New York: Exeter Books, 1987. Tarrant, Margaret Winifred. Hardcover. 160 p.: 16 full-page color illustrations included in pagination; 25 cm. Red cloth spine with gilt-stamped spine title. Red-and-yellow illustrated paper over boards. Illustrations are signed: M.W.T. Margaret Winifred Tarrant (1888-1959) was an English illustrator of children's books. Her charming illustrations... More
Racine, Wisc. Whitman Publishing Co., 1970. Hardcover. [4], 9-212 p.: in-text line drawings; 20 cm. Color illustrated paper over boards. "Whitman Classics 1616"--at tail of spine. Endpapers have a repeating "W." "Unabridged"--on front cover. The illustrations reflect the late 1960s, with the white rabbit in a psychedelic outfit and Alice... More
London: Bell & Hyman, 1985. Hardcover. 127 p., 16 unpaginated pages of color illustrations; 25 cm. Yellow paper over boards with black spine and cover titles; color illustration on each board. Yellow dust jacket repeating cover printing and illustrations. Small label on front flap: "Imported by Salem House" with price... More
London: Bracken Books, 1985. Hardcover. [10], 180, [2] p., 12 unpaginated full-page color illustrations: in-text illustrations in red and black; 24 cm. Red cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. Printed in red and black. Illustrations copyright 1922 by Hodder & Stoughton. Books is in Fine Condition: clean and bright. Dust jacket... More
![Sylvie and Bruno [and] Sylvie and Bruno Concluded by Lewis Carroll; [each] with forty-six illustrations by Harry Furniss [2 vols]. Lewis Carroll, Charles Dodgson.](/pictures/thumb/002740.jpg?v=1472082254)
London: Macmillan and Co., 1889/1893. Furniss, Harry. Hardcover. 2 volumes (xxiii, [1], 400 p.; xxxi, [1], 423 p.): each with frontispiece and 45 in-text and full-page illustrations; 19 cm. Full straight-grain scarlet morocco with six spine compartments between raised bands. Burgundy morocco spine labels with gilt-tooled title and author; gilt-tooled... More
Middletown, Delaware: Rogue Leaf Press, 2014. Paperback. Based on The Story of the Three Little Pigs With Drawings by L. Leslie Brooke published by Frederick Warne & Co. in the late 1800s. iv, 29, [3] p.: illustrations (some color); 23 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Cover title: The Three Little... More
Philadelphia, Pa. Henry T. Coates & Co., 1895. White, Geo. G. Hardcover. Illustrated by Geo. G. White. [4], 456 p.: tissue-guarded frontispiece, 3 leaves of illustrations; 20 cm. Brown cloth gilt, black, and grey spine title and illustration; black and grey cover title and illustration. Black endpapers. Castlemon's War Series--at... More
Philadelphia, Pa. Henry T. Coates & Co., 1895. Hardcover. 419, [1], 8 p.: frontispiece, 3 leaves of illustrations; 20 cm. Blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and black-stamped cover title. Spine and cover illustrations in red, grey, black, and gilt. Forest and Stream Series--at head of title page. Copyrighted in... More
Philadelphia, Pa. Porter & Coates, 1883. Hardcover. The first volume in the author's Rod and Gun Series. 352 p.: tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of the author, 3 leaves of illustrations; 20 cm. Blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; black-and-grey-stamped spine and cover illustrations. No dust jacket. Black endpapers. Front free endpaper... More
New York: Hurst & Co., 1915. Hardcover. 288 p.; 19 cm. Green cloth with blue spine and cover titles, and red and blue illustrations on spine and front cover. Illustrated dust jacket (in mylar cover) with advertisements for girls and boys series on the flaps. No date of publication. Back... More
Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co., 1895. Hardcover. 413, [1] p.: frontispiece, 2 leaves of illustrations; 20 cm. Black cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. Spine and cover illustrations in green and gilt. Color illustrated endpapers, the front with an illustration of boys going fishing and the back with... More
Paris: Flammarion, 1949. Rojankovsky, Feodor. Paperback. [24] p.: full-page and in-text illustrations, some in color; 32 cm. Wrapper title. Wrappers included in page count. Part of the series Albums du Père Castor. Copyrighted in 1933; date of publication from back wrapper. The story of lions, hippopotami, zebras, giraffes, tigers, foxes... More
