TEMPEST, Margaret

Pinkie Mouse and the Elves

1944. TEMPEST, Margaret. PINKIE MOUSE & THE ELVES. London: Collins, (1944). First edition. 31 pp. 4 1/2 x 4." Bright illustrations by the author accompany her own text, which is printed in vivid blue. Pink cloth back, paper covered boards, illustration to upper board, decorated pink endpapers. A charming, contemporary juvenile inscription to half-title page. Light creasing to front free-endpaper. Moderate soiling to boards with a small rubbed spot to upper board. Very good. .

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Buchzahl: 62106

Katalog: Children

TEMPEST, Margaret

Pinkie Mouse and the Balloons

1944. TEMPEST, Margaret. PINKIE MOUSE & THE BALLOONS. London: Collins, (1944). First edition. 31 pp. 4 1/2 x 4." Bright illustrations by the author accompany her own text, which is printed in vivid blue. Pink cloth back, paper covered boards, illustration to upper board, decorated pink endpapers. Contemporary gift inscription to front free-endpaper. Over opened in a few places. Moderate soiling to boards with a discolored spot to upper board, and a small damp spot to spine. Good. .

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Buchzahl: 62107

Katalog: Children

TEMPEST, Margaret

Pinkie Mouse and the Rainbow

1946. TEMPEST, Margaret. PINKIE MOUSE & THE RAINBOW. London: Collins, (1946). First edition. 31 pp. 4 1/2 x 4." Bright illustrations by the author accompany her own text, which is printed in blue. Pink cloth back, paper covered boards, illustration to upper board, decorated pink endpapers. Light soiling to boards, but internally clean and fresh. Bottom fore-corner of the upper board is bumped and a little rubbed. Very good plus. .

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Buchzahl: 62108

Katalog: Children

THAYER, William M.

The Poor Boy and Merchant Prince; or, Elements of Success Drawn from

1857. THAYER, William M. THE POOR BOY AND MERCHANT PRINCE; OR, ELEMENTS OF SUCCESS DRAWN FROM THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF THE LATE AMOS LAWRENCE; A BOOK FOR YOUTH. Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1857. With the bookplate of Augustus Lowell (related by marriage to Lawrence). 349 pp. 12mo. ribbed brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Except for a tiny chip to top of spine, the covers are clean, bright and in excellent condition. Lowell's armorial bookplate to front pastedown. A book for boys about attaining business success. A lovely copy. .

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Buchzahl: 83778

Katalog: Children

TRAVERS, P. L.

Mary Poppins in the Park

1952. TRAVERS, P. L. MARY POPPINS IN THE PARK. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952. First American Edition. 235 pp. 8vo. blue cloth. Fine in very good dust jacket with light soil, several small closed tears and nicks, 1/4 inch chip to top of spine. Cheerful b/w illustrations and map endpapers. Fourth book in the Mary Poppins series. .

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Buchzahl: 78806

Katalog: Children

VERNE, Jules

Michael Strogoff, a Courier of the Czar

1927. VERNE, Jules. MICHAEL STROGOFF, a Courier of the Czar. Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1927). First edition thus, with Wyeth's illustrations: a color-illustrated title-page, nine color plates, and color-illustrated endpapers. (viii), 397 pp. Octavo, black cloth with a large color-illustrated label on upper board and gilt-stamped title on spine. Clean and fresh, it is a very good copy, in an illustrated dust-jacket that has small chips at heel and crown and shows slight edgewear. This is one of the Scribner series of illustrated classics for younger readers. .

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Buchzahl: 87523

Katalog: Children

WAIN, Louis

In Animal Land with Louis Wain

1904. WAIN, Louis. IN ANIMAL LAND WITH LOUIS WAIN. London: S. W. Partridge & Co. [1904]. [52] pp. + 4 pp. advertisements. 4to. red and green paper covered boards, front board with color illustration by Wain. Very good, spine with moderate tiny chipping, slightly affecting title. Corners slightly worn. Hinges cracked. B/w advertising pages, 2 or 3 ads to a page, some with illustrations, at front and rear. Tipped-in color frontispiece has a small crease to bottom right corner, not affecting image. A few of the age-toned text pages have small closed tears in the margins, with no loss. text and illustrations printed in sepia, green, or blue. Four color plates in fine condition, with only the frontispiece having the small crease. Mostly cats; one color plate illustrates a lane of promenading dogs. Wain's anthropomorphized creatures are not always sweet or friendly!.

