Philadelphia: Sunshine Publishing Company, (1890's); grey card covers with litho of four little dogs in circus attire, no title on covers, title is taken from first page, publisher in gutter at back, 4 charming chromolithographs of the little dogs inside, tiny unrelated drawings in text, oblong 4.25x3.25. Toploader little softcover..... more
Kansas City, Missouri: Tell-Well press (1953); rich brown paper boards with a little trailer house with a pink roof being towed along by Jim and his family through a mountain valley full of apples and flowers; yellow endpapers with a map of the United States with the little house's route..... more
Henry Holt, 1993/1992, 1st Am; translated from the Norwegian by Geoffrey Fox. Full colour shiny pictorial boards, 7.8x10.6; c 26 pp. Picture Book hardback. A timely political fable for older children which begins: "The Little General was the ruler of a very big village, even though he was very small."..... more
Disentis/Mustér, Switzerland: Desertina Verlag, (1979, no ISBN, CH-7180), Foreword by Iso Carmartin; shiny black cloth backed pictorial boards, with wrap around illustration of twelve ant and cricket couples walking through a bright green field, following the bride and groom, deep blue sky with purple bells, (in Neocolor Crayon d'Arches); oblong..... more
New York: Harper and Row, 1989, stated 1st, nl; shiny illustrated pictorial covers with all around painting of Amy standing on the sidewalk with her umbrella, in jacket identical to boards; oblong 7.25x6. Small hardback. Simple and poetic story of an irresistible toddler and her mother going to pick up..... 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
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1976, 1st printing; black cloth binding, in cream jacket with orange titles and black Arctic etching, 7.75x9.2; 42 pp including index. Juvenile hardback. Tactile etchings illustrate the life of this gentle, patient animal. Efforts to reintroduce the musk ox to Eurasia and to build up..... more
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1943, 1st, nap; grey cloth boards with large stamped drawing in dark red of Martha and her mother riding in the buggy, endpapers with a landscape picture of the family driving to their new land; many illustrations, full page and in text, some in dark..... more