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By: N/A
Price: $40.00
Publisher: London, The Poetry Bookshop: 1922
Seller ID: 31703
Mother Goose rhymes; embellished with drawings by C. Lovat Fraser and printed by the Curwen Press. 12mo, red boards. 64 pp. "A new edition, fourth thousand". Very good; front cover has a light band of sunning at top; rear cover lightly soiled. View more info
By: Aesop
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Chamberlain Press: 1984
Seller ID: 1007
boards, 5"x6. A selection of fables illustrated with colored wood engravings by Sarah Chamberlain and translated by Boris Artzybasheff. Limited signed edition of 150 copies. Signed by the illustrator on the limitation page. Ten coloured plates, each with small illustration on the reverse. View more info
By: AQUITH, Cynthia & Bigland, Eileen
Price: $30.00
Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1935
Seller ID: 0219022
4to, white cloth, 224p. An anthology of stories and poems published to raise money for the Princess Elizabeth Hospital for Children. Includes a Rupert Story by Mary Tourtel (Rupert the Little Bear goes Adventuring in the Robbers Den and with the Giants), an intro. by J.M. Barrie, poem by De La Mare etc. Illustrated with 2 double page color spreads by the Disney Studios, endpapers by Rex Whistler, color plates by A.H. Watson and others and with many illus. in line. Pristine in the original dustwrapper with colour illustration of Philip de Làszlò's 1933 portrait of the princess (now Queen El... View more info
By: Aulnoy, Marie Catherine Jumelle de Bernville
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Glasgow, For the booksellers: 1820
Seller ID: 081702
This chapbook is a translation of La Bonne petite Souris. In addition to the copy at UCLA, the only other reported copy is at the Cleveland Public Library and is bound with another chapbook. The booksellers are not identified. 24 pp., 16mo, Original woven paper wrappers, sewn. Pictorial title page. Pages are very clean with no foxing; the covers appear to be a rebinding. Undated but circa 1830. View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: T. Nelson and Sons: 1882
Edition: Later edition.
Seller ID: k190711h
Condition: Very good.
16mo, decorated red cloth, 72 pp. A later printing of the children's tale and rhyme first published by Nelson in 1857. Handsome full color chromolith frontispiece with b/w illustrations of anthropomorphic insects throughout. Ballantyne, a Scottish artist and prolific writer of juvenile fiction, composed this prose rendition of William Roscoe's popular poem and accompanied it with fanciful images of beetles in waistcoats, ladybugs with parasols, moles in top hats and striped pants, and other creatures. Very good: a clean, tight copy with light wear to covers; endpapers toned; contemporary pen... View more info
By: Baskin, Leonard
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Viking Press: 1972
Seller ID: 17061913
1st edition (1972) of this Caldecott Medal winner, signed by illustrator Leonard Baskin in red ink on the front end paper. The book itself is in fine condition. The dust jacket has a 3/4" closed tear at front top, a 1/4" closed tear at rear top and a 2" water stain in lower right front corner. The water stain does not affect the book. View more info
By: Baskin, Leonard [wth Tobias, Lucretia, Hosie, & Lisa Baskin]
Price: $65.00
Publisher: Viking Press: 1979
Edition: 1st ed.
Inscription: Signed by Baskin
Seller ID: sw180315a
4to, green cloth. 1st ed, signed by illustrator Leonard Baskin in red ink on the front end paper. A companion volume to his Caldecott Honor Book Hosie’s Alphaet; kBaskins illustraions of birds with light verse. A light fade line along bottom of front cover, else fine in fine d/w. View more info
Price: $57.50
Seller ID: 040301
Condition: Good
1st edition; London: Macmillan & Co., 1882. Pictorial boards with cloth spine. Illustrations by George Cruikshank – note that this is not THE George Cruikshank, but his nephew. Interior is clean and tight. The covers are rubbed at edges, more heavily so at corners. View more info
By: Bradbury, Ray
Price: $55.00
Publisher: Salt Lake City, Gibbs-Smith: 1997
Seller ID: k7383
1st ed. Signed by Bradbury on title page. Pristine copy! View more info
By: Bradbury, Ray
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Salt Lake City, Gibbs-Smith: 1997
Seller ID: k1463
1st ed. Signed by Bradbury on title page. Pristine copy! View more info
By: Bradbury, Ray
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Atlanta, Turner Publishing: 1992
Seller ID: k2208
1st ed., illustrated boards. Signed by Bradbury on title page. As-new with some minor shelf-wear. View more info
By: Bradbury, Ray
Price: $55.00
Publisher: New York, Barnes and Noble Books: 1996
Seller ID: k1997
1st ed. thus. 8vo, hardcover signed by Bradbury on front end-paper. Pristine copy in d/w! Previously published stories about prehistoric beasts; illustrated by William Stout, Steranko, Gahan Wilson, Moebius and others. View more info
Price: $85.00
Publisher: London, J. M. Dent: n.d. (circa 1900's)
Seller ID: g1004
12mo, original decorative blue cloth with ornate illustration filling the front board and spine in price-clipped d/w. A fine copy in VG-near fine d/w. Back cover has a list of Dent's "Children's Colour Gift Books." Clean and tight, with numerous line drawings by Robinson. Scarce in this condition, especially with dust jacket. (The British Art of Illustration 1800-2007, No 51.) View more info
By: Carroll, Lewis
Price: $185.00
Publisher: London, McGibbon & Kee: 1972
Edition: 1st thus.
