JOHN NEWBERY AND HIS SUCCESSORS 1740-1814, A BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Hertfordshire: Five Owls Press, (1973). First edition. xxxi, 461p. Illustrated. Tan cloth with gilt titles on a red ground. More
Hertfordshire: Five Owls Press, (1973). First edition. xxxi, 461p. Illustrated. Tan cloth with gilt titles on a red ground. More
Philadelphia: Brown & Merritt for Johnson & Warner, 1809. First edition, second issue in the plain salmon wrappers. Chapbook. 12mo. 16p. Illustrated with 8 full-page woodcuts not figured in the pagination. Untitled salmon sewn wrappers. Rosenbach 389. RARE. More
London: Maxton Publishers, 1945. Tall die-cut book in stiff wrappers, the cover is a color printed tiger with the small baby tiger that can stand on its own and fits in a slot to be enfolded in mother's arms. 12 pages of text illustrated by Charles E. Bracker, the covers..... More
New York: Little Simon. Simon & Schusters Children's Publishing Division. (2000). First edition. A pop-up book with seven intricate and elaborate pop-up scenes. Each scene includes one or two smaller sets of text pages mounted, and each with one or two smaller pop-ups inside. There is also a pocket containing..... More
Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino, 1996. Reprint on tje 1954 and 1983 issues. Limited to 200 copies. Two volumes in one. vii, 240p, 424o. 159 illustrations. 8vo. Gray cloth with gilt titles on green label. Published as a catalogue of Book for Sale by Erasmus Haus of Basel and describes 4374..... More
Manchester: Manchester Polytechnic Library, (1988). First edition. Quarto. (viii), 203p. Color illustrations. 2649 entries, indexed. Original publisher's cloth of gilt-titled black cloth. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1995). Quarto. xvi, 800p. Beautifully illustrated. Alphabetical format of authors, illustrators and subjects. Gilt-titled blue boards. "To express the vitality and sheer fun of children's books, seventy-five of today's most noteworthy writers and illustrators have contributed original essays commenting on their work's meaning to themselves and to..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, (1914). A set of 12 stapled card wrapper toybooks, each with a color pictorial cover reproducing one the the 12 color plates from "The Jessie Willcox Mother Goose". Booklets measure 3 1/2" x 5 1/4". Each booklet is 8 pages with color covers with..... More
Chicago: Chicago Review Press, (1986). First edition. ix (i), 118p. Illustrated. In the publisher's binding of black cloth with titles in gilt on spine and upper cover. Includes "Bibliographical Checklist of the First Editions of the Primary Publications [with pictures]... With descriptions of many other editions." More
Boston: H. M. Caldwell, (1908). Unpaged. Bound French-fold fashion on coated paper with preliminaries and 23 verses, every page beautifully illustrated in color. Bound in original pictorial color cloth with paper cover label and fully clothed bisque doll attached to upper cover. Rare with the doll still present and attached..... More
n.p. (Made in Germany): n.d. Eighteenth edition. Folio box. 21 pages with eight full-page chromolithographs, the box with nine pull tabs on strings that make the corresponding animal sounds (8 in working order). The box is of red cloth with pictorial color image on upper cover, the edges are of..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1908. First edition. xvi (ii), 199p, Illustrated by Anna M. Upjohn with four color plates. Bound in tan cloth with titles in brown on spine and upper cover, the cover with designs by "McN" in green and brown and with a mounted color plate repeating one in..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1927. First edition. xi, 148p. Illustrated by the author with 17 plates, 4 in color. Bound in blue cloth with titles in dark blue on spine and cover. More
London: Collins, (1935). First edition. Quarto. 39p. Illustrated by Lennie Young with 8 full-page brilliant color plates. Bound in paper-covered boards with a yellow cloth spine, with color illustration on a black background on the upper board, and advertisements on the rear board. Quite scarce with very few institutional holdings..... More
London - Paris: The Author, 1948. First edition. Quarto. Written and illustrated by the author. A series of 35 full-page illustrations in black and white with brief comment en face to chronicle a city girl's visit to the country, all in Valira's unique comic style. Bound in color-printed boards... More
Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1857. 12mo. 50p. Bound in publisher's original; embossed blue ribbed cloth with gilt tile on upper cover. Inscribed "Mrs. E. P. Whipple with the love of the Writer". Whitney's obituary pasted to front paste-down. No first or original editions on the market. More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Inc, (19420. First edition. Oblong quarto. Unpaged, 21p. Illustrated in color, including four moveables operated by a paper tab. Bound in color-printed boards with spiral binding. Uncommonly fine condition. More
San Francisco: The Press in Tuscany Alley, (1973). Limited to 275 copies SIGNED by Wilson. Small 4to. Folded paper hand-stitched with green silk thread. Illustrated from linoleum blocks cut by Wilson. Printed by Adrian Wilson and Lucy Dines on Ingres mold made paper. More