New York: Capitol Publishing Company Inc, 139 Fifth Avenue, 1949, Capitol Puppet Books; shaped glossy primary coloured puppet theater book with cut out stage; this opens to inner yellow curtained stage to which is attached a small pulp paper pamphlet of about 22 unnumbered pages; between this stage and the.....
New York: Harper and Row, (1973) illustrated pictorial boards; 6x8.25"; np. Picture Book hardback. "Black is brown/ is tan / is girl / is boy / is nose / is face /is all the colours of the race. this is the way it is for us this is the way.....
London: Ernest Nister and New York: E. P. Dutton, nd (part of "Dolly's Library" ca 1892) printed in Bavaria; cloth backed glazed paper boards with two little girls in pinafores riding a double hobby-horse with two wheels; flat trimmed, green patterned endpapers, four chromolithos and sepia drawings in text; 3.25x3.75;.....
New York: Schocken, 1980, 1st nl; beautiful jacket (detail of A.'s Listening to Mozart) and large photo of A at work on back; 191 pp. Reference biography, hardback. The first biography of Ardizzone, with over 300 reproductions of his work in colour and black and white.
Tambourine Books, 1992/1972, 1st printing thus. 8.8x11.25, c 27 pp. Picture Book hardback. 13 calypso songs with bright illustrations, some familiar, some arrangements of traditional songs, and 4 written by the author. Interesting afterword by Rosa Guy, on the African origins of calypso and it's spread to the New World.....
London: The Lewis Carroll Society, 1973, Robert Stockwell Ltd. Printer; green card with large photo of Carroll, illustrated, fold out genealogical chart, 6x9.75"; 62 pp. Reference biography, softcover. Jaques: Lewis Carroll and the Dodgson Lineage; Clark: Three Faces of Alice; Goodacre: Lewis Carroll the Creative Writer; Davies: The Revd. Mr.....
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, [co 1956]. clipped, stated fifth printing, original illustration. Mystery titles on back. Dustjacket only.
Philadelphia: Westminster Press 1976/1973, 3rd printing (not a book club); blue binding, in blue jacket with huge Great Dane and Ernest running across the cover; 8vo; 144 pp. Juvenile hardback. "After Petey tramples the community ecology garden, entirely by mistake, and then disgraces himself when he's cast as a pony...".....
New York: Viking Kestrel, 1989, 1st, nl; green cloth boards with painting of Paddy, a large Irish Terrier, holding a little purse, on the back he drops a coin in the organ grinder monkey's hat, turquoise endpapers, in jacket identical to boards; 8.25x10.25"; np. Picture Book hardback. Paddy's mistress gives.....
Doubleday Doran, 1936, 1st printing; np. Juvenile hardback. Publisher's or printer's planning notes for the 1944 reprint: 1936 crossed out with 1944 penciled in, "P60 A back" etc. on every page, and also some notes regarding the illustrations: "poor here, would like more like proof" "not as good as proof.....
Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Books, 1992, apparent 1st; dark blue boards, jacket with children, a raven, and a raven dancer around a fire encircled by tall trees; 8vo; 128 pp. Juvenile hardback. "Can the spirit of Raven help Dylan and his friends protect the ancient trees?"
New York: Viking, August, 1966/1959, 7th printing stated; pink/tan cloth boards with all over design of piñatas in brown outline, endpapers with spread of Ceci and her mother at the bus stop, setting out to buy her piñata, jacket with wrap around painting of Ceci and the posada procession; with.....
New York: Coward-McCann, 1941, 1st printing nap; orange boards with green insert containing illustration of three dog houses on top board, on bottom a tree trunk with a hole showing nothing at all, white endpapers with green design and vignette of little dogs looking through the fence; oblong 9.75x6.75; np.....
New York: Greenwillow, 1997, stated 1st, nl; shiny boards with the giant clay boy striding down a rutted peasant village street, with the grandparents looking on; tan endpapers, in jacket identical to boards, 9.25x11.25; np. Picture Book hardback. Wanting a child, the grandparents fashion a little clay baby, but he.....
Buenos Aires,: Editorial Abril, Jan 21, 1942/1941 1st thus Spanish language; light brown cloth boards with red titles and large plate of dragon and little boy singing; wnd papers with people watching a knight in armor aiming at a confident dragon; coloured pictures on every other spread; 9.25x10.5"; np. Spanish.....
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: Lothrop, Lee, & Shepard, 1981, stated 1st printing nl; tan boards with green spine, brown endpapers, in jacket with panoramic painting of a wild horse herd; 8vo; 160 pp. Juvenile hardback. Lyle, 14, eagerly accompanies his grandfather into the Nevada hills to stalk a mustang stallion.
London: Macdonald, 1964/1962, 1st UK; green boards, in green and brown jacket with Maggie jumping Stardust; 8vo; 176 pp. Juvenile hardback. The children Armistead family who were once owners of a flourishing stable of hunters and jumpers, come up with ways to earn money to buy back their aunt's horse.....
New York: Macmillan, McElderry, 1993, 1st; magenta boards with black spine, brown endpapers, in jacket showing three figures walking across the snow toward a lighted cabin in these colours; 8vo; 185 pp. Juvenile hardback. After their parents' death, John and Annie Laurie, Toughboy and Sister, move in with their neighbor.....
London: Epworth, 1971, 1st, "first published"; brown paper boards, orange top edge, in golden tan jacket with brown mountains and an ink drawing of Nick, the runaway book, and the independent dogs, 8vo; 137 pp. Juvenile hardback. A fantasy of warring brother lords, a simple boy, man, and dog, and.....
Wein, Vienna: Verlag Carl Ueberreuter, 1953/1949, dritte, 3rd printing this edition (first printed 1931 Berlin, copyright 1938 Atrium Verlag Zürich); full paper covered boards with drawing of the two walking down a yellow sidewalk followed by a little dog, tan cloth spine; with full page drawings and drawings in text.....
London: Methuen, 1959, 1st, "first published"; turquoise boards, in jacket with turquoise, brown, and black drawing of the African plains with the Ross children in the foreground; 8vo; 224 pp. Juvenile hardback. When their parents inadvertently leave them alone for a week, three children, very new to Africa, insist on.....
Stokes, $1.50, [1939] 4 previous books on back flap. Dustjacket only.
New York: Macmillan 1981, 1st; blue boards with grey spine, in jacket with Binnie outside the factory at Lowell, Mass; 8vo; 206 pp. Juvenile hardback. Binnie, 12, succeeds in getting work at the new mill in Lowell, MA. When the older women decide to strike in 1836, she faces tough.....
London: Wells Gardner Darton & Co Ltd, 1910, 1st, sd; tan cloth boards with green and black drawing of children and the coach; top edge gilt; viii & 284 pages plus 16 colour plates by Wheelhouse each with captioned translucent tissue guards and a double spread map and 12 pages.....