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
New York: The Macaulay Company, 1927. Luxor PRICE. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 4to; ix [iii], 13- 238pp; black stamped compass rose and title to orange buckram; blue and black pictorial endpapers; stamp to verso ffep “Office Copy J.J. Little & Ives Co. New York” with handwritten date: “7/25/27”; color..... 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
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. Wilfrid S. BRONSON. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 8vo; [78pp]; pale olive buckram with the title stamped on the front; color pictorial endpapers of cats from around the world; b&w vignette on title page ; b&w illustrations throughout text; last page publisher’s ad..... 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
Boston: An Atlantic Monthly Press Book: Little, Brown & Company, 1980. Marc BROWN. Second Printing. Cloth. Second Printing. 8vo; [30pp]cloth over board with printed title and design on front cover; decorative endpapers; color illustrations every page; SIGNED and INSCRIBED by author on the verso of the front endpaper; cover corners..... More
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1938. Boards. 4to; [76pp]; color pictorial boards featuring a circus act, red cloth spine; pictorial endpapers; color pictorial title page; b&w and color illustrations throughout; light soiling to boards, scuffing to edges and corners, glue burn to eps at hinge; very good. Highly illustrated with..... 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: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888. Reginald B. BIRCH. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 8vo square; 83pp + [16pp] advertisements publisher's books; gilt-stamped vignette of a child before a fire on moss green cloth over board, decoration to front and spine in red and black; moss green endpapers; 6 relief..... 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
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, No date [c, 1890s]. Helen JACKSON. Boards. 4to; 36pp; color pictorial glazed paper over board, green cloth back-strip; decorative endpapers; owners name in neat script to ffep; 15 full-page chromolithographed illustrations including title page, 4 full-page b&w illustrations including frontispiece; illustrations in text; 15 poems;..... 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: William Morrow & Company, 1965. Louis DARLING. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 8vo; 158 [2]pp; color pictorial cloth over board, vignette of a mouse eyeing a red motorcycle on a tan wood-grained background; child’s presentation to another in ink on front pastedown; light age-toning of paper; near fine..... 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
Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union, 1826/7. Stiff wraps. 18mo; 36pp; salmon-colored stiff wrapper with wood-cut vignette of a man walking with a boy, border of ornaments on front and rear; ad to rear wrapper for other Sunday School Books; string binding; ownership in neat ink to recto frontispiece; wood-cut frontispiece..... More
Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Co., No date [c. 1930]. [P.H. WEBB, illustrations]. Stiff wraps. [JUVENILE] [COLORING BOOK] [ACTIVITY BOOK]. . , : , . . Folio (15 1/8” x 9 ¾”); [32pp]; color pictorial stiff wrapper, illustrations of Red Riding Hood and the Wolf on the front, Three Bears and..... More
New York: The Century Co., 1895. Palmer COX. First Edition. Pictorial boards. First edition. 4to; xi, [1], 144pp; pictorial paper over board with the title and author on the front cover and spine; black and white illustrations throughout the text; gift inscription to fly leaf dated “Xmas 1895”; chipping to..... More
Boston: The Congregational Publishing Society, Beacon Street, 1881-1883. Print no binding. [BROADSHEET]. Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society, Congregational House, Boston, order list, 1884-5. [PAMPHLET]. C.L.S.C. 1884-1885, Boston: Congregational S.S. and Publishing Society, 1884. [MAILING ENVELOPE]. Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society, Boston, [1884]. Thirty-five Lesson Papers: Thirteen Lesson Papers from 1881, Vol. VI: No. 38..... More
New York: The Junior Literary Guild and Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1943. Cloth. Junior Literary Guild edition [a children’s book club]. 4to; 30, [1]pp; red stamped vignette of sailing schooner to blue cloth over board; color pictorial endpapers of a harbor with sailing vessels, gift inscription in neat ink to..... More
Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, 1920. Elizabeth PILSBRY. First Edition. Cloth. First edition, first printing. 12mo; 214pp; olive colored cloth over board, black stamped title, color pictorial onlay to front; b&w frontispiece with tissue guard; 4 b&w half-toned glazed plates; light scuffing to corners, age-toning to paper; very good plus. One..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. First edition. 8vo; 161, [3]pp; quarter-bound blue cloth, stamped on spine in pink; grey pictorial boards; grey endpapers, ink ownership to ffep; ink gift inscription to half-title; b&w illustrations; light fading to edges of spine; unclipped glazed pictorial dust jacket..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. Jill BENNETT. First American edition, first printing. 1/4 cloth. First American edition, first printing. 8vo; 196, [4]pp; quarter-bound in dark maroon cloth with pumpkin colored paper over board, blind-stamped with pheasant heads to front, title gilt-stamped on spine; teal colored endpapers; b&w illustrations; SBN..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. Nancy Ekholm BURKERT. Second State. Cloth. Second state. SBN 394-81282-4 to rear dust jacket. 4to; 118, [2]pp; red cloth over board, blind-stamped wreath around a portrait of a boy to front, gilt-stamped title to spine; lime green endpapers; gift inscription on ffep marked out..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1966. William Pene Du BOIS. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 8vo square; 40, [2]pp; silver-stamped title to black cloth spine, lime green textured paper over board; blue & black swirled endpapers; ownership in ink to front pastedown; b&w illustrations; light age-toning to board edges, mall..... More