Praha, Prague: B. Procházka; no date,[1925] printed by Karel Solce, dark blue boards with a fine copper mesh grid design, blue spine, full sized coloured plate with dancing couple and large colourful border on black, with white border surround. Czech language medium. Four stories O Dvojencich; O Medvedu; O Dvakrat.....
Den Haag, The Hague: R. J. Goddard, Boek en Periodiek, Silhouetten-Serie. presumed 1st, [1926, from Dutch Royal Museum holding], ivory paper with black titles and green and yellow background to black silhouettes, oblong 7.7x5.3"; 19.5x13 cm; np. incl. Dutch language small hardback. When Mr. and Mrs. Snater hatch 15 ducklings.....
Milan: Aldo Garzanti Editore: October 7, 1969, 1st; orange boards, grey endpapers with Teresa and a cat crawling around the margins, in blue jacket with yellow titles and Teresa falling through the clouds; 20x27 cm; 70 pp. Italian language hardback. Thirty poems inspired by a short 19th c poem by.....
Barcelona: Editorial Lumen, (1980) translated from the Italian to Spanish (Asolina nel paese del giganti); green patterned shiny boards, with Asolina beating on her pans right in the giant's huge ear; 9x9"; np. Spanish language hardback. Brave Asolina cheerfully takes her pot and pan and goes out on a quest.....
Prague Praha, Czechoslovakia Ceskoslov: Podniky Tiskar a Vydav, 1920/1919; Slovakian language edition, tan cloth backed paper boards with top board glazed with delicate picture of insects and thistles; white endpapers with fine green design, title pa. Slovak language hardback. Many intricate drawings of real and fantastic insects, finely decorated capitals.....
Prague, Praze: Tiskl a Vydal Melantrich, 1931/1926, 2nd printing; in Czech (Praze, not Praha?); green cloth backed marbled paper boards in greens and blacks, green cloth corners, paste on plate of mother sparrow and her pipe smoking husband with babi. Czech language hardback. Extraordinary paintings by the (Slovak?) artist Otakar.....
Rotterdam, Delft: Hoog & Trenite; [ca 1853]/1842 in English; red textured deeply stamped boards with gilt titles and decorations, pale yellow endpapers, title on white glazed paper, 5 chromolithographed plates with hand finished touches,4.5x6" ;. Dutch language small hardback. Lovely, misty, full coloured plates with fine engraving, early colour lithography.....
London: H. Henry & Co Ltd, 1896/(Uilen-geluk 1895), first English thus translated, printed in Holland, Amstt. boek en Steendrukkerij v/h Ellerman, Harms & Co.; matte dark brown paper boards with green and yellow highlights, owls and feathers. Dutch/Friesian language hardback. One of Hoytema's beautiful bird picture books, printed in Holland.....
Amsterdam: Leopold, copyright 1992, 1993 Book Award mentioned, 1st or early printing; shiny gray blue boards with frog trudging through the snow, coloured endpapers with frog's friends looking across a snowy landscape, 8x9.25 inches, np. Dutch language hardback. Frog's friends try and try to get him to enjoy winter, but.....
Buenos Aires: Editorial Atlantida; 1962/1940, 6th printing; #19 of 22 in this aurhor's series; white boards with donkey pulling away from his tree, with yellow endpapers with figures from all the stories; 22 of stories listed on the back; 7 x 10"; 55. Spanish language hardback. Comic pictures of a......
Buenos Aires: Editorial Atlantida; 1941, 7th printing, #2 of 22 in this author's series; white boards with pig family on a walk, yellow endpapers with figures from all the stories; 22 of stories listed on the back; 7 x 10"; 55 pp. Spanish language hardback. The adventures of a well.....
Buenos Aires: Editorial Atlantida; 1961/1941, 7th printing; #4 of 22 in this author's series; white boards with tiny girl looking at bird, with yellow endpapers with figures from all the stories; 22 of stories listed on the back; 7 x 10"; 55 pp. Spanish language hardback. An original story of.....
Buenos Aires: Editorial Atlantida; 1961/1941, 6th printing; #7 of 22 in this aurhor's series; white boards with white duck looking up at ostrich, with yellow endpapers with figures from all the stories; 22 of stories listed on the back; 7 x 10"; 55 p. Spanish language hardback. The adventures of.....
Meppel: A. Roelofs van Goor-Meppel, [1949].yellow orange boards with a large tiger and a little cat, small white animals around the center picture; animal illustrated endpapers, 21.5x25 cm; np. Dutch language hardback. The animals congregate and then in each picture, the large wild animal looks down at the domestic one.....
Amsterdam : Em. Querido, 1925, white paper boards with black titles and little yellow bird sitting in a tree, side-sewn on white cloth spine with yellow cord; coloured pictures, full and in text. 7.75 x 11" inches, 60 pp with contents page. Dutch language hardback. May Rain. Happy poems about.....
Kiøbenhavn, Copenhagen: Fr. Wøldikes Forlag, 1871, 1st printing, prints from woodcuts by F. Hendriksen; red rules boards with drawing of chicken and flowers, red cloth spine, printer's name, place and date with bird sitting on oak branc. Danish language hardback. A selection of poems illustrated by 28 different artists. Lorenz.....