Light in the Mountain.
Knopf, 1982, 1st printing. Juvenile hardback. An epic of Maori life spanning the lives of two women.
Knopf, 1982, 1st printing. Juvenile hardback. An epic of Maori life spanning the lives of two women.
New York: Knopf, 1982, 1st printing. Juvenile hardback. An epic of Maori life spanning the lives of two women.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979, 1st printing; clothbacked blue paper boards, cream eps, 8vo; in blue dw with col painting of Robert and Jennifer near circle of stones; 181 pp. Juvenile hardback. A time slip novel in which children are carried through the circle of time to the year.....
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1985, 1st nl, pictorial cloth cover, 8vo, 179 pp. Juvenile hardback. In the 21st century, in a land that was once Scotland, gentle people encounter visitors from the 20th c and are also invaded by the Barbaric Ones from the south. Laura is able to.....
Wellington: A. H. and A. W. Reed, 1977, 1st printing published; blue boards, in jacket with painting of horses in pasture with mountains of New Zealand's South Island in the distance; 7.5x10; 60 pp. Juvenile hardback. Photos of a high country station horse with a mind of his own, against.....
Holt, 1989, 1st printing; 102 pp. Juvenile hardback. A disturbing story about the treatment of children who ride the "special" bus every day.
Lisbon, Lisboa: Editorial Atica, December, 1959, 1st edition and undoubtedly 1st and only printing, Collecçao Infantil Atica, offset lithographs by Lithographia Tejo, cardstock covers with jacket tightly folded around, showing sweeping Christmas tree boughs extending across spine to rear, with red title panel and blue ornament; coloured lithos in text.....
Viking, 1961, 1st printing, 63 pp. Juvenile hardback ex-lib. A boy is devoted to a statue of St. Francis and when he notices that the saint seems a little sad, he makes him some shoes to warm his feet. Set in Tuscany.
Holiday House,(1971). Juvenile hardback. Agapito wins "the white shell colt" for himself in a fight with a cougar. They grow up together during a time of the Long March. Through Cloud, the colt, Agapito is able to see a vision of freedom for his people.
Scribner's, (1970), $4.50 on flap.; 7.75x9.25; c 26 pp. Picture Book hardback. A quiet book with dark drawings, written by a naturalist about a red bat.
Kuso-Kobo, 1988/1981, publisher's or author's card included, white boards with half-timbered house on front and the brick house next door on the back, grey endpapers, in jacket identical to boards, written in Japanese; 261x215mm; np. Picture Book hardback. Ten children move to the house next door. Open the book: the.....
Tokyo: Fukuinkan Shoten, 1999/1977, pictorial boards all around illustration of farms and fields, green endpapers, in jacket identical to boards; 26x23cm 48 pp. Picture Book hardback. Anno's version of a journey to England made by Breugel, tiny figures wander across wide landscapes in city and town.
Printed in USA, [1940's? from style]; newsprint booklets with orange highlighted pictures, same on front and back, of colouring book style animals wearing clothes; four of the six Paint and Story Books, each with identical front and back covers with illustration in two colours; black and white pictures inside illustrate.....
Newark and New York: Charles E. Graham, 1920s ;Child's First Alphabet on top board, no general title page.: Bird and Animal ABC and Nursery Rhyme Book ABC are bound together. tan and gray laid paper design boards with pasted on plate of a mouse being chased by a huge buttterfly,(from.....
Kenosha, Wisconsin: John Martin's House, Inc 1945 reprint of 1941 Grosset & Dunlap, Inc. boards with full illustration of a landscape and hero sitting on a rock, on bottom board the wedding picture, blue cloth spine, yellow endpapers with blue landscape, many full page coloured illustrations; in jacket with same.....
New York: Charles E. Graham & Company, no date (c. 1920s), #041 Animal Cut Out Seires, large shape book with duck in sailor suit holding a gun, 8 interior pages, half coloured; , about 12" tall x 7" Toploader oversized softcover. Inside are an assortment of unrelated comic animal pictures.....
New York: McLoughlin Pleasure Series 1898, linen, chromolithographed covers and center spread, nice little drawings in text on all pages, 4.5 x 6.5"; 10 interior pages. toploader small linen. A perfect little book with entertaining 19thc small child stories:My Dolly, in which a much loved doll slips into her bath.....
London: Dean's Rag Book #62, reissue and redesign of Animals and Their Little Ones; this edition published 1922 -1928 (Cope) and illustrated by Mildred C Hunter, not the earlier Berkeley version; 6d Dean's Patent Rag book series 3, red covers and green twill cloth spine with a mother white and.....
No indication of publishing data. A shaped card barn of silvery wood and red roof surrounded on the front by Holly Berries, with a big double door to open, revealing interior pocket with white horse eating hay next to hanging plow horse collar; on the back a closed door and.....
Tokyo: "Y. Nishinomiya (late T. Hasegawa)"; probably 1937 or 38, crepe paper book with red silk ties ,double stab silk binding and grey silk spine backing, on bottom cover a flock of little paper birds surrounding a larger paper bird, nine interior folded leaves, making 18 pp of story, most.....
London, Edinburgh and New York: T. Nelson and Sons, 1866, assumed all are 1866 1sts or 1867 reprints, dark blue or red pressed boards, identical pattern, gilt panel on spines all oriented with foot at top of text block, ivory endpapers, each captioned frontis from a story; (six little books.....
Newark NJ and New York: Charles E. Graham & Co. Ever Wear Kanvas Books #0435 Everwear Series, Logo of Mother Goose painting C. E. G. on an easel on the back; red and white checkered strip on edges, blue "Kanvas" cover with large full colour illustration on front, smaller Brundage.....
Moscow 1966, 1st printing; in Russian tan cloth boards, 255 pp. Russian language hardback. Margin drawings and different colours of ink for each section, contents.
The Common Brick Manufacturers Association of America 1921, printed by Pomerantz, Philadelphia; mauve heavy matte paper cover extending beyond text, with black titles and olive green illustration of wolf eying three silhouetted little pigs setting out and orange wolf eyes, colored illustrations on every spread, 5.3 x 7"; 14 pp.....
London and Northhampton, Raphael Tuck sons, Ltd, Series AC. ; "Six postcards from natural colour photographs" "by Appointment to Her Majesty the Queen", so from the 1950s or 60s. Toploader large. Envelope with notes on the doll house. Six postcards: The Queen's Bedroom, The Drawing Room, the Library, The Royal.....