New York: McLoughlin Bro's, 1887. Staplebound. 4to; [14pp]; bright chromolithographed glazed wrappers; 6 full-page color illustrations with rhyming text, b&w illustrations within text; 1'' closed tear to rear wrapper, owner's name in neat script to rear wrapper, small creases, chips and darkening to wrapper edges, 2'' separation at spine tail..... More
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, 1882. Miss Ida WAUGH. Wraps. [POETRY] [WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR]. Miss Ida WAUGH, illustrator. 8vo; [8]pp; stiff color pictorial wrapper, boy playing the flute on front, publisher’s ads for “Picture Books for Little Children.” on rear within a decorative red border; ownership in pencil on verso front wrapper;..... More
New York: Street & Smith, 1902. STANDISH, Burt L. Staplebound. 4to; 30pp + 22pp ads; color illustrated wrappers with 2 staple binding; chipping to spine edge but staples holding, light age toning of thin paper, fragile over all; very good. Wonderful color graphics to front wrapper, rear wrapper features other..... More
Boston: Perry Mason & Co., Oct. 25, 1894. String. Folio; [52pp] pp 469-520; orange wrapper, stab sewn binding; advertisements to front and rear wrapper with illustrations; text of stories and poetry followed by premium prizes from the publisher with illustrations; vertical fold, chipping to spine with loss at fold, light..... More
Akron, Ohio: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1936. Staplebound wraps. 8vo; 32pp; color photographic illustration wrapper with Shirley Temple waking up in bed; 2 staple binding holding tight; black and white photographic illustrations with text; bumping to wrapper corners; very good plus. Shirley Temple was a childhood star of screen, radio..... More
Rockport, Maine: Down East Books, 2000. Kelly Paul BRIGGS. Ephemera no binding. SIGNED by the ARTIST. Original art: 15 ½” x 15 ½” mat size; 5 5/8” x 5 5/8” image size. Original illustration art from Lighthouse Lullaby by mid-coast Maine author and artist Kelly Briggs. The fourth illustration found..... More
Rockport, Maine: Down East Books, 2000. Kelly Paul BRIGGS. Ephemera no binding. SIGNED by the ARTIST. Original art: 15 ½” x 15 ½” mat size; 5 5/8” x 5 5/8” image size. Original illustration art from Lighthouse Lullaby by mid-coast Maine author and artist Kelly Briggs. The fifth illustration found..... More
New York: Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. Inc. R.K.O. Building, 1270 Sixth Avenue, 1942. Ephemera no binding. 12" x 9 1/8"; 3 [1]pp; color pictorial front wrapper; ad for a folio on rear wrapper; very good plus. More
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1900. Peter NEWELL Gustave VERBEEK. First Edition. Cloth. [POETRY] [HUMOR]. Peter NEWELL and Gustave VERBEEK, illustrators. First edition. 8vo; [viii], [2] 3-115 [1]pp; blue pictorial cloth over board, gilt-stamped lettering, pictorial of a goose amid a fruiting vine on front; top edge gilt;..... More
New York: Current Books, Inc., A.A. Wyn, 1949. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. First edition. 8vo; 240pp; quarter bound grey cloth with black cloth over board, red stamped spine; book plate to front pastedown; unclipped dust jacket but price covered with white-out although still legible; light age toning to endpapers; light..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1973. George A. TICE, photographs. Second Printing. Cloth. Second printing. 4to; 208pp; black cloth over board, blind-stamped title to front board, gilt-stamped title to spine; pale green endpapers; b&w photographic illustrations throughout; light sunning to bottom edge, shelf-rubbing; clipped pictorial dust jacket, rubbing..... More
New York: Barse and Hopkins, Publishers, 1916. V. Floyd CAMPBELL. Later printing. Boards. [POETRY] [RHYMING VERSE]. V. Floyd CAMPBELL, illustrator. Presumed first edition, later printing [1917]. The Traveling Bears Series of books #7. 4to; 58 [2]pp + [4pp] publisher’s ads; color pictorial boards, grey cloth back-strip; b&w pictorial title-page; color..... More
[New York]: Harper Collins Publishers, 2006. Mary ENGLEBREIT. First Edition. Boards. [HOLIDAY] [ABECEDARIAN]. First edition, first printing. 4to; [30pp]; color pictorial boards, color pictorial endpapers with a blank ownership bookplate; color pictorial title page; every page color illustrated; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket with price of US $16.99 on rear..... More
Moodus, Conn. Prof. F.C. Fowler, 1894. Wraps. Second edition, first published in 1891. 24mo (5 ¾” x 3 3/16”); 32pp; pale green wrapper printed in dark green, vignette of dove on front, wood-cut pictorial rear wrapper of a laboratory; two staple binding; pictorial of Fowler’s Medical Laboratory on verso front..... More
New York: Random House, 1982. Edward GOREY. First Edition. Boards. [MOVEABLE BOOK] [HUMOR] [RHYMING VERSE]. Edward GOREY, illustrations. Ib PENICK, paper engineering. First edition. 4to; [10]pp; glazed color pictorial boards; 6 pop-up, pull-tab, and wheel moveable double page color scenes with text; pop-ups tight; near fine. A moveable book, with..... More
Paris: F.D. Pillot, 1830. Comte de B.G. LACEPÈDE. Ephemera no binding. 8vo plate (8 3/4" x 5 1/2"); 6" x 3 1/2" within borders; custom acid-free archival backing and French matting with hand-applied silver line; a few light spots of foxing; near fine. Hand-colored copper plate engraving of Stingrays from..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1943. Kurt WIESE. Boards. 8vo; [28pp]; glazed color pictorial on board, blue cloth back strip; pictorial endpapers; color pictorial frontispiece and title page; illustrations in color and b&w; light spotting to cloth back strip; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, one small 1/8” closed tear to..... More
Portland, [Maine]: Printed for the Society (The Society of the Colonial Dames of America Resident in the State of Maine). Cloth. 8vo; 28pp; gilt stamped title on pebbled brown cloth over board; owners bookplate to free front endpaper; light glue burn on endpapers; near fine. Not recorded. History of Sir..... More
Akron, Ohio and New York: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1932. Diana THORNE. Wraps. [CHILDREN] [ANIMALS] [PICTURE BOOK]. Diana THORNE, illustrator. 4to (12 ½” x 10 ½”); [12]pp; color pictorial stiff wrapper, 3 staple binding; 12 full-page color illustrations with text; light scuffing and wear to edges, ¼” closed tear and..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. First Edition. Cloth. [SIGNED]. First edition, second printing. 8vo oblong (9 3/8" x 11"); [28]pp; navy cloth over board, gilt-stamped lettering and leaf design on front; orange endpapers, author inscribed and signed on ffep "For all the Langs 1987" with a small drawing of a dog..... More