New York: Sam'l Gabriel and Sons, (1913); No. 901; a panorama, or folding board book, with heavy glazed cream board covers and white board pages, each showing with large full colour animals, attached accordion style with red cloth, twelve 9.3x11.3, b. Novelty panorama. A generously sized, beautiful panorama, whose animal.....
Donohue, 1918, #2001; large ivory paper books with two cats and their shadows on front, an older picture of a child and a pony on the back, 8 pages of animals drawings shaded orange., 10.25x13" Toploader large softcover. The children's clothes and the drawing reflect the coming 20's styles rather.....
Tours: Maison Mame, 1935 (44 388, Série M)) presumed first but University of tours has 1934, shiny paper covered boards, the top with a huge blocky painting of two cows on a hillside, the rear with a donkey head within a yellow circle on cream. French language hardback tall. Large.....
Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Company, (1935) #923; full colour textured stiff covers (using Whitman's Linen-Like material) with Snow White and the dwarves on back and probably Cinderella and Rapunzel on front and title page (stories not included);. Toploader large softcover. Nice reproductions of Anderson's fine work, with titles of tales.....
Tokyo 1925, Brown card with title printed on it, brown silk string tied. Reproductions of photos and building layouts, each covered with a captioned transluscent sheets. Toploader medium. A booklet produced in the autumn of 1925 (Taisho 14) by the Aoyama Jogakuin, Women's Academy, to commemorate what is now Berry.....
New York: Hurst & Company, (1915); grey cloth boards with children, two colours, four coloured lithos of children, one signed Bessie Pease Gutman, most stamped 1909 with printer colophon, 4to; np (about 120). Juvenile hardback. An inexpensive reprint using old black and white illustrations but with very early Gutman plate.....
Boston: William Miller, 23 Arch St.(1870s?); colorful covers with two lively toddlers reading a book; b/w illustrations; 4.25x5.5"; 8 interior pages. Toploader small softcover advertizing. A small collection of poems and stories illustrated with drawings. Compliments of John Brahmer Lowville New York, Boots, Shoes, and Rubbers.
No place or publisher, [US, circa 1870.] Yellow wraps. Cover: The Bad Boy and O.N.T. with seven labels, inside cover: "Use (label) on white spools/George A. Clark, sole agent [1824 - 1873]/It is/superior to all others/for hand and machine work/follow. Toploader small softcover advertizing. Hilarious drawings by an uncredited artist.....
Paris: Flammarion, Père Castor, 1946, 1st (and only?) printing; single page size 21 x 24 cm, open frieze oblong 64 x 24 cm or 33 x 9.5"; 8 pp. French language softcover tall. From 1944 to 1947 Pierre Belvès, also an artist and an educator, created 16 short friezes for.....
Chicago: American Colortype, n. d. {1915?]. stapled paper booklets with 10 interior pages, coloured illustrations on cover and three interior, two seeming almost like tinted photographs, blank backs suggest these were advertising givaways; 3.8c5.25" Toploader small softcover advertizing. How Lester saved the baseball game and won a place in the.....
Akron, Ohio: The Saalfield Publishing Co., (1929) Popular Edition, red cloth spines, full color paper boards front and back with same illustration of Billy on the road, relaxing in his trailer, coloured frontis and numerous drawings in text; 6.25x7.5. Juvenile hardback. Billy hitches a ride with the McGregor's and their.....
P. F. Volland Company, (1923); all around pictorial cloth cover of Billy and his animals with the barns in the background; center stapled, 7 full page coloured illustrations, portrait of animal in colour on facing text page, wide margins, 7x8.25"; 14. Toploader fabric. A little boy in short blue overalls.....
Springfield, Mass: McLoughlin Bros. Inc, no MB, thus 1920-1929, yellow glazed paper mounted on linen with gorgeous red and green parrots and red titles, colourful pheasant-like birds on the back, four large chromolithos, a rooster, a cow, a donkey, a. Toploader large softcover. A beautiful big book, with what I......
London: Dean's Rag Books; (1908) #100, although this book was in print until 1919, the reversed logo dates this copy to 1909 or 1910; Dean's 2/6 Patent Rag Books Series 4, 190 mm x 224 mm, red oblong cloth book in seven colours. (Cope). Toploader fabric Dean's rag. On the.....
New York: McLoughlin Bro's, Aunt Grumbles Series, nd (1870s); orange, black, and green front cover showing Carrie about to play with the candle, black and white drawings within; 2 sheets making 6 interior pages, 4x6". Softcover. Toploader small softcover chapbook. Two stories derived from Struwwelpeter, Carry, and Rocking Philip and.....
New York and Chicago: A. S. Barnes and Co., 1885, red boards with elaborate black stamping, 5.2x7.3"; 124 pp. Juvenile hardback. "With special reference to the effects of alcoholic drinks, stimulants, and narcotics upon the human system, endorsed by the scientific department of the Women's Christian Temperance Union of the.....
New York: Charles E. Graham & Company, Holly Wreath Booklet Series #0902, n. d. (about 1895?). pale pink into blue covers with children hanging stockings within holly wreath on front and Santa in long coat with toys on back, blue border of birds. Small hardback. The children of the Hall.....
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, Little Dot Series, late 19th c; green paper covers with red and black illustration and verse; black and white illustrations within, 7 pages of text; 4x6" Softcover. Toploader small softcover chapbook. Romantic half page pictures, center spread of Cinderella at the ball. In this version the.....
New York: McLoughlin c 1893, Sunshine Series, Sparrow dropping his arrow above dying Cock Robin, CR's tombstone on the back, 4 chromoliths of key moments inside (better quality than the cover), other pages duotone red and black; 6.5x9" Toploader medium softcover story. Dramatic pictures of this sad event.
Royal Baking Powder Co., 100 East 42nd St., New York (1926); light paper covers with the Captain standing on the quay, cookie people throughout with good looking recipes. Toploader medium softcover advertizing. An amusing advertising pamphlet with recipes that as been attributed to Ruth Plumly Thompson (Oz) and Gertrude Kay.....
Keene, New Hampshire: J. A. Wright & Company, An All Wright Story for Little Folks, (1944); WRAPS with 4 sheets making 14 interior pages; 4.5x6.5. Softcover. Toploader small softcover advertizing. This story really happened! In 1873 John A. Wright stopped to rescue a cow; later he noticed that the mud.....
Keene, New Hampshire: J. A. Wright & Company, An All Wright Story for Little Folks, (1944); WRAPS with 4 sheets making 14 interior pages; 4.5x6.5. Softcover. Toploader small softcover advertizing. This story really happened! In 1873 John A. Wright stopped to rescue a cow; later he noticed that the mud.....
New York: McLoughlin Bros. Inc., #1314, no date; three very stiff fine glazed linen sheets, folded and center stapled, making 12 pages; full colour on outside with painting of cow, 4 interior paintings, 4 drawings, 7.2x10.2. Toploader fabric McLoughlin. A serious cow on the cover: Mostly about Guernsey and Holstein.....
Chicago: The Book House for Children. 1940, 1st printing, collection of 12 four page leaflets in a large envelope with brown pictures and titles, oblong 13 x 10" Toploader large softcover. Handwork "is the child's outlet for doing, as contrasted with dreaming, and therefore one of the surest ways of.....
New York: McLoughlin Bros., Young America Series, 1860's or probably later Vincent Dill not mentioned.; three sheets folded, making 10 interior pages; red and black front with pie, on back a list of paper dolls.... many kinds, including Eva St. Clair. Toploader small softcover chapbook. The quarrelsome boys, The peace-maker.....