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.....
Boston: D. Lothrop & Co, Publishers, Franklin and Hawley Streets, (1877) assumed reprint, maroon cloth with black titles and illustration, linen covered fairly thick boards 3 side sewn signatures of fine linen pages; 6x8.25; n. p. Toploader fabric. An interesting, uncommon alphabet book and reader in bad condition, the fine.....
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 softcover. Inside are an assortment of unrelated comic animal pictures with.....
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.....
Akron, Ohio: S. H. Kohler & Co; 1908, assumed 1st, Kohler's Felt Books, "The original felt books"; center sewn self binding with 10 interior pages; 5.25x8.5" Toploader medium cloth. A full colour illustration of two children building a sandcastle with a bright blue sky and ocean (or Lake Erie?) in.....
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.
Germany: C. H. K. No. 809; (ca 1920's, K = Kunstverlag?)?; tan and pale green card covers, stapled and paper covered spine, full plate of mare and foal painting pasted on front cover, 12 pages, 4 full page paintings, oblong 8x5.7", 20.5x14.2 cm. German language softcover. Nice full sized turn.....
New York: Griffith and Farran, successors to Newbery and Harris (1870's); printed in Edinburgh; brown cloth boards with black illustration of children reading and bright gilt panel; 4.25x6.5; 160 pp with a 15 pp catalogue of Sunday School books from E. P. Dutton bound in. Small hardback. A long religious.....
London: 34 - 1939, Rag Book 312,(The Platt & Munk Co. Inc. New York) Made in England; Dean's Patent Rag Books Series 4 In print from 1934 - 1939, green twill zig zagged binding with Neddy the Donkey on the front and a dog looking at two rabbits in a......
New York and London: Frederick Warne & Co., (1968) probably 1st; tan paper boards, in green patterned jacket with Tom Cobbleigh and his friends following the savvy grey mare, oblong 5.5x7.75; np. Small hardback. Based on a Devon folk song: Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Gurney, Pete Davey, Dan'l Widden.....
Copenhagen, Kobenhavn:Carl Larsens Vorlag, Alfred Jacobsens Danske Billedboger, Nr 1, (sic) 1950s?/1891, reprint states 45th edition, 303,000 copies printed, but this may be later, in Danish, coloured illustrated boards with nursery rhyme characters, 6 coloured pages and black and white drawings with rhymes; 8.75x10.75"; np. Dutch language hardback. Cheerful, dancing.....
No date. No publication data, but surely published for Vaughan's Seed Company, est. 1876., Chicago. Novelty Pup-up. On the first heavy card page, Bobby and Betty and their little dog look through an open window, surrounded by a flowery trellis behind which a folded green page can be pulled out.....
München (Munich): Braun and Schneider, (registered by Dr. C. Wolf and Son, Munich), ca 1880's. Marbled paper boards predominately maroon with cream and blue, white calf quarter leather, bound as album with 17 coloured woodcuts single-sided spreads attached to tabs, 13 1/4"x9 1/8", top opening, therefore oblong; 34 pages. German.....
Amsterdam: S. L. van Loon, [1908 thus illustrated]; printed by Tresling & Co Amsterdam; cream paper boards and cloth spine, top board with fine coloured pictures of the tales and their titles; many fine black outline watercolours and black and white silhouettes; large 8vo; 75 pp with contents. Dutch language.....
No publisher stated #1113-15, and these are some of the same pictures as Whitman Winship ABC's from the 40's; stapled Linenette with 10 interior pages, cover with two children stacking enormous ABC blocks with the help of their little dog; folio. Toploader large softcover. Each spread has big floral decorated.....
No publishing data on this copy. Probably a blank advertising sample: The Cotsen collection at Princeton has one of these with The Broadway Department Store text on the back. The book appears to be from around 1910. Three sheets of heavy card stapled making 10 interior pages. Cover with Mother.....
New York: Cupples and Leon, (1917), on verso "40 cents" (not "35 cents"), and listing the titles which appeared in the first three boxed sets and also the Night Before Christmas (1918) but not Mickie (1919); brown paper boards, dark green titles, with heart shaped pasted on plate of the.....
New York: Cupples and Leon (1914) 2nd on title list of 10 All Abouts; brown paper boards with small pasted on plates of bear family portrait and view of their house, plain endpapers, coloured plates and b/w illustrations, in white jacket with same pictures, list of 12 All Abouts and.....
[Moscow]: Progress Publishers, 1980, shiny pictorial boards, green endpapers, 8.5 x11.5"; 78 pp. Picture book hardback. A collection of tales, beginning with The Snow Maiden, beautifully illustrated with borders on every text page and lush, intricate paintings facing. Soviet graphic artist Igor Ivanovich Yershov (7 November, 1916 – 6 February.....
Ohio: American Colortype Co. no date, c 1920?; blue and white checked box top plate with three boys and "The Army and Navy Forever!"; 8 little pamphlets each with coloured picture covers and three coloured illustrations, whose resolution varies from blurry to crisp. Three doubled sheets making 10 interior pages;.....
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, boards making 24 different pages with only the title page.....