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
London: Hutchinson House, 1951. Hardcover. 224 p.; 19 cm. Red cover with black spine and cover titles. Illustrated endpaper. Publisher's advertisement for its Girls' Adventure Series on back section of dust jacket. "Girls' Adventure Series" on title page. No date of publication; this title was first published in 1951. Mavis..... 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
New York: Delacorte Press, 1997. Hardcover. [6], 150, [2] p.; 20 cm. Blue and white cover with gilt spine title. Blue dust jacket with white, embossed illustration on the front section. Signed by author on the title page. Book and dust jacket are in Fine Condition: clean and bright... 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
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
Chicago: Reilly & Lee Co., 1910. Hardcover. [8], 18-57, [3] p.: 15 full-page color illustrations; 18 cm. Red paper over boards with black spine title and white-and-black cover title. Color pastedown on front cover. Color illustrated endpapers. Illustrated list for the publisher's The Children's Red Books series on pp. [2-3];..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1912. Hardcover. [10], 291, [1] p.: frontispiece and 3 leaves of illustration; 20 cm. Publisher's green cloth with white stamped spine and cover titles; white and black spine and cover illustration. First edition in book form. "Published September, 1912" -- title page verso. This..... More
Racine: Whitman Publishing Co., 1918. Hardcover. 198 p., frontispiece and 7 leaves of color plates: title vignette, many in-text and full-page line drawings; 23 cm. Light blue cloth black spine and cover titles; heart-shaped color pastedown on front cover with illustration of a boy at a school desk looking out..... More
New York: Random House, 1949. Hardcover. 39, [1] p.: color illustrations; 37 cm. Dark blue cloth spine; color illustrated yellow paper over boards. Green endpapers with grey elephants. No dust jacket. First American edition. Seven titles are listed on the copyright page, ending with Barbar's Cousin: That Rascal Arthur; it..... More
Corte Madera, CA: Gingko Press, 2008. Hardcover. Third Edition. [32] p.: color illustrations; 23 x 18 cm. In 2004 the artist Michael De Feo mounted giant illustrations throughout New York City. Photographed and organized here, they illustrate an urban alphabet, from a giant ant on a wall to a zebro..... More
Boston: Mass. Sabbath School Society, 1847. Paperback. 8 p.: illustrations; 12 cm. Brown wrappers with "Part 8" on front wrapper; decorative border on front and back wrappers. Back wrapper has illustration of group of girls in bonnets reading. "Written for the Massachusetts S.S. Society, and approved by the Committee of..... More
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London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1900. Paperback. [12] p.: 4 full-page chromolithographed illustrations; 22 cm. Blue wrapper with chromolithographed illustration on front wrapper. Wrapper included in page count. Imprint on back wrapper. No date of publication. Cover title. This version of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe is by Helen Marion Burnside; signed..... More
Nashville, Tenn. Cokesbury Press, 1932. Hardcover. Copyright by Whitmore & Smith. 404 p.; 20 cm. Publisher's blue cloth with black spine title and orange and black cover title and illustration. Inscribed on front fixed endpaper: Happy Club. Arranged by month, with 4 or 5 party suggestions per month. Includes suggestions..... More
The Hague: G. B. van Goor Zonen, 1948. Hardcover. Imprint includes: Bailey Bros & Swinfen, London. First published in Dutch as Miezelientje en Prinses Rosmarijn; translated by Mrs. Wim Pinchin. No date of publication; WorldCat gives 1948 as the year of publication. 56 p.: illustrations; 27 cm. White cloth spine;..... More