Farrar, 1969, 1st printing Am., 180 pp. Juvenile hardback. Juvenile hardback. Idrum wants very much to learn to read the books he has seen in the library of the Abbey, but for a lay person in 8th century France, his wish is unusual.
Copenhagen: Thaning & Appel, 1955 on title page, no date on publication page; grey paper boards with tiny rose and dot pattern and photo of Andersen within a frame, pink spine, each page with couplet in Danish, letter highlighted in pink, in the. Small hardback. A very nice little book.....
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1867 on title page, originally in parts [Home 1865].; [one of Nelson's 3 Oil Coloured 2s 6d Picture Books], reddish brown cloth boards, with fine gilt titles and picture in stamped border, plain endpapers, mauve print titl. Picture Book hardback. Four series of 8 large.....
Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag; 1955/1909, 13th printing, cream card covers flat cut, WRAPS, with red and black titles and little pictures of all the animals Lillan encounters on her cat journey, outrageous cat on back; ; 16.3x25.5 cm; np. Swedish language softcover. A funny little girl sits astride her cat.....
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.
London: J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd., 1979/1977, 2nd printing of the British publication; glossy pictorial boards with the family and the three kings, dark grey endpapers with white sheep pattern, oblong 12x8.5"; np. Picture Book hardback. Hoffmann's striking line and glowing colour in a modern interpretation of the Nativity.....
Hamburg: Hans Dulk, 1949/1937, reprint; white boards with three children carrying tops and the whip, 11.5 x 19 cm; np. German language hardback medium. Jesus and his mother fled through Flanders to the city of Ghent and thus begins the story of the spinning top with its whip (winding string).....
New York: Delacorte, 1987, 1st printing; cloth red backed blue boards, blue endpapers, large 8vo, in jacket with Anne and clock building tools against violent landscape of 14th c England; 268 pp. Juvenile hardback. Anne and her brother flee to the home in the far north of their uncle, inventor.....
Boston: Little Brown and Co., 1944/1915, 1st of this reissue in the New Popular Edition title page; yellow illustrated paper boards over red cloth spine, tan endpapers with little brown animal characters from the books, 8 full colour illustrations; y. Picture Book hardback. "Eight titles selected from the Bedtime Stories.....
New York" The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1982, 1st; brown stiff wraps with a collection of Carroll's signatures and inscriptions; 7x10"; 135 pp. Reference biography, softcover. A celebration of Lewis Carroll's 150th birthday exhibit with many items drawn from the library's collection assembled by Arthur Houghton. Introductions and notes by the.....
Timperley, UK: John Sherratt and Sons; late 1940's reprint./1890 thus adapted, (titles of jacket back); red cloth boards with printed orange and black design showing Don Quixote seated with his book of chivalry and his sword, in grey jacket with same. Juvenile hardback. A later copy of this famous book.....
New York: Holiday House, 1996, stated 1st; blue boards with dark blue spine, in jacket with picture of the ghostly Millie and the two cousins below; 8vo; 150 pp. Juvenile hardback. Sent to stay with her grandmother at the family house, Culaloe, Robin and her cousin encounter the ghost of.....
Minneapolis: Carol Rhodabooks, 1993, 1st nl; shiny wrap-around picture on yellows, greens, and blues of a leopard by the sea, with a boat in the background, in jacket identical to boards, 8.6x11"; np. Picture Book hardback. A West African hwenoho or historically based myth, telling of Agassu, descendant of the.....
Harcourt Brace World, 1994, 1st printing. Picture Book hardback. "Mole loves her burrow near the pond. It's safe and cozy underground, and best of all--it's home. So when Fox says Mole has to move her home to make room for a new path, Mole must do some quick thinking--and digging--to.....
New York: Orchard Books, Richard Jackson book, 1996, 1st nl, rust boards with green back, blue endpapers, in jacket with National Book Award Finalist medal and Nhamo paddling her boat to safety; 8vo; 309 pp including Glossary, little paragraphs on th. Juvenile hardback. Only twelve and slated to marry an.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace, & World, "A" 1st US, 1961 (Zurich: Artemis, 1961 as leporello, 1951 as book); on one side, the title/cover page, 3 two-panel "processions" and a numbered explanation of each story, on the other 4 two-panel "processions, Novelty panorama. The book came first, but this is perfect.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1943, stated 1st printing; grey cloth backed paper pictorial boards with full litho of organ grinder and his monkey sitting on a city stoop, endpapers ivory with orange-red bordered collage of shop signs, lithographs. Picture Book hardback. In a colourful city neighborhood of many immigrant.....
New York: Platt & Munk Co., Inc. (1942), probable 1st, only 1942 and before of 15 titles mentioned; red boards with blue bunny, coloured frontis, in jacket with Uncle W and animal friends playing on the beach; 8vo; 186 pp. Juvenile hardback. A collection of 26 stories which appeared originally.....
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1985, 1st printing US; white boards with Katie sitting on a bench with her two grandmothers, oblong 10.5x8"; np. Picture Book hardback. Grannie Island is a bit put out when glamorous Grannie Mainland arrives for Show Day. Then her prize sheep, Alecina, wades into a......
Amsterdam: Kris Kras Uitgeverschmaatschappij NV, 1966, presumed 1st (no later publisher's titles mentioned), in the original Dutch, thin card covers with rounded spine, not exactly a paperback, but endpapers are pasted down text; beautiful colour thr. Dutch language small hardback. softcover. By a Dutch author, illustrator, and graphic artist, who.....
New York: Random House (1957) stated 2nd printing; tan cloth boards with green titles and brown horse stamped, orange endpapers with same horse in white, in green jacket with Chris yanking on the halter of an orange-brown horse; 6.25x8.25"; 86 pp. Juvenile hardback. Funny stories about Carrots, an orange-brown horse.....
Boston: Little, Brown and Co.; 1951, stated 1st; red cloth boards, many illustrations in text, in jacket with Cy and his fire engine and animal friends in the forest in colour on the front, on the back Cy is alone on a rock in the water surrounded by. Juvenile hardback.....
New York: Henry Z. Walck, Inc., 1958/1958, 1st printing; music by Clyde Robert Bulla; tan boards with blue picture of child on street of houses, salmon endpapers, salmon and white jacket with children walking along street; 7x6.2 inches; np. Picture Book hardback. Little songs about children walking through the town.....
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.....
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993, 1st printing; oblong. Picture Book hardback. Raven, the trickster and benefactor of mankind, feels sad that the people have no light. How can he coax the ball of light from the Sun god? The vivid paintings of Sky Chief, Raven, and his world are.....