Stories Collection

The Cat that Walked by Himself
THE CAT THAT WALKED BY HIMSELF Walking by his wild lone through the Wet Wild Woods & waving his wild tail

Lear / Owl & Pussycat / C19
The Owl & the Pussy-Cat went to sea, In a beautiful pea- green boat; They took some honey, & plenty of money, Wrapped up in a five-pound note

Flying Officer W E Johns - Biggles stories in Modern Boy
Advertisement in The Modern Boy magazine for the forthcoming series of stories written by Flying Officer W. E. Johns concerning the wartime adventures of Captain James Bigglesworth

The Ghost Story by Alfred Bestall
A family sit in the dark by a blazing fire, rigid with fear while listening to a ghost story told by an aged relative. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to them, the sceptre of a medieval knight

Stories of the Old Testament by Pauline Baynes
Twenty seven different stories from the Old Testament symbolised in one illustration by Pauline Baynes. How many can you spot? Key to characters and stories is on page 34 of Holly Leaves

Astounding Stories Scifi magazine cover, Shadow out of Time
THE SHADOW OUT OF TIME (H P Lovecraft) - Peaslee encounters the Great Race

Whistle and I ll Come 2
Oh, whistle, and I ll come to you ! The thing in Parkinss hotel room

Lear / Owl & Pussycat
THE OWL & THE PUSSY-CAT The Owl & the Pussy-Cat ask the Pig if he is willing to sell them his ring

THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT. Drawing by Edward Lear from his book Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets, first published in 1871

Katherine Mansfield 1
KATHERINE MANSFIELD New Zealand writer, known for her short stories; married Middleton Murry, became a follower of Gurdjieff

Chaucers Canterbury Pilgrims on the road
* NOTE - FULL FILE IS A LONG PANORAMA - Preview split into 3 sections for ease of viewing * Chaucers Canterbury Pilgrims on the road reproduction of a painting by Stephen Reid (1873-1948) (from left)

Georgie Porgie, pudding and pie - Kissed the girls and made them cry. When the boys came out to play - Georgie Porgie ran away

Fairy Tales of Autumn - Hansel and Gretel by Pauline Baynes
Hansel and Gretel by Pauline Baynes, one of a series of four illustrations of fairy tales which reflect each season. In this case

The Land of Christmas Plays by Pauline Baynes
Charming illustration showing a land populated by all the characters from Christmas plays and pantomimes including Aladdin, Sleeping Beauty, Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk and Robinson Crusoe

M. R. JAMES
MONTAGUE RHODES JAMES Biblical scholar, and author of arguably the finest ghost stories ever written

Cervantess Don Quixote in his library, 1863 French edition. Don Quixote reading books on chivalry in his library before setting out on his quest

Fairy Tales of Winter - Cinderella by Pauline Baynes
Cinderella by Pauline Baynes, one of four illustration of fairy tales which reflect each season. In this instance, Cinderella is transformed by her fairy godmother into a dazzling princess while her

Guy de Maupassant, French writer
Guy de Maupassant ( Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant ), French writer of novels, short stories and poems

Cover design, The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
Cover design for the first instalment of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, by Charles Dickens. 1836

Mr Fezziwigs Ball, illustration by John Leech for A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens( London)
Mr Fezziwigs Ball, illustration by John Leech for A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens( London, 1843). This novella was the earliest and most popular of Dickens Christmas stories

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn book cover
Front cover of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain featuring silhouettes. 1888

Cinderella by Arthur Rackham
Cinderellas sisters arriving for the Ball in all their finery. Date: 1919

Sleeping Beauty pricks her finger by Arthur Rackham
The crucial moment in the story of Sleeping Beauty when Beauty pricks her finger on a spinning wheel thus sending her to sleep for a number of years

Enid Blyton
Childrens author, Enid Blyton (1897-1968)

The Elephants Child
THE ELEPHANTs CHILD Kiplings tale of how the elephant got his trunk. A crocodile tugs at the elephants nose, and thus he develops a trunk!

Thrilling Wonder Stories Scifi Magazine Cover, Giant Ants
HANDS ACROSS THE VOID - The giant ants of Titan help the Earth travellers against their enemies

Lear / Quangle-Wangle / C19
THE QUANGLE WANGLEs HAT The Quangle Wangles 200ft. ornamented hat, on top of the Crumpetty Tree

Lear / Jumblies / Nonsense
THE JUMBLIES The Jumblies go to sea in a sieve on a stormy day

The Hut of Baba Yaga
The Baba Yaga chases the girl in a pestle

She Chose Me For Her Horse. Illustration By Lucy Kemp Welch From The Book Black Beauty By A. Sewell Published 1915

Sleeping Beauty by Arthur Rackham
Princess Briar Rose, aka Sleeping Beauty, pictured in a perfect pose as she sleeps for a hundred years after pricking her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel

