Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1963, 1st printing American; red cloth boards with stamped guinea-pig on board, gilt tiles on spine; black and red guinea-pig watercolour on ffep; tan jacket with Cecile and Jean-Pierre surrounded by red hearts; 7 full page coloured illustrations and many pink and black.....
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1984, 1st; purple boards with grandmother and child, purple endpapers, in jacket identical to boards, oblong 10.8x8.2"; np. Picture Book hardback. One day Grandma and Coco want to see each other very much! They zoom back and forth across wide landscape spreads but they.....
Racine, Chicago: Whitman Publishing Company, (1916); heavy yellow orange cloth boards with full coloured illustrated plate within stamped curved black border, black titles; cream endpapers with orange butterflies, frontis and 7 coloured plates as issued, many drawings in text and full line drawing plates, all listed; 6.5x8.75"; 112 pp. Juvenile.....
New York: Coward McCann, 1940, 1st US, nap and no 1941 books mentioned; tan jacket with bands of brown images from the book; book jacket, boards, chapter headings and six full page illustrations by Floethe, all brown; in jacket with brown and blue images surrounding title; 8vo; 286 pp. Juvenile.....
Buenos Aires,: Editorial Abril, Jan 21, 1942/1941 1st thus Spanish language; light brown cloth boards with red titles and large plate of dragon and little boy singing; wnd papers with people watching a knight in armor aiming at a confident dragon; coloured pictures on every other spread; 9.25x10.5"; np. Spanish.....
New York: Belford Company, Publishers 18-22 East 18th St. 1889, 1st, brown cloth boards with black and gilt illustrations of the Australian Lundee attacking the Orbellians, and of Rollin, Ben, and Polly sailing their boat; elaborate designs on the spine, brown patterned endpapers, many coated-paper illustrations in text, some by.....
London & New York: W. Hagelberg, [1889- 1899, the New York Warehouse opened in 1889.], printed by W. Hagelberg in Berlin; ivory glazed card, yellow edges all around,, rounded corners; on the front, pugs in descending sizes seated on blue green cushions read the newspaper with their glasses on; on.....
London: Ernest Benn, Limited, Bouverie House, Fleet Street, EC4, 1960, 1st UK, printed in Finland by Werner Soderstrom OsakeyHtio, translated from the Finnish by Kingsley Hart; red boards, in jacket with all the characters standing around looking puzzled against a deep blue sky and blue flowers, 8.25x11. Picture Book hardback.....
New York: Brentano's, co. 1908 as "The New Baby's Biography illus. by Hallock, probably first thus illustrated, no printing date, (co. 1891 as "The Baby's Biography" illus. by Frances Brundage); "decorative work by Ysabel deWitte Kaplan", pale mauve-pink cloth with gilt titles and gilt outline of a baby clutching a......
Christopher Publishing House, 1933, probable 1st; red embossed boards with gilt titles and picture of grasses and butterflies; 8vo; 96 pp. Juvenile hardback. Imaginative little stories or essays written by a French lyric soprano who lived for many years in the United States. Delicate, detailed illustrations fit the text. The.....
New York: Harper & Brothers,1954, 1st edition, 1st printing, all points, Hanrahan; clothbacked matte three colour pictorial boards,7.75x9.25; c 34 pp. Picture Book hardback. Here's a sample page: 25 tiny drawings: "I used to love monkeys more but now I love horses/just my one ear is a monkey's now and.....
New York: Cupples & Leon Company; (1926), tan basletweave box with six Burd children looking at the title through telescopes. Novelty boxed books. A popular read aloud boxed series which was issued with varied selections from the Kiddie Wonder Books inside. In this box, The illustrations of Clara Miller Burd.....
New York N. Y., Newark, N. J.: Barse and Company, (1928); grey cloth binding with teal titles and frame around pasted-on plate of two children in a meadow, same as frontis; 12 plates, printed on the back, plus frontis, as issued; plain endpapers, 6x8.25"; 62 pp. Juvenile hardback. Little brother.....
New York: Viking Press, 1938, 1st printing, "first published September 1938"; plaid paper boards with yellow cloth spine and picture of Wee Gillis in center, in jacket identical to boards, no medal; 7.25 x 10.25"; np. Picture Book hardback. Wee Gillis learns how to stay very still from his Highland.....
Tours: Maison Alfred Mame & Fils, 1919, 1st; #40840 Tours Imprimerie Mame; red cloth backed paper boards with elaborate letters and animal drawings, grey endpapers, a story of several pages for each letter, each illustrated in colour; 9.75x12", 24.5x30cm; 54 pp. French language hardback tall. Nearing the end of his.....
New York: McDevitt-Wilson's, Inc, [US edition, 1900, Baumgarten]; blue cloth with full cream titled and illustrated pasted-on plate; 55 single-sided numbered pages with illustrated prelims and 24 plates; oblong 9.5x12" Picture Book Hardback. A companion to "The Book of Shops" this book builds on the interest young children have in.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972, 1st; reinforced white cloth binding with pink pig in green checked skirt jumping rope near a pink flower; turquoise endpapers, in turquoise jacket with Emily Pig sitting before a feast with her friend Eugene in a chef's hat and cookies; oblong 8x7.9; 31 pp. Picture Book.....
Akron, OH, New York, NY; The Saalfield Publishing Company, #752 (1936/1927 Gordon Volland); flat cut paper boards, red comb binding, with Mr. Wubbles blowing new bubbles early in the morning and Peter Popper holding down the roof while a bubble bursts on his nose, black background in bright basic colours.....
New York: McLoughlin Bros. 1888, heavy card boards ; a red cloth spine cover encases 6 heavy board "leaves", (not flat cut); linen strips hold each board to the next and to the covers, making 14 interior pages. alternate coloured and umber pages as with the linen book version; 8.5".....
New York: McLoughlin Bros. (1897), glazed paper covers with the pie on the table, surrounded by the children and their cat, on the back, a child offers the pie to another NOP, spreads inside alternate orange and black illustrations and full colour chromolithographs, all with a large letter and its.....
Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Co.; (1919,1920); dark red cloth boards with pale blue full cover plate showing Mr. Owl, Old Judge Crow, and Young Sparrow sitting on a branch; poems with two line drawings on every page; 6x7.5"; 60 pp. Juvenile hardback. The story of a community of birds.....
London: Dean's Rag Book Co. Ltd, in print 1914 to1919; "Dean's 6d Patent Rag Book Series"; a cloth book, robin's egg blue covers with blond Arabella in a green dress and feather sitting with her friends on front, and Dutch doll offering cheese on the back, full colour illustrati0ns on.....
New York and London: Frederick Warne & Co. 12 East 33d Street, (1906) early US edition: certainly 1911 to 1920, probably mid to late teens; brown paper boards with silver titles and circular plate of Jeremy fishing, pasted down endpapers with Mrs. Tittlemouse and Bee, no central picture; no printer.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1921/April 1921 D-V; brown paper boards with paste on plate, black cloth spine; 36 b/w/ and coloured plates incl. frontis, present, as issued, other small paintings tipped in and many drawings in text; ; 9x12.5"; 247 pp. Juvenile hardback tall. "Fiction, Fact & Fancy concerning.....
New York: Crown, 1991, 1st nl; no medals on book or jacket; full colour pictorial boards with family under the stars on the roof; in jacket identical to boards; 9.6x12; 26 pp. Picture Book hardback. Ringgold, a well known African American fiber artist, illustrated her first book with pictures and.....