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
Springfield, Mass: McLoughlin Bros. Inc, no MB, thus 1920-1929, yellow glazed paper mounted on linen with gorgeous red and green parrots and red titles, colourful pheasant-like birds on the back, four large chromolithos, a rooster, a cow, a donkey, and a dogs (Newfoundland), on the reverse. Toploader large softcover. A...... more
New York: T. Nelson and Sons, no date, British Library places the UK publication at 1910; red cloth boards with large paste on plate of the birds, with 10 full page bold paintings and one spread of the wedding by Scott Rankin, and another daintier wedding picture by Petherick, each..... more
New York: T. Nelson and Sons, no date, British Library places the UK publication at 1910; red cloth boards with large paste on plate of the birds, with 10 full page bold paintings and one spread of the wedding by Scott Rankin, and another daintier wedding picture by Petherick, each..... 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
Little Brown, Sierra Club, 1990, 1st printing. 9.2x9.3; c 28 pp. Picture Book hardback. "Where Birds Nest in the City." Interesting pictures of different kinds of birds nesting in high corners of the city. more
Watts, 1959/1958, 1st printing Eng; 65 pp. Juvenile hardback. Mediterranean pictures filled with light illustrate this short chapter book. On the hill above the village are trees where birds settle for the night. But the grove is really a bird trap used by villagers. Angelina asks St. Francis for help..... more
Munich München: Josef Müller (Mueller), (1934), mulberry paper boards with little bird with his traveling gear, white titles, no free eps as issued, full coloured illustrations facing every page; German language, old style cursive type; 4.75 x 5.75"; np. German language small hardback. Some of the birds are getting ready..... more
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1974 1st UK; sunny yellow pictorial boards with a giant orange sun rising above a field guarded by an officious scarecrow, armed with sword and pistol; yellow endpapers, 10x11.2"; np. Picture Book hardback. The parent birds and their five children flee to the woods when their field..... more
New York: The Century Company 1915/1906, blue cloth boards, black titles, coloured plate of the queen with blind stamped border, according to library holdings: 20 plates, here counted and present, 5 x 6.4"; 133 pp. Small hardback. How Queen Silver-Bell lost her Temper imp from her silver cage and became..... more
Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Co., Inc; 1966, 1st; illustrated paper boards with wrap around illustration of Pierino ringing the huge bell and pigeons flying, the little town with steep steps in the background; green endpapers, in jacket identical to boards, 10.5x7.5; 48 pp. Picture Book Hardback. An imagined..... more
Viking, 1960, 1st printing; 140 pp. Juvenile hardback. "Red" Barrington II tried to make friends with Juanito while his father was acting as an American consultant on a coffee plantation in Costa Rica, but it was the birds that finally brought them together. more
Champaign, Illinois: The Gerrard Press (1959), second series of 5 books listed on rear flap as well as first series of 5 in small print; dull cream and turquoise heavy cloth boards with a crow; a full illustration in turquoise and browns introduces each story, bird pictures in text; in..... more
Boston: Little Brown, (1990) 2nd printing, nl; green paper boards with blindstamped flying loons, green endpapers; in jacket with all around painting of Northern lake with the loons on the front; oblong 10.5x9.25. Picture Book hardback. Beautifully written by an author from Minnesota and full of interesting facts about loons..... more
Harcourt Brace World, 1966, 1st printing; 8vo, 48 pp. Juvenile hardback ex-lib. Stephen tames an injured sea gull but releases it. more
Harcourt Brace World, 1966, 1st printing; 48 pp. Juvenile hardback ex-lib. A book for younger readers about a boy who must inevitably let his gull fly free. more
World, 1961; 6.5x9.4, 112 pp; pictorial library binding. Juvenile hardback ex-lib. Chuck can't ever seem to do anything correctly. Who gets his fingers caught in a tambourine? But on a camping trip with his uncle, he accidentally snares a wild goose on his trout line. Two of a kind. more
HarperCollins, 1991/1971, new edition; 159 pp. Juvenile hardback ex-lib. An Ecological Mystery. The mayor of Saddleboro, who was elected on an ecology platform, seeks Tony Isidoro's help when his special robins die right before the Cock Robin Day Picnic. Tony tracks down the culprits. Knowledgeable and exciting. more
HarperCollins, 1991 new edition 1st printing, c.1971; 159 pp. Juvenile hardback. An ecological mystery. The mayor of Saddleboro, who was elected on an ecology platform, seeks Tony Isidoro's help when his special robins die right before the Cock Robin Day Picnic. Tony tracks down the culprits. Knowledgeable and exciting. more
London: Neugebauer Press, Picture Book Studio, a "Little Book" #11; (1990) reprint of larger version, title list through #15; shiny covers with ravens at feeding time, plain grey endpapers; 6x5.75"; np. Small hardback. An attractive smaller version of this book, illustrations less oblong but well done. more
New York: The Macmillan Company, The Little Library 1952/1925, 12th printing, black and white illustrations every few pages, including a nice map of the Penguin's island; 4.5 x 6.5"; 68 pp. Small hardback. "When Percy Johnstone falls off his ship close to the South Orkney Islands, the Penguin King does..... more
New York: C. S. Francis & Company, 252 Broadway, Boston: J. H. Francis, 128 Washington Street, 1850 on title page, prelims have a list of Francis & Co's Little Library for young person's of various ages; dark green blindstamped boards with elaborately decorated gilt spine; tissue guarded frontis with children..... more
Amsterdam: Tresling & Co 1904, 1st; blue clothbacked grey cloth boards with blue lithographed stork above blue titles, 19x19cm, 36 distinctive coloured lithographed bird plates on 18 sheets with text and decorative border drawings below; 19 cm sq; 7 5/8" sq. Dutch/Friesian language hardback. The wonders of birds as they..... more
Macmillan, 1970, 1st printing US; 11x9 oblong, np. Picture Book hardback. The ruler of the ravens routs egg poachers, who have grown fond of raven eggs. more
Macmillan, 1970, stated 1st printing US; 11x9 oblong, np. Picture Book hardback. The ruler of the ravens routs egg poachers, who have grown fond of raven eggs. more