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
Springfield, Massachusetts: Milton Bradley Co., 1899. L. J. BRIDGMAN [Lewis Jesse]. Cloth. 8vo; xiv, 443pp; illustrated tan cloth over board, vignette of a child playing with a cat and kittens to front; 47 full-page b&w illustrations including frontispiece; light fading to cover, lightly shaken; very good. Second issue of this..... More
Rochester, N.Y. The Stecher Lithograph Co., 1915. Margaret Evans PRICE. First Edition. Stiff wraps. First edition, later edition issued as a shape book. Folio (13 ¾” x 7 ½”); 12pp; color illustrated stiff wrappers with 3 staple binding; full color illustrations and in blue ink; split in binding: 1” to..... More
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Publishers, 1920. Ethel Franklin BETTS. Cloth. 8vo; 88pp [1]; navy cloth over board, color pictorial onlay to front, stamped gilt frame with borders and title; pictorial endpaper sin sepia; 16 full page color illustrations on glazed stock, including fp; b&w illustrations for each poem; scuffing to..... More
Orpington, Kent: George Allen, 1885. Kate GREENAWAY. Cloth. 8vo; [ix], 20pp; gilt-stamped on brown cloth over board, vignette of a cat painting a picture to front; tan & white fleur-de-lis patterned endpapers; deckle fore-edge and bottom; owner’s bookplate to front pastedown; 22 woodcut illustrations, printed one side only; facsimile 1823..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1904. Walter RUSSELL. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 8vo; ix [i], 272pp; gilt-stamped cloth, title and border in dark grey, b&w oval portrait onlay, small blue hearts to corners; top edge gilt, untrimmed fore-edge and bottom; small vignette of child’s face to title page;..... More
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1991. N. C. WYETH. First Edition. Stiff boards. First edition. 8vo oblong; unpaginated; glazed pictorial board; color illustrations; unclipped dust jacket; fine in fine dj. More
New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1881. Boards. 8vo; 212pp; color pictorial boards, green cloth shelfback, rear board publisher’s advertisement; b&w illustrations throughout including fp and titlepage; scuffing to boards and edges; very good plus. The story of a young girl of 10 or 11 years, who is “Aunt..... More
[London]: W. H. Allen [and Company], 1964. Miroslav SASEK. Reprint. Boards. Reprint. 4to; 60pp; color pictorial boards featuring a Queen’s Guardsman in front of Buckingham Palace; color pictorial endpapers; color pictorials throughout text; light scuffing to board edges; unclipped color pictorial dustjacket, scuffing and chipping to edges, scuffing to rear;..... More
Leipzig: Rudolf Arnold Verlag, No date [c. 1950s]. Hans GRESCHEK. 1/4 cloth. 8vo; 32pp; quarter bound cloth with color illustrated board; illustrations in color and blue line drawing; light scuffing to cover edges; near fine. Wonderful German book on paper crafting for children. Line drawn illustrations probably sufficient for those..... More
Springfield, Massachusetts: McLoughlin Bros., Inc., 1945. Pru HERRIC. Boards. 8vo; [42pp]; color pictorial glazed boards with title “Pinkie”, rear board “Westfield Classics”; b&w pictorial endpapers; black illustrated board to each page; color and b&w illustrations throughout text; light shelf wear; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket with price of 50 cents..... More
Chicago: Rand, McNally and Company, 1903. Ruth Mary HALLOCK. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 4to; 80 [2]pp; tan cloth over board with stamped color pictorial in of a boy and girl carrying this book facing each other, and the title; pictorial endpapers printed in dark green, bookplate to front pastedown;..... More
[New York]: Michael Di Capua Books, Harper Collins Publishers, 1993. Maurice SENDAK, illustrator; Jeanyee WONG, hand lettering. First Edition. Boards. First edition. 8vo oblong; [52pp]; smooth tan paper over board, title in brown to spine; tan textured endpapers, ownership in neat marker to front pastedown dated “Christmas 1995”; color illustrated..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912. Jessie Willcox SMITH. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 8vo; [46pp]; dark green ribbed cloth over board with gilt stamped wreath, title and author to front board, color illustrated onlay to wreath center; age toning to endpapers; 10 color illustrations on heavy glazed stock, printed..... More
Sacramento: California State Department of Education, 1946. Gertrude Herrick HOWE. Wraps. 8vo; 48pp [1]; color printed wrapper with title and illustration of children playing on front, title and publisher to back cover, mint cloth spine; 26 full page color illustrations; inside front wrapper sets out books purpose, 3 pages following..... More
Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 604 South Washington Square, 1923. Jessie Willcox SMITH. Boards. 4to; 100pp; glazed textured tan paper over board, color pictorial onlay to front featuring characters from Alice in Wonderland; color pictorial frontispiece; 11 color plates on glazed stock; light foxing to a few page tops in the..... More
Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1944. Charles ROSNER, August SCHOMBURG. Wraps. 4to; [22pp]; color illustrated wrapper with title on front cover; color illustrations throughout; light damp staining to upper spine on front and back wrapper, crease to front wrapper across middle fore edge and center, small scratch to back wrapper..... More
New York: McLoughlin Bro's. 1893. Wraps. 8vo; [8pp]; glazed chromolithographed pictorial wrapper, 2 staple binding; number “33” on front wrapper; 4 full-page chromolithographed illustrations with titles; light finger soiling, 1/4” split at head and tail of fold; very good. A very traditional version of Robert Southey’s original story, with a...... More
Akron, Ohio: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1926. Frances BRUNDAGE. Boards. 8vo; [40pp]; color pictorial boards; vignette illustrations to endpapers; color vignette to title page; color illustrations and b&w line drawing; light glue burn to endpapers, soiling to two pp; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket without price; light soiling; very good..... More
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1934. Pictorial boards. 8vo; 125pp; color pictorial paper over board, world map illustration; color pictorial endpapers; color illustrations in text; light shelf wear to boards; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket without price, age-toning to paper and light chipping to edges; fine in very good plus..... More
Chicago: Laidlaw Brothers, Publishers, 1930. Stiff wraps. 4to; 32pp; pictorial grey wrapper in black and red; three staple binding; color illustrated; b&w and color illlustrations throughout with text; light age-toning of paper; near fine. Part one of an elementary school instructional series teaching children how to draw. Easy text instruction..... More
London: The Folio Society, 1998. Helen SMITHSON. Cloth. Helen SMITHSON, illustrator. Michael ROSEN, introduction. 8vo; 104, [1]pp; color pictorial cloth over board; pale blue endpapers; color pictorial double title page; illustrations in both b&w and color; publisher’s maroon slipcase; unread; fine in near fine case. Beautiful illustrations for Stevenson’s beloved childhood..... More
Akron, Ohio: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1910. Cloth. Cover title: Robinson Crusoe in Words of One Syllable 8vo; 96pp; illustrated red cloth over board in black and tan; book plateto front paste-down without ownership; printer’s stamp to verso title page “Made by the Werner Company, Akron, Ohio”; full page b&w..... More