Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 28 S. Fourth Street, 1891. Maurice LELOIR. Boards. 8vo; 296pp; dark green cloth over board; stamped pictorial, gilt figures and silver flowers on front, decorative spine; all edges gilt; gift inscription to ffep dated 1892; engraved frontispiece and vignette on title page, 11 additional full-page engravings and..... More
New York: Sloan and Pearce, 1946. Dette. Pictorial boards. First American edition. 4to; [24pp]; quarter bound red cloth with color illustrated paper over board; color illustrations; printed verso only; light scuffing to cover and corners bumped, one closed tear at page top edge, light soiling to cover; very good minus..... More
[New York]: The Vanguard Press, 1953. Louis SOLBODKIN. Boards. Louis SLOBODKIN, illustrator. 4to; 34 [2]pp; color pictorial boards, yellow cloth shelf-back; ownership in neat pen to front pastedown; color frontispiece and vignette to title page; illustrated throughout; scuffing to edges, bumping to corners, a few light spots; unclipped color pictorial..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Inc., 1933. Boards. 8vo; [26]pp; glazed pictorial boards on a yellow background, blue back-strip; peach colored pictorial endpapers; ownership in neat pencil on ffep; color illustrated vignette to title page; illustration in black and peach on every page with text; head and tail of spine..... More
New York: Sheldon and Company, Publishes, 1864. 1/4 cloth. 12mo; xvi, 291pp + [2pp ads]; quarter-bound green cloth, title, author and publisher to front in double black border, ad to rear board; small pencil drawing of a wagon on blank verso of last page; scuffing to boards and corners, light..... More
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1921. Blanche Fisher LAITE. First Edition. Boards. First edition. 8vo; ix [iii], 284pp; color pictorial in cream, orange and black over olive cloth over board; deckle fore-edge; color patterned endpapers, blocks with children’s portraits; ownership in pencil dated 1923 to ffep; duotone frontispiece on glazed..... More
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1925. Clara BURD. cloth. 8vo; xiv, 325pp; blue cloth over board with color pictorial onlay to front cover and gilt decorative border, gilt stamped spine; color illustrated unclipped dust jacket; illustrated endpapers; owner’s ink stamp to free front endpaper; 4 full page color inserted..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. Paul BROWN. Cloth. EDITORIAL COPY. 8vo; 170pp; blue glazed buckram over board; gilt-stamped lettering on front and spine; owner’s bookplate on front pastedown; 39 full page b&w illustrations; unclipped green pictorial dust jacket, “Editorial Copy” slip laid onto rear panel, light age toning of..... More
New York: Golden Press, 1969. Pictorial boards. 4to; [60pp]; color pictorial glazed paper over board; color pictorial dust jackets; ownership to ffep; color illustrations every page with text; anthropomorphic animals; light scuffing to corners, head and tail of spine; very good plus. Fifty occupations illustrated by anthropomorphic animals doing work..... More
New York: Dutton Children's Books, 1990. Maurice SENDAK, jacket illustration. First Edition. Boards. First edition. 4to; 120pp; color illustrated glazed boards; green endpapers; color illustrated throughout; unclipped color illustrated glazed dust jacket, lacking price on the front flap, rear flap states “Reinforced for Library Use”; fine in fine dj. Hanrahan..... More
Paris: Amedee Bedelet, No date [c. 1850]. Cloth. Small 8vo; 188pp; gilt stamped dark brown, blind stamped borders, red and green accents to gilt frame around title on front cover, gilt stamped pictorial to rear cover, spine gilt stamped in elaborate decoration with red and green accents; yellow endpapers; all..... More
New York: Barse and Hopkins, Publishers, 1916. V. Floyd CAMPBELL. Later printing. Boards. [POETRY] [RHYMING VERSE]. V. Floyd CAMPBELL, illustrator. Presumed first edition, later printing [1917]. The Traveling Bears Series of books #7. 4to; 58 [2]pp + [4pp] publisher’s ads; color pictorial boards, grey cloth back-strip; b&w pictorial title-page; color..... More
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1930. Bert SALG. Later printing. Cloth. Later printing, c.1936. 12mo; xx [ii], 246pp, [4]; bright red buckram stamped in black with title, author, and vignette of a fish wearing a top hat to the front board; map endpapers in red ink; illustrated frontispiece and 3..... More
