Paris: Hachette, (1929), Corbeil, Imprimerie Crété, 66 30-8-31; black cloth backed yellow boards with child seated on piles of books; yellow and green plaid endpapers, (pages de garde); 11 plates, as issued, hors du texte and drawings in text; 9 x 11.5"; 72 pp. French language hardback tall. A fantasy.....
Paris: Hachette, 1890, 1st printing; 227 pp. Red cloth with ornate black and gilt embossed design, three gilt edges. French language 19thc hardback juvenile. A novel/memoir for older children of the Crimean war,winner of the Prix Montyon of the Académie Française. A Stevenson-like maritime adventure, danger, great deeds, and humour.....
Paris: La Renaissance du livre, 78, Boulevard Saint-Michel, 1919, probable 1st; paper boards with red leatherette spine and children holding a picture of a house with a French flag displayed; 23.5x28.5 cm; 12 pp. (one signature). French language hardback tall. Inside a roomy white house in Alsace, in each room.....
Tournai - Paris: Edition Casterman, 1947, collection Editions de l'age de l'or; white boards with palace guards sleeping on checkered floor; grey endpapers with figures from the series, tan spine, 9 x 12"; 32 pp. French language hardback tall. Includes: La Belle au Bois Dormant, Le Petit Chaperon Rouge; Le.....
Paris: Imagerie Merveilleuse de l'Enfance; no date [c. 1910]; 1st thus illustrated; Imprimerie Bellenaund 32-447; heavy ivory card with colored illustration, red titles; flush cut, rounded corners, on front, the prince arrives to see the goose girl princess sitting in her donkey skin, while the startled fowls and neighbors, and.....
NY: Didier (1945). Four colour paper boards with Puss-in-Boots, 7.5x10; c 48 pp. French language hardback. medium. Fairly clear blue-toned copies of Dore on browning paper, tales in French.
Paris: Ernest Flammarion, Editeur, Les Meilleurs Auteurs Classiques series, (1935); yellow wraps, SOFTCOVER 8vo; 390 pp. French language softcover. medium. An inclusive collection in attractive French '30's wraps.
Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie 79 Boulevard Saint-Germain, 79 Boulevard Saint-Germain, Bibliothèque Rose Illustrée, Nouvelle Edition, 1908, reprint thus, red cloth stamped gilt decorations and titles; illustrés de 65 vignettes de Bertall, Beaucé, etc, 8vo; 405 pp. French language 19thc hardback juvenile. Perrault: La Barbe Bleue, Le Petit Chaperon Rouge.....
Paris: Larousse, Contes de Perrault,, [about 1922 Cotsen]. brown paper boards with blue cloth spine and large Puss in Books with hands on hips; endpapers with publisher's lists, coloured illustrations in text; 8.25 x 11.25"; 32 pp. French language hardback. medium. The stories illustrated by a comic artist of the.....
Paris: Perrin-Duportal Editeur, Paris 1926, 1st printing (later printings are noted); tan boards with pasted on circular coloured plate; text and full page illustrations printed in red; 7" x 9"; 40 pp. French language hardback. medium. Georgie is almost two when his family adopts Dick, a very short haired 5.....
Paris: Perrin-Duportal Editeur, Paris 1933/1928; tan boards with pasted on circular coloured plate of Georgie and the goat; text and full page illustrations printed in red; 7" x 9"; 40 pp. French language hardback. medium. Little stories of Georgie, his mother, and his friends as they take walks through the.....
Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 79, Boulevard Saint Germain,1878; Typographie Lahure, assumed 1st printing; green cloth boards stamped with elaborate border design and gilt picture of Paul dragged before justice;. French language hardback tall. Among his misdeeds, Paul impulsively sails a hot air balloon. As it descends,the balloon destroys all.....
Paris: La Table Ronde, November 20, 1946, Imp. Curial-Archereau, Paris; grey cloth backed soft white paper boards with full colour illustration on grey blue ground; full colour illustrations and coloured illustrations in text with a long story in italics; 9.75x13"; 25x31.5cm;. French language hardback tall. Best known for her fairy.....
