Verona, Italy: Casa Editrice A. Mondadori, 1941, 1st, nap; tan soft paper boards with Susanna and her pets reading a copy of this book, green titles and cloth spine, endpapers and pages of stiff buff card, illustrations on both sides of endpapers, bright pictures and flowers scattered through the cursive.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1964, 1st, sd; yellow cloth boards with black drawing of little animal circling large stylized trees; brown endpapers. oblong 9.5x9.2"; np. Picture book hardback. Yet another boring small animal identity crisis book? Think again. A mildly irritated lion mentor finally tells the little animal that he needs.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1970), 2nd printing of the true US first; green cloth binding with dark green endpapers, jacket with leery Whingdingdilly walking through a shrubby forest; 4to; 60 pp. Picture Book hardback. Scamp, Orvie's dog, wanted a more glamorous life so a magician transformed him into a bizarre mixture.....
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1976, 1st printing or year of publication (to Dec. 9 Zempel) no number line; $4.95 on jacket; yellow cloth with black lizard; 157 pp. Juvenile hardback. Two weeks with his parents and older sister gone: Victor stays up late and does as he pleases. Then he.....
New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1991, 1st printing (number line); white shiny boards with bald wempire in purple cloak, mulberry endpapers, in jacket identical to boards; oblong 9.25x7.25 inches, np. Picture Book hardback. After watching a horror movie on TV, Jonathan decides he wants to be a vampire. Then some.....
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: David White, 1967, 1st printing nap; green cloth, publisher's library binding sticker, in yellow jacket with small drawings from the book and orange titles and highlights; 6x8"; 48 pp. Juvenile hardback. Just as Old Fatty was about to be the first to drink at the horse trough, something.....
Paris: Editions Jules Tallandier, Nov 1, 1907. Cloth backed full coloured plaid paper boards with smiling dog head, 12.5x9.5; 64 pp. French language hardback tall. Comic events in the life of a happy-go-lucky dog of uncertain breed with many drawings, half in colour.
Paris: Editions Jules Tallandier, Nov., 1907. Clothbacked full coloured dark green boards with White cat; 12.5x9.5 inches; 64 pp. French language hardback tall. A naughty cat who observes the results of his many escapades with joy! At the end, he retires happily to Charing Cross with a kind governess and.....
New York: Lothrop, Lee, Shepard, 1994, stated 1st no; shiny boards with wrap around scene of the Bone Stranger and his loyal sidekick Wolfgang overlooking the desert at night from a purple mesa; yellow endpapers, in jacket identical to boards; oblong 10x8.25; np. Picture Book hardback. An exciting mystery .......
New York: Doubleday and Co., (1960, 1961) 1st thus, no additional printing, a reissue of the three volumes; pictorial cloth, Tootletown map endpapers, 8.5x11.25; 96 pp.; 3.95 store sticker on back. Picture book hardback. The funny adventures of Tanker, a hippo, and Tinker, a rabbit. Lots of action!
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1908, 1st printing, sd; tan boards with a design of little woodcuts; 4 x 6"; 48 pp including ads for Nelly Gray and John Gilpin. Small hardback. "Although at first glance this little book could be mistaken for an eighteenth-century.....
Here is an identical one with multiple signatures $300 ebay https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dr-Seuss-The-Cat-In-The-Hat-First-Edition-Houghton-Mifflin-1957-1st/174573937391?hash=item28a56ae2ef:g:KWgAAOSwyo5f6NKCHoughton Mifflin, Riverside Press imprint on title page bottom corner, (1957) perhaps could be considered the true 1st: originally catalogued as Houghton Mifflin LCCN 56-5470, (14.1 Lindemann), first issued as prepublication sample copy, with one signature and a rounded spine;.....
New York: Platt & Peck, Little Wonder Books, [c. 1916]"Thirty Pictures in Colour", printed in Great Britain; tan paper boards with black titles and border designs and coloured paste on of our heros , full colur illustrated endpapers; single-sided plates all on coated paper; 4x5.5"; 85 pp. Small Hardback. A......
New York: Parents' Magazine Press (1966) reprint; blue black leaf-patterned boards with carriage racing along, yellow titles; magenta leaf patterned endpapers, in jacket identical to boards, oblong 10.25x7.5"; np. Picture book hardback. White silhouettes on blue and magenta in the beginning of the rhyme, changing to black on white as.....
New York: Henry Holt and Company, Inc. 1931, probable 1st; black cloth spine, genial king on this throne, Picture Book hardback. First Page: As King I own a TOY, says the plump happy monarch, Next Page: But as King I want a TOP and he exchanges Y for P... and.....
Erie Pennsylvania, The Gobbly-Wobblyn Publishing Company, [song co. 1925]; red cloth binding with full cover plate in black, pale blue, white, and red, with the red King Balloon-atic, dancing in front of the castle; the apparent title reads "The Gobbly Wobblyn," with the actual title in a small blue panel;.....
Springfield, MA: McLoughlin Brothers, (1929), pink parchment paper mottled boards with brown titles and large pasted on plate of Matilda Peek-a-Boo and the father rabbit showing his Baby a watch;, little boy training his dog on endpapers, frontis and five coloured plates (one same as cover), with numerous drawings by.....