Search Results: Titles starting with W from Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller

Boston: The Horn Book, Inc, 1944. First Edition. Stiff wraps. Very good +/Fair. J.J. [Julius] LANKES. First edition. 12mo; [32pp]; tan buckram over board with red stamped title, author and illustrator to front; woodcut cottage illustration onlay; decorative endpapers; frontispiece a tipped in photographic illustration of author with a young child, facsimile signature below; illustrations in text; light age toning of paper, a few small spots on page tails, one small (1/8") closed tear to page fore edge; cream illustrated dust jacket; dj flaps and spine separated front and rear; very good plus in fair dj. Quinby 32. Published posthumously (Beatrix Potter 1866-1943) with a forward by Bertha E. Mahony, founder of The Horn Book children's magazine and part of the children's literature movement. Frontispiece is a lovely tipped-in photograph of Potter with a young child. Wag-By-Wall is a Christmas story held by request of Potter "for our Twentieth Anniversary Number (May-June 1944), states the front dust… Read More

[Wiscasset, Maine]: Waldoboro-Boston Club, 1917. First Edition. Stiff wraps. Near fine. 12mo; 35pp; tan stiff wrappers with title on front; 2 staple binding; small photographic illustrations; 17pp of members of the Boston area club of Waldoboro residents along with their occupations; light soiling to wrapper; near fine. Rare, not recorded. Collection of newspaper and periodical publications about Waldoboro Maine, including: The Boston Herald, The Youth's Companion; Damariscotta Herald, Rockland Courier-Gazette, Rockland Opinion, Sheepscot Echo, printed for the people living in Boston from Waldoboro and celebrating the German heritage of the area.

Stuttgart: Verlag v. Gustav Weise, 1880. Pictorial boards. Very good. 4to; [16pp]; illustrated paper over board with red cloth binding; thick board leaves, the left leaf is verse and description, the right sided leaf is colorful pictures of everyday objects; rubbing and bumping to board covers, age toning to leaves, some smudges, a light warp to the boards; very good. Scarce, not in WorldCat libraries. Colorful illustrations of objects with the German word underneath. Left leaves are verse and story as descriptions. Illustrations are bright and charming. Cloth binding is bright and strong. A wonderful glimpse of European late 19th century.

Syracuse, New York: Syracuse Washing Machine Corporation, 1927. Stiff wraps. Very good. Wrapper title: Washing, Helps and Suggestions. 12mo; [1-2] 3-32; ivory colored stiff wrapper with title and author printed in black on front and green decoration; 2 staple binding; vignette illustrations in green ink; sunning and soiling to wrapper; very good. Not recorded. Interesting booklet on washing clothing, stain removal, as well as tips for cleaning other household furnishings.

Atlas York County Maine, Philadelphia: Sanford: Everts and Co, 1872. Very good. 13 1/8'' x 16 1/8'' paper size, 11 7/8" x 14 1/2" within the neat lines; map extends on southern and western edge past the neat lines; town information on verso by Samuel K. Roberts; hand-colored; a few light spots; very good. Now called Waterboro, the town was first incorporated in 1787 by the Massachusetts General Court, the name was shortened to Waterboro in 1895. This map sections Waterborough into districts but lacking a Directory on the map to their purpose; of note is the Portland & Rochester Railroad formed in 1867 by a merger of the York and Cumberland Railroad (1846) and Nashua and Rochester Railroad (1847); the railway only operated until 1883 until further merges occurred.

[New York]: Michael Di Capua Books, Harper Collins Publishers, 1993. First Edition. Boards. Fine/Fine. Maurice SENDAK, illustrator; Jeanyee WONG, hand lettering. First edition. 8vo oblong; [52pp]; smooth tan paper over board, title in brown to spine; tan textured endpapers, ownership in neat marker to front pastedown dated "Christmas 1995"; color illustrated half-title and title page; color illustrations every page with text; heavy paper stock; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket; fine in fine dj. Hanrahan 138. ISBN: 0-06-205014-1. Front flap of dust jacket, "Two Traditional Rhymes from Mother Goose, Ingeniously Joined and Interpreted by Maurice Sendak". Busy and bright illustrations accompany the rhymes and tell the story of an abandoned child and his homeless rescuers living in the dump.