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, Publishers, 1930. Bert SALG. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 12mo; xxi [i], 298pp; red cloth over board, title in black-outlined orange letters; 4 b&w illustrated plates on glazed paper including frontispiece; light age-toning of paper, on page with a black smudge; unclipped color illustrated dust..... More
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1929. Edwin J. PRITTIE. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 8vo; xv, 365pp; gilt stamped decorative border to royal blue cloth over board, color illustrated paper onlay of a sailboat; blue stained top edge; illustrated endpapers, pencil ownership and inscription to front pastedown; 4 color..... More
Boston and New York: Harcourt Children's Books, 2009. Axel SCHEFFLER. First American Edition. Boards. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Axel SCHEFFLER, illustrator. First American edition. 8vo; 64pp; gilt-stamped blue boards, vignette of 3 cats on the front under a smiling sun, gilt lettering on spine; cat patterned endpapers; pictorial title page; color..... More
Akron, Ohio: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1937. Staplebound wraps. 8vo; 32pp; color photographic illustrated stiff wrapper with Shirley in Asian clothing; 2 staple binding; black and white photographic illustrations with text; leaves held firm by staples but disbound from wrapper; light shelf wear; good plus. Photoplay. Shirley Temple was a...... More
[New York]: Harper Collins Publishers, 2006. Mary ENGLEBREIT. First Edition. Boards. [HOLIDAY] [ABECEDARIAN]. First edition, first printing. 4to; [30pp]; color pictorial boards, color pictorial endpapers with a blank ownership bookplate; color pictorial title page; every page color illustrated; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket with price of US $16.99 on rear..... More
New York: The Platt & Munk Co., Inc, 1940. Esther FRIEND. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 8vo; 44pp; dark blue stamped blue buckram over board, illustration of a girl stamped on front; red and black illustrated endpapers; red & bk illustrations throughout with a full-page frontispiece; unclipped color illustrated dust..... More
New York: The Platt & Munk Co., 1929. EULALIE. Boards. 8vo; [8]pp; glazed color pictorial of children playing on a beach with a dog and a donkey; red cloth shelf-back; thick board leaves; scuffing to edges with loss, color running from spine tail to bottoms all leaves; very good minus..... More
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, No date [c. 1888]. Gordon Browne, et al. cloth. 8vo; 140pp; gilt stamped title in a border to front cover, green cloth over board with stamped design of a Christmas tree to front and blind stamped title to spine; chromolithographed frontispiece, other black and white illustrations..... More
Anchorage, Seattle, Portland: Alaska Northwest Books, 1996. Evon ZERBETZ. First Edition. Cloth. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by author. First edition. Tall 8vo; [32pp]; red cloth over board, silver stamped title to spine; blue star endpapers; color illustrated title page signed by author; glazed paper; color illustrations reproduced from linocuts; light vertical..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. Maxfield PARRISH. Later printing. Cloth. Later printing, c. 1920. 8vo; x [ii], 199pp [1]; last leaf unopened; black cloth over board, color pictorial onlay to front, gilt-stamped spine; deckle fore-edge; color pictorial endpapers featuring a giant with a club astride a red lobster; color..... More
Newark, N.J. Charles E. Graham and Co., 1925. Boards. 4to; [32pp]; color pictorial paper over board, tan cloth shelf-back; color pictorial endpapers; color halftone illustrations with borders every page, text sometimes inset into the illustration; light scuff to bottom, chipping to front board fore-edge, bumping of bottom corners; color pictorial..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, No date [c. 1941]. Sibylle v. OLFERS. Later printing. Cloth. Later printing, date on front flap of dust jacket only. 4to; [22pp]; yellow cloth over board illustrated with silhouettes of tiny children carrying plant stems; pictorial endpapers; full page color illustrations opposite a page of text;..... More