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, 6.5x8"; 15 interior pages. Toploader medium softcover advertizing. Nice.....
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 Stories on the back; 5.25x7.25";.....
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 10.7x8.75", 27x22.2 cm; np. French language hardback oblong. The arranger, who.....
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 sheets stapled and folded, making 10 interior sheets, 4 chromo lithos and.....
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 sheets stapled and folded, making 10 interior sheets, 4 chromo lithos and.....
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 her doll (!), illustrations and poem on every page, a......
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, large coloured paintings on every page; 9.75 x 11.6; np.....
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"; np. Softcover. Picture Book softcover. A feast for the Lassie lover.....
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; oblong 8.75 x 7.25." Toploader fabric. Actually all of these animals would.....
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 queen, 5x6.6; 146 pp incld index. Small hardback. Victoria, at 12, on.....
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 with table of contents. Small hardback. 12 stories and poems somehow fit.....
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 colour, full page chromolithographs on heavier paper.....
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 the top a picture of a little girl sitting.....
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 wedding picture by Petherick, each.....
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 wedding picture by Petherick, each.....
New York: McLoughlin Bros. Circus Series, No. 78 (1890); Arab rider on white horse on front, dancing girl and buffalo on back; stapled, 7.3 x 9.8"; np. Toploader large softcover. Coloured illustrations on every page, full page and in text, circus animals, Algerian dancing girls and sword combat, camel races.....
London: Ernest Nister and New York: E. P. Dutton, nd (part of "Dolly's Library" ca 1892) printed in Bavaria; cloth backed glazed paper boards with two little girls in pinafores riding a double hobby-horse with two wheels; flat trimmed, green patterned endpapers, four chromolithos and sepia drawings in text; 3.25x3.75;.....