Joliet, Illinois: The P.F. Volland Company, 1910. M.T. ROSS. Boards. 8vo; [88pp]; color pictorial on a blue board background, children standing between a brick garden opening and dressed in flower petals to front, child dressed in a blue hydrangea blossom to rear; black cloth shelf-back; color pictorial endpapers; b&w illustrated..... More
Chicago: P.F. Volland Company, 1924. Marion FOSTER. Boards. [RHYMING VERSE] [WOMAN AUTHOR / ILLUSTRATOR]. Marion FOSTER, illustrator. 12mo; [36]pp; color pictorial boards features children walking in a line, lettering in black; color pictorial endpapers, half-title, fp, and title page; color pictorial illustrations every page with verse; chipping to head &..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1955. Garry MacKENZIE. Later printing. Buckram. Later edition, first ed 1953. 8vo; 56pp; pale blue buckram, silver stamped vignette of angel amid pinecones and pine needles; red & bk pictorial endpapers; illustrations throughout; unclipped color illustrated dust jacket, light scuff to upper front, small chips..... More
Toronto: W.J. Gage & Co., Limited, No date [c. 1957]. Eleanor CAMPBELL. Wraps. [SCHOOL READER]. Eleanor CAMPBELL, illustrator. 12mo; 64pp; stiff pictorial yellow wrapper, title on front in black, 2 vignettes of children at play on front, black cloth shelf back; unused condition; darkened fore edge of front wrapper, small..... More
Chicago: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1956. Cloth. [TEACHER EDITION SCHOOL BOOK] [WOMAN AUTHORS]. Cover title: The New Our New Friends, The New Basic Readers, Teacher’s Edition. First edition thus. 8vo; 192pp; orange and red cloth over board, front pictorial of children entering a doorway; color illustrations and text; binding tight..... More
New York: George Routledge & Sons, 416 Broome Street, No date [c. 1880]. Kate GREENAWAY. First American Edition. Boards. [JUVENILE] [ILLUSTRATED] [POETRY]. Wemple & Company, New York, Art Lithographers. First American edition. 8vo; [6] 7-64pp; two-tone green glazed pictorial boards, title in red; all edges stained yellow; blue-green endpapers; gift..... More
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1973. Maurice SENDAK. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. Vol I: 12mo; 168pp; gilt-stamped ornament on brown cloth over board, gilt-stamped spine; dark brown endpapers; b&w illustrated frontispiece plus 12 additional plates; unclipped tri-colored dust jacket with price on front flap, “Two volumes, boxed..... More
Boston: Lockwood, Brooks & Co., 1876. First Edition. Cloth. [POETRY] [ILLUSTRATED]. First edition. 8vo oblong; [56pp]; gilt-stamped green cloth on beveled board, vignette of a child with an umbrella, decorative borders to front, gilt-stamped spine, decorative blind-stamped rear board; all edges gilt; brown endpapers; heavy card-stock leaves printed on one..... More
Chicago: Homewood Publishing Company, No date [c. 1904]. Cloth. 8vo; quarter bound red cloth, color illustrated paper over board with title on front cover; black and white illustrations; gift inscription with date of 1904; of printed on pulp paper; fragile front hinge, paper age toned, bumping to cover corners and..... More
New York: Animated Book Company, 1944. Ephemera no binding. 11 ¾” x 9” stiff card-stock diorama-style envelope wrapper that opens to form a farm scene; color pictorial front wrapper, color pictorial verso featuring a barn scene with a horse and cow on the flaps, and a farmer with a sheep..... More
New York: General Protestant Episcopal Sunday S. Union and Church Book Society, Depository—762 Broadway, 1868. A. DONLEVY. Wraps. A. DONLEVY, illustrator, and L.E. BOWER, engraver, front wrapper. 16mo (6 ½” x 4 3/16”); blue wrapper, front wrapper finely illustrated with church symbols and ornate vines, rear wrapper publisher’s ad; publisher’s..... More
Chicago: Consolidated Book Publishers, 1944. First edition thus. Cloth. [CHILDREN'S] [BIOGRAPHY]. First edition thus. 8vo; 258pp; tan buckram over board, gilt lettering on spine; pictorial endpapers; ownership on front pastedown; “A Wartime Book”; b&w photographic illustrations; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, chipping to edges and creasing; near fine in very..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., Publishers, 1902. Cloth. [ANIMALS]. Seven Thousand. 12mo; 105pp + [1] publisher’s ad; tan cloth over board, dog vignette stamped in brown and black on front, lettering in brown on front and spine; fp photographic illustration of Master Frisky; illustrated title page; light hand soiling..... More
