Boston: Atheneum, Margaret McElderry, 1979, stated 1st; light tan cloth boards, tan endpapers, in jacket with a lovely wrap-around landscape painting of the view from the Scottish island of Kelda, with seals swimming about and Liddy holding a tape; 8vo; 198 pp. Juvenile hardback. "Drawn together, Liddy and her Michael.....
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.....
London: Heinemann, 1981, true 1st, (First published); tan boards and spine, in tan jacket with a flooded British housing estate/development; 8vo; 122 pp. Juvenile hardback. The ghost of an 18th c landscaper plagues residents of an English housing estate who have built over his gardens.
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.....
New York: Coward McCann, 1953, 1st printing; orange boards, green endpapers with all kinds of colourful boxes, yellow jacket with green and orange drawing of the Zorn Brothers sitting at a table and thinking about boxes; 8.2x10.1; np. Picture Book hardback. How the business world learned to understand the importance.....
Lisboa, Lisbon; Livraria Sá da Costa, Editora, 1951/1942, 5th edition; ivory boards with blue spine and titles, delicate leaf border, circular illustration of boy and girl reading on blue checked table cloth with math materials laid out; illustrated endpapers; 17 x 22.5 cm; 144 pp. Portuguese language hardback. A general.....
Leicester: Brockhampton Press, Ltd, 1967, stated 1st, Brock Books; yellow boards, in jacket with full colour painting of the twins playing at the seashore, 8vo; 88 pp. Juvenile hardback. Nance Meg and Stevie Dan, about 5, go to the seaside and stay in a bungalow. One of a series about.....
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1964/ 1928 in Russian, first edition and printing in English; translated by Fainna Glagoleva, designed by V. Goryaev, tan cloth boards with stamped black, blue, and white illustration of three men fast asleep in a heap; pale green endpapers, yellow top edge; green ribbon, black.....
New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc., "Freely adapted by Linda M. Jennings from a translation from the Swedish Lille Viggs äventyr på julafton, by Lone Thygesen Blecher and George Blecher." 1981 UK as to modern text/1980 as to modern illustration/original text 1871; blue paper boards, in jacket with all.....
New York: James Miller, 647 Broadway, (1875); green cloth with gilt titles and black stamped drawings of animals, pale yellow endpapers, 6 pages of introduction followed by 24 pages of notes in two column small font, 472 exercises, most several to a page; np. Juvenile hardcover. Originally published in London.....
Paris: Editions Nilsson, (1928) Collection Lotus, Societe Moderne d'Impressions; illustrated cover tissue and six tipped-in pochoir tissue/glassine "plates"; 6.75x9.7"; 223 pp. French language softcover wraps. Vivid flat colours illustrate this tropical fantasy.
New York: "Published by Windmill Books, Inc/Distributed by Harper & Row" (1968), price clipped, so cannot be identified as a first, but clearly early: no ISBN, code 0468, and 1969 inscription; blue-green cloth, ochre endpapers, in jacket with Roland onstage on front and a little portrait on a white background.....
London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., [1883], (prior to 1917), printed in colours by Edmund Evans; Ivory illus glazed pictorial boards with green cloth back/corners; on both boards seated children hold up letter signs, "Little Ann" children facing front, "A Book" children away; blue green all around, yellow.....
Chicago: Wilcox & Follett (1946) 1st, nap; (publisher's stickers on jacket and title page, but not on top board, are pasted on top of "The Marcel Rodd Company"; The Marcel Rodd Company, Hollywood, is listed on the copyright page as the lithographer, The Review Slip states Wilcox & Follett); green.....
New York: Knopf, 1992, 1st nl; shiny boards which look like maroon "notebook" with cloth covered corners, blue endpapers with gull, in jacket with Klara looking toward over the ship's railing to the new land; oblong 9,25x10.25; np. Picture Book Hardback. "Based on the letters and diaries of Scandinavian immigrants.....