Altrincham, Eng. John Sherratt & Son, 1947. Crane, Walter. Hardcover. [10], 245 p.: frontispiece and 10 additional leaves of color wood-engraved plates; 22 cm. Red cloth with black spine title; blue and black cover title and illustration. Printed at the St. Ann's Press, Timperley, Altrincham. No date of publication; the... More
New York: Gordon Volland Publications; Buzza Co., 1928. Hardcover. Stated First Printing. 159, [1] p.: full-page color illustrations and in-text line drawings; 22 cm. Orange cloth spine with color illustrated paper over boards. Illustrated endpapers. Grandpa explains various historical and scientific developments to his grandchildren, charmingly illustrated. In Very Good... More
Boston: Crosby, Nichols and Co., 1852. Hardcover. [8], 63, [1] p., woodcut frontispiece: in-text and full-page woodcut illustrations; 21 cm. Original brown bead-grain cloth with blind-stamped cover title and blind-stamped decoration. Pale yellow endpapers. Series title page for Six Pleasant Companions for Spare Hours, followed by series list. This title... More
Chicago: Junior Press Books, Albert Whitman & Co., 1934. Hardcover. 144 p.: frontispiece and 25 full-page and in-text illustrations; 21 cm. Dark blue cloth with silver-stamped spine title; illustrated paste-down on the front cover within silver border. Illustrated dust jacket in mylar cover. Illustrated endpapers. First Edition. "A very vivid... More
Oxford, N.Y. Chapman & Flagler, 1835. Paperback. 16 p.: wood-engraved illustrations of fish; 11 cm. Blue wrappers printed in black with front wrapper illustration. Publisher's advertisements on back wrapper. Not in Checklist of American Imprints or Rosenbach, Early American Children's Books. Former owner's name on inside of front wrapper: Luke... More
Philadelphia: Kimber and Conrad, 1810. Hardcover. "The Fourth Edition corrected and enlarged." 215, [1] p.; 14 cm. Contemporary full calf with four spine compartments between gilt rules; red leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: Comley's Grammar. Errata on final unpaginated page. Preface signed: J. Comly, Byberry, 1803. John... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1906. Hardcover. [6], 55, [1] p.: frontispiece and 13 additional leaves of plates ; 22 cm. Red cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. Two pastedowns on front board: one with black title to look like a calling card, the other an illustration; gilt-stamped author's name on... More
Philadelphia: Theodore Press Co., 1925. Hardcover. 82, [6] p.: illustrations, music; 24 cm. Black cloth spine; beige paper over boards printed in brown, with illustrations on front board. Publisher's advertisements on back board. Each page of text has one or more outlined space in which the appropriate picture was to... More
Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1925. Paperback. John R. Coryell was a pseudonym used by Nicholas Carter. 125 p.; 19 cm. Brown stiffened paper cover with black spine and cover titles. Color illustrated dust jacket with a list of books in the Nick Carter series on the back. The dime... More
London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd., 1917. Paperback. 31, [1] p.: 4 full-page and 2 double-page color illustrations, many in-text drawings; 23 cm. Yellow stiffened paper covers with color illustration on front cover and advertisements for Randolph Caldecott's Picture Books in red and black on back cover. No date of... More
New York: Century Co., 1890. Hardcover. xi, [1], 144 p.: illustrations; 26 cm. Hardback with illustrated cover and brown spine and cover titles. Brown endpapers. First page has printed, illustrated gift form, which has not been used. The second title in the author's popular Brownies series. In Good- Condition: some... More
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, 1895. Hardcover. [26] p.: 12 full-page chromolithographed illustrations, many in-text drawings; 32 cm. Blue cloth spine with paper over boards. Front board has a chromolithographed illustration of the policeman brownie and the monocled gentleman (the brownie known as Cholly Boutonnière); back board has a blue-on-white floral... More
London: Grant Richards, 1903. Hardcover. Second edition. [8], 94, [2] p.: 24 full-page color illustrations; 13 cm. Publisher's light brown cloth with dark brown-stamped spine and cover titles on a background of dark brown vertical lines; bank cover is blank. Each leaf printed on one side only, with one page... More