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A L Burt Co NY, 1894. HBDJ, 1894. Early Edition, VG-/GOOD , AS-IS, Bright Octavo Soft Lime Green Decorated Cloth with black line decoration and red lettering to top board and spine and Oval Paper Inlaid Vignette of young Victorian miss to top board which Duplicated DJ Illustration. Dustwrapper that is Slightly chipped and worn At Edges Extremities Yet Front Illustration & Titles INTACT, Spine Ends DJ small Chips, Slight Lean Book, Interior Nice Tight Clean light FOX, Wear, 287 Pgs NO ADS in Back, Back DJ light Soil & Tiny Chips Tears Edges Lists Thru Sara a Princess, Handsome Cloth Binding,. Hard Cover.
THE HIPPOPOTAMUS BOOK. by SCHOFIELD, Lily. Written and illustrated by Schofield. Miniature book.:
by SCHOFIELD, Lily. Written and illustrated by Schofield. Miniature book.:
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THE HIPPOPOTAMUS BOOK.
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London, Anthony Treherne & Co. Ltd, (1905)... FIRST EDITION (1905), miniature book, 79 x 79 mm, 3 1/8 x 3 1/8 inches, blue cloth, red, brown, black and white illustration to upper cover, top edges red, 83 pages. 20 coloured plates each facing text, both printed on thick card, 1 side only. Spine slightly rubbed, very small pale mark to a couple of pages, stitching slightly slack, some inner joints cracked but binding sound. A very good copy. Set in Egypt, a fairy story about a hippo and Prince Boochus the Pharoah's son. No. 8 in a list of 9 Humpty Dumpty Books for Children inside upper cover, 'The prettiest Child Books in the world'. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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Not For Profit. A Story for Girls., Girl Comrades Series#12 In RARE Color DustJacket of Side Profile Beautiful Girl in Pink Bonnet with Green Silk Ribbon, Holding Purple Flowers
by Fannie E .Newberry, Former Owner Inscription in Pencil Blank Endpapers, B/W Frontispiece Anything for Me ? Said Mr. Kennedy as Esther Silently Held Out a Paper
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Al Alligator & How He Learned Banjo in Bright RED DJ of Florida Everglades alligator who under the kindly guidance of Uncle Joe, CHILDRENS
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Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1947. HBDJ, 1947, 1st edition, DJ IN MYLAR, 98 Pages , VG/VG, Hardcover (10 x 7 inches / 25 x 18 cm) Condition: Very good, storage wear to dust jacket, bit of aging to paper & TINY Corner Chips. Dust jacket in new plastic protector. Orange & Black Illustrated Boards, tiny chips to spine ends . 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by W. J. Pat Enright.
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The County Fair
by Tudor, Tasha
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1940. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. First edition, hardcover in dust jacket, 4
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Nursery Tales Children Love
by Watty Piper
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Platt & Munk, New York, 1933. Hardback. Condition: Good+.No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Eulalie Illus (illustrator). First Edition. Owner's inscription/blue cloth HB with pastedown color illustration of boy and girl holding hands and walking into the courtyard; Of a large fairy castle with black lettering, spine somewhat loose.Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Good clean unmarked copy. 1933 edition,Includes Little Black Sambo. No 100C Printed on lower left of front cover.
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Singing Wheels: Alice and Jerry Books, Reading Foundation Series
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Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
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Row, Peterson & Co.New York City, 1940. Hardcover. Condition: VERY GOOD.+ 1st US -1st Printing. .Some shelf wear. Pictorial Cover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. There is light soiling to the page edges The binding is good.
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Westy Martin in the Land of the Purple Sage
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New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Light chipping to jacket at edges with slight loss and a couple very short tears. A couple chips missing at head and tail of spine, rubbing and small tear to jacket at front hinge; wear to red cloth at edges and heavier at corners. A generally nice, attractive copy, scarce in jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 10. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: Children; Inventory No: 034155.
