1918. PUTNAM, Nina Wilcox. SUNNY BUNNY. Illustrated by Johnny Gruelle. Joliet, etc: P.F. Volland, (1918). First edition. Small 8vo., pictorial paper-covered boards backed in black cloth, color illustrations, pictorial endpapers. A fine, lovely, bright copy in the original illustrated box. The box is somewhat dust soiled with a small. 1"... 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
1931. CARTER, Helene. RANSOME, Arthur. SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS. Illustrated by Helene CARTER. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company (1931). First American edition, third impression. 343 pp. 8vo., green cloth stamped in black. Small neat owner's ink signature on upper right corner of front illustrated (map) endpapers. A few small faint fore-edge... 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
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. GREENAWAY, Kate. [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... More
1943. SAINT-EXUPERY, Antoine de. LE PETIT PRINCE. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943. First Edition. Light Brown cloth lettered and decorated in dark red to front and spine. Crow is present on p.63. $2.00 price present on front flap. Near fine in lightly soiled and chipped dust jacket. 1/2 to... More
1924. SAMIS, Robert E. THE BIRD FOOT RACE IN FOLLIES. Kansas City, Mo.: Samis Publishing Co., (1924). First edition. Illustrated with drawings, color plates, and from photographs. 80 pp. 4to., blue cloth stamped and illustrated in black to upper board. Pencil to rear end page, soil to text margins, creased... More
McCloskey, Robert. SAWYER, Ruth. Journey Cake, Ho! New York: Viking Press: 1953. First Edition. Illustrated by Robert McCloskey. Cloth-backed decorated paper-covered boards, wear at bottom of spine, text block slightly loose in binding. Jacket has extensive chips and tears to edges and spine, and old tape repairs on verso. More
1962. SENDAK, Maurice. THE NUTSHELL LIBRARY: ONE WAS JOHNNY/PIERRE/CHICKEN SOUP WITH RICE/ALLIGATORS ALL AROUND. New York: Harper & Row, 1962. var pp. 48mo, pink cloth stamped in dark brown. Very good, moderate soil to One Was Johnny and Pierre. In very good blue, yellow and black dust jackets, some with..... More
1916. SETON, Ernest Thompson. WILD ANIMAL WAYS. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page, 1916. First edition. Inscribed presentation copy dated May 15, 1916, 8vo, green cloth; with 8 half-tone plates and numerous marginal drawings by the author. There is a loose bookplate and a residual glue mark where it had... More
1905. SETON, Ernest Thompson. WOODMYTH & FABLE. New York: The Century Company, 1905. 181pp. 8vo. Red cloth stamped in gilt and green to front and spine. Text in red with accompanying b/w illustrations by E.T. Seton. Book design by Grace Gallatin Seton. Binding slightly cocked. Dustjacket is split in two... More
1964. EASTMAN, P.D. SEUSS, Dr. and P.D. EASTMAN. THE CAT IN THE HAT BEGINNER BOOK DICTIONARY. (New York): Beginner Books, A division of Random House, (1964). First edition. Illustrated 4to. A youngster's name in pencil to fly leaf (and her initials to front pastedown). Small chip to bottom-edge of rear... More
1963. SEUSS, Dr. DR. SEUSS'S ABC. New York: Beginner Books, A Division of Random House, Inc., 1963. First edition. Illustrated 8vo. Slight lean to spine. Shelfworn at upper fore-corners. Some soil and scuffing to endpapers, else clean and bright within. Very good minus, in a lightly soiled dust jacket that... More
1963. SEUSS, Dr. DR. SEUSS'S ABC. New York: Beginner Books, A Division of Random House, Inc., 1963. First edition. Illustrated 8vo. A near fine copy in a lightly soiled, somewhat tired dust jacket that is worn with a few nicks and tears along the edge. [Younger and Hirsch 19]. More
1962. SEUSS, Dr. DR. SEUSS'S SLEEP BOOK. New York: Random House, (1962). First edition. Illustrated 4to. 3 ownership stamps to verso of fly-leaf. Light shelfwear, else bright and fresh throughout. Near fine, in a lightly rubbed and edgeworn price-clipped dust jacket with a single short closed tear to bottom-edge of... More
1962. SEUSS, Dr. DR. SEUSS'S SLEEP BOOK. New York: Random House, (1962). First edition. Illustrated 4to. Light shelfwear, else bright and fresh throughout. Very good, in a somewhat worn dust jacket with a small rectangular hole about the size of a quarter. [Younger and Hirsch 57]. More
1965. SEUSS, Dr. FOX IN SOCKS. New York: Beginner Books, A Division of Random House, Inc., 1965. First edition. Illustrated 8vo. Pencil ownership to fly-leaf. Erasure to rear pastedown. Minor shelfwear to spine extremities; bumped at heel. Very good plus, in a very good minus price-clipped dust jacket with chipping... More
1935. SEUSS, Dr. SECRETS OF THE DEEP OR THE PERFECT YACHTSMAN BY OLD CAPTAIN TAYLOR. [n.p.] Essomarine/Penola, 1935. Second issue. 34 pp. Fine, bright copy in color pictorial stapled wrappers. Three-color illustrations. In the rare mailing envelope, unaddressed (blank) with three-color Seuss marine creature in front return address area. Text... More
1930. ROGERS, HUBERT. "A MYSTERY STORY FOR BOYS AND GIRLS" SINGMASTER, Elsie. A LITTLE MONEY AHEAD. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930. First Edition. 8vo. 194pp. 4 plates, b/w illustrations by Hubert Rogers, a science fiction artist of note, known for his work in Astounding Science Fiction magazine. Green cloth stamped... More
1921. BURD, C. M. SMITH, Laura Rountree. GOOD NIGHT STORIES. Chicago: Stanton and Van Vliet Co. (1921). Illustrated by C. M. BURD & Violet Moore HIGGINS. 120 pp. + 1 pp. ad. 8vo., color illustrated paper covered boards, in matching dust jacket. Moderate shelfwear and soil to boards, jacket fair... More
1923. SMITH, Jessie Wilcox. SMITH, Nora Archibald. BOYS AND GIRLS OF BOOKLAND. Illustrated by Jessie Wilcox SMITH. New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1923. Later printing. 100 pp. 4to., green cloth stamped in gilt with color illustration pastedown to front board. Small dent to fore-edge of front board, minor wear to... More