Paris: Delarue, No date [c.1860]. First Edition. Paper over Board. First edition. 12mo (21cm); 31pp; color illustrated paper over board with the title, author and publisher in frame on front cover, rear cover lists other publisher’s books with price; pale grey endpapers; 8 hand-colored wood-engraved illustrations including frontispiece, printed recto..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1943. Kurt WIESE. Boards. 8vo; [28pp]; glazed color pictorial on board, blue cloth back strip; pictorial endpapers; color pictorial frontispiece and title page; illustrations in color and b&w; light spotting to cloth back strip; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, one small 1/8” closed tear to..... More
Chicago: Albert Whitman & Company, 1948. Gladys Rourke BLACKWOOD. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. Tall 8vo; [28pp] green cloth over board with color pictorial onlay of two young girls, one an Eskimo; color pictorial endpapers; color pictorial title page, 12 full page color half-tone illustrations including the frontispiece, b&w illustrations..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953. N.C. WYETH. Cloth. 8vo; 320 [1]pp; black cloth over board, gilt stamped spine, color pictorial onlay to front; yellow stained top edge; duotone pictorial endpapers, bookseller’s price ticket of $3.50 from The Denver to front pastedown, with ownership in ink; color pictorial half-title; 9..... More
New York: Cupples & Leon Company, 1922. Julia GREENE. Later printing. Cloth. Later printing. Book 4 in the Brother and Sister Series. 12mo; maroon cloth over board, color pictorial onlay to front; 130pp + [2]pp publisher’s advertisement; ownership on ffep; color frontispiece plus 3 additional plates; unclipped color pictorial dust..... More
New York: Cupples & Leon Company, 1927. Julia GREENE. Later printing. Cloth. Later printing. Book 6 in the Brother and Sister Series. 12mo; 128pp + [4]pp publisher’s advertisements; green pictorial cloth; ownership on ffep; 4 color illustrations including frontispiece; very good. Lacking its dust jacket. The author, Josephine Lawrence (1889-1978)..... More
New York: Barse & Co., 1928. Joseph C. CLAGHORN. Later printing. Paper over Board. Later printing. Number 1 of Set 1 of the Toyland Series of books. 16mo (5 ¼” x 4 1/8”); 48pp; tan printed paper over board with color pictorial onlay to front; color pictorial endpapers; 8 full-page..... More
Springfield, Mass: Milton Bradley Company, 1919. Pictorial boards. 8vo; 8-124pp; quarter bound dark brown cloth with pictorial paper over board, title to front cover and design of a child at a book shelf; illustrated including some sepia toned photographs of finished projects; light chipping to spine and cover edges, offset..... More
Austin, Texas: Heidelberg Publishers, 1974. Barbara Mathews BROMHALL. Faux Leather. 4to; [32pp]; brown textured faux-leather, gilt-stamped spine; orange endpapers; wood-cut illustrations reproduced and printed in black and orange; front joint cracked but binding holding; unclipped orange pictorial dust jacket printed in black and red; very good plus in fine dj..... More
No place listed: Juliette Low, 1916. First Edition. Stiff wraps. Cover title: How Girls Can Help Their Country, Handbook for Girl Scouts First edition. 12mo; vi, 156pp; blue glazed cloth wrapper, line drawing of a Girl Scout in uniform to front; frontispiece and 9 additional b&w photographic illustrated plates; small b&w..... More
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
[Philadelphia]: David McKay Company, 1939. First Edition. Boards. First edition. 8vo; [64pp]; blue pictorial boards with Lulu feeding a giraffe by slingshot; cartoon style illustrations without text in both b&w and color; light staining to front endpapers, light age-toning of paper, scuffing to edges and head of spine; unclipped pictorial..... 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
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
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
New York: McLoughlin Bros., Publishers, No date [c. 1860]. Stiff wraps. 16mo (5” x 4 3/16”); [48pp]; stiff pink wrappers block-printed pictorial in red and black; string binding; publisher’s ad to rear wrapper for One Cent Toy Books; light hand-soiling to wrapper, light creasing to front bottom corner; binding tight..... 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
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