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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
7.5x5.75" [19x15cm] 24 pp., original decorative stapled wrappers./////Nashi Tropiki (Our Tropics) is a children's introduction to the geography and agriculture of the Soviet tropics [Batumi, Georgia] made by Russian avant-garde artist Lev Bruni. A masterful work of children's illustration consisting mostly of full-page drawings with limited text./////Our Tropics describes how the fruits eaten by Soviet children are grown in the lush tropics of Batum, in the Soviet state of Georgia. Paintings of Georgian men, women, and children in food production roles such as collecting tea seeds in the stat... View More...
Oblong quarto, original illustrated cloth over boards. Unpaginated with [28] pp. #####First edition, first printing of this high-point of 20th century childrens' picture books. Complete number-line [1-5 / 73-69] on copyright page, number A3450 at lower corner of rear cover. White spine with black titling.#####The story of a caterpillar's journey toward metamorphosis traveling through a series of die-cut holes in six of the leaves (four of which are trimmed to shorter lengths) before constructing his cocoon and emerging a butterfly. Grolier Children's 100, No. 99.#####CONDITION: Good, lacking t... View More...
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...
1st edition, 4to. Red cloth spine; light green paper over boards with chromolithographed title and illustrations on front board. Floral endpapers.
A Victorian “dissolving window” picture book from the golden age of the moveable book.
A tab is pulled at the lower edge, which animates and completely changes the illustration above. Artwork by Nister, who also served as publisher. The facing pages have accompanying poems by English poet and songwriter Frederic Weatherly. A charming, and scarce, item with 8 chromolithographic color transformations, all in Very Good working order.
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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...
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 1” fr... View More...
Publisher:
London, London Raphael Tuck & Sons : [1925]
Seller ID: DG17090611
1st ed thus., 16mo 4½ x 3½. An accordion fold out book with 8 double sided panels with color images by Harbour facing children’s poetry by Hart. Undated but generally presumed to be c. 1925. Publisher’s number ‘950’ at base of final fold. Original silk ties are present as is the scarce publisher’s box. The tales are: The Goose Girl. Red Riding Hood. The Beautiful Princess. Beauty and the Beast. The Sleeping Beauty. The Magic Mirror. Cinderella. Snow-White and Rose-Red. Very good-near fine. All pages are very clean, bright & tight. No marks or inscriptions. Paper cracked at several of the inn... View More...
Drawings and cover by Vera Mikhailovna ErmolaevaThird edition. M.-L., Gosizdat, 1931. 5.6-7/8", stapled wrappers. 8 pp. Circulation 50,000 copies. Price 10 kop. In publisher's lithographed covers. CONDITION: VERY GOOD. A particularly bright and clean copy of a scarce Soviet children's book. None online; none in WorldCat. We have located one auction record in 2010 for the second edition [1930], by Russian auction house, Imperia.Interior is near fine with just a hint of toning typical to newsprint. Minor fading to outer covers, with just a hint of rubbing to spine and corners. Light dampsta... View More...
1st printing. 4to, unpaginated. Pictorial boards. illustrations by Frances Tipton Hunter. A cat teaches a little boy who is afraid of bugs, snakes, lightning, and the dark how to be brave.
A fine copy in VG, unclipped dust jacket with minor edge wear. View More...
Framed gouache and tempera painting on board. A later work, with a charming image somewhat uncharacteristic of Politi’s more familiar style.
Framed size is 26”x32”. We obtained the painting already in a sturdy, well-crafted frame and mat so we are unsure of the actual size; the visible image is 12.5”x18.5” so we presume approximately 15”x22”
#####Leo Politi (1908-1996) was a noted California artist and illustrator, best known for his illustration of childrens’ books. He developed a love for Mexican culture when he used to sit and paint on Olvera Street and Plaza de Los Angeles. View More...
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