Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$518.10 + shipping
Description: 106pp. 4to. Original cloth with pictorial onlay. Cream cloth is a touch soiled, otherwise a very good copy. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies, SIGNED by the author. This is number 495
Seller: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australia
A A Milne. A Gallery of Children. London Stanley Paul 1925, 1925.
Price: US$533.81 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition Original bevelled white linen boards with gilt decoration.Boards a little faded and dirty. Fine woven paper which is now a little wavy. Minor rubbing on book edges and some browning to spine. Otherwise in very good condition Number 235 of 500, signed by the author; Folio - over 12 - 15" tall; Signed by Author Very Good
Seller: Reader's Books, Petworth, United Kingdom
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: Folio. White linen boards, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover. One of 500 copies, signed by A.A. Milne on limitation page and printed on fine wove paper. Boards a trifle spotted; mild foxing to endpapers; small engraved bookplate to front pastedown; a very attractive copy, VG to Near Fine.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Milne, A.A.. A Gallery of Children.. Stanley Paul & Co Ltd., 1925.
Price: US$578.82 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Number 44 of a limited edition of 500. Signed by author. ' Barbara's birthday plate on page 64 professionally repaired ( with no loss ). New eps. Light thumb marking to bottom corner of contents page. Tanning/ foxing to bottom corner of ' Princess and Apple Tree' title page. Very good hardback in publishers original cream cloth with gilt decoration and lettering.
Seller: Elaine Beardsell, HOLMFIRTH, United Kingdom
MILNE, A. A.. A Gallery of Children.. Stanley Paul & Co., London, 1925.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: 105 [1] pp. Illustrations by Saida (H. Willebeek le Mair). Folio, original bevelled white linen gilt, t.e.g. First edition; No. 171 of 500 copies, signed by A. A. Milne. Bookplate on pastedown; very slight foxing to endsheets; light soiling to cloth; but nevertheless an attractive copy.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
A. A. Milne. A Gallery of Children. Stanley Paul & Co., London, 1925.
Price: US$805.30 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stanley Paul & Co., 1925. First Deluxe edition. Quarto (12¾ x 10¼ inches) . Limited to 500 copies, this is copy 132 signed by A.A. Milne. Cream cloth boards with gilt titles and illustration. Top edge gilt. Lovely title page illustration and twelve beautiful, full-page, coloured illustrations of children. Cover is mildly soiled, Heavy-weight, rough cut pages are a bit wavy. Pages are clean, bright and unmarked. Binding is tight. Hinges are perfect. Very nice copy.
Seller: PJK Books and Such, Murrells Inlet, SC, U.S.A.
Milne, A.A. and Saida (illustr).. A GALLERY OF CHILDREN.. Stanley Paul and Co: London, 1925.
Price: US$862.50 + shipping
Description: Illustr by Saida (H. Willebeek Le Mair), 13 x 10, gilt decorated white cloth over beveled boards, teg, 105 pp, covers soiled and rubbed, extremities bumped and fraying, hinges loose, eps glue stained, contents good. LIMITED TO 500 NUMBERED COPIES, SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$868.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: LIMITED TO 500 COPIES WITH THIS BEING COPY 218, SIGNED ON THE LIMITATION PAGE BY A. A. MILNE. HARDBACK VOLUME BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL CREAM CLOTH BINDING, COMPLETE WITH TWELVE FULL PAGE COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS, BEVELLED EDGES TO BOARDS. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 13 x 10 INCHES . SPINE VERY SLIGHTLY BROWNED, MODERATE FOXING TO ENDPAPERS, THE USUAL MINOR RIPPLES TO MARGINS OF TEXT PAGES, THE VERY OCCASIONAL MINOR MARK TO PAGES. OVERALL A VERY GOOD PLUS COPY. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Milne, A. A.. A GALLERY OF CHILDREN (Signed Limited Edition). David McKay, New York, 1925.
Price: US$875.00 + shipping
Description: 105 pages + 12 color plates. Limited edition: number 276 of 500 copies SIGNED by Milne. This is the very scarce American issue, with Stanley Paul & Co. on the title page but bound in the blue cloth-covered boards, with David McKay on the spine. The book is clean, bright, and tight, with some color rubbing on rear cover and at corners; some foxing on endpapers and in margins of the title page. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
Seller: Tennyson Williams Books and Fine Art, Williamsburg, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$887.20 + shipping
Description: A Gallery Of Children, Stanley Paul & Co Ltd / David McKay, 1925, first edition (American issue as noted by the binding of blue ribbed cloth with David McKay stamped at the base of the spine). The barest hint of foxing to the end-papers, else a near fine copy with slight rubbing to the spine extremities along with 12 tipped in full color plates by Le Mair (Saida). 1/500 copies specially bound and SIGNED and numbered by the author. (Editorial - As the sheets for this book are undeniably of the British edition, we assume that the number of copies bound by McKay of the SIGNED / limited edition as this is, are just a fraction of the total 500 copies. We hesitate a guess, but feel that 50 to 100 copies at most fit this venue. If anyone has a more definitive number, we would be happy to learn of it).