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Pickaback Songs; Words by Myrtle Reed; Music by Eva Cruzen Hart; Pictures by IkeMorgan
by Reed, Myrtle
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903. Hardcover. Good. Morgan, Ike. [72] p.: music, color illustrations signed "IAM"; 29 cm. Black cloth spine. Grey paper over boards with red and black titles, and color illustrations. The front cover illustration is of a woman carrying a child dressed in a Civil War uniform on her back (piggyback); the back cover shows a girl and boy singing, the boy playing an accordian. Illustrated endpapers. Contains 32 songs, each song with music for voice and piano on the left-hand page and the lyrics repeated with illustrations on the facing page. Lower margin of second page of the table of contents bears stamp of Sanders & Stayman Co., Washington, D.C., purveyors of pianos, phonographs, music, and pianolas. Front free endpaper bears gift inscription dated Christmas 1910. The author, Myrtle Reed (1874-1911), was an American poet, journalist, and novelist, who also published cookbooks under the name Olive Green. The illustrator, Isaac A. Morgan…
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Beauty and the Beast
by Apy, Deborah (Based on the work of Madame le Prince de Beaumont; Illustrations by Michael Hague.)
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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Norwalk: Easton Press 1983. (4to) 64pp. Near fine, no dust jacket. Blue leather with gilt decoration and lettering. All edges gilt, ribbon bookmark, color illustrations. There is a previous owner's book plate on the front free endpaper. This text is based on the story by Madame le Prince de Beaumont. Based on the work of Madame le Prince de Beaumont. Illustrations by Michael Hague. (Juvenile, Fairy Tales).
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Old Perisher, illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
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Richelieu, France
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London: Faber & Faber, 1965. A beautiful copy of this Ardizzone illustrated first edition. Clean dust wrapper. A touch of bruising and small repair to the head of the spine. The wrapper is clipped, but with the faber price sticker in place. The book itself is immaculate. Unpaginated. 250 by 185mm (9¾ by 7¼ inches).
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OUR OWN MAGAZINE
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London: The Children's Special Service Mission, 1882 pp 188, comprising 12 bound issues of the magazine from No. 28 - January, 1882 to No. 39 - December 1882. Illustrated with engravings original dark grey endpapers, text block edges gilt. Pictorial green cloth with bevelled edges and coloured front with light damage to top of spine including loss of colour.A monthly paper for children and young people edited and probably largely written by T.B. Bishop. Printed? and sold by Morgan and Scott.Very goodSeller open to reasonable offers.
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THE HIPPOPOTAMUS BOOK.
by SCHOFIELD, Lily. Written and illustrated by Schofield. Miniature book.:
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Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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London, Anthony Treherne & Co. Ltd, (1905)... FIRST EDITION (1905), miniature book, 79 x 79 mm, 3 x 3 inches, blue cloth, red, brown, black and white illustration to upper cover, top edges red, 83 pages. 20 coloured plates each facing text, both printed on thick card, 1 side only. Spine slightly rubbed, very small pale mark to a couple of pages, stitching slightly slack, some inner joints cracked but binding sound. A very good copy. Set in Egypt, a fairy story about a hippo and Prince Boochus the Pharoah's son. No. 8 in a list of 9 Humpty Dumpty Books for Children inside upper cover, 'The prettiest Child Books in the world'. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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The Sad Tale of Bazouge
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Boston: Museum of Fine Arts (Boston). Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1961. Booklet. Light crease at the spine of the front cover. ; A humorous tale of a crow or raven who successively, page after page, drinks and drains numerous glasses of spirits until its view of the world blurs, it stands, then falls on its back. Told wordlessly, with drawings only, and the story line is obvious. The stylized head and beak of the bird reoccur in Steinlen's book illustrations of crows and vultures. Swiss-born, creative polymath Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen (1859-1923) was painter, fabric designer, sculptor, periodical publisher, printmaker, and illustrator. Renowned for his turn-of-the-century, Art Nouveau-style, Steinlen produced drawings of Parisian street life, depicting average working-class people, actors, vendors, prostitutes, the upper class out of their element, criminals, and families, all in the urban environment. He was equally known for his many drawings of cats in both natural…
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Harold's Fairy Tale
by Crockett Johnson
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HAROLD'S FAIRY TALE, FURTHER ADVENTURES WITH THE PURPLE CRAYON. HARPER & BROTHERS FIRST EDITION. Exlib. Acceptable Condition. No Dust Jacket is included. RARE.
