New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1972, 1st printing; grey cloth boards with ship, 7.4x10.2", in white jacket with rose and grey ship; c 28 pp. Picture Book hardback. Picture book of the English folk song in which the Golden Vanity is attacked by pirates and saved by the gallant cabin.....
New York: Viking, 1982, 1st printing thus illustrated; natural cloth backed with grey blue boards, gold endpapers, in white jacket with painting from "Delight of Being Alone."; 8.1x10.25 inches; np. Picture Book hardback. A brief collection for young readers with handsome illustrations of the coal mining town in Nottingham of.....
New York: Henry Z. Walck, Inc., 1958/1958, 1st printing; music by Clyde Robert Bulla; tan boards with blue picture of child on street of houses, salmon endpapers, salmon and white jacket with children walking along street; 7x6.2 inches; np. Picture Book hardback. Little songs about children walking through the town.....
Paris: Calmann-Levy Editeurs, Editions Balzac 1945/(1944) 1st printing, Imprimerie Déchaux Nov. 1944, No. de Censure 124; white wraps with a wavering thin wall encircling the titles and little characters standing on balconies; 21 x 23 cm; np. French language softcover. medium. Gentle, whimsical poems by a respected poet surrounded by.....
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1925/1924, 4th printing in year of publication of this Special Holiday Edition; both white paper boards with little coloured Shepard illustrations and black titles, endpapers with many little green ink drawings from the book; portrait photograph of Christopher Milne as a small child, the remainder.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1956, stated first; red cloth backed, green flowered boards; in green jacket with children and animals dancing to the fiddler cat; 4to; 80 pp. Picture Book hardback. Fifty-seven nonsense verses and nursery rhymes with new music by Kapp of which Burl Ives says in.....
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1993/1993, 1st US; shiny paper boards with an intricate flower garden growing flowers and an oboe, a flute, a trumpet; on the back a funny insect band, dark blue endpapers with abstract leaf-like shapes, in jacket identical to boards, 8.75x11; 54 pp. Picture Book.....
Berlin: Otto Wernthal, [1905]; golden brown cloth boards, green cloth spine, brown titles, with a large paste-on T shaped plate with illustration of a haunting little girl in a red dress standing in a blossoming orchard; grey floral art nouveau design endpapers, 12 songs, each with half-title, lyrics facing illustrated.....
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.....
New York: "Published by Windmill Books, Inc/Distributed by Harper & Row" (1968), price clipped, so cannot be identified as a first, but clearly early: no ISBN, code 0468, and 1969 inscription; blue-green cloth, ochre endpapers, in jacket with Roland onstage on front and a little portrait on a white background.....
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street; (late 1850's) Revised by the Committee on Publication; tan paper covers with King David playing the harp, on the back lists of publications, including teacher training materials and various maps, each hymn numbered, with Index of first lines in back and also the.....
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.....
London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., [1883], (prior to 1917), printed in colours by Edmund Evans; Ivory illus glazed pictorial boards with green cloth back/corners; on both boards seated children hold up letter signs, "Little Ann" children facing front, "A Book" children away; blue green all around, yellow.....
New York: Platt & Munk, 1967 1st or very early printing ($1.95 on flap); black spine, grey cloth boards with small silver gilt teddy, in green illustrated jacket; 7.25x8.25; 48 pp. Picture Book hardback. A few classic children's poems: Jane Taylor, Stevenson, Longfellow, Lear.
Chicago: Rand McNally, 1977, stated 1st; heavy cloth pictorial boards with children surrounded by wreath of holiday items, 9.25x11.8; np. Picture Book Hardback. "The Tasha Tudor Book of Holidays." full color paintings with short text on every page, many two page spreads. SIGNED and briefly INSCRIBED on pictorial flyleaf by.....
New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1970, stated 1st printing (US); grey cloth, in jacket with a colorful painting of the Haverard children and their cousins looking around the pavilion; 8vo; 218 pp. Juvenile hardback. How the Haverard family becomes aware of the beauty of the old music pavilion nearby.....
SAn Carlos California, Golden Gate Junior Books, (1968); heavy pink and green cloth boards with child's drawing of Watts Towers, in jacket identical to boards, 9.5x11.5. Picture Book hardback. 20 lively songs by a long time preschool and Head Start teacher, including the title song, "The castle is for children.....