The Runaway Ducks. DUSTJACKET ONLY
Garden City Publishing Company, [1938] four 79¢ titles with publisher's coupon on rear flap, clipped jacket but 79¢ on publisher's list, Scarce, delightful. Dustjacket only.
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Favourites. (Dean's Rag Books 6325/1)
Gt. Britain: Dean's Rag Books, A BabySafe book, #6325/1; cloth, doubled cloth exterior with one double cloth leaf sewn in forming four interior pages, cover with little terrier and blue ball on front and two guinea pigs and a carrot on the back, blue spine; 4.75x5.2" Toploader fabric Dean's rag.....
Sunny Days and Children's Ways: A Coloured Picture Book for the Nursery.
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 title page, 32 pp of illustrations printed on one-sided.....
More Beasts for Worse Children
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.....
Animal Alphabet Hanger.Dean's Rag Book
London: Dean's Rag Book Co Ltd, produced during 1916 - 1920 (Cope), Toploader cloth books. The original horizontal alphabet wall hanging, not a book. Designed by Edith Berkeley for Dean's. in art nouveau nursery style with realistic animals, the same animals were reissued in a simpler portrait version a few.....
Leona, A Love Story.
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1994, 1st printing; red boards, black spine, in gold and white jacket with portrait of Leona, small 8vo; 151 pp. Juvenile hardback. The romantic story of Leona, a wealthy and beautiful criolla who cannot ignore injustice, joins the revolution with Andres, a handsome young lawyer.....
The Blue Jackal.
Scribner's, 1977 1st printing, 8x10. Picture Book hardback. A fable based on a story from the Panchatantra.
Cubby Finds an Open Door.
Racine, Wisc: Whitman Publishing Company, A Thornton Burgess Story, Cubby Bear Books, 1927, 1929 as to illustrations, illustrated paper boards, stapled, oblong 5 1/2" x 4 5/8"; np. Picture Book Small. Aha! Cubby finds the open cellar door and down he goes to his favorite spot, the cellar storage room.....
The Babes in the Wood.
London: Frederick Warne & Co. Lid, no date, appears about 1960, facsimile; reinforced boards with full colour picture of Babes and birds in the forest on the front and traditional list of books on the back; 8.25x9.5; np. Picture book hardback. An Elizabethan Ballad set to pictures.
The Kitten Stand.
Grosset & Dunlap, Story Parade Picture Book, designed by Artist and Writers Guild, 1944, presumed 1st, no other titles listed for 1944 or subsequently; yellow boards with a pastel drawing of Kate and a basket of kittens, teal endpapers with white kittens, in jacket identical to boards; 8x9"; np. Picture.....
A Tale of Whoa. DUSTJACKET ONLY,
Philadelphia: David McKay Company, [1939] Washington Square, $1.00 on flap, 4 books on rear flap. Dustjacket only.
The Singing Snake.
Hyperion, 1993, 1st printing. Shiny colour pictorial boards, 8.2x10.9; c 36 pp. Picture Book hardback. "Snake wants desperately to win a singing contest given by Old Man--so desperately that he imprisons Lark at the back of his throat. Snake is warbling his way to victory--until Lark scratches Snake's throat, revealing.....
Tea with Walter de la Mare.
London: Faber & Faber, 1957, 1st; blue boards with white and gilt title on spine; in jacket with green titles against the photo of a leafy tree; 8vo; 127 pp. Reference biography, hardback. A record of visits between Dr. Brain and Walter de la Mare, late in the poet's life.....
Method rapide de Lecture et de Langage. Syllabaire illustré; Lecture: Ecriture, Causerie sur Images.
Paris: Librairie Gedalge, 1950/about 1910 24th edition, (1758 to 1808 mille); boards with full page illustration of children reading; red cloth spine one page explaining the method, 16 x 21.5 cm; 62 lessons. French language hardback. medium. A traditional syllabairie with little pictures on every page, some in colour, showing.....
Ring-Round-a-Rosy.
Akron, Ohio., Chicago, New York: Saalfield Pub. Company, Saalfield's Muslin Books; [1907]; muslin with sewn down spine, white front (not red, as usual) with children dancing around corn shock, red and blue add for muslin books on back; 5 x 6.5"; 10 interior pages. Toploader fabric. A sample of the.....
Dear Mili
Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1988, 1st; np. Picture Book Hardback. "A written fairytale about a little girl who was sent to the forest by her mother to escape a war, for three of her years and thirty of her mother's."
Raggedy Ann and Andy and the Fat Policeman.
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.....
Weather Eye.
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.....
Little Homespun Songs.
NY: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1920, 1st, no additional printing, brown cloth spine with "parchment" paper boards, dark brown titles and cover plate of children singing, ivory endpapers with orange drawings of children and music (from plates); 11 full colour plates, 9.25x12"; 104 pp. Picture Book hardback tall. Written poems.....
The Turnspit Dog.
New York: Aladdin, 1952, stated 1st printing; reinforced orange cloth binding with the little dog in his turnspit; in green jacket with dark brown titles and illustration of Abiah looking at the turnspit dog at work; 6.5x8.5", np. Juvenile hardback. Abaih could have a pretty lady's dog, or a hunting.....
The Little Family.
Garden City NY: Doubleday & Co. (1932) post 1945 reprint; Doubleday, Doran lasted from 1927 to 1945 (Zempel) so only those books listed here which say Doubleday, Doran are actual first editions. zpink boards with little portraits of the smalls around their yellow house, floral design endpapers, coloured illustrations on.....
Susie Mariar.
New York: Henry Z. Walck, Inc. 1967/1939, reissue; yellow boards with red titles, pumpkin endpapers; in red jacket with Susie striding along; oblong 8.4x6.35"; np. Picture book hardback. Based on the Southern version of an old folk rhyme and incorporating some New England verses: Susie Mariar fell in the fire/The.....
Billy Barnicoat: A Fairy Romance for Young and Old (His Wrongs and his Rights on half title).
New York: E. P. Dutton, (1925)/1922 US printing; with an introduction by Anne Carroll Moore; bue cloth with gilt titles and picture of Billy, plain eps, colored frontis plate, numerous illustrations, plates, chapter heads, in text, all on text paper; 8vo; 246 pp. Juvenile hardback. A tale set in Cornwall.....
Nenook the Polar Bear.
Mountain View, CA: Pacific Press Publishing Association, (1959); pictorial cover, 8vo; np. Juvenile hardback. A wonderful cover painting with Nenook standing on an iceberg and roaring, ice and sea all around, kind of a sparkly texture. How Father and Mother polar bear brought up little Nanook.
Uncle Stories (Uncle on jacket)
New York: Coward-McCann, 1966, 1st US stated; grey cloth boards, Blake's illustrations throughout, in white jacket with uncle clad in a purple bathrobe and pajamas springing joyfully to the challenge on the front and a gallery of Hatemans on the back; 8vo; 160 pp. Juvenile hardback. "Uncle is a tremendously.....