Ottowa: Editions Lemeac, (1972); laminated fully illustrated boards in iridescent greens with yellow Pit-tout-court, and his mother, magenta Pitabelle, endpapers in black and white with Pitatou's family carrying rushes and flowers for the party, in French; 9.4x12.3; np. French language hardback tall. Excitement in the forest of nowhere! All the.....
Ottowa: Editions Lemeac, (1972) presumed 1st printing; laminated fully illustrated boards in iridescent blues with yellow, magenta, and green birds on yellow ground, endpapers with black and white birds in garden of ferns, in French, many deeply coloured pages; 9.4x12.3; np. French language hardback tall. Colorful birdlike creatures, the pitas.......
Paris: Librairie Garnier Freres 6, Rue des Saints-Peres, 6, Imprimerie Paul Dupont, 0 296 1930, 1930/1929; early printing, Montreal bookstore sticker from Granger Freres; in heavy card WRAPS with bright animal pictures;. French language softcover oblong. A long comic series of adventures by a very active little squirrel, nicknamed the.....
Paris: Editions Jules Tallandier, 7 Rue Dareau (xive), no date, c 1920's, glazed heavy card boards with a writing and reading rabbit and little dogs making the vowel sounds, a bear on the back; coloured pictures on every page; 18x26.5cm, 7.1x10.2"; np. French language softcover. medium. A lighthearted approach to.....
Paris: Editions Jules Tallandier, Nov 1, 1907. Cloth backed full coloured plaid paper boards with smiling dog head, 12.5x9.5; 64 pp. French language hardback tall. Comic events in the life of a happy-go-lucky dog of uncertain breed with many drawings, half in colour.
Paris: Editions Jules Tallandier, Nov., 1907. Clothbacked full coloured dark green boards with White cat; 12.5x9.5 inches; 64 pp. French language hardback tall. A naughty cat who observes the results of his many escapades with joy! At the end, he retires happily to Charing Cross with a kind governess and.....
Paris: Editions Etranco, Collection du jeune age #4; printer: Vereinigte Kunstanstallen, Nuremberg no date [1930's]; illustrated heavy ivory card boards with M. de Crac riding a cannon ball in the clouds, on inner cover a list of 9 titles in the series and a red bookstore sticker for Librairie Joseph.....
Paris: Editions Berger-Levrault, 1946/1946, probable first; illustrated tan paper boards and spine with soldier writing on drum top; 18x24.5cm; 78 pp + bibliography. French language hardback. medium. The simple adventures of a drummer boy who participated in the Napoleonic wars. He chose to become a drum major rather than an.....
Paris: Ch. Ploche, Libraire-Editeur, 5 Place de la Bourse, 5, Bibliothèque de la Maitresse de Maison; 1852, tan paper wraps with geometric pattern, 4 x 6"; 32 pp. French language small hardback. One of a series of inexpensive little pamphlets of interest to the 19th c French housewife, this one.....
Paris: Firmin-Didot et Cie.; 56, Rue Jacob, (1932); green-blue clothbacked paper boards with full size pasted-on plate of M. Lapinot sitting on a chimney pot and watching his son's return in his flying basket/ship suspended by balloons, plain blue endpapers, flyleaf with form for owner inscription, 5 plates as issued.....
Paris: Firmin-Didot et Cie.; 56, Rue Jacob, (1934) probable 1st, 1934 owner Christmas inscription; russet clothbacked paper boards with full size pasted-on plate of animals in a sailboat with Jojo, red endpapers with white designs, flyleaf with form for owner inscription, 4 plates as issued tipped in on one side.....
Paris: Firmin-Didot et Cie.; 56, Rue Jacob, (1930, 1st or year of publication, "pour paraitre prochement Nouvelle Aventures de C.", general advance notice with no mention of Aviateur); red clothbacked paper boards with full size pasted on plate of Jojo's toys sitting in a field, red endpapers with white triangles.....