London: Humphrey Milford, no date [1914] early reprint; tan paper boards with tan cloth spine, red titles, large hairy puppy trotting along in the wind; 8.5x9.25", np. Picture book hardback. An introduction by the Puppy reveals his unease about his docked tail. In the following 11 "chapters", The Lambkin Laughs.....
Tokyo 1925, Brown card with title printed on it, brown silk string tied. Reproductions of photos and building layouts, each covered with a captioned transluscent sheets. Toploader medium. A booklet produced in the autumn of 1925 (Taisho 14) by the Aoyama Jogakuin, Women's Academy, to commemorate what is now Berry.....
P. F. Volland Company, (1923); all around pictorial cloth cover of Billy and his animals with the barns in the background; center stapled, 7 full page coloured illustrations, portrait of animal in colour on facing text page, wide margins, 7x8.25"; 14 interior pages. Toploader fabric. A little boy in short.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Borzoi Books, 1922 on title page, 1st printing of the 2nd Am edition, the first being 1897 Edward Arnold, London and New York; blue boards with orange titles, in yellow jacket with black titles with ads for Borzoi books on both flaps; 6.2x8.4"; 48 pp.....
New York: Rand McNally & Company and Philips Publishers, 1954, 1st printing or year of publication, yellow boards with girl and boy using book, endpaper paintings of same pair reading seen from the outside, 7.3x8.7; np. Novelty activity book. Lots of fun; in a neat envelope made by the previous.....
New York: Rizzoli 1992/1991 stated 1st US; black binding in jacket with Alice, letter andcarroll; obling 25.5 x 10.5 cm; 160 pp. Reference biography, hardback. Chapters arranged by his childhood and student days, then by the Alice's, the Snark and Sylvie and Bruno.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1946/1924; black boards with red titles and border; white front endpapers with orange decorations from the book characters, one sided illustrations with little logo on the back, and a different border for each chapter on all text pages; 6x7.5"; np. Juvenile hardback. Simple, endearing.....
New York: Macmillan, 1969/1943, 1st thus; pictorial boards with a girl picking flowers, observed by a goose, in jacket identical to boards; 8vo; 63 pp. Juvenile hardback, ex-lib. Pamelia spends the summer with her aunt and uncle, and finds the temple of the Mound Builders near their farm a strong.....
Scribners [1954] $2.95 on front flap (clipped with publisher reprice stamp) other titles illustrated by Sewell on rear flap to Bears [1952]. No medal. Dustjacket only.
Chicago: Albert Whitman & Company, probably 1st US, not JLG, 1933 on title page, Printed in Germany; blue cloth boards with full pasted on green plate with Aunty Twinkle-Toes and Runzel-Punzel ready to go out the door of their sod house to the town; dark green endpapers, 8x9.7"; np. Picture.....
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?"
Chicago and London: American Library Assc., 1988, 1st sd; tan cloth, thin bronze titles, large 8vo; 340 pp including 17 pp bibliography and index. Reference history, hardback. By a highly regarded Canadian speaker, writer, and former librarian. Includes: The matter of Fantasy / The Fairies Underground: Fantasy from the Middle.....
Publisher not noted on jacket (Junior Books, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. co. [1937) back flap lists 1936-37 "Picture Books for Youngest Readers" "Price net .50 on flap) probable 1st. Dustjacket only.
New York: Aladdin Books, (1950) red cloth spine, all around illustrated boards with fox nailing title poster on a tree and animals looking on; illustrated endpapers, 6.75x8.7; np. Picture Book hardback. A simple story in which Santa comes to the forest with happy illustrations.
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 and Boston: H. M. Caldwell Company, (1908), probably an early reprint of the tan cloth first; green cloth with gold, red and some blue titles and pictures, pendulum and title only stamped, with King Time watching over boy swinging on a pendulum with a little imp; green endpapers.....
New York: Tambourine Books, 1993, 1st; shiny pictorial boards with the family dancing around the little nut tree in the garden, golden endpapers, in jacket identical to boards; 9.25x10.25" np. Picture book hardback. The full history of the song showing the little girl's patience and care. The center spread opens.....
Chicago: Ideal Book Builders, copyright 1912 by K. E. Garman; clothbacked illustrated card boards, six interior and two exterior boards with bright flowers and faces on front, heavy card pages with oval holes to insert faces; 3 pages have seven holes and 3 pages have 8 holes, making a total.....
New York: Belford Company, Publishers 18-22 East 18th St. 1889, 1st, brown cloth boards with black and gilt illustrations of the Australian Lundee attacking the Orbellians, and of Rollin, Ben, and Polly sailing their boat; elaborate designs on the spine, brown patterned endpapers, many coated-paper illustrations in text, some by.....
Cambridge, Mass: Candlewick Press, 1995, stated 1st printing; blue cloth boards, tan endpapers, in green jacket with Telly in windy landscape; 8vo; 224 pp. Juvenile hardback. Telly organizes her Weather Eye network to calm the planet's turbulent weather. We love this book: "a remarkably exciting and innovative story about the.....
New York: Harcourt , Brace and World, Inc. 1963, stated 1st; yellow cloth boards with ship, in grey blue jacket with yellow accents from lighted windows and lantern held by the watchman, 8vo; 224 pp including index. Juvenile hardback. The author, herself descended from Dutch ancestors presents a carefully researched.....
New York: Dutton, Lodestar Books, 1993, stated 1st; green boards; jacket with portrait of Camila, 8vo; 179 pp. Juvenile hardback. In an absorbing search for the truth about her mother's family, Camila Draper travels from Connecticut to a celebration honoring her grandfather in a little village in Colombia. (the childhood.....
Chicago: Albert Whitman & co. [1964] Author's first book. Clipped. Author bio on back flap. Three prior books listed on back. Dustjacket only.
New York: Golden Press, 1973, 1st printing "A"; laminated pictorial boards with Mrs. Mooley dancing with friends in the moonlight, endpapers with Mrs. Mooley looking askance at the moon, 9.6x12.8; np. Picture Book hardback. Inspired by a Mother Goose, Mrs. Mooley involves the barnyard in an exciting project: jumping over.....
New York: Harper & Row, 1989, stated 1st, nl; Review Slip laid in; light orange boards with white spine, dark orange endpapers; in jacket with the little girl and Frannie peaking out from behind a pile of apples; oblong 9x7"; np. Picture Book hardback. Mather's bright pictures illustrate a happy.....