München (Munich): Braun and Schneider, (registered by Dr. C. Wolf and Son, Munich), ca 1880's. Marbled paper boards predominately maroon with cream and blue, white calf quarter leather, bound as album with 17 coloured woodcuts single-sided sprea. German language hardback tall. A collection of sheets from the humorous magazine: Artists.....
No place or publisher, [US, circa 1870.] Yellow wraps. Cover: The Bad Boy and O.N.T. with seven labels, inside cover: "Use (label) on white spools/George A. Clark, sole agent [1824 - 1873]/It is/superior to all others/for hand and machine work/follow. Toploader small softcover advertizing. Hilarious drawings by an uncredited artist.....
New York: McLoughlin Bro's, Aunt Grumbles Series, nd (1870s); orange, black, and green front cover showing Carrie about to play with the candle, black and white drawings within; 2 sheets making 6 interior pages, 4x6". Softcover. Toploader small softcover chapbook. Two stories derived from Struwwelpeter, Carry, and Rocking Philip and.....
München : K. Braun & F. Schneider, [between 1874 and 1875]. the complete [Book] 27 counted and containing #625 to #648, but rebound using a [Book] 26 cover and sheet #601; ivory boards with ornate hand-coloured illustration, black and white. German language hardback tall. A collection of sheets from the.....
Boston: Little Brown and Company,1938, stated 1st and sd; endpapers with blue penguin and Mr. Popper, 139 pp. Juvenile hardback. Delightful comedy of the Popper family and their houseful of penguins. Newbery Honor.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965/1896, 1966/1897; red, green cloth. Both books have patterned endpapers and are in ivory jackets of the same design with red and gold colours and drawings of the beasts; 6.5x8.5; 46 pp. Juvenile hardback. "Do not as evil children do/Who on the slightest grounds/Will imitate.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Borzoi Books, 1922 on title page, 1st printing of the 2nd Am edition, the first being 1897 Edward Arnold, London and New York; blue boards with orange titles, in yellow jacket with black titles with ads for Borzoi books on. Juvenile hardback. "What! would you.....
Oldenburg: Gerhard Stalling, Nürnberger Bilderbücher #72; 1948, 1st; navy blue boards with blue panels and orange title panel, tape measure, pincushion, ribbon and iron decorations in border; bottom board with scissors cutting into rocking. German language hardback oblong. Beautiful clear colours in this funny book by a Swiss painter, engraver.....
New York: Viking, 1980, stated 1st, also nl; blue clothbacked gold paper boards, in jacket with wrap-around mountain scene with Ida and children outside cabin; 8vo; 147 pp. Juvenile hardback. The Suttons had hired a housekeeper, but Ida Early can do anything, from reading the comics aloud to the twins.....
London: Routledge, 1887 - 1889; fine blue cloth with red letters on gilt banner, beveled edges, aeg, brown endpapers; comprising four volumes, each titled and numbered separately, with full page drawings on one side only, most in colour, oblong 15 x. Picture Book hardback. Randolph Caldecott's work for the "Graphic".....
New York: Macmillan, 1985, 1st US, ivory boards, red spine, in while jacket with members of the family peering out from the margins, 8vo; 182 pp. Juvenile hardback. The continued saga of this hilarious family's search for ghosts in Wales! Being the Sixth Part of the Bagthorpe Saga.
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1912, 1st printing; blue boards with white stars, blue cloth back with large picture of Bunnikin's aircraft, endpapers with blue drawing of squirrel and bunny looking at the moon through a telescope; frontis and two. Small hardback. With a cheerful disregard for astronomy, the Bunnikin-Bunnies.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace, & World, 1968, 1st; in black jacket with the Joking Man racing along with his title board and happy characters scattered around in green and tan; 6.8x 9.3, np. Picture Book Hardback. The narrator and his friend Charlie look on in delight as the park bench.....
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: Four Winds Press, 1983, stated 1st; red cloth boards with Uncle Roland in silver striding along with all his stuff, patterned endpapers, jacket remnant had Uncle R. just arrived, standing in the front door, oblong 10.2x8.2"; np. Picture Book hardback. The children love it when Uncle Roland comes.....
New York: George Sully Publishers, Later than the Willis P. Hazard 1850s collection but no date, (late 1800's ?); grey cloth spine, glazed paper covered boards with full-page color illustration front, grey paper back, coloured illustrations on every. Picture Book hardback. Very bright pictures in the style of the originals.....
London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, (1940); paper boards with animal pictures on yellow ground, white titles on blue and red ground, design repeated in full colour on endpapers, 4to; np. Picture Book hardback. Very bright, flat, unexpected coloured animals and a funny rhyming text: "Did you ever see.....
London: Bodley Head, 1980, 1st thus compiled; purple boards in orange jacket with the professor among his many colourful inventions; 6.5x8.5; 255 pages. Juvenile hardback. A Branestawm bonanza, with almost 40 articles, instructions, stories, and plans, each with the original illustrations, including the first ones by W. Heath Robinson. Nicely.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1955), 1st "A"; green cloth boards with Duchess, in red jacket with the Duchess, the green castle and all the little children; 8.2x10.2", np. Picture Book hardback. " A long time ago there lived over the waters / A Duchess, a Duke, and their family.....
Farrar, Straus, Giroux,1996/1995, 1st Am; shiny boards with Captain Baa giving the sheep a lift to the beach; green endpapers, 4to (c.29 pp.). Picture Book hardback. "Will Elliott Baa's smarts and the help of a gang of rugby-loving cats be enough to crack this case?... colorful, antic illustrations bring this.....
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1941/1941, 1st printing thus, blue cloth boards, with little watchbird on fixed endpaper, then title page; 9.4x12.5 inches; 28 pp. Picture Book hardback. The third collection of cautionary watchbird stories and the last in this tall format, the Full-Mouth, the Pouter, the Flitter, the.....
Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Co; (1932). thin dark orange boards with 6 sections, two center ones for titles on navy, 4 for figures from individual rhymes on greens and browns; on bottom board, six similar sections with titles and characters. Picture book hardback. Happy, imaginative little Deco pictures to match.....
New York: Viking, 1971/1955, 1st Am and 1st thus illustrated; translated from the Swedish by Marianne Turner; mustard cloth boards with little brown Karlsson, in orange floral jacket (the wallpaper) with a boy looking out of a yellow window at Karlss. Juvenile hardback. A marvelously funny story about a fat.....
New York: Coward-McCann, 1966, 1st US stated; grey cloth boards, Blake's illustrations throughout, in white jacket with uncle clad in a purple bathrobe and pajamas springing joyfully to the challenge on the front and a gallery of Hatemans on the back. Juvenile hardback. "Uncle is a tremendously wealthy elephant. He.....
New York: Coward McCann, 1953, 1st printing; orange boards, green endpapers with all kinds of colourful boxes, yellow jacket with green and orange drawing of the Zorn Brothers sitting at a table and thinking about boxes; 8.2x10.1; np. Picture Book hardback. How the business world learned to understand the importance.....