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Cased stipple-engraved picture, hand-colored, with cut-out figures. Image is circular and measures seven inches in diameter, within a frame that measures 12 by 14 by 3 inches. The picture shows a boy playing the pipe and drums, while activating a pair of dancing dolls on a plank of wood with... more

Price: $1,350.00

Quarto. 56pp. First edition. One of twenty-five hand-colored copies. Unicorn Quartos Number One. Contains pictorial title and verse descriptions of a dozen different giants, each illustrated with a hand-colored woodcut. Some giants personify the perils of modern times with the motor car, electric light, and steam roller. Except for "The... more

Price: $2,750.00

Quarto. (14)ff. One of 200 copies printed on Arches. Contains eight full-page plates and several vignettes, all colored by pochoir, depicting the experiences of French children Jacqueline, Guillaume, and their friends. The prints and dedication are signed with the initials S. B., but the author/illustrator is unknown; the dedication page... more

Price: $650.00

Quarto. 127pp., +(16)ff. One of sixteen copies, with a signed original gouache for one of the sixteen color plates by Neziere, opposite p.63. Highly colored and caricature-like in style, the painting illustrates "L'Ane et le Petit Chien (The Little Dog and the Donkey)." Additionally, each text page is illustrated in... more

Price: $2,000.00

Octavo. lvi, 494pp., + (24)ff. Includes the author's preface, his Life of Aesop, and his dedication "ad usum delphini." ("Je me sers des animaux pour instruire les hommes.") Contains 48 engraved illustrations on 24 plates. Internally very clean, but with paper flaw to p.xxix, with small text loss. Light rubbing... more

Price: $350.00

191pp. A later American edition of the title, which was first published by Tilt & Bogue in London circa 1840. Contains forty-eight wood-engravings, with short biographies, of famous men such as the Venerable Bede, Captain Cook, Robert Boyle, and James Watt. Some spotting and soiling to covers, front hinge starting,... more

Price: $175.00

Quarto. 44 pp. First edition. A boy's summer of adventure and learning on the farm, told in verse with a woodcut on every page, two of them in two colors. Signed by the author and dated "Los Angeles California Oct 31st 1933." Agent's stamp on endpaper, else fine in pictorial... more

Price: $250.00

First edition. With illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard. The final installment of the Christopher Robin books introduces the character Tigger to the residents of the Hundred Acre Wood. Although his characters are now beloved by children worldwide, Milne didn't intend his stories about Pooh to be for children. Instead, they... more

Price: $1,850.00

Oblong quarto. (5)ff. Five hand-colored plates show comical urchins demonstrating the senses. "Seeing" shows two boys peering into a box-shaped peep-show at a fair while the proprietor says, "Now then gents, open your eyes, blow your precious noses, and don't breathe on the glass." In the original printed wrappers, which... more

Price: $2,850.00

Large oblong quarto. 48pp. Written and illustrated by (Louis-)Maurice Boutet de Monvel, one of the most popular French illustrators of the nineteenth century. Jeanne d'Arc is Boutet de Monvel's magnum opus, and the forty-seven color-printed process illustrations showcase the clean, "stylized realism" of his work. Bound in purple cloth boards... more

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16ff. Some chipping to spine, light wear to covers, else a near fine copy of this famous, whimsical alphabet bound in glossy pictorial boards. With the bookplate of noted collector Rabbi Kalman Levitan. (Thomson 68a; Schuster & Engen #23-1C). (2 5/8 by 2 3/8; 67x59mm). ... more

Price: $100.00

Quarto. 9ff. Color and sepia illustrations on each page by Karla Rohra. A poem, in Czech, about a teddy bear bored with his life in the nursery who goes off into the world and discovers that his old life was not so bad. In illustrated, embossed boards shaped like a... more

Price: $750.00

Oblong quarto. (ii), 31, (3)pp. A collection of nursery rhymes translated from the original music written by J. Röntgen and with fifteen delightful color illustrations by Dutch artist Henriette Willebeek Le Mair. Reminiscent of Kate Greenaway's light-hearted children playing in period dress, Willebeek Le Mair's designs illustrate such songs as... more

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First edition, later issue. Dr. Seuss' classic, with his iconic illustrations of Wumps and Yinks and Ned. Bound in illustrated boards with illustrated endpapers, and matching dust wrapper. Upper board chipped and gouged along top third of hinge, dust wrapper with some toning to spine and rear panel, general shelf... more

Price: $200.00

Quarto. (13)ff. First printing of this edition. A traditional nursery rhyme comprised of comical tongue twisters, counting from one to twelve. Each number is illustrated with a different animal by Nicola Bayley, in her characteristic soft, stippled style. Extremely fine in illustrated boards. ... more

Price: $150.00

Octavo. 45pp. First edition. Thought to be by Ruth Plumly Thompson, who did some writing for Disney at this time. Each page is illustrated in color with the familiar images of Disney's penguins. A superb copy in cloth with color pictorial paper label. ... more

Price: $375.00

Small quarto. 7ff. With bright, colorful illustrations by Germaine Bouret and six movable illustrations animated by Robert de Longchamp, all in working order. Text, in French, of "un voyage fantastique au pays mystérieux des illusions." This movable book of magic tricks demonstrates feats of legerdemain, like a card trick and... more

Price: $1,250.00

Octavo. First edition. With a frontispiece illustration of dancing fairies by Richard Doyle, titled "Under the Dock Leaves." This is Walter de la Mare's first book, a collection of poems written under the pen name Walter Ramal. Imagination and fantasy abound in these lighthearted verses. Inscribed to Theodore Spicer-Simson, a... more

Price: $650.00