Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Artists and Writers Guild, Inc., 1935. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Boards. “Authorized Edition”, First American edition thus. 8vo; [20pp]; color pictorial boards; illustrated title page; color illustrations every page except title; light scuffing to boards, light age toning of paper; very good. Story in rhyme by a...... More
New York: John Martin, and Dodd, Mead and Company, 1921. Herman DRUCKLIEB. Cloth. 8vo; [4][108]; quarter bound red cloth with illustrated paper over board; illustrated blue endpapers; profusely illustrated throughout text; scuffing to corners and edges of cover with paper loss; a few small stains; very good minus. Playful illustrations..... More
New York: John Martin's House, Inc., 1918, December. Stiff wraps. [PERIODICAL: JUVENILE] [ACTIVITY] [HOLIDAY]. 8vo; [98pp]; advertisements plus back wrapper; color illustrated heavy card stock wrapper; card stock leaves illustrated in black and red; illustrated throughout; age toning of paper, chipping to spine with loss; very good. Monthly children’s magazine..... More
Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1874. Cloth. 12mo; 158 [1]pp + 8pp publisher’s ads; blue cloth over board, stamped black decorative borders and designs, title on front and spine in gilt-stamped frame; all edges gilt; glazed yellow endpapers; gift inscription in neat ink dated 1876 for Sunday School attendance on ffep;..... More
Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1876. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. One of the Flaxie Frizzle Stories series. 12mo; 182pp; dark green cloth over board, black Aesthetic-style design of flowers stamped in black, gilt-stamped vignette of a girl holding on to her hat in blowing wind to front board; child’s..... More
Concord, N.H. Rufus Merrill, 1850. Wraps. 16mo (4 ¼” x 2 7/8”); 16pp; pictorial yellow wrapper printed in red ink, featuring two hunters with game and their dogs, rear wrapper advertisement; wood engraved illustrations; light shelf wear to wrapper, offsetting of ink of illustrations to opposite page; very good plus..... More
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 36, Essex Street, W.C., 1926. E. H. SHEPARD. First Edition. Boards. [MUSIC]. H. FRASER-SIMSON, music. E.H. [Ernest Howard] SHEPARD, illustrator. First edition. Folio; 43pp; brown boards, cream cloth shelf-back, printed label on front with a vignette of Pooh; illustrated title page; 14 musical scores with..... More
New York and Canada: Stephen Slesinger, Inc., copyright; Victor Talking Machine Co. of Canada, Ltd., records, No date [c. 1931-1934]. Stiff wraps. 12mo (7 3/8” x 8”); three 78 rpm records (most likely a shellac-based limestone or slate material used by Victor at the time), recorded both sides under the..... More
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1959. Maurice SENDAK. Later printing. Boards. Later printing, probably between 1960 and 1961. 8vo; 62pp; pictorial glazed paper over board; color illustrated title page; single border with corner ornament around text on each page; color illustrations; price clipped color pictorial dust jacket, inside flap..... More
Philadelphia: Thomas Cowperthwait & Co., 1847. Paper over Board. 18mo: 178pp; last 2 pages advertisements; illustrated paper over board with gilt striped leather spine; engraved illustrations and 14 hand-colored maps; cover corners bumped, light soiling to cover, endpapers and some pages, a few pages with heavier soiling; very good. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1845. Boards. 4to; 72pp; salmon-colored pictorial boards, black leather gilt-banded back-strip; publisher’s ads to rear board; 53 hand-colored maps; many b&w wood-cut illustrations in text, a few with coloring; scuffing to edges, splitting of leather at spine but binding holding tight, damp-staining to front board..... More
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd., No date [c. 1900]. Frances BRUNDAGE, H. HOROWITZ, etc. Cloth. 12mo; 64pp + 8pp advertisements; grey-green cloth over board, vignette in black to front; ownership to ffep; color half-tone frontispiece, b&w illustrations in text; light scuffing to cover, fading of title on spine, age-toning..... More
