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 about WE DIDN'T MEAN TO GO TO SEA
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 about JORGE EL CURIOSO (CURIOUS GEORGE
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 about JORGE EL CURIOSO (CURIOUS GEORGE
1905. RICE, Alice Hegan. SANDY. New York: Century Co., 1905. First edition. Olive pictorial cloth, rubbed at spine and corners. About very good. More about SANDY
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 about APRIL BABY'S BOOK OF TUNES
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 about BIRD FOOT RACE IN FOLLIES
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 about Journey Cake, Ho!
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 about NUTSHELL LIBRARY: ONE WAS JOHNNY/PIERRE/CHICKEN SOUP WITH RICE
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 about WILD ANIMAL WAYS
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 about WOODMYTH & FABLE
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 about CAT IN THE HAT BEGINNER BOOK DICTIONARY
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 about DR. SEUSS'S ABC
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 about DR. SEUSS'S ABC
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 about DR. SEUSS'S SLEEP BOOK
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 about DR. SEUSS'S SLEEP BOOK
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 about FOX IN SOCKS
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 about SECRETS OF THE DEEP OR THE PERFECT YACHTSMAN BY OLD CAPTAIN TAYLOR
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 about A LITTLE MONEY AHEAD
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 about GOOD NIGHT STORIES
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 about BOYS AND GIRLS OF BOOKLAND
1949. SNEAD, Rodman E. FOLLOW THE DOTS AND FIND THE STATES. New York: Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Company, (1949). Illustrated by Jeanne Block. A connect-the-dots book of the American States. Oblong 4to., illustrated paper boards. Some of the puzzles have been completed. Very good. More about FOLLOW THE DOTS AND FIND THE STATES
1923. KIRK, Maria L. SPYRI, Johanna, transl. Elisabeth P. Stork. MAZLI: A STORY OF THE SWISS VALLEYS. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1923. Illustrated by Maria L. Kirk. 320 pp. 8vo., green cloth withgilt and black lettering and design, with color illustration paper pastedown on front cover. Gift edition. Very... More about MAZLI: A STORY OF THE SWISS VALLEYS
1913. [DULAC, Edmund, illustrator]. STAWELL, Mrs. Rudolph [Maud Margaret]. MY DAYS WITH THE FAIRIES. A new and enlarged edition of "Fairies I Have Met." Illustrated in colour by Edmund Dulac. New York, London: Hodder and Stoughton, [n.d., circa 1913]. First edition thus. Eight color plates mounted on tan paper, with... More about MY DAYS WITH FAIRIES
1924. WYETH, N. C. STEVENSON, Robert Louis. DAVID BALFOUR: BEING MEMOIRS OF THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF DAVID BALFOUR AT HOME AND ABROAD. Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. xv + 356 pp. 8vo., black buckram with gilt spine lettering and color illustrated pastedown on front... More about DAVID BALFOUR
1914. STEWART, Jane L. THE CAMP FIRE GIRLS IN THE MOUNTAINS OR BESSIE KING'S STRANGE ADVENTURE. Camp Fire Girls Series, Vol. IV. Chicago: Saalfield Publishing Co. (1914). 168 pp. 8vo., pale polka-dotted illustrated boards. Light shelfwear and rubbing to boards. Interior fine but for age toning to paper. Number IV... More about CAMP FIRE GIRLS IN THE MOUNTAINS OR BESSIE KING'S STRANGE ADVENTURE