New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1881. Hardcover. "Author's Edition." 48 p.: chromolithographed illustrations; 18 cm. Blue-green cloth spine; pink glazed pictorial boards with identical chromolithographed illustration and title on each board. Olive green endpapers. All page edges pink. llustrated half title and title pages. Colophon on back free endpaper..... More
London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1945. Hardcover. 52 p.: color illustrations; 17 cm. Brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles; illustrated pastedown on front cover. No dust jacket. Top page edges red. Illustrated endpapers. llustrated title page. Colophon on back free endpaper: "Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans, Ltd..... More
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1895. Paperback. [12] p.: 2 full-page chromolithographed illustrations, many in-text drawings; 25 cm. Chromolithographed card cover; stapled. "No. 2024" on back cover. Upper edge and part of fore-edge are die-cut. No date of publication. Raphael Tuck & Sons became a Limited business in 1895. Contains..... More
Akron, OH: Saalfield Publishing Co., 1924. Paperback. [64] p.: illustrations; 20 x 28 cm. Stapled; color illustration on front and back of girls and boys racing soap box derby-type cars. This was published 10 years before the All-American Soap Box Derby was established in Akron. "For Boys and Girls" on..... More
New York: Heinrich Ludwig [Henry Ludwig], 1856. Hardcover. 216 p.; 17 cm. Original cloth spine with pink paper over boards printed in black. Front cover adds to imprint: Zu haben bei Wilhelm Radde. Back cover contains publisher's advertisement for other school books in German. Copyright by Henry Ludwig in 1846..... More
Providence, R.I. Cory and Daniels, 1835. Paperback. 23, [1] p.: wood-engraved frontispiece, title vignette, and in-text illustrations; 14 cm. Yellow wrappers printed in black with front wrapper illustration and title within decorative border. Publisher's advertisement on back wrapper within different border. Frontispiece shows boys playing "blind-man's buff" and marbles. Alphabet..... More
New York: Stephen M. Crane, 1847. Paperback. "Egbert, Hovey & King, Printers." 16 p.: illustrations; 13 cm. Green wrappers; wrapper title: Nothing At All: and The School Boys. Publisher's advertisement on back wrapper, which declares that Stephen M. Crane is the successor to Mahlon Day. Contains two stories; caption title..... More
Kenosha, WI: James & Jonathan, 1966. Paperback. [16] p.: color illustrations; 20 cm. Stapled paperback with illustrated cover. Attached to cardboard 30 cm. tall, with a "Tiny Tv" -- a moveable dial behind a plastic sheet with lines on it which create a sense of motion from the images displayed..... More
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1895. Paperback. [8] p.: illustrations including 2 chromolithographed illustrations; 17 cm. Green stapled paper wrappers with chromolithographed front wrapper illustration of Mother Hubbard and her dog. Publication information on back wrapper. Part of the publisher's Father Tuck's "Dolly Dear" Series. No. 2006 in the publisher's..... More
New York: Pacific Coast Borax Co., 1933. Paperback. [16] p.: color illustrations; 29 cm. Stapled booklet. Cover title. One interior page contains a full-page advertisement for the Furnace Creek Inn in Death Valley, opened by the Pacific Coast Borax Co. in 1927. Contents: She Burns Green, illustrated by Rico Tomaso..... More
New Haven: S. Babcock, 1840. Paperback. 8 p.: 7 woodcut illustrations; 75 mm. Blue wrapper, stitched, with ornate border on both wrappers. Title vignette of a girl being chased by two boys. Each page of text except the first has an illustration. Back wrapper bears advertisement for the publisher's "Toy..... More
Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union, 1848. Paperback. 32 p.: 1 woodcut illustration; 11 cm. Front wrapper illustrated. Wrapper title. Running title: Hymns. Table of first lines, p. 31-32. Without music. Back wrapper contains publisher's advertisements with main address of 146 Chestnut St., Philadelphia (where it was located 1827-1853), and branch..... More
New Haven, Ct. S. Babcock, 1835. Paperback. 16 p.: 7 full-page and in-text illustrations; 11 cm. Yellow wrappers, front wrapper reproducing title page with decorative border. Advertisement on back wrapper for "New and Beautiful Editions of Babcock's Toy Books." Full-page captioned woodcut illustrations on the inside of front and back..... More
