Old, Vintage & Collectible Childrens Books - Biblio

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981 Jungle-green cloth with gold titles, gift inscription on FFEP, illustrated jacket with closed tears, small loss from rear panel and light chipping to spine ends. Things go terribly awry when animals in a mysterious board came suddenly begin to appear in the house. Van Allsburg's deftly rendered conte pencil drawings amaze and spark the imagination. Making a movie from this fabulous 1982 Caldecott Award winning picture book would have made perfect sense to me, too!. First Edition First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good +. Illus. by Chris Van Allsburg. Oblong 4to.

NY A. L. Burt, 1899. Inner Hinges starting ever so Slightly, HBDJ, 1899. Early Printing, VG+/GOOD-, AS-IS, Small chips in DJ corners & Extremities YET Titles & Illustration Basically Intact ; Green cloth covered boards with colorful decorations & Illustration of brown & black duplicates DJ Illustration cvr has small corner Dings. ; 12mo .Binding is Hardcover. Spine Ends DJ small Chips take out small portion Title & Publ, Back DJ Fox Wear & small Edge chips lists thru Young Minuteman, Cloth Hardback Olivine Edges, Interior Nice tight clean light FOX, Wear, 264 pgs + ADS End with final reckoning tale of Bush life. Hard Cover.

New York: Roy Pub, 1944 Illustrated boards in matching dust jacket with slight wear. Illustrated endpapers. A Christmas nativity story adapted from a Polish folktale. Illustrated with bold and striking color lithographs throughout.. First Edition. Illustrated Boards. Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Irena Lorentowicz. Oblong 4to.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. (1971). Illustrated boards with a hint of rubbing to bottom of spine, else fine; matching dust jacket. When a train breaks down, Fletcher and Zenobia come to the rescue. Great color illustrations throughout by Chess. . First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Victoria Chess. Square 8vo..

Morristown, NJ: Silver Burdett (1956). Color illustrated paper over boards, spine wear, else, very good. A companion to I Like the City and to the "Music Through The Day, Teacher's Book One." Illustrated in color throughout by Rojankovsky. Issued for use in schools it is uncommon to find the book without school markings and in nice condition. (Allen AB.27).. First Edition. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. Illus. by Feodor Rojankovsky. Oblong 8vo.

: Harold Hill & Company, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England. UK, 1957 HBDJ, Stated First Published Great Britain 1957 on copyright pg, 1st UK Edition, VG-/GOOD+, AS-IS, THICK Orange Tweed cloth with Silhouette of boys on front & Title & Author on Spine Cvr has slight Btm Front edge Fade, Dustjacket has a small edgewear at the head and foot of the spine with small Chip Top NOT Affecting Title. Front dustjacket flap Lists Thru Crisscross Shadow, The text itself is in good shape with Light Wear Fox, page List of titles in front go thru While Clock Ticked, 222 pgs , + ADS in back Have you ever thought why You get so Much Fun + List Nancy Drew Titles Thru Secret Red Gate Farm, Interior Nice tight clean Light Wear Fox, DJ Protected by Clear Mylar, DJ Light wear tiny chips Tears creases Extremities, Orange cloth stamped in dark black on spine and front board, 5 X 7 1/2 in. , .Back Inner Flap Dj Lists thru Nancy Drew secret of Red Gate Farm & show Price of 6/- NET PRICE, Back of DJ Light… Read More

Harold Hill & Son Limited, Newcastle Upon Tyne ,UK, 1955 Illustrated Plain B/W Frontispiece by noted illustrator AU Scott I'll Tell my Story while the Clock Ticks, Cackled the Madman, Orange & White Pictorial GRETTA Endpapers FOXing. NO Other Internals, HBDJ, STATED 1st Published in Great Britain 1955, TRUE 1st British Edition ,VG-/GOOD+. AS-IS, Book Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: GOOD+. First UK Edition. 12mo -Bright Orange Tweed Cloth Titled in Black with Hardy Boys Silhouetthe on Front Cvr, Book spine Cvr Light Fade Btm cvr, Tight and square, faint toning BTM SPINE CVR END . Dust jacket is price clipped, wear to corners, Slight loss at Yellow spine DJ ends at Btm with Small tears but #11 Intact, protected in a removable clear film sleeve. Dustjacket has moderate edgewear, Edge creases small Triangular Corner chip Hardly affects Illustration at Left Corner, Titles on the Further Titles in this Series page that List Thru Secret Wildcat Swamp, Text is in good Shape. Interior Nice, tight… Read More