Poughkeepsie, New York: Artists and Writers Guild, Inc, 1936. First American Edition. Wraps. Near fine. B. Butler. [CHILDREN] [ANIMALS] [PICTURE BOOK]. Cover: No. 3728, Linen-Like Finish. B. BUTLER, illustrator. First American edition. Reprinted by permission of the Oxford University Press, London, England. 4to (12 ½" x 9 7/8"); [8]pp; stiff textured wrapper, color printed scene of a cat and kittens on the front, goats on the rear; ownership in neat ink to verso front wrapper; full-page color illustrations; minor shelf wear to wrapper and light soiling; near fine. Not found in OCLC. Bright and happy full-page color illustrations of farm animals in their environment with simple text. This edition was printed by Artists and Writers Guild, Inc. which was founded in New York City in the 1930s by Western Publishing, the parent company of Western Printing and Lithographing Company of Racine, Wisconsin, to print children's books.

Toronto: W.J. Gage & Co., Limited, 1957. Wraps. Near fine. Eleanor CAMPBELL. [SCHOOL READER]. Eleanor CAMPBELL, illustrator. 12mo; 64pp; stiff pictorial yellow wrapper, title on front in black, 2 vignettes of children at play on front, black cloth shelf back; unused condition; darkened fore edge of front wrapper, small chip to top edge else near fine. Part of the Dick and Jane series of school readers, featuring Dick, Jane, Father, Mother, Baby, Spot the dog, Tim, and Puff the cat.

New York: Junior Books, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1938. Boards. Fine/very good +. Richard Holberg. 8vo; [32pp]; color pictorial board with illustration of Wee Brigit to front and shamrock to rear, black cloth spine; pencil presentation to ffep; illustrations in both color and b&w within text; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, matching boards, light soiling and edge chipping, small ink mark to rear; fine in very good plus dj.

[No place listed--Switzerland?]: Michael-Slains publication, 1966. Wraps. Very good +. CAMILLA. [JUVENILE] [ANIMALS] [WOMAN AUTHOR and ILLUSTRATOR]. Gerber & Daengeli Inc., Vevey, Switzerland. CAMILLA (Aged sixteen), illustrator. 4to; [16]leaves; stiff manila color pictorial wrapper, red ribbon binding tied through stab holes, 4 vignettes of Pekingese dogs on front; text printed on both sides of the leaves; 8 color plates with tissue guards; light spotting to wrapper interior bright and clean; very good plus. OCLC locates 2 copies one in Wales and one in Australia. The story of a Pekingese dog named Wee Jade Button who did not like to be told what to do because he knew his breed was royal. Privately printed in Switzerland.

Boston: Dana Estes & Co, 1898. Cloth. Very good. Maragaret JOHNSON. 12mo oblong; 81pp; black and red illustrations on yellow cloth over board; ownership in ink to free front endpaper; chipping of paper at front hinge where it appears the free endpaper was tipped back in; small hole in cloth at spine, shelf scuffing and light soiling; very good minus. Illustrated within the text and small drawings substituted for words within a sentence (a rebus). Clever and interesting.

New York: James Miller, 522 Broadway, 1867. Cloth. Very good. [PESOA, engraver]. First edition thus. 12mo (7 ¾" x 5 3/8"); 380 + [2]pp publisher's ads; blue cloth over board, blind stamped fillets with corner ornaments enclosing a circle with the title; gilt stamped lettering and ornamentation on spine; pale yellow eps, gift inscription on front pastedown; engraved fp with tissue guard + 14 plates; very good. OCLC locates 13 copies. One of the many fairy tales by the Danish author, Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) written around 1840. Illustrations are signed "Pesoa, SC," possibly Isaac Pesoa illustrator and engraver.

[New York]: Review of Reviews Company, 1917. First Edition. Cloth. Very good. First edition. 8vo; 48pp; brown mottled paper over board with printed title and seal of the Life Extension Institute Inc., New York to front cover; tan cloth spine; lightly bumped corners; black and white illustrations; double frontispiece and one other full page plate inserted twice; very good. Odd little diet book from the Life Extension Institute with dietary and life style recommendations. Some seemingly pseudo-science but perhaps forward for the time period.

