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Nurse Lovechild's Legacy / Being a Mighty Fine Collection of The Most Noble, Memorable and Veracious Nursery Rhymes

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.
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A Selection of Aesop's Fables (translated by Boris Artzybasheff)

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.
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Princess Elizabeth Gift Book

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...
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The Story of the Little White Mouse: or the Overthrow of the Tyrant King

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.
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Hosie's Alphabet

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.
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Hosie’s Aviary

By: Baskin, Leonard [wth Tobias, Lucretia, Hosie, & Lisa Baskin]

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Viking Press: 1979

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.
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The Horkey

By: Bloomfield, Robert

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.
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Dogs Think That Every Day is Christmas

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!
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With Cat for Comforter

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!
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The Toynbee Convector

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.
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Dinosaur Tales

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.
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Alice Through the Looking Glass & What Alice Found There

By: Carroll, Lewis

Price: $185.00

Publisher: London, McGibbon & Kee: 1972

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.
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The Daily Express Children's Annual #5 [With Seven Pop-Ups]

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
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Songs of Childhood

By: De La Mare, Walter

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.
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The Way of the Whirlwind [ in d/w]

By: Durack, Mary and Elizabeth

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Consolidated Press, Sydney: 1943

Seller ID: k200115d

Condition: Very good

Enchanted Garden, The

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.
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All Through the Night

By: Field, Rachel

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, MacMillan: 1940

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.
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The Daily Express Children's Annual: Introducing Self-Erecting Models to Illustrate the Stories No. 5

By: Giraud, S. Louis, Editor.

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...
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. RING - ROUND - ROSY

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...
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FAIRYTALE GEMS

By: HARBOUR, Jennie. Verses by Hilda Hart.

Price: $425.00

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 severa...
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Category: Children's Books