Garfield, Leon,

MR. CORBETT'S GHOST and Other Stories.

Puffin / Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1973, reprint, paperback, 139pp, pictorial double title and in text drawings by Antony Maitland, wraparound coloured pictorial wrappers, three short stories, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, very good plus,

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Book number: 38641

Catalogue: Children's and Illustrated

Keywords: children's juvenile short stories

Garner, Alan,

THE OWL SERVICE.

Collins Modern Classics, London, ND, reprint, trade paperback, 224pp, title and chapter heads by Bob Harvey, pictorial cover art by James Marsh, very lightly bumped at tips, very good,

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Book number: 31139

Catalogue: Children's and Illustrated

Keywords: children's juvenile classic

Gibbings, Robert,

BLUE ANGELS AND WHALES - A Record of Personal Experiences Below and Above Water.

J. M. Dent, London, 1946, 1st edn. in hardback (1st paperback by Penguin, 1938), [viii], 115pp, numerous in text half tone drawings by author, blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorated in gilt upper board, upper edge coloured, expanded from the first edition which was in paperback, a record of the author's diving experiences in the waters of Tahiti, Bermuda and the Red Sea, a little rubbed at extrems., a few fox marks to upper edge, tiny fray to lower cnr. lower board, edges tanned, no dustwrapper, very good,

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Book number: 40111

Catalogue: Children's and Illustrated

Keywords: fish tropics diving tahiti bermuda red sea illustrator illustrated

Gibbings, Robert,

LOVELY IS THE LEE.

J. M. Dent, London, 1945, 1st edn., 199pp, engraved title and numerous in text engraved ills. by author, ochre cloth lettered and decorated in gilt at spine, decorated in gilt upper bd., cloth a little grubby, edges tanned and lightly foxed, light foxing to endpapers, no dustwrapper, good plus,

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Book number: 40112

Catalogue: Children's and Illustrated

Keywords: travel ireland eire illustrator gibbings illustrated

Gibbings, Robert,

TILL I END MY SONG.

Readers Union, London, 1958, 184pp, numerous in text wood engravings by author, cream cloth lettered and lined in turquoise at spine, top edge coloured, decorated lettered dustwrapper, illustrated autobiographical anecdotes from Berkshire, the author's final book, a little bumped at spine ends and lower cnrs., dustwrapper: rubbed with sl loss at extrems. and several short tears, internally repaired, very good in a good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 13658

Catalogue: Children's and Illustrated

Keywords: countryside rural illustrator gibbings illustrated

Gibbings, Robert,

TILL I END MY SONG.

Readers Union, London, 1958, club edn., 184pp, numerous in text wood engravings by author, cream cloth lettered and lined in turquoise at spine, top edge coloured, decorated lettered dustwrapper, illustrated autobiographical anecdotes from Berkshire, the author's final book, a little bumped at upper cnrs., dustwrapper: rubbed at extrems., several edge nicks and repaired tear at head of spine, very good in a good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 30763

Catalogue: Children's and Illustrated

Keywords: countryside rural illustrator gibbings illustrated

Goodall, John S.,

AN EDWARDIAN SEASON.

Macmillan, London, 1979, 1st edn., unpaginated [64pp], colour illustrations by John S. Goodall, small landscape format (5.5 x 7 inches approx.), maroon cloth lettered in gilt at spine, boards decorated in gilt, coloured endpapers, wraparound pictorial dustwrapper by John S. Goodall, prelims. and 2pp text otherwise illustrated throughout mainly in double page ills., the fourth volume in the Edwardian era series, a little rubbed and bumped at extrems., dustwrapper: sl. sunned at spine, lightly rubbed at tips, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 34937

Catalogue: Children's and Illustrated

Keywords: illustrator goodall illustrated

Goscinny (trans. by Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge),

TRAVELS WITH ASTERIX - Asterix in Britain, Asterix in Spain, Asterix in Switzerland and Asterix in Corsica.

WHSmith, 1983, 48pp x4, coloured ills. throughout by Uderzo, large format (9.5 x 7 inches approx.), coloured laminated pictorial boards, four volumes in one in coloured comic strip format, lightly rubbed at tail of spine and lightly bumped at extrems., light impressed marks to boards, edges tanned, no dustwrapper, very good,

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Book number: 39166

Catalogue: Children's and Illustrated

Keywords: children's juvenile

Gould, Chester; Collins, Max Allan; Fletcher, Rick; and Locher, Dick (selected by Max Allan Collins and Dick Locher),

THE DICK TRACY CASEBOOK - Favourite Adventures 1931-1990.

