[London]: Hodder and Stoughton for Boots Pure Drug Company, No date [c. 1900]. W. Heath Robinson. Cloth. 4to; 319pp; gilt stamped red cloth over board with outline of children playing on front cover; illustrated in black and white drawings and 16 tipped in color illustrations including frontispiece; light foxing to... More about Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales with Illustrations by W. Heath Robinson
Alnwick: W. [William] Davison, No date [c. 1840s]. Wraps. 16mo (5 1/8” x 3 1/8”); uncut leaf of 8 numbered pages; 1 ½” split at spine fold; relief illustrated; very good. In 6 WorldCat libraries, 2 in the U.S.A. Unusual to have survived as an uncut leaf. Gruesome French folktale... More about History of Blue Beard
No place listed: No publisher listed, No date [c. 1930s]. G.G. WIEDERSEIM. Pictorial boards. Folio; [14pp]; heavy card stock wrapper and pages; wrapper full color illustrated cover with title on front cover; full color illustrations every page; light soiling and shelf scuffing to wrapper, tape to wrapper upper spine covering..... More about Kiddie land; W931
New York: Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Company, 1942. Staplebound wraps. 8vo; [10pp]; color pictorial textured heavy paper wrapper with two staple binding; color illustrations every page with text beneath border; light staining to bottom wrapper corner at fold; near fine. Charming, illustrated story about the adventures of piggies. More about Plump Piggies, Linenette, No. 494
Boston: Henry A. Young & Co., c. 1865. Cloth. No date [c. 1865]. 4 ½” x 3 ¼”; 64pp; blind stamped pebbled maroon cloth over board, gilt decorative badge to spine with title; pencil ownership to ffep; wood-engraved frontispiece and other illustrations; gutters have erosions, lightly cocked forward, chip to... More about The Woolly Bear, and Other Stories
New York: The Century Co., 1895. Palmer COX. First Edition. Pictorial boards. First edition. 4to; xi, [1], 144pp; pictorial paper over board with the title and author on the front cover and spine; black and white illustrations throughout the text; gift inscription to fly leaf dated “Xmas 1895”; chipping to... More about The Brownies Through the Union
New York: Sloan and Pearce, 1946. Dette. Pictorial boards. First American edition. 4to; [24pp]; quarter bound red cloth with color illustrated paper over board; color illustrations; printed verso only; light scuffing to cover and corners bumped, one closed tear at page top edge, light soiling to cover; very good minus... More about The Adventures of Olle
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1925. Clara BURD. cloth. 8vo; xiv, 325pp; blue cloth over board with color pictorial onlay to front cover and gilt decorative border, gilt stamped spine; color illustrated unclipped dust jacket; illustrated endpapers; owner’s ink stamp to free front endpaper; 4 full page color inserted... More about Hans Brinker or, The Silver Skates
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, No date [c. 1888]. Gordon Browne, et al. cloth. 8vo; 140pp; gilt stamped title in a border to front cover, green cloth over board with stamped design of a Christmas tree to front and blind stamped title to spine; chromolithographed frontispiece, other black and white illustrations... More about Old Father Christmas and Other Tales
New York: The Century Co., 1891. R.B. BIRCH. Boards. Tall 8vo; 66, [1]pp; glazed ivory colored boards with a pictorial scene in blue and black incorporating the title and publisher’s name to front, title in black to spine; b&w illustrations; soling and shelf wear to boards and spine, some light..... More about Marjorie and Her Papa, How they wrote a Story and made pictures for it
New York: Duffield & Company, 1917. Boutet de MONVEL. First Edition. cloth. First American printing. 4to; 25pp; quarter bound green cloth with pictorial glazed paper over board; color and black and white illustrations through text; bumping to cover corners and scuffing to board edges, small stain to front cover, light... More about Our Children, Scenes from the Country and the Town
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920, October. R.H. Sauter. 1st Edition. Boards. 4to; 63, [1]pp; gilt stamped tan paper over board, silhouette of a young boy on the front cover; silhouette illustrated endpapers; illustrated throughout in blue and black; unclipped dust jacket without price, back of dj a short blurb... More about Awakening
Boston: The New England News Company, 1906. First Edition. cloth. First edition. 12mo; [iv, 97pp]; plaid cloth over board with title on a label on front cover; a collage of the author’s face on a cartoon woman sitting on a moon; light soiling to cover cloth; very good. A testimonial..... More about Letters of the Motor Girl
London: W. & R. Chambers, Limited, No date [c. 1906]. N. PARKER. Pictorial boards. 8vo oblong; 54pp; tan illustrated paper over board; printed in sepia; full page illustrations as well as within text; bumping and scuffing to covers, pages separated from the 3 staple binding, light soiling to cover and... More about The Browns: A Book of Bears
New York: Bloomsbury, 2003. Bono with Jordan and Eve. First Edition. Pictorial boards. First American edition in original publisher’s gift box with the compact disc performed by Gavin Friday and the Friday-Seezer Ensemble. 8vo; tan cloth with illustration and title on front cover label; black decorated endpapers; light bump to..... More about Peter and the Wolf
[New York]: Delacorte / Eleanor Friede, 1980. Hilary KNIGHT. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 8vo; 132 [4]pp; ISBN: 0440000734; mustard buckram with spine stamped brown; mustard toned pictorial endpapers with the cat over a reservation listing; b&w illustrations; clipped color pictorial dust jacket; fine in fine dj. Story of the... More about Algonquin Cat
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1966. Peter LIPPMAN. First Thus. Cloth. First thus. 8vo; 172 [3]pp; illustrated green and blue cloth over board with title, author and illustrated to front board; ownership book plate to front pastedown; b&w illustrations; unclipped illustrated dust jacket; light shelf scuffing to cover top... More about Oscar Lobster's Fair Exchange
Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Co., 1930. Grace PHILLIPS. wrap. 4to; [22pp]; color illustrated wrappers with three staple binding, title on cover; color illustrations every page; ½” split to head and 1 ½” split to tail of spine, neither affecting the stapled binding, bumping to wrapper corners and scuffing to spine... More about Busy Bunnies; W917