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
A. A. Milne. A Gallery of Children ( Signed limited edition ). Stanley Paul and Co. , London, 1925.
Price: US$925.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 10 1/4 x 12 3/4". 500 signed copies. Scattered light foxing to end papers and paste downs. Very nearly an impeccable copy, but slight cover soiling becomes visible when the book is held up to light and tilted this way and that. Beautiful. Language: eng
Seller: Barbers Book Store Online, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: Limited to 500 copies signed by Milne, this no. 367. Folio. (ii), 105p, (i). Illustrated by Saida ( H. Willebeek Le Mair) with color title page and twelve inserted color plates not figured in the pagination. The title and plates are printed on coated paper. Bound in publisher's white cloth over beveled boards, the spine with gilt titles and vignette, the upper cover with the titles in a semicircle surrounding a vignette of four children at play in a field of flowers, t.e.g. Some very minor cover soil and a few spots to spine, discoloration to endpapers from the binfing glue. Text and plates fresh. Altogether quite a nice copy Limited to 500 copies signed by Milne, this no. 367.
Seller: First Folio A.B.A.A., Paris, TN, U.S.A.
MILNE, A.A.; Le Mair, H. Willebeek. Gallery of Children, A.. London: Stanley Paul & Co., 1925, 1925.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: One of 500 Copies Signed by A.A. Milne Beautifully Illustrated by Henriette Willebeek Le Mair MILNE, A.A. A Gallery of Children. Illustrations by Saida (H. Willebeek Le Mair). London: Stanley Paul & Co., [1925]. Edition de Luxe. Limited to 500 copies (of which 485 are for sale), numbered and signed by the author (this copy being No. 32). Large quarto (12 1/2 x 10 1/8 inches; 317 x 256 mm.). [2, blank], 105, [1, printer's imprint] pp. Color pictorial title and twelve color plates (plates on glossy paper). Original white buckram over beveled boards. Front cover and spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Very slight soiling to cloth, endpapers slightly foxed. Short (5/8 inch) tear to outer margin of E2 (pp. 37/38). Otherwise a near fine copy. "If we have caught within this Book/(But once) that sudden elfin look/Which flickers in a baby's faceâ"/Or prisoned for a moment's /The shadow in a baby's dimple;/'Tis all that we have done. And so,/See to it that this Book shall go,/Not to the Folk of lofty Brow/Who have no need to wonder now,/But to the Ignorant and Simple./A.A.M." (p. [3]). Henriette Willebeek Le Mair a.k.a. Saida, (1889-1966) was a Dutch illustrator of children's books. Le Mair's artistic development was greatly influenced by the French illustrator Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel. When she was 15, her parents took her to visit him in Paris for advice, and she returned annually for further mentoring. As a result of his advice, she studied at the Rotterdam Academy of Art from 1909 to 1911 as well as taking private drawing lessons. She first published illustrations in 1904, and a year later collaborated with her mother on a series of three books. As an illustrator, her most productive years were between 1911 and 1917. Her images appeared on postcards and children's china as well as in books. Le Mair worked in watercolor, a medium that showcased her delicate, detailed drawings with their muted flat color washes. She often used decorative cartouches shaped as ovals or rounded rectangles to set off her illustrations. Although she illustrated relatively few books, her work has always been highly regarded. One contemporary critic wrote, "Since the days of Kate Greenaway I know of no one who has caught so well the spirit of childhood as Miss Willebeek Le Mair." In her early twenties, she ran a nursery school, and she sometimes used her students as models. In 1920 Le Mair married H.P. Baron van Tuyll van Serooskerken and adopted the name "Saida". They both converted to the beliefs of Sufism, a religion of universal brotherhood and love, as taught by Murshid Inayat Khan, and spent their lives helping the poor and other charitable causes. They eventually settled in The Hague, Netherlands.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Milne, A A. A Gallery of Children - SIGNED by Milne. London Stanley Paul 1925, 1925.
Price: US$1254.12 + shipping
Description: A first edition, first printing published by Stanley Paul in 1925. A near fine book with some light spotting to the page edges. Signed on the half title by the Author without dedication. In a very good unclipped wrapper with a small chip to the foot of the front panel. A little loss to the spine tips. The limited edition of this title is common, the trade edition, signed, less so.
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 105 Pp. Limited Signed Edition, #295/500, Signed By A A Milne. American Issue Binding Of Blue Ribbed Cloth, Beveled Edges, Gilt Lettering On Spine Showing Author, Title, And "David Mckay"; Gilt Lettering And Gilt Illustration Of Three Children On Front Cover Same As On British Issue But 4 1/2' Tall X 5" Wide [The Trade Issue By Mckay Has A Color Paste-On Illustration]. Light Tan Endpapers. A Fine Copy Without A Trace Of Wear, No Fading Or Staining Or Names Or Marks, Always Stored In Publisher's Box In Original Plain Glassine Dj With A Few Small Chips At Edges.This Copy In The Scarce Original Card Box, Glossy Paper Covering, Quite Worn With One Short Edge Of The Top Of The Box Missing And Another Detached.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.