CHILDREN’S BOOKS & ILLUSTRATED BOOKS ALEPH-BET BOOKS, INC. 85 OLD MILL RIVER RD. POUND RIDGE, NY 10576 (914) 764 - 7410 CATALOGUE 100 ALEPH - BET BOOKS - TERMS OF SALE Helen and Marc Younger 85 Old Mill River Rd. Pound Ridge, NY 10576 phone 914-764-7410 fax 914-764-1356 www.alephbet.com Email - [email protected] POSTAGE: UNITED STATES. 1st book $8.00, $2.00 for each additional book. OVERSEAS shipped by air at cost. PAYMENTS: Due with order. Libraries and those known to us will be billed. PHONE orders 9am to 10pm e.s.t. Phone Machine orders are secure. CREDIT CARDS: VISA, Mastercard, American Express. Please provide billing address. RETURNS - Returnable for any reason within 1 week of receipt for refund less shipping costs provided prior notice is received and items are shipped fastest method insured VISITS welcome by appointment. We are 1 hour north of New York City near New Canaan, CT. Our full stock of 8000 collectible and rare books is on view and available. Not all of our stock is on our web site COVER ILLUSTRATION - #180 - Edmund Dulac watercolor from Fairy Tale manuscript #457 - Charles Robinson’s King Longbeard - Author’s heavily annotated copy with #117 - Nast’s Santa Claus letters from Robinson, John Lane, the Royal family and much more #311 - Lawson’s Little Prince Toofat Helen & Marc Younger Pg [email protected] FABULOUS ABC MANUSCRIPT CAT ALPHABET SHAPE BOOK 1. ABC. ABC MANUSCRIPT. Offered here is a fabulous original ABC manuscript. 4. ABC. (CATS) PUSSY’S ABC. Lond: There is no attribution or date but it appears to be circa 1915-1930. Bound into a Tuck nd ca 1890. Folio, (7.5 x 14.5”), stiff cloth backed board book are 26 fine watercolors for each letter of the alphabet. pictorial wraps, unusually clean and a near All letters are uniform in size at 4 x 4”. “A” is Noah’s Ark with a penciled Fine copy. Die-cut in the shape of a cat and caption, “N” is for Napu and Nilghai, 2 letters have penciled instructions for color illustrated with great color cover, 4 full page otherwise there is no text. All letters have more than one object representing it chromolithographed pages and in brown line on and the letter itself is large and nicely integrated into the picture. This absolutely text pages to accompany a charming cat ABC charming and would be a cornerstone for any ABC collection. $3000.00 book. $350.00 #5 CHARMING CHRISTMAS ALPHABET 5. ABC. (CHRISTMAS) CHRISTMAS A-B-C by Rev. Louis Gales. St. Paul, : Guild Associates (1944). 12mo, pictorial wraps, VG+. The Christmas ABC has lovely color lithos by Gladys Allie. The ABC is followed by a few Christmas poems. Scarce. $175.00 #6 CHRISTMAS LINEN ABC 6. ABC. (CHRISTMAS) CHRISTMAS ABC. Akron: Saalfield 1910. Narrow folio, printed linen, sm. tear near spine of last 2 pages, overall VG+. A super ABC book with a Christmas theme - the cover has a great BEAUTIFUL COLOR Santa and each letter has a picture in color LITHOS BY and rhyme dealing with a different aspect of ERNA PINNER Christmas. $250.00 2. ABC. ANIMALS FROM A TO Z by G.M. Vevers. London: Hammond, Hammond #7 & Co., no date, circa 1940. Folio (8 3/4 x 13 1/4”), pictorial cloth, Fine in soiled dust wrapper with a few pieces off edges. Each page of text faces a beautiful full page color lithograph by Erna Pinner. Vevers, the author, was the Superintendant of London’s Zoological Gardens. Erna Pinner was a noted artist who began her #311 - Lawson’s Little Prince Toofat artistic life in Germany but fled to England during the Third Reich because she was Jewish. The rest of her life was spent in England. This is a beautiful animal alphabet McLOUGHLIN CHRISTMAS ABC . $600.00 7. ABC. (CHRISTMAS) MERRY CHRISTMAS ABC. NY: McLoughlin Bros. no date, ca 1910. Small 4to, pictorial wraps, fine. Illus. with great color cover of Santa and in 2-color on every page with each letter representing a different Christmas aspect or object. Text by Carolyn Wells. $275.00 DEAN FOLIO BOARD BOOK 8. ABC. (CHRISTMAS) SANTA 3. ABC. (BOARD BOOK) CLAUS ABC. NY: Charles Graham and ANIMAL A.B.C. London: Co., no date circa 1915. Folio (10 x 12”), Dean and Son, no date, pictorial wraps, faint stain on bottom of circa 1915. Folio (9 1/4 x 13 1//4”), cloth backed a few pages, a few small closed tears, pictorial boards, some cover VG. This is an ABC with Christmas theme. and light soil, else VG. Each There is a great full color cover of Santa page is mounted on thick and most letters are represented by boards and has attractive toys a child might want for Christmas. color lithographs of various animals. “V” is for Viper. Illustrated in 3-color by unknown A title in Dean’s Diploma hand. $275.00 Series. $275.00 Pg 4 914.764.7410 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 100 RARE EULALIE LINEN ABC 9. ABC. (EULALIE) ABC BOOK. NY: Platt and Munk 1929. Folio, pictorial 13. ABC. (MOTHER cloth, Fine. Every page is brightly illustrated with color illustrations by Eulalie, GOOSE) ABC OF NURSERY all in typical 30’s style. “V” is for Velocipede. Printed on linen, the colors are RHYME. NY: Sam. Gabriel vibrant and this copy is nearly as new. $250.00 1911. 