Item 323783The Nightingale. [Translation by H.W. Dulken].
Price: $350
New York: R.H. Russell, 1898. The Merrrymount Edition. Read More Item Details for The Nightingale. [Translation by H.W. Dulken] Add to Wish List
Item #323783
Children's books, whether they educate or inspire, are fundamental to our development. We love books here at James Cummins Bookseller, and for some of us, a favorite children's book is what enticed us to seek out our profession. We are proud to present a catalogue of children's literature that spans from the famed nursery classic History of Goody Two Shoes to Norman Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth. Highlights include first editions of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, the first Fessard edition of Fables de la Fontaine, and the first edition of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Take a look at our highlights below and make sure to check out the entire catalogue.
Price: $350
New York: R.H. Russell, 1898. The Merrrymount Edition. Read More Item Details for The Nightingale. [Translation by H.W. Dulken] Add to Wish List
Item #323783
Price: $600
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 Item Details for The Beautiful Grape Vine by Betsey Saunders, and Many Other Stories Suitable for Sabbath Scholars. [Bound with] The Cowslip Gatherers... [and] The New Year's Sabbath... [and] Short Stories... [Published Anonymously]. [Four Separate Titles, bound as one, with separate title pages, and pagination, for each title] Add to Wish List
Item #346261
Price: $250
New York: The Viking Press, 1937. First Published April 1937. Winner of the First Caldecott Prize. Read More Item Details for Seven Simeons: a Russian tale retold and illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff , (Text in English) Add to Wish List
Item #210783
Price: $6,000
London: Grant Richards, 1899. First edition. First edition of one of the most celebrated titles in children’s literature, a work whose small illustrated format heralded a change in children's publishing, and a book that has achieved classic status while remaining explosively controversial. Read More Item Details for The Story of Little Black Sambo Add to Wish List
Item #55322
Price: $400
London: Dean and Son 11 Ludgate Hill, [1859]. Read More Item Details for Shakespere fresh chiselled on stone Add to Wish List
Item #345749
Price: $2,500
[London: The Times Publishing Company, Limited, December 24, 1931]. First edition, signed issue; no. 78 of 100 numbered copies, signed by J. M. Barrie. The front cover states (at lower margin): "As published in/ The [decorative device] Times / Thursday, December 24, 1931" and the verso of front cover has..... Read More Item Details for Farewell Miss Julie Logan: A Wintry Tale by J. M. Barrie Add to Wish List
Item #325631
Price: $1,450
New York: Simon & Schuster, [1939]. Later issue. With twelve girls on the illustration to "They went home and broke their bread", but with title page undated below the Simon & Shuster imprint. Read More Item Details for Madeline Add to Wish List
Item #329407
Price: $1,250
[New York]: Harper & Brothers, 1946. First edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL FUR BINDING AND PICTORIAL BOX. Read More Item Details for Little Fur Family. Pictures by Garth Williams Add to Wish List
Item #325044
Price: $3,000
Paris: Editions du Jardin des Modes, 1931. First edition. The first Babar book, in rare condition. An attractive copy of the scarce first Babar title, in which Babar is introduced to the world, and rarely found in acceptable condition. Read More Item Details for Histoire de Babar Add to Wish List
Item #315465
Price: $2,000
Boston: Little Brown, 1937. First edition. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO HIS GRANDSON AND DEDICATEE. Inscribed on the ffep: "To Willis who if he reads far enough and carefully enough may find himself in this book. Merry Christmas from Granpa 1937." The dedication reads "To all my grandchildren..." Read More Item Details for Tales from The Storyteller's House Add to Wish List
Item #326943
Price: $400
New York: J. Q. Premble, [1860s]. First edition. Hand-Colored. A scarce publication: OCLC locates only a single holding, at New York State Library. J. Q. Premble also published, 'Uncle Joseph's Pretty Stories About The Camel'. Read More Item Details for Uncle Joseph's Pretty Stories about Birds Add to Wish List
Item #333572
Price: $37,500