Paris: Brentano's, Inc., No date [c. 1930]. Cloth. [FRENCH LANGUAGE]. 32nd edition. 8vo; 132pp; rust-colored cloth over board, vignette of a boy and girl; color frontispiece; illustrations in b&w; marginalia in pencil; light rubbing to head and tail of spine; near fine. Lessons in French for children ages five to..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. Oliver HERFORD. Later printing. Boards. Later printing. 12mo; 59pp + [3pp one with publisher’s colophon]; gilt-stamped title and vignette to blue board; bookseller’s ticket to ffep; 25 full page illustrations in pale color and poem on facing page; light sunning of spine, small tear..... More
Chicago: Albert Whitman & Company, Just-Right-Books, 1926. Violet Moore HIGGINS. Cloth. [JUVENILE] [FAIRY TALES]. First edition. The dust jacket front flap identifies this as the “New Enlarged Picture Edition” with a price of “Net 65” cents. 8vo; [59]pp; navy cloth over board, gilt-stamped lettering and border, color pictorial only of..... More
New York: Crown Publishers Inc., 1984. Maurice SENDAK. Limited Edition. Cloth. [HOLIDAY: CHRISTMAS]. Maurice SENDAK, illustrator. SIGNED and numbered LIMITED EDITION 197/250 copies. First edition. Small 4to; xiv [iv], 102pp; grey cloth over board, blind stamped frame around the silver-stamped title on the front, silver stamped lettering on spine; color..... More
Philadelphia ad Toronto: The John C Winston Company, No date [c. 1940s]. Boards. [POETRY] [STIGMATIZING LANGUAGE] [RACIST CARICATURE]. Small 4to; [88]pp; maroon ribbed boards, design and lettering stamped in black; ownership in child’s pencil scrawl on front pastedown; illustrated throughout with text, some colored illustrations; rubbing to board edges, corners..... More
New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1954. Jean MICHENER. Third Printing. Cloth. Third printing. 8vo; [40pp]; pale blue glazed buckram, title printed on front and spine; color illustrated endpapers advertise other doll related books; b&w illustrated title page; both color and b&w illustrations; light sunning to board bottom edge; unclipped color..... More
New York: Junior Books, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1938. Richard Holberg. Boards. 8vo; [32pp]; color pictorial board with illustration of Wee Brigit to front and shamrock to rear, black cloth spine; pencil presentation to ffep; illustrations in both color and b&w within text; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, matching..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1977. Tasha TUDOR. First Edition, First Printing. Boards. First edition, first printing. 12mo oblong; [28pp], color pictorial boards with a vignette of a girl and goose to front, flying goose to rear; color pictorial title page; color illustrations throughout; light shelf wear to bottom..... More
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1924. Howard CONNOLLY. Stiff boards. Later reprint, c. 1950. 12mo; 244pp; bright green textured paper over board printed with flowers within crosshatching, vignette of the twins and their dog on the front, title to spine and plain rear board; patterned endpapers; tiny scuff to head..... More
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1938. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 12mo; 215pp; mint green cloth over board, stamped in dark green with a vignette of children reading to front; bright orange and white endpapers with children and a dog; ownership in pencil to fpd; b&w illustrated frontispiece and one..... More
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1950. Howard CONNOLLY. Later printing. Stiff boards. Later printing. 12mo; 244pp; green tweed textured paper over board printed with flowers within crosshatching, vignette of the twins and their dog on the front, title to spine and plain rear board; patterned endpapers; unclipped color pictorial dust..... More
Chicago: Perks Publishing Co., (Not Inc.), No date [c. 1940s]. Unauthorized printing (pirated). Cloth. Unauthorized printing (pirated). 12mo; 252pp; bright blue buckram over board, title and author in black with a vignette of the twins as older children to the front; age-toning of paper; unclipped without price color illustrated dust..... More