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
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
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
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
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
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
1914. STEWART, Jane L. THE CAMP FIRE GIRLS IN THE WOODS OR BESSIE KING'S FIRST COUNCIL FIRE. Camp Fire Girls Series, Vol. I. Chicago: Saalfield Publishing Co. (1914). 168 pp. 8vo., pale polka-dotted illustrated boards. Light shelfwear and rubbing to boards. Front hinge cracked. Interior fine but for age toning..... More
1856. SUNDAY SCHOOL ADVOCATE VOLUME XIII NUMBER 14, WHOLE NO. 292 (APRIL 8, 1854) - VOLUME XV NUMBER 12, WHOLE NUMBER 339 (MARCH 22, 1856) PP. 105-200, 1-192 & 1-96, complete. 4to, 3/4 leather with marbled paper covered boards. Spine joints cracked, one inch chip to heel, tiny chips to..... More
1916. TARKINGTON, Booth. PENROD AND SAM. New York: Grosset & Dunlop, (1916). Photoplay edition, illustrated with stills and drawings. 8vo., green cloth. Book is lightly over-opened at frontispiece and very lightly shaken; in dust jacket with sun and very small chips to extremes. Very good plus... More
1944. TEMPEST, Margaret. PINKIE MOUSE & THE BALLOONS. London: Collins, (1944). First edition. 31 pp. 4 1/2 x 4." Bright illustrations by the author accompany her own text, which is printed in vivid blue. Pink cloth back, paper covered boards, illustration to upper board, decorated pink endpapers. Contemporary gift inscription..... More
1944. TEMPEST, Margaret. PINKIE MOUSE & THE ELVES. London: Collins, (1944). First edition. 31 pp. 4 1/2 x 4." Bright illustrations by the author accompany her own text, which is printed in vivid blue. Pink cloth back, paper covered boards, illustration to upper board, decorated pink endpapers. A charming, contemporary..... More
1946. TEMPEST, Margaret. PINKIE MOUSE & THE RAINBOW. London: Collins, (1946). First edition. 31 pp. 4 1/2 x 4." Bright illustrations by the author accompany her own text, which is printed in blue. Pink cloth back, paper covered boards, illustration to upper board, decorated pink endpapers. Light soiling to boards..... More
1857. THAYER, William M. THE POOR BOY AND MERCHANT PRINCE; OR, ELEMENTS OF SUCCESS DRAWN FROM THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF THE LATE AMOS LAWRENCE; A BOOK FOR YOUTH. Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1857. With the bookplate of Augustus Lowell (related by marriage to Lawrence). 349 pp. 12mo., ribbed brown..... More
1952. SHEPARD, Mary. TRAVERS, P. L. MARY POPPINS IN THE PARK. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952. First American Edition. 235 pp. 8vo., blue cloth. Fine in very good dust jacket with light soil, several small closed tears and nicks, 1/4 inch chip to top of spine. Cheerful b/w..... More
1888. TROWBRIDGE, J. T. A START IN LIFE: A History of the Genesee Country. Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1888. Later printing. (1904). Bound in red cloth with two color illustration to boards. Jacket has tear along one hinge but is otherwise fine. Binding is tight. Bears ownership inscription to..... More
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1893. [UNNAMED ARTIST] SAM'S PICTURE BOOK 1893 [HANDPAINTED CLOTH PICTURE BOOK]. 4to. Handsewn cloth-covered boards, with handpainted covers, and twelve cloth pages with two full-page paintings sewn back-to-back to make each leaf. Blue polka dot and pink floral cloth wallpaper serves as endpapers. The pages have some thumbing, and a...... More
1984. VAN ALLSBURG, Chris. THE MYSTERIES OF HARRIS BURDICK. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984. First edition. [32] pp. 4to., terra cotta cloth, title gilt-stamped to spine and upper board. Fourteen evocative drawings suggest, but do not explain, the mysteries of Harris Burdick. Clean and crisp, in a like dust wrapper..... More
1927. WYETH, N. C. VERNE, Jules. MICHAEL STROGOFF, a Courier of the Czar. Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1927). First edition thus, with Wyeth's illustrations: a color-illustrated title-page, nine color plates, and color-illustrated endpapers. (viii), 397 pp. Octavo, black cloth with a large color-illustrated label..... More