Category: Children's Literature

ABC and 123 Book. Wash-Fabric Books. No. 425.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Company

Seller ID: 005283

Binding: NA

Condition: Fine

N.d., circa 1920. 8vo. 21.5 by 15 cm. Unpaginates, but five leaves, or ten pages, including cover, each with the fabric folded over as in a typical traditional Japanese publication. Lovely color vignette illustrations of objects and animals shown to represent each letter, or fruits used to demonstrate quantity in the numbering section. Pristine copy. Uniquely clean -- we have never seen a fabric book like this one so spotless and fresh! Only very trivial fault are two flattened crease lines on the front cover.
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Abrégé de Toutes les Sciences et Géographie a l’Usage des Enfans. Nouvelle Édition avec Carte et Figures

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Paris, Chez Bossange, Masson et Besson : 1802 (An X)

Seller ID: 005031

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Very Good

17 by 10 cm. 12mo. viii, 451 pp. Nine plates, one of which is a folding and contains two global maps. These plates are lettered up to "K", with the folding map plate given as G and H. No "J" plate present but no evidence of removal, and we believe the book in fact contains all the plates that were initially there. This is a work that went through multiple editions, though, and other printings had both more and fewer plates. Much of the text is organized in a question and answer format, as was a common pedagogical technique in primers of the day. Geography is the most ext...
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Adventures of Benjamin F. Bear

Price: $175.00

Publisher: New York, Lord & Taylor

Seller ID: 004272

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa early to mid-1940s. (Reference to Office of Price Administration, which existed between 1941 and 1947, and references to "Admiral Byrd Cloth", among other things, suggest the earlier part of this period.) 30 by 14 cm. Unpaginated, 24 pp. including wrap covers. Scarce, with no copies appearing on OCLC FirstServe. Loosely strung story about a cute cub who decides not to hibernate so that he can find out what autumn and winter are like in New York City, and all the fun he has as a result. On the rectos is narrated the story, while on the facing versos junior fashion items...
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Alphabet de ma Petite Fille. Illustre de 6 Gravures en Chromo Bibliotheque des Bebes. Album Indechirable sur Toile

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Paris, Paul Bernardin Libraire

Seller ID: 003126

Binding: Paper pastedown on boards

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1880s. 4to. 30.5 by 19 cm. Unpaginated, 12 pp. including title page. Six bright chromos. Simply charming, with colorful vignettes or organist, windmill, pins, peacock, toys, Arlequin, etc. Linen leaves. Soiling and shelfwear to cover.
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An Illustrated Treasury of Read-Along Poems for Young People

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, New York, U.S.A., Black Dog & Leventhal Pub : 2003

Seller ID: 000521

ISBN-13: 9781579122898

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Animal Pictures and Stories

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Mcloughlin Brothers : 1907

Seller ID: 000509

Binding: Wrappers

Condition: Good

4to. 11 unpaginated pages, with six lovely chromolithographic illustrations of animals, including on front and back covers. Wraps have some soilage, creases and chips. Clear tape to reinforce binding. Paper is of linen. Some toning. Dampstain on rear affecting lightly last page with black and white illustration. Color illustrations remain clean and attractive.
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Aunt Friendly's Nursery Keepsake. Containing Seventy-Two Pages of Pictures Printed in Colours by Kronheim. With Letter-Press Descriptions.

Price: $175.00

Publisher: London, Frederick Warne and Co.

Seller ID: 005198

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1870. 12mo. 18.5 by 14 cm. Stories and nursery rhymes include "Sing-a-Song of Sixpence", "The Frog who Would a Wooing Go", "The Three Little Pigs", "The Ugly Duckling", "Puss in Boots", "Dame Trot and Her Cat", "The Old Woman and Her Pig", "Tom Thumb", "The Three Bears", "Jack and the Bean Stalk", "Diamonds and Toads", and "Hop o' My Thumb". Each story with 10 pages of text (each story with its own paginations), and six chromo color plates. Chromolithography by Kronheim. Rebound in...
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Aunt Louisa's Nursery Favourite. Comprising Diamonds and Toads, Dick Whittington, Lily Sweetbriar, Uncle's Farm Yard. With Twenty-Four Pages of Illustrations

Price: $275.00

Publisher: London, Frederick Warne and Co. : 1870

Seller ID: 002708

Binding: Decorated Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Printed in colours by Kronheim. 4to. 27 by 24 cm. Each story comes with six chromolithographic color plates. Hinges restored. Light wear to binding. One tissue guard with repaired long closed tear.
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Aunt Louisa's Nursery Favourite. Comprising Diamonds and Toads. Dick Whittington. Lily Sweetbriar. Uncle's Farm Yard. With Twenty-Four Pages of Illustrations. Printed in Colours by Kronheim.

