- Small quarto [7-1/4 inches high by 5-1/4 inches wide]. Softcover bound in pictorial cream & orange wraps. The wraps are detached. They are lightly foxed, darkened around the edges & chipped along the spine with some light staining to the rear wrap. 28 & [2] pages. Black-and-white textual illustrations & full-page illustrations in orange & white by Ernest Hasseldine. The pages are somewhat darkened & their top edges & top corners are lightly stained. A good example only. Tales for Little People No. 545. The cover illustrations depicts Tom, shackled hand and foot, standing before a white man w... View More...
- 12mo, 8-1/4 inches high by 6 inches wide. Softcover, stapled color pictorial cream wraps. The covers are slightly soiled with light staining to the front cover along the spine. 40 pages, consisting of a rare advertising book for Crawford Ranges with a short story by Julian Street and Frank Finney charmingly illustrated in color, and with black & white textual and full-page illustrations of the company's ranges. The middle signature [i.e. group of pages] is detached but present. Very good. A RARE advertising book for Crawford Ranges by the Walker & Pratt Manufacturing Company of Boston. A cha... View More...
- 16mo [approximately 4-5/8 inches high by 3-1/4 inches wide], pictorial glazed boards. The binding is lightly rubbed & bumped. [32] pages. Illustrated in black & white witth a frontispiece, 1 plate & 2 pictorial initials. The binding is cracked at the last page & there is very occasional staining. The pastedowns & endpapers are slightly discolored & there is a tiny chip out of the top corner of the front endpaper. Good.
A title in the "Snowflake Series". The contents include two stories, "The Blacksmith and his Granddaughter" and "Digging Deep". View More...
NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, circa [1926].. [1926].. Fair. - 8vo, green cloth (bumped & soiled; small pencil mark & light stain to rear cover with small piece out of cloth at top edge; head of spine frayed) titled in black. 287 & [1] pp. (rear hinge cracked; slightly darkened). Color frontispiece, 3 color plates & profuse B&W illustrations. Good. "This book has been written for the delight not only of child- readers, but of such of their elders as like and understand small boys. Its aim has been to present a vivid and faithful picture of the daily life of the average boy from the epoch ... View More...
Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, (1973).. (1973).. Very good. - Octavo, cloth, in dw. The covers are bumped. The dw is lightly soiled & chipped. xii & 484 pp. Very good.
1,400 books are described. Dust jacket present. View More...
Howell, Soskin, Publishers, (1944).. (1944).. Good. - Octavo, tan cloth titled in green on spine. The covers are bumped with a tear to the bottom corner of the front cover, & there is a small area of soiling to the rear cover. Half-title, title, 2 leaves & 126 pp. There is light creasing to a number of pages & soiling to the margin of 1 page. Color pictorial endpapers, B&W title vignette, B&W full-page & textual illustrations & 6 color plates by the author. Good. View More...
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1932.. 1932.. Good. - Oblong Octavo, color pictorial boards backed with a black cloth spine. The covers are slightly soiled and rubbed along the edges. 30 leaves, including the endpapers, profusely illustrated in color and black & white. Good.
First edition. Lithographed by William C.D. Glaser.
Subtitled "The Story of a Boy's Adventures on a Ranch" on the front cover. First Edition. View More...
Philadelphia/NY: J. B. Lippincott Company, (1975).. (1975).. Very good. - Octavo, tan cloth titled in gilt, in dw. The price-clipped dw is soiled and lightly chipped with a piece rubbed off the front panel. 368 pp. Illustrated in B&W. Very good in a good dw.
First American edition. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002.. 2002.. Fine. - sc - A 20-1/2 inch high by 24 inch wide poster on heavy creamy white stock illustrated in shades of black & gray. The poster is illustrated with a scene from the book depicting the two boys playing a game on the floor of their home. Books lie on the ground next to an overturned table and chair. A huge spaceshigp is seen in the night sky through the curtained windows. Titled in shades of charcoal and gray in the margin below the image. Near fine. Written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg, the book "Zathura" is a sequel to "Jumanji" which he al... View More...
- sc Quarto. 28 words penned in black ink on a sheet of bright golden yellow stock. Signed Best wishes / Hendrik Willem van Loon. The sheet is slightly bumped with some very light creasing. The top edge is very slightly chipped with a small piece of scotch tape adhering to either end. Folded twice for mailing. Very good.
