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
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
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; speckled edges; ownership in ink on ffep; bookseller’s ticket on rear pastedown, “D..... 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, 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
Chicago: The Book House for Children, 1954. Olive Beaupre MILLER. Cloth. [CHILDREN] [WOMAN AUTHOR]. 4to; 190 [2]pp; bright orange pebbled cloth over board color pictorial portrait onlaid to front in blind-stamped frame, gilt-lettering on front and spine; color pictorial endpapers; color pictorial title-page; color illustrations throughout; never completely opened, as..... 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: Worthington Co., 1888. Ida WAUGH. Boards. [CHILDREN] [POETRY] [ILLUSTRATED] [WOMEN AUTHOR / ILLUSTRATOR]. Ida WAUGH, illustrator. 4to; [16]pp; color pictorial boards featuring two young girls at play on the front and two children at a table setting on the rear board, gold-colored cloth shelf-back; neat gift inscription on..... 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
Published at Melrose, Mass. Copyrighted by the Author, 1877. Boards. [DRAMA] [MUSIC] [WOMAN AUTHOR]. 8vo; 48pp; taupe stiff wrapper, brown cloth shelf back; front wrapper features dark brown lettering within a border with corner ornaments and a silhouette vignette of an old woman with a cane; rear wrapper ads 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..... 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