St. Martin's Press, New York, 1990, 1st edn., oversize paperback, x, 273pp, large format pictorial wrappers 11 x 8.5 inches, a selection of some of the best Dick Tracy newspaper comic strip stories since his debut in 1931, from 1936: The Hotel Murders (Gould); 1944: The Brow (Gould); 1951: Crewy Lou (Gould); 1952: Model (Gould); 1960: Spots (Gould), 1978: Big Boy's Open Contract (Collins/Fletcher); and 1987/8: The Man of a Million Faces (Collins/Locher), with an introduction by Dick Locher and afterword by Max Allan Collins, very faint vertical crease in spine, lightly rubbed at tips, edges lightly soiled, very good plus,

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Book number: 28841

Catalogue: Children's and Illustrated

Keywords: adventure crime comic strip illustrated gould collins locher fletcher

Grahame, Kenneth (ills. by John Burningham),

THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS.

Kestrel, Harmondsworth, 1983, 1st thus, 240pp, 12 coloured plates, decorated half title, title and in text line drawings by John Burningham, large format (10 x 7 inches approx.) incl. slipcase, beige cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head band, coloured pictorial dustwrapper and in a coloured pictorial slipcase, lighly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, slipcase: lightly rubbed at tips, very good in a very good dustwrapper in a very good slipcase,

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Book number: 41285

Catalogue: Children's and Illustrated

Keywords: children's juvenile

Greenaway, Kate,

KATE GREENAWAY'S BOOK OF GAMES.

Grange Books, London, 1993, reprint, 62pp [60], coloured ills. throughout, large format (11 x 8.5 inches approx.), coloured pictorial laminated boards lettered in black at spine, with matching dustwrapper, odd pagination with first page numbered 3, a description of some seventy-five playground and classroom games from the past, some still familiar today, with the artist's inimitable illustrations of many of them, dustwrapper: unpriced, tiny paper fault to front flap, fine in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 38357

Catalogue: Children's and Illustrated

Keywords: children's juvenile

Greenwood, Walter,

THE CLEFT STICK, or, "It's the same the whole world over"..

Selwyn and Blount, London, 1937, 1st edn., 222pp, 12 double page and 4 single page black and white illustrations by Arthur Wragg, pictorial eps., large format 10 x 7 inches, ivory white cloth lettered in black at spine and decorated in black upper board, top edge coloured, lower edge uncut, lightly rubbed at tips, faint finger marks to cloth, spine sl. sunned, no dustwrapper, very good,

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Book number: 28453

Catalogue: Children's and Illustrated

Keywords: fiction illustrator wragg illustrated

Groom, Arthur Michael Godfrey illustrator),,

CHAMPION THE WONDER HORSE with Rebel, Ricky and Uncle Sandy.

Daily Mirror and Western Printing and Lithographing Company, London and Raciune, 1959, 1st UK., 125pp, full colour frontis and numerous in text 2 colour ills., 2 colour pictorial endpapers, laminated pictorial boards, about 11" x 8", ten text stories with in-text illustrations., contents: "The New Railhead", "The Pipes of Echo Valley", "Pasture of Death", "The Sons of Sarah", "The Golden Dog", "Podgson of Pillars Creek", "Ricky Takes a Hand", "The Dust Storm", "Ricky on his Own", "Ricky the Nursemaid", slightly cocked, a little rubbed at extrems., slightly musty, slight bow to lower board, edges tanned, good plus,

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Book number: 45023

Catalogue: Children's and Illustrated

Keywords: children's juvenile annual cowboy western champion wonder horse

Grossmith, George and Weedon (ill. Paul Hogarth and Philip Hood),

THE DIARY OF A NOBODY.

Elm Tree Books, London, 1984, 1st thus, 151pp, 12 full page col'd ills by Philip Hood (after 'Spy'), numerous other col'd ills in text by Paul Hogarth, col'd endpapers, half bound in dark blue rexine backed bds. and cnrs., lettered and decorated in gilt at spine, marbled paper covered bds., col'd pictorial onlay upper bd., silk marker, no dustwrapper, fine,

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Book number: 11133

Catalogue: Children's and Illustrated

Keywords: fiction illustrator hood illustrator hogarth fine binding illustrated

Hale, Edward Everett,

THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY - Classics Illustrated #131.

Strato, London, ND, paperback, unpaginated [48pp], coloured ills. by Henry C. Kiefer, stapled coloured pictorial paper wrappers, magazine comic strip format about 10 x 7 inches, in the Classics Illustrated series, No. 131 (HRN 136), cover price 1/3, text in English, printed in USA, a little rubbed at extrems., cnrs. slightly inclined to curl, pages tanned, very good,

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Book number: 42231

Catalogue: Children's and Illustrated

Keywords: children's juvenile classics illustrated edward everett hale man without country henry kiefer comic strip