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: Julian Messner, Inc., (1943). Sally Tate. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (16)pp. Printed in brown and red on green paper. Green paper over boards printed in brown and red and with fuzz on the bear, both upper and lower boards. Decorated endpapers, also with fuzz on the bears. The..... More
Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1955. Illustrated by Ernest Norling. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 220pp. Blue cloth printed in blue on the spine and upper board. Illustrated endpapers. Black and white full page illustrations. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped and shows the original..... More
New York: Privately Printed, 1933. Limited edition. Hardcover. 12mo. (28), (34)pp. Full red leather blocked on the spine with the title in gilt, and on the upper board with title, EB logo and a facsimile of Clement Moore's signature. The first section is a facsimile of 1848 edition of..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1892. 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) showing Little Red Riding..... More
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
Los Angeles: Cotsen Occasional Press, 2013. Limited edition. Hardcover. Clamshell case, 7½ by 13½ inches housing the 8vo work by the authors plus three miniature facsimiles of the eighteenth century originals: The 'Pretty Book' exists in only one copy; only two exist of 'Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book'. The case..... 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
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012. C. F. Payne. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Square thin quarto. Unpaginated. Glossy color pictorial boards. Illustrated throughout in full color by C. F. Payne. A fine, as new copy. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped and is fine and as new as well... 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: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1993. Illustrated by the author. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Thin folio. Unpaginated (32pp.) Glossy pictorial boards. A fine copy in a fine, unclipped dustwrapper. Signed by the late artist on the half title. A biography in verse about Harriet Tubman..... 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
