New York: Harper & Brothers, 1921/April 1921 D-V; brown paper boards with paste on plate, black cloth spine; 36 b/w/ and coloured plates incl. frontis, present, as issued, other small paintings tipped in and many drawings in text; ; 9x12.5"; 247 pp. Juvenile hardback tall. "Fiction, Fact & Fancy concerning.....
New York: Crown, 1991, 1st nl; no medals on book or jacket; full colour pictorial boards with family under the stars on the roof; in jacket identical to boards; 9.6x12; 26 pp. Picture Book hardback. Ringgold, a well known African American fiber artist, illustrated her first book with pictures and.....
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, (1941); boards with wrap around painting of the three little Black girls looking up at their parasols; endpapers with map of community; 20 full page illustrations, 6 in colour incl. frontis facing page 1 and many illustrations in text; 6.75x10.5"; 96 pp. Juvenile hardback.....
NY: Viking, 1949/1934(originally illustrated by the author), new illustrated edition, 1st printing thus (1934). Juvenile hardback. Great illustrations by McCloskey for the 1934 tale of an orphan on the loose. "Best thing of its kind since Tom Sawyer" - Margery Bianco.
Los Angeles, CA: The Ward Richie Press, 1962/1934; white boards with green dinosaur, green spine; white endpapers with green dinosaurs, green illustrations of every animal; oblong 10.2x8.2; 72 pp. Picture book hardback. A large oblong book with a greenish cast overall. The huge soft charcoal animals fill the page and.....
Yosemite Association, 1997, 1st; limited edition #108/200; in green slipcase with large plate of two cubs staring down from cliff into Yosemite Valley, same jacket, 4 page leaflet for Children's Limited Editions Club laid in. Picture Book hardback. A Miwok legend with information about the tribe. The first of what.....
New York: Farrar Straus, Giroux, 1998, stated 1st; green boards, No Medal, in grey snowfall jacket with a little boy and his dog running cheerfully through the wnow; oblong 10.25x9.25 in. Picture Book Hardback. Boy with dog knew the snow was coming, no matter what the grownups said, and it.....
New York: Platt & Peck, Little Wonder Books, [c. 1916]"Thirty Pictures in Colour", printed in Great Britain; tan paper boards with black titles and border designs and coloured paste on of our heros , full colur illustrated endpapers; single-sided plates all on coated paper; 4x5.5"; 85 pp. Small Hardback. A......
New York: E. P. Dutton, Inc, 1965, stated 1st; blue clothboards, illustrations in deep pink and grey on every spread, in full colour jacket with wraparound illustration of the citizens of Grasse standing on the cobblestoned market square as the princess in her sedan chair passes by; 8 x 10.25";.....
New York: James Miller, 647 Broadway, (1875); green cloth with gilt titles and black stamped drawings of animals, pale yellow endpapers, 6 pages of introduction followed by 24 pages of notes in two column small font, 472 exercises, most several to a page; np. Juvenile hardcover. Originally published in London.....
Cincinnati: Peter G Thomson, (1884 in The Uncle Sam Series/1870); string bound, bright, ornately decorated chromolithographed paper covers, front and back, with probably house artist picture of Abe splitting rails in bare feet; 5 pages of text and blank back cover verso, plus 4 leaves of plates single-sided, (numbered as.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, Nov 1939/1939, 1st sd; brick red paper boards with the couple approaching the flower; endpapers and all pages bordered with sage green; in jacket identical to boards; oblong, 7.75x11"; np. Picture Book Hardback. "World War XII, as everyone knows, brought about the collapse of civilization".......
New York: Viking Press, 1964/1939, 1st US by this company (actually preceded by a Putnam 1940 publication); green cloth boards, green top edge, with chapter heads and full page illustrations, in pink jacket with little figures in greens and pink surrounding ivory center with titles and picture of two on.....
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell and Co.; (1956) stated 3rd printing; red cloth boards, in blue jacket with Beany driving the car in a white hooded coat with red trim; 8vo; 260 pp. Juvenile hardback. Senior year: The younger brother of Beany's friend Andy dies and she feels ill-equipped help.....
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1903/1903, 1st edition, later issue; green & multi-colour pictorial. cloth; 327 pp. Juvenile hardback. The adventures of Rebecca Randall, one of a large farm family, who goes to live in Riverboro with her Aunt Miranda. A nice copy of a classic book.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1981, stated 1st printing; yellow gingham trade binding with full front cover photo of Edith sitting on the grass and sheltering her little duckling, white endpapers with the grown up duckling flying away, in jacket identical to boards; 8.75x12.25; np. Picture Book Hardback.....