Philadelphia: Appleton, 1845. First or Early Edition. Soft cover. Printed paper covers, 8 leavews including covers. Hand-painted illustrations. Intersting alphebet book that tells the story of the prominent (A is for) Alderman and a lavish party (E is for Entertainment) etc concluding with Z is for Zachary the carriageman who..... More
NY: James Miller, 1860. Hardcover. With a Christmas gift inscription in old-fashioned handscript:"Merrie Christmas from Santa Claus. New York 1863." The original publisher's cloth covers have has been carefully repaired. 96 pages of beloved rhymes, loads of engravings that are hand colored. More
NY: McLoughlin Bros, 1884. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Uncommon early McLoughlin picture book. Pictorial covers, backed in red cloth. 12 pages, all stiff printed boards, with all variety of natural and household objects for children to identify. Objects listed by name, by page, on inside rear cover. Edges heavily worn, some..... More
NY: McLoughlin Bros, 1886. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Uncommon early McLoughlin picture book. Brilliantly colored pictorial covers, backed in red cloth. Floral- patterned decorated endpapers. Descriptive text and wondeful chromolithographs of domestic animals, small aninals, wild animals, game animals, small birds and large birsd. Covers moderately soiled, edges worn, internals much..... More
Boston: DeWolfe, Fiske and Company, 1885. Early Reprint. Hardcover. A solid, uniform set of the DeWolfe, Fiske reprint (c1885-1890) of juvenile novels written by Abbott and originally published as follows: On the Atlantic 1853, In Paris 1854, , In Switzerland 1854, In London 1855, On the Rhine 1855, In Scotland..... More
NY: Henry Z. Walck, Inc., 1959. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo, oblong, printed in brown ink, some colored pages with yellow and green, unpaginated. Minor spotting to endpapers and covers, dustjacket moderately soiled with moderate wear at corners and spine ends. Uncommon title in the Adshead Brownie series. No names..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Original publication of Alcott's short story "Nelly's Hospital" in the April 1865 edition of Our Young Folks, about a young girl who starts a hospital for animals. Better than very good condition. More
Joliet: P F Volland, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Unusually well-preserved copy, in broken pictorial box (top and bottom intact, sides unattached or missing). Covers fine. Internals as new, really. No names, inscriptions or bookplates. More
NY: Abelard-schuman, 1963. Rosell, Ingrid. First English Edition. Hardcover. An apparently unread copy. More
Philadelphia: C. G. Henderson, 1853. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Presumed first or certainly early edition, 1853 on title page, 1852 on copyright, in publishers tight weave brown cloth with a gilt-pressed image of an impoverished young boy and girl and a monkey front with blind-ruled and stamped border. unobtrusively rebacked with..... More
Philadelphia: James Kay, Jun. & Brother, 1840. Johnson. Brown Cloth. Extremely scarce, only 8 copies listed in OCLC. Jointly published by C. H. Kay & Co. in Pittsburgh. Faded spine ends and cover corners worn, small tear at left spine edge with signatures barely visible, minor scuffing to covers, gilt..... More
NY: Atlantic Book & Art Corporation 0. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Presumed first or early edition. Large oblong, pictorial cardboard cut outs, with 8 pages of zoo animals, some pages torn, many of the animals cut out but laid back in. An obviously used copy. Number 1 in the Orbis..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Solid copy in soiled dustjacket with browned spine missing an inch at top of spine. Laid-in is ANS by Mary R Walsh, of Houghton Mifflin, apparently an editor there, to author and bibliofile Anne Haight, who founded the Junior Book League, promoting the..... More
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. Rackham, Arthur (illustrator). Early Printing Thus. Hardcover. Early printing of the Peter Pan story in Scribner's "Little People" edition with Rackham's famous illustrations - 5 colored plates, 15 line drawing in text. Green cloth covers, titles stamped in darker green. Pictoial dustjacket, prce-clipped, soiled and..... More
NY: Knopf, 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine copy in fine dustjacket. Signed by the little tyke himself, Hosie. More
New York: MacMillan, 1962. First Trade Edition. Laminated Boards. spine a bit faded, top of spine bumped, slight adhesive mark on fep, else fine, illustrations bright, no previous owner marking. issued without dustjacket. More
London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1911. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Beautifully preserved copy, blue cloth with pictorial pastedown, titles stamped in black. Trace wear spine tip, internals as nice as we might see. With printed brown dustjacket, with chunks missing along spine, re-pieced together. Whimsical, charming illustrations by Broughton, in a...... More
Stavanger, Norway: Dreyers Grafiske Anstalt), 1929. 1st English-lanquage Edition. Hardcover. First English-language edition, undated. Oblong, pictorial cover and leaves gently toned about edges, with "Please Date for Review Nov 7 1929" lightly stamped front cover, this a review copy which evidences year of publication as 1929. More
NY: Doubleday Doran, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Uncommon title from the author of The Velventeen Rabbit in uncommon pictorial dustjacket by artist Ludovic Rodo who illustrtaed the book. Yellow and sivewr patterned covers, balck cloth spine - near fine, no names inscriptions or bookplates. In dustjacket moderately soiled, mostly at..... More
NY: Worthington Co, 1890. Waugh, Ida. First Edition. Hardcover. Gold cloth backstrip over glazed pictorial covers. unpaginated (20 pages), lovely Waugh illustrations. Edges of covers worn, covers lightly soiled, else near fine - internally unblemished, tightly bound, no previous owner names, bookplates or inscriptions. The superior copy. More
NY: Junior Literary Guild, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Story of boy facing the harshness of nature and becoming a man, by German children's author (and noted pro-Nazi, ant-Semite) Waldemar. Translated for American publication by Whittaker Chambers who at the time, ironically was a Commie and Soviet spy before he spilled..... More
Chicago: Albert Whitman, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in uncommon pictorial dustjacket (by David Thomas Vernon) that is worn, chipped about edges but still presentable. More
NY: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1955. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An apparently unused copy, internals as new. Yellow cloth a bit spotted. Unclipped dustjacket modest wear along folds and spine tips. A collectibel copy. A seafaring childrens/ juvenile title. More
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, 1878. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Likely firts edition in book form: copyright page dated 1878, title page states "reprinted from 'Peterson's Magazine''. Rebound late 19thc half red leather over gray cloth, moderately worn, soiled. Firm binding. More
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1880. 1st or early editions. Soft cover. A complete set of Randolph Caldecott's Picture Books, each in original covers, early editions each listing on back cover all 16 titles and the below Miniature Editions, R. Caldecott's Picture Books Nos 1 and 2, Randolph Caldecott's Painting..... More