- Trisecimo-secondo (32mo), 5 inches high by 3-7/8 inches wide. Softcover, bound in sewn tan wraps, titled in black with a device on the front cover. There is a faint vertical crease to the front cover. [7] unnumbered pages, with decorative tail-pieces. Very good. RARE. View More...
New York: A Ramborn Production, [circa 1930's-40's].. [circa 1930's-40's].. Very good. - Oblong quarto, 8-3/4 inches high by 12 inches wide. Softcover, bound in stiff color pictorial wraps. The corners of the covers are lightly bumped. [16] unnumbered pages, with a color cover illustration and 7 beautiful color plates by Justina. The endpapers and pastedowns are darkened. Very good. Printed in Sweden for Ramborn Corp. A pictorial device illustrating the pastedowns proclaims that This is a Danny Book / A Book Created from Sound Ideas of Modern Times / For Growing Girls and Boys who want Good St... View More...
Berlin: Schreiter'sche Verlagbuchhandlung, [circa 1900].. [circa 1900].. Good. - Square octavo [8-5/8 inches high by 6-1/4 inches wide], cloth-backed bluish gray boards titled in black with a color illustration & a color pictorial label on the front board. The covers are bumped with spotting & light soiling to the rear board. 133 pages plus 3-page publisher's catalog. 4 color plates, including a frontispiece, from watercolors by R. E. Kepler. The front hinge is cracked & the rear hinge is just starting. The bottom corner of the front endpaper is creased & there is a piece out of the bottom co... View More...
New York: Checkerboard Press, 1987.. 1987.. Very good. - Quarto [approximately 11 inches high by 8 inches wide], softcover bound in color pictorial wrappers. The binding is very lightly bumped with a light crease & score mark to the front wrap. [48] pages. Profuse full-page black-and-white illustrations with a line of text below each. Very good. Cover and illustrations by Ken Kimmelman. Written by Roxanne Ruth- Stephens. Activity Pages by Joan Nichols. In this coloring book, the alien Alf and the Tanner family go to Hollywood. Among the activity pages are Directions for making a 'Movie' starri... View More...
Philadelphia & London: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1909].. [1909].. Good. - 8vo, red pictorial cloth (bumped & lightly soiled; spine faded with two small stains) titled in gilt with image of a boy and girl walking hand-in- hand stamped in black & white on the front cover. [viii] & 352 pp. & 8- page publisher's catalogue (rear endpaper stained with child's homemade library pocket on it). Color frontispiece, 11 color plates & B&W head- & tail-pieces by Maria L. Kirk. There is staining to the margins of some plates, but the images are bright and clean. Good.
- Octavo, pictorial tan cloth titled in black on the front cover & spine. The binding is bumped & lightly soiled. Half-title, title, [2] leaves & 72 pages. There is some very light soiling to the prelims. Illustrated with 4 color plates, including a frontispiece, by Maria L. Kirk. Very good.
First edition with Maria Kirk's illustrations. First Edition. View More...
The Macmillan Company, 1940.. 1940.. Very good. - Quarto [10 inches high by 9-3/8 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial red, blue & white wrappers. The binding is lightly rubbed & bumped with some soiling to the front cover. 48 pages. Full-page illustrations and comic strip-style panels in color and black & white. Very good.
First edition.
A pre-reading book. The only text consists of one-word captions providing the names of animals or objects pictured in the strips, as well as a very few short sentences. First Edition. View More...
THE SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF A CLASSIC FINNISH CHILDREN'S BOOK - Quarto, 11-3/4 inches high by 11 inches wide. Color pictorial boards backed with a blue cloth spine. The covers are rubbed with wear to the edges and corners and to the head & tail of the spine. 30 & [2] pages, illustrated with a half-title vignette, 8 full-page and 5 half-page black & white illustrations, plus 8 full-page color plates by Rudolf Koivu. A previous owner's name with her address is penned on the front pastedown with Helsinki, Finland penned on the front endpaper. There is minor foxing or light staining to the endpape... View More...
New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., Inc. 1946.. 1946.. Good. - Small quarto [11 inches high by 8-1/4 inches wide], pictorial cloth, in a dust wrapper. The binding is rubbed. The covers are lightly bumped with the bottom edge of the front cover darkened & the tail of the spine is lightly chipped. The dust jacket is rubbed, chipped & somewhat darkened with tears & pieces out. 96 pages. There is an owner's ink name & date at the foot of the title & the page edges are slightly darkened. Illustrated with music staves and with full-page color illustrations & vignettes in black & white & color by Fritz K... View More...
- Quarto [10-3/4 inches high by 8-1/8 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial green & yellow wraps backed with green cloth tape. The wraps are bumped & lightly soiled with some reddish brown stains. The tape is detached & frayed at the head & tail of the spine. 99 mechanically reproduced pages printed on one side only. Black-and-white illustrations by Herb Kruckman. A few front & rear leaves are bumped & there are a few black marks caused by the printing process. Good. Seventh printing. The editor notes that most of the stories are by Sholem Aleichom and Isaac Leib Peretz, "two of the g... View More...
