MAY, JACQUELINE:

MAY, JACQUELINE: Orange d'Or. Petite fille de l'Empire du Milieu. Illustrations de Ch. et Th. Delattre. Grenoble, Editions Dardelet et Cie, (about 1946).

. Small 4to. Pp. 60. With many lovely coloured illustrations in the text. Publisher's pictorial paper covered boards, cloth spine (small repair). Binding somewhat shaken but still firm. A charming children's book about a Chinese girl celebrating her 10th birthday describing the festivities, meals, tours and shows.

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Book number: 100603

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, china, chine, chinese, kina, asia, asie, asiatic, asien, travel, exploration, children, story, fairy tale

PUSHKIN, ALEXANDER / KONASHEVICH, VLADIMIR (Ill.):

Skazka o rybake i rybke (The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish). Moscow & Leningrad, Detizdat, 1936.

. 4to. Pp. 16. With colour illustrations. Publisher's pictorial boards, rubbed. Old inscriptions on front end paper and old library marking on title. Second edition (first 1922) of this famous Russian children book illustrated by Konashevich. It was written by Pushkin in 1833, and published multiple times.

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Book number: 120990

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, russia, russian, russe, children, barnbok, juvenalia, illustrated,

SHIMIZU, SEIFU (Illustrator) & NISHIZAWA, TEHIKO (Illustrator):

Unai no Tomo (The Child's Friends). Ten volumes. Kyoto, Unsodo, Meiji 24-Taisho (1891-1923).

. A complete set comprising ten volumes devoted to Japanese traditional children's toys. Comprises more than 420 pages with numerous coloured woodcuts of toys with printed captions in Japanese. Leaves are folded in the traditional Japanese manner. Bound in original decorated paper wrappers, paper labels on upper covers. (First six volumes in beige paper, and the remaining four in orange paper, as issued). Housed in a very delicate, custom-made box. First edition of this highly artistic and important work sometimes considered "the Bible for all serious toy amateurs". Seifu Shimizu (1851-1913) was a student of Hiroshige III and studied poetry with Kozando Sangetsu. He was the leading Meiji collector of omocha, toys handmade from common materials. In 1880 he founded the Takeuma-kai (Hobbyhorse Club) dedicated to "the merry and nostalgic enjoyment of children's toys" and in 1906 he curated the Kodomo Hakurankai (Children's Exhibition) which was the first known exhibition of Japanese folk toys in Japan. Shimizu studied and prepared himself for this work for a long time. He died during the publication, but his manuscript was found and four additional volumes (in orange-coloured wrappers) were published by Tekiho Nishizawa. The woodcuts are of very high quality and printed in bright, intense colours. Some of the prints have additional hand-applied colour, and others are highlighted with gold and silver. A wonderful copy of this important ethnographic work. Uncommon, especially complete in first edition. Hundreds of color plates, mostly single page, with a few double page as well. The pigments are very bright, and include some metallic inks. The overall colors, condition and printing of the set are very good. An excellent resource for mingei as well as the history of toys, as the images are all captioned in Japanese. It should be noted that the first six volumes were created before Shimizu SeifÅÇ's death in 1913. Nishizawa took over the publication as editor, so we have all of the Shimizu works and the first of those by Nishizawa, printed in 1917.lumes 1 through 7 of 10 published Kyoto, UnsÅ dÅ , 1891-1924. A complete series of color illustrations of traditional Japanese toys, published over the course of more than 30 years. Hundreds of color plates, mostly single page, with a few double page as well. The pigments are very bright, and include some metallic inks. The overall colors, condition and printing of the set are very good. An excellent resource for mingei as well as the history of toys, as the images are all captioned in Japanese. It should be noted that the first six volumes were created before Shimizu SeifÅÇ's death in 1913. Nishizawa took over the publication as editor, so we have all of the Shimizu works and the first of those by Nishizawa, printed in 1917. Priced accordingly. The most important work of its kind, seldom found outside Japan. A very nice copy. B oston Eur 1750

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Book number: 121488

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japon, japanese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, toys, folk art, children, woodcuts, illustrated

SMITHES, MARION F.:

Children of the Desert. With Photographs by W.H. Edgar. Kensington, Curtis & Davidson, 1910.

