Swan Lake
Boston: Ariel Books / Houghton Mifflin, 1989. 4to. Original blue cloth, image mounted on cover. First edition, signed by Chris Van Allsburg on the flyleaf beneath one of his illustrations.
Boston: Ariel Books / Houghton Mifflin, 1989. 4to. Original blue cloth, image mounted on cover. First edition, signed by Chris Van Allsburg on the flyleaf beneath one of his illustrations.
New York: Harpers, 1958. Sendak, Maurice. First edition, "Reinforced Library Edition", and "Harpercrest Edition" 4to. Original cloth; original pictorial dust jackets. Together two volumes. The first is price clipped and repriced at $2.99 and states "Reinforced Library Edition" on the front of the jacket. The second is price clipped and.....
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1944. Oblong (7.5 x 10 inches). [24] pages. Four full-page color moveable illustrations by Julian Wehr. Original red comb binding, printed pictorial boards; pictorial dust jacket.
New York: Duenwald Printing Corporation, 1944. 8vo. [17] pages. Six full-page color moveable illustrations by Julian Wehr. Original red comb binding, printed pictorial boards.
Amsterdam: Mason d'editions "De Spieghel" 1946. 8vo. 43, [1] pages. Black silhouettes by Nelly Bodenheim. Original quarter black cloth, pink pictorial boards. A charming series of songs, illustrated with silhouettes. Bodenheim was born in Amsterdam where she was trained at the Rijksacademie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, and then she.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, [1972]. First edition. 8vo. Illustrated by Joseph Schindelman. Original cloth-backed boards; dust jacket.
Two postcards and one note, all from Hinsdale, New Hampshire, 8vo, with envelope, all signed ("Joslyn Gray"). Postcards slightly age-darkened. The Granite State author of juvenile fiction sends news of her domestic life, and provides a list of six of her books.
London and New York: Frederick Warne & Co., [circa 1909]. Second edition. 8vo. 64 pp. Color illustrations by Greenaway. Original half green cloth; glazed pictorial boards. Lacks front free endpaper, shaken, covers rubbed and with some pale staining; last leaf browned. Jane Taylor (1783-824) is the English poet and novelist.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. 4to. 321pp. Color plates by N. C. Wyeth. Early 20th-century blue half morocco, spine gilt, top edges gilt.
P F Volland Co, 1929. First edition. 4to. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION of Justin C. Gruelle's Mother Goose. "...The figures are not manikins; they speak; they body emotion; they move; they show forth that intangible but very real quality which the artist dismisses with the single word 'character'.......
New York: Scholastic, 1992. 4to. [32] pages. Color illustrations. Original printed wrappers. Later printing of the paperback issue of the "Trumpet Special edition," only available for distribution through the school market. Inscribed by Steig on the inner front wrapper: "I HOPE YOU ENJOY MY BOOK / William Steig 1994."
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983. Folio. Original boards; dust jacket. Later printing. Inscribed by both the artist and author on the front free endpaper: "From Hilary Knight and ME, ELOISE!"
Philadelphia: David McKay, 1918. 4to. 345 pp. Eight color plates and illustrated title by Maginel Wright Enright. Original decorated cloth, the front cover with color mounted print; pictorial dust jacket. A very good copy in jacket with chip at head affecting one letter of title, with light soiling and some.....
England: Daily Express, no date [circa 1949]. 8.5 x 6.5 inches. Seven double-page pop-up panels. Cloth-backed pictorial boards, orange decorated paper endleaves. A very handsome mid-century pop-up abecedarium for children.
[New York]: Harlin Quist, 1974. Square 4to. Original cloth; dust jacket. First edition, the text and pictures by Couratin, who also designed the book. A superb copy.
New York: Macmillan, 1932. First edition. Octavo. Original cloth; original pictorial dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, in a very clean and fresh dust jacket.
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., [1934]. Trade issue. 8vo. 37 pp. Color frontispiece after Rackham, and black-and-white illustrations in text. Original printed paper wrappers.
New York: Knight and Knight, [1925]. First edition. 4to. 16pp. Illustrated throughout with designs and plans for dolls. Stapled in self-wrappers. A fully-realized how-to for children, starting with the tools and materials required, through design and craft techniques. Includes general directions, details for making hair and hats, instructions on how.....
Los Angeles: Nash Publishing, 1972. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. 197 pages. Boards, dust jacket. "Convinced he is unable to jump, Alphonse Frog teaches himself to walk."
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1986. First edition, later issue. Quarto. Original pictorial glazed boards; original pictorial dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY DEPAOLA on the half-title "For Sophie & Michael / Tomie [with a heart] '92/97." dePaola created a richly illustrated book of nursery tales, taken from fairy and folk tales.....
New York: Crowell, 1980. First edition, trade binding. 8vo. Original cloth; original pictorial dust jacket. FIRST EDITION of this Newbery Medal Award-winning novel set on the Maryland shore.
Chicago: Albert Whitman & Company, 1940. 8vo. Photographs by R. D. Richardson. Original tan cloth, photo-illustrated title panel mounted on cover. A photographically illustrated children's book about a marionette and his squeeze box, and his African American friend Binny.
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. First edition. Oblong quarto. Original cloth; original pictorial dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, heralded by Publisher's Weekly upon publication: "Two-time Caldecott Medalist Van Allsburg reaches a new pinnacle of excellence in both illustration and storytelling in his latest work."
Paris: Henri Laurens, 1927. 7.5 x 9.75 inches. 93 pages. Pictorial wrappers. 4 plates in color, profusely illustrated in the text.
New York: Hyperion, 1993. 4to. Color photographs. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, first printing, signed and with a small sketch of a crown(?) by Wegman on the title. A retelling of Cinderella, featuring Wegman's weimaraners.