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.)
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1892. Illustrated by Maud Humphrey. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 12 full page chromolithographed plates (including the title page) plus in-text color illustrations, all printed on one side only on heavy paper. The binding is a red cloth spine, printed paper boards (both upper and lower)... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1891. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 24 chromolithographed sheets (including the title page) printed on one side only in full color on heavy paper. The binding is a green cloth spine, printed paper boards showing Little Miss Muffet on both the upper and lower boards. The... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1891. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 24 chromolithographed sheets (including the title page) printed on one side only in full color on heavy paper. The binding is a green cloth spine and rear board, printed paper upper board showing Little Miss Muffet. The upper board is... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, (1900). Maud Humphrey; Mabel Humphrey. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 6 full page color plates (including the title page) by Maud Humphrey, plus in-text illustrations and text by Mabel Humphrey, all printed on one side only on heavy paper. The binding is a red cloth spine... More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1968). Pictures by Barbara Byfield. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Square thin 4to. Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout in color. Pictorial cloth, light brown endpapers. A fine copy with only a trace of wear at the edge; the dustwrapper is unclipped and fine as well. With the special "Library Edition"... More
Felicity, CA: Bluebird Press, (1985). Illustrations by TKS. Wraps. Thin square 8vo. Unpaginated. Printed in color throughout. (36pp.) Bound in full color wraps. A near fine copy with only a trace of rubbing at the hinges. Inscribed by the author on the first page: "To Deb an Agnes Drake with... More
St. Paul: The Price-McGill Company, (1893). First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. vi,(7)-334pp. Dark green cloth, gilt titles on spine and upper board, as well as a vignette of an Indian shooting from behind a tree on the upper board. Illustrated with full page black and white drawings. War Whoop Series... More
Chicago: Follett Publishing Company, (1968). Illustrated by Leonard Weisgard. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 12mo. 30(2)pp. Pictorial cloth boards. Tiny spot on the foredge, else a fine copy. The dustwrapper is clipped else is fine as well. Inscribed on the half-title "For John" by the illustrator, who added a butterfly... More
Guben (Prussia): F. Fechner, n.d., ca. 1860. First edition. Hardcover. Thin oblong 4to. Gray paper over boards with a decorative paste-on printed in black, red, yello , green and blue. 23pp. Several short children's stories, each with a large handcolored illustration. Rear board and spine appear later than the front... More
Moscow: Istatel'stvo "Malysh" 1986. First edition. Stiff card. Apparently the only edition. Thin 4to. 18 unnumbered pages. Illustrated card stock wraps. Two double page popup illustrations of the Kremlin and of Red Square at he beginning and at the end of the book. Illustrated throughout in full color. School children... More
n.p. n.p., n.d., 1920's. Stiff card. An original pen and ink sketch by Edward Winsor Kemble produced for "The Youth's Companion", an early 20th century juvenile journal. The sketch 6½ by 8½ inches and with printer's marks along the bottom. Titled in pencil: "De Ox and de Frog". On the..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1910. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 149pp plus 2pp publisher's catalogue. Green cloth, gilt spine title. Illustrated with 13 plates from photographs. Lacks ffep, light wear to edges else this is a very good copy. Forty-one tales collected by the author over nine years from the... More
NY: Harper & Row, (1952) but later. Maurice Sendak. Early Edition. Hardcover. An early printing of the first edition, with 'Grr-r-r' on p. 23. Black cloth spine, printed paper boards. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Slight old staining affecting the page edges else in very good condition. Dustwrapper is price-clippd with... More
Prague: BancroftArtia, 1965. First edition. Stiff card. Oblong 4to. Cloth spine, pictorial boards. The cover depicts Snow White and the Dwarfs, but a tab causes her to disappear and the dwarfs to be unhappy. Eight delightful, double-page, full color pop-ups, some with moveable tabs. This is scarce Spanish... More
London: Bancroft & Co., (1961). Hardcover. Cloth spine, pictorial boards. Spine somewhat faded and stained, some wear to the edges and corners, but still a very good copy. Eight delightful, double-page, full color pop-ups, some with moveable tabs, plus a moveable slide in the front board. All of the pop-ups... More
London: Bancroft, (1961). First edition in English. Hardcover. Cloth spine, pictorial boards. Spine a little dusty, corners and one edge bumped, else this is a near fine copy. Eight delightful, double-page, full color popups, some with moveable tabs, plus a moveable slide in the front board. All of the popups... More
Boston: Henry Hoyt, 1861. Winslow Homer et al. First edition. Hardcover. (4),5-153,(1)pp followed by 6pp publisher's catalogue. Contemporary cloth, gilt spine title. 94 illustrations by various artists, but the illustration on page 30 is WInslow Homer's "The Child and the Eagle". Identification of the author is from the OCLC record... More
New York: Grosset 7 Dunlap, 1937. Le Grand. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Thin oblong 4to. Pictorial boards. Unpaginated. Decorative endpapers. Illustrated throughout by the author. A near fine copy, showing only a trace of wear on the edges. The uncommon dustwrapper has a few closed marginal tears and creases... More
Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., (1922). Illustrated by Florence Liley Young. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 188pp. Light brown cloth binding blocked on the spine with black titles and an image of Missy, and on the upper board with an illustration of Missy and her mammy, a detail from the... More
New York: McLoughlin Bros. n.d., ca. 1900. Stapled wraps. Thin 4to. (8)pp. Stapled wraps. Printed on linen with cover and four pages printed in brilliant chromolithography. Cover creased, and worn at the edges and folds, else this is a very good copy. New Pleasewell Series. More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1985. Illustrated by the author. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Folio. 131,(1)pp. Glossy pictorial boards. Deep red endpapers. Introduction by Bruno Bettelheim. A fine copy in a fine, unclipped dustwrapper. Inscribed "For Ann" by the author on the title page. A compilation of thirteen works... More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1985. Illustrated by the author. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Folio. 131,(1)pp. Blue-green boards, silver spine title, blindstamped image of Frederick on the upper board. Deep red endpapers. Introduction by Bruno Bettelheim. One of 500 numbered copies signed by Lionni, this being copy No. 440. Silver... More
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1906). With Illustrations by Harrison Fisher. Hardcover. First Fisher illustrated edition. 4to. Green cloth blocked in cream, brown, black, gilt and blind on the spine and the upper board. Illustrated endpapers. Printed in black with green decorations by E. Stetson Crawford. Full color as well as... More
London: Bancroft & Co., (1964). First edition. Fine. Square small 4to. 12 pages including covers, printed in full color, each page folded to conceal the movable mechanisms. Five double-page movables. Cloth spine, pictorial boards. A charming book by the authors of "Let's Go to the Circus" and "Who's Who at... More
London: The Sylvan Press, n.d. (ca. 1940's). Maben. Hardcover. Thin 8vo. (40p)pp. Illustrated by the author. Cloth spine, pictorial paper boards. Each page has a full page color plate facing the text. Light wear of spine cloth and corners, light soil, neat ownership name on the front pastedown, else a...... More
