Niwot, Colorado: Roberts Rinehart Publishers, (1995), no edition noted; shiny tan laminated boards with border panel boxes of eight of the predators on front and ten on bottom, brown endpapers, in jacket identical to boards; oblong 10.25x8.25; np. includes glossary. Picture Book hardback. Each page has a center picture of.....
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.....
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: Holiday House, 1989, stated 1st, orange boards with blue spine, in jacket with Matt falling from a space ship; 8vo; 160 pp. Juvenile hardback. SIGNED by author. "During a devastating flood, Matt and his parents are transported to a mysterious planet inhabited by other misplaced earthlings and ruled.....
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990/1989, 2nd paperback printing; many illustrations on text paper, 424 pp. Reference essays, softcover. A varied collection of essays: on the classics of children's literature, fairy tales and other genres, collecting, illustrators, booksellers, diaries and family magazines written by children.
George G. Harrap, 1968, 1st printing; 128 pp. Juvenile hardback. The English edition with a full-coloured jacket showing Thursday and friends descending by balloons.
Prague, Praha, Vilem Smidt 1942; from the series "The Book Lover's Handle, Monographs, Lists, Books and People's Handbooks Volume I", yellow paper cover with flaps, unbound, 49 pp + index and pub data, Czech language softcover. An unbound, as issued, list of book illustrations by Adolf Kaspar, Prague 1942. Folded.....
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1984, 1st Am; tan paper boards, red cloth spine; in re jacket with Alice sewing while her kitten plays; 8vo; 186 pp. Juvenile hardback. A sequel to the Alice's with competent Tenniel like pictures and a "Carroll's heir" poem at the end.. Collector's note laid.....
New York: Methuen, Inc., 1980 simultaneous publication, 1st thus abridged from Cohen's 1950 translation; brown cloth with the hero in his nightshirt brandishing a sword stamped in gilt; in light brown jacket with Don Quixote and Rocinante about to challenge the windmills; 8vo; 207 pp. Juvenile hardback. Lively and amusing.....
Grosset & Dunlap, Story Parade Picture Book, designed by Artist and Writers Guild, 1944, presumed 1st, no other titles listed for 1944 or subsequently; yellow boards with a pastel drawing of Kate and a basket of kittens, teal endpapers with white kittens, in jacket identical to boards; 8x9"; np. Picture.....
London and Glasgow: Blackie and Son Limited, (probably 1930's); large picture of older child reading to little ones on top board, lists of various Blackie's Books for Children on bottom board, frontis on coated paper, other full page illustrations with text on back and many black and white illustrations; 8x10.25;.....
New York: Delacorte Press, 1995, 1st printing, nl; green boards with blue spine, in jacket with Katie's watching the beginnings of the Burn from a mountainside; 8 vo; 195 pp. Juvenile hardback. Katie's grandmother narrates her experiences in a logging camp during the Tillamook burn in the 1930's; very well.....
New York: Henry Holt, 1994, stated 1st; red shiny boards with twining gold vines and little fantastic and realistic animals among them, center golden cartouche of the firebird; in white endpapers with gold entwined around the same little animals, in jacket identical to boards; 11.2" sq.; np. Picture Book hardback.....
Champaign, Illinois: The Gerrard Press (1958), first series of 5 books listed on rear flap no mention of second (1959), sepia and dull cream heavy cloth boards with chatting monkeys, a full illustration in brown with yellow highlights introduces each story; in jacket with monkeys exchanging flowers in the jungle;.....
Rio de Janeiro: Grosset & Dunlap original, (1940); Serviçio Grafico do Ministerio da Educaçao e Suade. lithography by Genaro; paper boards with coloured lithograph, white leatherette spine; large 10.5x12.5; np. Picture Book hardback. After the rains came a long dry spell, forcing the little boy and his parents to move.....
New York: Viking, 1974, stated 1st printing; grey pictorial cloth with little boy and the bird in a rough painted dark blue oval, in purple endpapers, in jacket identical to boards, 8.5x7.3; c 36 pp. Picture Book hardback. A lovely copy of this gentle book for young children, with pictures.....
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Co., Riverside Press, 1948; red binding with two cubs eating from a honey jar bait; 8vo; 110 pp. Juvenile hardback. "The true story of Monte, a fascinating grizzly bear. He was found as a cub by a kind miner who lived with a companion, and he learned.....
Scarborough, Ontario, Canada: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd 1982.1st, nl; designed by Sharon Black, cream cloth binding, opens to black and white illustrated title page; in all around illustrated jacket in blues and browns with the fisherman sitting on a dock with a gull; 7.5 x 9.25"; 45 pp. Picture Book hardback.....
New York: Johnny Gruelle Company, 1942, ("copyright in Great Britain 1942"), format JGC #2 reprint, thus 1951-60 (firsts of this title should have cloth spines Hall, p 74); shiny covers with paper spine with title and picture of RA's and the chubby policemen, who first appeared in a syndicated strip.....
London: Methuen, 1957/1955, 1st UK; grey boards in grey jacket with red titles and a moving dogs sled; 8vo; 227 pp + 3 pg publisher's catalogue. Juvenile hardback. What starts out as a lark for Eric, as he leads the Mounty on a wild goose chase away from his wounded.....
No publication data, dark blue beveled boards with white, gilt, silver, and black stamped decorations of an elaborate fan and flowers and butterflies, silver all around, border decorations; a fine vase with flowers on spine, blindstamped fan on bottom board; silk free endpaper, elaborate title page in gilt stating "Autographs";.....
Buenos Aires: Editorial Losada, S. A. 1957/1937, 14th printing; irregular orange overlay on pale orange wraps, (this is not fading, see green on pale orange example), black titles and illustration; some black and white drawings in text, 12 x 18.5 cm; 123 pp. Spanish language softcover. Amusing donkey sketches by.....
New York: The Macmillan Company June, 1921/1921, 1st, sd; blue cloth with Uncle Henry pointing out constellations in the night sky to Peter, Paul, and Betty, in jacket identical to boards; small 8vo; 106 pp. Juvenile hardback. "with drawings on sand and blackboard by "Uncle Henry and the Society of.....
Chicago: Albert Whitman & Company 1943/1943; brown cloth boards with full colored plate; endpapers with boys and hound dogs in a field; in jacket with all around illustration of Jerry sitting on a split rail fence with his dogs at his feet; 6.5x9.3"; 64 pp. Juvenile hardback. The Second Book.....
Lippincott, 1989, 1st printing. Picture Book hardback. A bird who was an elephant in a former incarnation cries "I'm back!" A sweet dream of Indian villages for young children with Lessac's bright, funny, detailed illustrations.