Great Claus and Little Claus.
Grove Press, 1968, 1st printing. 10.2x13; 32 pp. Picture Book hardback tall. Witty, intricately textured line drawings illustrate this humorous tale.
Grove Press, 1968, 1st printing. 10.2x13; 32 pp. Picture Book hardback tall. Witty, intricately textured line drawings illustrate this humorous tale.
London: Kaye & Ward, 1971, 1st UK thus illustrated, illus co. 1968, translation from the Danish taken from M. R. James Hans Christian Andersen: Forty-two Stories; printed in Denmark; illustrated on rather matte (unlike Viking) paper boards with a watercolour of children picking flowers next to the little fir tree.....
Abelard-Schuman, 1974, 1st Am; 8.25x11.25; 24 pp. Picture Book Hardback. Testa has transferred the setting of the story to a rather abstract European Middle Ages.
Picture Book Studio, USA,1984 thus illustrated; translated by Anthea Bell; pictorial boards, in jacket identical to boards; oblong; np. Picture Book hardback. Delicate watercolours influenced by Chinese paintings illustrate this version.
Collection du Lys Dore, 1944; cream paper boards with full colour illustration of nightingale and child; pale blue and brown illustrated endpapers, 4.75x6.25"; 24 pp. French language small hardback. Detailed little coloured illustrations on every other page. The Nightingale. Uncommon.
Paris: Flammarion, Albums de Pere Castor, 1950/1939; illustrated card boards SOFTCOVER; coloured illustrations on every other page; oblong 18.5x16.5 cm; np. French language softcover oblong. A happy version of the husband to market trading story, in which the wife is delighted that he has returned with nothing but a sack.....
Crown, 1967/1940 Caxton, reprint; brown boards and jacket; 145 pp. Juvenile hardback. The author knew the Kansas tribe very well and relays their folklore ably.
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.....
My Hanky Library, (early 1940s?) full colour card with a white gosling and on front and graceful swan on the back, coloured illustrations inside with a slot containing a cotton handkerchief with a yellow duckling visible, two pages with text; 5.5 x 4"; somewhat shaped. Toploader small. Here's an example.....
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.