Princeton, NJ: Cotsen Children's Library, (2007).. (2007).. Fine. - Small quarto [9 inches high by 6-1/2 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial color wrappers. 21 & [2] pages, including inside wraps. 18 pages of color illustrations with minimal text at the foot of the pages. Near fine. Laid in is a mechanically reproduced note from the Friends of the Princeton University Library, which explains that this publication celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Cotsen Children's Library. "We hope you enjoy this whimsical representation of the party Cotsen would have hosted, if it had been po... View More...
London: Frederick Warne and Co. / New York: Scribner, Welford, and Co., circa [1871].. [1871].. Very good. - Octavo, bound in reddish brown patterned sand-grain cloth blocked in gilt, black & blind. The front cover is decorated with a blue paper onlay border design blocked in gilt with miniature illustrations including Puss-in-Boots, a frog with an umbrella, a mermaid, a witch, a youth holding up a giant's decapitated head, a boy with a lyre and birds emerging from a pie. The spine is blocked in gilt with similar illustrative elements & is imprinted Little Folks Library at the tail. The rear... View More...
- Small octavo, reddish brown cloth titled in brown & gilt with profuse decorations in black on the front cover & spine. The binding is rubbed & bumped & the head & tail of the spine are lightly chipped. 268 pages plus 4-page publisher's catalog. Illustrated with 6 black-and-white plates by George Cruikshank, including a frontispiece. The front hinge is cracked . There are glue stains & a tear to the surface of the front pastedown, possibly where a label has been removed. There is an owner's bookplate on the front endpaper & a gift inscription on the verso of the frontispiece. The book is ligh... View More...
(NY): Longmans Green and Co., (1929).. (1929).. Very good. - Octavo, maroon cloth titled in gilt with illustration of a ship in full sail stamped in gilt on the front cover. The covers are lightly bumped. The spine is faded with tiny white stains. [xii], 304 & [1] pp. There is an owner's name on the half-title & a brown marking to 1 page of the text. Color frontispiece & pictorial title, 9 B&W plates & B&W head-pieces by James H. Daugherty. Very good.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, (1989).. (1989).. Very good. - Quarto [12 inches high by 9-1/8 inches wide], yellow cloth in a pictorial dust wrapper. There is creasing to the film surface of the dust jacket on the rear panel & fold. 190 & [1] pages. Profusely illustrated in color and black & white. Fine in a very good dust wrapper.
First edition. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR - Quarto, 11-1/4 inches high by 8-3/4 inches wide. Light green cloth titled in turquoise on the spine with turquoise decorations on the front cover, in a color pictorial dust wrapper. [32] pages, illustrated in color by Tomie dePaola. A few of the pages are faintly rippled. Near fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author Nancy Willard on the title page. "A grandmother is busy making quilts. Four magicians gather for lunch. A magpie and a runaway carpet turn everything topsy-turvy, and the result is Nancy Willard's extraordinary story. These mag... View More...
- Square octavo, color pictorial paper covered boards titled in red on front board. The boards are rubbed & darkened; the lower half of the backstrip is lacking; the joints are rubbed & the head of the spine is chipped. 46 & [2] pages. Profuse full-page & textual illustrations in color & black-and-white from the Walt Disney film of "Snow White". The pages are darkened; parts of 1 full-page black-and-white illustration have been delicately colored. Good.
London and Glasgow: Blackie & Son Limited, circa [1915].. [1915].. Very good. - Small quarto, dark blue cloth backed pictorial boards (edges of front board slightly rubbed; rear board soiled). 26 pages. Illustrated with pictorial cover & 4 full-page color illustrations by A. A. Dixon. Very good. View More...
Somerville, NJ: D&D Galleries, 1999.. 1999.. Fine. - Quarto, red cloth titled in gilt on front cover & spine. Unnumbered pages, including listings of 3190 items with prices realized. Near fine. View More...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1966).. (1966).. Very good. - Quarto, mauve paper covered boards, in a pictorial dust wrapper. The boards are lightly bumped with the extremities slightly faded. There is a tear to the tail of the spine. The dust jacket is rubbed & chipped with a tear to the tail of its spine & some tiny black marks to its rear panel. Unnumbered pages, including profuse full-page & textual color illustrations by Janina Domanska. The contents are very good.
First edition.
An adaptation of a Chinese fairy tale. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Philadelphia, PA: The Penn Publishing Company, 1923.. 1923.. Very good. - Square octavo, pictorial gray & cream paper covered boards with color illustration on the front board. The boards are bumped & rubbed with soiling to the rear board; there are small pieces out of the paper at the bottom corners of the boards & the head of the spine. Each play is separately paginated. Illustrated with 5 B&W plates by Mary Rose Donovan & with set diagrams. The contents are very good. The plays are Beauty and the Beast, Bluebeard, Cinderella, Red Riding Hood and The Three Bears. The dialogue is printed in E... View More...