Herodotus, Greek historian, artwork
Herodotus. Historical artwork of Herodotus of Halicarnassus (484-425 BC), a Greek historian from Iona who documented the Greco-Persian wars, which occurred in 490 and 480-479 BC

Off to Fairyland by Muriel Dawson
A small child engrossed in a huge book of fairy tales

Cinderella by Arthur Rackham
Ella, aka Cinderella, in her beautiful gown, dancing with the Prince at the Ball. Date: 1919

Cinderella by Arthur Rackham
Ella, aka Cinderella, sitting in rags with a broom in her hand. Date: 1919

Sleeping Beauty by Arthur Rackham
An unsuccessful princely suitor tries to fight his way through the thicket of thorns surrounding the castle where Sleeping Beauty slumbers

Title page, Grimm Brothers, collected tales
Title page, Childrens and Household Tales, collected by the Grimm Brothers. 19th century

Startling Stories Scifi Magazine Cover with Science Island
SCIENCE ISLAND (Eando Binder)A cold-blooded Scientific Napoleon with the Brain of a Genius and a Body of Metal threatens to Dominate Mankind Date: 1939

Illustration, Sweetheart Roland -- The Maiden fetched the magic wand, and then she took her stepsisters head. Date: 1909

Scenery for Aladdin, Pollocks Toy Theatre, with two rounded arches opening onto a seascape. Date: late 19th century

Startling Stories scifi magazine cover - Green-headed Aliens
THE THREE PLANETEERS, by Edmond Hamilton. Two green-headed aliens, fly a spacecraft whilst under fire from groups of humans with ray-guns Date: 1940

Thrilling Wonder Stories scifi magazine cover - THE IONIAN CYCLE
THE IONIAN CYCLE (William Tenn) A space traveller from Earth encounters some interesting fauna emerging from eggs, pods, shells or whatever. Date: 1948

The Mad Hatters Tea Party, Alice in Wonderland at theatre
Alice in Wonderland, performed on stage in 1918 at the Savoy Theatre, and starring Estelle Dudley as Alice, Adrienne Puret as the March Hare

Red Hell of Jupiter, Astounding Stories Scifi magazine cover
THE RED HELL OF JUPITER - The Planetary Explorers disintegrate the Rogans with the death tube Date: 1931

1930s, UK, Pinocchio, Book Plate

Nikolay Urvantsev, Soviet geologist
Nikolay Nikolayevich Urvantsev (1893-1985), Soviet geologist, speaking in public at his 80th birthday celebration. Urvantsev is best known for his exploration of northern Siberia and the Arctic

Sleeping Beauty by Arthur Rackham
Princess Briar Rose, aka Sleeping Beauty turns a key in the lock of a door, where she is about to meet the wicked old fairy, whose spindle will prick her finger sending her, and the royal household

Fairy Tales of Summer - Sleeping Beauty by Pauline Baynes
Sleeping Beauty by Pauline Baynes, one of a four illustrations of a fairy tale to reflect each season. In this instance, the handsome prince emerges from the forest to find Sleeping Beauty

Little Red Riding Hood
The wicked wolf disguises himself as Red Riding Hoods grandmother and asks her to get into bed with him

Master of the Asteroid, Wonder Stories Scifi Magazine Cover
MASTER OF THE ASTEROID - A stranded astronaut is honoured as a god when he crashes on a distant planet

Storytelling to children on the beach during the summer
Children sitting on the beach listening to stories

The Boyhood of Raleigh, after the painting by Sir John Everett Millais. Walter, and his older brother, seated on the ground listening to a sailors story. Sir Walter Raleigh, c.?1552 /1554 - 1618

Tea cup and saucer
Glazed porcelain tea cup, from a childs part tea-service, decorated with a painted band of flowers on an orange ground. Retailed in Australia c.1925-1935. Acquired from the original owner

James Joyce, Irish novelist and poet
James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish novelist and poet. 1921

DE PREDIS, Cristoforo (1440-1486). Stories of Saint Joachim, Saint Anne, Virgin Mary, Jesus, the Baptist and the End of the World. 1476

Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860 - 1904), Russian writer of short stories and plays. He was also a physician

Advert, The Riviera Baby Carriage, Great Portland Street, London Date: 1910

Doonagore Castle, Co Clare, Ireland, 16Th Century Tower House Overlooking The Atlantic Ocean

In The Orchard. Illustration By Lucy Kemp Welch From The Book Black Beauty By A. Sewell Published 1915

Illustration, The Cat and Mouse in Partnership -- The Cat stole away behind the city walls to the church. Date: 1909

Sleeping Beauty by Felix de Gray
Scene from the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty showing the moment when the Prince finds Aurora asleep but looking remarkably perfect considering shes been out like a light for over a hundred years

