Also known as Juveniles, these titles are usualy illustrated and intended to be read by children as well as discriminating adults.
(Category photo is our item no. 18981.)
Mexico: Editorial Extemporáneos, 1971. Ilustraciones de Ludmila Jirincová. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 63(2)pp. First translation into Spanish by Teresa de la Serna, form the English version of Jean Layton. Text and illustrations date from a Czech production of 1968. White cloth blocked in gilt on the spine and upper board..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1942. Illustrated by the author. Hardcover. Third printing, after printings in 1934 and 1937. Folio. Blue cloth spine, paper over boards illustrated in full color, illustrated color endpapers. Illustrated throughout in color an black and white. Lightly worn and soiled at the edges but... More
New York: Orchard Books, 2004. Illustrated by Gennady Spirin. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Thin folio. Unpaginated. Illustrated in color throughout. Pictorial paper over boards; dark maroon endpapers. A fine copy in a fine, unclipped dustwrapper. Signed by the illustrator on the reverse of the front free endpaper. More
New York: George H. Doran Company, (1925). Arthur Rackham. First US edition. Hardcover. 8vo. First American trade edition. Blue cloth, gilt. Seven color plates by Arthur Rackham. Pictorial endpapers. Slight wear to cloth and gilt, erasure on front free endpaper, else a very good copy. Latimore & Haskell, p. 59. TAKE32. More
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1818. Hardcover. 12mo. 108pp. Publishers original drab brown cloth; upper board blocked in gilt with title within a floral design. Ink name on front pastedown. Cloth soiled, binding lightly shaken, gilt rubbed else a very good copy. The date of publication is taken from the Advertisement... More
Hartford: S. G. Goodrich, 1826. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. 12mo. (i)-xii; (9)-212pp. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts as well as a folding, hand-colored map of ancient Greece. Original binding of red leather spine with gilt rules; paper over boards. The leather is crazed, board edges and one corner worn, else..... More
Madrifd: Susaeta, n.d. Stiff card. Accordion style board book, 8 by 13 inches closed, but over 48 by 13 inches opened. Full color on both sides. The King (unnamed, but we know who he is) has a banquet, but the caged troll escapes. Help the boy-knight find him, going through... More
London: Printed for T. and T. Booney, 1830. Hardcover. 12mo: approximately 4¾ v 5½ inches. Publisher's rose-colored paper over boards, the upper bard with an engraved pasteon showing title and useful tools. xiii,(2),102pp followed by 2pp of publisher's ads and then 22 engraved plates, some of which are folding. Handcolored... More
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987. Illustrated by the author. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Thin folio. Illustrated throughout in color. Purple cloth spine, gilt titles. Purple paper over boards. Illustrated endpapers. A fine copy with only minimal sunning to the boards, in a fine, unclipped dustwrapper. Inscribed on the... More
Stuttgart: Ferdinand Carl, n.d. (1903). Illustrated by Elsa Beskow. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. Cloth spine, pictorial upper board, paper over rear board, illustrated endpapers. Printed in full color on every page, rectos only. A fine, bright copy with only a trace of edgewear. IN the scarce dustwrapper, which is... More
London: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., n.d. Illustrated by the author. Hardcover. Thin 4to. Illustrated throughout in black and white, and with sixteen full page full color plates. Bright orange textured cloth printed in black on the spine and on the upper board, and with a full color paste-on to..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 239,(3)pp. Turquoise cloth printed in deep turquoise and red. Illustrated endpapers. A fine copy . The dustwrapper is price-clipped; it has a trace of roughness on the upper edge and two tiny closed marginal... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1936. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 4to. (8), 249,(1)pp. Pictorial cloth and end papers. Black and white text illustrations as well as full page two-color plates. Light wear and soil to the cloth, Ownership name on a preliminary blank page, else... More
London: Dean and Son, n.d. [ca. 1855]. Early Edition. Broadside. 8 leaves, printed on one side only. 7 large woodcut illustrations, and a small initial vignette, all hand-colored. Paper wrappers, included in the collation. Back wrapper lists Dean and Son's Sixpenny Toy Books; large closed tear in bottom margin with... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., (1928). Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. First edition. Hardcover. Thin 8vo. 80pp. Tan cloth blocked in black and orange in a design by the illustrator. Title page and three full page illustrations in rose and greenish-blue and 25 black and white drawing by Rackham... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1961). Marcia Brown. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Folio. Unpaginated (32pp.) Green cloth. Spine titles in dark green and red. Red title on upper board along with a vignette of plants and small animals. Illustrated endpapers. Printed throughout in color with illustrations cut in wood... More
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1946. Garth WIlliams. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. 16mo., approximately 2.5 by 4 inches, not including the fur; the box is about 3½ by 5 inches. A charming small book in pictorial boards with color illustrations throughout by Garth Williams. The book has its original real... More
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1968. Garth WIlliams. Hardcover. 16mo. Slightly smaller than the first edition at 2¼ by 3¼ (without the fur) in a box about 3¼ by 4½ inches. A charming small book in pictorial boards with color illustrations throughout by Garth Williams. The book has its original real... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2008. Illustrated by the author. Hardcover. Thin folio. Unpaginated, Printed in color throughout. Glossy pictorial boards. Glossy endpapers. A fine copy in a fine, unclipped dustwrapper. Signed by de Brunhoff on the title page. More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2011. Illustrated by the author. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Thin folio. Unpaginated, Printed in color throughout. Glossy pictorial boards. Glossy endpapers. A fine copy in a fine, unclipped dustwrapper. Signed by de Brunhoff on the title page. More
Racine, WI: Whitman, (1929). Illustrated by Nina R. Jordan. First edition. Hardcover. Square 12mo. 24pp. Illustrated in full color. Illustrated paper over boards. Inner hinge repaired, ink spot on title page from gift inscription dated 1933, light edge wear, else this is a very good copy. In the scarce dustwrapper... More
London: Raphael Tuck and Sons, Ltd., n.d., ca. 1900. First edition. Stiff card wraps. Square 12mo. A near-miniature, 3 by 3½ inches. Unpaginated (12 pp.) Printed in chromolithography. Stiff colorful card wraps bound with string. Lightly worn, but still a near fine copy. More
London: T. Dean & Son, n.d. (ca. 1850)Large 8vo. The Alphabet of Flowers is followed by. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Original brown cloth boards, gilt. Printed endpapers advertising other Dean publications. The text contains three parts: Alphabet of Flowers (26pp), Verse and Picture Alphabet (32pp) and Stories Abut the..... More
Santa Monica: Intervisual Books, Inc., 2000. Illustrated by the author. Hardcover. First printing of the revised edition. 4to. 12pp, each in full color and with movable elements. Paper engineering by James Roger Diaz, Tor Lokvig, and John Strejan. First published in 1981 by Philomel. This is a fine copy with... More
Saxonville, MA: Picture Book Studio, Ltd., 1988. Illustrated by the author. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Thin folio. Unpaginated. Brightly illustrated in color. Illustrated glossy pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is fine as well, and clipped. Signed by Eric Carle on the page facing the title page. More
