Akron, Ohio: Saalfield (1940); thick pictorial cardboard covers with red plastic comb binding, strong Linenette pages, in jacket with mother cat in her chair surrounded by her kittens with mittens on front and back; in dustjacket identical to boards, 7x8.2" Picture Book hardback. Bound in this unusual volume are the.....
New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 42, Bleeker St.; London: S. W. Partridge & Co., 9, Paternoster Row; Tit-Bit Story Series "D"; no date ca 1888 based on style and owner inscription; tiny books in wraps with publisher's sewn binding covered by coloured illustrations bordered in leaves and red berries.....
New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 42, Bleeker St.; London: S. W. Partridge & Co., 9, Paternoster Row; Tit-Bit Story Series "A", no date ca 1881 based on style and owner inscription; tiny books in wraps with publisher's sewn binding covered by coloured illustrations bordered in leaves and red berries.....
London: Dean's Rag Book, New York: The International Art Publishing Company, Dean's 1/- Patent Rag Books, Series 2, (1907 to 1910); red cloth, sewn down spine, no pinking or zigzag stitching, deep red throughout with a little girl with blue pull horse toy on the front and the little girl.....
Dean's Rag Book #356 /Platt & Munk, cloth, 4x5.25" Toploader fabric Dean's rag. Very bright toy pictures in primary colours in a cute little book.
New York: T. W. Strong, No. 98 Nassau-Street, Boston: W. G. Cottrell and Co. No. 64 Cornhill (ca 1848?, not G. W.) paper wraps with front cover lacking coloured illustration or "Going to Far" subtitle; back cover with publisher Strong's advertizement, showing warehouse building :"Engraver, Publisher, Bookseller Country Dealers Supplied".....
New York: McLoughlin, (1898) Pansy Series; SOFTCOVER, advertising booklet, cover illustrations shows mother cat coming in the pantry door and surprising her kitten who is eating preserves out of a crock with a spoon, quality chromolithos on cover and 4 pages, glazed paper, sepia drawings in text, 5.75x5.25", 10 interior.....
Boston: L. Prang & Company, [1864-65 Huntington Library]; ivory glazed card cover on the front a delicate green lithograph of hand lettered title and mother bird returning to her nest, on the back "Prang's Album Pictures, for sale in all bookstores, books for children, valentines, etc" surrounds logo; cover encloses.....
New York: McLoughlin: all 1870's, Home ABC, Cock Robin; A Shugg & Co Bad Boy Bob; handsewn 19th c cloth spine repair; chromolitho illustrations, various sizes. Toploader oversized softcover. A little child's library, all in terrible condition, but clearly Bad Boy Bob was Willie's favorite! And no wonder. Note the.....
Battle Ground Michigan: Postum Cereal Company, Inc, Educational Department, 4621 (1925); ivory cover with illustration of cottage and squirrel, 16 interior pages; coloured illustrations on every page; 5.5x4"np. Toploader small softcover advertizing. Little wheat kernel children narrate this story about nutrition. Charming illustrations by an uncredited artist.
New York: McLoughlin 1883, first edition and first or early hardcover printing (the 3 sections were published in softcover simultaneously); red, blue and yellow boards with six vignettes, "Men, Monkeys, and Dogs" on bottom board, red edges all around, heavy paper, red blue and gilt outlined letters on title page.....
New York: Random House, Artists and Writers Guild, (1942), early printing; red cloth backed illustrated paper boards with the family all dressed up, coloured pictorial map endpapers in jacket identical to boards with War Bonds ad on back, 7.5 9.25", Picture book hardback. A cozy little 1940's bear family with.....
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Clark Brothers Chewing Gum Company, (1944) early printing; pink paper boards, blue spine, with Tommy and berries, Tommy holding a huge pack of Teaberry Gum on the back, full colour endpapers with Tommy and working elves striding down a hill, full colour illustrations across ever spread, 7.35x10.1"; np.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1977) early reprint, translated from the Russian by Blanche Ross, green boards, red spine, in jacket with rabbit in an apron playing the fiddle; 8.25x10.25; np. Picture Book hardback. A peasant and his wife fool three rich businessmen into thinking that a timid rabbit is.....
London: Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 54 Fleet St., 1870, 1st; blue boards with black ruling on top and bottom boards and gilt title cartouche; 12 plates of fine etchings on tan background; 8x10.25"; 94 pp + 2 pp catalogue. Juvenile hardback. The story follows Charlie through the year of school.....
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, red, blue, green, and light green drawings within; 8 pages within on heavier white paper, 3 3/8" x 5 1/4".....
London: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., no date, probably 60's, William Clows and Sons, printers; cream coloured reinforced cloth boards with large illustration/titles in green blue and red, plain endpapers, 8 full page coloured illustrations; 8x19; np. Picture Book hardback. Brooke's large pigs and their households fill the frames, giving.....
London: Frederick Warne & Co., Leslie Brook's Children's Books, (n. d.) [1905, in Golden Goose Book and in parts, originally with Tom Thumb]. Buff paper boards with three large, smiling, dark green pigs prancing around to back cover, against light green panel on front, buff on back, red titles; Herald.....
London: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., no date, probably 60's, William Clows and Sons, printers; cream coloured reinforced cloth boards with large illustration/titles in green blue and red, plain endpapers, 8 full page coloured illustrations; 8x19; np. Picture Book hardback. Brooke's large pigs and their households fill the frames, giving.....
New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 42, Bleeker St, "K".; London: S. W. Partridge & Co., 9, Paternoster Row; Tit-Bit Story Series; no date ca 1888 based on style and owner inscription; tiny books in wraps with publisher's sewn binding covered by coloured illustrations bordered in leaves and red berries.....
Springfield, Mass; McLoughlin Bros., (1927), heavy card shape of boy in red Nordic hat and sweater, black checked scarf, on yellow ground, small, bright coloured pictures within the head shape and on the foot of each page, 5"x 11"; np. Novelty shape book. Jim, who, his dancing partner feels, is.....
Whitman Publishing Co. (co. 1930) No. 678, an accordion (panorama) board book, comprised of six oblong 6x4.75" panels with illustrations on each side, thus 10 interior pages and two "covers"; on each "page" full colour plate of Wee Bear in his red jacket, the illustration bordered in blue with light.....
Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Company, [early 1930's?]; stapled Linen-Like finish,SOFTCOVER, marine blue covers with little pigs travelling in front of the globe and orange titles on aqua strip with yellow borders; on the back, the house made of orange bricks with bright yellow path and smoke; 9 x 12.3"; 14.....
München : K. Braun & F. Schneider, [between 1874 and 1875]. the complete [Book] 27 counted and containing #625 to #648, but rebound using a [Book] 26 cover and sheet #601; ivory boards with ornate hand-coloured illustration, black and white illustrations within; 21.5x 32.5 cm. (trimmed); 25 doubled sheets, printed.....
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, [1882], Yellow Dwarf Series, ivory paper covers red and black line ruled, with Mrs. Margerie's long lost brother rushing back to the wedding, red coat, yellow britches, brown horse; on the back "Amusing and Instructive Picture Books for Children" Caldecott, Bible, New Pantomime toy books, Transformation.....