New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1899. Annita Lyman PAINE. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 8vo; [60pp]; pale blue cloth over board, silver stamped title and borders, vignette of child on a star to front; ownership in pencil on ffep; color illustrated title page; thick creamy glazed stock, printed verso..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, Publishers, 1921. Later printing. Cloth. Later printing. 18mo (5 ¾” x 4 3/16”); vi, 56pp; brick red cloth spine, color pictorial cream paper over board, Sambo in a circle on front; ownership in ink to front pastedown; color fp block-printed; 25 full-page illustrations with..... More
Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1932. Juanita BENNETT. Staplebound. Folio; 12pp; stiff color pictorial wrap-around wrapper; 3 staple binding; color illustration every page, bordered with a blue line, with text; light vertical creasing to wrapper, scuffing to spine; very good. Barton 193. A story about Little Black Sambo, based on..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. Arthur RACKHAM. Later printing. Cloth. Reprint. 8vo; 126pp; gilt-stamped green cloth over board with color pictorial onlay to front; ownership in neat ink and bookseller’s ticket to free front endpaper; 16 full-page color illustrations inserted including fp; light shelf wear, darkening to spine gilt..... More
Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1932. Milo WINTER. Cloth. 4to; 60pp; green textured cloth over board, color pictorial onlay of a racoon to the front; grey and white pictorial endpapers; 2 full page b&w and 24pp color illustrations of animals; scuffing and sunning to edges of boards, light age-toning..... More
New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1931. Hazel FRAZEE, cover illustrator. Staplebound. 4to; [51pp] numbered pages from 261 to 312; color pictorial wrapper, 3 staple binding; b&w and color illustrations throughout; advertisements; light creases to wrapper, chipping at spine; very good. Anthology of verse and stories, including by Clara Ingram..... More
Cincinnati 9, Ohio: Artcraft Paper Products, No date [c. 1950s]. Laura SCHMEING. Stiff wraps. 4to; [6pp]; color pictorial glazed stiff wrapper, illustration of a Dutch girl with a yoke and floral buckets, cut away eyes in wrapper reveal moveable eyes from cardboard paper doll below; 3 staple binding to front..... More
Austin-Dallas, [Texas]: Graphic Ideas, 1972. Cloth. 8vo; 288pp; color illustrated cloth over board with title and author to front cover and title, author and publisher to spine; front pastedown has printed school property student registration form; color illustrated; near fine. UNUSED school text book. More
Akron, Ohio: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1938. Janet Laura SCOTT. Pictorial boards. 8vo; 123pp; color pictorial paper over board, children looking at the world; green cloth spine; color pictorial endpapers of an Indian in full headdress looking over water with flying geese and an airplane; ownership in pencil to ffep;..... More
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1924. Denis EDEN. First American edition. Boards. 8vo; vii [i],89pp; quarter-bound black cloth over decorative block printed boards, pictorial paper label to front, paper label to spine; decorative bookplate for Martin Medbery Gridley (1863-1943, Cook Co., Illinois attorney) and his wife Ruth Farwell Gridley..... More
New York: Ars Sacra-Herbert Dubler, Inc., 1946. Ida BOHATTA-MORPURGO. Boards. 16mo; [20pp]; color pictorial grey boards with anthropomorphic bee on the front; 6 full-page color illustrations; light shelf wear; near fine. This little book of noted Austrian illustrator and author, Ida Bohatta-Morpurgo (1900-1992) translated into English by June Head. Unusually..... More
Chicago: Standard Education Society, Inc., 1962. Cloth. 4to; 192pp; color pictorial cloth over board; green and white pictorial endpapers; text with color illustrations; a few stray pencil marks; near fine. One hundred forty-six (146) craft and art project ideas for children, many from everyday materials found in the home. For..... More