Seller ID: 01501
1st UK edition of the Ralph Steadman illustrated classic. 4to, black cloth. 144 pp. Centenary edition prepared by the Committee of the Lewis Carroll Society. Near fine copy in fine d/w. The only flaw is a very small bit of bumping (1/4” light crush) at the top of the spine. Signed by Steadman in blue ink on the title page. View more info
By: Daily Express
Price: $75.00
Publisher: London, Daily Express: 1933
Seller ID: k190114b
7”x9”, illustrated boards. The Daily Express produced one of these Annuals each year for several years in the early '30's. Condition: Fair; covers worn and soiled; crack on spine; corners rubbed. Inside front cover lightly foxed. Text block sound with occasional cracking at hinges; some of the b/w illustrations were colored in crayon. But most importantly, all of the pop-up models are present and in good-fine shape View more info
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Longmans, Green and Co., London : 1923
Seller ID: k180228g
Condition: Very good
First thus. 8vo, half vellum, gilt lettering. The deluxe edition, limited to 310 copies signed y de la Mare. Illustrated with 8 full-page mounted color plates by Estella Canziani. A very good copy with lower corners heavily rubbed, some light soiling, bookplate inside front cover, pencil erasures on front flyleaves. Pristine text block. Lacking dustjacket. View more info
By: Erskine, John
Price: $27.50
Publisher: Chicago, The Bookfellows: 1925
Seller ID: 17062902
First edition. #64/300 signed copies. Cloth backed marble boards with paper labels on spine and front cover, deckle edges. Very good; corners bumped and rubbed, light wear to edges; spine label beginning to peel at top edge but still fully intact. Former owner's bookplate and signature on front endpapers. View more info
By: Field, Rachel
Price: $30.00
Publisher: New York, MacMillan: 1940
Edition: 1st ed.
Seller ID: 1093
Miniature book: 4"x5". A Christmas fable Field won the Newberry Medal for best children's book of 1929, "Hitty". Fine in good d/w, which has the price clipped out. Signed by Field on end-paper. View more info
Price: $175.00
Publisher: London, Lane Publications:
Seller ID: 122906
Undated, but circa 1932. Seven pop-ups which appear to be complete, although the glue has come loose from one page and it needs repair. In addition to the pop-ups, there is a full-color frontispiece and black and white illustrations throughout. Generally clean inside, but the b/w illustrations on five pages have been partially colored in crayon (very neatly so). The covers are worn and rubbed along all edges, with some age-toning, but are sound and tight. Pop-up illustrations are for the following stories: Inside cover, A visit from Santa; Dragon with the Spike on His Nose; A Ride in a Gondola... View more info
By: GREENAWAY, KATE
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Akron, Saalfield: 1907
Seller ID: DG17090610
12mo (5 x 6 1/2"), cloth, some fraying and soil, 12p. including covers, One of the volumes in Saalfield’s series of ‘muslin books’. VG. Illustrated in color on every page based in part be her drawings from the Almanacks. This copy differs from all other copies we have seen; the front cover is white, not red. Unknown if this is a variant edition or a later printing - in all other respects it is the same as other copies we have seen. The back cover is red and blue, as usual. Front cover soiled with loose threads at top and bottom edges. Back cover lightly soiled at top of spine edge with... View more info