London: Jonathan Cape, 1990, 1st, "first published"; dark blue boards, painting of farm animals in a field with farmers scratching their heads, 8vo; 90 pp. Juvenile hardback. The men from the Birmingham Water Supply threaten to flood Owen Tudor's farm, which has been in the family since the time of.....
New York: Doubleday & Co, Inc, 1939 (1920, 1923, 1926) stated 1st; blue cloth, blue top edge, in pale blue-green jacket with only "My Roads" and oval landscape in tan, blue green, and black, black titles; 8vo; 399 pp. Reference essays, hardback. The three previous "Roads" books, edited, brought up.....
New York: North-South Books 1998, 1st English language, "first published"; glossy boards with brown bear sitting on a snowy rock in a cold landscape; textured snowy pictures, endpapers with bear tracks in the snow,in jacket identical to boards, 8.75x. Picture Book Hardback. The bear was ready to hibernate and very.....
New York: Viking Kestrel, 1988/1987, 1st US, nl; aqua cloth boards, tan endpapers, in aqua jacket with Ashley in a mountain landscape; 8vo; 146 pp. Juvenile hardback. Ashley and Uncle Sun set out to escape from China to India as the Japanese advance. Ashley, left alone, befriends a tribe of.....
Fremont, Ohio: The Clauss Shear Company, nd (circa 1908 from pictures); The Blade Printing and Paper Company, Catalogue Printers, Toledo, Ohio, stamped "From Welton Stanford Hardware, Schenectady, N. Y." (in business under this name from 1907, Clauss. Toploader medium softcover advertizing. An alphabet/Mother Goose advertising booklet, with two large red.....
New York: Hurd and Houghton, Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1869/1869, 1st, same date; blue cloth with gilt titles and a cat and a spider watching little birds drink, gilt titles and decorations on spine; full page, fine etchings with blank verso, which. Juvenile hardback. A lovely collection of about 150 rhymes.....
P. F. Volland (1923) "This is one of the Volland cloth books." on the back, stiff coated fine cloth, probably linen, supports full colour on both sides of the page, 9.75x12"; 14 interior pages. Toploader fabric oversized. In the form of story, not rhymes, where two children and Mother Goose.....
Hamburg and Munich, Heinrich Ellermann, 1958, 1st printing; green cloth backed black matte paper boards with bright red, orange and green apples, little bugs, and leaves on front and trunks on back, white illustrated endpapers in coloured ink drawing. German language hardback oblong. Cheerful drawings with primary colour accents follow.....
New York: David White, 1967, 1st printing nap; red cloth, publisher's library binding sticker, in pink jacket with small drawings from the book and yellow titles and highlights; 6x8"; 48 pp. Juvenile hardback. A baby monster (elephant) with a sad face arrives at the court of King Noggin the Nog.....
New York: Macmillan, 1929, 1st printing; green cloth binding with dark green waves, polka dots stamped in, with orange bordered title plate pasted on; 8vo; 190 pp. Juvenile hardback. "A tale for children by a child. Introduced by Mary Elizabeth Barnicle." One of the first two books illustrated by Helen.....
Wein, Vienna, München: Österreichischer. Bundesverlagen, 1964/1956, white laminated boards with donkey playing to an officer accompanied by a band of three soldiers; 20.5 x 23.5 cm; 40 pp. German language hardback. medium. Five tales about donkeys with some pictures. (A different illustrator from the earlier version).
Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 1993/1993, stated 1st US, nl; red cloth boards, green endpapers, in jacket with chess pieces falling through the air at war; oblong 11.25 x 9 "; np. Picture Book Hardback. When discontent came to the White Chess pieces in the garden, they were challenged by the.....
London: Michael Joseph, 1962, 1st UK, "first published", (Kastrullresan); translated from the Swedish by Lilian Seaton, blue boards, in light blue jacket with red titles and drawing highlights showing the two horse drawn caravans; on the spine a stac. Juvenile hardback. A delightful family of seven takes to the road.....
London: Faber & Faber, 1984, 1st printing thus collected and illustrated; 107 pp. Juvenile hardback. A group of Uttley's tales, chosen from the range of her work by Lucy Meredith and published on the centenary of Uttley's birth.
London: H. Henry & Co Ltd, 1896/(Uilen-geluk 1895), first English thus translated, printed in Holland, Amstt. boek en Steendrukkerij v/h Ellerman, Harms & Co.; matte dark brown paper boards with green and yellow highlights, owls and feathers. Dutch/Friesian language hardback. One of Hoytema's beautiful bird picture books, printed in Holland.....