You might tell your Pa and Ma that there is free board and a free stable for them here should they decide to guide their Duesenberg this way. No addressee is included in the letter. View More...
The Platt & Munk Co., Inc., (1935).. (1935).. Very good. - Small quarto, 8 inches high by 6-7/8 inches wide. Softcover, bound in original color pictorial stapled wraps depicting a young Eskimo boy in front of 2 igloos, holding a white husky pup in his arm while a reddish- brown husky sleddog sits at his side. The covers are very lightly soiled. 12 pages, including the covers, with 7 black & white and 4 color illustrations, most of which depict the young Eskimo boy with his family and sleddogs. Very good. Nigalek once met white men who gave him gumdrops. He's thus very excited to join his mom &... View More...
(Montreal: Les Editions Varietes), (1942).. (1942).. Very good. - Quarto [12 inches high by 9-3/4 inches wide], softcover bound in color pictorial wrappers. The wraps are bumped and lightly rubbed & soiled. 16 unnumbered pages, including wraps, printed on textured paper. Profusely illustrated in color by Margot Voigt. The page corners are bumped & there is occasional minor soiling. The illustrations, which fill most of each page, are clean & bright. Very good.
The book is copyrighted by Samuel Lowe Company 1942.
New York: Howell, Soskin & Co., (1940).. (1940).. Good. - Small octavo [10 inches high by 7 inches wide], decorative red & yellow boards. The binding is bumped & rubbed with the extremities faded. The spine is faded & chipped. Half-title, title, [2] leaves, 63 & [1] pages. Illustrated with music staves. Good.
First edition.
As a means of teaching young people to read music, bars of music are substituted for some of the words in these story-puzzles with the musical notes corresponding to the letters they replace. First Edition. View More...
Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1970.. 1970.. Good. - Octavo, gray cloth titled in black. A bit soiled & stained. 166 pp. Ex- library with the usual markings. Good.
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1903.. 1903.. Very good. - Octavo, 7-1/2 inches high by 5-1/8 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in pictorial green cloth, titled and ruled in light green with color illustrations and decorations on the front cover and the spine. The covers are rubbed and soiled and the corners and head and tail of the spine are bumped. The spine is slightly faded. x, 327 & [i] pages. A previous owner's name and the date "Nov. 6th, 1903" are penned on the front endpaper. There are a couple of tiny black spots to the rear blank. Very good. First edition, second iss... View More...
Philadelphia, PA: Henry Altemus Company, (1905).. (1905).. Very good. - (Altemus Children of the Bible Series, No. 8). Small octavo, pictorial white cloth titled in gilt with profuse decorations in gilt & with illustration stamped in color on front cover, in gray dw. The covers are lightly bumped. The dw is chipped & somewhat darkened with a piece out of the head of the spine. 42 pp. & 2-page publisher's catalogue. Color frontispiece, 8 B&W plates & 2 B&W textual illustrations. There is an owner's pencil name & address on the printed bookplate & the title is lightly offset. An attractive copy ... View More...
New-York: W. E. Gilley, 1827.. 1827.. Fair. - Small octavo [5-1/2 inches high by 3-3 /4 inches wide] marbled blue boards backed with red cloth & titled in gilt on the spine. The binding is bumped & heavily rubbed with the head & tail of the spine chipped. 108 pages. Illustrated with a frontispiece. The pages are darkened & rippled. The pastedowns are heavily foxed with scattered foxing throughout. There is the remnant of a book label on the front pastedown & the frontispiece has been colored by a child. Fair. View More...
New York: Random House, [1969].. [1969].. Very good. - Quarto [12-5/8 inches high by 8-3/8 inches wide], pictorial black, white & red boards in a price-clipped matching dust wrapper. The corners of the covers and the head & tail of the spine are rubbed with a chip to the tail. The dust jacket is rubbed with some light creasing. The head & tail of the jacket spine are chipped & there is a tear to the head. Unpaginated. Profuse black-and-white photographic illustrations. The pastedowns and endpapers are lightly foxed and a gift inscription is penned on the front endpaper with the recipients' na... View More...