Worcester: Isaiah Thomas, 1787-8. First Worcester editions. Isaiah Thomas’ edition of History of Little Goody Two Shoes, the famed nursery classic and “the most celebrated of all the books in John Newbery’s Lilliputian library” (Rosenbach), together with A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, “one of the most influential and important books in..... Read More Item Details for History of Little Goody Two Shoes [and:] The Juvenile Biographer; containing the Lives of Little Masters & Misses [and:] A Little Pretty Pocket-Book [and:] The Picture Exhibition; Containing the Original Drawings of Eighteen Disciples Add to Wish List
Item #322006
Price: $5,000
London: Boussod, Valadon & Co, 1887. Beaumont, Eduoard. First English edition. The text is derived from a translation of Charles Perrault's Cendrillon of 1697. Read More Item Details for Cinderella and the Two Gifts Add to Wish List
Item #315482
Price: $2,500
New York: Published by The Century Co, [1895]. First edition. In the Rare Dust Jacket -- and an Original Brownie Drawing. Unusually pretty fifth book of the perennially popular Brownie series. Laid in is an original pen and ink Brownie drawing, docketed on rear with directions to printer. Read More Item Details for The Brownies Through the Union Add to Wish List
Item #224202
Price: $1,500
New York: Published by The Century Co, [1887]. First edition, second issue, with de Vinne seal on copyright page. The First Brownie Book: With an Original Drawing. The first book of the immensely popular Brownie series. This copy is accompanied by a an original Palmer Cox pen-and-ink drawing for the..... Read More Item Details for The Brownies: Their Book Add to Wish List
Item #224196
Price: $6,000
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. First edition, first issue with 6 line colophon. The US edition precedes the British by 3 years. Read More Item Details for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Add to Wish List
Item #322233
Price: $3,500
New York: Random House, [1943]. First Edition. Dahl’s First Book. Written for Walt Disney Productions in anticipation of making a feature-length film, the project was eventually abandoned due to many wartime complications. Read More Item Details for The Gremlins Add to Wish List
Item #339459
Price: $400
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. Burkert, Nancy Burkert. First edition, second printing; second printing [with "The Book Press" imprint on colophon page], in fine second issue dust jacket (with ISBN number on rear panel). This is the first children's book to be illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. Read More Item Details for James and the Giant Peach Add to Wish List
Item #335062
Price: $2,000
Wilmington: Printed and Sold by Peter Brynberg, 1796. A copy of this uncommon edition of Dilworth’s standard school text, here in a nice contemporary binding with traces of original ownership. Read More Item Details for The Schoolmasters Assistant: Being a Compendium of Arithmetic, both Practical and Theoretical. In Five Parts Add to Wish List
Item #317769
Price: $3,250
London: Dean & Son Ltd., 6 La Belle Sauvage, 1935. Based on the animated short film from the Silly Symphony series. First published in Racine, Wisconsin by Whitman Publishing, this British edition published in the same year is arguably more rare. Read More Item Details for The Three Orphan Kittens. The Story and Illustrations by the Staff of Walt Disney Studios Add to Wish List
Item #315507
Price: $35,000
New York: D. Appleton, 1866; London and New York: Macmillan, 1872. First edition, second issue of Adventures; first edition of Looking-Glass, first issue with "wabe" misspelled. The Immortal Alice. An attractive set of the Alice books, with Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in the first printing, second issue, comprising the sheets..... Read More Item Details for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. [And:] Through the Looking-Glass, or What Alice Found There. By Lewis Carroll Add to Wish List
Item #322992
Price: $250
New York: Young Scott Books, 1970. First edition. SIGNED. Signred on title-page. Read More Item Details for Why we have Day and Night Add to Wish List
Item #323697
Price: $2,000
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1905. “Edition De Luxe,” limited, number 211 of 500 copies. De Luxe Edition with original drawing. Biography of Kate Greenaway (1846–1901), with an original Greenway drawing of a child wearing a smock and a bonnet. Authenticated by Greenaway’s brother who signs below on a special..... Read More Item Details for Kate Greenaway Add to Wish List
Item #332906
Price: $4,500