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Buchzahl: 84413

Katalog: Children

WARNE, Frederick

Our Animal Picture Book

[WARNE, Frederick, PUBLISHER]. OUR ANIMAL PICTURE BOOK. London and New York: Frederick Warne [n.d. ca. 1880]. 14 pp. Oblong 4to, paper wrappers and pages mounted on linen. Bright colors. Spine split, front cover nearly detached. Some rubbed spots and small chips to edges of covers,slightly affecting publishing details text. Few scratches to rear cover. Bottom corners of text thumbed, with a few corner chips, not affecting images. Ostriches in Africa, lions, squirrels, foxes, cows, chamoises, parrots and cockatoos, sheep, roosters, tigers, peacocks, horses, bears, ducks, and a clown-garbed monkey on the rear cover. .

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Buchzahl: 82435

Katalog: Children

WEAVER, Elsa Jane

The Golden Bible

1946. WEAVER, Elsa Jane. THE GOLDEN BIBLE: From the King James Version of the Old Testament. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946. A Giant Golden Book de luxe edition. First printing. 4to. 1/4 cloth, tan spine with color pictorial paper covered boards. Illustrated in color and b/w. Near fine in uncommon very good dust jacket, with small closed tears and a few small chips at edges. Clean copy, bright colors. Pencil ownership at head of Contents page. .

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Buchzahl: 78819

Katalog: Children

WHITNEY, Adeline Dutton Train

Boys at Chequasset

1863. [WHITNEY, Adeline Dutton Train] BOYS AT CHEQUASSET; or, "A Little Leaven." By the Author of "Faith Gartney's Girlhood." Boston: Loring, (1863). Second edition. Small 8vo, 258 pp.; pink cloth. Christmas 1863 inscription. Some foxing, cloth faded, worn at extremes. About very good. .

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Buchzahl: 81429

Katalog: Children

Sonstige Stichworte: Women

WIGGIN, KATE DOUGLAS

New Chronicles of Rebecca

WIGGIN, Kate Douglas. NEW CHRONICLES OF REBECCA. Illustrated. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1907). Early reprint. The spine is faded but the decorated cover remains sharp, making this a near fine copy in a dust jacket sunned at the spine and faded with small chips and edge tears. Ill.: LP.

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Buchzahl: 81488

Katalog: Children

Sonstige Stichworte: Women

WIGGIN, KATE DOUGLAS

Rebecca

WIGGIN, Kate Douglas. REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1903). Early reprint. The spine is slightly faded, else a near fine copy in bright, decorated boards, in a dust jacket with small chips and tears to the edges. Ill.: LP.

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Buchzahl: 81391

Katalog: Children

Sonstige Stichworte: Women

WILLENBORG, Lee

Old Ruddy and Other Forest People

1925. WILLENBORG, Lee. OLD RUDDY AND OTHER FOREST PEOPLE. Pictures by J. Clinton Shepherd. Chicago, NY: Rand McNally & co. (1925). First edition. 8vo. brick cloth with color pictorial, pictorial endpapers & illustrations. Ink ownership stamp to fly-leaf. Just a few pressure marks to a lightly bowed top board; a fine, bright and pleasing copy overall, in the remnants of a soiled dust jacket. .

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Buchzahl: 75692

Katalog: Children

WILLIAMS, Clara Andrews

The Stories That Glue Told

WILLIAMS, Clara Andrews. THE STORIES THAT GLUE TOLD. Illustrated by George Alfred Williams. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1907. [16 pp. + cutouts] Oblong folio, half cloth (blue) with color illustrated paper covered boards. Good, dampstaining to edges of boards, including about 1 inch into front cover illustration. Edges shelfworn. From the Glue Series, in which children's stories were presented with full page scenes to be illustrated by pasting accompnying figures onto the page. All pieces present, although some have been cut and neatly glued into place. Little Red Riding Hood, the Three Pigs, the Pied Piper of Hamelin, Golden Locks and the Three Bears, Santa Claus, others. Quite scarce. Ill.: WILLIAMS, George Alfred.

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Buchzahl: 78947

Katalog: Children

WILSON, Clara Powers

Red Riding Hood

1912. WILSON, Clara Powers, illustrator. RED RIDING HOOD. Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Co. 1912. unpaginated. Small 4to. stapled limp linen throughout, five pages in color, the rest printed in brown. Light soil and edgewear to covers. Charming illustrations. Very good. .

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Buchzahl: 84596

Katalog: Children