Moscow, 1984/1982; Russian language. panorama with four two-sided panels on soft paper in rich colours. Russian language hardback Novelty panorama. In ten panels, five boards which open out, we see the Rooster farmer gather the wheat, flail the grain, put the dough in the oven, and carry a plateful of.....
{White Plains, New York], White Plains Greeting Card Corp. Copyright 1952; metal spiral binding covered by wraps with large Santa; in box with same picture, 22 pages. Novelty Boxed book softcover. Unique in that every toy is completely present and in perfect condition... even the life saver retains its cellophane.....
London: The Religious Tract Society, 56, Paternoster Row; 65 St. Paul's Churchyard; and 164 Picadilly; no date [1864], Picture Books for Little Children #5, blue cloth stamped in black with a tiny 1x1.5" chromolitho plate of a little boy playing a violin pasted in stamped frame, blindstamped design on bottom.....
New York: Leavitt and Allen, no date, circa 1860's; brown pressed cloth, hand coloured illustrations, 3x4.5"; 32 pp. Small hardback. Stories for older children about daily life, and more, The Skating Party, The Arrest, The Soldiers, The Depot, Snowballing, Blind Man's Buff, The Magnetic Swan, and others. Appears to have.....
New York: McLoughlin (early 1880's) heavy card covers with pale blue, gilt, and red line borders to full illustration of princess asleep, on back pantomime players with portraits of the five pantomime books, 7.5 x 10"; 8 pages of text plus chromolitho insert. Toploader large novelty moveable. Constructed with 4.....
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, Little Dot Series, late 19th c; green paper covers with red and black illustration and verse; black and white illustrations within, 7 pages of text; 4x6" Softcover. Toploader small softcover chapbook. Romantic half page pictures, center spread.
Moscow, 1981, orange paper covers with red and blue embroidered birds on pine branches; colour on every page; 8.5x11.1; np. Russian language softcover. Lovely coloured motifs, mostly floral peasant embroidery, which could be used for blouses, children's, dresses, pinafores, purses, place mats, and hangings. Basic stitch diagrams and some patterns.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1930/[1929]., stated second American printing; In English white card boards with grey spine, illustrated with delicate flowers and children, yellow edges, yellow endpapers; title page for each book, 4to; np. Picture book hardback. Two books bound together with children depicted in pale watercolours. Rosmarie (sic).....
New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, London: S. W. Partridge & Co. no date, (1880?); thick card ivory boards, pasted on plate with birds and tulips; b/w illustrations on each page and large type; 3.5x5"; np. Toploader small softcover story. Each page has a different profession with a working scene.....
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1867 on title page, originally in parts [Home 1865].; [one of Nelson's 3 Oil Coloured 2s 6d Picture Books], reddish brown cloth boards, with fine gilt titles and picture in stamped border, plain endpapers, mauve print title page, 32 pp of illustrations printed on one-sided.....
New York: Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Company, Chimney Corner Series, (1916); originally published in The Evening Sun, NY; white boards of thin card and red paper spine with Towser and his Scottie friend playing on front board and Towser with blue bow on the back, four plates on one-sided white.....
UK, BB Ltd (Birn Brothers), 1940's, no date, full coloured light card covers with village scene on front, and soldier's parade on back; SOFTCOVER, Wraps, 5 coloured pages within; np. Toploader medium softcover story. Charming illustrations in full detail of a train station, a farm, a parade, a zoo, and.....
London, Paris, New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons, No 26, (between 1881 and 1895), "designed in England, printed in Germany", no dedication; six cut-out, embossed, die-cut panels, one sided chromolitho illustrations, all but the first and last panel set inside the bears' house,with the characters silhouetted against the cut out.....
Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Co, (1927) stiff paper wraps SOFTCOVER in "Linen-Like finish; large illustration of bears on their walk, Father with a flower, and Mother with some Bear Tales to read; on the back, the bears watch a disappearing Goldilocks from behind their garden gate; 10 interior pages; 10.....
Newark N. J. and New York; Charles E Graham & Co., Cut Out Series O12, reprint ca 1918, 5x6.5" Toploader small softcover, novelty shape book, story. Probably early, Graham and Matlack, which changed to Charles E. Graham in 1916, published this book in its Cut-Out series, and this is a......
New York: Graham & Matlack, 0511 Red Riding Hood Series, circa 1915, glazed yellow and blue front board with pink roses climbing a trellis and the little bear yelling furiously at his empty bowl while the patient parents look on; we can just make out Silver-locks in bed in the.....
Racine, WI; Whitman Publishing Company, (1936); pictorial paper covers with black cloth spine, on the front the unclothed bears look at spilled porridge bowls on the path, on the back the gingerbread boy jumps off the cookie sheet, pulp paper, drawings facing every spread; 59 pp. Toploader medium story. Dramatic.....
New York: McLoughlin Brothers: [usually considered about 1900], SOFTCOVER, stapled self wraps, duotone orange and black illustrations, on the cover, 4 interior pictures, and the back. 10 interior pages, large chapbook, 5.5x7.75" Toploader small softcover chapbook. The bears here are only partially dressed and pretty wild. They are two older.....
Akron Ohio: The Saalfield Pub. Co. (1940); linenette throughout, on the cover, Mama and Papa Bear walking through the forest with Baby Bear, who is jumping rope. 10 interior pages; 7.25 x 8.25" Toploader fabric Saalfield. Colourful illustrations of this classic tale. A somewhat older Goldilocks runs down the stairs.....
Chicago: American Colortype Company, n d (1920's or earlier?); SOFTCOVER paper wraps, with Goldenlocks watching the bears from behind a tree as they stroll along, plain back, 4 x 5.2"; 10 interior pages. Toploader small softcover advertising. A brief version of the story, with full page full colour illustrations on.....
New York: Hurst & Company Publishers, Hurst's Limp Cloth Books No. 11, (c. 1908 Anderson and Stoner); sewn down spine, olive green cloth with white titles and while and red clothes on the brown bears, the little bear squished between his big parents holds a green people doll; on the.....
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, Little Dot Series, late 19th c; green paper covers with red and black illustration and verse; black and white illustrations within, 7 pages of text; 4x6" Softcover. Toploader small softcover chapbook. A version of the tale with a sneaky Silverlocks ("She was a sad romp and.....
London, Paris, Berlin, New York, Toronto: Father Tuck's Indestructible Board Series, 1912-1914 (Whitton, p154-5), No.8069, "Publishers to Their Majesties the King & Queen & Her Majesty Queen Alexandra"; heavy boards with glazed chromo illustrated paper and net spine coloured red on outside, on the top board Wealthy's astounded bear family.....
Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, 1906/1905, jacket contains "Bobbie" listed only in 1906 (16a Sternick); half vellum boards with floral decoration and title, gilt and full colour illustration of Bears looking at Baby's porridge bowl, illustrated endpapers in orange line, coloured frontis of bear meal, b/w illustrations to all stories by.....
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, Little Dot Series, late 19th c; green paper covers with red and black illustration and verse; black and white illustrations within, 7 pages of text; 4x6" Softcover. Toploader small softcover chapbook. Funny kitten pictures with the original text written or adapted by Follen, and Mister Fox.....