Boston: E.P. Peabody, 1841. First edition. Peirce Family Copies. [Boxed with:] HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. Famous Old People: Being the Second Epoch of Grandfather’s Chair. vii, [i], [9]-158 pp. Boston: E.P. Peabody, 1841. Publisher's light brown cloth, printed black title label on front cover (gilt titling mostly worn away). A few stains..... Read More Item Details for Grandfather's Chair: A History for Youth Add to Wish List
Item #306293
Price: $3,000
Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1852. First edition, first issue with no ads. A very nice copy of Hawthorne's most famous children's book, with "The Gorgon's Head", "Three Golden Apples", etc. Read More Item Details for A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys Add to Wish List
Item #212602
Price: $750
New York: Baker & Taylor Company, [May], 1911. First edition. RARE IN DJ. Read More Item Details for The Tennessee Shad. Chronicling the Rise and Fall of the Firm of Doc Macnooder and the Tennessee Shad Add to Wish List
Item #320998
Price: $2,000
New York: Baker & Taylor, 1910. IN RARE DJ. The most famous of Lawrenceville Series with famous characters, Dink Stover, The Prodigious Hickey, The Tennessee Shad, and Hungry Smeed. With much here on baseball and football. It was first serialized in the Saturday Evening Post. Basis of 1917 film directed..... Read More Item Details for The Varmint Add to Wish List
Item #320997
Price: $250
Frankfurt am Main: Waldemar Kramer, 1953. First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies. COLOR WOODCUTS BY GERTRAUD BANGERT. Nicely printed, in color, with eleven full-page, color woodcuts, on French-folded leaves, and with color woodcut vignettes on each page of text; limited to 500 copies. Uncommon (OCLC lists no American holdings..... Read More Item Details for Frankfurter Bilderbuch. Ausgedacht und gereimt von Hildegard Kuhn. In Holz Geschnitten und Ausgemalt von Gertraud Bangert Add to Wish List
Item #345397
Price: $9,000
Paris: chez l'auteur, 1765-1775. Fessard, Étienne. First Fessard edition, first issue. Fine, fully engraved edition of La Fontaine. First edition, first issue of one of the most elaborate 18th century editions of the celebrated fables of Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695). The engraver and publisher Fessard hoped to rival the..... Read More Item Details for Fables choisies, mises en vers Add to Wish List
Item #305972
Price: $1,750
London: Longmans, Green and Co and New York: 11 East 16th St, 1889. First edition. Number 24 of 113 Large Paper Copies. LARGE PAPER OF FIRST TITLE IN THE FAIRY BOOK SERIES. The large paper issues of this series each have a special introduction which is not in the trade..... Read More Item Details for The Blue Fairy Book Add to Wish List
Item #227472
Price: $400
New York: Stokes, 1934. First edition. Inscribed. With inscription on p. 3 inside prone body of "AIN'T", "For Elizabeth Riley who has been nice to me when I felt like this. With best wishes 'Mun' Leaf." Miss Riley at the time was Book Buyer at Macy's. Read More Item Details for Grammar Can Be Fun. Words and Pictures by Add to Wish List
Item #57173
Price: $1,500
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1871. First American edition. The American edition is much scarcer than the first English of the same year. Read More Item Details for Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets Add to Wish List
Item #316922
Price: $3,000
vp: vd. Crosby Bonsall was a pioneer in the field of early readers. Anita Lobel was Arnold's wife and an established children's writer and illustrator. Collection of 19 children's books written and or illustrated by the Lobels, most inscribed presentation copies to their friends Crosby and George Bonsall. Containing: LOBEL..... Read More Item Details for Collection of 19 Books by Anita and Arnold Lobel. All inscribed to Crosby Bonsall (1921-1995) and her husband George. Several with drawings by Arnold and one framed pencil drawing by Add to Wish List
Item #306208
Price: $12,500
N.p: March 10, 1864. 'Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, / And Edith with golden hair': The Children's Hour. Beautiful presentation of this fair copy by Longfellow of one of his most delightful poems, "The Children's Hour" [ ... ] Descending the broad hall stair, Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, And..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Manuscript, fair copy, of "The Children's Hour," Signed ("Henry W. Longfellow") Add to Wish List
Item #239709
Price: $1,000
Boston: Loring, 1863. Andrew Mellon's Copy. Read More Item Details for The Young Patriot; or, Fidelity Rewarded. Translated from the German, by M.S.F and I.A Add to Wish List
Item #339583
Price: $3,750