- Small quarto [8-1/4 inches high by 6-5/8 inches wide], cloth in a price-clipped dust wrapper. The binding is bumped with some very light spotting & with the bottom edge of the front cover faded. The dust jacket is chipped & soiled with the rear panel heavily spotted. There are 2 tears to the top edge of the front panel & there is a piece out of the tail of the jacket spine. [48] pages. Full-page & textual illustrations in black & white by Beth Krush. Very good in a fair dust wrapper.
First edition. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
NY: Harcourt Brace and Company, (1951).. (1951).. Very good. - 8vo, color pictorial cream boards (extremities slightly darkened) titled in red & green, in color pictorial dw (dw spine & extremities darkened; rear panel soiled wih small stains; stains to top corner of front panel & to rear fold). 31 pp. (small bookseller's label on front endpaper). Color cover illustration, maroon vignettes, 1 B&W vignette & 3 full-page maroon & white illustrations by Tom Lea. Decorative green & white endpapers. Very good. Dust jacket present. View More...
Chicago, IL: Albert Whitman and Company, (1928).. (1928).. Good. - Octavo, teal cloth titled in black on the spine with a color pictorial label mounted on the front cover. The binding is soiled. The front cover is warped & there are stains to the rear cover. The pictorial label is soiled & lightly stained. The spine is somewhat faded with the head & tail rubbed. 190 & [1] pages. There are remnants of several name stamps on the front pastedown. The half-title is darkened. There is a stain to the fore- edge with small stains to the front edges of a few pages & occasional light soiling. Color vig... View More...
Springfield, MA: McLoughlin Bros. Inc, (1929).. (1929).. Good. - Octavo, red cloth titled in black. The binding is bumped & lightly spotted with 2 tiny stains to the front cover. The head of the spine is chipped. Half-title, title, [3] leaves, 284 & [1] pages. The endpapers are partially darkened with a small stain to the rear endpaper. There is an owner's ink inscription on the half-title & the page edges are somewhat darkened. Black-and-white frontispiece & black-and-white plates. Good, with the remnants of the dust wrapper laid in. Dust jacket present. View More...
- Small quarto [6-1/2 inches high by 4-5/8 inches wide],color pictorial boards. The spine is slightly darkened & there is some light soiling & foxing to the binding. 63 & [1] pages, printed in Fractur. Full-page & textual illustrations in orange, white & black by Karl Mahr. There is offsetting to the last page. Very good.
FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY BOTH THE AUTHOR AND THE ILLUSTRATOR - Small quarto, 9-1/4 inches high by 7-1/4 inches wide. Creamy white boards backed with a tan cloth spine, titled in white on the spine, in a color pictorial dust wrapper. [iv], 193 & [3] pages, illustrated with profuse color and monochrome illustrations by Fred Marcellino. Near fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author Tor Seidler and the illustrator Fred Marcellino on the half-title. "Fish, foxes, farmers, and frogs, seagulls, sparrows, and swans, turtles and terns - the ponds and fields and woods of Wainscott are ho... View More...
FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR JANET McCAFFERY - Oblong octavo, 8 inches high by 9-1/4 inches wide. Teal boards titled in yellow on the spine and with a vignette in yellow on the front cover, in a color pictorial dust wrapper. The edges of the faintly warped covers are very slightly rubbed and there is minor wear to the top edges of the dust jacket. [32] unnumbered pages, profusely illustrated in color throughout by Janet McCaffery. Very good. First edition. Inscribed & signed in ink by the illustrator Janet McCaffery opposite the title page. RARE thus. "In English folklore there are ... View More...
FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR JANET McCAFFERY - Oblong octavo, 8 inches high by 9-1/4 inches wide. Rose boards, titled in indigo on the spine and with a vignette in indigo on the front cover, in a color pictorial dust wrapper. The edges of the dust jacket are slightly rubbed with a tear to the bottom edge of the jacket's front panel repaired with clear archival tape from the verso. The head of the jacket's spine is lightly chipped. [32] unnumbered pages, profusely illustrated in color throughout by Janet McCaffery. Very good. First edition. Inscribed & signed in ink by the illustrato... View More...
Springfield, MA: McLoughlin Bros. Inc., (1940).. (1940).. Good. - Small quarto [approximately 6-3/4 inches high by 5-1/4 inches wide], pictorial paper covered boards. The binding is rubbed & lightly soiled with a stain to the bottom edge of the front cover. The corners of the covers and the head & tail of the spine are chipped. There are 2 small pieces out of the front joint & a tear to its lower end has been repaired with scotch tape which has darkened. [59] pages. Profusely illustrated in red, black & white and in full color. A tear to the bottom inner corner of 1 page has been partially rep... View More...
- Quarto, 10-3/4 inches high by 9-1/4 inches wide. Softcover, bound in bright pictorial wraps illustrated with with a chromolithograph of children seated on a hay bale and waving with hat and handkerchief. A bulldog stands next to them at the side of the hay bale and farmers are seen working on a hay cart in the distance. There are faint creases with a slightly heavier one to the front cover and with light rubbing to the corners and head and tail of the spine. 8 unnumbered leaves, including the covers, illustrated by textual black & white illustrations and 6 bright full-page chromolithographs ... View More...
