Hoxton, London: B. Pollock, n.d., after 1876. Wraps. Uncut sheets, approximately 7 by 8½ inches, all hand colored. 1. Oliver Twist: 6 character sheets, 1 set piece, 13 scenes, side wing No. 3. LAcking side wings 1 and 2, and two characters from plate 6; 2. Battle of Waterloo: Character sheet..... More
Hoxton, London: B. Pollock, n.d., after 1876. Wraps. Uncut sheets boiund with string, approximately 7 by 8½ inches, all hand colored: 6 plates of characters, 7 scenes, and 3 plates of wings. One character removed from Plate 6. Accompanied by another copy, incomplete: Character plates 1-4, scene plates 1-5. Lacking..... More
Hoxton, London: B. Pollock, n.d., after 1876. Wraps. Uncut sheets, approximately 7 by 8½ inches, all hand colored: 8 plates of characters, 14 plates of scenes, and 4 plates of wings. The plates are complete, but the text booklet is not present. The sheets of this toy theater are in..... More
Hoxton, London: B. Pollock; J. Redington, n.d., after 1876. Wraps. 12mo; 16pp. Printed wraps, printed by J. Redington. Accompanied by uncut sheets, approximately 7 by 8½ inches, all hand colored and published by B. Pollock: 7 plates of characters, 7 plates of scenes, and 3 plates of wings. Complete. The..... More
Hoxton, London: B. Pollock, n.d., after 1876. Wraps. 12mo; 16pp. Printed wraps. Accompanied by uncut sheets, approximately 7 by 8½ inches, bound with string, all hand colored: 7 plates of characters, 5 plates of scenes, 1 sky plate, and 4 plates of wings. Complete. The sheets of this toy theater..... More
Hoxton, London: B. Pollock, n.d., after 1876. Wraps. 12mo; 16pp. Printed wraps. Accompanied by uncut sheets, approximately 7 by 8½ inches, all hand colored: 3 plates of characters, 5 plates of scenes, and 2 plates of wings. Complete. The sheets of this toy theater are in near fine condition, with..... More
Hoxton, London: B. Pollock, n.d., after 1876. Wraps. 12mo; 16pp. Printed wraps. Accompanied by uncut sheets, approximately 7 by 8½ inches, all hand colored: 2 plates of characters, 3 plates of scenes, and 2 plates of wings. Complete. The sheets of this toy theater are in near fine condition, with..... More
Hoxton, London: B. Pollock, n.d., after 1876. Wraps. 12mo; 16pp. Printed wraps. Accompanied by uncut sheets, approximately 7 by 8½ inches, all hand colored: 4 plates of characters, 3 plates of scenes, and 1 plate of wings. Complete. The sheets of this toy theater are in near fine condition, with..... More
Hoxton, London: B. Pollock, n.d., after 1876. Wraps. 12mo; 16pp. Printed wraps. Accompanied by uncut sheets, approximately 7 by 8½ inches, all hand colored: 6 plates of characters, 5 plates of scenes, and 2 plates of wings. Complete. The sheets of this toy theater are in near fine condition, with..... More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1902. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xiv, 384pp. Blue cloth decorated in gilt on the spine and upper board in a design by H. J. Ford and with Ford's initials at the lower right of the upper board. Decorated endpapers. All edges gilt. Illustrated with eight..... More
New York, et al: Th A. N. Palmer Co., n.d. Stiff card. A complete set of fifteen cards, 8 by 17 inches, printed in black with letters and numbers in white showing the capital and lower case alphabet, numbers and symbols in the Palmer handwriting method. These cards were..... More
London(?): Nelson & Sons(?), n.d., ca. 1874. Hardcover. Four linen-backed chromolithographed alphabet books sometime bound in rust-colored cloth, without title page. The alphabets are illustrated by animals, birds, people and biblical characters, accompanied by a verse describing each character. Slight wear to binding; alphabets near fine, bright and delightful. Scarce..... More
Albuquerque: Parjarito Publications, (1980). First edition. Hardcover. Thin 4to. Unpaginated (20 pp.) Glossy illustrated boards printed in two colors. Charmingly illustrated throughout. A bilingual children's story, with English on one page and Spanish on the next. The great bell in the church of San Agustín in Tucson stopped tolling after..... More
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1907. Florence K. Upton. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. 66pp. Cloth spine, pictorial boards. Decorated endpapers. 32 full page color plates (including the title page), numerous illustrations in text. Boards somewhat rubbed, soiled and edgeworn; some fingerling smudges on the pages,else a very good copy..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1971). Leo Politi. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Thin 4to. Pictorial boards showing Emmet on the upper board and the street where he lives on the rear board. A fine copy, and with the correct first printing code A.2-71 (RZ)beneath the copyright date. The dustjacket..... 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
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 4to.xviii, (1), 258pp. Publisher's tan cloth blocked in black, red and gilt on the spine and also on the upper board in a design by the illustrator. Coated endpapers. Illustrated throughout by Pyle, lavishly decorated with headpieces, tailpieces, and..... More
Madison, WI: Carqueville/TCR, (1992). First edition. Spiral bound. Folio. Spiral bound wraps. 27pp. Yellow heavy Gilbert paper covers, blue endpapers, white text. Printed in black and red and embossed in Braille. The story of an arrow who take both the sighted and the blind through an alphabet of shapes. The..... More
New York: Viking, 1996. First edition in Spanish. Hardcover. Folio. Unpaginated. Brown cloth spine, gilt, blue paper boards printed in dark brown. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated throughout. A fine copy. The dustwrapper has a closed marginal tear on the front, wear the the spine tips, and the Caldecott sticker is creased..... 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
Chicago: A. Flanagan Company, (1917). Illustrated by Dorothy Dulin. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 32pp. Green cloth blocked in yellow and black with the title and, on the upper board, an illustration of the tailor by Dulin. Light wear to the edges, crease on the rear board, some fingering soil, a...... More
