The Real Mother Goose
Rand McNally, 1935. Hardcover. Shelf wear to the cover. Corners bumped. Previous owner colored in crayon the image on title page. More
Children's
Jenny and the Cat Club: A Collection of Favorite Stories about Jenny Linsky (Revised)
New York Review of Books, November 2003. Hardcover. In Greenwich Village an orphaned black cat lives happily with her master, a sea captain. Still, the gentle Jenny Linsky would like nothing more than to join the local Cat Club, whose members include Madame Butterfly, an elegant Persian, the high-stepping Macaroni..... More
Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales Selected Edited and Translated by R. Nisbet Bain Illustrated by Noel L. Nisbet
George G. Harrap & Company, 1916. First Edition. Cloth. Dark brown cloth, pink titles, color front cover illustration plate affixed with gilt border & gilt design on spine. Previous owner's gift inscription circa Xmas 1927. Darkened textblock edges. Wear to board edges. Four color plates and 12 full page b&w..... More
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
Knopf, October 1983. First Edition. Cloth. Bound in burgundy cloth with gold lettering and designs. Pictoral endpapers. Lavishly illustrated throughout. Mylar wrapped. Nice copy. More
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
Tuttle. Trade Paperback. More
The Collected Verse of Lewis Carroll (with an Introduction by John Francis McDermott)
E.P. Dutton, 1929. First Thus. Cloth. First American Edition in dust-stained, spine-darkened pink dustjacket with blue lettering and chipping/edgewear with considerable wear to top of spine. Spine & corners Carolina blue & boards sky blue. Much faded/darkened gilt printed paper labels spine and front board. Edges of cloth worn/frayed top..... More
ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
Franklin Library, 1975. Limited. Leather. Octavo (Six-inches x Eight-inches) Tan full leather with gilt decorations & John Tenniel gilt illustration front & back panels. Raised bands on spine with gold lettering. Silk moire end pages & silk ribbon marker. Gilt textblock edges. Tight binding. Beautiful as new condition all over..... More
The Children of Dickens (REPRINT)
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. Cloth. 1935, reprint of 1925 first edition in brown cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Some lean to spine. Ten illustrated plates (including frontispiece) by Jessie Willcox Smith of various young Dickens characters. Cover has Smith illustrations of 'Tiny Tim and Bob Cratchit on..... More
The Seven Lady Godiva's -- (Signed by Dr. Seuss) #263/300 w Slipcase
Random House, 1987. First Thus. Cloth. Signed by author/illustrator: Dr. Seuss; numbered/limited #263/300; in tan Slipcase: This is commenorative edition of the first printing published in 1939. Clean, sound, like new. Tan cloth with gold lettering on spine. Blind stamp on front board. In fine slipcase. Complete number string. More
Billionairing with Bunter
Howard Baker, January 1978. Hardcover. More
The bounder's rebellion
Howard Baker, January 1977. Hardcover. More
The Man Who Planted Trees
Chelsea Green Publishing Company, June 1987. Trade Paperback. Jean Giono's beautiful allegorical tale is legendary. Written in the 1950's, its message was ahead of its time, inspiring readers to rediscover the harmonies of the countryside and prevent its willful destruction. The narrator, journeying by foot across the barren plains of..... More
Uncle Remus and His Friends: Old Plantation Stories, Songs, and Ballads with Sketches of Negro Character
Houghton, Mifflin and Company / Riverside Cambridge Press, 1899. Reprint. Cloth. 12mo. -- Four & 3/4-inch x Seven & 1/2-inch; Early reprint, published approximately 1899; missing date on title page indicates this is not a first printing. Green cloth covered boards with wear to edges, darkening/dust stains. Gold lettering on..... More
The Story of King Kabul the First and Gawain the Kitchen Boy (French Modernist Library)
University of Nebraska Press, March 1994. Hardcover. More
Helds Angels
THOMAS Y CROWELL COMPANY, January 1952. Cloth. In chipped, torn dust jacket. More
Raggedy Ann and Betsy Bonnet String
Johnny Gruelle Company/Kingsport Press, 1943. Cloth. Pictorial boards; black cloth spine & paper covered pictorial boards. Considerable marginal wear to boards. Sound binding. No known indication of Edition. Zempel's 'First Editions: A Guide to Identification' quotes Johnny Gruelle Company statement from 1947: 'There is no way of surely identifying the..... More
RAGGEDY ANN'S FAIRY STORIES
M. A. Donohue & Company, January 1928. Hardcover. Black cloth spine;pictorial paper covered boards. Considerable wear to margins. Slanted spine yet still intact. There seems to be no indication of edition and according to Zempel's 'First Edition: A Guide to Identification' includes a 1947 statement from the publisher, Donohue: 'we..... More
RAGGEDY ANN in the Magic Book
Johnny Gruelle company, January 1939. Cloth. Pictorial boards; blue cloth spine; paper covered boards. Considerable marginal wear. No way to determine First Editions on Raggedy Ann titles according to Zempel. More
The Cat and the Devil (Moonlight Editions)
Schocken Books, 1987. Hardcover. (Five & 3/4-inch x Seven & 3/4-inch) in edgeworn dustjacket. Not price clipped. Original price of $5.95 on flap. Pictorial paper covered boards. Illustrated end pages. Previous owner's bookplate affixed to front pastedown, covering copyright materials. More
Snickerty nick and the giant
Moffat, Yard & Co., 1919. First Edition. Cloth. Three Color Plates. Discoloration to boards especially at bottom edge & bow to boards. Interiors clean. Binding intact. More
Kate Greenaways Book of Poems
Grange Books, January 1993. Hardcover. Light shelf wear on the jacket. More
A Wrinkle in Time
Square Fish, May 2007. Trade Paperback. Madeleine L'Engle's ground-breaking science fiction and fantasy classic, now a major motion picture. It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset..... More
An Acceptable Time
Square Fish, May 2007. Trade Paperback. A flash of lightning, quivering ground, and, instead of her grandparents' farm, Polly sees mist and jagged mountains -- and coming toward her, a group of young men carrying spears. Why has a time gate opened and dropped Polly into a world that existed..... More
