New York: McLoughlin Brothers, No date [c. 1870s]. String. Square 12mo; [8pp]; yellow stiff color pictorial wrappers printed in red and black; rear wrapper lists Picture Books for Little Children at "Six Cents Each"; string binding; color lithographed illustrations with story in rhyme; fine. With verse containing more difficult vocabulary..... More
New York: McLoughlin Bros. No date [c. 1870s]. 4to; [22pp]; color illustrated wrapper with advertising for other books on back, title and publisher to front; 6 full page chromolithographs with a verse on the opposite page; 2 tears on a verse page with some paper loss on ''Be Kind to..... More
Mainz: Engelbert Dessart, No date [c. 1948]. 1/4 cloth. 8vo; 19pp; quarter bound red cloth with illustrated glazed paper over board cover; illustrated paste downs; full page illustrations in color and black and white with text; light scruffing to bottom cover, faint scratch to cover; near fine. A German version..... More
London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd., No date [most likely after 1903]. Kate GREENAWAY. Pictorial boards. 4to (25.6cm); [3] 4-48pp; quarter bound brown cloth with galzed pictorial paper over board, spine printed with title; color illustrations every page with verse all with a thin black border; illustrated end papers; rubbing..... More
Rochester, N.Y. Stecher Litho Co., 1917. Margaret Evans PRICE. Staplebound. Folio; [14pp]; color illustrated wrapper with three staple binding; color illustrations throughout the text; light soiling to wrapper; very good plus. Colorful and charming illustrations accompany the adventures of a small girl, her then, Biddy, and the chicks. More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1894. 1/4 cloth. 8vo; 251pp; quarter cloth with illustrated paper over board; black and white illustrations throughout; bumped cover corners with paper loss, scuffed edges, soiling to cover and light smudging to pages; very good. Anthology of stories by Mrs. Mary Rice MILLER and..... 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
London & New York: T.C. & E.C. Jack & Frederick A. Stokes Co., No date [c. 1907]. Paul WOODROFFE. Boards. 4to; 32 [2]pp; color pictorial paper over board, animals playing musical instruments in greenery, white cloth spine; pale green pictorial endpapers of mice playing tug-a-war; bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown;..... 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
London: Cassell, Peter, Galpin & Co., 1880. Boards. 7 1/2'' x 9 1/2''; unpaginated [58 pp]; illustrated paper over board cover; blue endpapers; pictorial title page; ink gift inscription dated 1883 to page following title; 30 full page chromolithographed illustrations printed one side only with rhyming text; cover corners bumped..... More
Racine Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Co., 1931. Helen Munsell ROBERTS. Staplebound. Folio; [18pp]; color pictorial wrappers; 3 staple binding; color illustrations every page; light soiling to wrapper, partial erasure to front; bright unmarked interior; very good. Educational information about insecs presented in simple rhymes with brightly colored graphics. More