Kleine Katze spiel mit mir.
Hamburg: Dressler, 1986, board book. German language hardback. medium. .
All in German
Im Himmel lauft es Brunneli: Alti Varsli mit neue Bildli.
Bern: A Francke A. G. Verlag, nd (1930's?); red cloth spine, orange yellow boards with 3 children walking along, cut flat to pages, single sided pages with large picture and text beneath; np. (c. 24). German language hardback. medium. Little poems reillustrated very bright pictures of children. Swiss German, I......
Pünktchen und Anton, ein roman für kinder.
Wein, Vienna: Verlag Carl Ueberreuter, 1953/1949, dritte, 3rd printing this edition (first printed 1931 Berlin, copyright 1938 Atrium Verlag Zürich); full paper covered boards with drawing of the two walking down a yellow sidewalk followed by a little dog, tan cloth spine; with full page drawings and drawings in text.....
Gedichte.
Wien (Vienna): Carl Konegen, 1922. Ivory paper boards with coloured medallion title, doubled pages, 3.8x4.75" German language small hardback. A tiny book with eighteen short poems in German and six very fine bright ink and watercolour illustrations, margins decorated in green pattern and black and white drawings in text.
Bei uns daheim.
Wilhelm Schneider, (1960); cloth backed paper boards; 96 pp. German language hardback. medium. A German primary reader with little song phrases interspersed. Very bright and pretty scenes of German town life in black details and pleasing colours.
Weihnachten.
Oldenburg: Gerhard Stalling, 1932, 1st; blue boards with Christmas angel in a red coat, red cloth spine, German language hardback. medium. Little Pitt, the Christmas Angel, helps bring happiness, toys, and good things to eat to the animals and children.
Alpenblumenmarchen.
Zurich: Rotapfelverlag Erlenbach, 1960/1922, reissue; dark green spine and corners, paper boards with wildflower garlands, dark green endpapers sprinkled with golden grass and flowers; 18 single sided lithographs of the original watercolours, plus title page, plant identification index page plus two pages of publisher's ads; 29x22.7 cm. German Language hardback.....
Der Gartentraum, Neue Blumärchan.
Cöln, Cologne: Herman & Friedrich Schaffstein, [1911]. 1st, tan cloth spine and boards, yellow title, and large picture of flower babies and women, green endpapers with young flower men watching dancing rows of flower girls; 16 chromolithographs, each facing a poem, each printed on one side; index to flowers depicted.....
Die Wiesenzwerge.
Zürich: Rotapfel-Verlag, 1962/1902, 89 to 95 thousand, green boards wtih large illustration of dwarfs in a wooden cart driving crickets; dark green cloth spine and illustrated endpapers, 8.5x10.5" German language hardback. medium. A story of two dwarf enemies and how the Moon helped them make peace.
Lenzgesind (Servants of the Spring)
Zürich: Rotapfel Verlag; (1956/1926 Rotapfel) reissue by the original publisher, printed in Switzerland; white boards, green titles and cloth spine with flower fairy looking at butterfly people; ;. German language hardback oblong. In the 1950's Kreidolf's second publisher brought out several books from the 1920's with lovely reproductions of the.....
Das Zwergenbuch.
Leipzig: Verlangsbuchhandlung Hegel & Schade; nd. 1944/1940, 6th printing auflage; orange boards with little people dancing around tree, oblong 23x29.8 cm, 30 pp. German language hardback. medium. Fine, detailed ink illustrations of a society of lively little men and women and their travels.
Das Haus in der Sonne.
Konigstein im Taunus & Leipzig: Karl Robert Langewiesche Verlag, (1909), 303 bis 315 Tausend; with Memorial Wreath page (Larsson died in 1919). Original decorated wrappers, black and grey, 19x26 cm (10.2") Folio, 70 pp + 8 nice quality colored plates by Larsson, printed with full page plate on either side.....
Den Uartige Caroline
Kopenhaven, Copenhagen: Gyldendal; 1950/1928; 3rd edition, wraps, PAPERBACK, cloth spine red and pink cover with a little girl and her Scottie peeking though large doors, red botom cover, full pictures, alternately coloured, on each spread; oblong, 11.2x8"; np. German language softcover oblong. Nice reproductions of these paintings from 1928 in.....
