Paris: No publisher listed, 1887, Christmas. F. A. BANNISTER. Cloth. F.A. BANNISTER, illustrator. Printed in London by the National Press Agency, Limited. 8vo; 31pp; gilt-stamped bright blue cloth over beveled board, gilt-stamped vignettes of flowers, and a fairy on a mushroom to front; all edges gilt; black endpapers; 4 full-page..... More
New York: McLoughlin Bros. No date [c. 1890-1900]. Cloth. F. Schuyler MATHEWS, illustrator. Small 4to; 128pp; tan glazed buckram over board, color-stamped pictorial on front board with a vignette of a girl jumping rope; white stamped lettering on spine and front board; color pictorial title page; headbands; illustrated throughout; fine..... More
Boston: The Horn Book, Inc., 1944. J.J. [Julius] LANKES. First Edition. Stiff wraps. First edition. 12mo; [32pp]; tan buckram over board with red stamped title, author and illustrator to front; woodcut cottage illustration onlay; decorative endpapers; frontispiece a tipped in photographic illustration of author with a young child, facsimile signature..... More
London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1905. Beatrix POTTER. First Edition. Boards. Edmund Evans, The Racquet Court Press, Swan Street, London S.E., [printer.] First edition, Hofer variant boards. 12mo (7 1/8” x 5 ½”); 51 [1]pp; brownish maroon boards, stamped-white border and title, color portrait of a cat onlaid to front..... More
Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company, 1893. L.J. Bridgman. Later printing. Cloth. Later printing. 8vo; [42pp]; gilt-stamped title and author name in a border to tan cloth over board, vignettes in brown and black to front, colophon to front in gilt, title with illustrations to spine; ownership in ink to ffep; b&w..... More
Springfield, Massachusetts: Milton Bradley Co., 1899. L. J. BRIDGMAN [Lewis Jesse]. Cloth. 8vo; xiv, 443pp; illustrated tan cloth over board, vignette of a child playing with a cat and kittens to front; 47 full-page b&w illustrations including frontispiece; light fading to cover, lightly shaken; very good. Second issue of this..... More
Rochester, N.Y. The Stecher Lithograph Co., 1915. Margaret Evans PRICE. First Edition. Stiff wraps. First edition, later edition issued as a shape book. Folio (13 ¾” x 7 ½”); 12pp; color illustrated stiff wrappers with 3 staple binding; full color illustrations and in blue ink; split in binding: 1” to..... More
[Chicago]: The Erle Press, 1951. Evelyn HANSEN. Boards. 4to; [23]pp; color pictorial paper over board; color pictorial endpapers; b&w pictorial title-page; illustrations in both color and b&w; 3 songs with musical scores; scuffing to edges and corners; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, rear flap publisher’s ads; light creasing, chipping and..... More
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Publishers, 1920. Ethel Franklin BETTS. Cloth. 8vo; 88pp [1]; navy cloth over board, color pictorial onlay to front, stamped gilt frame with borders and title; pictorial endpaper sin sepia; 16 full page color illustrations on glazed stock, including fp; b&w illustrations for each poem; scuffing to..... More
Orpington, Kent: George Allen, 1885. Kate GREENAWAY. Cloth. 8vo; [ix], 20pp; gilt-stamped on brown cloth over board, vignette of a cat painting a picture to front; tan & white fleur-de-lis patterned endpapers; deckle fore-edge and bottom; owner’s bookplate to front pastedown; 22 woodcut illustrations, printed one side only; facsimile 1823..... More
New York: R.H. Russell & Son, 1896. F. Berkeley SMITH. Cloth. [CHILDREN'S BOOK] F. Berkeley SMITH, illustrator. 24mo (5 7/8” x 4 ¼”); 71pp; blue stamped pictorial of a cat on a cushion to front on white cloth over board; top and fore-edges untrimmed; pictorial endpapers; heraldic bookplate of Annie..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1904. Walter RUSSELL. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 8vo; ix [i], 272pp; gilt-stamped cloth, title and border in dark grey, b&w oval portrait onlay, small blue hearts to corners; top edge gilt, untrimmed fore-edge and bottom; small vignette of child’s face to title page;..... More
Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Publishers, 1939. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 8vo; 315pp; green glazed cloth, lettering and decoration silver gilt; pale green endpapers, bookseller ticket on ffep; b&w vignette on half-title; top edge stained yellow, untrimmed fore-edge; small b&w illustrations in text; unclipped color pictorial dust..... More
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1991. N. C. WYETH. First Edition. Stiff boards. First edition. 8vo oblong; unpaginated; glazed pictorial board; color illustrations; unclipped dust jacket; fine in fine dj. More
New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1881. Boards. 8vo; 212pp; color pictorial boards, green cloth shelfback, rear board publisher’s advertisement; b&w illustrations throughout including fp and titlepage; scuffing to boards and edges; very good plus. The story of a young girl of 10 or 11 years, who is “Aunt..... More
[London]: W. H. Allen [and Company], 1964. Miroslav SASEK. Reprint. Boards. Reprint. 4to; 60pp; color pictorial boards featuring a Queen’s Guardsman in front of Buckingham Palace; color pictorial endpapers; color pictorials throughout text; light scuffing to board edges; unclipped color pictorial dustjacket, scuffing and chipping to edges, scuffing to rear;..... More
Leipzig: Rudolf Arnold Verlag, No date [c. 1950s]. Hans GRESCHEK. 1/4 cloth. 8vo; 32pp; quarter bound cloth with color illustrated board; illustrations in color and blue line drawing; light scuffing to cover edges; near fine. Wonderful German book on paper crafting for children. Line drawn illustrations probably sufficient for those..... More
Springfield, Massachusetts: McLoughlin Bros., Inc., 1945. Pru HERRIC. Boards. 8vo; [42pp]; color pictorial glazed boards with title “Pinkie”, rear board “Westfield Classics”; b&w pictorial endpapers; black illustrated board to each page; color and b&w illustrations throughout text; light shelf wear; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket with price of 50 cents..... More
Chicago: Rand, McNally and Company, 1903. Ruth Mary HALLOCK. Cloth. Ruth Mary HALLOCK, illustrator. First Edition. 4to; 80 [2]pp; tan cloth over board with stamped color pictorial in of a boy and girl carrying this book facing each other, and the title; pictorial endpapers printed in dark green, bookplate to..... More
[New York]: Michael Di Capua Books, Harper Collins Publishers, 1993. Maurice SENDAK, illustrator; Jeanyee WONG, hand lettering. First Edition. Boards. First edition. 8vo oblong; [52pp]; smooth tan paper over board, title in brown to spine; tan textured endpapers, ownership in neat marker to front pastedown dated “Christmas 1995”; color illustrated..... More
New York: The Platt & Peck Co., No date [c. 1915]. G.E. SHEPHEARD. Boards. [HUMOR] [POETRY/RHYME]. G.E. SHEPHEARD, illustrator. Printed in Great Britain. First edition thus. Part of The Little Wonder Books series. 24mo (5 ½” x 4 3/8”); 85pp; light brown boards, embossed borders and lettering, color pictorial onlay..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912. Jessie Willcox SMITH. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 8vo; [46pp]; dark green ribbed cloth over board with gilt stamped wreath, title and author to front board, color illustrated onlay to wreath center; age toning to endpapers; 10 color illustrations on heavy glazed stock, printed..... More
Sacramento: California State Department of Education, 1946. Gertrude Herrick HOWE. Wraps. 8vo; 48pp [1]; color printed wrapper with title and illustration of children playing on front, title and publisher to back cover, mint cloth spine; 26 full page color illustrations; inside front wrapper sets out books purpose, 3 pages following..... More
Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1944. Charles ROSNER, August SCHOMBURG. Wraps. 4to; [22pp]; color illustrated wrapper with title on front cover; color illustrations throughout; light damp staining to upper spine on front and back wrapper, crease to front wrapper across middle fore edge and center, small scratch to back wrapper..... More
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1934. Pictorial boards. 8vo; 125pp; color pictorial paper over board, world map illustration; color pictorial endpapers; color illustrations in text; light shelf wear to boards; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket without price, age-toning to paper and light chipping to edges; fine in very good plus..... More