1923. Kodomo no Kuni コドモノクニ [Land of Children] Vol. 2 #11 October 十月一日 第二巻 第十一號 大正十二　1923 26.1x 18.6 cm large-format children’s full color illustrated magazine on heavy paper. 32pages including outside and inside front and rear wrappers, Japanese text with hiragana, katakana, and furigana and illustrated stories, songs, and poems..... More

1923. Kodomo no Kuni コドモノクニ [Land of Children] Vol. 2 #8 August　1 八月一日 第二巻 第8號 大正十二　1923 26.1x 18.6 cm large-format children’s full color illustrated magazine on heavy paper. 32 pages including outside and inside front and rear wrappers, Japanese text with hiragana, katakana, and furigana and illustrated stories, songs, and..... More

1923. Kodomo no Kuni コドモノクニ [Land of Children] Vol. 2 #７ July　七月 第二巻 第七號 大正十二　1923　　26.1x 18.6 cm large-format children’s full color illustrated magazine on heavy paper. 32 pages including outside and inside front and rear wrappers, There is a page of submitted children's' art, as well. ２ pages of flimsy..... More

Kodomo no Kuni コドモノクニ [Land of Children] Vol. 4 #12 November 十一月 第四巻 十二號　大正十四年　1925　26.1x 18.6 cm large-format children’s full color illustrated magazine on heavy deluxe paper. A total of 36 pages　including outside and inside front and rear wrappers, Japanese text with hiragana, katakana, and furigana and illustrated stories, songs, and..... More

Kodomo no Kuni コドモノクニ [Land of Children] Vol. 4 #4　March 三月 第四巻 四號　大正十四年　1925　26.1x 18.6 cm large-format children’s full color illustrated magazine on heavy paper. 32 pages including outside and inside front and rear wrappers, Japanese text with hiragana, katakana, and furigana and illustrated stories, songs, and poems for children, many..... More

1921. [RACKHAM, Arthur] PHILPOTTS, Eden. A DISH OF APPLES. Illustrated by Arthur RACKHAM. London: Hodder & Stoughton (1921). Limited edition, no. 206 of 500 copies, signed by the author and illustrator. 77 pp. 4to., white cloth stamped in gilt. Spine darkened, corners gently bumped, light soil to cloth. Gilt top..... More

18. PIKE, J. G. PERSUASIVES TO EARLY PIETY, INTERSPERSED WITH SUITABLE PRAYERS. New York: The American Tract Society, [N.d., circa 1832]. first American edition. Woodcut frontispiece and vignette to title-page. 359 pp. 12mo., contemporary brown calf, black leather spine label with title in gilt to spine. Contemporary ink ownership to..... More

1957. POLITI, Leo. THE BUTTERFLIES COME. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons (1957). Second printing, inscribed in colorful script by the author on front flyleaf, dated 1959. Unpaginated [31 pp.] 4to., tellow cloth stamped in orange and black with Monarch butterflies on the front cover. Fine in a very good color..... More

1868. PRENTIS, E. LITTLE LOU'S SAYINGS AND DOINGS. Illustrated by M. L. Stone. New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1868. 287 pp. 8vo., green pebbled cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Spine nicked at heel and crown, light rubbing to rear board, front gilt vignette bright. Moderate foxing to frontispiece and..... More

1905. PYLE, Howard. THE STORY OF THE CHAMPIONS OF THE ROUND TABLE. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. First edition. xviii + 329 pp. 8vo., dark yellow cloth with gilt spine lettering and decorations in red and black. Gift incription on reverse of frontispiece. Very good, slight browning to spine..... More

1937. RANSOME, Arthur. WE DIDN'T MEAN TO GO TO SEA. London: Jonathan Cape (1937). First edition. 351 pp. 8vo., dark green cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Map endpapers have a faint ouch of foxing - else the book is very clean internally. A few small spots to fore-edge, not..... More

1961. REY, H. A. JORGE EL CURIOSO (CURIOUS GEORGE). Translated into Spanish for young readers by Pedro Villa Ferandez. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961. 57 pp. 4to., red cloth stamped in green. Cloth and lettering/cover vignette clean and bright. Illustrated endpapers clean, and no name is written on the ownership..... More

1900. [RUSSELL, Mary Annette Beauchamp]. THE APRIL BABY'S BOOK OF TUNES, with the story of how they came to be written. By the author of `Elizabeth and Her Secret Garden.' Illustrated by Kate Greenaway. London: MacMillan & Co., 1900. First edition of Greenaway's final book, done when she was ill..... More