Old, Vintage & Collectible Childrens Books - Biblio

London: T.McLean ., 1855. Second edition. Hardcover. Good. Not dated but circa 1855. Second edition, second issue. Rebound in half leather with marble boards circa 1900, retaining the original lithographic front cover/title page with ‘New Edition’ in top right corner, publisher T.McLean in lower right corner.. Lithographed throughout with pictorial title 'Old Derry Down Derry' and 71 of 72 plates only (lacking 'Cape Horn'), printed on rectos only on thicker paper. The two 'Old Man of the West' plates with correct images, plates 20, 25, 34, 64 & 65 with parts of the verse redrawn ,four being the same plates as in the first edition, foxed in parts. Plate number 65 is badly cropped at the bottom, with loss of the last line of text. Plate 14 'Old Man of Jamaica' poorly printed at head and with scratch to verse, one or two images very slightly cropped at head, The binding is worn, rubbed, with the front hinge being quite weak and spine faded.… Read More

London [1894, 1895]: Macmillan and Co, 1894. First Editions 1st Printing. Blue Cloth, Gilt. Very Good/No Jacket. Plates By J Lockwood Kipling, W H Drake, P. Frenzeny. Viii, 212; (Ii), 238 + 2 Page Catalog At End. Blue Cloth, Lettered And Decorated In Gilt; All Edges Gilt; Slate Grey Endpapers. Both Volumes With Late 19Th Century Engraved Bookplates Of George Lindsay Bury [Of Moreton Central Sugar Mill, Starfield Observatory, Etc.]. The Jungle Book, 1894, First Printing, In Good To Very Good Condition, Gilt Complete But With Some Wear To Illustrations On Spine And Cover, Small Frays At Top And Bottom Of Spine And At Tips, Spine Cloth A Little Darkened; Hinges Beginning To Crack; Contents Immaculate, No Names Or Marks, Tissue Guard Intact. The Second Jungle Book, 1895, First Printing, Very Slight Wear,All Gilt Complete And Brilliant, Very Good + To Near Fine Condition, 1" Crack At Center Of Rear Hinge, Slight Rubbing At Corners.

London: Longman's Green & Co, 1885. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine Book. 6 1/2" Tall. 101 Pp., With Two Preliminary Blanks, Adverts. Page, Half-Title, Three Final Blanks. Attractively Bound In Well Preserved 3/4 Dark Morocco, Five Bands, Gilt Title And Author, Over Beautifully Marbled Paper Boards, Matching Hand Marbled Endpapers. Top Edge Gilt, Deckled Edges. First Printing, First Issue, One Of 1000 Copies, With No Mention Of "Two Series" In List Of Books By Stevenson. No Names Or Marks Or Stains Or Other Damage, Pages Clean And Just A Little Aged [With One Very Small Foxing Spot]. Gift Quality. Ex Collection Of Dorothy Gish But Not Marked As Such.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Maroon Cloth. Very Good + Book/Very Good Dustjacket. Joseph Schindelman. 162 Pp. Red Cloth, Spine Stamped Inm Gilt, Cover Stamped In Blind. First Issue (Six Line Colophon, Maroon Cloth Binding, 25/32" Thick Which Is A Little Thinner Than Later Issues, Mustard Endpapers, Top Edge Of Page Block Maroon) In Correct Dust Jacket (Price $3.95, No Isbn Number On Rear Panel). Book Lightly Used, Pages Clean And Tight, No Marks, No Fraying. Dust Jacket Shows Usage, But Complete, Not Price-Clipped, Wear At Top And Bottom Of Spine With Two 1 Mm V-Chips At Bottom Of Spine, 1/2" Closed Tear At Lower Rear Spine Edge, A Tiny Loss Of Paper Along Top Edge Of Spine, A Little Dust/Rubbing/Faint Soiling, Light Wear Along Upper And Lower Edges, And Some Faint Wrinkling, From General Use; Large Personal Engraved Bookplate, Now Laid In Loosely, With Some Light Glue Marks On Front Pastedown Where It Was Previously Attached, No Damage To Endpapers Except… Read More

Kestrels House, Peppard Common, Henley-on-Thames: Cressrelles Publishing Company Limited, 1977. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 1st Edition, 1st printing, 1977. Assumed 1st printing, no other printing information indicated. No price indicated at top of jacket flap and price clipped at bottom. The books on the back jacket flap were printed before 1977. 8vo. 128 pp. Tight and very clean. Appears unread. or very gently read. Book with blue cloth over boards and bright gilt print on spine. Book with a few tiny spine ends' bump lines. Two faint indents. Dust jacket with edge roughness near top corner. Almost imperceptible bottom edge soiling near bottom right third edge of jacket front. Tiny ghost stickers on jacket rear flap. Jacket ISBN matches book ISBN. Back jacket with older picture of Stan McMurtry and information. Stan McMurty is MAC, the political cartoonist of the Daily Mail, whose cartoons… Read More

