London: Kaye & Ward, 1971, 1st UK thus illustrated, illus co. 1968, translation from the Danish taken from M. R. James Hans Christian Andersen: Forty-two Stories; printed in Denmark; illustrated on rather matte (unlike Viking) paper boards with a watercolour of children picking flowers next to the little fir tree.....
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.....
{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.....
New York: Leavitt and Allen, no date, circa 1860's; brown pressed cloth, hand coloured illustrations, 3x4.5"; 32 pp. Small hardback. Stories for older children about daily life, and more, The Skating Party, The Arrest, The Soldiers, The Depot, Snowballing, Blind Man's Buff, The Magnetic Swan, and others. Appears to have.....
New York: Anson D. F. Randolph and Company, 770 Broadway, corner of Ninth Street, 1872 on title page, first or early US printing; printers, Clay, Sons and Taylor, London, green cloth boards with children pulling giant crackers in gilt, black rules; brown endpapers, title page vignette, and 4 black and.....
New York: Viking, 1934, 1st, blue cloth backed paper boards with portrait of Hansi and on back his little cabin and his dachshund sleeping, endpapers show the Uncle's and Aunt's cosy mountain house in detail, like an opened doll house, 9x12.25; np. Picture Book hardback. Hansi lives with his mother.....
London: J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd., 1979/1977, 2nd printing of the British publication; glossy pictorial boards with the family and the three kings, dark grey endpapers with white sheep pattern, oblong 12x8.5"; np. Picture Book hardback. Hoffmann's striking line and glowing colour in a modern interpretation of the Nativity.....
London: Sampson, Low, Marston & Co. Ltd. and Dennis Dobson, Ltd; Book 11, late 50's reprint, list on flap through #16.; yellow shiny boards with All Aboard for Toyland train, and Noddy talking to Father Christmas, pictorial endpapers, in jacket identical to boards; 8vo; 60 pp. Juvenile hardback. "Noddy and.....
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2002, stated 1st, nl; shiny boards with needlepoint of a white bear and dancing trolls, icicle border; endpapers with a black sky with blue fanciful constellations, in jacket with black starry sky, icicles, a giant white bear at the door on the front and.....
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press 1888/co 1887, 1st tp; grey cloth with brown titles and graceful stamped picture in brown and gilt of the wind blowing through pines and birds flying before it; steel cut floral tan on white endpapers, engravings, 7x9"; 54 pp. Juvenile hardback.....
London Methuen 1974/1974, 1st printing, printed in Great Britain by Display Craft Ltd, copyright 1974 Mercis, Netherlands; distributed in New York by Two Continents Publishing Group; 21.5 x 29.5 cm; np. Toploader large softcover, novelty activity book. The play materials seem to be enclosed in a folder: on the front.....
New York: Delacorte Press, 1994, 1st printing, nl; red paper boards, blue cloth spine, gold endpapers, red jacket with family relaxing around the Christmas tree while the twins dance, 8vo; 147 pp. Juvenile hardback. A happy, funny, modern family celebrates Christmas. And Robbie begins to think about how other people.....
Boston: The Horn Book Inc. 1960/1944/1942, 4th ed.; rust paper wraps with brown drawings, with some of Caldecott's illustrations for Irving's Old Christmas, rust section titles, 6x9"; 24 pp. Reference book lists, softcover. A wonderful Book List introduced with an insightful essay by Anne Thaxter Eaton, librarian of the Lincoln.....
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.....
New York: Viking, Nov. 1960/1959, 3rd 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.....
New York: Aladdin Books, (1950) red cloth spine, all around illustrated boards with fox nailing title poster on a tree and animals looking on; illustrated endpapers, 6.75x8.7; np. Picture Book hardback. A simple story in which Santa comes to the forest with happy illustrations.
New York: Platt & Munk Co; (1935, 1917 Altemus); 600-4; Blue Terek Washable Leather Cloth boards with black stamped candle border design and pasted down coloured plate of PR on rocking horse, coloured series endpaper illustrations, 30 coloured illustrations,, 4 3/8 x 5 3/4,"profusely illustrated in Colors" in white jacket.....
New York: Veritas Press, Inc., (1941) early reprint, later books mentioned on dw flap to 1945; pictorial boards with Mr. Pink and the children and dog sitting on a hill overlooking the Copley's house on the roof of the button factory; yellow endpapers with scattered buttons, in jacket identical to.....
Stockholm: Ahlen & Akerlunds Forlag, nd (1920's?); blue-green spine, paper boards, top board with light green border, yellow center with two children looking at candlelit tree, 26x33 cm; np. Swedish language hardback. A collection of Christmas stories and customs, with a charming Christmas illustration on the top board, decorations at.....
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.....
Racine, WI, Golden Books, Artists and Writers Guild Books, 1993 1st US (1993 Heinemann); shiny boards with Sam and his penguin cuddled by polar bears (Sam's day-dream of Aunt Agatha's house), endpapers of very large polar bears skating in a pale blue day; 8.25x10.25"; np. Picture book hardback. Once the.....
New York: Houghton Mifflin, Clarion Books, 1992, 1st; shiny boards with wrap around pictures of the villagers going to church on Christmas, endpapers with a beautiful landscape of the shore; 4to; 32 pp. Picture Book hardback. The author draws on her mother's memories and her own as a child to.....
New York: Delacorte Press, a Seymour Lawrence Book, 1970, stated 1st printing; green cloth boards with red gilt angels bearing titles, red endpapers, in red jacket with large white title and little drawing of a spilled Santa bag; oblong 11x9"; np. Picture Book hardback. Santa's trials on Christmas Eve, shown.....
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1, 3, and 5 Bond Street, 1888/[1887] 1st US, tp; brown cloth with fine drawing of white snowy landscape, gilt titles, and two vignettes, of the crippled charcoal burner Jean Paqualin, and of the dignified old tabby cat Cincinnatus staring at the fire, gilt.....
New York: Scholastic, Oct 1994, stated 1st; green boards with red spine, parchment endpapers; brown jacket with family and probably house slaves gathered around the big house Christmas Tree; 8.8x11.2"; 68pp including notes and bibliography. Picture Book hardback. Christmas holidays at a medium sized plantation in 1859/1860, with little understanding.....