USA: The Platt & Munk Company, (Copr. 1937) No. 0129 B; orange card covers with two children and a dog sittingon a green sofa and reading this book, white back with instructions. 9x11; 4 pages plus 4 sticker pages. Toploader activity book softcover - large. A nice large cut and.....
Akron, OH; Saalfield Publishing Company, 1922, #292; white card cover with black and blue titles, dark blue border, red cloth stapled spine, with quite a large beautiful cat with yellow eyes; 12 pages of printed text with large turn of the century style engravings of animals, on the back of.....
London: Murrays Sales & Service Co., Cresta House, Treasure Hour logo, WP4, (ca 1965?) printed in the Netherlands,; six heavy card shaped boards with coloured pictures of a farm, most labeled, on a white background, two short comb bindings, 7,5x13.8"; np.d. Novelty board book. A little boy and girl live.....
New York: The Platt & Munk Company, 1965, no previous date but undoubtedly a reprint of the 1930's books (these with smooth thin paper covers) 8 softcover books in sturdy box; 7.5x8.5. Novelty Boxed book. 8 boxed books: Micco a Seminole Indian Boy, Antelope a Navaho Indian Boy, Winona a......
New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, London, Griffith & Farran, St. Paul's Churchyard, no date (circa 1880); Our Girl's Little Library; stiff blue black stamped boards described by publisher as "cloth limp, fancy binding, with Chromo on side, 25 cents", charming tiny Chromo shows mischievous little girl attaching the.....
New York: McLoughlin Bro's, Little Pleasewell Series, (1880s?) green with black panel and red titles, illustrated with little puppies, black and white drawings within, 8 pp., 4x6". Softcover. Toploader small softcover chapbook. Too much mischief! The puppies' father, a grave, respectable dog, punishes them by eating their dinner for three.....
London: Nelson, c. 1897. Small hardback. The friendship and advice of Mr. Jenkins the butcher help Ned as he sets out to take his Civil War hero father's place as the head of the family. Ned stood by his friend John Gray, when he was framed by boys who frequented.....
Ginn & Company, blue paper wraps, 3.2x4.2". n. p. with intro and ads. Toploader small softcover story. An inexpensive reference copy, shipping adjusted.
New York: McLoughlin Bros., Young America Series, 1860's; electrotyped by Vincent Dill, 24 Beekman St. N. Y.; three sheets folded, making 10 interior pages; red and black front with a little boy banging on his drum, on back a list of paper dolls.... many kinds, including Eva St. Clair &.....
Akron, Ohio, USA: Saalfield Co.; (1915); two thin card shaped cream coloured pages, with full colour on outside "cover" pages and on inner spread, the other pages in blue outline and type and white accents on the illustrations; approx. 10.6x5.5" Softcover. Toploader large softcover. On both covers, a large and.....
New York, London, Paris; Raphael Tuck & Sons, Father Tuck's Holiday Series, #2499, Designed at the Studios in England (fpr US distribution); shiny chromolitho card cover shows older girls forming the arch for the game while four little girls march through; plain blue back, 7 chromolitho full page illustrations including.....
New York, NY; John Carle & Sons; 1918, colour illustrated wraps SOFTCOVER, coloured illustrations on each page as illustrated borders to each special page; 5.5x7.75", 14 pages. Toploader medium softcover story. A lovely little book with pictures of a happy family and their babies and space to enter quaint sayings.....
New York: Sam'l Gabriel Sons Co.; [1910 - 1920, but based on similar artwork only] #966; heavy illustrated boards with full paintings in setting of each animal, eight interior "pages" and outside covers with a large Landseer Newfoundland puppy in a courtyard and a donkey in a meadow; red cloth.....
Imagerie Pellerin Epinal, Série Ecossaise. nd (20's?); grey wraps with striped ribbon design and black silhouettted leaves and berries, every page faces a full coloured illustration, except for middle spread with two; 147 x 210 cm.; np. French language softcover. medium. Very pretty cover and illustrations for this fairy tale.....
Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company, (1897) ; red cloth spine, chromolithograph of two children laying out coloured chalks with a large slateboard hanging behind, the children and tables and chairs are outlined in gilt, on the back a little child rides a huge Newfoundland accompanied by his big sister; good quality.....
New York: Sam'l Gabriel Sons, (1948) #373, Wash-Easy Cloth Book, Made in USA; grey cloth background with bright pictures of shiny cheeked toddlers on every page; red printed rick-rack spine, doubled cloth sheets, oblong 8x6.3; 6 interior pages. Toploader fabric. Two and three year olds playing with dolls and sand.....
Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, 38 and 40 Cornhill [1864 or 65 to 1868]; George W. Day printer; [1868 - 1874], so this book about 1868; red pressed paper binding with black decorations and little plate pasted on of boy sitting in a garden with flowers, 5x3.5 inches. Small hardback.....
NY: Hunt & Eaton, nd, originally sold in a box of 5 Polly books for $1.50. Small hardback. The adventures of Marmy, Marmaduke, a very spoiled little boy, narrated by the sensible Polly Stubbs, who has been hired to teach him to be a good and happy child. A long.....
New York: McLoughlin Bro's, 30 Beekman Street; Aunt Mary's Little Series, nd (1863 to 1870); red on ivory front cover (not black) showing children gathered around mother and the book, little coloured drawings within; 8 pages within on heavier white paper, 3 3/8" x 5 1/4". Softcover. Toploader small softcover.....
London: Dean's Rag Book Co Ltd, Patented March 7, 1905, 20 registered, Dean's Rag Books Patented; grey cloth covers with all-around landscape of children watching a long train, pinked edges; six doubled leaves sewn down with covers and red backstrip, making fourteen interior pages; 6.5x9.25" Toploader fabric Dean's rag. Interesting.....
London and New York: Frederick Warne & Co. [printed between 1906 and 1913, 1905], (Ltd indicates a post 1917 Warne book); white cloth cover, not paper, full colour illustrated boards of the Great Panjandrum, decorated endpapers with little drawings from other poems, many coloured illustrations and umber illustrations on facing.....
McLoughlin Bros, (1903); red cloth spine, card covers with a steam engine on the front; five full page illustrations and large illustrations in text; 8.25x10.75; np. Toploader large softcover. This is what Jessie and Frank saw in the railway car and out the window, with cameos of the workers on.....
Philadelphia: Sunshine Publishing Company, (1890's); grey card covers with litho of four little dogs in circus attire, no title on covers, title is taken from first page, publisher in gutter at back, 4 charming chromolithographs of the little dogs inside, tiny unrelated drawings in text, oblong 4.25x3.25" Toploader small softcover.....
Glasgow: Blackie and Son, Ltd. nd (ca mid 1920s); cover illustration of two children feeding mare and foal; thick pages, 16 coloured plates with text on back, 10x13.5", .75" thick, np. Picture Book hardback tall. An album by various children's writers and artists, incl. Stanley Lloyd and Topham, with full.....
London: Dean's Rag Book Co, Ltd #214 In print 1920 to 1928 (Cope); on the front a large brown and white dog inhis green doghouse; on the back a fat cat with a blue bow and pink toes, 7 colors, eight interior pages, 6x8.5. Toploader fabric book. On each page.....