Grand Rapids: 1993, 1st; 10x9.5, @ 32 pp. Picture Book hardback. A retelling of a folk tale about a greedy villager from Aardema's book, Beyond the Back of the Mountain, brightly and nicely illustrated in bold African colours.
Coward, 1971/1971, 2nd; 10.3x8.3, np. Picture Book Hardback, ex-lib. An object familiar to a New York City African American boy of fifty years ago illustrates the letters. A. B. C..... Is this the artist Donald Hall Robertson? Lovely illustrations anyway.
Ohio: American Colortype Co. no date, c 1920?; blue and white checked box top plate with three boys and "The Army and Navy Forever!"; 8 little pamphlets each with coloured picture covers and three coloured illustrations, whose resolution varies from. Boxed Books Small. Doggie's Doings, Faithful and True (dogs), Our.....
Springfield Mass.: McLoughlin Bros, Linen Books, Kiddie's Series, No. 1580, (New) in 1927, 1st.; yellow cloth book, orange titles, with two very large sitting rabbits against a dark green background on front, one goose running over the grass on back, Toploader large fabric softcover. Mathematically very nice as it goes.....
Peggy Cloth-Books,(1946); doubled pinked pages with sewn down spine, no printing on spine, various animals, mostly farm, stand beneath the red title banner which is suspended between two high stumps; 6 doubled cloth sheets, making 10 interior pages;. Toploader fabric. Actually all of these animals would appear on an ordinary.....
New York: Random House Value Publishing, 1998/1996 1st American thus compiled; glossy yellow boards with little pictures from the books and blue spine, endpapers with map of the Island of Sodor, metallic copper titles (perfect) ;8.75x11.25"; 416 pp i. Picture Book hardback. A complete collection of the 26 books; printed.....
New York: Anson D. F. Randolph and Company, 770 Broadway, corner of Ninth Street, 1872 on title page, first or early US printing; printers, Clay, Sons and Taylor, London, green cloth boards with children pulling giant crackers in gilt, black rules; b. Juvenile hardback. "This book, designed for children, contains.....
Paris, Duchesne, Rue Saint Jacques au Temple du Goût. 1754, 1st, Edition originale. Avec Approbation & Privilège du Roi. (document appended April 4, 1752); thick boards covered in stiff dark brown calf, spine with stamped title and g. French language small hardback. A book for all lovers of fables with.....
Houghton, Mifflin, 1992, 1st printing. 9.25x8.25; 26 pp. Picture Book hardback. Hoang tries to repair the gia truyen teapot because it houses the May Man, good spirits. This book has been reviewed by many Vietnamese Americans of Brekler's acquaintance from the large refugee community in San Jose. The artist is.....
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons and London T. C. and E. C. Jack, [1906]; fine brown cloth with heavy gilt floral decoration to top board and spine, gilt design on back top edge gilt and deckle side and bottom edges; plain endpapers, 16 plates including. Juvenile hardback. 200 poems.....
London: Ernest Nister; New York: E. P. Dutton; #3227 (1.1. on top board, 11 on title page) 1911; red and white paper boards with large illustration of a mounted General Spooley commanding his new spool soldiers; plain endpapers, red cloth spine; 12. Juvenile hardback. Our little tree already has a......
Prague, Praze: B. Koči, 1916, 1st, title page and rear publication notes, red coth spine backed paper boards with pattern of small ovals enclosing birds, oval floral border around titles, endpaper pattern of coloured pine trees and hearts, litho. Czech language. Fischerová-Kvěchová's first book, published during the war when she.....
New York: Platt & Munk Co., Inc. (1942), probable 1st, only 1942 and before of 15 titles mentioned; red boards with blue bunny, coloured frontis, in jacket with Uncle W and animal friends playing on the beach; 8vo; 186 pp. Juvenile hardback. A collection of 26 stories which appeared originally.....
Racine, Chicago: Whitman Publishing Company, (1916); heavy yellow orange cloth boards with full coloured illustrated plate within stamped curved black border, black titles; cream endpapers with orange butterflies, frontis and 7 coloured plates as iss. Juvenile hardcover. A delicious book with chapters such as "Neddie meets the Lemon-Ball Team" and.....
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 p. Juvenile hardback. "Raggedy Ann and Andy, with.....
London: Epworth, 1971, 1st, "first published"; brown paper boards, orange top edge, in golden tan jacket with brown mountains and an ink drawing of Nick, the runaway book, and the independent dogs, 8vo; 137 pp. Juvenile hardback. A fantasy of warring brother lords, a simple boy, man, and dog, and.....
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, September,1915, 1st printing; red cloth with white letters outlined in black and a photo of Hansel and Gretel on the lawn aged about six or seven, eight illustrations from photographic plates, as issued; 6x8.25; 44 pp. Juvenile hardback. They don't come more charming than this!.....
World, 1968/1959, 1st printing US. 6.8x10; 297 pp. with bibliography and index. Reference history, hardback. The authoritative work on European, especially German and Swiss, children's literature and illustration. Inexpensive only because it had a very large print run.
New York ("New Amsterdam"); Alfred A. Knopf, (1930), although 1930 is present on the title page, this date is part of the design and a 1936 book, Come Hither, is mentioned on the jacket; blue boards with orange lettering, orange top edge, blue ship s. Juvenile hardback. The Bold Dragoon.....
Buenos Aires: Editorial Losada, S. A. 1957/1937, 14th printing; irregular orange overlay on pale orange wraps, (this is not fading, see green on pale orange example), black titles and illustration; some black and white drawings in text, 12 x 18.5 cm;. Spanish language softcover. Amusing donkey sketches by an internationally.....
San Francisco: Paul Elder, 1912, 1st printing trade edition; red cloth spine, cream paper boards outlined in dull red of title; cream eps, pages outlined in same red, 6 5/8 x 8" boards; 114 pp. Juvenile hardback. "The Lion looks like Santa Claus,/I think that this should give him paws./When.....
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: Delacorte Press, a Seymour Lawrence Book, 1970, stated 1st printing; green cloth boards with red gilt angels bearing titles, red endpapers, in red jacket with large white title and little drawing of a spilled Santa bag; oblong 11x9"; np. Picture Book hardback. Santa's trials on Christmas Eve, shown.....
Kobenhaven, Denmark: Gyldendal, 1950, 25000 copies; cream cloth spine, dark blue paper boards with Lear creature in a huge coffee pot and a cat, plain green bottom board, 10.1x12.2"; 28 pp. Danish language hardback. Vivid colour printing of fanciful scenes on matte paper. Ungermann's very modern paintings bring to mind.....
New York, London, Toronto: Longmans, Green, 1958/1946, 4th printing; red boards w little girls and Marta; plain endpapers; red and black illustrations, in jacket with tan, red, and black wrap around illustration of Hanka and Marta in the hilly landsc. Juvenile hardback. Hanka dances with her doll Marta and takes.....