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.)
London: Dean & Son, n.d. (1850's). Hardcover. 4to. Cloth spine, printed paper boards. Unpaginated, Eight full page hand-colored moveable plates telling the story of Cock Robin. All moveables are in good working order. Two tabs have been replaced as well as a few rivets, there is fingering and soil on..... More
New York: McClure, Phillips & Company, 1901. Illustrated by W. W. Denslow. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. Green cloth spine printed with the title; pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers. The second state with four pages of illustrations following the dedication page before the Humpty Dumpty rhymed poem and drawings. Wear and rubbing..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1940). First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Thin 4to. (38)pp. Pictorial paper over boards, bright yellow cloth spine, decorated endpapers. Each page illustrated in either black & white or color with scenes from the Fantasia production. A near fine, with only the barest trace of soil..... More
Paris: Hachette, (1939). Wraps. Narrow, stiff pictorial wraps illustrated in color, and housing five individual flip books printed double side to give a total of 10 scenes. Complete with the instruction card laid-in. This is a scarce enough Disney item, but the French version is downright rare, probably because it..... More
New York: Garden City Publishing Company, (1941). First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Thin 4to. Illustrated in color and black and white throughout. Publisher's cloth spine, pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers. Based on a story from Kenneth Grahame's 'Dream Days'. There are light traces of wear to the spine and to the..... More
New York: Garden City Publishing Company, (1941). First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Thin 4to. Illustrated in color and black and white throughout. Publisher's cloth spine, pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers. Based on a story from Kenneth Grahame's 'Dream Days'. This is a fine, bright copy with only the barest trace of..... More
Hollywood: Walt Disney Enterprises, (1936). First edition. Thin folio (10 by 12½ inches). 10pp. printed on stiff card with a 'linen-like' finish, and in full color, staple-bound. Shows a Christmas party at Mickey's: a long-beaked Donald gets a horn; scarce character Horace Horsecollar gets a new collar; Goofy a cuckoo..... More
NY: Blue Ribbon, (1933). First edition. Hardcover. Pictorial paper boards. Four large, colorful pop-ups. Full color endpapers. Text illustrations in black and cream. Original colorfully printed boards. The four large pop-ups are in fine condition. There is some age-browning to the boards, and both corners are bumped, but this is..... More
New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Thin 4to. Unpaginated. Blue cloth printed in dark blue. Spine sunned, light wear to corners and edges else a very good copy. The scarce dustwrapper is present. It is rubbed at the edges and folds, and has a horizontal..... More
Philadelphia: David McKay Company, (1934). Illustrations by Montfort Amory. First edition. Hardcover. Square 8vo. 124pp. Red cloth printed in black on the spine and with a full color paste-on on the upper board. Totally unsophisticated with light wear to the cloth, especially corners and spine tips; a small stain on..... More
Philadelphia: David McKay Company, (1934). Illustrations by Montfort Amory. First edition. Hardcover. Square 8vo. 124pp. Red cloth printed in black on the spine and with a full color paste-on on the upper board. Corners and spine tips worn, light scratch on rear board, small piece missing at bottom of p...... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1942. First US edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (144)pp. Green cloth printed in dark green on the spine and upper board. Illustrated endpapers. A fine, bright copy with only the barest trace of rubbing along the bottom edge. The dustwrapper is unclipped and is in fine, bright..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1942. First US edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (144)pp. Green cloth printed in dark green on the spine and upper board. Illustrated endpapers. A fine, bright copy with only the barest trace of rubbing along the bottom edge. The dustwrapper is unclipped and is in near fine..... More
London: Faber & Faber, 1955. Illustrated by the author. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. Yellow paper over boards printed in black, green and red. Plain endpapers. Illustrated in color throughout. Trace of soil else a near fine copy. The dustwrapper is not clipped and is in fine condition..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, (1894). First edition. Hardcover. Thin 8vo. Each letter of the alphabet has a full page full color illustration of a member of the military in caricature, and a comic caption on the following page. Bound in red, white and blue cloths, gilt spine title..... More
New-York: Printed and Sold by S. Wood at the Juvenile Book-store, 1812. First edition. Wraps. 16mo. (2½ x 4 inches.) 26,(2)pp. The final 2pp are publisher's advertisements. Printed wraps, string binding. Illustrated with woodcuts. Four alphabets printed inside front cover: Roman capitals and lower case; Italic capitals and lower case..... More
Philadelphia: Pub. by James P. Parke, 1809. Hardcover. 12mo. Original half leather, gilt spine title and rules, marbled paper boards. 26 engraved plates (of 36) with descriptive text. This was first written in 1801 by William Darton, who also drew and engraved the copper plates. In 1806 it was revised..... 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
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, No..... More
New York: Epstein & Carroll, (1961). First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Blue cloth printedin white; map endpapers. Illustrated by Jules Feiffer. A neat ownership name on the upper margin of the front free endpaper, and a lengthy gift inscription on the reverse dated 1961, else a very good copy. In..... 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
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
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
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1880. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xlv,(3),403,(1)pp followed by 4pp publisher's catalogue. Original green silk-finish cloth, blocked in black ad gilt on the spine and upper board. Dark green coated endpapers. Twelve illustrations by Alfred Kappes. The front free endpaper gutter is glued into the hinge..... More
