Philadelphia: C. G. Henderson & Co., 1856. _. Paper Covered Boards. 24mo. Early printing. Complete with 44 pages, alternating illustrations and blanks. Cover has some edgewear. Lightly soiled pages. 24 hand-colored plates (some repeated) including three different North American Indians images, Chillians, Mexicans, Mexican Indians, Haytians, Tupinambas, Botocuodos, Brazilians, Brazilian...
New York: Century, Circa 1918. Cox, Palmer. Hard Cover. 4to. Mrs. L. Palmer Cox's address label is inside the front cover. Complete. Sound binding. Clean pages. Light cover wear. Dust jacket has some minor edge wear, heaviest at spine ends. Number 5 in the Brownies series. Eleven Brownies titles in...
New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1907. Wylie, Charles (photographer). First Edition. Pictorial Boards. Oblong 8vo. Wonderful early Teddy Bear book illustrated with photographs and featuring two Steiff stuffed bears. Includes photos of tin houses, toy soldiers, a soft monkey, and lots of dolls. Full-page photographs alternate with text pages...
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1948. Gramatky, Hardie. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Complete. First edition with $2.25 on dust jacket. Inscribed by Gramatky on the title page, "For my very fine friends / -The Kollikers / with all good / wishes / Hardie Gramatky / 1948". Sound binding...
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1946. First Edition. Paper Covered Boards. Oblong 16vo. Very nice movable book requiring the reader to catch loose dogs and put them in the correct beds. All six dogs (poodle, collie, terrier, scottie, spaniel, and dachshund) and dog beds are present. Both fire department...
Oldenburg, Germany: Verlag Gerhard Stalling, 1930. Wenz-Vietor, Else. First Edition. Hard Cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Complete. Text in German (Sutterlin typeface). Striking color illustrations throughout; seven of them are full-page. Sound binding; front hinge starting to crack. No names or other writing. Clean pages with a....
Donohue, 1912. Printed Wrapper. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Complete. This edition has eight full page color lithographs instead of the more frequently found copies with only four The full page color illustrations are of scouts Selecting a campsite, Signaling form a hilltop, Sending Morse Code, Fording a....
New York: International News Company, 1884. Hard Boards with Cloth Spine. Folio. This book has the same cover illustration as a German edition, Lebende Thierbilder, along with three of the same movables. Complete with six movables: 1) Happy Family - works fine; tab shortened and very worn, 2) Geese, Ducks...
Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1941. MacKnight, Ninon. First Edition. Hard Cover. 4to. Complete with dust jacket. Sound binding with intact hinges. Clean pages. Light wear to cover. Slight spine slant. Price-clipped dust jacket is edge-worn, heaviest at top of spine; closed tear on front cover. Child's name on front free...
London - Paris - New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd., 1896. Unlisted. Pictorial Cover. 4t0. Very nice early movable book. 10 pages with 4 transformation pictures. All four transformations work well. 1st transformation: Petting Donkey to Picking Wildflowers - soiled tab, pulls just a little tight, no other problems...
New York: Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Company, 1911. Kennedy, A. E. First Edition. Printed Wrapper. 8vo. "No. 120." Unpaginated, but 12 pages including the cover. Cover and 4 pages in color; remainder with gray illustrations. Sound stapled binding. Minor cover wear. Clean pages. Faint corner creases to two leaves and...
New York: Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Company, 1913. Brundage, Francis. Pictorial Wrapper. "No. 641." 16 pages including the cover. Four mult-color pages with the remainder printed in orange and black.Original stapled binding is in nice shape with a 1"split at the tail of the spine. Light wear and soiling. Cute...
