Boston: William Miller, 23 Arch St (1870s?); colorful covers with smoking frog fishing and laughing girl on front; b/w illustrations; 4.25x5.5"; 8 interior pages; on the back "Careful buyers will find they can save money by buying their boots, shoes, and rubbers of John Brahmer" Printed by Wm Miller and..... more
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München : K Braun & F Schneider, [between 1874 and 1875] the complete [Book] 27 counted and containing #625 to #648, but rebound using a [Book] 26 cover and sheet #601; ivory boards with ornate hand-coloured illustration, black and white illustrations within; 215x 325 cm (trimmed); 25 doubled sheets, printed..... more
München (Munich): Braun and Schneider, (registered by Dr C Wolf and Son, Munich), ca 1880's Marbled paper boards predominately maroon with cream and blue, white calf quarter leather, bound as album with 17 coloured woodcuts single-sided spreads attached to tabs, 13 1/4"x9 1/8", top opening, therefore oblong; 34 pages. German..... more
No place or publisher, [US, circa 1870.] Yellow wraps. Cover: The Bad Boy and O.N.T. with seven labels, inside cover: "Use (label) on white spools/George A. Clark, sole agent [1824 - 1873]/It is/superior to all others/for hand and machine work/followed by ad for black thread"; rear cover: ad for Marshall's..... more
Springfield, MA: McLoughlin Bros. Inc (all co. 1927), 3/4 girls' Toddles Series #276, not incld C. Preston Peek-a-boo and 1/4 of Toddles Boys' Serie #275, about 3.6 x 9" with shaped heads, bound wth two staples and rounded spine with character on front and on back from behind, so they..... more
New York: T. W. Strong, No. 98 Nassau-Street, Boston: W. G. Cottrell and Co. No. 64 Cornhill (ca 1848?, not G. W.) paper wraps with front cover lacking coloured illustration or. Toploader little softcover chapbook. A popular story, printed as early as 1796 (Worldcat) as Harry Heedless or The history..... more
Boston: Little Brown and Company,1938, stated 1st and sd; endpapers with blue penguin and Mr. Popper, 139 pp. Juvenile hardback. Delightful comedy of the Popper family and their houseful of penguins. Newbery Honor. more
New York: Alfred A Knopf, red cloth (Bad Beasts 1965/1896) along with green gold cloth (More Beasts1966/1897) Both books have patterned endpapers and titles in text matching their cloth and are in ivory jackets of the same design with green gold (Bad Beasts) and red (More Beasts) panels with some..... more
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Borzoi Books, 1922 on title page, 1st printing of the 2nd Am edition, the first being 1897 Edward Arnold, London and New York; blue boards with orange titles, in yellow jacket with black titles with ads for Borzoi books on both flaps; 6.2x8.4"; 48 pp..... more
Oldenburg: Gerhard Stalling, Nürnberger Bilderbücher #72; 1948, 1st; navy blue boards with blue panels and orange title panel, tape measure, pincushion, ribbon and iron decorations in border; bottom board with scissors cutting into rocking horse banner; title page with orange cloth hanging and cherubs and the tailors' scrawny feet sticking..... more
New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1975, 1st American, printed in Great Britain, top board with Father Christmas enjoying an ice-cream cone by the sea, 7 cartoons from the book on bottom bd; blue endpapers, in jacket identical to boards, 8.5 x 10"; np. Picture book hardback. Santa deserves a...... more
Springfield, Mass: McLoughlin Bros, Inc (1927) #276, (Humpnrey Milford UK) a shape book with heavy card covers of a little girl holding flowers, 9x3.5" Novelty shape book. Pam gives a water-picnic party which ends close to disaster except for a kindly swan: "So they finished the lunch for supper/After a...... more
London: Routledge, 1887 - 1889; fine blue cloth with red letters on gilt banner, beveled edges, aeg, brown endpapers; comprising four volumes, each titled and numbered separately, with full page drawings on one side only, most in colour, oblong 15 x 11"x 1 3/8" thick. Picture Book hardback. Randolph Caldecott's..... more
New York: Macmillan, 1978, 1st U.S; cloth spine on boards, jacket with the whole cast of characters, featuring Zero the dogs, 8vo; 174 pp. Juvenile hardback. Uncle Parker wins a Caribbean cruise, which sets the Bagthorpe family into a frenzy of contest entering. Things get even more confused than usual..... more
New York: Macmillan, 1985, 1st US, ivory boards, red spine, in while jacket with members of the family peering out from the margins, 8vo; 182 pp. Juvenile hardback. The continued saga of this hilarious family's search for ghosts in Wales! Being the Sixth Part of the Bagthorpe Saga. more
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1912, 1st printing; blue boards with white stars, blue cloth back with large picture of Bunnikin's aircraft, endpapers with blue drawing of squirrel and bunny looking at the moon through a telescope; frontis and two brightly coloured plates; 6x5"; 63 pp. Small hardback. With a...... more
New York: Dodd, Mead Co. (1960, printing, not indicated in 1960) brown cloth boards with little line drawing, many two colour illustrations in spreads; in blue jacket with little cartoon figures in green clothes and Bob and Ray in broadcasting studio on the back, 8vo; np (ca. 72). Picture Book..... more
New York: Harcourt, Brace, & World, 1968, 1st; in black jacket with the Joking Man racing along with his title board and happy characters scattered around in green and tan; 6.8x 9.3, np. Picture Book Hardback. The narrator and his friend Charlie look on in delight as the park bench..... more
New York: The Platt & Peck Co., Little Wonder Books, printed in Great Britain, no date, [ca 1910's]; tan paper boards with stamped decorations and rules in brown, pasted on plate of Goblin Scout encountering a Rabbit. Small hardback. A very funny book with very funny pictures in deep colours..... more
New York: Platt & Peck, Little Wonder Books, "Thirty Pictures in Colour", printed in Great Britain; tan paper boards with black titles and border designs and coloured paste on of the three being pushed out of a window by a giant spring, full colour endpapers with the three brownies and..... more
New York: George Sully Publishers, Later than the Willis P Hazard 1850s collection but no date, (late 1800's ?); grey cloth spine, glazed paper covered boards with full-page color illustration front, grey paper back, coloured illustrations on every double sided page; 20x25 cm, about 40 pp. Picture Book hardback. Very..... more
London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, (1940); paper boards with animal pictures on yellow ground, white titles on blue and red ground, design repeated in full colour on endpapers, 4to; np. Picture Book hardback. Very bright, flat, unexpected coloured animals and a funny rhyming text: "Did you ever see..... more
London: Bodley Head, 1974, 1st printing; red boards in white jacket with Prof. B. thinking; 5.5x8; 103 pp. Juvenile hardback. More amazing stories! Where are my glasses?; B.'s Portable Car Park; Prof. B. on the Scrap Heap; The Pipes of Pandemonium; Mrs. Flittersnoop's Birthday Present. Hunter's first two books were..... more
London: Bodley Head, 1980, 1st thus compiled; purple boards in orange jacket with the professor among his many colourful inventions; 6.5x8.5; 255 pages. Juvenile hardback. A Branestawm bonanza, with almost 40 articles, instructions, stories, and plans, each with the original illustrations, including the first ones by W. Heath Robinson. Nicely..... more
London: Bodley Head, 1980, 1st thus compiled; purple boards in orange jacket with the professor among his many colourful inventions; 6.5x8.5; 255 pages. Juvenile hardback. A Branestawm bonanza, with almost 40 articles, instructions, stories, and plans, each with the original illustrations, including the first ones by W. Heath Robinson. Nicely..... more