De La Mare, Water, Compton Mackenzie, Hillaire Belloc & Others

Number Five Joy Street, a Medley of Prose & Verse for Boys and Girls

Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xi, (i), 220; illustrated with eight tipped on color plates and numerous black and white plates; decorated cloth covered boards lettered in terra-cotta. Fodder & entertainment for the young imaginative mind. cloth lightly faded, a good or better copy with marginal wear from successive readings.

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Book number: 16718

Catalogue: Children's Books

Ewing, Juliana Horatia

Dandelion Clocks and Other Tales

London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. octavo; pp; 55, (i), ad; illustrated in black and white by Gordon Browne and other artists; original pictorial yellow paper covered boards; some wear to spine, else very good. Ewing's books were reissued following her death in 1885. Very good .

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Book number: 15387

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: Children's ; Illustrated; Gordon Browne

Finley, (Farquarson), Martha

Elsie's Motherhood

New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo; pp; 376; frontispiece; decorated green cloth with a gilt title tile lettered in black, yellow coated endpapers. In this fifth volume in The Original Elsie Dinsmore Series, Elsie and Edward seek to impart their heritage of faith to their burgeoning family and also fight to prevent the persecution of an innocent person by the ruthless Ku Klux Klan. A beautiful copy for a collector. Very good .

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Book number: 16206

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: Elsie Dinsmore; Ku Klux Klan;

Fish, Williston and Harold Darling

Pictures in the Fire

Seattle, Blue Lantern Books, 1998. Fifth printing. Hardcover. (Seattle). Quarto (8" x 11.25"), pictorial boards in like jacket. 37, (2)pp. with list of picture credits. Back flap of the jacket is creased at the corner. An 1898 story from Harper's Weekly is reprinted here with appropriate pictures by various artists. Among these are Norman Rockwell, Winslow Homer and Maxfield Parrish. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 14854

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: Children's; Illustrated; Norman Rockwell; Winslow Homer; Maxfield Parrish

Greenaway, Kate

Under the Window, Pictures and Rhymes for Children

London, George Routledge and Sons, 1878. Hardcover. Small quarto; pp; 64; beautifully illustrated in color by the author, engraved and printed by Edmund Evans; quarter green cloth and paper covered pictorial boards, green coated endpapers; a very good copy with slight rubbing on the right corners, top and bottom; penciled name of previous owner on front paste-down without a date; else near fine. Most probably an early second edition; Children on cover illustrated in white and pink; Half title page has an illustration of a house, verso of title page has bowl of flowers illustration; Verso of title page without imprint but with an illustration of a small boy; no "End of Contents" on page 14; printer's ornaments present on either side of "Edmund Evans" on title page; Complex illustrations present on p21 and p35, but not on p63, that has been replaced by the "kidnapping old man" illustration; The first book written and illustrated by Kate Greenaway. Very good .

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Book number: 15285

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: Kate Greenaway; Illustrated; Children's;

Greenwood, Grace

Stories of Many Lands

New York, United States Book Company, 1891. New edition. Hardcover. (1891). Revised and enlarged. Small octavo (6" x 8"), mustard gilt-stamped pictorial cloth. 340pp. Illustrated in black and white by J. H. Boston. Some soil particularly rear board. Former owners' names on front endpaper, one in ink and one in pencil. "If in this volume I have chosen to tell you some stories about titled people of foreign lands, it is that you may not be so set up by your privileges as little citizens and citizenesses of the great republic, as not to feel kindly and humanly toward even little Lords and Ladies, who, being the slaves of pomp, etiquette, and fine clothes, know nothing about freedom and equality, and good, jolly times; who have no Star-Spangled Banner, and no Fourth of July, and no Thanksgiving, and who have scarcely ever heard of george Washington and General Grant. Good + .

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Book number: 16698

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: Children's; Victorian Children's

Hall, Frederick F.

Toggles: An Outdoor Boy

Boston, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. (1918). Small octavo (5.25" x 8"), green pictorial cloth. 256pp. Illustrated in black and white by Charles Copeland. Very good with some bubbling of the cloth near the spine. A young boy goes to live on his grandfather's farm for the summer and learns much about theb irds, bees & weeds of the woods. A charming story. Ill.: Charles Copeland. Very good .

