New York, McLoughlin Bros., no date, (c. mid 1880's?), no number or series, 3 folded sheets making ten interior pages, front cover with young child and baby pulling on a book, another book already destroyed on the floor, and, on the back cover, a rather bizarre scene with a blonde.....
New York: Platt & Munk Co; (1935, 1917 Altemus); 600-7; Blue Terek Washable Leather Cloth boards with black stamped candle border design and pasted down coloured plate of PR and guests at his party, coloured series endpaper illustrations, 28 coloured illustrations,, 4 3/8 x 5 3/4,"profusely illustrated in Colors" in.....
Livorno: Societa Editrice Tirrena, 1946; shaped oblong card covers with two camels, one brown, one cream, on red ground with walls in back of grey blue same on back, (color now unfaded only on back); 8.5x4.5" Italian language softcover, novelty shape book, Nice realistic camels, a less common animal from.....
Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Publishing Company, shiny wraps with the four dolls having just arrived and sitting on their luggage, blank inside the wraps, four coloured pages of dolls and clothes to copy onto the b/w outline pages; 8.5x12.5" Softcover. Toploader large softcover novelty activity book. An interesting idea in that.....
London: Dean's Rag Book, #282, no date (published from 1931 to 1949); blue cloth covers with pinked edges, very cute terrier holding the reins of a tiny pony on front, cat and her ball in back, two doubled leaves sewn down, making six interior pages; 6x7.8" Toploader fabric Dean's rag.....
Dial, 1991, 1st printing Shiny full colour pictorial jacket, 11x8.3; 22 pp. Picture Book hardback. Taxi dog continues his adventures and catches two dangerous thieves. SIGNED & INSCRIBED by artist with a little drawing of a Cat.
New York: Viking 1946/1946, 1st sd, nap; black cloth spine, red boards with children's Nativity scene; endpapers with children setting up the props; in jacket identical to boards; oblong 10x9"; 40 pp. Picture Book hardback. A school Christmas play, from the first sketches of the donkey to the curtain calls.....
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1969, 1st, nl; dark turquoise covers, in all around painting showing prehistoric men working on the rocks in dark blues, greens and earth colours and a bright yellow sun; 7.25x9.2"; 54 pp incl. index. Picture Book hardback. Using burnt umber and black with an orange.....
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1931, 1st sd; deep orange cloth spine pale orange paper boards with little doll on a rocking horse in dark teal; black and white checkered endpapers with little drawings in diagonal rows; in orange, teal, yellow, and black jacket with small child figures busy playing.....
London: Andre Deutsch, Marilyn Malin, Books, A Belitha Press Book, Toppers, 1986, 1st, nl, first published; shiny orange patterned boards with giant girl standing between apartment buildings; 5x7.25" ; 42 pp. Juvenile hardback. A funny story in large print and four chapters of a modern greedy Alice.... "Put us down!.....
London: The Lewis Carroll Society, 1973, Robert Stockwell Ltd. Printer; green card with large photo of Carroll, illustrated, fold out genealogical chart, 6x9.75"; 62 pp. Reference biography, softcover. Jaques: Lewis Carroll and the Dodgson Lineage; Clark: Three Faces of Alice; Goodacre: Lewis Carroll the Creative Writer; Davies: The Revd. Mr.....
New York: Methuen, Inc., 1980 simultaneous publication, 1st thus abridged from Cohen's 1950 translation; brown cloth with the hero in his nightshirt brandishing a sword stamped in gilt; in light brown jacket with Don Quixote and Rocinante about to challenge the windmills; 8vo; 207 pp. Juvenile hardback. Lively and amusing.....
Doubleday Doran, 1936, 1st printing; np. Juvenile hardback. Publisher's or printer's planning notes for the 1944 reprint: 1936 crossed out with 1944 penciled in, "P60 A back" etc. on every page, and also some notes regarding the illustrations: "poor here, would like more like proof" "not as good as proof.....
Chicago, Reilly & Lee; 1921, 1st; green cloth with full coloured plate of TW riding on duck's head, river background; 9"x11"; 128 pp. Juvenile hardback. Teenie Weenies are always impressive for their communnity work on big projects, and here they find an abandoned Noah's Ark, and fix it up to.....
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.....
New York: Dodd Mead and Company, [1941] 2.75 on flap, review of Cadmus Henry on rear flap, long author bio on back. Dustjacket only.
Philadelphia: David McKay, 604-5 Washington Square,London: Augener, Ltd; [1915/1914, US] early printing "Old Dutch Nursery Rhymes, 1917 mentioned on last page, of ads, but not on jacket; book and jacket printed in England; beige cloth binding with gilt titles and oval plate with blind-stamped border of princess in orange robes.....
London: B. T. Batsford, 1957, 1st printing; turquoise boards with deep turquoise endpapers, rose jacket with drawing of a teacher and children, heavy coated paper, 8vo; 136 pp.; unclipped 15s. Reference education, hardback. A charming narrative of the life of a school and the relationship of a gifted teacher (the.....
Putnam, [1939] 1.50 on flap, red title on spine, long author statement on quitting Disney and moving to NY, probable 1st or very early. Dustjacket only.
London: Country Life Limited, (1952), full colour illustrated boards, early printing, folio, 32 pp. Picture Book hardback tall ex-lib. Beautiful bright lithographs. Includes date stamp sheet for West Riding County Library first dated 30/6/53.
Harper 1888 (Nov. 1887 to Oct. 1888). Dark green with elaborate gilt, black, and red designs; 938 pp. Bound magazines hardback. All the magazines from 1888; sentimental "period" drawings, serialized novels and articles. Several stories by Howard Pyle, Alcott; many stereotypical African American cartoons.
New York: John Martin's Book House, (1924) probable 1st and only printing; pink, dark blue green and blue grey calico cloth boards, pasted on label in teal with white borders, yellow border; teal endpapers with design of lambs and little items from the story specific to this book; """This book.....
Candlewick, 1996, 1st US; shiny full colour wraparound pictorial boards, yellow with duck family sitting on a sofa and baby in red glasses; 10x12; c 22 pp. Shipped at cost. Picture Book hardback. Baby Duck does not like her new glasses, not even just a little. But, as usual, when.....
New York: Lothrop, Lee, & Shepard, 1985, stated 1st US nl; shiny yellow pictorial boards with the friends and their dog and cat, in jacket identical to boards, 64 pp. Picture Book hardback. Funny stories requested by two young characters of Hughes' world. Chips and Jessie ordered lots of pictures.....
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 681 5th Ave, (1921); red cloth, gilt titles, many drawings in text, 8vo; 250 pp. Juvenile hardback. On the free endpaper is tipped in a note sheet with a red and blue seal from the Pacific Mail SS Company, On Board S. S......