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1938. Clare Turlay NEWBERRY. Boards. First edition. 12mo oblong; 30 [1]pp; pale green pictorial boards with a vignette of a puppy on the front; color pictorial endpapers; bookseller’s ticket to ffep “Lauriat’s Books, 91 Franklin St., Boston”; color pictorial half-title, title and..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Candlewick Press, 1992. Maurice SENDAK. First Edition. Wraps. First edition, first printing. 12mo; 160pp; dark green and black mottled paper over board, gilt stamped spine; brown endpapers; color illustrated half-title and frontispiece; color illustrations throughout; color pictorial unclipped dust jacket, 1” closed tear to bottom front, light rubbing..... More
Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1936. Staplebound wraps. 8vo; 32pp; color illustrated stiff wrapper with Jane Withers’ portrait to cover; 3 staple binding tight; black and white photographic illustrations with text; light shelf scuffing, chip to top front wrapper, scratch to back wrapper and creases at spine with color loss;..... More
Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1867. Later printing. Cloth. Later printing. 12mo; 229 [1]pp, [14pp] publisher’s ads at rear; mustard colored cloth over board, brown pictorial to front with portrait onlay, gilt stamped spine; gift inscription to ffep dated 1897; wood-engraved frontispiece and facing half-title with tissue guard; light finger..... More
Akron, Ohio: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1944. Julian WEHR, animations. Paper over board. 8vo oblong; [24pp]; royal blue color printed pictorial paper over board, jack-in-the-box on front wrapper, red plastic comb-style binding; solid blue endpapers; color pictorial title page; color illustrations every page; 4 French-fold pages with tab movable pictorials..... More
New York: Random House, 1978. Dale Payson. First Printing. Boards. First printing. 8vo; [16pp + 2 sheets of punch-out characters and fold-out flap with pop-up castle]; glazed paper color pictorial tri-fold board; $4.95 price sticker to front board; color illustrations; fine with unused sheets of punch-outs. In 7 WorldCat libraries..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941. Maud and Miska PETERSHAM. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 4to; [56pp]; gilt-stamped blue buckram over board, title to front board and spine; bright orange endpapers; gift inscription to ffep; light erasure upper right corner ffep; alphabet letter with text and full page color illustration;..... More
New York: The Platt & Munk Co., Inc., 1933. Lucilee W. and H.C. [Holling C.] HOLLING. Cloth. 4to; [3 + 86]; orange cloth over board with color illustrated onlay with title; 5 full page color illustrations including frontispiece; black and white drawings within text; green endpapers; unclipped color illustrated dust..... More
Paris: No publisher listed, 1887, Christmas. F. A. BANNISTER. Cloth. F.A. BANNISTER, illustrator. Printed in London by the National Press Agency, Limited. 8vo; 31pp; gilt-stamped bright blue cloth over beveled board, gilt-stamped vignettes of flowers, and a fairy on a mushroom to front; all edges gilt; black endpapers; 4 full-page woodcut..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. N.C. WYETH. Cloth. 8vo; xv [iii], 503pp + [1] publisher's ad; black cloth over board, color pictorial paper onlay to front, gilt stamped title on spine; duotone pictorial endpapers; color pictorial title page; 9 color glazed plates with titles; book seller's ticket "Paul Elder's..... More
Boston: The Horn Book, Inc., 1944. J.J. [Julius] LANKES. First Edition. Stiff wraps. First edition. 12mo; [32pp]; tan buckram over board with red stamped title, author and illustrator to front; woodcut cottage illustration onlay; decorative endpapers; frontispiece a tipped in photographic illustration of author with a young child, facsimile signature..... More
London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1905. Beatrix POTTER. First Edition. Boards. Edmund Evans, The Racquet Court Press, Swan Street, London S.E., [printer.] First edition, Hofer variant boards. 12mo (7 1/8” x 5 ½”); 51 [1]pp; brownish maroon boards, stamped-white border and title, color portrait of a cat onlaid to front..... More
Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company, 1893. L.J. Bridgman. Later printing. Cloth. Later printing. 8vo; [42pp]; gilt-stamped title and author name in a border to tan cloth over board, vignettes in brown and black to front, colophon to front in gilt, title with illustrations to spine; ownership in ink to ffep; b&w..... More