London and Glasgow: Blackie & Son Limited, No date [c. 1930s]. Boards. [ANTHOLOGY] [WOMEN AUTHORS]. Small 4to; unpaginated; color pictorial boards, yellow background with a smiling girl holding a dog on the front and a girl shoveling sand on the rear board; pictorial pastedowns; color frontispiece, pictorial title page +..... More
London: Groombridge and Sons, 5, Paternoster-Row, 1858. Cloth. [NATURAL HISTORY] [ILLUSTRATED]. 12mo; 62pp + [2]pp publisher’s advertisements; blue ribbed cloth over board, gilt ruled panel with corner floral ornaments, gilt-stamped lettering on front and spine; all edges gilt; pale yellow endpapers; hand-colored engraved fp and pictorial half-title with date; 30..... More
London and New York: Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd., No date [c. 1918]. Kate GREENAWAY. Cloth. [GIFT BOOK] [RHYMING VERSE]. Printed in Great Britain. Half-title: Kate Greenaway’s Birthday Book for Children 48mo (3 15/16” x 4 ¼”); [vi] [4] 5-126 [127-132]pp; tan cloth over board, stamped green double border surrounding..... More
Atlanta: State of Georgia, Department of Public Health, 1947. Vera NEVILLE. Wraps. [HEALTH] [WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR]. Distributed by the American Dental Association. Vera NEVILLE, illustrator. Atlanta Lithograph Company. 8vo oblong; 19pp; stiff color pictorial wrapper picturing three children looking at a whiteboard on the front, rear wrapper pictures 4 children carrying..... More
Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Company, Publishers, 1909, September. Elenore Plaisted ABBOTT, Helen Alden KNIPE. First Edition. Cloth. [WOMAN AUTHOR] [WOMEN ILLUSTRATORS]. Elenore Plaisted ABBOTT and Helen Alden KNIPE, illustrators. First edition. 8vo; 187pp; navy cloth over board, color pictorial onlay on front board featuring a woman reading a book..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., Publishers, 1902. Cloth. [ANIMALS]. Seven Thousand. 12mo; 105pp + [1] publisher’s ad; tan cloth over board, dog vignette stamped in brown and black on front, lettering in brown on front and spine; fp photographic illustration of Master Frisky; illustrated title page; light hand soiling..... More
New York: A.L. Burt Company, Publisher, 1882. Cloth. [WOMAN AUTHOR]. Copyright 1882 by Bradley & Woodruff. 12mo; 368pp; green pictorial cloth over board, lettering stamped in black on front, illustration of a girl wearing a red dress and hat riding a horse stamped on front; silver gilt title stamped on..... More
Boston, Mass. C.M. Clark Publishing Company, 1905. Cloth. Copyright 1902. 12mo; 377pp, [6]pp publisher’s ads; gray cloth over board, lettering in black on front, illustration of a girl on the front dressed in a red cape and muff trimmed in fur, and a long black skirt; black lettering on spine;..... More
Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co., 277 Washington Street, 1880. Boards. [MUSIC]. Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co., 277 Washington Street, and New York: C.H. Ditson & Co. 711 Broadway. 24mo oblong (5 5/8” x 8 ¾”); 93pp + [1]pp Index and 8pp Supplement; printed green boards, brown cloth shelf-back; eps publisher’s..... More
Philadelphia: H.C. Peck & Theo. Bliss, No date [c. 1851-1862]. Cloth. [MINIATURE]. 64mo (3 1/16” 2 5/8”); vi-xi, 12-191pp + publisher’s ad following; brown ribbed cloth over board, gilt-stamped vignette of two children playing with hoops on front cover, gilt decoration and lettering on spine; all edges gilt; pale yellow..... More
Northampton [Massachusetts]: John Metcalf, 1838. BARBER, woodcut. Wraps. [CHAPBOOK] [RELIGION] [RELIGIOCENTRISM] [ETHNOCENTRISM]. [John Warner ?] BARBER, woodcut. Cover title: Hymns for Children, Northampton: J.H. Butler No date [1838-1850]. 24mo (5 1/4” x 3”); 24pp; yellow wrappers with a decorative border surrounding the lettering and a vignette of 3 children with..... More
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, No date [c. 1827-1850]. Wraps. [CHAPBOOK] [RELIGION] [ILLUSTRATED]. Stereotyped by L.[Lawrence] Johnson. 32mo (4 1/8” x 2 11/16”); 7pp; cream wrapper, front has printed decorative border surrounding the lettering, rear wrapper features a young girl sitting on a stool and reading a book..... More
Philadelphia: Protestant Episcopal Book Society, No. 1224 Chestnut Street, No date [c. 1861-1874]. Wraps. [CHAPBOOK] [RELIGION]. 32mo (4 3/16” x 2 13/16”); 16pp; blue wrapper, lettering printed inside a decorative border on the front, rear wrapper reads “Presented by the / United States Christian Commission, / Central Office, / No..... More