Price: $300.00

Publisher: London, Frederick Warne and Co. : 1870

Seller ID: 002087

Binding: Decorated Cloth

Condition: Very Good

4to. 10.5 by 9 inches, 27 by 23 cm. 6, 6, 6, 6 pp and 24 color plates, along with blank paper (as opposed to tissue) guards. Most plates are a single full page chromolithographic illustrations, with a few featuring two or three illustrations. Original blue pebbled, blindstamped cloth binding. Cloth edges and corner with moderate shelfwear. Spine extremities repaired with matching cloth. Light rubbing of joints. Minor scattered soiling within. Plates are all bright and fresh.
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Bilderbuch: Der Kampf mit dem Drachen

Price: $2,500.00

Seller ID: 005441

Binding: Hardcover. Rope binding.

Condition: Very Good

Original fairy tale with disarming naive watercolors that thoroughly illustrate the tale. N.d., circa 1910. Oblong 8vo. 19 by 28.5 cm. 11 leaves of heavy card, each with a mounted watercolor illustration on the verso, and mounted text page, in verse surrounded by Jugenstil line decorations, on the facing rectos. The watercolors all cover every inch of their boards, and this imparts a rich lushness seldom encountered in such juvenile efforts. The narrative is about a dwarf named Pumpel who lives in a mushroom hut. Because he is bored, he decides to venture out into the world on a snail-d...
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Billy's Farm Friends

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Chicago, P. F. Volland Co. : 1923

Seller ID: 000801

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

8vo. Linen book with 9 full color plates, including front and rear covers, with smaller illustrations on text pages all bright color. 16 pp including covers. Dress, car, style of art very much of its period, and very charming. Some creases, and a minor loss to fabric of front. Some soilage inside, and slightly ragged in corners. Still a good copy.
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Blue Ribbon Malt Extract Doll Named Lena.

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Peoria, Illinois, Premier Malt Products Co.

Seller ID: 006050

Binding: NA

Condition: Very Good

N.d.,, circa 1920. A colorful cloth with the front and back of a fat smiling doll named Lena, the doll to be sewn together by the recipient of the Premier Malt mailing, with directions on the cloth along with a pitch for the company's product. The cloth measures 45 by 48 cm, the doll, front and back, measure about 41 cm tall. The doll is wearing a bright green polka dotted dress and white apron, she has short hair and a man-ish rubicund dimpled face and is holding a can of Blue Ribbon Malt Extract. Also included is the original mailing envelope.
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Boova and Nonsense Poems

Price: $575.00

Seller ID: 007078

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

A fun, idiosyncratic collection of absurdities. N.d., mid-20th century. 12mo. 17.5 by 11 cm. Unpaginated, 28 pp. With 13 pen-and-ink and watercolored whimsical plates, with several lines of nonsense verse on facing page. Plate illustrations are on versos, poems on rectos. Poems surrounded by pen-and-ink square placard, being held by pen sketched gawky woman as also depicted on front cover. Front cover shows this woman's face as the head of two swans. Condition: some cocking to the spine -- front overhanging rear. Light soiling of cover, and edge/corner wear. Light soiling throughou...
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Buon Viaggio. Mediterranea - Album rilievao N. 4

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Roma, Cas Editrice Mediterranea : 1943

Seller ID: 006645

Condition: Very Good

Scarce. Mentioned on OCLC but no copies listed there. Four pop-ups.
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Colorful Japanese Children's Brochure, with a variety of color plates

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Japan,

Seller ID: 006197

Binding: NA

Condition: Near Fine

Mid-20th Century. 8vo. 22 by 15 cm. 16 pp., including cover, and one of which is a fold-out color plate, with three panels. 12 pages qualify as full color plates, with rich coloring. A few of these illustrations are multi-page -- three are double paged (one of these is more a collage of several illustrations), and one is triple paged. All the other pages have color illustrations, but these are text illustrations, with a more limited palette -- generally flatter greens, reds, flesh and blacks. The brochure looks as if it were assembled by marrying two smaller brochures -- or gatherings -...
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Image for Curioser Spiegel, worinnen der ganze Lebenslauf des Menschen von der Kindheit bis zum Alter zu sehen, in Figuren, mit beygefugten ganz neuen kurzen Erklarungen vorgestellt.

