. Original pictorial boards (lightly rubbed and with… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1948. 18.3cm x 12.5cm. 104 pages. B/w illustrations and colour frontispiece by Lex Marshall. Gift inscription on flyleaf. Pictorial boards in a very good dustwrapper. *In The Bedtime Series.. 1st Australian Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

No publishing details (1940s). Quarto. Not paginated (16 pages). Illustrated by Christie in colour and b/w. Gift inscription dated 1944. Pictorial card wrappers (staplebound). Very slight wear. Scarce. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1935. ix, 182 pages. Colour frontispiece, 8 b/w plates and many b/w line drawings by E. Caldwell. Note and glossary. Original decorated fawn cloth (slight wear at extremities) with titling on spine and upper board. Gift inscription on an early blank page; previous owner's initials on verso of rear endpaper. A crisp, bright and very… Read more about this item

London: Chambers, 1956. 203 pages. B/w frontispiece. Short gift inscription on half-title page. Pages browned from age. Very slight water stain on endpapers. Original blue boards with a patch of discolouration on upper board. The price-clipped dustwrapper is slightly chipped at head of spine. Scarce. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Ilfracombe: Arthur Stockwell, 1961. 46 pages. Pictorial card wrappers. The covers (illustrated with various Australian native animals) are a little grubby. * "This is the story of Benny Bunny, the little rabbit who was befriended by the bunyips. Now, few people know anything about bunyips, those strange, mysterious creatures who are said to inhabit the swamps and water holes… Read more about this item

St Catharines: Vanwell Publishing, 1995. Small quarto. 31 pages. Many full-page colour illustrations. Pictorial laminated boards. No dustwrapper.. 1st Canadian Edition. Hard Cover. Fine.

London: Henry S. King and Co, 1875. 15.3cm x 12.5cm. 137 pages plus 8-page publisher's catalogue. B/w frontispiece (with tisue guard) and two other b/w plates. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. Slight dampstains on endpapers. Original decorated cloth with titling in gilt and black on spine and upper board.. Hard Cover. Good.

London: Ward, Lock and Co, 1915. 255 pages plus 16 pages of book advertisements. B/w frontispiece with tissue guard and seven other b/w plates. Some foxing, especially on preliminaries and on each page that faces a b/w plate. Original pictorial cloth with a colour onlay on the upper board. The front free endpaper has various inscriptions by previous owners. .… Read more about this item

London: Ward, Lock and Co, 1915. 255 pages plus 16 pages of book advertisements. B/w frontispiece with tissue guard and seven other b/w plates. Original pictorial cloth with a colour onlay on the upper board. Gift inscriptions on prelims. Bookplate on front pastedown. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good.

London: Ward Lock and Co, 1916. 319 pages, plus publisher's catalogue. B/w frontispiece with tissue guard and five b/w plates. Original pictorial cloth with titling on the spine and upper board. School presentation inscription on flyleaf. Preliminaries and several other page moderately foxed.. Hard Cover. Very Good.