Pieps Pensionare
Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, [1899]; red cloth spine, tan boards with black panel inset with full colour and gilt illustrations of gilt floral and feather designs and bored students receiving a lesson; 39 one sided pages, 20x29 cm. German language hardback. medium. Humorous tales in verse with 30 illustrations. Quite charming.....
Bimbulli.
Wein Vienna: Verlag Jungbrunnen, (1964); in German; red cloth spine, turquoise bottom board, deep blue top board with Bimbulli sailing with his chicken under a straw hat and bright flowers on the shore; endpapers with clear pictorial directions for making your own Bimbulli handkerchief doll, bright coloured pictures on every.....
De Hansli wott go wandere.
Zurich: Waldmann-Verlag, nd (ca 1930), 4th printing,; in German; red cloth spine, full colour illustrated boards of Hansli setting off into the mountains with some laughing geese following him, endpapers with blue sun and rain; 19.8x28 cm.; np. German language hardback. medium. A little boy, about five, climbs over the.....
Eine Tigergeschichte.
[Stuttgart: G Weise 1877] Publication data from Vollständiges Bücher-Lexicon ... 1750-1910, Volume 19. 4th printing, Ivory paper booklet with elaborate teal border picture of the helmsman and the Captain chasing a tiger around a large barrel, and on the back a little girl with her clown doll, inside are six.....
Kinderchen im Käfig.
Berlin: Alfred Holz Verlag 1947/1936, published under license of Soviet military administration in Germany from a limited German edition of 1936, 1st German trade edition, translated for German Children in German by Erich Weinert; gray tweed boards with brown and black baby tiger, linen spine; coloured and mono coloured prints.....
Däumerlings wanderschaft. Ein altes Märchen mit neuen Holzschnitten.
München: Paul Hugendrubel Verlag (1944 thus) M-F; tan card boards with Tom Thumb walking along with his backpack and needle sword; endpaper design with Tom crawling out of a thimble; full page woodcuts and two cuts on text pages, in deep colour; 19 x 24.5 cm; np. German language hardback.....
In Bayern Leben.
Munich: Münchener Bilderbuch Verlag, 1962, printed by Heinz Wartelsteiner, leporello or panorama, accordion fold, 8 panels 21 x 27 cm, coloured illustration on both sides. German language softcover panorama. medium. On one side of the five and a half foot strip, we see a silly carnival scene with spilled ice-cream.....
Liebe Sonne, Liebe Erde. Ein Kinderliederbuch.
Oldenburg: Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Bilderbuch nr. 100, 78 Thousand, (circa 1950s); shiny pictorial boards, two little girls playing amid tall flowers; grey spine, 21 x 26.5 cm; np. German language hardback medium. Rhythmic poetry with a good dash of nonsense. Still beloved. Eisgruber's art work doesn't strike us as particularly.....
Jugendland ein buch für die Junge Welt und ihre Freunde, Band II, für kinder von acht bis zwölf Jähren
Zürich, München (Munich): Gebrüder Künzli, illustrations are preWWI, [first edition], brown paper binding with bright orange titles and full coloured illustration of an older child reading this book (shrunken in size) to a younger boy and girl, little girl with dolls and very long blond braids on bottom board dark.....
Zotti und Balloni.
Zurich: Atlantis Kinderbucher, (1959); in German; clothbacked paper boards with the two characters greeting against a high, black, windy, city scene with sienna, aqua, green, and yellow ochre accents; 12.25x8.5"; np. German language hardback oblong. Lonely Uncle Zotti makes a balloon man who floats far from the town and finally.....
Kasperl mit der winduhr.
Leipzig im Breisgau: Herder-Druck 1959/1956, 2nd printing; blue shiny boards with Kasperl flying to the princess in the tower;. German language hardback. medium. The adventures of the puppet Kasperl, here a boy, and Mucki the evil magician in the circus and in Africa. Drawings on every page, most in colour.....
Im Tierpark.
Leipzig: Helingsche Verlagsanstalt; (1960) 1st (1.-15. thousand,) dark blue boards with pale blue border, tan linen spine, on the top board a collage of a polar bear with a family watching him from behind a red barrier; oblong 23 x 28.5 cm.; np. German language hardback. juvenile. On each spread.....