St. Nicholas, Vol. XL Part i. May. 1913 to Oct 1913.
Century, 1913. Juvenile hardback set. Contains, among other pieces, a baseball section, 4 Rackham illustrations, one a plate, and The Brownies at Hay-Making.
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St. Nicholas, Vol. XXXI Part I. Nov. 1904 to April 1905.
Century, 1905, leatherbound. Juvenile hardback set. Contains, among other pieces, Chapters 5-12 of Queen Zixi of Oz with pictures by Frank Richardson.
A Cavalcade of Kings.
New York: Henry Z. Walck, Incorporated, (1965/1964) 1st US, tp, tan cloth boards, in white jacket with painting of kings from different cultures, 6.7x10"; 237 pp. Juvenile hardback. "Imaginary Stories about Imaginary Kings"/"Imaginary Stories About Real Kings"/"Better Not to Be a King"/"Some Real Kings." Thirty-six interesting selections by two famous.....
Horn Book Reflections On Children's Books and Reading
Boston: The Horn Book, (1969); green cloth boards, blue top edge, green and yellow jacket; 9vo; 367 pp. Reference essays, hardback. Selected from Eighteen Years of the Horn Book Magazine, 1949 - 1966. Gathered into 7 sections of 6 to 8 articles each, so quite selective: Inspiration How It Comes.....
The Old-Fashioned Children's Storybook.
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1979, 1st printing thus; 7.4x 9.4, np. Reference illustration, hardback. Pictures by various classic illustrators.
The New England Primer.
New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1897, #234 of 425 copies on handmade American paper printed in the month of June, 1897; leather backed paper boards with handmade paper eps; 354 pp. Juvenile hardback. A History of Its Origin and Development with a Reprint of the Unique Copy of the.....
Spirited Minds.
Norton, 1997, 1st printing; paperwraps; 141 pp. Reference history, softcover. "African American Books for Our Sons and Our Brothers." Carefully chosen books with red initial woodcut introducing each description.
The Sky is Full of Song.
Harper, 1983, 1st printing; 6.6x7.8, 46 pp. Juvenile hardback. A good first poetry book, celebrating the seasons.
Children's Literature: an Illustrated History.
Oxford, 1995, 1st printing; large 4to; 378 pp. Reference history, hardback. .
Chimney Corner Fairy Tales
New York: Minton, Balch & Co., (1926), 33rd printing; patterned library rebinding, plain endpapers and top edge; 6 col plates, as issued, and drawings on every page, 8 x 10; 183 pp. Juvenile hardback ex-lib. A nice selection of simple poems. Lenski's plates are composite scenes, a cut away view.....
The Trees Stand Shining.
New York: Dial, 1971, 1st printing; shiny laminated boards with large painting of Indian with trees; lavender endpapers; in jacket identical to boards; oblong 10.8x9; np. Picture Book hardback. At the edge of the world/ It is growing light, The trees stand shining. I like it. It is growing light.....
The Girl's Own Annual, Vol 48
London: William Clews & Sons, The Girl's Own Paper and Women's Magazine, 4 Bouverie St, [1927]; beveled pumpkin boards with orange and green titles, lovely paste-down plate of two young women examining a doll; endpapers with floral seascape and landscape, tissue guarded flower painting frontis with garden scene title page.....
The Invisible Prince and other stories.
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1910/1903, stories reprinted from among those in 1900 Fairy book; green cloth boards, blindstamped ruling and gold decorated title and spine, green decorated endpapers, coloured frontis, b/w plates and "numerous illustrations" in text; 8vo; 196 pp. Juvenile hardback. One of a nice series of.....
The Magic Ring and other stories.
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1911/1906 new impression/1903, stories reprinted from Lang's Fairy books; red cloth boards, blindstamped ruling and gold decorated title and spine, red decorated endpapers, coloured frontis, b/w plates and "numerous illustrations" in text; 8vo; 193 pp. Juvenile hardback. One of a nice series of excerpts.....
