APPLEY DAPPLY'S NURSERY RHYMES
London and New York: Frederick Warne 0. Hardcover. Undated, likely 1950s, light green covers with titles in dark green. Internals near fine. No names, inscriptions or bookplates. More
London and New York: Frederick Warne 0. Hardcover. Undated, likely 1950s, light green covers with titles in dark green. Internals near fine. No names, inscriptions or bookplates. More
London and New York: Frederick Warne 0. Hardcover. Eight titles all uiniform in edition and condition. Undated, likely 1950s. Dusty green covers, with pastedown pictoirials of various shapes. with light green titles. Covers lightly soiled, internals near fine. No names, inscriptions or bookplates. More
London and New York: Frederick Warne 0. Hardcover. Five titles all uniform in edition and condition. Undated, in uncommon, red rough-weave cloth with pastedown pictorials of various shapes, with black titles to front cover, but gilt titles to spine, and rounded corners, both covers and leaves. Covers a wee rubbed..... More
London and New York: Frederick Warne 0. Hardcover. Undated, likely 1950s, tan covers with titles and pictorial curcular surround in dark brown. Internals near fine. No names, inscriptions or bookplates. More
NY: The Century Co, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Uncommon title by Edith Ballinger Price (, 1897 - 1997), American writer and illustrator of eighteen children's books, who studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and later at the New York Art Students League and the..... More
NY: Dutton, 1928. New Edition and First Thus. Hardcover. First edition of the new edition 1828 after the original of 1898. Orange cloth, decorated in gold in uncommon dustjacket. Covers are as bright as are the insides of the book itself. Dustjacket is a bit soiled, spine darkened with a...... More
New York: Three Sirens Press, 1931. Carbe, Nino. First Edition. Cloth. art deco illustrated version of the classic, bound in green cloth with faded gilt lettering spine, clean with no previous owner markings. More
NY: Viking, 1953. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition lacking dustjacket. First signature pulling a tad. Overall, nice, used copy. Scarce in first edition. More
Esslingen: J. F. Schreiber, 1880. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 30 double-sheet chromolithographs, richly colored. 16 pp of text in rear, the signature of which is a tad loose. Pictorial printed cover, soiled, brown cloth spine. Internals better than usually seen. More
Philadelphia: Rosenbach Foundation, 1970. 1st Edition. Soft cover. The true first edition - not the new 2024 edition in a larger format published posthumously by Harper Collins - printed in 1970 as a 32 page pamphlet, measuring 3.5 x 2.5 inches. for a Sendak exhibition at the Philip H. and..... More
NY: Random House, 1973. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition. Title of this book the last listed on rear cover on top list of books. The list of books on the bottom under Beginner Books lists "Oh Say Can You Say?" as last book. Gift inscription and juvenile owner name bottom..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1927. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An apparently unread copy in used but presentable dustjacket, inscribed by author on the ffe: "To xxxxx from her friend Elsie Signmaster Lewars a souvenir of the visit to Gettyuburg March 22, 1931" Singmaster (1879 - 1958) was a native of Pennsylvania where..... More
NY: Dodd, Mead, 1943. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A solid first edition copy, modestly worn on bottom edge in pictorial unclipped dustjacket matching book covers that is worn around all edges with some shallow edge loss here and there. Clean internals, no names, inscriptions or bookplates and desirable thus. More
NY: D. Appleton, 1908. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Uncommon children's title, from illustrator associated with the Brandywine group Pictorial cover a wee rubbed, sunned and edges/ corners showing moderate wear. One plate showing some edge loss from apparently once been loosened, now professionally re-inserted. A thoroughly presentable copy. More
Boston: Little Brown, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stamped cloth with pictorial pastedown a tad soiled in uncommon dustjacket which is moderately soiled and chipped. Still, quite presentable all overall. Part of Little Brown's Young Folk's Book series, typical of American juvenile series of the 1920s. More
(Second Meza, AZ): The Hopi Action Project (Follow Through), 1977. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Square 8vo, children's book format. Inscribed by author on ffe, 5/7/79, with his name in English and Hopi alphabet. Afew spots to front panel of dustjacket, else fine all around. Laid-in is a small p[iece of paper..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985. First Edition. Cloth. price clipped, else fine, dw clean and unmarked, illustrations bright. More
NY: E. P. Dutton, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Uncommon international fairy tale title in original Art-Deco styled dustjacket in blue/ white/ silver, worn at folds and with some loss at spine ends and corners. Still, presentable. More
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Thurber on the half-title: "Happy Birthday to xx from the Thurbers" and also plainly signed " James Thurber" on the pastedown. . Cloth over soien with some loss and tends and revealed at hinges, still firmly bound in supplied unclipped..... More
Moscow: Foreign languages Publishing House, 1957. First Edition. Cloth. printed in USSR, very scarce, toning endpapers, jacket slightly rubbed, with small piece missing top spine. More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1906. Ver Beck, Frank (illustrated by). 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, INSCRIBED BY BOTH VER BECK AND CO-AUTHOR RION on dedication page "To our dear Will Roberts" (in VerBeck's hand). With an ANS by Ver Beck with an original sketch of a bear on stationary of the..... More
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Uncommon title, scarce in dustjacket which is moderately worn and soiled and with some obvious chips about its edges. Still, a presentable copy. More
NY: Viking, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Uncommoin first edition, Wiese's fourth book. Oblong 8vo, near fien copy - no names or bookplates - in price-clipped dustjacket that has a few closed tears and slight loss spine ends. A very presentable copy. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1903. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, fourth printing. Publisher's imprint on spine is 1/8 inch tall. Reading on p. 327, line 13: " bricks, glowing in the October sun." and on p. 325: "Don't turn in at the side. Published October 1903 on copyright page. Pictorial cloth..... More
New York: MacMillan, 1962. Nardini, Sandro; Bagnoli, Enrico. First Edition. Laminated Boards. spine and board edges slightly faded, a scratch on the back board, approx 3" long, top and bottom of spine a bit bumped, a small adhesive mark on fep, else fine, no previous owner marking. More