New York: T. W. Strong, [circa 1850]. Attractive illustrated abcedary depicting trades, occupations and peoples (including Esquimaux, Gipsy, and Highlander. SCARCE. Read More Item Details for My Own A, B, C, Illustrated Add to Wish List
Item #325591
Price: $5,000
New York: Viking, [April], 1947. First Edition. WITH WATERCOLOUR DRAWING. With a fine watercolour on ffep "To Barbar & Leonard (with them in a balloon seated with a bottle of wine) William Pène du Bois, March, 1947 (pre-publication)" Read More Item Details for The 21 Balloons Add to Wish List
Item #333169
Price: $850
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888. Pyle, Howard. First edition. Read More Item Details for Otto Of the Silver Hand Add to Wish List
Item #322455
Price: $300
New York: Arthur A. Levine/Imprint of Scholastic Press, [July, 2000]. First American edition. Read More Item Details for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Add to Wish List
Item #332742
Price: $850
Photo/NYC: Jardin des Modes, 1931. Paul Dumas. First edition. A children's storybook of Genesis. Read More Item Details for La Plus Vieille Histoire Du Monde Add to Wish List
Item #338072
Price: $750
New York: Random House, [1959]. First Edition. Inscribed. Inscribed "For Debbie with best wishes, Dr. Seuss" with a photocopy of a 1975 TLS tipped-in, to Mr. Draper, mentioning that "Orton is one of my favorite people and the article about him is excellent!" Read More Item Details for Happy Birthday to You! Add to Wish List
Item #334745
Price: $1,250
New York: Random House, [1939]. Seuss, Dr. First Edition, first printing. A Most Un-Juvenile Seuss. Dr. Seuss’s third book, preceded by his highly successful juveniles, To Think that I Saw iIt on Mulberry Street and The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins. As the publisher’s blurb on the inside front jacket..... Read More Item Details for The Seven Lady Godivas Add to Wish List
Item #332617
Price: $500
circa 1930. The monsters "foiled" by Essolube (Standard Oil) included the dreaded "Karbo-nockus", "Moto-munchus", "Oilio-gobelus", "Moto-raspus", and the "Zero-doccus." Each is described on verso of the original envelope among the "cast of characters", concluding with "A Motorist, his wife and child": "Pursued by these fierce and oil thirsty Moto-Monsters they..... Read More Item Details for Foiled by Essolube Add to Wish List
Item #325633
Price: $300
London: William Darton and Son, [1835]. Read More Item Details for Caroline Mordaunt: or, The Governess Add to Wish List
Item #329939
Price: $2,500
London: Longmans, Green, 1885. First edition, first issue. Publisher's presentation blindstamp on the title. Publisher's presentation copy of the first edition, first issue of Stevenson's collection of children's verse, with first appearances of "The Land of Counterpane," "The Land of Nod," "My Shadow," "Uncle Sparky," and "My Bed is a...... Read More Item Details for A Child’s Garden of Verses Add to Wish List
Item #320653
Price: $1,750
New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1929. First edition, inscribed one day before publication date. Inscribed to His Secretary, Pre-Publication. Inscribed to Tarkington's amanuensis/secretary Elizabeth (Betty) Totter, who, during the author's growing blindness, seems to have taken down this novel by dictation, and probably prepared it for publication as well: "For Betty..... Read More Item Details for Penrod Jashper Add to Wish List
Item #321044
Price: $6,000
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940. First edition. AUTHOR TO HIS DAUGHTER. Inscribed on the flyleaf to the author’s daughter, Joan Kennedy Taylor: "For my dear Joan, with all my love./ Deems" Read More Item Details for Walt Disney's Fantasia. With a foreword by Leopold Stokowski. [Introduction by Walt Disney.] Add to Wish List
Item #237310
Price: $400
Harper & Brothers, 1945. Williams, Garth. First edition. Read More Item Details for Stuart Little Add to Wish List
Item #325014
Price: $3,000
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939. Wyeth, N.C. One of 770 copies SIGNED by the author and illustrator, with facsimile letter and 2 extra illustrations for this limited edition. Read More Item Details for The Yearling Add to Wish List
Item #237345
Price: $500
London: Elkin Matthews, 1903. Pamela Colman Smith. Second printing (the first being 1902). Featuring Pamela Colman Smith's lush hand-colored collaborative illustrations. Jack B. Yeats (b.1871 - d.1957) was an Irish artist primarily associated with Expressionism and Symbolism, though here is a fine example of his early work and collaboration with..... Read More Item Details for The Bosun and the Bob-Tailed Comet Add to Wish List
Item #345829