4to, (8 1/2 x 11”), pictorial card covers, cover rubbed with some soil else VG. Illustrated with 4 full page full color illustrations and in 3-color on other pages by GORDON ROBINSON. Each letter of the alphabet is represented by a different nursery rhyme. Quite attractive. $150.00 LINEN ABC 14. ABC. (MOTHER GOOSE) JINGLE ABC. Akron: Saalfield 1915. 6 x 8 1/2”, cloth, crease in center, name on margin of cover, VG. A Linen ABC where each letter stands for a different Mother Goose rhyme, phrase or character. Printed in full color and 3-color. “R” is Rub A Dub Dub, “Q” is the Queen UNUSUAL CLOTH of Hearts. Charming. FLOWER AND NAME ABC $200.00 10. ABC. (FLOWERS) FAVORITE FLOWERS ABC. NY: Charles Graham (inscribed 1918). 8vo, cloth, some creasing and sl. fraying, VG. Each letter of the ART DECO ABC alphabet is represented by a different 15. ABC. (NAMES) ABC flower and in many cases by a girl’s OF NAMES AND OBJECTS. name as well. There are color and b&w NY: Int’l Paper Goods 1930. illustrations of the girls and the flowers Folio, pictorial wraps, some and a short rhyme about each. “B stands neat archival repairs to for BUTTERCUP. Bertha can show, binding else VG. Brightly If she likes butter, On her chin it will illustrated in full color by glow.” $250.00 Dorothy Buck with great art deco style designs. Each letter is represented by a different name and then with a short list of objects. Striking. $150.00 GREAT GNOME ALPHABET 11. ABC. (GNOMES) ALPHABET PICTURE BOOK. Lond.: Blackie ca 1930. 4to, pictorial card covers, fine. This is a ETHNIC STEREOTYPES wonderful Gnome alphabet illustrated in full by C.E.B. 16. ABC. (NATIONS) CHILDREN Bernard. Although the only text is one word caption per OF MANY NATIONS AND THE letters, the pictures tell the ABC verses by Carolyn Hodgman. stories of these adorable gnomes $250.00 Rochester: Stecher Litho. 1916. Oblong 8vo (7 1/2 x 6 3/4”), pictorial wraps, VG+. Each letter ONE OF FIRST 12 LITTLE GOLDEN of the alphabet is represented by BOOKS IN DUST WRAPPER 12. ABC. (GOLDEN BOOK) ALPHABET a child from a different country” FROM A TO Z by Leah Gale. NY: Simon & “J” - Japan’s little lady is yellow Schuster 1942 (1942). Blue cloth spine, 5 small rubbed areas on endpaper and owner of skin, Korea her playmate, to name on endpaper else a tight clean copy in dust wrapper (dw slightly soiled, light her is her kin.” Illustrated with creasing otherwise VG+). First printing of full color and 2-color lithos by one of the first 12 Little Golden Books (all 12 published simultaneously). Beautifully F. STECHER. Quite a charming illustrated in color by Vivienne Blake. Nice copy, rare in dust wrapper. $800.00 book. $150.00 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 5 [email protected] RARE ANTI-NAZI ALPHABET 20. ABC. (TEMPEST) 17. ABC. (NAZI) HET ABC VAN HET NAZIREGIEM. (Brussels, Leuven 1944). AN ABC FOR YOU AND 12mo, pictorial wraps, slight soil else near Fine. Every page illustrated in full color ME by Margaret Tempest. by Herman A. Vos with each letter ridiculing Nazi party leaders and the movement. “A” is for Adolph. “C” is for Censorship, “T” is for Terror, “U” is for Uncle Sam. (Lond.: Medici Soc.) [1948]. “I is for the Israelite ten doode toe geplaagd” (“I is for the Israelite who was 12mo, cloth backed pictorial haunted to death” - shown in front of barbed wire of a concentration camp is a boards, tips sl. rubbed else stereotypical Jewish man with a gold star on his arm),”F is de Fuhrer, dies ons land heeft leeggegapt” (“F is for Furer who bled our country” - Hitler is shown leaving VG. An alphabet of names the country carrying a huge bag of food over his shoulder). Rare. $850.00 with charming, detailed full color illustrations on every page. $200.00 RARE DEAN ABC WALL HANGING 21. ABC. (TEXTILE) DEAN’S NURSERY ALPHABET. London: Dean’s Rag Book Co., no date, circa 1916. This is a fabulous alphabet textile published by Dean for use as a wall hanging or other decoration.