Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Publishing Company, shiny wraps with the four dolls having just arrived and sitting on their luggage, blank inside the wraps, four coloured pages of dolls and clothes to copy onto the b/w outline pages; 8.5x12.5" Softcover. Toploader large softcover novelty activity book. An interesting idea in that.....
New York: McLoughlin, (188_?); card shape book with chromolitho of front and back of doll in a red cape; 4 interior coloured pictures, about 4x8.5 inches. Toploader medium softcover story. The doll looks rather sullen on the cover, but things pick up inside as she can't stand waiting around on.....
New York: McLoughlin 1898, textured heavy paper covers; on the front, a robin in a waistcoat, tails, and top hat; on the back a very pretty border of wild roses and forget-me-nots; with 8 pages of b/w subjects to be traced, each with tracing paper overlay; staple-bound; oblong 6.5x6" Toploader.....
München (Munich): Braun & Schneider, (Dr. E. Wolf & Sohn, Munich printers), c. 1898, linen paper covers on red cloth spine, rounded corners, numerous finely hand coloured woodcuts in text, pictorial cover by Holm; 23.5x35 cm. German language hardback tall. Animal fables with delicate drawings illustrating consecutive scenes from each.....
New York: The Century Company, 1906/1906, 1st in book form; red cloth with orange titles and Mother Goose standing on open book; 8vo; 193 pp + St. Nicholas ads. Juvenile hardback. One of the less common "retold for St. Nicholas " titles, from the famous children's magazine during the time.....
London: Dean's Rag Book, #282, no date (published from 1931 to 1949); blue cloth covers with pinked edges, very cute terrier holding the reins of a tiny pony on front, cat and her ball in back, two doubled leaves sewn down, making six interior pages; 6x7.8" Toploader fabric Dean's rag.....
Platt & Munk, (1949) No. 142C; Four Puzzles in 10.25x9x1 box. Novelty Boxed books puzzle. These puzzles are not signed, but they just have to be Rojankovsky's farmyard animals: one of chickens, one of ducks (on cover), one of turkeys, and a farmyard scene.
Gt. Britain: Dean's Rag Books, A BabySafe book, #6325/1; cloth, doubled cloth exterior with one double cloth leaf sewn in forming four interior pages, cover with little terrier and blue ball on front and two guinea pigs and a carrot on the back, blue spine; 4.75x5.2" Toploader fabric Dean's rag.....
New York : Cramer-Tobias-Meye, Inc. 1946, printed as an advertizing booklet, this one for Hobb Jewelry Co. in Dyersburg, Tenn whose blurb is printed in on the back panel; paper covers and pages; full coloured pictures on each spread facing text with wood grained side panel and some additional smaller.....
Boston: William Miller, 23 Arch St.(1870s?); colorful wraps with boy and girl under an umbrella; b/w illustrations; 4.25x5.5"; 8 interior pages. Toploader small softcover advertizing. An advertizing pamphlet with a small collection of interesting poems and stories illustrated with drawings. Large picture of a little girl feeding a rabbit with.....
[Cleveland: Child's Play? not stated, no title page as issued]; thin grey boards with a little girl reading a book while boy teases her; no endpapers, glossy coloured sheet within containing flower and bird plate to copy, pattern blocks to cut; heavy, glossy, white jacket with rhino on front and.....
No place of publication, no date; PANORAMA, appears to be early 20th c, SOFTCOVER paper not card, eight panels with 8 stories on one side and on the other side, 6 panels and front and back of book, concertina fold opening to about 46"; 5.75 x 9.75" Toploader medium softcover.....
New York: Domesday Press, distributed by J. L. Schilling Co., (1945); full coloured boards fold out to a ten foot strip; each page is 10"xapprox 8.75"; the covers are oblong and fold around the inner pages, which are diecut to surround the animal pictures on the top edge; pages connected.....
Boston: William Miller, 23 Arch St. (1870s?); colorful covers with smoking frog fishing and laughing girl on front; b/w illustrations; 4.25x5.5. Toploader small softcover advertizing. A small collection of funny poems illustrated with drawings and silhouettes. Much of this is about Jim, who "made a pair of stilts and now.....
Leicester, JK, Brown Watson, An All-Action Treasure Hour Pop-up Book, 0-7097-0049-0, 1982 Artia/1971, V. Kubasta, reprint with 2 additional scenes for this title; Printed in Czechoslovakia, 6 scenes, 2 Action Triggers. Novelty pop-up. As is common with Kubasta's of this period, the inside scenes are beautiful, more sophisticated than the.....
Philadelphia: J. H. Smythe, Jr. (1912) for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup with space on back for druggist's stamp, staplebound booklet, dark green and red illustrations and type throughout, a long poem promoting the syrup; 10 interior pages; 5.5x7.5. Toploader medium softcover advertizing. The story of the courtship and marriage of.....
Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co (1929) "33-B5"; Litho. in USA, U. S. P't'g & Litho Co.; booklet printed on good quality paper, full colour illustration of children, skunk and quail running along on front, and a young girl brushing her teeth on the back, 6.5x8"; 15 interior pages. Toploader medium softcover advertizing. Nice.....
Lausanne: F. Payot, Librairie Editeur, (1898); red clothbacked paper boards with chromolitho label of Tell disembarking on a stormy Swiss lake, four chromolitho plates with fine detail and deep colour, 4.5x6.75; 55 pp. French language small hardback. Lovely plates, unaccredited. (by WT?).
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd St. Martin's Street, Here and There Stories Reading Series, no date (c. 1925), No 7 in series Intermediate; brown paper covers, with contents on the front and a list of 18 titles in this series and the Then and Now Stories on the back; 5.25x7.25";.....
New York: McLoughlin Bros., Little Delight Series, late 19th c, orange on black top cover, illustrations and back black and white, about half small print text on each page, two sheets making 6 interior pages; 4 3/4" x 6". Softcover. Toploader small softcover chapbook. The centerfold of the huge giant.....
Tours: Maison Mame; (1952); music by Joseph Canteloube; red cloth backed paper boards with the little man striding happily along, his three dogs running along on bottom board, children and animals dancing to a musical score on endpapers, oblong 10.7x8.75", 27x22.2 cm; np. French language hardback oblong. The arranger, who.....
Zagreb: Mladost, 1959; red paper boards, flat trimmed, with white house and girl with daisy looking out, 16.8x15.6cm; six card leaves, thus 8 pages of illustrated poems, some signed. Slovene language hardback. Funny folkloric pictures illustrate little poems. An interesting find for admirers of this world renowned Slovenian artist, still.....
Warriorsmark, Penn.: Malena Company, Malena Booklet No: 114; no indication of actual author, artist, date, or publisher;(1890's?) front cover shows Jack receiving money from his mother, back cover, inside covers and last page are adds for Malena. 3 sheets stapled and folded, making 10 interior sheets, 4 chromo lithos and.....
Warriorsmark, Penn.: Malena Company, Malena Booklet No: 114; no indication of actual author, artist, date, or publisher;(1890's?) front cover shows Jack receiving money from his mother, back cover, inside covers and last page are adds for Malena. 3 sheets stapled and folded, making 10 interior sheets, 4 chromo lithos and.....
Philadelphia: J. Henry Smythe, Jr. (1912); for Houghton & Dutton Co. Tremont and beacon Sts. Boston, Mass.; thick paper staplebound booklet printed in red and green outlines, front cover with tall boy in Indian hat pulling lassoed blonde girl and her doll (!), illustrations and poem on every page, a......