London: Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton, no date [circa 1910] miniature book in slipcase with dull green boards, pink plate of little doll with a muff in a snowstorm on board and case, endpapers with delicate striped design of green vines and lavender flowers, green print, unsigned coloured frontis..... more
London and Northhampton, Raphael Tuck sons, Ltd, Series AC. ; "Six postcards from natural colour photographs" "by Appointment to Her Majesty the Queen", so from the 1950s or 60s. Toploader little stories story. Envelope with notes on the doll house. Six postcards: The Queen's Bedroom, The Drawing Room, the Library..... more
No publishing data on this copy. Probably a blank advertising sample: The Cotsen collection at Princeton has one of these with The Broadway Department Store text on the back. The book appears to be from around 1910. Three sheets of heavy card stapled making 10 interior pages. Cover with Mother..... more
Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Publishing Company, shiny wraps with the four dolls having just arrived and sitting on their luggage, blank inside the wraps, four coloured pages of dolls and clothes to copy onto the b/w outline pages; 8.5x12.5" Softcover. Toploader large softcover novelty activity book. An interesting idea in that..... more
New York: Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Company. (1914); #660; large painting of Dolly with her suitcase front and back, on heavy card covers with red cloth binding; 16 interior pages; 7.5 x 14.5 inches in center. Toploader oversized softcover. Google-eyed Dolly travels all over the world and sends letters back..... more
Dean's Rag Book #356 /Platt & Munk, cloth, 4x5.25" Toploader fabric Dean's rag. Very bright toy pictures in primary colours in a cute little book. more
Chicago: Albert Whitman & Co, 1939/1939, 1st tp; marine blue boards with large painting of wided eyed Manuela holding flowers, fuzzy donkey and cactus on back, endpapers with the pitchers and pots full of the flowers that Manuela's friends brought for her birthday, in jacket identical to boards; 8.3 x...... more
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1960's/1925, 36th printing, red cloth boards in white jacket, in box together with little wooden doll with gold yarn braids, blue grey and red dress with sky blue ribbons and lace, plain white pantalettes, black felt shoes; painted face, eyescrew jointed at hips and shoulders;..... more
New York: Simon and Schuster, The Little Golden Library, 1952, 1st "A" #157; yellow boards with the Doll Doctor and his patients, listings through #159 on back, golden spine, red all around.. np. Picture Book Hardback. "Mother, mother! I feel sick. Call for the doctor, quick, quick, quick!" A little..... more
Chelsea, Mass: Thomas Strahan & Co. [1930] pattern #6884; heavy paper with thick base colour, figure heights vary, but for, example, the footman with the letter is about 3.75" high. in attractive Kaldewey envelope. Toploader large, softcover. Over 40 charming figures and groups (not counting cards) which have been expertly..... more
Paris: Quantin, [1893]; book in wraps was bound in Antique Tennis Print in 1945 by W J Hollands, 6 hand coloured plates as issued, 7 b/w; 300 illustrations in text, showing toy design, cottage industries and factories; 8.75x10.75, as bound; [iv] 324 [iv] pp. French language hardback with wraps. A...... more
Dean's Rag Book #166 republished annually from 1914 to 1927, 216x150mm, 10 pages, 8 colours. Toploader fabric Dean's rag. A small book with attractive animals in bright colours: a wind up mouse, a Jemima Puddleduck, a carved Noah's Ark ox, a rocking horse, a googlyeyed kitten, several stuffed animals on..... more
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929/1929, 1st tp, light tan cloth boards with red-brown titles and decorations, endpapers with diagonal lines of red and blue soldiers, illustrations and maps in text, 8vo; 135 pp. Juvenile hardback. "For Boys of All Ages" This one book outlines a battle between two countries..... more
New York: Harcourt Brace World, 1967, 1st; Library Binding, (not xl) light green cloth boards with black line castle in lollipop on bottom; in jacket with the moon-struck prince offering the princess a lollipop made of moon ice and strewn with moon flowers and the castle drawing on the back..... more
New York: Viking, August, 1966/1959, 7th printing stated; pink/tan cloth boards with all over design of piñatas in brown outline, endpapers with spread of Ceci and her mother at the bus stop, setting out to buy her piñata, jacket with wrap around painting of Ceci and the posada procession; with..... more
London: Ernest Nister; New York: E P Dutton; #3227 (11 on top board, 11 on title page) 1911; red and white paper boards with large illustration of a mounted General Spooley commanding his new spool soldiers; plain endpapers, red cloth spine; 12 chromolitho plates, including frontis, and many b/w illustrations..... more
Bryn Mawr, PA: Bryn Mawr College, 1982;. Reference toys&dolls, hardback. One of Lovat Fraser's passions during his brief life was the design of inexpensive toys. Although prototypes and a tantalizing poster advertizing "new toys" exist, these brightly coloured wooden and paper mache toys have never been manufactured. Equally nice copies..... more
New York: George H Doran, 1927, 1st, colophon, paper boards with orange and turquoise pattern and three dolls with umbrellas (from Plate V), endpapers with little illustrations, 12 colour plates, oblong 11 x 7.5"; 32 pp. Picture Book hardback. A wonderful resource for the doll lover and collector of these..... more
Toledo, Ohio: The Franklin Printing and Engraving Company, 1903, 1st; red cloth boards with white titles and pasted on plate of Santa with two little dolls on his shoulder, white titles, black cloth spine without title, grey endpapers, frontis and 4 half tone illustrations and a photo of. Juvenile hardback..... more
Four Winds Press, 1987, 1st printing nl.; oblong 10.2x9"; c. 32 pp. Picture Book hardback. The teddy bears made it on board with no mishaps, but the Louise, the little green bear, is locked in the bathroom and the train is pulling in the station! more
New York: Miller Music Corporation, (1937); music by Chas Miller; pale green covers with large yellow panel with Raggedy Ann on Mandolin (or maybe balalaika!), Raggedy Andy on flute, and little elves on all sorts of instruments; they're playing outside, next to a stream; on the back is a page..... more
Atheneum, 1985, 1st printing Am; 9.8x9.5,np. Picture Book hardback. "Accidentally left behind at the train station, a group of toys tries to find their way home, braving a blizzard and a gang of robber cats." A quirky and amusing book. more
London: Country Life, (1908); olive cloth boards, 4to; 308 pp w index. Reference toys&dolls, hardback. A very beautiful book illustrated with many photo plates. more
Copyright Dorothy K Werblow, 1950/[1944], no place; spiral bound with picture of a Toy shop window on front; with eight card doll heads which fit on their bodies, as issued; in plain card oblong box with diecut window, (no cellophane traces) 10 x 8. Novelty Moveable. A book which has..... more
London, New York, Toronto: Longmans Green and Co. 1932, stated first; white boards with a coloured woodcut of the townspeople dancing around the cherry tree; yellow floral patterned endpapers, black and white woodcut illustrations and large hand lettering, oblong 10.5 x 8.7"; np. Picture Book hardback. "Once upon a time..... more