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.
New York: The Children's Book Council, 67 Irving Place, 1975; Translated by Erik Christian Haugaard; large poster two sided about 23 x 66. in brown mailing envelope from CBC, with page laid in showing how to transform the poster into a large booklet. Toploader large, softcover. A fairy tale poster.....
No date. No publication data, but surely published for Vaughan's Seed Company, est. 1876., Chicago. Novelty Pup-up. On the first heavy card page, Bobby and Betty and their little dog look through an open window, surrounded by a flowery trellis behind which a folded green page can be pulled out.....
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.....
London: Dean's Rag Book Co., #47, patented in U. S. A. March 7, 1905; deep red cloth covers with Toby sitting on a stool for his little Mistress, 22 pages of doubled cloth including covers; large 9"x11" size. Toploader fabric oversized Dean's rag. An autobiography in poetic form of a......
New York: Henry Holt 1996/1995, stated 1st American; white cover with a cityscape and little Clown running happily down the street; grey blue endpapers, in jacket identical to boards; 9x12.5"; np. Picture Book Hardback. A delightful wordless book, illustrated in ink and watercolour, that moves quickly along like a film.....
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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.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Nursery Books, 1944/1944 probably 1st, on title page, no verso; green cloth boards with kitten face, no endpapers as published, in green jacket with green eyed Muggins and paw prints, more kitten portraits on the back; 6x8";. Picture Book Hardback. Muggins explored the world outside his mother's.....
London: Dean's Rag Book Co. Ltd, 1909 to 1914, pinked edge/first published 1907; Dean's 2/6 patent Rag Books, Series 5; outside covers have babies examining a starfish on the beach, and on the back, babies whose balloons have floated to the sky; prin. Toploader fabric Dean's rag. Little poems and.....
New York: Dutton, 1974/1971, 1st printing US; red cloth boards, jacket with Kate driving the trap for Miss Nell, 8vo; 153 pp. Juvenile hardback. At twelve, Kate passes her early school leaving exam and goes into service with a kind, prosperous farm family. Details of domestic life told convincingly from.....
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; ochre and powder blue (who chose these Dolch colours?) heavy cloth boards with children and caged squirrels;; a f. Juvenile hardback. Stories of small wild.....
New York: Viking, 1974, stated 1st printing; grey pictorial cloth with little boy and the bird in a rough painted dark blue oval, in purple endpapers, in jacket identical to boards, 8.5x7.3; c 36 pp. Picture Book hardback. A lovely copy of this gentle book for young children, with pictures.....
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.....
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: Doubleday, Doran, Junior Books, 1936/1932; paper boards with yellow and black picture and pink spine, yellow endpapers with Angus, the little Scottie, on his adventures, oblong 10x6.75"; np. Picture Book hardback. Angus wandered off and then "... at last Angus was home again! Angus was glad to come.....
London: Neugebauer Press, Picture Book Studio, a "Little Book" #13; (1990) early or first, title list through #15, a 1991 book in series not listed; shiny covers with red bearded MacRibbeck, patterned endpapers; 6x5.75"; np. Small hardback. How MacRibbeck foiled his greedy heir and continued to provide pears for the.....
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.....
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.....
Lippincott, 1989, 1st printing. Picture Book hardback. A bird who was an elephant in a former incarnation cries "I'm back!" A sweet dream of Indian villages for young children with Lessac's bright, funny, detailed illustrations.
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 a. Picture Book Hardback. It's a cold.....
New York: Henry Z. Walck, 1956, 1st nap; grey boards with blue green titles, blue green endpapers with white line drawings of Davy from the front and back at ages 1-6; oblong 5.2x5"; np. Small hardback. A story, which must have been read over and over, of how Davy grew.....
New York: Henry Holt, 1991, 1st Am; adapted by Gabrielle Charbonnet from the Swedish edition, in full colour paper boards, with Else-Marie and the miniature Daddies in trench coats and briefcases going into a bakery; 8.5x10.25; c 32 pp. Picture Book Hardback. A little girl learns to live with her.....
Poughkeepsie, New York: Artists and Writers Guild, Albums du Père Castor, (1935 US/1934 French); in stiff WRAPS with duck, the inside of wraps is cherry red, 8.25x8.5; np. Toploader softcover large. Animal lithos in stunning colour with little prose poems opposite. A Père Castor book from a wonderful Russian illustrator.....
Paris, Mexico DF; 1928/1866 or before; oictorial boards, a little girl drawn by a goat cart and attendant with a spray of red and purple fuchia above the picture, on the bottom board, colourful birds; 111 black engravings; 4.25 x 7"; 11 x 16 cm; 102. Spanish language hardback. A......
Crowell, 4th, c.1948; 136 pp, bibliography., index. Juvenile hardback. An excellent introduction to the Plains Indians, with chapters on how they made things, cookery, sign language, etc. Out of print.