Praha, Praze, Prague: Státní nakladatelství d?tské knihy, (SNDK) (1953;) yellow top edge; white paper boards with princess surrounded by helpers; small rows of coloured illustrations on the endpapers show the princess's story; 8.25x11.25; np. Czech language hardback. Romantic elongated paintings illustrate this fairytale of a princess exiled to the forest.....
New York : Cramer-Tobias-Meye, Inc. 1946, printed as an advertizing booklet, this one for Hobb Jewelry Co. in Dyersburg, Tenn whose blurb is printed in on the back panel; paper covers and pages; full coloured pictures on each spread facing text with wood grained side panel and some additional smaller.....
Imagerie Pellerin Epinal, Série Ecossaise. nd (20's?); grey wraps with striped ribbon design and black silhouettted leaves and berries, every page faces a full coloured illustration, except for middle spread with two; 147 x 210 cm.; np. French language softcover. medium. Very pretty cover and illustrations for this fairy tale.....
London: Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 54 Fleet St., 1870, 1st; blue boards with black ruling on top and bottom boards and gilt title cartouche; 12 plates of fine etchings on tan background; 8x10.25"; 94 pp + 2 pp catalogue. Juvenile hardback. The story follows Charlie through the year of school.....
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1997, stated 1st; green boards, blue spine, in jacket with painting of the family riding through a field in their covered wagon, 8vo; 202 pp. Juvenile hardback. "The author was inspired to write a historical novel after learning of the summer of 1816 when.....
Houghton, Mifflin, 1992, 1st printing. 9.25x8.25; 26 pp. Picture Book hardback. Hoang tries to repair the gia truyen teapot because it houses the May Man, good spirits. This book has been reviewed by many Vietnamese Americans of Brekler's acquaintance from the large refugee community in San Jose. The artist is.....
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2002, stated 1st, nl; shiny boards with needlepoint of a white bear and dancing trolls, icicle border; endpapers with a black sky with blue fanciful constellations, in jacket with black starry sky, icicles, a giant white bear at the door on the front and.....
Little, Brown, [1938] $2.00 on flap, Review of Tales from the Storyteller's House [1937] on back flap and 4 Natural History Books [1920's] on back. probable 1st or early but there were no subsequent 30s story collections. Dustjacket only.
Pittsburgh, The Pittsburgh Playhouse Press. presumed 1st, (Stamped overlay The Coach House Press Chicago and their copyright pasted in facing title); frontis photo of Pittsburgh Press production with Alice confronting most of cast; cover with full coloured picture of Alice, the Cheshire Cat, the Caterpillar by Edgar Roth, 6x9"; 47.....
New York: Oxford University Press, 1949, 1st, sd; tan boards with red titles, in red jacket with pictures of all the animals in the tale, 7.2x8.4"; np. Picture book hardback. The farmer had a pet horse. He liked to enter the horse in trotting races. Now the horse had a......
London: Oxford University Press, 1961/1960, 2nd printing; maroon cloth boards, full coloured dw with Lexie and Merrina exploring through Tasmanian brush, 8vo; 180 pp. Juvenile hardback. Lexie, who bears a strange resemblance to her ancestor Rita Pavemont, and wears her necklace, meets a happy friend, Merrina, whom others cannot see.....
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: M. S. Mill Co., Inc., 1937 stated 1st issue (US, preceded by the 1937 UK 1st); blue cloth with dark blue titles and Mill logo, blue top edge; 25 full page charcoal drawings blank on verso, as issued; 6.5x9.25; 160 pp. Juvenile hardback. Jenny, a little girl who.....
Champaign, Illinois: The Gerrard Press (1959), second series of 5 books listed on rear flap as well as first series of 5 in small print; yellow and orange heavy cloth boards with giraffes; a full illustration in rust, and black line introduces each story, animal pictures in text; in tan.....
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.....
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," making eight 12.5x19.25 boards. Novelty panorama. The book came first.....
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.....
New York: Atheneum, 1983, 1st printing; orange cloth boards, coral jacket with painting of Minna looking over the railing into New York harbour by Ruth Sanderson; 8vo; 193 pp. Juvenile hardback. A vivid and interesting picture of an immigrant voyage at the turn of the century. From the library of.....
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.....
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, September,1915, 1st printing; red cloth with white letters outlined in black and a photo of Hansel and Gretel on the lawn aged about six or seven, eight illustrations from photographic plates, as issued; 6x8.25; 44 pp. Juvenile hardback. They don't come more charming than this!.....
London: Blackie, 1960/1958, 1st UK; blue paper boards, gilt titles, in pink and blue jacket with Cristy watching the baby; 8vo; 141 pp. Juvenile hardback. Poppa Romano moves his family to a house in a small town and Cristy is happily swept up in small town life.
London: Allan Lane, 1973/1969, 1st printing UK; 188 pp. Translated from the French and edited by Catherine Storr. Reference essays, hardback. An interesting and intellectual book, giving the English speaking reader access to modern French children's literature. Translated from the French and edited by Catherine Storr.
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.....
Walker-Weatherhill, 1970, 1st printing; 10.6x7.7 oblong, 27 pp. Picture Book hardback. An Indonesian folk tale from Java in which a princess is turned into a rice plant by her angry father, a God, so she will not be with her young lover on earth.
New York: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., (1939) likely 1st; in white boards with a picture of a scared Willie and his shadow and green titles on front and back, green cloth wrapped spine, front endpaper has black paw prints running across it and back has Willie from behind staring.....