New York: Wiley & Putnam, 161 Broadway 1847 on title page/1846, second American printing of the 1845 British first English translation by Howitt, brown cloth binding with blindstamped ruled and decorated borders top and bottom, and a delicate gil. Small hardback. Mary Howitt, a children's author and a sometime friend.....
NY: Harper and Brothers, 1903/1876, 1st printing as to illustrator. Ivory vellum boards with gilt figure and title, script titles, coloured frontis and 39 half tone umber plates, as issued, top edge gilt, deckle edges, green page border decorations b. Juvenile hardback. A liberally illustrated collection of Carroll's poems: The.....
Timperley, UK: John Sherratt and Sons; late 1940's reprint./1890 thus adapted, (titles of jacket back); red cloth boards with printed orange and black design showing Don Quixote seated with his book of chivalry and his sword, in grey jacket with same. Juvenile hardback. A later copy of this famous book.....
Garden City, NY: Garden City Books, 1958, probably first or year of publication since Garden City 1959 books not mentioned on flap;. Picture Book hardback. Told in a way to captivate a small child, with a few sentences on each spread and large dramatic pictures featuring Rosinante and Dapple.
New York: Methuen, Inc., 1980 simultaneous publication, 1st thus abridged from Cohen's 1950 translation; brown cloth with the hero in his nightshirt brandishing a sword stamped in gilt; in light brown jacket with Don Quixote and Rocinante about to ch. Juvenile hardback. Lively and amusing illustrations on every spread by.....
Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company, (1881, 1897 Oliver Optic text, Lee & Shepard), probable first in this format, glossy paper-covered heavy card boards, titles and cover illustration outlined in gilt, red cloth spine, large b/w illustration on b. Juvenile hardback. Adams, the popular American mid-century adventure writer, created an "amiable youth.......
New York and London: Frederick Warne & Co. 12 East 33d Street, (1906) early US edition: certainly 1911 to 1920, probably mid to late teens; brown paper boards with silver titles and circular plate of Jeremy fishing, pasted down endpapers with Mrs. Small hardback. A very pleasant early American edition.....
New York: W. W. Norton, Inc, 1964, 1st, nl; pale yellow boards, jacket with paintings of the princes, 6.5x9.75"; 228 pp. Juvenile hardback. A very diverse group of princes! James Thurber, Oscar Wilde, E. Nesbit, Charles Dickens, Eleanor Farjeon, and other well know authors.