Boston: William Miller, 23 Arch St.(1870s?); colorful covers with smoking frog fishing and laughing girl on front; b/w illustrations; 4.25x5.5"; 8 interior pages. Toploader small softcover advertizing. A small collection of funny poems illustrated with drawings and silhouettes. Compliments of John Brahmer Lowville New York, Boots, Shoes, and Rubbers.
Leicester, JK, Brown Watson, An All-Action Treasure Hour Pop-up Book, 0-7097-0049-0, 1982 Artia/1971, V. Kubasta, reprint with 2 additional scenes for this title; Printed in Czechoslovakia, 6 scenes, 2 Action Triggers. Novelty pop-up. As is common with Kubasta's of this period, the inside scenes are beautiful, more sophisticated than the.....
Philadelphia: J. H. Smythe, Jr. (1912) for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup with space on back for druggist's stamp, staplebound booklet, dark green and red illustrations and type throughout, a long poem promoting the syrup; 10 interior pages; 5.5x7.5. Toploader medium softcover advertizing. The story of the courtship and marriage of.....
Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co (1929) "33-B5"; Litho. in USA, U. S. P't'g & Litho Co.; booklet printed on good quality paper, full colour illustration of children, skunk and quail running along on front, and a young girl brushing her teeth on the back. Toploader medium softcover advertizing. Nice deco illustrations by an.....
Lausanne: F. Payot, Librairie Editeur, (1898); red clothbacked paper boards with chromolitho label of Tell disembarking on a stormy Swiss lake, four chromolitho plates with fine detail and deep colour, 4.5x6.75; 55 pp. French language small hardback. Lovely plates, unaccredited. (by WT?).
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd St. Martin's Street, Here and There Stories Reading Series, no date (c. 1925), No 7 in series Intermediate; brown paper covers, with contents on the front and a list of 18 titles in this series and the Then and Now Stor. Juvenile softcover. Pleasant little.....
New York: McLoughlin Bros., Little Delight Series, late 19th c, orange on black top cover, illustrations and back black and white, about half small print text on each page, two sheets making 6 interior pages; 4 3/4" x 6". Softcover. Toploader small softcover chapbook. The centerfold of the huge giant.....
Tours: Maison Mame; (1952); music by Joseph Canteloube; red cloth backed paper boards with the little man striding happily along, his three dogs running along on bottom board, children and animals dancing to a musical score on endpapers, oblong 10.7x. French language hardback oblong. The arranger, who is also a......
Zagreb: Mladost, 1959; red paper boards, flat trimmed, with white house and girl with daisy looking out, 16.8x15.6cm; six card leaves, thus 8 pages of illustrated poems, some signed. Slovene language hardback. Funny folkloric pictures illustrate little poems. An interesting find for admirers of this world renowned Slovenian artist, still.....
Warriorsmark, Penn.: Malena Company, Malena Booklet No: 114; no indication of actual author, artist, date, or publisher;(1890's?) front cover shows Jack receiving money from his mother, back cover, inside covers and last page are adds for Malena. 3 s. Toploader small softcover advertizing. Nice chromos including the giant about to.....
Warriorsmark, Penn.: Malena Company, Malena Booklet No: 114; no indication of actual author, artist, date, or publisher;(1890's?) front cover shows Jack receiving money from his mother, back cover, inside covers and last page are adds for Malena. 3 s. Toploader small softcover advertizing. Nice chromos including the giant about to.....
Philadelphia: J. Henry Smythe, Jr. (1912); for Houghton & Dutton Co. Tremont and beacon Sts. Boston, Mass.; thick paper staplebound booklet printed in red and green outlines, front cover with tall boy in Indian hat pulling lassoed blonde girl and. Toploader medium softcover advertizing. Interesting little poems on the value.....
Springfield Mass.: McLoughlin Bros, Linen Books, Kiddie's Series, No. 1580, (New) in 1927, 1st.; yellow cloth book, orange titles, with two very large sitting rabbits against a dark green background on front, one goose running over the grass on back, Toploader large fabric softcover. Mathematically very nice as it goes.....
Imagerie Pellerin Epinal 7e Série nd (20's?); green card covers with the Princess Florine and Prince Charmant as a blue peacock; alternating coloured and b/w pictures; 13.9 x 21 cm; np. French language softcover. medium. Undoubtedly a reproduction from 19th c booklet. Une illustration à chaque page avec alternance de.....
Imagerie Pellerin Epinal 7e Série nd (20's?); green card covers with St. Nicholas and his camel approaching the stable; alternating coloured and b/w pictures; 13.9 x 21 cm; np. French language softcover. medium. Undoubtedly a reproduction from 19th c booklet. Une illustration à chaque page avec alternance de vignette en.....
Chicago: American Colortype, n. d. {1915?]. stapled paper booklets with 10 interior pages, coloured illustrations on cover and three interior, blank backs suggest these were advertising givaways; 3.8c5.25" Toploader small softcover advertizing. A little boy newly immigrated from Holland earns five marbles by telling Joe some stories about happy times.....
Racine, Wisconsin, Golden Press, copyright by Lassie Television Inc. 1954 - 1978, card covers with heroic Lassie on front, Lassie portrait photo on back from "New motion picture, The Magic of Lassie" comic book reproduction with 20 stories; 6.5x10.3" Picture Book softcover. A feast for the Lassie lover, pages of.....
Peggy Cloth-Books,(1946); doubled pinked pages with sewn down spine, no printing on spine, various animals, mostly farm, stand beneath the red title banner which is suspended between two high stumps; 6 doubled cloth sheets, making 10 interior pages;. Toploader fabric. Actually all of these animals would appear on an ordinary.....
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1887, 1st printing edition, tp; blue cloth binding with gilt initials an signature, steel engraved small patterned endpapers, frontis of Queen Victoria (not amused) and six lovely clear lithographs of residences of the que. Small hardback. Victoria, at 12, on first hearing of her possible.....
New-York: J. Q. Preble, Tubbs, Nesmith, and Teall, Printers and Stereotypers, (1854 dated preface-poem); red cloth boards with gold stamped elaborate design on top board and spine, blindstamped on bottom; gilt all around, no frontis; 2.2x3.25"; 95 pp. Small hardback. 12 stories and poems somehow fit into this pretty little.....
Edinburgh: T. Nelson & Sons; early 1870's, 1st; ivory glazed paper with elaborate gilt floral borders and title, gilt picture of Lily and her doll; on the back cover an extensive list of Nelson titles to 1870, not including this book, four full c. Toploader large softcover. A lovely album.....
Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, Publishers, Franklin and Hawley Streets, no date, [1875 to 1887, probably early in this period as Wide Awake is a "New Monthly Magazine" and Babyland is not mentioned]; blue pebbled cloth spine and pictorial boards, on. Juvenile hardback. Very pleasant, happy little stories about helpful.....
New York: J. S. Redfield, Publisher and Bookseller, Clinton Hall (137 Nassau St.) at the corner of Nassau and Beekman Streets , First Series, Redfield's Toy Books, No. 8, [1840s], blue paper cover with 8 interior pages, string bound, 2x3.2" Toploader small softcover chapbook. A full page woodcut of a......
New York: T. Nelson and Sons, no date, British Library places the UK publication at 1910; red cloth boards with large paste on plate of the birds, with 10 full page bold paintings and one spread of the wedding by Scott Rankin, and another daintier we. Picture Book hardback tall.....
New York: T. Nelson and Sons, no date, British Library places the UK publication at 1910; red cloth boards with large paste on plate of the birds, with 10 full page bold paintings and one spread of the wedding by Scott Rankin, and another daintier we. Picture Book hardback tall.....