New York: Wonder Books, a Division of Grosset & Dunlap, 1955. Hardcover. [20] p.: color illustrations; 21 cm. Color illustrated paper over boards. "667." Price 39 cents in upper right-hand corner of front cover. "With washable covers" -- on front and back covers. Publisher's advertisement for eight books inside back..... More
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1895. Paperback. [12] p.: illustrations, including 4 full-page chromolithographed illustrations; 37 cm. Card covers with chromolithographed illustration of a dog on the front; die-cut edges. The letters of the alphabet are illustrated with dogs, from airedale terrier to "Jap dogs" (pugs?) to wolfhound, with X...... More
New York: McLoughlin Bros. 1888. André, Richard. Paperback. [8] p.: 4 full-page chromolithographed illustrations; 27 cm. Chromolithographed paper wrappers with front and back wrapper illustrations, and full-page chromolithographed illustrations inside both front and back wrapper. Pages are stiffened linen. From the story by Charles Perrault. Identified as part of the..... More
New York: McLoughlin Bro's & Co., 1870. Paperback. [8] p.: 7 chromolithographed illustrations; 15 cm. Yellow wrappers with black-and-red front wrapper illustration. Back wrapper has publisher's advertisement for 9 of the publisher's series of children's books. "Father's Series" -- at head of front wrapper. Gift inscription inside front wrapper, dated..... More
Chicago: Merrill Company Publishers, 1950. Paperback. [48] p.: illustrations; 38 cm. Stapled card covers with color illustration and die-cut upper edges. "1515-15" -- upper edge of front cover. After a brief overview of American history ("Indians were the first Americans. Then the white men came."), the illustrations depict aspects of..... More
New York: Hurst & Co., 1914. Hardcover. [58] p.,color frontispiece and 5 color plates; 22 cm. Grey cloth with blue spine and cover title; blue decoration around color paste-down on front cover. Dust jacket with color illustration on front section, in mylar cover. "Books of Topsy Turvy Land" -- at..... More
New York: McLoughlin Bros. 1864. Paperback. [8] p.: hand-colored illustrations; 17 cm. Yellow wrappers printed in orange and black. Part of the publisher's Willie Winkie's series. No date of publication, but the publisher's address is given on the wrapper as 30 Beekman St., which address was used by McLoughlin Bros..... More
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, 1864. Paperback. [8] p.: 6 chromolithographed illustrations; 16 cm. Yellow wrappers with black-and-red front wrapper illustration. Back wrapper has publisher's advertisement for paper dolls and paper furniture. Pencilled Christmas gift inscription inside of front wrapper, dated Dec. 1867. No date of publication. McLoughlin Brothers was at..... More
Riga: Latvijas Valsts Izdevnieciba, 1960. Toropin, Alexander. Paperback. 15, [1] p.: color illustrations; 19 cm. Stapled with illustration on front wrapper. Wrappers included in pagination. Beautiful in-text and full-page color illustrations throughout. Entirely in Latvian. Little is known about the artist, Alexander Alekseevich Toropin (1924-1960), who died in his thirties..... More
New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1901. Paperback. [12] p.: 2 full-page chromolithographed illustrations and 8 in-text illustrations; 22 cm. Chromolithographed wrapper illustration. Wrapper title and imprint. Father Tuck's Scripture Series. "No. 3623" at foot of front wrapper. Wrappers included in page count. Contains retellings of the New Testament parables..... More
Kenosha, WI: James & Jonathan, 1966. Paperback. [16] p.: color illustrations; 20 cm. Stapled paperback with illustrated cover. Attached to cardboard 30 cm. tall, with a "Tiny Tv" -- a moveable dial behind a plastic sheet with lines on it which create a sense of motion from the images displayed..... More
New Haven, Ct. Sidney Babcock, 1840. Paperback. 16 p.: 7 full-page woodcut illustrations; 11 cm. Yellow wrappers with elaborate borders. Front wrapper has title, imprint, and illustration of four girls gathered around flowers. Inside front and back wrapper contains decorative border and illustration, each signed with Alexander Anderson's AA. Back..... More