New York: DK Publishing, DK Ink; 1998 stated 1st; red boards in grey spine, yellow jacket with mother and child, 8vo; 177 pp. Juvenile hardback. Press release with background information included. Two young antropologists among the Isabo of jungle Peru.
New York and Boston: H. M. Caldwell, Co., [c. 1900]; "Stories Old and New, A Library for Junior Classes; red cloth with gilt titles and large plate of a girl with ducks and the ugly ducking in a meadow, publisher's green endpapers, frontis plus five. Juvenile hardback. Rewritten by a......
New York: McLoughlin Bros. Inc., #1314, no date; three very stiff fine glazed linen sheets, folded and center stapled, making 12 pages; full colour on outside with painting of cow, 4 interior paintings, 4 drawings, 7.2x10.2. Toploader fabric McLoughlin. A serious cow on the cover: Mostly about Guernsey and Holstein.....
New York: Anson D. F. Randolph and Company, 770 Broadway, corner of Ninth Street, 1872 on title page, first or early US printing; printers, Clay, Sons and Taylor, London, green cloth boards with children pulling giant crackers in gilt, black rules; b. Juvenile hardback. "This book, designed for children, contains.....
New York: Random House, 1986/1935; folio, 48 pp. Picture book hardback Babar. Out of print for now in the original full size. A nice facsimile edition printed in France. The fascinating story of how Babar creates a 'civilized' kingdom.. Extra postage may be required for international shipment of this oversize.....
New York: The Platt & Munk Co., Inc., (1940,1942), early printing, 1943 book mentioned on rear flap; orange boards with black titles, white endpapers with the Burgess characters walking along together, coloured and b/w illustrations, in light ora. Juvenile hardback. A collection of 8 stories about Burgess characters. Lovely copy.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938, 1st printing, sd; blue cloth boards, in blue and rose jacket with brown portrait of Evard and his animals, 8vo; 215 pp. Juvenile hardback. The foundling Evaded, his eagle, and his tamed wolf set out to sea to find his parentage. Set in a fishing.....
Krakow: Czytelnik, 1947/1947 1st printing thus; #229, pink boards with a little man raising a tree umbrella/merry-go-round with animals in little chairs hanging from the spokes; full page colored lithos, 8 single pages, 4 spreads; 8vo; 69 pages. (In. Polish language hardback Eastern Europe. Eight long poems for children, illustrated.....
Grosset and Dunlap, (1935) nd; black cloth backed pictorial paper boards with train going through a village, observed by a cow, on the blue back, cheerful strings of primary coloured cars, same design on endpapers, 10x13", 44 pp. Picture book hardback tall. A great cloud of steam announces the title.....
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, a Stokes Book, 1944, 1st printing, stated first; turquoise cloth boards with titles and bowl of daffodils in gilt, in jacket with children looking at a rainbow, 6.2x8"; np. Picture Book hardback. This little book came from storage in a Midwestern general store, and it brings.....
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 751 Broadway (1876); brown silk beveled boards with intricate black stamped border and gilt title and rule, butterlies,large "china" chromolitho plate with two boys on the beach sailing a toy boat; numerous single-. Juvenile hardback. A lovely cover plate, in a rather wordy story.....
Viking, 1964, 1st printing; 129 pp. Juvenile hardback. Sian's dollhouse had so many lady dolls, but no men dolls, until Curly the sailor arrived on the scene. The last of Godden's doll books gives a boy doll a voice.
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1978 stated 1st; brown cloth, maroon endpapers, in tan jacket with line drawing of children posing for photo, 6.25x8.75; np. Juvenile hardback. Little stories from a Jewish family's happy life, illustrated by Goffstein's small figures: The Night We Got a Pickup Truck" etc.
Chicago: Follett Publishing Company,1958, 1st printing nap; tan paper boards, maroon top edge, in jacket with painting of African American teenager in country background, gilt Charles W. Follett medal; 8vo,189 pp. Juvenile hardback. David and his family deal with the reality of their world in the South. Beautiful dw. Beautiful.....
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1926/1926, 1st; blue boards with large plate of the Princess, the spool of thread, and the King; title page plate with dancing peas, 10 single sided plates, 7 in umber and three in full colour; 6.25x8.38"; 96 pp. Juvenile hardback. One day when Matvey.....
New York: Viking, 1994, 1st, nl; grey boards with red spine, jacket with Declan on the streets of Belfast; 8vo; 185 pp. Juvenile hardback. Declan sent away from his life fighting British soldiers in Northern Ireland to the beauty and peace of his Uncle's home in Canada, is torn between.....
Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1926/1926, 1st printing 25MA-26; maroon cloth boards, large plate of Rimskittle, yellow endpapers with R. walking along a country road with his harp, numerous coloured illustrations,9.75x12.2"; np. Picture Book hardback. A nice enough copy except for the front plate, which, since this is not in.....
New York, Toronto: Longmans Green & Co., Alliance Book Corporation, Copyright 1938 by Atrium Verlag, Basel; Printed in Holland (J. H. de Bussy, Amsterdam), 1st, US/CA nap; translated from the German by Cyrus Brooks; paper boards with full paintin. Picture book hardback. Some of the medieval stories of Till Owlglass.....
Garden City, New York: Doubleday Doran & Company, 1931, stated 1st, tp not JLG; black cloth backed red cloth boards with gilt titles, red and blue endpapers with sailing ships, 7 plates in four colours (including frontis and map); additional plat. Juvenile hardback. A history of the United States.
Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1998 Vol 22, No. 1, Jan.; 5.75x8"; 140 pp. Reference journals, softcover. French Children's Literature (WWI on and Contemporary) with picture of Becassine Nourrice on the front. (nice picture, poor scan).
London: Epworth Press, New Zealand: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1963 1st printing; brown boards, green yellow and white jacket with Bill Campion on a horse; 8vo; 153 pp. Juvenile hardback. Bill, orphaned early, goes from Wellington to Wairarapa or the Wydrup, a rough ranching community in the foothills, and makes his.....
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1962, 1st; blue boards, in jacket with a view of the Severn Valley from the castle, 8so; 142 pp. Juvenile hardback. The dance Marlene and her friends perform every year will help bring back the ancient cup of the villagers lost many years ago.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1928/1928, published Oct. 1928, dark blue cloth boards, blue top edge, yellow titles and ship silhouette, ivory endpapers Nicholas Drury standing on the waterfront outside the Blackbird Inn of his New England town. Juvenile hardback. "The story of young Nicholas Drury's struggle to maintain his.....
Akron, OH, New York, NY; The Saalfield Publishing Company, #752 (1936/1927 Gordon Volland); flat cut paper boards, red comb binding, with Mr. Wubbles blowing new bubbles early in the morning and Peter Popper holding down the roof while a bubble bur. Picture book hardcover. With the help of his niece.....
Platt & Munk Co., Inc, (1939) #852; laminated covers with red titles and Mother Goose walking her goose on a blue ribbon with a rather medieval village in the background, four interior boards making 10 pages of rhymes; red cloth spine; 6.5x8"; np. Novelty board book. A glossy little board.....