Curioser Spiegel, worinnen der ganze Lebenslauf des Menschen von der Kindheit bis zum Alter zu sehen, in Figuren, mit beygefugten ganz neuen kurzen Erklarungen vorgestellt.

Price: $15,000.00

Publisher: Nurnberg, Verlag der Johann Andreas Endter. Endterischen Handlung : 1824

Seller ID: 004052

Binding: Half Cloth. Marbled Boards. Custom Cloth Box to

Tall folio, 34 by 21 cm. Title, followed by 41 hand-colored plates. This work was originally published in 1689, and there was also an 1812 printing. This copy used the original woodcut plates, and the hand-coloring palette and style is consistent with that of the seventeenth century, lending an antiquarian authenticity to the edition. They are woodcuts by Elias Porzelius, mostly after designs by Susanne Maria Sandrart (1658-1716), the relatively rare known female artist of the time. The plates depict all the stages of life, from birth to death, and many depicting the various professions, ...
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Dame Crump and Her Pigs: Their Deeds and Misdeeds

Price: $1,750.00

Publisher: London, Dean & Son

Seller ID: 006518

Binding: Blindstamped, gilt stamped cloth

Condition: Very Good

Scarce, with no copied located on OCLC First Search. (Copies found of the component tales, but each of these, too, are in very few institutions.) N.d., circa 1860. 4to. 26 by 18 cm. [2], 8, 8, 8, 8, 8 pp. or 42 pages of content (printing on only one side of each leaf), with a hand-colored illustration on each page, including the frontis plate, the title, and on many pages, the greater portion of the page. The book is essentially an anthology of five porcine stories, all but the last told in verse. The poems are "Little Dame Crump", "The Little Pig's Ramble from Home", "The Naughty Litt...
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Das Schwesterchen

Price: $250.00

Publisher: : 1920

Seller ID: 003574

Binding: Stiff Wraps

Condition: Very Good

8vo. 21 by 17 cm. Unpaginated, 30 leaves, with twelve silhouette drawings, four of which have some slightly crudely added color to the precise black ink, and facing each sihouette is orginal verse handwritten in Sütterlin Schrift, which makes it difficult for us to read fully although it is done with a highly regular, neat hand. But even excluding the poetry, the sihouettes are very appealing and we assume are original, although we can't prove that they aren't copied from something else. These drawings appear to tell the story of one child, Hans. We first see him in a typical day. We see...
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Der Jahrmarkt Nürnberger Bilderbücher No. 32

Price: $1,000.00

Publisher: Oldenburg, Nürnberger Bilderbücherverlag Gerhard Stalling : 1926

Seller ID: 007400

Binding: With original box! Hardcover. Cloth. Paper past

Condition: Very Good

With original dust jacket and box surviving. Scarce in any form, with a single institutional copy showing on OCLC First Search, in Leipzig, of this children's tale of the circus' annual visit to town! N.d., but based 1926 on single institutional listing on OCLC. With 46 cut-out figures, a dozen of which were never fully cut to shape. The book has by our count 55 slots to slip these pieces, so we would assume we are missing a few of the pieces, but we would also note that the one institutional copy has a mere 20 of the pieces. Although the publisher refers to Nuremberg in its business name,...
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Der Kleinen freunde Album. For Our Young Friends. Des Petits Amis. Dei Piccoli Amici. De Los Amiguitos. van de kleinen Vrienden.

Price: $950.00

Publisher: : 1845

Seller ID: 002578

Binding: Romantic Cartonnage

Condition: Near Fine

Exceptional ornate romantic cartonnage binding. N.d., circa 1840s. Slightly oblong, 7 by 5.75 inches, 17 by 14 cm. With sixteen hand-colored plates of children mostly playing. Gumuchian 291 indicates 18 plates, so two are apparently missing, although there is no sign of removal or cannibalization in this copy. Depicted are games of blind man's bluff, shooting out with fingers, sledding, marching military-style, crab hunting, hide-and-seek, etc. with a few scenes of juvenile apprehension, quisitiveness or seriousness. As if to underscore the universality of childhood experience, the caption...
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Category: Children's Literature