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
New York: Bon Ami Co., 1926. Paperback. [12] p.: color illustrations; 19 cm. Stapled; color illustrated wrappers. Story told in verse of the Princess Bon Ami and her very clean castle, kept that way through the use of the cleaner Bon Ami. Each page features a large illustration of the... 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
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
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1957. Sokol, Bill. Hardcover. [48] p.: color illustrations; 19 cm. Light brown cloth with dark brown spine title and cover illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket. First edition. First children's book illustrated by Bill Sokol. Book is in Very Good+ Condition: small light dampstain at upper... 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
![Robinson Crusoe [Father Tuck's "Play & Pleasure" series.]. Daniel Defoe, Helen Marion Burnside.](/pictures/thumb/001233.jpg?v=1472082199)
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
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, 1900. Hardcover. 128 p., color frontispiece: title vignette, full-page and in-text illustrations; 24 cm. Dark green cloth with black spine title; white stamped cover title with black cover illustration. No date of publication. Advertised with a different cover in 1907 and 1909. Former owner's name on... More
Greenfield, Mass. Rodolphus Dickinson, 1815. Hardcover. Title continued: "intended for the use of families and schools with a Separate Moral Selection from the Apocrypha: Being a Transcript of the Received Text; intended for the use of families and schools." Third Edition. "Roderic M. Colton, Printer." 276 p.; 15 cm. Contemorary... More
Springfield, Mass. McLoughlin Bros. 1934. Lupprian, Hildegard. Hardcover. [8], 112 p., frontispiece; 19 cm. Red cloth with black spine and cover titles. Illustrated endpapers. "By Special Arrangement with Milton Bradley Co." Contains 19 short stories presenting Native American folklore for children. In Very Good Conditon: edges are lightly rubbed; cover... More
Philadelphia, Pa. Johnson & Warner, 1810. Hardcover. 32 p.: engraved frontispiece and 5 leaves of engraved plates; 12 cm. Original plain paper on paste board, printed in black with front and back within simple decorative borders. Imprint on cover dated 1811. Publisher's advertisement on back cover. Frontispiece attached to inside... More
Philadelphia: Americanische Sonntags Schulen Union, 1832. Hardcover. 246, 3, [3] p.; 13 cm. Original leather spine and plain boards. Checklist American Imprints, 10938. The American Sunday School Union (ASSU) was founded in 1824 in Philadelphia. This was a translation of the ASSU's Union Questions. Running title: Schriftfragen. Contains errata (Druckfehler)... More
Paris: P.C. Lehuby, 1852. Bayalos. Hardcover. 3e édition, revue et corrigée (on p. 2, the series title verso). 252 p.: tissue-guarded chromolithographed frontispiece, 7 additional leaves of chromolithographed plates; 20 cm. Mid-19th-century card binding with intricate floral decoration in gilt, red, green blue, and purple. Spine title: Etudes & Plaisirs... More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1906. Hardcover. "September" -- on title page verso. [12], 189, [1] p., frontispiece and 7 leaves of color illustrations: in-text illustrations throughout; 24 cm. Dark green cloth with white spine and cover titles. Red-and gilt cover illustration; red spine decoration. Gift inscription on front fixed endpaper dated... More
![Moral Tales for Young People; Three Volumes in Two [vol. 2 only]. Maria Edgeworth.](/pictures/thumb/003068.JPG?v=1472082270)
New York: George Long, 1821. Hardcover. 228 p.; 16 cm. Contemporary black leather spine and corners with marbled paper over boards. Five spine compartments between gilt double rules; gilt-tooled title in second compartment and volume number in fourth, with gilt floret in other compartments. Small bookplate of Ladies' Social Library... More
![Practical Education: by Maria Edgeworth and, by Richard Lovell Edgeworth [2 volumes]. Maria Edgeworth.](/pictures/thumb/002039.jpg?v=1472082222)
New York: George F. Hopkins, 1801. Hardcover. "The First American Edition." 2 volumes: vi, [2], 344 p.; [4], 333, [11] p.: in-text tables; 21 cm. Contemporary full tree calf with six spine compartments between gilt rules; red morocco labels in the second compartment with gilt-tooled title: Edgeworth on Education. All... More
New York: HarperCollins, 1993. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. [6], 185, [1] p.: many full-page and in-text illustrations; 24 cm. White cloth spine with black spine title; blue-green paper over boards with dark blue-stamped main character's name on front board "Jimmy Jibbell." Color illustrated dust jacket. Quote by Art Spiegelman on... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1894. Hardcover. 259 p.: 1 double-leaf illustration; 19 cm. Dark red cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; blind-stamped ornamentation of spine and front cover with series title on front cover. Former owner's name stamped on front free endpaper: Lewis G. Morris. An interesting look at... More
Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., 1918. Hardcover. [2], 125 p.: color illustrations; 19 cm. Grey cloth with black spine and cover titles. Front cover illustration in brown and black. Illustrated endpapers. Contains 26 children's stories and poems, from Jack and Jill, and Peter Rabbit to The Greedy Cat, and Finding... More
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1895. Paperback. [14] p.: 4 full-page color illustrations, many in-text drawings; 28 cm. Stiffened paper covers with chromolithographed front cover illustration. Cover title and imprint. Author's name on last page of text. No date of publication, but probably 1895 or slightly later (imprint includes "Ltd."... More
Paris: Librairies-Imprimeries Réunies L. Martinet, 1900. Breville, J. Onfroy de. Hardcover. From the series Bibliothèque de la Jeunesse et de l'Enfance. There is no date of publication; the publisher is known to have been active between 1888 and 1907. 58 p.: color illustrations; 33 cm. Dark blue cloth spine with... More
Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1919. Boutet de Monvel, Louis-Maurice. Hardcover. [4], 25, [3] p.: many in-text illustrations, 12 leaves of color plates; 29 cm. Orange cloth spine; yellow paper over boards with color illustrations on both boards. Gravure de Guillaume frères. Imprimerie de l'Édition et de l'Industrie. "Hachette & Cie." on... More
Chicago and New York: Lyons and Carnahan, 1938. Hardcover. 480 p.: illustrations; 19 cm. Green cloth with black spine and cover titles; red and black cover illustration of a city with skyscrapers above a globe, and a small plane and a dirigible above the buildings. "5" -- on spine. "World... More