London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1895. Paperback. [8] p.: illustrations (2 in color); 17 cm. Stapled with chromolithographed front cover. Scalloped edges. "Printed in Germany" -- at lower edge of front cover. No date of publication. Imprint includes "Ltd.," which was added in 1895. Trademark easel and palette on back...
London, Paris, New York and Melbourne: Cassell and Co., 1903. Hardcover. iv, 475, [1] p., color frontispiece and 5 leaves of color plates: many in-text and full-page illustrations, music; 25 cm. Red cloth with gilt, black, and brown stamped spine and cover titles and illustrations. All page edges gilt. Yellow...
New York: McLoughlin Bros. 1875. Paperback. 6, [2] p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Yellow wrapper printed and illustrated in red and black. Part of McLoughlin Brothers' Miss Merryheart's series. Wrapper title. Publisher's advertisements on back wrapper for board games, including The Monopolist, Jerome Park Steeple-Chase, Game of Life's Mishaps, Cats and...
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1895. Paperback. [8] p.: in-text illustrations, including 2 tissue-guarded chromolithographed illustrations; 17 cm. Light green paper wrapper with chromolithographed front wrapper illustration. Part of the publisher's Father Tuck's Dolly Dear Series. Publication information on back wrapper; also identified as No. 2004. No date of publication...
New York: McLoughlin Bros. 1864. Paperback. [12] p.: color illustrations; 15 cm. Printed on limp linen, stitched. Not identified as part of any of the publisher's series. No date of publication; however, the publisher was at 30 Beekman, the address on the front wrapper, from 1864 to 1870. This is...
New York: Baker, Crane, & Day, 1846. Paperback. 8 p.: woodcut illustrations; 7.5 cm. Brown wrappers without illustration. No date of publication. Baker, Crane, & Day was established when Mahlon Day retired in 1845; however, by March 1847 it had been dissolved. Title vignette with a 4-line verse advertisement for...
New York: Platt & Munk Co., 1934. Hardcover. [approx. 150] p., color frontispiece: illustrations; 26 cm. Orange cloth with black spine and cover titles, and cover illustration. "Good Stories selected from John Martin's Book" -- on front cover. Contains many nicely illustrated stories and poems. In Very Good Condition: spine...
New York: McLoughlin Bros. 1864. Cruikshank, George. Paperback. [8] p.: hand-colored illustrations; 14 cm. Yellow wrappers; front wrapper illustration printed in orange and black, signed: E.P.C. [probably Edward P. Cogger]. Part of the publisher's Uncle Frank's Series. No date of publication is given, however it was produced no earlier than...
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1943. Hardcover. [32] p.: illustrations (including 7 double-page color illustrations); 32 cm. Red cloth spine with color and gilt illustrated paper over boards. Illustrated endpapers and title page. Each double-page illustration has a gilt floral border. Gift inscription on front fixed endpaper: "Albert from...
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1895. Paperback. [14] p.: illustrations (line drawings and chromolithographed illustrations); 37 cm. Chromolithographed card covers; upper edge of covers and pages is shaped to follow the front cover illustration. Front cover chromolithographed illustration is of three children, a bag of toys, and a cat chasing...
Kenosha, Wis. Samuel Lowe Co., 1941. Paperback. [192] p.: full-page illustrations; 28 cm. Paperback with identical illustrations on front and back covers. Cover title: Mammoth 192 Page Paint Book. "L-1050" -- on cover. Each page has a caption below the illustration, in many cases telling a popular children's story or...
Barcelona: Ramón Sopena, 1930. Hardcover. [52] p.; many illustrations, including 4 full-page color illustrations; 25 cm. Dark green cloth spine; paper over boards. Color illustrated front board; publisher's advertisements on back board printed in red and black. Part of the series Biblioteca para Niños. "Nihil obstat" June 15 1917 --...
Leicester, Mass. Russell Manfacturing Co., 1946. Six children's card games in their original illustrated boxes, labelled vol. 1-vol. 6, and the original red cardboard case with "Mickey Mouse Library of Games" in an embossed silver-on-black paper label across the front. Individual card boxes are 6.5 x 4.5 x 2.5 cm...
New York: Samuel Gabriel Sons & Co., 1914. Mary LaFetra Russell. [16] p.: color illustrations; 30 cm. Wrapper title and publication information. Wrappers included in page count. "No. 709" -- on front wrapper. Illustrated by Mary LaFetra Russell. "Linen" -- on front wrapper. Printed on linen-back paper, except for wrapper...
New York: Graham & Matlack, 1912. Hardcover. [60] p.: many full-page and in-text illustrations; 25 cm. Blue cloth spine with illustrated paper over boards. Front board has 4 chromolithographed illustrations, most prominently featuring the cat and the fiddle. Back board has an illustration of a girl, a boy, and a....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, 1891. Paperback. Incomplete. [5] p. of text, 4 full-page chromolithographed illustrations: in-text illustrations; 20 cm. Lacking front wrapper; back wrapper is chromolithographed advertisement for Eagle Shoe Store, Reading, Pa., with illustration of cat wearing dress and hat, riding a dog side-saddle. In Poor Condition: incomplete; lacking...
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...
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...