London: Frederick Warne, 1909. A fine first edition copy in an original printed glassine dust jacket. Pp. 51, [1]; color frontispiece and nine full-page color illustrations; b/w vignette to the title-page and nineteen further black and white vignettes in the text. Original tan boards blocked in green with a colour onlay to the front board. Colour pictorial endpapers (Jane Quinby: Beatrix Potter A Bibliographical Check-List -plates VIII and IX). The original glassine jacket is slightly later (ca. 1912), printed in black, with an advertisement for "The Peter Rabbit Books" on the rear panel "The Most Successful Children's BooksRecently Published" appended to which is "The Tale of Mr. Tod" and "The Tale of Pigling Bland" (which were published in 1912 & 1913 respectively); the rear flap lists "Picture Books for Children" Illustrated by L Leslie Brooke"; the front flap advertises "Charming New Editions of Miss Potters's Little Folding… Read More

Pittsburgh / Louvain: Luke Loomis, 1828. Early Edition . Marbled Paper Wrappers. Good. 7 Woodcuts + Page of 7 Woodcuts at End. One Of A Very Large Number Of Printings From Various Early Nineteenth Century Printers; Worldcat Shows No Institutional Holding Of This Printing, But Does Show 10 Holdings Of A Similar But Longer Title, Undated, From This Printer/Publisher. Rebound In Marbled Paper Over Flexible Card, Nineteenth Century; Book Begins With Title Page And Tiny Stub Of Preceding Page. Text With 7 Woodcuts: One On Page Facing Title Page, With Text Beginning "See The Good And Dutiful Dog"; Five Alphabet Woodcut Pages, William Rogers Burning; Seven Small Woodcuts On Last Page. A Well-Used Example, Worn, Foxed, Traces Of Water Staining. Nineteenth Century Ownership Signature Of "John D. Tyson, Baltimore, Md., '47".

Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1909. Stated Three Hundred and Ninty-Fith Thousand on copyright page. With color frontis and 7 additional color illustrations by Herman Heyer. In illustrated green cloth boards with gilt titles. Very Good Plus, prior owner gift inscription front endpage, shadowing front endpages from former bookplate. Binding tight and square. In a Very Good dust jacket, small chips at flap folds and spine tips. The first volume in this enduringly popular series. Filmed in 1939, other titles in this series also filmed. . Later Printing. Cloth. Very Good Plus/Very Good. Illus. by Herman Heyer. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: McLoughlin Bros. Hardcover. Good +. No date [ca. 1880]. Large thin 4to color pictorial paper-covered boards. A remarkable and ingenious toy book. Four pages of text. The two-page centre plate is a colour chromolithograph stage proscenium, complete with an orchestra in the pit and boxes at the sides. Inserted via string ties in the centre is a chromolithographed booklet which changes the scenes when its pages are turned. Some are half pages that change characters in the scene, a forerunner of the technique used by Goodall in his toy books. The scenes in the insert show the complete story as described in the text. Spine split and worn, therefore books is fragile,. board edges with some wear; Contents slightly discoloured but one page with a small marginal piece missing, clean and complete, with the stage scene fine and bright. One of a series of five titles done by McLoughlin in this fashion, and one of their most charming endeavours. A reasonable /fair copy only. ScarceSize 10 x 7.5… Read More

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1881. Mason 310, with all the first issue points: Yellow top-stain, green floral endpapers, and child-on-a-globe front board design in gilt. Green cloth. Light shelfwear, with frayed spine ends. The cloth has a 2" tear along the rear joint. The front hinge is just starting to crack. In an otherwise tight binding.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Good+/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: George Allen And Unwin, 1964. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 92 Pp + Catalog At End. Green Cloth, Gilt. First Printing. Fine In Near Fine Dj, Not Price Clipped, Minute Loss At Top Of Two Flap Folds, No Foxing, Bright And Clean, Hint Of Fading To Spine Panel.

London: Methuen, 1928. First edition. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. 8vo. Original salmon cloth stamped in gilt, illustrated endpapers, t.e.g., illustrated dustjacket. Endpapers toned from jacket flap, some darkening and wear to jacket, very good. E.H. Shepard. First edition. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. 8vo. First Edition. First edition of the second collection of Pooh stories.

1928, VG+, First Edition, Complete 8-Volume set of Book Trails. Books are in very good condition. Minor age and shelf wear. Pages are clean and bright. No DJ. Beautiful illustrations. Additional postage required - heavy item.

808 pp., VG, some chipping and edgewear, bound with blind-stamped green cloth, gilt on spine, 12 months of Volume I issues, 1865, include first publications of Louisa May Alcott, "Nelly's Hospital," and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Christmas Bells," as well as works by Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Greenleaf Whittier, and others. Magazine for children ages 7 to 18 published from 1865 to 1873.

DAHL, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Illustrated by Joseph Schindelman. NY: Alfred A. Knopf [1964]. 8vo, [xii] 164pp. Red cloth with spine stamped in gold and front cover in blind; top edge red. Mustard endpapers; b&w illustrations throughout. Slightest wear to corners and spine ends, else a remarkably fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (some minor wear along top and bottom edges). With a bookplate signed by the author, Roald Dahl, laid-in.
First edition, bearing the six-line colophon. Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory is opening at last! But only five lucky children will be allowed inside. Charlie Bucket dreams of being one of the five, but he can't even afford the chocolate that contains the golden tickets. But when by a great stroke of luck he ends up with the fifth and final ticket, he finds himself on the adventure of a lifetime! The basis for two major motion pictures.