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The Beauties Of Washington Irving (Illustrated by George Cruikshank)
by Irving, Washington
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THE BEAUTIES OF WASHINGTON IRVING. ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM TEGG, LONDON, 1866. 4 X 5/58. 373 5/8. pages, plus adverts. USED. Good condition. All gilting still visible on titling on spine. Foxed on a a few pages.
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A Picture For Harold's Room
by Johnson, Crockett
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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Johnson, Crockett: A Picture For Harold's Room, A Purple Crayon Adventure. First Edition, Harper & Brothers 1960. Ex-lib. Good Condition/ No Dust Jacket. Rare/scarce. 64 pages 6 1/4 X 8 3/4
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Harold's Trip To The Sky
by Johnson, Crockett
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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Johnson, Crockett. Harold's Trip To The Sky. More Adventures With The Purple Crayon. First Edition. Harper & Bros., 1957. Hardcover. Used. Good Condition/ No Dust Jacket. Front cover sticker damage. A clean, solid copy. Please see our photos. Rare/Scarce.
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Gone is Gone: or The Story of a Man Who wanted to Do Housework
by Gag, Wanda
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GONE IS GONE, BY POPULAR CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATOR WANDA GA'G. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD DUST JACKET. 1935 Coward-McCann First Edition, Stated Twelfth Printing Thus. A crisp, clean copy in a nice yellow unclipped dust jacket. A nice find.
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Equal Rites: Compact Discworld Novel
by Pratchett, Terry
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Complete text of Equal Rites printed in tiny print in miniature book. Third in this compact series that was "specially handmade by imps of the Counterweight Continent" (as the jacket states). Actually typeset in Great Britain and printed in China. Hard-to-find collectible for Pratchett lover.
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English-French French-English Midget Series Dictionary
by Burgess & Bowes Ltd [Editor]
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A very good+ red cloth bound softcover, completely revised and corrected.25.000 Words with Dialogues, ets. Containing Automobile Terms, Dialogues, Geographical and Christian Names, Photographic Terms, Etc.
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Hand-Carved Alpha-Bet [Miniature].
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Washington DC:: Abstract Orange,, 2016.. Edition of 300. 29 pages; 1.75 x 2". Case-Bound. Accordion extending from the back pastedown. Mulberry paper hinges. Letterpress printed. Bound in orange cloth boards with title on front cover. Signed and numbered by the artist. This is the miniature version of Emeritz's large format edition of "Hand-Carved Alpha-Bet". As with the larger version the miniature alphabet book was printed with letters that were hand carved in wood by the artist. Each letter is a capital letter printed in orange.
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Shapes (Miniature).
by [Abstract Orange] Lauren Emeritz
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Washington DC:: Abstract Orange,, 2018.. Edition of 100. 2 x 1.75" miniature. Single sided accordion fold extending from the back pastedown. Colophon printed on back pastedown. Bound in gray bookcloth with title in orange gilt on front board and spine. In a protective stiff plastic slip case opening at the top. Designed, laser cut, letterpress printed and bound by Lauren Emeritz. Signed and numbered by the artist. Emeritz has printed a colorful book of shapes using orange, blue, and black inks. Each shape is displayed twice on facing pages. The left side shows the image in white with color background in ink. The right side shows the shape printed in ink with a white background. The seven shapes and colors are: Circle - Orange; Square - Blue; Triangle - Orange; Arrow - Gray; Heart - Orange; Star - Blue; Hand - Orange.
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