WITH WATERCOLOUR DRAWING
The 21 Balloons
New York: Viking, [April], 1947. First Edition. WITH WATERCOLOUR DRAWING. With a fine watercolour on ffep "To Barbar... Read More about The 21 Balloons
Price: $5,000
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A, B, & C's Little Trip: Pleasant Recollections of a Holiday in Holland and Belgium. Narrated by "C." With "A's"...
Manchester: Richard Johnson, Printer, Brook Strreet, 1894. First edition. Read More about A, B, & C's Little Trip: Pleasant Recollections of a Holiday in Holland and Belgium. Narrated...
Price: $200
BRILLIANT COPY
Rollo's Experiments.
Boston: Weeks, Jordan, and Company, 1839. First Edition. BRILLIANT COPY. The seventh Rollo book. Read More about Rollo's Experiments
Price: $500
Caleb in the Country. A Story for Children. By the Author of the Rollo Books.
Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1839. First Edition. Read More about Caleb in the Country. A Story for Children. By the Author of the Rollo Books
Price: $100
The Rollo Philosophy. Part IV. The Sky.
Boston: Otis, Broaders, & Co, 1843. First edition. Read More about The Rollo Philosophy. Part IV. The Sky
Price: $50
Artist’s Copy
The Twelve Dancing Pricesses.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1966]. First edition. Artist’s Copy. Read More about The Twelve Dancing Pricesses
Price: $150
Addams to a Little Admirer
Autograph Letter, Signed (Chas Addams), to Robert Black (sic Block).
[New York]: 27 October 1954. Addams to a Little Admirer. The great American cartoonist of the macabre writes: “Dear Robert, Thanks for your very kind letter. I’m glad that you like my pictures and I will try to do more of them. They’re all so special, that it isn’t easy..... Read More about Autograph Letter, Signed (Chas Addams), to Robert Black (sic Block
Price: $400
The Mother Goose.
New York: Published by Windmill Books, Inc Distributed by Harper & Row, [1967]. Addams, Charles. First edition. Addams' first book aimed at children and the first publication of Windmill Books. Read More about The Mother Goose
Price: $175
Aesop in Rhyme, with some originals.
London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1820. First edition. Read More about Aesop in Rhyme, with some originals
Price: $200
Fabulae Æsopi Select or Select Fables of Æsop; with English Translation. More Literal than any yet extant, designed for the...
London: Printed for C. Hitch and L. Hawes, [1760?]. The Sixth edition Corrected and Amended. Read More about Fabulae Æsopi Select or Select Fables of Æsop; with English Translation. More Literal than any...
Price: $250
Little Men. Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1872. First British Edition, Low's copyright cheap ed. of American books. Scarce, OCLC locates only one copy, in Germany. Read More about Little Men. Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys
Price: $300
The Story of a Bad Boy.
Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co, 1870. First edition, first state with “scattered” on page 14 line 20 and “The Uncle Sam Series” on the first leaf of advertisements at the back. Read More about The Story of a Bad Boy
Price: $250
The Story of a Bad Boy.
Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co, 1870. First edition, First state. Read More about The Story of a Bad Boy
Price: $500
Rare In Dust Jacket
Chester Rand; or, A New Path to Fortune.
Philadelphia: John C. Winston, [n.d., ca. 1907]. Early reprint. Rare In Dust Jacket. Read More about Chester Rand; or, A New Path to Fortune
Price: $350
The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen.
Philadelphia: J.P. Lippincott, n.d. c. 1899. Read More about The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
Price: $400
The Improvisatore: or, Life in Italy, from the Danish...translated by Mary Howitt.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1845. First Edition in English. Read More about The Improvisatore: or, Life in Italy, from the Danish...translated by Mary Howitt
Price: $300
The Nightingale. Translation by H.W. Dulcken.
Boston: Berkley Updike, The Merrymount Press, 1896. French-fold. Read More about The Nightingale. Translation by H.W. Dulcken
Price: $250
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The Nightingale. [Translation by H.W. Dulken].
New York: R.H. Russell, 1898. The Merrrymount Edition. Read More about The Nightingale. [Translation by H.W. Dulken
Price: $350
Tolv med Posten.
Copenhagen: Andreasen & Lachmann, 1940. Number 668 of 800 copies, signed by Grosserer Marius Maurinen on colophon, and by Andreasen on preface. With 12 wonderful illustrations, by Anton Hansen, Thor Bógelünd, Erik Stockmarr, Magnüs Bengtsson, Sikker Hansen, V. Steoft, Carl Jensen, Ebbe Sadolin, Albert Naür, Harald Hansen, Arne Ungermann, Herlief..... Read More about Tolv med Posten
Price: $250
Contes d'Andersen. Traduit du Danois par D. Soldi.
Paris: Hachette, 1905. Read More about Contes d'Andersen. Traduit du Danois par D. Soldi
Price: $100
Four separate juvenile titles bound together
The Beautiful Grape Vine by Betsey Saunders, and Many Other Stories Suitable for Sabbath Scholars. [Bound with] The Cowslip Gatherers.....
Boston: Published and sold by James Loring, No. 132 Washington-street, 1827. First edition, four titles, bound in single publisher's(?) binding [the separate titles were published individually]. Four separate juvenile titles bound together. Read More about The Beautiful Grape Vine by Betsey Saunders, and Many Other Stories Suitable for Sabbath...
Price: $600
FANNY, THE CONTRARY LITTLE GIRL' (1853) [in words of one and two syllables]
SIX SHORT STORIES FOR THE NURSERY. No. 6: FANNY, THE CONTRARY LITTLE GIRL [cover title]. [Published anonymously].
Philadelphia: Willis P. Hazard, 178 Chesnut St, 1853. First edition. FANNY, THE CONTRARY LITTLE GIRL' (1853) [in words of one and two syllables]. An uncommon American children's book; OCLC locates only two holdings [University of Connecticut, and Florida (which has an imperfect copy, lacking outer wrappers)]. [issued as "No. 6"..... Read More about SIX SHORT STORIES FOR THE NURSERY. No. 6: FANNY, THE CONTRARY LITTLE GIRL [cover title]....
Price: $300
Arabella, or "I Won't!"
Boston: Sabbath School Society Depository, No. 13 Cornhill, 1847. Read More about Arabella, or "I Won't!"
Price: $75
Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain.
London, New York, Toronto: Oxford, 1936. The first book written and illustrated by Ardizzone. "Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain arose from stories told to his own family. It draws on memories of the harbour at Ipswich and upon his liking for ships and the sea, and in its..... Read More about Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain
Price: $300
Seven Simeons.
New York: The Viking Press, 1937. Second printing, July 1937. Winner of the First Caldecott Prize. Read More about Seven Simeons
Price: $200
Seven Simeons.
New York: Cassell and Company Limited, (1947). Second English Edition. Winner of the First Caldecott Prize. Read More about Seven Simeons
Price: $50