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.)
Little Neck, NY: Ramborn Corporation, ca.1945. Ana MAe Seagren. First edition. Hardcover. Elephant folio: 14 by 19 inches. Cloth spine, color pictorial boards. 18pp, alternating colorful decorated text page with full color illustrations of fairies at play by Ana Mae Seagren. A near fine copy with only a trace of..... More
Chicago: Rand McNally and Company, (1928). Pictures by Harrison Cady. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 98pp. Green cloth, full color pictorial paste-on to the upper board. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated throughout in black and white and color. Neat gift inscription on the front free endpaper else a fine, bright copy. In the..... More
London: Werner Shaw, 1983. Limited edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. 156pp. Illustrated in black and white and color. Green morocco spine, gilt spine title; green cloth boards; top edge green. Dark green endpapers. A fine copy housed in custom cloth slipcase matching the boards. 255 bibliographic entries covering 1896-1979, preceded by..... More
Portland: The Southworth Press, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 354pp. Illustrated. Leather spine, gilt titles. Illustrated paper boards. Top edge gilt. One of 585 numbered copies, this copy unnumbered and marked 'Review Copy'; signed by Rosenbach. Foreword by A. Edward Newton. Light trace of wear else a fine copy in..... More
London: Anthony Trehune & Co, n.d. 1900. Hardcover. Thick 12mo: The second edition. Three inches square. 83pp on heavy card stock. Original beige cloth binding with the title on the spine in black and an illustration on the upper board in black, pink and red. Illustrated throughout in color. The..... More
New York: Hurd and Houghton, (1867). First US edition. Hardcover. Square 8vo. 91,(1) unnumbered pages. Printed in red and black throughout with illustrations on every other page in red and black after J. V. Barnett. This is a compilation (and a U.S. pirated edition?) of two of Dean's London publications..... More
Moscow: Uchpediz, 1957. Hardcover. Thin 4to. Cloth spine, printed paper over boards in color. Alphabet endpapers with illustrations next to each letter. Printed in full color throughout. Light wear and rubbing to the binding. Annotated throughout by a former student in pencil, so a good copy only but scarce. This..... More
n.p. n.p., ca. 1860. Stiff card. Die-cut chromolithographed scrap of Red Riding Hood and her friend the Wolf. 4½ by 11 inches. Printed in shades of flesh, red, blue, gray and tan. Tiny abrasion at the bottom else this is a fine copy. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1970. Stiff card. Board, 11½ by 17 inches. Book display for advertising 'In the Night Kitchen'. Color pictorial pasted onto board. Some soiling, spotting and light wear, lacking the cardboard stand on the rear, otherwise in very good condition. Scarce original advertising display. More
New York: Harper & Row, (1967) but later. Hardcover. Early edition. Square 8vo. 69pp. Light brown cloth, gilt spine title, color paste-on to the upper board. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped and shows the first-state price of $4.95 and the '1067' code, but the last book listed on the..... More
New York: Harper & Row, (1970). Hardcover. Thin folio. Unpaginated (42pp.) Cream-colored cloth with full color paste-on to the upper board. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is fine with the first state code of 1070 and the first state list of seven books on the rear flap, but with a...... More
New York: Harper & Row, (1962). First edition. Hardcover. 4 volumes in jackets in the original box slightly worn at the corners. Each volume is in first edition pink cloth, with a vignette of acorns and oak leaves on the upper boards. Chicken Soup has a band of teal at..... More
New York: Harper & Row, (1965). Hardcover. Folio. 78pp. Printed in color throughout. Dark blue cloth, gilt title on spine and upper board. Beige endpapers. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped and is fine as well. Later state, with $15.00 on the dustwrapper. Inscribed by Sendak on..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1948. Illustrated by the author. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. (40), 236pp. Red cloth printed in dark red on the spine and upper board. Illustrated with 16 full page black and white plates. Light wear to the edges else a very good copy. The..... More
Boston: The American Humane Education Society, (1890). First US edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Buff colored boards printed in black. A fine copy with only a trace of wear. Housed in a custom morocco clamshell case with Beauty outlined in relief on the upper cover and the title tooled in blind. The..... More
New-York: R. Shugg, nd., ca. 1880. Wraps. 5½ by 6½ inches. 24 pages. Each set shows an illustration in silhouette on the right with the text facing. Cock Robin is followed by 'Robin and Richard', 'Jack Sprat' and 'See, Saw Margery Daw'. Each of the three subsequent rhymes are one..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1967). Pictures by Margot Zemach. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. Publisher's deep rose colored cloth with the upper board embossed in a design by the illustrator in darker rose and the spine with titles in gilt. Illustrated in color throughout. A fine..... More
Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, (1922-23). Max Slevogt. Limited edition. Hardcover. Folio (12 x 15'). Twelve small sketches on thin paper mounted to folding mats, each signed in pencil by the artist illustrating the tale by the Brothers Grimm.. In fine condition. With a single leaf, folded, giving the title and the..... More
Boston: Copeland and Day, 1895. Illustrated by Ethel Reed. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 4to. (8),103,(1)pp. Tan cloth printed in black. Red pictorial endpapers. Title page in red and black. Illustrated with 15 full page illustrations. Introduction by Mary E. Wilkins. Occasional light scattered foxing and staining; rebacked with original..... More
ca. 1912. Large single sheet printed in full color showing Jack and the Bean Stalk originally published in 'A Child's Book of Stories', 1911. This captioned: 'Fifth in the Series of Favorite Fairy-Tale Pictures'. Sometime cropped and mounted on black paper. The reverse is printed also and seems to be..... More
Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., (1954). First edition. Fine. 4to. x, 277, (1)pp. Greenish beige cloth blocked in black and gilt on the spine and upper board. Endpapers of the Land of Oz, showing its great protective desert barriers and many of the celebrated and magical countries which lie..... More
New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., (1961). Pictures by Ezra Jack Keats. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 117pp. Illustrated in black and white. Rose-colored cloth printed in black on the spine and the upper board. Top edge red. Inscribed on the front free endpaper by the author: "For Grace Seward..... More
Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company, (1919). Hardcover. De Luxe Edition. 4to. (319)pp. Printed in black and yellow throughout, and with 14 mounted illustrations buy Maria L. Kirk. Beige cloth spine, gilt; blue cloth boards with a gilt title and vignette on the upper board; top edge gilt; ribbon..... More
New York: J. B. Lippincott, (1980). Illustrated by the author. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Square thin 4to. Purple cloth spine, gilt spine title, beige papers over boards. Illustrated endpapers. Printed in color throughout.. Remainder mark, trace of wear, else a fine copy in a fine clipped dustwrapper. Signed by..... More
NY: McLoughlin Brothers, 1870s? Wraps. 4½ by 6½ inches. 10pp, including the pictorial wraps. Spine stitched with thread (early repair). A cumulative rhyme, written in imitation of "This is the house that Jack built." This is not the nursery rhyme that begins "Who killed Cock Robin?" Chromolithographed illustrations. Pages seem..... More
