New York: McLoughlin Bros. Manufacturers, 30 Beekman St., [1863 - 1870 at this address]; "Big Picture Series - New"; "printed in oil colors", last book listed on the back in this series, each costing 37 cents; unlike the Sheldon version, the front co. Toploader large softcover. The stories of these.....
New York City: The Century Company, 353 Fourth Ave, 1922/1922 1st sd; red cloth boards with black pussycats, and the pussycat princess wearing a blue cape and a gilt crown, 32 full page "photographic animal studies", in tan jacket with illustration i. Juvenile hardback. "The Pussycat Princess asks and receives.....
Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag; 1955/1909, 13th printing, cream card covers flat cut, WRAPS, with red and black titles and little pictures of all the animals Lillan encounters on her cat journey, outrageous cat on back; ; 16.3x25.5 cm; np. Swedish language softcover. A funny little girl sits astride her cat.....
Stockholm: Axel Eliassons Konstförlag, no date (c. 1912) on the back "Import" (not "Jimport"); heavy card boards over stapled spine covered by red paper, making a thin 3/8" "spine", on the front a huge St. Bernard, looking rather worried, and ti. Swedish language hardback, Large, soulful animals, skillfully observed and.....
New York: Dutton, 1943/1942, 3rd; in yellow boards with Gabriel and a nesting bird tied to his head; endpapers with Gabriel sitting on a stack of hymns and his friends; 4to; np. Picture Book hardback. Dear Gabriel wears his thinking hat as he and his friends try and try to.....
New York: Harper & Row, (1954) c. 1980; 10x7.4; green cloth pictorial lib binding with Jenny on bench, gold endpapers, in jacket identical to boards; oblong 10.1x7.5; 32 pp. Picture Book Hardback, ex-lib. A simple story of Jenny's birthday party. Handlettered, with alternate full colour and b/w drawings on every.....
Racine, WI: Whitman, (1936) probably 1st printing, none of "large picture book style" titles listed on back flap are post 1936; paper boards with kitten and puppy children being read aloud to by parents, on dark blue background with orange spine, in. Picture Book hardback tall. Cosy pictures of Pussy.....
New York: Ars (1981); orange glossy boards with white titles and little black cat; English version by Mary Lee Theobald, 4.75x5.75"; np. Small hardback. A variety of cats introduce themselves in poetry... lost kittens, mother cats and kittens, howling cats, sleeping cats, mousers.
Crowell, 1968, 1st printing; White with ochre, red and orange reinforced pictorial binding. np. Juvenile hardback. While staying with his family in Iran, Pinky explores their Persian garden, where everything is twice as big, including a Persian bat. Boyle's own cat disappeared in Teheran. Sequel to Pinky the Cat Who.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Nursery Books, 1944/1944 probably 1st, on title page, no verso; green cloth boards with kitten face, no endpapers as published, in green jacket with green eyed Muggins and paw prints, more kitten portraits on the back; 6x8";. Picture Book Hardback. Muggins explored the world outside his mother's.....
Grosset & Dunlap, Story Parade Picture Book, designed by Artist and Writers Guild, 1944, presumed 1st, no other titles listed for 1944 or subsequently; yellow boards with a pastel drawing of Kate and a basket of kittens, teal endpapers with white. Picture Book Hardback. When Kate heard her father say.....
New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc., (1963) probably 1st US, yellow cloth boards, blue top edge and endpapers, in jacket with Mark, Jane, and the kitten pictured; 8vo; 94 pp. Juvenile hardback. A pleasant view of an English small town in the 60's as Jane tries her very best to.....
Bobbs-Merrill, 1961, 1st printing; 8.7x11.2, np. Picture Book hardback. Cheerful warm pictures of Raphael, his cat, and his Mexican village, as they prepare for the feast of St. Anthony, when the priest will bless the animals. Then the beautiful Oreana disappears.
New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company, Inc. (US 1953)/[Zurich 1951] first or year of publication US printing; blue paper pictorial boards with Pitschi alone in the forest,decorated olive, white, and blue, kitten-and--yarn endpapers, 13 x 9" oblong;. Picture book hardback. "The kitten who always wanted to be something else. A......
Grosset & Dunlap, Artists and Writers Guild, 1943. Plain lib. binding. Picture Book Hardback, ex-lib. Another sweet little book about Cinder the cat.
London: Country Life Limited, (1952), full colour illustrated boards, early printing, folio, 32 pp. Picture Book hardback tall ex-lib. Beautiful bright lithographs. Includes date stamp sheet for West Riding County Library first dated 30/6/53.
St. Martin's, (1984 thus, 1974); 4to, np. Shiny, full colour pictorial boards with a black kitten and her sheep farm; 8.6x10.9; 25 pp. Picture Book hardback. "a tiny, bedraggled kitty found tucked beside a frozen pond, who is nursed back to health on a nearby farm." One of a series.....
Amsterdam: Kris Kras Uitgeverschmaatschappij NV, 1966, presumed 1st (no later publisher's titles mentioned), in the original Dutch, thin card covers with rounded spine, not exactly a paperback, but endpapers are pasted down text; beautiful colour thr. Dutch language small hardback. softcover. By a Dutch author, illustrator, and graphic artist, who.....
New York: Seabury Press, 1968, nap; mustard cloth jacket with brown cat, brown endpapers, with Lacey sitting on her fire escape watching the yellow cat play; 8vo; 128 pp. Juvenile hardback. A sensitive little story about Lacey who moved from the country to Cleveland in sixth grade, leaving her horse.....
København: Det Danske Forlag, 1955/1905, 2nd printing of this reproduction; foreword by Steen Johansen and Knud Henriksen; grey boards with red cloth spine and drawing of a little cat and a fox; large illustrations on every spread after Johann. Danish language hardback. A little kitten goes exploring in the Danish.....
New York: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., (1939) likely 1st; in white boards with a picture of a scared Willie and his shadow and green titles on front and back, green cloth wrapped spine, front endpaper has black paw prints running across it a. Picture Book Hardback. It's a cold.....
London and New York,: Frederick Warne and Company, Ltd., printed in Great Britain, definitely post 1918, given as [1924] by the British Library which looks about right, but I don't know their reasoning, no date; ivory boards with rounded corners and. Picture Boook small. A very dear little book in.....
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1, 3, and 5 Bond Street, 1888/[1887] 1st US, tp; brown cloth with fine drawing of white snowy landscape, gilt titles, and two vignettes, of the crippled charcoal burner Jean Paqualin, and of the dignified old tabby. JUvenile hardback. Peter, a believably sweet and.....
London and New York: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd. and Frederick Warne & Co. Inc., #30 The Observer Series, 1973/1968 revised edition/1959; maroon boards with bright green titles, front endpapers with skeleton and musculature of cats, in jacket. Small hardback. "Describing all the recognized breeds and varieties with 32 colour.....
Comprises the front slotted cover with the complete accordion strip of text and 14 plates of this wallet. Too beautiful and funny to throw away. The first edition of Miss Moppet was published only in two issues in 1906 in miniature wallet form, so th. Picture Boook small. Sadly for.....