New York: Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Company. Cloth. Near fine. Frances BRUNDAGE and Harriet KAUCHER. 4to; 32pp; tri-chromatic half-tone pictorial glazed board; red cloth spine; pencil gift inscription to recto fp dated 1922; b&w vignette to title page; 4 color plates including fp; b&w line illustrations in text; light soiling to boards, light age-toning paper edges; near fine. In only 2 WorldCat libraries. Stories answer the question, "What shall I be when I grow up?" Stories include: A Farmer Lad, The Busy Postman, Heap Big Indian Chief, Down the Field [Football Player], Clown of the Circus, A Pot of Paint [Painter], to the Rescue [Fireman], Be Prepared [Boy Scout], and Baseball for One.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1941. Later printing. Cloth. Fine/near fine. Sibylle v. OLFERS. Later printing, date on front flap of dust jacket only. 4to; [22pp]; yellow cloth over board illustrated with silhouettes of tiny children carrying plant stems; pictorial endpapers; full page color illustrations opposite a page of text; light finger smudges to boards; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket with price of $3.39, gold "Longlife Binding" (library binding) sticker to front, light chipping at spine; fine in near fine dj. First published in 1930 by Frederick A. Stokes, this later edition by a different publisher retains the charming illustrations and story of "root children" who live underground and return to the surface of the earth in spring.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1921. First Edition. Three-quarter leather bound. Very good +. [SIGNED] [TRAVEL & ADVENTURE] [STIGMATIZING LANGUAGE]. SIGNED. First edition. 8vo; xviii [ii], 279pp; three-quarters orange calf over marbled boards, 6 compartments on spine with gilt-stamped ornaments and lettering, age-toned endpapers; gilt top edge, deckle fore-edge; gift inscription on the first fly leaf; fp with tissue guard features a b&w photographic illustration of man with a blow-gun + 15 additional plates and one map titled "Maylasia"; binding tight, corners scuffed, edges rubbed, light age-toning; very good plus. 3 items laid in: Contemporary newspaper clipping titled "Major Powell Directs Royal Wedding Movie: Supervises Filming of Ornate Ceremony in Java, Grandchildren of ‘Spike of Universe' Being Principals"; hotel program "Continental Palace Hotel Programme du Mardi 4 Mai 1920"; and a photograph of a man with a gun and a crying child labeled "police" on verso. The gift inscription on… Read More

Chicago: P.F. Volland Company, 1919. Boards. Very good. Maginel WRIGHT ENRIGHT. Volland "Nature Children" Book. 8vo; [88pp + 3 publisher's ads]; color pictorial boards and endpapers; ownership in script to ffep; color vignette on title page; color illustrations throughout; light soiling to boards and eps, a few finger marks on pages; very good minus. Charming fanciful stories of flowers, insects, and garden life and the elves that inhabit them.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1945. First Edition. Boards. Near fine/very good. James THURBER and Don FREEMAN. A Wartime Book. First edition. 8vo; 115pp; white-stamped title and author name on green cloth over board; b&w illustrations in text; 4 color illustrated plates by Don Freeman inserted; age-toning of endpapers; color pictorial dust jacket lacking price, sunning of spine, age-toning, a few scuffs; near fine in a very good dj. A children's fairy tale about 3 brothers, sons of King Clode, who set out to win the hand of a princess in an enchanted wood.

London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1943. Cloth. Very good +/very good +. Tasha TUDOR. [WOMAN AUTHOR and ILLUSTRATOR]. Tasha TUDOR, illustrator. Hilda SCOTT, calligraphy. First edition. 16mo square (6 5/8" x 6 1/8"); [26]pp; pale gray cloth over board, pastedown label on front board with blue lettering and witch hazel branches; animal vignettes in blue within a border on eps; pictorial title page, cat tails with lettering in a blue border; 13 full-page illustrations in shades of blue; light glue burn at front hinge, brown stain on lower edge 2pp; unclipped pictorial dust jacket with price of $1.00 of front flap, plants and lettering on the front in blue, vignette of oak leaves on rear panel, lightly age-toned; very good plus in very good plus dj. Hare W2. One of Tasha Tudor's (1915-1908) sweetly told stories accompanied by her tender illustrations. Tudor was an American writer and illustrator primarily of children's books. She felt her unconventional childhood led her to live an… Read More

Portland, Maine: Chisholm Bros, 1880. Boards. Very good +. Published by Chisholm Bros., Manufacturer's of Chas. Frey's Original Souvenir Albums of all American & Canadian Cities & Sceneries. 8vo; 12 panels accordion-folded; gilt and black stamped aesthetic design to front board; grey chromolithograph pictorial illustrations; light scuffing to edges and a scrape to rear board; one accordion-fold archivally repaired; very good plus. Scenic views, as well as railroads and important buildings. Large illustrations have top and bottom borders of flowers in the aesthetic style.