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Raphael Tuck and Sons Ltd, Father Tuck's "The Field and Farm" Series; 1895-1901, #5518; shiny illustrated WRAPS with little girl watering her flowers, on the back a girl is adorning her donkey with a wreath of flowers, inside, four coloured illustrations and sepia picture in text; oblong 8.5 x 6";..... more
Raphael Tuck and Sons Ltd, Father Tuck's "The Field and Farm" Series; 1895-1901 #5522,; shiny illustrated WRAPS with boy in a blue suit and his dog looking in a toy store window, on the back a mother rocking her baby; oblong 8.5 x 6"; np. Toploader medium softcover story. Some..... more
London: Methuen & Co 1967/1967, 1st printing UK; red boards, yellow teddy, yellow endpapers; 21x 215 cm; np. Picture Book hardback. A large letter on one side and a large clear picture on the other just right for a small person learning the alphabet. more
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1935, 1st nap; cream paper boards with a stage and workmen hanging Japanese lanterns with the title letters with Xanadu in the background; each spread has two column text facing coloured illustration, in jacket wtih a different picture, the author sailing off from a tropical..... more
Boston: J Buffum, 23 Cornhill, 1856 on title, reprint of 1843 US/1840 UK book/1830's Red stamped floral gilt top board, blindstamped bottom, gilt all around design on spine of girl with watering can; frontis with seated Aesop holding tablet and talking to two children, small clear woodcuts illustrate each story; 3.75x4.25";..... more
New York: Platt & Munk Co; (1935, 1917 Altemus); 600-7; Blue Terek Washable Leather Cloth boards with black stamped candle border design and pasted down coloured plate of PR and guests at his party, coloured series endpaper illustrations, 28 coloured illustrations,, 4 3/8 x 5 3/4, Small hardback. While Mother..... more
New York: The Children's Book Council, 67 Irving Place, 1975; Translated by Erik Christian Haugaard; large poster two sided about 23 x 66 in brown mailing envelope from CBC, with page laid in showing how to transform the poster into a large booklet. Toploader large, softcover. A fairy tale poster..... more
Ohio: American Colortype Co no date, c 1920?; blue and white checked box top plate with three boys and "The Army and Navy Forever!"; 8 little pamphlets each with coloured picture covers and three coloured illustrations, whose resolution varies from blurry to crisp Three doubled sheets making 10 interior pages;..... more
Tours: Maison Mame, 1935 (44 388, Série M)) presumed first but University of tours has 1934, shiny paper covered boards, the top with a huge blocky painting of two cows on a hillside, the rear with a donkey head within a yellow circle on cream, red cloth spine, binding with..... more
Tokyo 1925, Oblong brown card with title printed on it, brown silk string tied Reproductions of photos and building layouts, each covered with a captioned transluscent sheets. Japanese language. A booklet produced in the autumn of 1925 (Taisho 14) by the Aoyama Jogakuin, Women's Academy, to commemorate what is now..... more
P F Volland Company, (1923); all around pictorial cloth cover of Billy and his animals with the barns in the background; center stapled, 7 full page coloured illustrations, portrait of animal in colour on facing text page, wide margins, 7x8.25"; 14 interior pages. Toploader fabric. A little boy in short..... more
Newark and New York: Charles E Graham, 1920s ;Child's First Alphabet on top board, no general title page: Bird and Animal ABC and Nursery Rhyme Book ABC are bound together tan and gray laid paper design boards with pasted on plate of a mouse being chased by a huge buttterfly,(from..... more
Keene, New Hampshire: J A Wright & Company, An All Wright Story for Little Folks, (1944); WRAPS with 4 sheets making 14 interior pages; 4.5x6.5 Softcover. Toploader little softcover advertizing. This story really happened! In 1873 John A Wright stopped to rescue a cow; later he noticed that the mud..... more
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
Boston: William Miller, 23 Arch St(1870s?); colorful wraps with boy and girl under an umbrella; b/w illustrations; 4.25x5.5"; 8 interior pages. Toploader little softcover advertizing. An advertizing pamphlet with a small collection of interesting poems and stories illustrated with drawings. Large picture of a little girl feeding a rabbit with..... more
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
London, Edinburgh and New York: T Nelson and Sons, 1866, assumed all are 1866 1sts or 1867 reprints, dark blue or red pressed boards, identical pattern, gilt panel on spines all oriented with foot at top of text block, ivory endpapers, each captioned frontis from a story; (six little books..... more
New York: McLoughlin Bro's, 30 Beekman Street; Aunt Mary's Little Series, nd (1863 to 1870); red on ivory front cover (not black) showing children gathered around mother and the book, little coloured drawings within; 8 pages within on heavier white paper, 3 3/8. Toploader little softcover chapbook. A nice little..... more
London: Dean's Rag Book Co, Ltd #214 In print 1920 to 1928 (Cope); on the front a large brown and white dog inhis green doghouse; on the back a fat cat with a blue bow and pink toes, 7 colors, eight interior pages, 6x8.5" Toploader fabric. On each page a...... more
{White Plains, New York], White Plains Greeting Card Corp Copyright 1952; metal spiral binding covered by wraps with large Santa; in box with same picture, 22 pages. Novelty Boxed book softcover. Unique in that every toy is completely present and in perfect condition; even the life saver retains its cellophane..... more
New York: Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Company, Chimney Corner Series, (1916); originally published in The Evening Sun, NY; white boards of thin card and red paper spine with Towser and his Scottie friend playing on front board and Towser with blue bow on the back, four plates on one-sided white..... more
London: Dean's Rag Book, New York: The International Art Publishing Company, Dean's 1/- Patent Rag Books, Series 2, (1907 to 1910); red cloth, sewn down spine, no pinking or zigzag stitching, deep red throughout with a little girl with blue pull horse toy on the front and the little girl..... more
Boston: L Prang & Company, [1864-65 Huntington Library]; ivory glazed card cover on the front a delicate green lithograph of hand lettered title and mother bird returning to her nest, on the back "Prang's Album Pictures, for sale in all bookstores, books for children, valentines, etc" surrounds logo; cover encloses..... more
New York: McLoughlin: all 1870's, Home ABC, Cock Robin; A Shugg & Co Bad Boy Bob; handsewn 19th c cloth spine repair; chromolitho illustrations, various sizes. Toploader large softcover. A little child's library, all in terrible condition, but clearly Bad Boy Bob was Willie's favorite! And no wonder! Note the..... more
New York: McLoughlin 1883, first edition and first or early hardcover printing (the 3 sections were published in softcover simultaneously); red, blue and yellow boards with six vignettes, "Men, Monkeys, and Dogs" on bottom board, red edges all around, heavy paper, red blue and gilt outlined letters on title page..... more