Chicago: Albert Whitman & Company, Just-Right-Books, 1926. Violet Moore HIGGINS. Cloth. [JUVENILE] [FAIRY TALES]. First edition. The dust jacket front flap identifies this as the “New Enlarged Picture Edition” with a price of “Net 65” cents. 8vo; [59]pp; navy cloth over board, gilt-stamped lettering and border, color pictorial only of..... More
New York: Carlton & Porter, Sunday-School Union, 200 Mulberry-St. [1861]. Wraps. [ALMANAC] [RELIGION]. 32mo (4 ½” x 2 7/8”); 64pp; stiff pale green wrapper, front has printing within a highly decorative border, rear wrapper ad for the “Sunday School Union, M.E.C.”; ownership in pencil and vignette of a boy on..... More
New York: Sunday-School Union, 200 Mulberry Street, No date [c. 1857-1868]. cloth. [HOLIDAY] [CHRISTMAS]. 32mo (4 3/8” x 2 7/8”); 47pp; blind-stamped design to faded red cloth; ownership in light pencil on ffep; engraved frontispiece; 5 historiated caps; fading and shelf-wear to boards, light staining, offsetting of fp to title-page;..... More
New York, N.Y. Stoll and Edwards Co., Inc., 1928. Harrison CADY. Boards. Harrison CADY, illustrator. Small 4to; [16]pp; color pictorial boards, two bunnies with baskets and vegetables on front, green cloth shelf-back; color fp, color vignette on title page; illustrations throughout in b&w and color; 2pp publisher’s ads for other..... More
Minneapolis: A Gordon Volland Production presented by The Buzza Co., Craftacres, 1928. Boards. [TOY BOOK] [WOMAN AUTHOR] [RACIST CARICATURE] [STIGMATIZING LANGUAGE]. 8vo oblong (9 ¾” x 13”); [8] illustrated stiff board leaves with peep-holes bound on cloth hinges to the left, and [6] illustrated leaves and a title page bound..... More
Philadelphia ad Toronto: The John C Winston Company, No date [c. 1940s]. Boards. [POETRY] [STIGMATIZING LANGUAGE] [RACIST CARICATURE]. Small 4to; [88]pp; maroon ribbed boards, design and lettering stamped in black; ownership in child’s pencil scrawl on front pastedown; illustrated throughout with text, some colored illustrations; rubbing to board edges, corners..... More
New York: Island Press, 1950. Luman P. KELSEY. Wraps. [WOMAN AUTHOR]. Copyright 1944. SIGNED by AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR. Second edition. Small 4to; [46]pp; pink stiff wrapper, black lettering and portrait on front, two staple binding; signed on title page; hand-lettered text within a border, b&w illustrations every page; light damp..... More
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 36 Essex Street, STrand W.C. 2, 1943. Katharine TOZER. Cloth. [WOMAN AUTHOR] [WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR]. Katharine TOZER, illustrator. Jas. Truscott & Son, Ltd., Printers, London E.C.3. First British edition. 8vo; 54pp; blue cloth over board, portrait of a Chinese girl dancing on front stamped in red..... More
New York: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1959. Roger DUVOISIN. Cloth. [WOMAN AUTHOR]. Roger DUVOISIN, illustrator. Small 4to; 32pp; tan buckram over board, brown stamped illustration of a man holding a gift and girl on front, brown lettering on spine; color pictorial endpapers in brown and blue; fp and..... More
[Philadelphia]: Edgewood Publishing Company, 1895. Palmer COX. Boards. [RHYMING VERSE] [HUMOR] [STIGMATIZING and RACIST ILLUSTRATIONS] . Palmer COX, illustrator. Reprint. Small 4to; [104]pp; color pictorial boards, blue cloth shelf-back; color cartoon-style line drawings throughout; interior clean and binding tight; heavy wear to boards with chipping and bumping of corners with..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1936. Clare Turlay NEWBERRY. First Edition. Cloth. [WOAMN AUTHOR and ILLUSTRATOR]. First edition. 8vo; 28pp; pictorial boards, both front and rear feature a vignette of kitten heads on a red background; b&w pictorial endpapers of kittens; gift inscription dated October, 1936 on verso ffep;..... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1946, April. First Edition. Cloth. [WOMAN AUTHOR] [WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR]. Anne VAUGHAN, illustrator. First edition. 8vo; 85, [2]pp; rust colored cloth over board, blue stamped pictorial of a doll and dog enclosed in a ribbon frame on front, lettering on spine; color pictorial endpapers; bookseller’s label..... More