Boston / New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1890. First Edition . Green / Red Cloth. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. V, 200. This Christmas Themed Story, With Covers In Green And Red Cloth Lettered In Gilt And Decorated In Gilt Holly, Is Nicely Inscribed As A Christmas Gift In The Year Of Publication. Inscribed "For Dr. And Mrs. Stebbins With The Dearest Love Kate D Wiggin Xmas 1890" . Stebbins Was A Good Friend Of Wiggin, And Had Assisted Her Move From Santa Barbara To San Francisco; His Children Were The Dedicatees Of Her Most Famous Book, "A Bird's Christmas Carol".

New York: Street & Smith, 1903. First Edition . Soft cover. Fair. 7 " Tall. Illustrated Cover. 285 Pp. Illustrated Wrappers With Five Cadets Discovering A Treasure Chest By Lamplight. Early Or First Printing, This Title #222, List At Front Shows Titles Through #224. There Is Also A Hardcover Issue, Date Of Publication Unknown, Also Copyright 1903. Covers Worn With Chips At Edges, Spine Covered With Clear Tape, Chipping At Edges Of Spine, No Names Or Marks. Worldcat Shows Only One Institutional Holding Of This Street & Smith Title, And That Is Only On Microfilm. All Of The Pseudonymous Upton Sinclair Children's Books Published By Street And Smith Are Scarce Because Of Their Fragility, This One, The Fifth And Last, Particularly So.

London: D.Martin., 1840. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 12mo. 52pp. Complete. Illustrated with twenty-six hand coloured wood engravings illustrations by Robert Cruikshank, with text by McDonald. Text and illustrations printed within ruled borders with corner ornaments. Bound in original yellow card boards. These have darkened. Some light foxing and finger marks, otherwise a very nice copy. Vary Scarce . Circa 1840. COPAC only list one copy in the Victoria and Albert Museum with yellow paper wrappers, description matches this copy.  

London: Leipzig Friedrich Volckmar; London William Tegg & Co and A. & S. Joseph Myers & Co. Hardcover. Good. Heinrich Hoffman, strewelpeter, Struwwelpeter, hand coloured wood engravings.. Small 4to, (265 x 200 mm, 10½ x 8 inches) Not dated. 28pp. Translated from the German by Planche. Illustrated with a hand coloured wood engraved illustration on title page and twenty six large hand coloured wood engraved illustrations printed 1 side only. Missing the ‘Introduction’, page 2. It has been professionally rebound in cloth retaining the original orange printed wrappers, which have been laid onto the front and back boards. It has a blind stamp on the title page. New endpapers, title page has a small repaired tear; missing the ‘Introduction’ page; p.28, last page has a repair to the lower and upper missing right corners and some repaired tears. Throughout the book has some minor handling and thumbing marks with very minor foxing.The first English printing was… Read More

St. Petersburg,: Eksped. Zagotov. gos. bumag , 1901. Paperback. Very Good. BILIBIN, Ivan Ya[kovlevich] . 10pp., Illustrated with chromolithographs throughout, some of these full-page. Bound in original chromolithographed wrappers. On verso of the front cover is There is an inscription in ink ‘With best wishes for One Shree at 4, the Grove from Auntie Ada’ . The book has recently been professionally repaired, the spine and corner creases strengthened. There is some light off setting, but generally in very good condition, as quite often with these chromolithographic printed books, the oils in the ink stick together causing surface damage. There are a couple of small incidences of this, but not much. What is very interesting about this book –which I haven’t seen before, inserted is an English Translation. It is printed on a folded sheet on different paper-This has some light foxing. It must have been sold in England as the insert is published by Russian Peasant Industries and… Read More

New York: Epstein & Carroll, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Very Good, in a first issue dust jacket with price intact and author photo on rear panel. Signed by Norton Juster, inscribed to previous owner. Light soiling and light rubbing to cloth. Light lean to spine. Dust jacket shows uneven toning and chipping, with several medium sized chips to the rear panel and a small chip from the interior of the spine panel; splits starting at the flap folds. Scarce.

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.