Cranberry Isles, Maine: The Tidal Press, 1978. Cloth. [WOMAN AUTHOR / ILLUSTRATOR]. INSCRIBED, SIGNED & ILLUSTRATED with 2 mouse drawings at the colophon. 24mo oblong (5 5/8” x 11 ½”); [42]pp; orange cloth over board, gilt lettering on front and spine; b&w mice in checkerboard endpapers; vignette of mice on..... More
London and New York: Ernest Nister and E.P. Dutton & Co., No date [c. 1890-1903]. Boards. 48mo (3 5/8” x 3 ¼”); [12]pp; glazed color pictorial front board of a girl holding mistletoe; red cloth shelf back; blue floral endpapers; stiff paper stock; 4 chromolithographed illustrations; line drawings and text..... More
London and New York: Ernest Nister and E.P. Dutton & Co., No date [c. 1890-1903]. Boards. [JUVENILE]. Published by E. Nister at Nuremburg (Bavaria). 48mo (3 5/8” x 3 ¼”); [12]pp; glazed color pictorial front board of a girl holding mistletoe; red cloth shelf back; blue floral endpapers; stiff paper..... More
Poughkeepsie, New York: Artists & Writers Guild, 1940. Oscar HOWARD. Wraps. [WOMAN AUTHOR]. 4to (12 7/8” x 9 ½”); [16]pp; textured linen-like stiff color pictorial wrapper, Eskimos on front and rear; 4 double page color illustrations, b&w illustrations with text; light damp-staining on fore-edge and upper edge, rubbing of edges;..... More
Racine, Wis. Whitman Publishing Co., 1936. Lucie ATTWELL. Wraps. [WOMAN AUTHOR / ILLUSTRATOR]. 4to (12 ½” x 10”); [8]pp; color pictorial stiff textured wrapper, child shining shoes on the front, crying girl with a boy comforting her on rear; 3 staple binding; 10 full page color illustrations with captions; creasing..... More
Chicago: P.F. Volland Company, 1924. Marion FOSTER. Boards. [RHYMING VERSE] [WOMAN AUTHOR / ILLUSTRATOR]. Marion FOSTER, illustrator. 12mo; [36]pp; color pictorial boards features children walking in a line, lettering in black; color pictorial endpapers, half-title, fp, and title page; color pictorial illustrations every page with verse; chipping to head &..... More
Boston: James French and Company, 1857. Cloth. [WOMAN AUTHOR]. also published by Hastings & French, Galesburg, Ill. Printed by George C. Rand & Avery. Stereotyped by J.E. Farwell & Co., 32 Congress Street, Boston. 16mo (6 ½” x 4 7/8”); 79pp; olive ribbed cloth over board, gilt-stamped ornaments and lettering..... More
Oswego, N.Y. T. Kingsford & Son, No date [c. 1880]. Wraps. [ADVERTISING PREMIUM] [JUVENILE] [RACIST STEREOTYPE ILLUSTRATIONS]. 8vo (9 5/8” x 7 5/8”); [16]pp; pale yellow wrapper, red border, title and decorative ornaments on front with a vignette of a sail boat on front, rear wrapper features illustrations and testimonials..... More
London and New York: Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd., No date [c. 1881]. Randolph CALDECOTT. Boards. [POETRY]. Printed and Copyrighted by Edmund Evans, Ltd., Rose Place, Globe Road, London, E.1. Randolph CALDECOTT, illustrator. First or early edition. 8vo square (9 ¼” x 8 1/8”); 30, [1]pp; color pictorial front board..... More
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd., No date [c. 1930]. Boards. [WOMEN ILLUSTRATORS] [RACIAL CARICATURE]. Small 4to; [32]pp, page numbering does not correspond with pages; glazed color pictorial boards, glazed tan shelf back, Thomas Nelson and Son’s Ltd. Imprint on rear board; color halftone plates as pastedowns plus 5 additional..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1962. Boards. [WOMAN AUTHOR / ILLUSTRATOR]. First edition. 24mo (6 3/8” x 4 7/8”); [22]pp; color pictorial boards featuring dolls on the front and a clown doll on the rear; color pictorial title page; color illustrations every page with text; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket lacking..... More
Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, 1930. Frank VER BECK. Boards. [JUVENILE] [RACIST CARICATURE]. 24mo (5 ½” x 4 ¼”); 60, [2]pp +[4]pp publisher’s ads; purple pictorial boards stamped in green, color half-tone pictorial onlay to front; red cloth spine, black lettering; pictorial endpapers with bookplate; ownership in pencil; fp + 27..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, No date [c. 1900]. Boards. [WOMAN AUTHOR / ILLUSTRATOR] [RACIST CARICATURES]. American edition of the Dumpy Book. 24mo (5 ¾” x 4 1/8”); 56pp; illustrated boards, Sambo holding an umbrella inside an oval on front, lettering in black; green cloth shelf back; printer’s error..... More
