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
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
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
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
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
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, 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
Garden City, New York: Junior Books, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1946. Marguerite DE ANGELI. First Edition, Later Printing. Cloth. Marguerite DE ANGELI, illustrator. First edition, later printing. 8vo square; [86pp]; green textured cloth over board, vignette of a bird on a flowering branch stamped in brown to front, title and..... More
[Garden City, New York]: Junior Books, Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1939. Marguerite DE ANGELI. First Edition. Cloth. Marguerite DE ANGELI, illustrator. First edition. 8vo square; [88]pp; glazed brown buckram over board, stamped line drawing of a young boy with a book to front, title and author to spine; yellow pictorial..... More