Library attendant

Katherine Mansfield 2
KATHERINE MANSFIELD New Zealand writer, known for her short stories; married Middleton Murry, became a follower of Gurdjieff

Stories for Tiny Folk
A selection of spines in bold primary colours taken from the 1920s series of Stories for Little Folk books

Whistle and I ll Come
Oh, whistle, and I ll come to you ! Parkinss dream of the thing on the sea-shore

"I Have Hardly Closed My Eyes The Whole Night! Heaven Knows What Was In The Bed
" I Have Hardly Closed My Eyes The Whole Night! Heaven Knows What Was In The Bed. I Seemed To Be Lying Upon Some Hard Thing, And My Whole Body Is Black And Blue This Morning

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Stories from Puppyland. Mr Terrier, proud father of ten puppies, smokes his pipe and reads his newspaper. Date: 1904

Illustration To The Story Catskin. From The Book English Fairy Tales Retold By F. a
Illustration To The Story Catskin. From The Book English Fairy Tales Retold By F.a. Steel With Illustrations By Arthur Rackham, Published 1927

Chelsea Pensioner and young boy
Chelsea Pensioner recounting tales to a young boy. 1891

Dick Whittington by Arthur Rackham
Dick Whittington arrives on the coast of Barbary, and everyone from the ship is entertained by the Moors. When they are invaded by rats and mice

BOX SELLER
Band Boxes. A box seller passes Benjamin Tabarts Juvenile Library on Bond Street, London. Tabart was an early seller of fairy tales & nursery stories for children

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, writer, best known for his Sherlock Holmes stories

David And His Great Aunt. Frontispiece By William Rainey From The Book David Copperfield By Charles Dickens

Many A Winters Night She Flies Through The Streets And Peeps In At The Windows, And Then The Ice Freezes On The Panes Into Wonderful Patterns Like Flowers

Sir Lancelot And Queen Guinevere. Coloured Illustration From The Book The Gateway To Tennyson Published 1910

Bauyrzhan Momyshuly, Kazakh-Soviet officer and author
Baurzhan Momyshuly (Momish-Uly) (1910-1982) - a Kazakh-Soviet military officer and author. As an author he wrote several books - military prose, stories and novels for adults and children

Coal vase
Japanned coal vase made from lacquered tin plate with gilding and painted floral decoration on the lid, cast iron claw feet and iron lion mask handles, with a removable tin-plate liner

Sofa
Mahogany sofa carved with scrolls and an anthemion cresting, upholstered in modern red damask, made in England c.1830. Date: c.1830

Delftware plate
Tin-glazed earthenware plate with a scallop border painted in blue with a central design of a seated figure in a landscape, made in the Netherlands c.1760-1770. Date: c.1760-1770

Guilbaud Cabinet
Walnut-veneered writing cabinet bearing the trade label of John Guilbaud, retailed in London, c.1695-1700. Date: 1693-1712

Metamorphic table
Ebonised mahogany metamorphic table on three scrolled feet with floral gilt metal decoration, manufactured in England c.1820. Date: c.1820

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Red fox (Vulpes vulpes) vixen standing in fork of tree on snowy night, Vertes Mountains, Hungary

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"Unveiling the Magic: A Journey through Time and Imagination" Step into a world where feline independence reigns supreme, as "The Cat that Walked by Himself" weaves its enchanting tale. Feel your spine tingle with anticipation as Alfred Bestall's "The Ghost Story" takes you on a thrilling ride through the realms of the supernatural. Delight in the whimsical verses of Lear's "Owl & Pussycat, " transporting you to a charming C19 setting filled with love and adventure. Embark on daring escapades alongside Flying Officer W E Johns' iconic character, Biggles, as his stories captivate readers in Modern Boy magazine. Immerse yourself in mind-bending science fiction with Astounding Stories' captivating cover featuring "Shadow out of Time, " leaving you questioning reality itself. Rediscover childhood innocence within Lear's timeless poem, "Georgie Porgie, " evoking memories of nursery rhymes and simpler times. Experience biblical tales come alive through Pauline Baynes' illustrations in "Stories of the Old Testament, " connecting generations through faith and storytelling. Marvel at hidden lunar cities on Amazing Stories' scifi magazine cover, igniting dreams of extraterrestrial exploration beyond our wildest imagination. Let your heart race with fear as M. R. James returns to haunt us once more in his chilling sequel, "Whistle and I'll Come " Witness mechanical marvels come alive on Amazing Stories' scifi magazine cover featuring "The Mad Robot, " reminding us that technology can both awe and terrify us simultaneously. Indulge in autumnal enchantment with Pauline Baynes' rendition of Hansel and Gretel from her collection, Fairy Tales of Autumn—where magic lurks around every corner.