Viking, 1956/1956, 1st printing; green cloth boards with teapot drawing, green endpapers with boy and teapot design, top edge green, white jacket with Brian Boru and his wee fairyman riding across the ocean; 6.25x9.5"; 128 pp. Juvenile hardback. An ancient Irish fairy comes to Maine and works his enchantment on.....
London: George G. Harrap, 1961/1959, US 2nd printing; translated by Gwen Marsh for the English edition; blue boards, white jacket with Folco and the white stallion racing into the river; 8vo; 159 pp. Juvenile Hardback. Based on the memorable film, White Mane, by Albert Lamorisse.
New York: Harpercollins, 1995, 1st printing; 224 pp. Reference history, hardback. "Wit and Humor in American Children's Literature." A well written personal book by a leading critic treating animal fables, tall tales, and the family story since the 1920's. An extended essay, not a collection of articles.
London: Pelham, 1985/1982 2nd printing UK; translated from the Danish by Joan Tate.; white boards with full colour illustration of children and water buffalo, 8.3x11.7; np. Picture Book Hardback. Two children help move the animals and household in a flood of the Yangt'ze; they then help rebuild the village further.....
Harpercollins, 1995, 1st printing; 224 pp. Reference history, hardback. "Wit and Humor in American Children's Literature." A well written personal book by a leading critic treating animal fables, tall tales, and the family story since the 1920's. An extended essay, not a collection of articles.
Harpercollins, 1995, 1st printing; 224 pp. Reference history, hardback. "Wit and Humor in American Children's Literature." A well written personal book by a leading critic treating animal fables, tall tales, and the family story since the 1920's. An extended essay, not a collection of articles.
Morrow, 1967/1957, 5th; 157 pp, index. Juvenile hardback. .
Dutton, 1979, 1st printing; Reinforced pictorial library binding. 172 pp. Juvenile hardback ex-lib. A well-told allegory of friendship and discovery; a group of animals who have survived the deluge help their chimpanzee friend hunt for his kind in the almost mythical London Zoo.
Macmillan, 1973, 1st; 215 pp. (Australia 1968). Juvenile hardback ex-lib. Children of an opal-mining family in the Australian outback attempt a desperate plan to break the cycle of poverty.
New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 42 Bleecker Street, Nelson''s Sparkling Eye Series, [1883]; tan and pale yellow paper boards and spine, top boards have a little child looking at a huge red book and decorations of an iris, jonquil and daffodils, on. Picture Book Hardback. Four simple poems of.....
Tokyo 1925, Brown card with title printed on it, brown silk string tied. Reproductions of photos and building layouts, each covered with a captioned transluscent sheets. Toploader medium. A booklet produced in the autumn of 1925 (Taisho 14) by the Aoyama Jogakuin, Women's Academy, to commemorate what is now Berry.....
New York: Farrar Straus, Giroux, 1998, stated 1st; green boards, No Medal, in grey snowfall jacket with a little boy and his dog running cheerfully through the wnow; oblong 10.25x9.25 in. Picture Book Hardback. Boy with dog knew the snow was coming, no matter what the grownups said, and it.....
Tokyo: "Y. Nishinomiya (late T. Hasegawa)"; probably 1937 or 38, crepe paper book with red silk ties ,double stab silk binding and grey silk spine backing, on bottom cover a flock of little paper birds surrounding a larger paper bird, nine interior f. Toploader small. A reprint of the first.....
London: Dean's Rag Book Co. Ltd, in print 1914 to1919; "Dean's 6d Patent Rag Book Series"; a cloth book, robin's egg blue covers with blond Arabella in a green dress and feather sitting with her friends on front, and Dutch doll offering cheese on the. Toploader cloth book. Wilful Arabella.....
New York: McLoughlin Bros. 1888, heavy card boards ; a red cloth spine cover encases 6 heavy board "leaves", (not flat cut); linen strips hold each board to the next and to the covers, making 14 interior pages. alternate coloured and umber pages as w. Picture book hardback. A rollicking.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1960's/1925, 36th printing, red cloth boards in white jacket, in box together with little wooden doll with gold yarn braids, blue grey and red dress with sky blue ribbons and lace, plain white pantalettes, black felt. Picture Book Hardback. "A Perfect Combination Gift for a......
London: William Heinemann, Ltd; 1952/1934/1929, 12th printing of 1934 New Edition; buff boards with green titles and frame showing brown illustration of the three characters, white endpapers with usual Tempest drawing of house in landscape, blue prin. Small hardback. The first Little Grey Rabbit book introduces a brave and ingenious.....
London and New York: F. Warne & Co, Ltd.; printed by Edmund Evans Ltd, Rose Place, Globe Road, London, E. 1, 1953 (760-353, 1st printing; glazed paper pictorial boards with full col. illustration of hero and Susie on front and vignette on back,en. Small hardback. The tidy Susie Squirrel reforms.....
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1968, stated 1st printing; pictorial library binding; 165 pp. Juvenile hardback ex-lib. In Wourio's third mystery, two children and their cousin catch crooks after a rambling chase across Spain.
New York: Orchard, 1995, 1st printing nl; blue boards, dark blue endpapers, in blue jacket with Chache Lavi sailing with Haitian passengers, 8vo; 152 pp incl. History and Glossary. Juvenile hardback ex-lib. Paulie struggles through difficult times in Haiti while her uncle builds a boat for escape and an American.....
New York: Orchard, 1993, 1st printing; 165 pp. Juvenile hardback ex-lib. When their father disappears, Felipe and his family join the stream of refugees going north. ".. informed by the stories, choices, and pluck of a Salvadoran family who lived with my family while waiting for Canadian citizenship."
Criterion, Young America Book Club, (1965 in translation); 144 pp. Juvenile hardback ex-lib. Tourists befriend a Mexico City shoeshine boy, ill and running from the police.
New York: Houghton, Mifflin, Co., 1989, 1st printing; grey cloth boards, jacket with picture of Hugh posing against the city skyline; red endpapers,73 pp. Juvenile hardback. Hugh Pine accompanies his friend Mr. McTosh to New York, and sees Something Else. Even in the big city he makes friends and helps.....
New York: Greenwillow, 1989, 1st printing American (1987 Swedish was written and illustrated by Anderson); wraparound white illustrated boards with picture of Anna standing under rhubarb leaf in jacket identical to boards; 4to; np. Picture Book hardback. Anna, a totally charming pale haired child with granny glasses, gives us a......
New York: Criterion, Young America Book Club, (1965 in translation); 144 pp. Juvenile hardback. Tourists befriend a Mexico City shoeshine boy, ill and running from the police.