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1 BAUM, L. Frank. The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus. Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Co., 1902 a wonderful festive binding First edition, first printing. Baum, best known for his Wizard of Oz books, recounts the fantastical pagan origins of Santa Claus. Although not part of the Oz series, this title introduces the Gnome King, who later appeared in Oz books including Ozma of Oz (1907). Santa Claus was also a guest at Ozma’s Emerald City birthday party in The Road to Oz (1909). Baum wrote two short story sequels, both published in 1904: “How The Woggle-Bug And His Friends Visited Santa Claus” (in Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz ), and a more direct sequel, “A Kidnapped Santa Claus”, in The Delineator magazine. Small quarto. Finely bound in red morocco, spine lettered and ruled in gilt with raised bands and gilt compartments, front cover lettered in green onlay and gilt, pictorial multicoloured onlay of Santa Claus going down the chimney, after the original cover illustration, twin rule to turn-ins gilt, dark green endpapers, edges gilt. Colour title page, illustrated dedication and contents page, and 19 colour plates by Mary Cowles Clark. A fine copy. £4,500 [134681] 2 BLYTON, Enid. Five on a Treasure Island. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1942 “lashings of ginger beer” First edition, first impression, of the first Famous Five book. Octavo. Finely bound in blue morocco with wraparound pictorial onlay depicting the famous five rowing out to Kirrin island after the original dust jacket, titles to spine in red, twin rule to turn-ins gilt, red endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in a blue cloth flat-back box by the Chelsea Bindery. Illustrated by Eileen Soper. A fine copy. £4,500 [154727]
B. Kork, whereas the English edition has illustrations by the prolific illustrator Charles Robinson, whose younger brothers Thomas Heath Robinson and William Heath Robinson also became illustrators. Octavo. Finely bound in dark green morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, raised bands, covers ruled in gilt, pictorial title block on front cover in gilt with onlaid morocco floral pieces, turn-ins twin ruled in gilt, floral endpapers, gilt edges. With 8 colour plates by Charles Robinson. A fine copy. ¶ Grolier Children’s 64. £2,750 [152157]
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3 BRONTË, Emily. Wuthering Heights. New York: Random House, 1931 beautifully illustrated Signed limited edition, number 112 of 450 copies signed by the artist. Leighton’s woodcuts inspired the set design of the 1939 film adaptation of the novel, starring Laurence Olivier. Octavo. Finely bound in green morocco, spine lettered and tooled in gilt, raised bands, turn-ins ruled in gilt, blue and green patterned endpapers, gilt edges. With 12 wood engravings by Clare Leighton. A fine copy. £2,750 [150583]
4 BURNETT, Frances Hodgson. The Secret Garden. London: William Heinemann, 1911 First UK edition, first impression. The Secret Garden first appeared in a publication aimed at adults, The American Magazine , serialized between November 1910 and August 1911, one of the earliest examples of a children’s story first appearing in a magazine with an adult readership. The book was first published in the summer of 1911 in New York by Frederick A. Stokes, followed a few weeks later by the UK edition. The American edition was illustrated by M.
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