Children's and illustrated books
Collection of works, most signed
£1,764
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
Description
including:
Shepard, E. H. Everybody's Boswell. London: G. Bell and Sons, Limited, 1930. First edition thus, large-paper issue, one of 350 copies signed by the author, 8vo, original cloth, top edges gilt, others untrimmed;
Dahl, Roald. The Twits [and:] Matilda. London: Jonathan Cape, 1980-8. 2 works, first editions, 8vo, original boards, dust jackets (price-clipped), each signed by illustrator Quentin Blake on front free endpaper;
Blake, Quentin. The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote ... Illustrated by Quentin Blake. London: The Folio Society, 1995. 8vo, original cloth, slipcase, signed by Quentin Blake on title-page;
Pullman, Philip. [Group of works:] The Book of Dust, Volume One, La Belle Sauvage, 2017 (2 copies); The Book of Dust, Volume Two, The Secret Commonwealth, 2019; Grimm Tales for Young and Old, 2012; The Scarecrow and his Servant, 2004; Lyra's Oxford, 2017; Serpentine, 2020; all first editions except Lyra's Oxford, all signed by Pullman, all with dust jackets, one copy of La Belle Sauvage additionally signed by illustrator Chris Wormald;
Blyton, Enid. The Ship of Adventure, 1950. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, signed by the author on the front free endpaper (head of leaf excised), spine rolled, covers slightly marked;
and approx. 30 others, including: Paul Coldwell, Paula Rego: Printmaker, 2005 (signed by Paula Rego) The History of the Beano, 2008 (large 4to, inscribed by Euan Kerr and Morris, editors of the Beano, with an original pencil sketch of Minnie the Minx by Jim Pence, and an original ink sketch of Gnasher); Alasdair Gray, Sixteen Occasional Poems 1990-2000, 2000 (one of 200 copies, signed); Arthur Rackham, The Vicar of Wakefield, 1929 (first trade edition, original cloth); idem, A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1911 (first trade impression, second impression); Inga Moore (illustrator), The Wind in the Willows, 2000 (signed); Michael Rosen, We're Going on a Bear Hunt, 2009 (20th anniversary edition, signed by Michael Rosen and illustrator Helen Oxenbury); Gerald Scarfe, Monsters: How George Bush Saved the World and Other Tall Stories, 2008 (signed), and Drawing Blood; Forty-Five Years of Scarfe Uncensored, 2005 (inscribed); and similar