ILLUSTRATED WITH FULL-PAGE PLATES BY G. FATH & GUSTAVE DORE - Octavo, 8-3/4 inches high by 5-3/4 inches wide. Green cloth titled with a vignette in gilt on the front cover. All edges are gilt. The covers are detached and the spine is lacking. The covers are also dampstained, bumped & rubbed with wear to the edges. 232 pages, illustrated with a portrait frontispiece by S. David, an extra engraved title page by G. Fath, 6 full-page plates by G. Fath and 8 plates by Gustave Doré. There is a 2 inch tear along the top inner edge of title page and a few signatures (groups of pages) are slightly pull... View More...
ILLUSTRATED WITH FULL-PAGE PLATES BY G. FATH & GUSTAVE DORE - Octavo, 8-3/4 inches high by 5-3/4 inches wide. Green cloth titled with a vignette in gilt on the front cover. All edges are gilt. The covers are detached and the spine is lacking. The covers are also dampstained, bumped & rubbed with wear to the edges. 232 pages, illustrated with a portrait frontispiece by S. David, an extra engraved title page by G. Fath, 6 full-page plates by G. Fath and 8 plates by Gustave Doré. There is a 2 inch tear along the top inner edge of title page and a few signatures (groups of pages) are slightly pull... View More...
Editions Corentin, (1996).. (1996).. Fine. - Small quarto [9 inches high by 7-1/8 inches wide], softcover bound in color pictorial stiff paper wrappers. 75 pages. Color pictorial title & color plates by Edmond Dulac. Near fine.
Reprint of the 1911 edition. The text, translated from the Danish by Louis Moland, is in French. View More...
Chicago: Rand McNally Co., (1937).. (1937).. Very good. - Square 8vo, maroon cloth (bumped & rubbed; small stain to rear cover; spine faded with handwritten title) with color pictorial label mounted on front cover. 128 pp. (light spotting to endpapers & half-title; occasional light soiling). Color frontispiece, color pictorial title & half-title, full-page color illustrations & textual illustrations in B&W & color by Hope Dunlap. Very good internally. Reprint edition of1937.A brief biography of Dinah Maria Mulock, told for young people, is given in the rear of the book. Born in Stoke-upon-Tren... View More...
NY: E. P. Dutton & Company, circa [1883].. [1883].. Fair. - Small quarto, blue cloth backed paper covered boards (bumped, rubbed & soiled; staining to spine with pieces out of head & tail); color title & color illustrations on front board. [78] pp. (front hinge starting; cracked; soiling & foxing, not affecting illustrations; stain to 1 page of text; light staining to top edges of a number of pages). B&W frontispiece & profuse B&W wood-engraved illustrations (little girl's stockings in 1 illustration colored by a child). Fair. The frontispiece shows a little girl holding an armful of dolls. Th... View More...
Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1902.. 1902.. Good. - Small quarto, blue pictorial cloth titled in white on spine & front cover with decorative image of flowers stamped in white & green on front cover. The covers are bumped & rubbed & the titling on the spine is faded. xii & 219 pp. There is an owner's ink name on the front pastedown & light glue marks on the front endpaper. A few pages are slightly soiled & stained. Illustrated in B&W with frontispiece, plates, textual illustrations & head- & tail-pieces by E. A. Lemann. Good. View More...
[Munchen: Verlag der Munchner Jugend, 1911.. 1911.. Very good. - Quarto [12 inches high by 9 inches wide], color pictorial paper covered boards backed with cream cloth. The binding is bumped & lightly soiled. There are a few small stains to the boards & their edges are darkened. Title, [1] leaf & 24 color plates by various artists. The contents are very good.
Third edition: Dritte Folge.
The minimal text of this beautifully illustrated book is in German. Included among the subjects are a toy soldier, an elevated train and a knight on a white horse. View More...
- Oblong quarto, stapled printed tan wraps with oval keyhole revealing part of an illustration in gray & black. 67 & [1] pp. Profusely illustrated in B&W. There is light foxing to the first & last illustrations. Very good.
The introduction to the catalogue is by Rowland Elzea, Curator of Collections at the Delaware Art Museum.
From the library of Fridolf Johnson with a TLS sending him the catalogue from Hayward Cirker, President of Dover Publications. View More...
Leipzig: Rudolf Arnold, circa [1956].. [1956].. Very good. - Quarto, red cloth backed color pictorial boards (slightly rubbed). 12 leaves. Pictorial title, 10 full-page color illustrations, 12 brown on white textual illustrations and a color pictorial initial by Rudolf Engel- Hardt. Very good. View More...
