New York: Avalon Books, 1967. Cloth. A sharp copy of the 1967 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine in a crisp, price-intact ($3.50), Near Fine dustjacket. 12mo, dustjacket design by Michael M. Peters. This copy directly from the publisher's personal files. More
New York: Avalon Books, 1956. Cloth. A very sharp copy of the 1956 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine (showing a very thin trace of gum along its edges) in a crisp, price-intact ($2.50), Near Fine dustjacket, with just a touch of light creasing to the panels. 12mo, jacket design..... More
New York: Avalon Books, 1960. Cloth. A solid copy of the 1960 1st edition. Tight and Fine in a crisp, price-intact ($2.95), VG+ dustjacket, which shows creasing to the panels (especially the rear panel) from the publisher's original "Plasti-Kleer" dustjacket cover, now removed. 12mo, jacket design by Ed Emshwiller. This..... More
New York: Avalon Books, 1959. Cloth. A solid copy of the 1959 1st edition. Tight and VG+ in a crisp, price-intact ($2.75), VG dustjacket. (The book shows a very thin trace of gum along its edges and the dustjacket shows a bit of creasing to the covers from the publisher's..... More
New York: Avalon Books, 1967. Cloth. A very sharp copy of the 1967 1st edition. Tight and Fine in a crisp, price-intact ($3.25), Near Fine dustjacket, with light fading along the spine. 12mo, dustjcket design by Michael M. Peters. This copy directly from the publisher's personal files. More
New York: Avalon Books, 1966. Cloth. An all-but-pristine copy of the 1966 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine to Fine in a crisp, price-intact, Fine dustjacket. 12mo, jacket design by Gray Morrow. This copy directly from the publisher's personal files. More
New York: H.M. Caldwell, 1902. L.J. Bridgman. Pictorial boards. A handsome, very presentable copy of the 1902 1st edition. Solid and VG to VG+ in its cloth-backed pictorial boards, with a very small corner stain to a number of the pages, a small chip to the front free endpaper's lower..... More
New York: John Eggers Co. Inc./The House of Little Books, 1922. Harrison Cady. Original wraps. The 1922 1st edition of this very scarce installment in Harrison Cady's "Peter Rabbit". B-4 in the "Picture, Story, Painting and Crayon Book" series, presented in comic format. Featuring 2 full-page, full-color illustrations and 8..... More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1917. Fanny Cory. Pictorial boards. The 1917 1st edition, IN ITS SCARCE PICTORIAL DUSTJACKET. Solid and VG+ (minor spotting at several of the preliminaries) in a crisp, VG dustjacket, with light creasing and chipping --and several very small tears-- along the panel edges and light soiling (including spotting)..... More
New York and London: Macmillan, 1897. Alice Kellogg Tyler. Decorative Cloth. A sharp, unusually clean copy of the 1897 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine in its light-blue cloth, with charming pasted-on color plate and crisp, completely unrubbed titling to the front panel. 18 songs for children are accompanied by..... More
New York and London: Frederick Warne, 1978. Randolph Caldecott. Full leather. The 1978 limited edition, #4 OF ONLY 100 COPIES SPECIALLY BOUND IN FULL LEATHER AND SIGNED BY THE EDITOR ELIZABETH BILLINGTON. ALSO INCLUDES (AS CALLED FOR) A LAID-IN DOUBLE-PAGE ILLUSTRATION WITH THE LIMITATION NUMBER INKED-IN. Tight and Near Fine..... More
New York: R.H. Russell, Publisher, 1900. Helen Hyde. Pictorial boards. The 1900 1st edition of this very uncommon tale --set in San Francisco's Chinatown-- of little Chinese children who fall to earth in bubbles. Solid and VG to VG+ in its wonderful pictorial boards, with very light rubbing and spotting..... More
New York: Wendell Malliet and Company, 1942. Cloth. SIGNED BY ADAM CLAYTON POWELL, SR. on the frontispiece below his portrait. A solid copy to boot of the 1942 stated 1st edition. Tight and VG+ in a bright, VG- example of the fragile pictorial dustjacket, with chipping at the spine ends..... More
New York: Brentano's, 1908. Ruth Mary Hallock (Ysabel DeWitte Kaplan). Decorative Cloth. Large quarto, gilt pictorial cloth, tight and Near Fine. Internally clean as could be, with unused spaces for notations. Illustrated in a lavish turn-of-the-century Brandywine style by Ruth Mary Hallock, with full-page color illustrations plus half and full-page..... More
London and New York: Ernest Nister/E.P. Dutton & Co., c. 1880. Harriett M. Bennett. Cloth. Early Ernest Nister baby book (circa 1880), with an Introduction by E. Nesbit and a poem entitled "Baby" by George MacDonald. Solid and VG in its duo-tone cloth, with attractive floral design to the front..... More
New York: The Viking Press/Junior Literary Guild, 1946. Ruth Gannett. Cloth. An especially crisp, well-preserved copy of the 1946 1st edition of this Newberry Award-winning title. Clean and Near Fine in a bright, price-clipped, Near Fine dustjacket, with just a touch of light creasing to the rear panel. Octavo, wonderfully..... More
New York: Dodge Publishing Co., 1912. Albertine Randall Wheeler. Original wraps. A lovely copy of the 1912 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in its pictorial wrappers, with an outer onion-skin wrapper protecting the panels. Charming color illustrations by Albertine Randall Wheeler. Pages have clean, unused spaces to record information..... More
New York: Dodge Publishing Co., 1906. Bessie Collins Pease. Cloth. A lovely copy of the 1906 1st edition. Tight and VG+ to Near Fine in its pink pictorial cloth, with crisp gilt-titling at the front panel. Printed on heavy coated paper, the last section of Notes neatly lists names, the..... More
New York: Richard Krueger, 1927. Silk. A very attractive copy of this 1927 1st edition. Crisp and Near Fine in its padded, light-blue pictorial silk binding. Near Fine and unused. Charmingly illustrated in full color on every page by Queen Holden, who was best known for her paper doll artwork..... More
Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., 1911. A crisp, lovely copy of the 1911 1st edition, illustrated by Bertha L. Corbett, the illustrator of Grover's Sunbonnet Babies series. A clean, Near Fine to Fine, unused copy in its bright gilt-rule and titling and decoration at the front panel. Quarto, gorgeous decorative..... More
Chicago: Reilly & Lee, 1910. Decorative Cloth. A lovely copy of the 1910 1st edition, in the publisher's pictorial box. Clean and Near Fine in its light-blue cloth, with bright gilt-decoration and titling at the front panel and spine. Internally unused, with no recordings or markings of any kind. Illustrated..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1961. Peter Boston. Cloth. A sharp copy of the 1961 stated 1st American edition of this, the 4th title in the "Green Knowe" series. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, price-intact, VG+ dustjacket, with uniform fading along the spine. Octavo, nicely illustrated by..... More
London: Humphrey Milford, c. 1923. Original wraps. Charming title in the "Duck-a-Dandy" series, circa 1923. Clean and Near Fine in its wonderful string-tied pictorial wrappers. 64mo (miniature), with 4 full-page and one double-page color illustrations by Ernest Aris. More