New York: McLoughlin Bros. Publishers, No date [c. 1870]. Wraps. [RHYMING VERSE]. 16mo (6 5/8” x 4 ½”); [8]pp; green stiff wrapper, printing in red and dark green, border surrounding lettering and a vignette of Simple Simon on a running mule on front, rear wrapper is publisher’s ad; publisher’s string..... More
New York: McLoughlin Bros. No date [c. 1875]. Wraps. [POETRY]. 4to square (10 5/8” x 9”); stiff color pictorial wrapper, lettering and Rip Van Winkle on the front in a decorative border, publisher’s ad on rear; 6 chromolithographed plates, small b&w illustrations in text; light scuffing to front pictorial, light..... More
Toronto: W.J. Gage & Co., Limited, No date [c. 1957]. Eleanor CAMPBELL. Wraps. [SCHOOL READER]. Eleanor CAMPBELL, illustrator. 12mo; 64pp; stiff pictorial yellow wrapper, title on front in black, 2 vignettes of children at play on front, black cloth shelf back; unused condition; darkened fore edge of front wrapper, small..... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1997. Tasha TUDOR. First Edition. Boards. [WOMAN AUTHOR / ILLUSTRATOR]. First edition, first printing. 8vo oblong; [38]pp; glazed color pictorial boards; color pictorial endpapers and title page; color illustrations throughout; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket; fine in fine dj. One of Tasha Tudor’s (1915-2008) books..... More
London and New York: Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd., No date [c. 1910]. Kate GREENAWAY. Boards. [POETRY] [WOMAN AUTHOR / ILLUSTRATOR]. Kate GREENAWAY, illustrator. Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans, Ltd., Rose Place, Globe Road, London E.1. 8vo; 36, [1]pp; olive green pictorial boards, front and rear boards have rose..... More
London & New York: Frederick Warned & Co., Ltd., No date [c. 1881]. Randolf CALDECOTT. Boards. [POETRY]. Printed and Copyrighted by Edmund Evans, Ltd., Rose Place, Globe Road, London, E.1. Randolph CALDECOTT, illustrator. Cover title: The Farmer’s Boy, One of R. Caldecott’s Picture Books. First or early edition. 8vo square..... More
Boston, Massachusetts: New England Bedding Co., 1927. Wraps. [ADVERTISING CATALOG]. Cover title: Comfort Line Couch Hammocks 1927, Swaying Divans & Day Beds 56pp; stiff glazed wrapper, color framed border surrounding lettering, rear wrapper lists company locations; two staple binding; 2pp color printed fabric samples, b&w illustrations of couches with specs;..... More
New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1892. Daniel Carter BEARD. First Edition. Cloth. [LITERARY WORK]. TWAIN, Mark [Samuel CLEMENS]. The American Claimant, New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1892. Dan BEARD, illustrator. Jenkins & McCowan, New York, printers. First edition. 8vo; xv, [i], 17-277, [1]pp + [8]pp publisher’s..... More
London. Leather bound. [NATURAL WORLD] [SPORT: FISHING]. Printed for F. and C. Rivington, G.G.J. and J. Robinson, W. Goldsmith, J. and J. Taylor, R. Faulder, Scatcherd and Whitaker, and E. Jefferey, 1792. Fifth Hawkins edition, with additions. 12mo; First part: lxxxii, 267, [1]pp + [3]plates; Second part: xxiv, 111pp +[10]pp..... More
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, Publishers, No date [c. 1920]. Arthur Bowmar PORTER. Leather bound. [POETRY]. The Riverside Press, Limited, Edinburgh, Great Britain. Spine title: Poems of Shelley The King’s Treasury of Literary Masterpieces. 24mo (5 ¼” x 3 5/8”); ix, [iii], 182, [1]pp; bright red calf, gilt..... More
New York: S. Bergman, NY, 1916. Ephemera no binding. [MECHANICAL VALENTINE] [HOLIDAY]. 9 ½” x 4”; chromolithographed die-cut figure of a girl dressed in a white fur-trimmed blue winter cap, blue plaid skirt, and button-up leggings holding a bouquet of blue violets in her mittened hands; three original brass brads..... More
Muscatine, Iowa: Weber & Sons Button Company, No date [c. 1910]. Ephemera no binding. [NEEDLE ARTS] [HOME ARTS] [FASHION]. The display box is original and covered on the exterior with faded yellow marbled paper. On the inside lid is a bright chromolithographed advertisement picture featuring a young Native American woman..... More