The Twelve Huntsmen and other stories.
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1910/1906, stories reprinted from among those in 1901 Fairy book; green cloth boards, blindstamped ruling and gold decorated title and spine, green decorated endpapers, coloured frontis, b/w plates and "numerous illustrations" in text; 8vo; 190 pp. Juvenile hardback. One of a nice series of.....
Forgotten Tales of Long Ago.
London: Wells, Gardner, Darton & Co. Ltd., New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers, 1906, 1st printing, colophon on verso of half title page; ivory cloth boards, with early 19th c girl and boy standing at the gates to a golden door; cream, brown and orange, gilt titles, door, and.....
Newbery Medal Books, 1922 through 1955.
Boston: The Horn Book, Inc, Horn Book Papers Vol. 1, 1965/1957, 3rd printing; brown cloth, in terracotta jacket, 16 x 24 cm; 458 pp incld. indexes. Reference biography, hardback. The Newbery Medal books (not Honor books) from the beginning of the award to 1955. With a book note, an excerpt.....
Book of Giants.
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1972/1969, 3rd; tan cloth binding with red illustration, 6.4x9.4; 215 pp. Juvenile hardback. A collection of 19 giant tales chosen and introduced by Mayne, with authors from Jonathan Swift to Janet McNeill.
Engines and Brass Bands.
Chicago: Book House for Children and Doubleday, 1933, stated 1st printing; large 8vo; 376 pp. Juvenile hardback. Life with a boy and a girl in a late 19th century Illinois small town provides the background for many romantic adventures there and in the lands of Fancy. Illustrated with many small.....
Trains, Stories for Children Under Seven.
New York: John Day Company, The Cooperating School Pamphlets #4, 1934/1933, 2nd printing; tan paper wraps w turned under flaps containing blurb and title lists; under flap, 10/11 of the gravure photographs which were available for purchase laid in, 5.3x7.75; 32 pp. Toploader medium softcover story. Stories for teachers' use.....
My Son John.
Holt, 1994, 1st printing. 9.4x11.4; c 30 pp. Picture Book hardback. Although the text illustrates the difficulty of copying the inspired inanity of Mother Goose, the design is marvellous, with hand lettered white verse against background on one side and bold oil coloured woodcuts on the other.
Twentieth-Century Children's Writers.
NY: St. Martin's Press, (1978 London Macmillan), 1st Am edition, printing unknown. Black cloth boards, blue dustjacket, 1507 pp. Reference biography, hardback, ex-lib. An indispensable reference for children's literature, containing short biographies and bibliographies complete to publication date of most English speaking authors. (European literature and 19th c literature are.....
The Dog that Flew and other favorite stories from Israel.
Sabra Books, Funk and Wagnalls, circa 1972/ (1969); 154 pp. Juvenile hardback. Modern stories that were popular in Israel in the 60's when television was just beginning, collected by an editor of a children's supplement, thus a good anthology of children's writers of the time. Attractive jacket with listening children.....
Russian Fairy-Tale in the art of Yu. A. Vasnetsov
Leningrad, [Kandozhniki], 1971, 15x11. Children's reference hardback. A feast of Yuri Vasnetsov's masterful illustrations of fairy tales, closely tied to colourful Russian folk art, yet always surprising and original, With an English essay and abbreviated index with the source of the paintings and illustrations. Laid in is a Fine 1957.....
Beatrix Potter Studies i (Two); papers presented at the Beatrix Potter Lake District Study Conference July 1986.
Wootton Bassett, Swindon, Wilts.: The Beatrix Potter Society, 1986; white glossy card wraps with squirrels rafting, sepia print throughout; 56 pp. Reference biography, hardback. Papers presented at the Beatrix Potter Lake District Study Conference July 1986: Lake District Natural History and BP, Armitt Trust appeal, the BP Collection at the.....
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