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.....
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.....
Ars Sacra Josef Müller, München (1952); boards are completely covered with thick growing meadow flowers (and a large grasshopper); small publisher's note within, 6 coloured plates on heavier paper and drawings in text; l 14,5 x 18.5 cm; 79. German language hardback medium. Lovely flower plates and scenes of animals.....
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.....
Hamburg and Munich, Heinrich Ellermann, 1958, 1st printing; green cloth backed black matte paper boards with bright red, orange and green apples, little bugs, and leaves on front and trunks on back, white illustrated endpapers in coloured ink drawing. German language hardback oblong. Cheerful drawings with primary colour accents follow.....
No place of publication, dated 1898, grey paper covers with little ladybird girl, staplebound, 16 interior pages of heavy paper; full coloured pen and ink pictures on every page; 6.25x5.4" German language small hardbacksoftcover. Adventures of a little ladybird boy and his friends,. Delicate, light filled drawings by the aunt.....
München, Munich: J. F. Schreiber, no date, post 1960, 59th printing, 59. Aufl.; in German; brown cloth backed pictorial cloth boards with Root children in red dresses leaning across space; 8.7x11.3; np. includes Author Biography. German language hardback tall. A good quality reproduction of the little Root children.
Esslingen, München: J. F. Schreiber; "vierte auflage", 4th edition or printing of the kleine ausgabe or small version of this book, probably 1920's, simplified fraktur title and sans serif modern text script, green boards with the princess in a. German language hardback. medium. Beautiful pictures of the princess and the.....
Eslingen & München: F. S. Schreiber, (circa 1910) No. 26, 1st printing, olive green boards with the wind child scattering a dandelion, illustration bordered by rose hips; green cloth spine and corner tip covers, olive endpapers with lines of. German language hardback oblong. Hans Jörg plays all day with the.....
Weinheim an der Bergstrasse: Verlag Julius Beltz, 1965/1965, 1st, printed in Germany; dark green illustrated laminated boards with angel trumpeting the birth on the top, a shepherd and sheep on the bottom, starry endpapers, full page illustrations on. German language hardback oblong. Striking modern pictures for Christmas in muted dark.....
Zürich and Stuttgart: Artemis Verlag (1955); aqua paper boards with pattern of donkey and cart in red-orange and white, golden cloth spine, bright watercolor and ink paintings of the donkey in a lively village, text in German in upper case handl. German language hardback, ex-lib tall. Emelio, a naughty donkey.....
Zurich: Atlantis- Zwergenbücher, Verlag, (1966), #9 of 11; white boards with Red Riding Hood in the woods; 5 1/2 x 5 1/8; np. German language small hardback. A tiny book with a cheerful heroine. Red Riding Hood at its least scary.
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 desig. German language hardback tall. A beautiful collection of the.....
Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung 1862; 21 x 27 cm, 23 pages with 22 woodcuts. German language hardback medium. Twenty two very charming and detailed woodcuts of little children in adult workplaces, looking on and even helping: Tailor, woodworker, doctor, etc. Each illustration contains a 4 line verse in Fraktur and a......
Stuttgart: Loewes Verlag, Ferdinand Carl; probably shortly after 1900/(1863), Volks-Ausgabe. No. 499, later Popular edition; woodcuts by Prof. H. Bürkner; tan paper boards, brown cloth spine and corner tips, brown titles in Fraktur (preceding S&. German language hardback. medium. Two friends, little girls about 3 and 5, play with their.....
Wiesbaden and Zurich: Parabel Verlag, 1987/Berlin: Alfred Holz Verlag, 1938; modern reprint; translated to the German by Lieselotte Remane. Black laminated paper covers with (perhaps) scratchboard drawing of Peter, wolf head, and tree with touches of. German language hardback. medium. A well-done modern reproduction of this elegant 30's book, with.....
Stuttgart: Verlag Gustav Weise, [1897]; red cloth backed pictorial boards with full colour scene of monkeys, and Jan, Jup, and father at the kirmess on front and back; no eps or title page apparently as issued, flat trimmed paper boards with rounded. German language hardback oblong. Jan and Jup, thoroughly.....
Reichenberg, Switzerland: Stiepel (1929) 11-15 Thousand; red all around, titles in Sutterlin 8 sheets of heavy card with large coloured pictures on each side and short text below, join accordion style with red cloth; oblong 31 x 24 cm; np. German Language hardback, ex-lib oblong. A very charming large board.....
Berlin: Richard Schikowski, (circa 1960)/1900. reproduction, yellow cover, red cloth spine, with the familiar long eared rabbit and a sign post noting that this is a new edition with a foreword by Dr. H. G. Niemand (Nobody). German language hardback tall. Hard to see inside this new tight book, but.....
Oldenburg: Gerhard Stalling (1930), yellow boards with white mink carrying a frog, a mouse and several little insects, dark green cloth spine; 22 x 28.5; np. German language hardback. medium. Big happy pictures of animals in human dress and situations.
Bielefeld und Leipzig: Velhagen u. Klasing, 1912/early 1880's, 16th printing; flame red leatherette spine and corners, gold spine titles, with white boards, fully illustrated with little girl holding out her red pinafore for apples while a procession. German language hardback juvenile. Stories, tales, and songs, with little etchings by various.....
Zürich: Atlantis Kindersbücher; 1937, probable 1st; green boards with the river winding from mountains to the sea; ivory cloth spine, oblong 26 x 22,5 cm; np. German language hardback oblong. Beautiful flat coloured illustrations that look almost like pochoir follow the course of the river.
Braunschweig: Georg Westermann Verlag, (1952) probable 1st printing; green cloth backed bright red cloth boards with collage animals all around, four endpapers have different mountain and desert island cut paper scenes in wild colours, oblong 10.1x7. German language hardback oblong. Marvellous cut paper animals which fill the oblong pages. a......
Zürich: Atlantis Kinderbücher, 1941l white boards with flowers and a shield of the seasons; oblong 28 x 23 cm; np. German language hardback oblong. The life of a traditional farmer and his family through the year, with a full page coloured illustration facing another on the same scale in black.....
München: P. Hugendubel; 50's reprint/1936; yellow heavy card covers with little princess surrounded by a ring of flowers and birds, grey cloth spine over staples, oblong 25 x 18.5 cm; np. includes publisher catalogue page. Not in Sütterlin. German language softcover oblong. An adventure for preschoolers. The happy little princess.....