Kodomo no Kuni コドモノクニ [Land of Children] Vol. 5 #8 August 八月 第五巻 第八號　1926 26.1x 18.6 cm large-format children’s full color illustrated magazine on heavy paper. 36 pages including outside and inside front and rear wrappers, No flimsy pages in this copy (missing?). Japanese text with hiragana, katakana, and furigana..... More

Kodomo no Kuni コドモノクニ [Land of Children]Vol. 1 #3 March 三月 第一巻 第三號　1922　 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 are 4 flimsy pages with notes for mothers. Japanese text with hiragana, katakana, and..... More

Kodomo no Kuni コドモノクニ [Land of Children]　Vol. 1 #7 July 七月 第一巻 第七號　1922 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 are 4 flimsy pages with notes for mothers. Japanese text with hiragana, katakana, and..... 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. 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..... More

1929. POTTER, Beatrix. THE TALE OF PETER RABBIT. London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., N.d. [1904-1906]. 86 pages; frontispiece and 26 illustrations, all in color. And: POTTER, Beatrix. THE TALE OF BENJAMIN BUNNY. London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., 1904. 86 pages; frontispiece and 26 illustrations..... 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. 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

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

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