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.....
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.....
Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc, 1961, 1st US; yellow boards, line drawings in text,in white, yellow, blue and green jacket with illustration of eht children peering out at the vicar on a large wheel bicycle; 8vol 254 pp. Juvenile hardback. Margaret, 12, and her wild brothers are going.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947, stated 1st; yellow boards with a big picture of Kate in the snow blowing the whistle her grandfather had made for her; 8.3x10.3; c 30 pp. Picture Book hardback. Very sweet book about a little girl and her grandfather.
Pantheon Books, 1977, 1st, nap; grey boards with blue spine, endpapers with a map of Captain Grey's "Free Nation"; wrap around illustrated jacket; 8vo; 141 pp. Juvenile hardback. A pirate band on the shore in New Jersey in the period after the Revolutionary War.
London: Edmund Ward Ltd., 1976/1958, 5th printing; yellow shiny laminated boards 4.9x3.9; 91 pp. Small hardback. Ant and Bee go to the Biggest Shop in the World.
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Sevi (Italian company), Ars edition; no date or other information, four wooden boards with rounded edges and pictures from the Bear family; 10.5 sq. cm; bound by two white cords and wooden beads. Novelty, board book. Eight brightly coloured paintings of Brumm and Braun, very attractively printed on small wooden.....
E. P. Dutton, 300 Fourth Avenue, [1939]. 2.00 on flap. Follows Adventures of Lappy Cushion Tales [1936] reviewed on back flap. Dustjacket only.
New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1967, stated first; tan boards, turquoise spine, in white jacket with posed teens looking through books next to a lone Bus Stop sign; 8vo; 218 pp. Reference history, hardback. Written just as "Young Adult" literature was beginning, the author, a former NCTE president, first.....
New York: Greenwillow, 1992, 1st printing; illustrated pictorial boards, cousins of an African American family peer down the tracks; in jacket identical to boards; 10.1x8.4", np. Picture Book hardback. It was getting late, and getting dark, and the children decided to take the shortcut down the railroad tracks. Crews depicts.....
New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1996, stated 1st nl; red soft paper boards, pale blue cloud endpapers with the Buddha , in gold jacket with large portrait; 10.25" sq. Picture Book Hardback. Beautiful, respectful illustrations touched with gold. The artist used traditional Chinese paints, inks, and brushes, Windsor &.....
New York: Henry Z. Walck, Incorporated, (1965/1964) 1st US, tp, tan cloth boards, in white jacket with painting of kings from different cultures, 6.7x10"; 237 pp. Juvenile hardback. "Imaginary Stories about Imaginary Kings"/"Imaginary Stories About Real Kings"/"Better Not to Be a King"/"Some Real Kings." Thirty-six interesting selections by two famous.....
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company 1932/1930, Jersey City Printing Company; paper boards with Angus and two white ducks, yellow endpapers with pictures of the three of them on yellow; oblong 10x7; np. Picture Book hardback. Angus, a little Scottish terrier who is still all head and feet.....
New York: Tambourine Books, 1993, 1st; shiny pictorial boards with the family dancing around the little nut tree in the garden, golden endpapers, in jacket identical to boards; 9.25x10.25" np. Picture book hardback. The full history of the song showing the little girl's patience and care. The center spread opens.....
New York: Four Winds Press, 1983, stated 1st; red cloth boards with Uncle Roland in silver striding along with all his stuff, patterned endpapers, jacket remnant had Uncle R. just arrived, standing in the front door, oblong 10.2x8.2"; np. Picture Book hardback. The children love it when Uncle Roland comes.....
New York: North-South Books, an imprint of Swiss Nord-Sud Verlag, 2001/2001, 1st international English edition, translated by Anthea Bell; shiny covers with the two dancing in delight at having found the little house on the front and sleeping while the wicked witch looks over them on the back, in tan.....
New York: Atheneum, 1978, 1st US (presumed); red boards and jacket with soldier in uniform; 8.25x11.8. Picture Book Hardback. A young soldier, out of work after the war, makes a bargain to wear a bear skin, and not to pray, for seven years in exchange for life long prosperity. Hoffman's.....
Akron, Ohio and New York, The Saalfield Publishing Company, (1928) grey boards with gilt titles and large coloured plate with a little girl sitting on a fence and a boy in a tree while the birds sing to them, pink and red endpapers with tiny flowers, 6 lovely Deco plates.....
New York: St. Martin's Press, (1991); pictorial boards with identical jacket, Smudge looking over a stone wall, 4to; np. Picture Book Hardback. Smudge went exploring but fortunately Penny found him and returned him to his mother. Lovely watercolour illustrations.
Scholastic, David A. Levine, 2001/1967, with new illustrations by David Small, 7 x 9.5"; 244 pp. Juvenile hardback. A generous sized reprint of this wonderful classic, many illustrations. with the original text but a layout that is probably easier for a child to read.
New York: Brentano's, co. 1908 as "The New Baby's Biography illus. by Hallock, probably first thus illustrated, no printing date, (co. 1891 as "The Baby's Biography" illus. by Frances Brundage); "decorative work by Ysabel deWitte Kaplan", pale mauve-pink cloth with gilt titles and gilt outline of a baby clutching a......
Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 1994, stated 1st printing US; red boards, all around full coloured painting of Sophie and friends at the farm; 8vo; 123 pp. Juvenile hardback. "Sophie pursues her idea of becoming a 'lady farmer' in her no nonsense way."
New York: Holiday House, 1996, stated 1st; white boards, blue spine, jacket with Annie carrying her rifle; 8vo; 176 pp incl.. short bibliography. Juvenile hardback. "From the day Annie first picks up her father's rifle at age 8, it's clear she has a rather unusual gift. She is the sharpest.....
Universe Books,1964/1960, 1st printing Am; 64 pp. Picture Book hardback. Stylized line drawings illustrate these original French tales with a modern twist. One of a series of books of modern tales from different sources.
New York: Viking, 1996, 1st; boards with a wrap around illustration of the family driving across the desert and on the back arriving at the shack; grey blue endpapers, in jacket identical to boards; oblong 10.5x8.25"; np. Picture Book hardback. In 1919, for a year, the author's grandfather, his wife.....