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Harper & Row, 1971, 1st printing. 7.2x9.5; 22 pp. Picture Book Hardback, ex-lib. A joyful chant with warm, bright pictures of a traditional African family going about their day, by a noted African American poet and writer.
Harper & Row, 1971, 1st printing. 7.2x9.5; 22 pp. Picture Book Hardback, ex-lib. A joyful chant with warm, bright pictures of a traditional African family going about their day, by a noted African American poet and writer.
Hastings House, 1977, 1st printing. Clothbound, c.116 pp; not a Weekly Reader. Juvenile hardback ex-lib. Two children return to the wildlife refuge near their home to find the pair of trumpeter swans missing. Only two bloody feathers are left behind. Long after the authorities have given up, the children continue.....
Oxford Books for boys and girls. [1939] 1.00 on jacket, Brownies Hush! [1938] on back flap, 1943 book not mentioned. Dustjacket only.
London: Abelard-Schuman, 1968, 1st nap; green boards in white jacket with a frisky brown and white goat; REVIEW SLIP laid in, 8.25x11.5"; np. Picture book hardback. Dramatic illustrations in deep, flat colour by a Dutch artist, including two page spreads of the wolf and goat meeting for the first time.....
Prague: Dolezalovo Nakladatelstvi, 1944; blue clothbacked grey paper boards with full size plate of spread-winged stork and black and red titles, silver on spine, 8 full page coloured plates and b/w illustrations in text, 7x9.75"; 80 pp + index. Czech language hardback. 66 fables illustrated with deep coloured, sometimes violent.....
Boston: Little Brown, Joy Street Books, 1990, 1st US; dark blue boards, pink endpapers with little plant design, in jacket with a picture of a lion, a child, and a rabbit, sitting on a garden bench and reading this book, 10.5x8.5"; 61 pp. Picture Book Hardback. Good stories! "While writer.....
NY: Silver, Burdett, and Company, (1911). Tan boards with large illustration of confident King Lion with train bearers walking through the woods; brown endpapers with animals proceeding through the countryside, drawings with lime/brown or blue/brown wash, as issued, 6x7.5; 168 pp. Juvenile hardback. What a treat this must have been.....
Prague Praha Praze: Albatros, (1975 thus, 1931 on most pictures); white paper boards with satisfied red cat; 20.2x26.5; 46 pages (13 drawings numbered). Czech language hardback. Aesop makes a wonderful vehicle for Lada's ironic folkloric illustrations. Each spread has at least one fable facing coloured illustrations. Perhaps there are original.....
[Copenhagen]: Hans Reitzel, 1961 (1944), 1st thus. paper-covered boards, 7.8", np. Juvenile hardback. The fables are told in a very simple style "as an aid to the memory, like the original Aesop.” First printed in wartime Denmark as "The Little Aesop," a separate, privately circulated table of contents labelled some.....
Dial, 1985, 1st printing US; retold by Caroline Castle. 8.5x11.2. Picture Book hardback. Sporty Hare can't believe that Tortoise would want to sit by the water under his blue umbrella and read a book! What would happen if Tortoise decided to run a race?
Boston: J Buffum, 23 Cornhill, 1856 on title, reprint of 1843 US/1840 UK book/1830's. Red stamped floral gilt top board, blindstamped bottom, gilt all around. design on spine of girl with watering can; frontis with seated Aesop holding tablet and talking to two children, small clear woodcuts illustrate each story; 3.75x4.25";.....
New York: Random House, Shambhala, 1980/ 1903; tan boards, brown spine, tan endpapers, coloured illustrations, tan jacket with border of little pictures from the stories; 9x11; 79 pp. Picture Book Hardback. From a set of six tales collected by "the Russian Grimm" at the turn of the century and published.....
New York: Dutton Children's Books, 1993, stated 1st printing; shiny cover with orange background on front, man with piles of title boxes is about to step into a manhole; 8.2x11.2"; np. Novelty moveable split flap. On the title page, beachcombers wander across shell strewn sand, and when we lift the.....
Scribners (clipped dw). Dustjacket only.
New York and London: Viking, 1991, 1st printing, printed in Great Britain; full coloured all around landscape with pirates, coloured endpapers, in jacket identical to boards, 9.5x12; np (c. 64). Picture Book hardback. Antonio, kidnapped by a comic bunch of brigands, begins to tell them a long story. With considerable.....
Viking, 1994, 1st printing; blue jacket w blue decorated endpapers, in blue dustjacket with very large baby with rattle in pram and a crowd of circus people & policemen looking on and vignette of four children looking at castle ; large 8vo; 156 pp. Juvenile hardback. Book's condition is too.....
New York: Doubleday, 1971, 1st printing; green cloth backed blue boards, olive map endpapers, jacket with all around watercolour landscape in large blocks of colour, 8vo; 314 pp. Juvenile hardback. The coach in which Dido Twite and Captain Hughes are travelling overturns, leaving them amidst a strange assortment of Aiken.....
Delacorte, 1986, 1st printing; 258 pp. Juvenile hardback. Dido Twite is back, and soon plunged into a dastardly Hanoverian conspiracy against the King!
St. Martin's, 1994, 1st printing. Juvenile hardback. A sequel to Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.
Doubleday, 1977, stated 1st printing; 311 pp. Juvenile hardback. Historical fiction set in the 1820's in which an orphan sets off through Spain to England to find his father's family. Fascinating picture of 19th c Spain.
New York: Viking, 1973, 1st printing Am; 95 pp. Juvenile hardback. A Play for children, music by John Sebastian Brown.
New York: Holt, Rinehart, 1971/1969, 1st Am; in jacket with wrap around painting of cliffs, gulls, and sea, 8vo; 116 pp. Juvenile hardback ex-lib. A mystery of murder partially remembered from childhood.
Viking Kestral, 1987/1986, 1st printing US. 6.6x10; 128 pp. Juvenile hardback. A collection of stories which are all concerned with sleeping and waking, dreams and bedtime, illustrated in silhouettes and brilliant colour.
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1972, 1st printing. Juvenile hardback ex-lib. "Four children and their aunt come to live in a cottage on an island off the Scottish coast said to be inhabited by the spirit of winter."
New York: Elsevier-Dutton (for Andre Deutch) Sept 1980/1974, 1st US edition and 3rd printing; dark green boards, in jacket with painting of characters from stories, publisher's review slip laid in for this US edition, small 8vo; 167 pp. Juvenile hardback. Fourteen "Tales of Mystery and Magic"... Shadowy Paws, The Invisible.....