Rockport, Maine: Down East Books, 2000. Kelly Paul BRIGGS. First Edition. Boards. First edition, first printing. 8vo square; 32pp; color pictorial on navy glazed paper over board, vignette to rear; 14 full page color illustrations; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, price on rear; fine in fine dj. ISBN: 0-89272486-2. Framed art..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974. First Edition. Boards. First edition. 12mo oblong; [32pp]; pale olive buckram over board with title, author and publisher in black on spine; b&w pictorial endpapers; bookplate to verso ffep; b&w line drawing illustrations every page without text; light age-toning to cloth on spine;..... More
Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Co., No date [c. early 1900s]. Pictorial boards. 8vo; [46pp]; quarter bound tan cloth with chromolithographed paper over board; illustrated endpapers; black and white illustrations throughout; bumping to cover corners and chipping to edges with paper loss, loss of 1” chip rear cover paper top edge..... More
London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd., No date [most likely after 1903]. Kate GREENAWAY. Pictorial boards. 4to (25.6cm); [3] 4-48pp; quarter bound brown cloth with galzed pictorial paper over board, spine printed with title; color illustrations every page with verse all with a thin black border; illustrated end papers; rubbing..... More
New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 1993. Tim BURTON. First Edition. Boards. [HOLIDAY]. First edition, first printing. 4to oblong; [38]pp; glazed color pictorial boards; b&w patterned endpapers; color pictorial title page; illustrated throughout with text; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket; never fully opened; fine in fine dj. ISBN: 1-56282-411-2. Written..... More
London: Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton, No date [c. 1910]. J. R. SINCLAIR. First Edition. Boards. The Acme Tone Engraving and Printing Co., Watford [England], printers. First edition. 8vo; [52pp]; color pictorial front board with a Golliwog and Teddy bear on a plane, line-drawing on rear; blue cloth back-strip;..... More
New York: The World Publishing Company, 1970. Tasha TUDOR. First Edition. Buckram. First edition. 12mo square; 302pp; aqua buckram over board, gilt-stamped title to front and spine; mustard textured endpapers with floral vignette; thick creamy paper; 6 full-page color including fp and b&w illustrations throughout; dust soiling to top edge..... More
New York: Beginner Books, a Division of Random House, 1959. Carl ROSE. First Edition. Boards. First edition. 8vo; 61 [4]pp; glazed yellow pictorial boards featuring a giraffe; color illustrated endpapers; color illustrations with text; light scuff to head and tail of spine; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket lacking price, rear..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1958. Ronni SOLBERT. First Edition. Cloth. Ronni SOLBERT, illustrator. First edition. 12mo oblong; 36 [2]pp; light brown buckram stamped with Befana riding a donkey and a moon in blue, title in red; color illustrated throughout; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, light shipping to edges, small closed..... More
New York: World Book Company, 1939. Helen TORREY. Cloth. 4to; 64pp; blue illustrated stiff front wrapper, navy cloth spine back; illustrations every page but the teacher’s instructions, teaches the numbers one through five; three pages of instructions to the teacher; light age toning of paper; near fine. Not in WorldCat..... More
New York, Evanston and London: Harper & Row Publishers, 1970. Tomi UNGERER. First Edition. Boards. Tomi UNGERER, illustrator. First edition. 12mo square; [32pp]; color pictorial boards; date written in ink to front pastedown; color pictorial half-title and title page; color illustrations throughout; sewn binding starting at head of hinge; clipped..... More
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1940. First Edition. Boards. First edition. 4to; v, [i], 250pp; yellow and black pictorial green cloth over board, pencil presentation inscription to front pastedown; b&w photographic illustrations from a ranch, many full-page; unclipped yellow pictorial dust jacket, bookseller’s ticket to rear flap; light soiling and wear..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1923. Dugald Stewart WALKER. Cloth. 12mo; 175 [1]pp; blue stamped cloth over board, pictorial scene in white and green; free front endpaper inscribed and signed by author; color fp; illustrated throughout; light bump to corners; near fine. Padraic Colum (1881-1972) was an Irish writer and..... More