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Book number: 14015

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: Children's; Illustrated; Charles Copeland; Nature; Country Life Charles Copeland

Henty, G. A.

Through Three Campaigns; a Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 373, (32), Catalogue of Books for Boys & Girls; frontispiece plus seven black and white plates by Wal Paget and three black and white maps; pictorial red cloth with a full figured warrior on the front board, lettered in gilt, edges stained green, blue coated endpapers; a well made book with minor edge wear; spine darkened and wear at spine ends. The boys of the British Empire were raised on these heroic tales by Henty, "King, Country, Honor!. Very good .

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Book number: 15097

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: Children's; Fiction; Historical Fiction; Juvenile Fiction; Boy's Books

Hunting, Gardner

Barry Dare and the Mysterious Box

New York, A. L. Burt Company, 1929. Reprint. Hardcover. Duodecimo; pp; 244, (xii), ads; frontispiece; pictorial green cloth ruled in brown and lettered in black. Boy's fiction..nothing says Adventure like Barry Dare!. Very good .

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Book number: 16324

Catalogue: Children's Books

Hutchinson, A.S.M.

The Book of Simon

Boston, Little, Brown & Co, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Square octavo; pp; 98, (i); Illustrated with a colored frontispiece and line drawings by A.H. Watson; cream cloth, lettered in gilt. A father's rollicking and touching account of his infant son. Signed by the author on a preliminary. Very good .

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Book number: 17206

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: Essays

Lawson, Robert

Rabbit Hill

New York, Viking Press, 1944. Third printing, October 1944. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (6), 7-127, (i), Illustrated by the author; decorated green cloth in an unclipped jacket with the $2.00 price and the remains of the Newbery Medal sticker; illustrated endpapers; Good, cloth faded. Life in rural Connecticut from the Rabbit's point of view. A delightful read and a classic. Good/a good or better.

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Book number: 14608

Catalogue: Children's Books

Le Feuvre, Amy

Teddy's Button

London, The Religious Tract Society, nd. Hardcover. Duodecimo (5"x 7.25"), red pictorial cloth, gilt. 96pp. Four illustrations. Former owner's name in pencil. Cloth on cover and along the back joint bubbling up. Two ink spots and a little hole in the spine visible in the picture. by the author of "Probable Sons", also known as Mary Thurston Dodge (pseudonym). A proud Teddy tells the story behind a button taken from his father's coat after he died in battle. A tale with a Christian theme. Very good .

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Book number: 14838

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: Children's; Boy's Book

Marryat, Captain

Masterman Ready

London, Ernest Nister, 1912. Children's Classics Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 351, (i); color frontispiece plus three additional color and four black and white plates by Arch Webb pictorial blue cloth with a paste-on illustration on the front board, ruled lettered in gilt, top edge stained blue, pictorial endpapers; Spine gilt faded else very good. Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) was a British Royal Navy officer, novelist, and an acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story. Very good .

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Book number: 16314

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: Children's; Fiction; Historical Fiction; Juvenile Fiction; Boy's Books

Optic, Oliver

The Boat Club or the Bunkers of Rippleton

New York, A. L. Burt Company, 1898. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (viii), 217; pictorial tan cloth, lettered in black. Oliver Optic, William Taylor Adams (1822 - 1897), pseudonym Oliver Optic, was a noted academic, author, and a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. The Boat Club issued in 1854, was the first Oliver Optic Boy's Series Book, This copy is an 1890's reissue. Generations of Boy's grew up on these adventures. Very good .

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Book number: 15591

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: Boy's Series: Oliver Optic;

Otis, James

Commodore Barney's Young Spies - a Boy's Story of the Burning of the City of Washington

New York, A. L. Burt Company, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. (iv), 381, (iv), ads; Illustrated by J. Watson Davis, frontispiece plus five black and white plates; pictorial blue cloth lettered in white. A scarce juvenile in today's market in great condition. War of 1812 Boy's fiction. Very good .

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Book number: 15375

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: War of 1812;