A Birthplace in Thrums.
National Trust for Scotland, 1964; Paperback pamphlet, illustrated. 19 pp. Reference biography, hardback. .
National Trust for Scotland, 1964; Paperback pamphlet, illustrated. 19 pp. Reference biography, hardback. .
National Trust for Scotland, 1964; Paperback pamphlet, illustrated. 19 pp. Reference biography, hardback. .
National Trust for Scotland, 1964; Paperback pamphlet, illustrated. 19 pp. Reference biography, hardback. .
National Trust for Scotland, 1964; Paperback pamphlet, illustrated. 19 pp. Reference biography, hardback. .
Scribner's, 1938, 1st printing; 256 pp. Reference biography, hardback. .
NY: Russell, (1898); 375 pp, plates. Juvenile hardback. Gavin Dishart, a young minister, and his first congregation in Thrums, a weaving village based on Barrie's birthplace. The "Maude Adams Edition", with many black and white plates (100?), most of them of paintings by Gilbert, and some photos.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co Inc, 1958/1957 UK, publisher's prepublication copy in wraps of 1st US printing; foreword by Sydney Blow, full text pamphlet wrapped in sample dustjacket, peach with white titles and Peter coming in the window to grown up Wendy, identical on both front and back.....
Chicago: Albert Whitman, 1939 on title page; heavy gold cloth boards with large plate showing llamas, endpapers with black silhouette of llama train against red Andes; 7.4x9.4; 63 pp. Juvenile hardback. Many red and back illustrations throughout of traditional culture.
Samuel Lowe, (1944). Paper col. pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers; 8.2x11.2; 24 pp. Picture Book hardback. A perfect 40's "vintage" book, with loving pictures of the Pet Show.
Kenosha: S. Lowe, 1944, appt. 1st printing. 8x11, np. Picture Book hardback. Stories of Mother Goose characters, most well known.
Doran, nd; 257 pp. Reference history, hardback. In rare dw with drawing and text on front and back, blank flaps.
Princeton, N. J.: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc, (1965); brown cloth boards white jacket with brown, tan, and grey Aztec forest scene, with full page illustrations in colour and black and white in text in the same style; 8vo; 96 pp, incl.. Glossary. Juvenile hardback ex-lib. Bright Plume, a young.....
Chicago: Albert Whitman & Company, 1944/1944; red boards with large paste on plate of Yank, soldier, and two Moroccan men, endpapers of Yank chasing a rabbit through a palm grove; 7,25x9.25"; 32 pp. Picture book hardback. The story of how Yank sails North Africa on a troop ship, how he.....
Crown, 1994, 1st printing; 4to, np. Picture Book hardback. The trials of an immigrant coal miner, with wonderful "soft" pictures by Ray.
Boston: Dana Estes [1911], 1st American edition/printing; green cloth boards with blindstamped borders, white titles, and a photo of a rough-coated collie; the same collie as a coloured photo frontis, 144 plates (as issued) with 151 images of different breeds; 8vo, xxi 314 pp, including Kennel Club rules, information re.....
Glastonbury CT: Barton Associates publishers, no date, [2003] self published; heavy white card covers into which blades of grass have been incorporated with pages made of special paper also with grass; black comb binding, oblong 9.5 x 8"; np. Picture Book softcover. A nice little story about a colt who.....
Little Brown, Sierra Club, 1990, 1st printing. 9.2x9.3; c 28 pp. Picture Book hardback. "Where Birds Nest in the City." Interesting pictures of different kinds of birds nesting in high corners of the city.
Viking, 1981, 1st printing; 4to, np. Picture Book hardback. Full-portraits of zoo animals with captions by various of the Baskin family.
Harcourt, Brace and Company. [1955]. "A Cap for Mul Chand" [1950] on rear flap. Clipped. Dustjacket only.
Chicago, New York: Rand McNally Company, 1931/1926, early printing of the large Once Upon a Time Series; black paper boards with design of white squares, on the top board a large coloured illustration of the fairies looking at the tiny baby, on the bottom a smaller silhouette of a little.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981, 1st printing; cloth boards, 8.5x8.25; 32 pp. Picture Book hardback. Books on the prehistory of American cultures for little children are hard to find, and this is a good one, what scientists have discovered about the Pueblo and Basketmaker peoples.. Everything is simple and beautiful, from.....
Harcourt, Brace, & World, 1963/1961, 1st printing Am; 120 pp. Juvenile hardback. Tom came from Scotland to work at the French shipyards but he wanted above all to photograph the ocean liner France, whose details were secret. After several adventurous attempts at sneaking in to view her, he began to.....
Harcourt, 1967, 1st printing Am; 128 pp. Juvenile hardback. "A mysterious intruder and a painting turn a holiday, in Brittany, into an exciting experience for the Belfond children."
New York: Atheneum, (1987) 3rd printing; dark blue boards with silver titles, blue endpapers, wrap around painting on jacket of the neighborhood pushing a giant snowball, with big flakes falling from the snowy sky; 8.25 sq."; np. Picture Book hardback. In place where it rains all winter, snow finally falls.....
New York: Books of Wonder, 1993, this edition, 2nd printing of this edition, afterword by Peter Glassman; shiny blue boards, yellow top edge, illustrations reproduced, green pictorial jacket; 267 pp. Juvenile hardback. "The Emerald City of Oz is the sixth of L. Frank Baum's fourteen Land of Oz books. Originally.....