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: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1985. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 254pp. Black cloth spine, gilt; red paper boards. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped and is fine as well. The Bob and Dolores Hope copy with an inscription on the front free endpaper signed by..... More
Merida, Yucatan: Lbreria Burrel, 1941. First edition. Stapled wraps. Thin 4to. Printed, stapled wraps. (38)pp. Some illustrations, including a chart of the Spanish version of what we know as the Palmer method of handwriting. Top of the half title removed, probably bearing a name of a former owner, else this..... More
London: Heinemann, 1966. First English edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 188pp. Blue textured paper over boards, gilt spine title. Map of Prydain double page frontispiece. Small bumps on the upper right corner of the upper board and on the spine tip, else a fine copy. The duswrapper is not clipped. There is..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1965). First edition, first printing. Fine. Square thin 4to. Publisher's dark paper over boards printed in deep red. Deep red endpapers. Illustrated throughout in color. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped and shows the $3.50 price; it has a closed marginal tear..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1973). First edition, first printing. Very good. 8vo. 87pp. Light brown cloth; spine title printed in black. straw-colored endpapers. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is not clipped and is in fine condition as well. Illustrated by Margaret Zemach. Surprisingly scarce addition to Alexander's Prydain..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1968). First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Tall 8vo. Publisher's blue printed paper over boards. Trace of sunning at the edges else this is a fine copy. Dustwrapper is price-clipped and is first state, without the Newbery Award sticker. It is lightly sunned at edges..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1967). First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's blue paper over boards printed in dark blue. Blue endpapers. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is clipped, the spine is lightly and uniformly darkened, else it is in near fine condition, and much better than the..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967. First edition, first printing. Near fine. Oblong 4to. (28)pp. Red paper over boards printed in black with a spine title and with a harp on the upper board. Slight sunning along the top of the board else a near fine copy. The dust..... More
Thaxted Essex: The Workshop Press, 1996. Limited edition. Stiff card wraps. Thin folio. Stiff printed wraps. Unpaginated (24pp.) One of 50 numbered copies; this is No. 17. Arman's discussion of the history of the Alice electrotype plates in illustrated by twelve plates finely printed letterpress. A fine copy. The plates..... More
New York: Walker and Company, (1973). Illustrated by Daniel Nevins. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Thin 8vo. 63pp. Illustrated in black and white. Red textured paper over boards. Spine printed in black. Upper board embossed in blind with a design by the illustrator. Inscribed on the front free endpaper by..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, (1907). First US edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Cloth backed pictorial boards showing Jocko, the teasing monkey, hanging from a tree and pulling the tails of two lions. 142pp. Illustrated in color throughout and printed on one side of the page only. Gift inscription "from Aunt..... More
Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., (1911). Maginel Wright Enright. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 384pp. Mustard-yellow cloth printed in black, red and green on the upper board and in black on the spine. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white, The text contains all 6 of the..... More
New York: R. H. Russell, 1900. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. Green cloth spine. Printed paper boards with an illustration of of a rabbit engaged in writing, pen in hand, ink horn in rear paw. Illustrated throughout with full page black and white illustrations faced by a rhyme by the..... More
Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Green cloth printed in black on the spine and upper board. Illustrations by Sears Frank. Color frontispiece, illustrated endpapers, text illustrations in black and white. Cloth sunned around edges else a near fine copy. The dustwrapper has chips at the..... 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
New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1938. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. vi, 153pp. Brick colored buckram, gilt spine title. Wear to edges and corners; inner hinges cracked but firm, else a very good copy. Extensively annotated in pencil by a former owner. Inscribed in pencil on the half title..... 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: 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
French: n.p., ca. 1825. 11 engraved cut-out figures or objects including ferryman, three couples, wolf, goat, cabbage and boat, to be slotted into boat, , original box with engraved pictorial label colored by hand, A rare children's game, possibly printed by the Parisian publisher Nepveau. Contained in the box measuring..... More
n.p. (Wimbledon): The Author, (ca. 1980). Softcover. ORIGINAL ART: an original watercolor cover and 24 original pencil drawings with pasted-on text forming a mockup book prepared by Cloke for a publisher. Size: 5 ½ inches square. The mock-up contains two tales: the story of a runaway red hat, and the..... More
Boston: Jordan Marsh, (1898) but 1899. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 212pp. Four color plates by René Quentin. Pictorial cloth. Spine sunned else a fine copy. Pinocchio is presented here in the first US edition with colored plates but a piracy of the original with no attribution to Collodi. Even the..... More
Houston: Christian Anti-Communism Crusade, (1961). First edition. Stapled wraps. 7 by 10 inches, printed in full color on newsprint, two staples. A tiny abrasion at the foot of the first page, a contemporary book store imprint on the front page else this is in near fine condition. Scarce comic from..... More
New York: Margaret K. McElderry, 2013. Jacket design by Julie Dillon. Hardcover. First printing of this reissue, with a new "Note from the Author" and with a new jacket illustration by Julie Dillon. A fine copy in a fine jacket. Inscribed on the title page by the author "For Wendy"..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1973. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth; spine printed in copper. Stated first edition. Illustrated by Alan E. Cober. Trace of soil to the edges else this is a fine copy. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped. It is rough along the top else it is..... More