. Pp. (viii), 56. Missing front endpaper. With eight plates, of which seven made from photographs. Original brown paper boards, cloth spine, printed in black, and an image of a camel on upper cover. Initially and at end a little browned. First edition. A very charming work, probably privately printed, which tells us stories about life among the Arabs and Berbers around Biskra in the Algerian Sahara. Rare.

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Book number: 120661

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, north africa, algeria, afrique, african, arabian, arabic, desert, travel, exploration, youth

Labyrint-spelet. [SWEDISH BOARD GAME].

Labyrint-spelet. (Labyrinth board game). Stockholm, Adolf Johnsons förlag, Central-tryckeriet, 1903.

. Colour printed sheet (72 x 62 cm). Printed in green, black and orange. Rules and instructions printed outside the labyrinth. Original envelope with a coloured lithograph pasted on front cover. A Swedish game in the form of a labyrinth. The players have to get through the maze lined with nasty animals to reach the beautiful maiden at the centre. With three small almost invisible holes but overall in very good condition.

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Book number: 120257

Catalogue: Design

Keywords: Design, design, game, games, spel, sweden, swedish, svenskt, familj, barn, children, family, maze

HASEGAWA TAKEJIRO (Publ.):

[JAPANESE CRæPE PAPER CALENDAR]The Months of Japanese children for 1906. Tokyo 1905.

. A diamond-shaped calendar 13.8 x 13.8 cm. Seven double folded leaves of crêpe paper bound in the Japanese style with silk thread. Contains twelve colour woodblock printed illustrations depicting different activities for children according to the months. Text in English, Japanese title on rear cover. The covers with some light wear, rear cover with small paperclip rust mark at edges. A very charming calendar.Takejiro Hasegawa (1853-1938) produced many woodcut illustrated books in the western languages, usually in small editions.

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Book number: 121462

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japanese, calendar, japon, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, illustrated, crêpepaper, children, games, tradition, woodblock,

TAYLOR HEADLAND, ISAAC:

Our Little Chinese Cousin. Boston 1903.

. Pp. 88 + adv. pp. 10. With eight plates made from photographs and many illustrations in the text. Original cloth with a colour illustration on upper cover, somewhat rubbed and lightly stained. First edition of this charming story for young people written by an American missionary serving and teaching in China.

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Book number: 120581

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, china, chine, kina, chinese, asia, asie, asiatic, children, juvenile,

TEFFI (LOKHVITSKAIA, NADEZHDA ALEXANDROVNA) / PARAIN, NATHALIE (Ill.):

Baba-Yaga [A Folk Tale]. Paris, YMCA Press, 1932.

. 4to. Pp. (24). Text in Russian. With lovely coloured illustrations. Original lithographed wrappers with some wear. Resewn, spine restored with cloth, loss of corners to front wrapper, last leaf with tear restored and some remains of old tape at inner margin. But still a likeable copy. First edition.Baba-Yaga is a folklore tale about a a frightening witch-like old woman living in the forest. There are many illustrated versions about her in Russian folklore. Teffi was a renowned humanist writer in pre-Revolutionary Russia and Nathalie Parain, Ukrainian-born artist who illustrated many popular children's books. Both settled in Paris in the 1920s.

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Book number: 120993

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, russia, russian, russe, children, juvenile, illustrated, avant-garde

THATCHER, PHYLLIS:

Soma and Seitha of Ceylon. Written and Illustrated by Phyllis Thatcher. London, The Zenith Press, ca 1937.

. Small 8vo. Pp. 29, (3). With charming colour illustrations. Original pictorial paper boards, with light wear along edges. Oxidation to staples. A rare children's book that tells the story of Soma and Setha in Sri Lanka (Ceylon). We assume the author was a missionary because of the content of the book.

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Book number: 121476

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, ceylon, sri lanka, asia, asien, asiatic, children, juvenile, travel, exploration, lady traveller,