Cincinnati, O. Peter G. Thomson, 1885. Cloth. Copyrighted 1885 by Peter G. Thomson. 24mo (5 ½” x 4 1/8”); [8]pp; glazed cloth wrapper, chromolithographed portrait vignette of a young girl set inside decorative borders on the front, rear wrapper has a vignette of a young girl with a cat; two..... More
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, No date [c. 1880-1890]. J.H. HOWARD, design. New Edition. Stiff wraps. 18mo; [48pp]; color illustrated glazed paper wrappers; 43pp black and white illustrations; spine has ½”split at bottom, 3 leaves have a crease, soiling and creasing to back wrapper; colors remain bright; good. More
New Haven: S. Babcock, No date [c. 1840]. Wraps. 4” x 2 ¾”; 16pp; yellow wrapper decorated with wood engravings; string binding; verso front wrapper has small neat gift inscription in ink; 9 full-page engravings of animals including two on the wrapper inside; decorative border each page including text; rear..... More
New York: McLoughlin Bro's, No date [c. 1875]. Wraps. 4to; [8]pp; 4 chromolithographed plates; pictorial wrapper printed in yellow, red, black and green; front wrapper features a decorative border of leaves surrounding a vignette of a girl playing with dolls and a pet cat looking on, publisher’s ad on rear;..... More
Zurich: Max Künzli Verlag, No date [c. 1970]. Stiff wraps. 12mo (6 5/16” x 7”); [12pp]; chromolithographed pictorial of anthropomorphic insects on stiff wrapper, a butterfly wedding on the front, and a queen bee riding on a flower petal on the rear; 2 staple binding; produced as a coloring guide..... More
London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, No date [c. 1930]. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. First edition thus. 8vo; [30pp]; quarter-bound red cloth with color pictorial glazed paper over board; color and b&w illustrations every page with titles; pumping to cover corners with loss, scuffing to edges, light soiling, a few..... More
New York: Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Company, 1942. Staplebound wraps. 8vo; [10pp]; color pictorial textured heavy paper wrapper with two staple binding; color illustrations every page with text beneath border; light staining to bottom wrapper corner at fold; near fine. Charming, illustrated story about the adventures of piggies. More
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Chicago: Merrill Publishing Co., 1939. Florence SALTER. Wraps. Folio; [14pp]; color illustrated textured paper wrappers with title and artist printed to front and back; color illustrations every page with text at bottom; very light scuffing to edges and a small white spot to front wrapper; near fine. Only in 3..... More
New York: Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Company, 1913. Wraps. [PICTURE BOOK]. First edition. 4to; [14]pp; glazed stiff color printed wrapper, “Linenette”, train and railway worker on the front, train on a turn-table on rear wrapper; stiff color illustrated glazed paper; chipping and scuffing of wrapper edges, bumping to corners with..... 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
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
New York: McLoughlin Bros. & Co., Publishers, No date [c. 1870s]. Wraps. 12mo (7 ½” x 6”); 8, [1]pp; pictorial wrapper printed in yellow, green, and red; front wrapper features two swans within fancy printed borders, publisher’s ad on rear wrapper; publisher’s string binding; gift inscription in neat pencil on..... More
New York and London: Thos. Nelson & Sons and S.W. Partridge & Co., No date [c. 1886]. Wraps. New York: Thos. Nelson & Sons, 42, Bleeker St., and London: S.W. Partridge & Co., 9, Paternoster Row 48mo (3 ½” x 2 15/16”); [22]pp; stiff color pictorial wrapper, title on front..... More
Stuttgart: Verlag v. Gustav Weise, No date [c. 1880]. Pictorial boards. 4to; [16pp]; illustrated paper over board with red cloth binding; thick board leaves, the left leaf is verse and description, the right sided leaf is colorful pictures of everyday objects; rubbing and bumping to board covers, age toning to..... More
Poughkeepsie, New York: Artists and Writers Guild, Inc., 1936. B. Butler. First American Edition. Wraps. [CHILDREN] [ANIMALS] [PICTURE BOOK]. Cover: No. 3728, Linen-Like Finish. B. BUTLER, illustrator. First American edition. Reprinted by permission of the Oxford University Press, London, England. 4to (12 ½” x 9 7/8”); [8]pp; stiff textured wrapper..... More
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
Cincinnati, O. Gibson & Perin Co., 1915, August. Charlotte Vimont ARNOLD. Cloth. 12mo oblong; 32pp; white stamped vignette to black cloth, blind stamped border; 29pp black silhouettes with verse; light shelf-wear, foxing of endpapers; very good plus. Not found in WorldCat. Charming book illustrated with silhouettes of children at play..... More
Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1931. Griswold TYNG. Cloth. 12mo; 272pp; black pictorial of a dog at a shoreline on mustard buckram; gift inscription to ffep dated “Xmas 1933”; b&w frontispiece; dog portrait to title page; b&w illustrations in text; laid in pencil sketch of Rusty; light sunning of..... More
Philadelphia: T.S. Arthur & Son, 1869. Quarter-bound leather. Two volumes bound together. 12mo; Vol 5: viii, 9-192pp, Vol. 6: viii, 9-192pp; green pebbled cloth over board, quarter bound in black calf; gilt-ruled spine with lettering and date; sprinkled edges; ownership in ink on ffep; bookseller’s ticket on rear pastedown, “D..... 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
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, 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: 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
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