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Kodomo no Kuni コドモノクニ [Land of Children] Vol. 1 #8 August 八月 第一巻 第八號 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, 4 pages flimsy, notes to mothers. Japanese text with hiragana, katakana, and furigana and..... More
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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
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Kodomo no Kuni コドモノクニ [Land of Children] Vol. 5 #4 April 四月 第五巻 第四號 1926 26.1x 18.6 cm large-format children’s full color illustrated magazine on heavy paper. 34 pages including outside and inside front and rear wrappers, No flimsy pages in this copy (missing?). Japanese text with hiragana, katakana, and furigana 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
1900. PIETSCH, Oscar. LITTLE FOLKS. Boston: S.R. Urbino, [circa 1900]. First American edition. Translation of German children's rhymes. 8vo., cream boards stamped in black over red cloth, 38 pp.. Soiled, sunned, foxed, worn, cracked spine. Cloth at spine torn, ink ownership to ffep. As is. Children's poetry... 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
1950. POLITI, Leo. POLITI, Leo. A BOAT FOR PEPPE. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. First edition, beautifully inscribed by the author in Italian with color embellishments on front flyleaf. Unpaginated [32] pp. 4to., blue-green cloth stamped in dark green. In a color illustrated dust jacket. Near fine, some rubbing..... 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
1920. PORTER, Eleanor H. MARY MARIE. Illustrated by Helen Mason GROSE. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920. First edition. 296 pp. 8vo., black cloth stamped in yellow. Near fine, slight discoloration to front endpapers, owner's ink signature to front flyleaf. In very good dust jacket with light age..... More
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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
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
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