New York: Macmillan Company, (1970), 3rd printing; coral boards with Blaze and Dusty riding along together, in jacket identical to boards; 7.5x10; 46 pp. Picture Book Hardback, ex-lib. Billy and Tommy decide to take each right turn in the woods and see what they and their horses can discover. After.....
New York: Macmillan, 1940, 1st, sd "Published 1940"; sienna cloth with dark panel and pasted-on plate of Salute as a curious colt; light sienna all around; cream endpapers with a portrait of Man o' War and illustrations of Salute at various ages, in dark brown and sienna, Picture Book Hardback.....
Morrow, 1993, 1st printing. Full colour shiny pictorial boards, 9.25x9.25; np. Picture Book hardback. Richie builds an imaginary rocket out of cardboard on the roof of his apartment building. Sensitive photos.
New York: Viking, 2003, 1st printing; light blue boards with portrait of Satie tipping his hat, endpapers with quotes from Satie; in jacket identical to boards, 4to, np. incl. biography. Picture Book hardback. Mathers' witty, slightly surreal, paintings work well to illustrate Satie's life.
NY: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, Frances Foster Books, 1997, 1st printing; maroon cloth backed black paper boards, 8vo; in jacket with detailed realistic picture of eggs and insects; 100 pp incl. index. Juvenile hardback. Adventures with insects, with Henri Fabre's 10-year old son as protagonist. Surprisingly hard to find.
NY: Knopf, 1989, 1st printing; 211 pp. Juvenile hardback. The island villagers of Hirta are beginning to resent the power of the Druids, although they continue to worship them. Catlin, a village girl gifted with the power to see across time, must reconcile the Druids with the people before it.....
New York: Knopf, 1982, 1st; cloth pictorial binding with Caitlin standing in front of Druid priests, 8vo, 211 pp. Juvenile hardback. The island villagers of Hirta in the St. Kilda islands west of Scotland, are beginning to resent the power of the Druids, although they continue to worship them. Catlin.....
Knopf, (1980), 5th; Full colour cloth pictorial binding. 177 pp. Juvenile hardback. Elspeth's parents die leaving nothing but a little money and one-way tickets to Canada from Scotland; she decides to take her four year old brother and emigrate.
Knopf, 1982, 1st printing. Juvenile hardback. An epic of Maori life spanning the lives of two women.
Knopf, 1982, 1st printing. Juvenile hardback. An epic of Maori life spanning the lives of two women.
New York: Knopf, 1982, 1st printing. Juvenile hardback. An epic of Maori life spanning the lives of two women.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979, 1st printing; clothbacked blue paper boards, cream eps, 8vo; in blue dw with col painting of Robert and Jennifer near circle of stones; 181 pp. Juvenile hardback. A time slip novel in which children are carried through the circle of time to the year.....
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1985, 1st nl, pictorial cloth cover, 8vo, 179 pp. Juvenile hardback. In the 21st century, in a land that was once Scotland, gentle people encounter visitors from the 20th c and are also invaded by the Barbaric Ones from the south. Laura is able to.....
Wellington: A. H. and A. W. Reed, 1977, 1st printing published; blue boards, in jacket with painting of horses in pasture with mountains of New Zealand's South Island in the distance; 7.5x10; 60 pp. Juvenile hardback. Photos of a high country station horse with a mind of his own, against.....
Holt, 1989, 1st printing; 102 pp. Juvenile hardback. A disturbing story about the treatment of children who ride the "special" bus every day.
Lisbon, Lisboa: Editorial Atica, December, 1959, 1st edition and undoubtedly 1st and only printing, Collecçao Infantil Atica, offset lithographs by Lithographia Tejo, cardstock covers with jacket tightly folded around, showing sweeping Christmas tree boughs extending across spine to rear, with red title panel and blue ornament; coloured lithos in text.....
Little, Brown, 1967, 1st printing; 133 pp. Juvenile hardback ex-lib. Jenny and her family on a Wisconsin farm at the turn of the century, Sunny days and sad ones when her dad's creamery burns down. Her dad says the river runs clear despite the black rocks under the water.
New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1939, 1st; green cloth boards with dark green titles; endpapers with b/w lithograph within a red-brown frame; 7.25x9.25"; 142 pp. Juvenile hardback. Set in a habitant community of guides and fishermen on an island off the Gaspé Peninsula. Beautiful dark black lithographs on good.....
Viking, 1961, 1st printing, 63 pp. Juvenile hardback ex-lib. A boy is devoted to a statue of St. Francis and when he notices that the saint seems a little sad, he makes him some shoes to warm his feet. Set in Tuscany.
Holiday House,(1971). Juvenile hardback. Agapito wins "the white shell colt" for himself in a fight with a cougar. They grow up together during a time of the Long March. Through Cloud, the colt, Agapito is able to see a vision of freedom for his people.
Scribner's, (1970), $4.50 on flap.; 7.75x9.25; c 26 pp. Picture Book hardback. A quiet book with dark drawings, written by a naturalist about a red bat.
Kuso-Kobo, 1988/1981, publisher's or author's card included, white boards with half-timbered house on front and the brick house next door on the back, grey endpapers, in jacket identical to boards, written in Japanese; 261x215mm; np. Picture Book hardback. Ten children move to the house next door. Open the book: the.....
Tokyo: Fukuinkan Shoten, 1999/1977, pictorial boards all around illustration of farms and fields, green endpapers, in jacket identical to boards; 26x23cm 48 pp. Picture Book hardback. Anno's version of a journey to England made by Breugel, tiny figures wander across wide landscapes in city and town.
Printed in USA, [1940's? from style]; newsprint booklets with orange highlighted pictures, same on front and back, of colouring book style animals wearing clothes; four of the six Paint and Story Books, each with identical front and back covers with illustration in two colours; black and white pictures inside illustrate.....
Boston: D. Lothrop & Co, Publishers, Franklin and Hawley Streets, (1877) assumed reprint, maroon cloth with black titles and illustration, linen covered fairly thick boards 3 side sewn signatures of fine linen pages; 6x8.25; n. p. Toploader fabric. An interesting, uncommon alphabet book and reader in bad condition, the fine.....