A PICTURE BOOK FOR LITTLE CHILDREN
Philadelphia [ca.1812]: Kimber and Conrad. Original Wraps. 2 1/2" X 5 1/2" 12 leaves illustrated with woodcuts, text containing little sayings, advice, etc.; bound in plain tan stiff paper wraps. A fine copy. More
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A PICTURE BOOK FOR LITTLE CHILDREN
Philadelphia [ca.1812]: Kimber and Conrad. Original Wraps. 2 1/2" X 5 1/2" 12 leaves illustrated with woodcuts, text containing sayings, advice, etc., bound in plain tan stiff paper wraps. minor soiling to rear panel with corners slightly clipped. Very nice. More
The Shoe House Nursery Rhyme Book. The Pages Talk. Teaches Children How to Tie Laces
New York (1957): Novelty Import Co., Inc. First Edition. A book shaped like a shoe, with holes and a shoe lace, for teaching children to tie laces. Pictorial boards, red spine, 4 stiff cardboard pages, which when squeezed, make the sound of a barnyard animal; various nursery rhymes printed inside..... More
THE TRAGI-COMIC HISTORY OF THE BURIAL OF COCK ROBIN; With the Lamentations of Jenny Wren; the Sparrow's Apprehension; and the Cockoo's Punishment
Philadelphia: Benjamin Warner, 1821. Original Wraps. 16pp., half-title, illustrated with 8 plates including frontispiece. Bound in original plain salmon stiff wrappers; one page creased. Small loss at head of spine, in all a very good copy. More
The Little Match Girl
Charleston (1870): Fogartie's Book Depository. First Edition. Original Wraps. 12mo, 20 pages, all edges gilt; original pink printed wrappers. Illustrated by the author, in black and white. Light toning to text; a very good copy, with light soiling to the pink wrappers. No copies appear in the auction record. More
BOBBIE. A Great Collie
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1926. First Edition. Hard Cover. Octavo. Bound in tan cloth with blue lettering spine and front cover. A near fine copy with slight ribbing edges. Black and white photographic frontispeice and 3 illustrations. 114 pp. A bright, clean tight copy of this scarce title..... More
Peter Rabbit and Sammy Squirrel
Chicago: Saalfield Publishing Company, 1918. Virginia Albert. First Edition. Small octavo, unpaginated, illustrated in black and white and color. Pictorial boards, illustrated by Fern Bisel Peat, with number 308 on front panel. Internally clean and bright; owner name in pencil on FEP. More
Glinda of Oz
Chicago (1920): Reilly & Lee. John R. Neill. First Edition. The earliest printing of the first edition, with perfect type on page 150; with 12 full-color illustrations and "Glinda of Oz" on verso of half-title (first issue). 279 pages, full color label on front panel. Pictorial end papers in black..... More
THE WIZARD OF OZ
New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1995. W.W. Denslow. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED "KARL SLOVER, FIRST TRUMPETER" BY KARL SLOVER on ffep without personalization. The reissue of the original The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, 208pp., bound in blue cloth over paper covered boards, spine lettering..... More
GLINDA OF OZ. In Which are Related the Exciting Experiences of Princess Ozma of Oz..
Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1933. John R. Neill. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Large Octavo. circa 1933 - the year color plates were discontinued. Black & white illustrations throughout. Bound in brown cloth with color paste-on illustration front cover. A near fine copy in a very good+ dust..... More
JACK PUMPKINHEAD. The Oz-Man Tales
Chicago: Reilly & Lee, 1917. Hard Cover. Octavo. Color illustrations paper covered boards with spine replaced with blue and white poke-a-dot cloth. Good copy with cover edge wear, owner name paste-downs and ffep. Color frontispiece, 3 color illustrations, 7 black and white illustrations, and many black and white inset illustrations..... More
OLLE'S SKI TRIP
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Folio. Bound in illustarted paper covered boards with blue cloth spine. In printed dust jacket. Beautiful full page color illustrations throughout. Very good copy with bookplate front pastedown, gift inscription ffep. Dust jacket age toned with mild chips and..... More
The Magic of Oil
New York: Aladdin Books, 1949. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. 47 pages. Bound in pictorial boards, tan cloth spine. In dust jacket, with $2.00 price on front flap. Pictorial dust jacket with small loss at extremities. More
BUMPS AND THUMPS
New York: H. M. Caldwell. Hard Cover. Quarter. Bound in gray cloth with past-down color illustration front cover. Very good- copy with mild cover edge wear, stains cover, gift inscription ffep, first few pages pulling away from binding. More
The Temptation of Wilfred Malachey
New York: Workman Publishing, 1985. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Square octavo. Illustrated by John Gurney. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. 44 pp. More
LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Octavo. 2nd issue without the Devine imprint and signature 12, 209pp., (14)pp. Illustrated ads at rear, illustrated from drawings by Reginald B. Birch. Bound in a brown pictorial gilt cloth with accents in red and black, a very clean bright fine..... More
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1915. 12mo, 192[4] pages; publisher's red cloth, all edges gilt. Eighty-sixth thousand, in the same format as the first edition. A lovely copy, internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind. More
ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
London: J Coker and Co, 1933. Bessie Pease. Hard Cover. Bound in tan cloth spine and color illustrated paper covered boards. All illustations present. Color frontispiece and 3 illustrations. Very good copy with cover edge wear. 126 pp. More
PUSS IN BOOTS. The Illustrated Pop-Up Edition
New York: Blue Ribbon Press, 1934. First Edition. Hard Cover. Tall Octavo. Pop-Up Edition with all moving parts intact. Color illustration paper covered boards. Very good copy with cover edge wear, some soiling pages. More
The Famous Adventures of the Brownies. Stories Told in Prose By E. Veale, the Fairy Tale Authoress
Chicago (1901): Laird & Lee. Hard Cover. Ovtavo. Octavo, 320 pages. 150 illustrations. Spine lettered in silver, pictorial paper label on front panel, with small chip. Internally clean; a very good copy. More
The Royal Progress of King Pepito
London (1889): Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Greenaway, Kate. First Edition. Hard Cover. Octavo, 48 pages; original pictorial boards, paper covered spine is intact. Internally clean and bright; very light wear at extremities. A lovely, Very Good++ copy, with a few small spots on front board. More
THE ROYAL PROGRESS OF KING PEPITO
London [1889]: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. First Edition. Hard Cover. 48pp, Illustrated by Kate Greenaway, engraved and printed by Edmund Evans; bound in pictorial paper over boards lettered in black; a fine copy, housed in a custom morocco backed clamshell box. More
Denslow's Scarecrow and the Tin-Man and Other Stories
Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Co., 1913. Hard Cover. A reprint of the Dillingham first edition of 1904. Unpaginated, 11 1/4" x 8 1/2"; original green cloth, paper label on front panel in a frame. Worn and frayed at spine ends and corners; final sheet of the terminal gathering is..... More
A BOY'S WAY, Poems
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Stanton & Lee, 1947. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. 109pp. Illustrated by Claire Victor Dwiggins. Bound in blue pictorial cloth lettered and decorated in dark blue. A fine copy in fine unclipped pictorial dust jacket. A charming book about all those things boys do. More
IT'S A BOY'S WORLD
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Stanton and Lee, 1948. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Clare Victor Dwiggins. 107pp. Bound in gray pictorial cloth decorated in blue. A book of poems and pictures about boy life in the small town and country. Thoroughly American and enjoyed by the young..... More