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Pg 73 Helen & Marc Younger [email protected] SCARCE FAIRY TALE DOUBLE POP-UP 452. POP-UP. (KUBASTA) GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BEARS HUMANIZED BUNNIES [WITH] THE THREE LITTLE PIGS. London: Bancroft 1961. Oblong 4to (10 1/4 x 8 1/4”), cloth backed pictorial boards, Fine. Illustrated with 8 455. POPE,JESSIE. BOBBITY very fine double-page color pop-ups by KUBASTA plus moveable pieces on FLOP. London: Blackie, no date, circa both covers and a few inside pop-ups have moveable parts as well). The 1915. Oblong 9 3/4 x 7”, cloth backed stories are presented back to back with two separate cover illustrations. A pictorial boards, edges show wear, particularly charming Kubasta. $300.00 some margin finger soil, VG. This is a charming picture book featuring a family of humanized rabbits and what happens when the eldest misbehaves. Printed on frenchfold paper, each page of text faces a great full page color illustrations in bold flat colors by ANGUSTINE MACGREGOR. Undoubtedly influenced by Potter. $175.00 WONDERFUL UNUSED POSTCARD 453. POP-UP. (KUBASTA) HANSEL AND GRETEL. London: Bancroft 1961. BOOK Oblong 4to (10 1/4 x 8”), cloth backed pictorial boards, near fine. Featuring 456. POSTCARDS. FUNNY OL’ FINGS: POSTCARD PAINTING BOOK. No 8 very fine double-page color pop-ups by KUBASTA (a few of which also have publication information, circa 1915. 12mo (6 x 7”), flexible pictorial card covers, moveable parts as well). $225.00 Fine and unused. This is a book of 6 pairs of postcards (12 total). One leaf has a fantastic, brightly colored illustration for 2 cards and the other pair has the same images in outline meant to be painted by the child. There are captions on each card naming the characters: Billy Hedgehog. Sonny Rabbit, Mrs. Mouse etc. The illustrations are reminiscent of Harrison Cady’s work and are signed with the letter “m” within the letter “C”. $100.00 POSTCARDS ALSO 275 457. POTTER,BEATRIX. THE FAIRY CARAVAN. Philadelphia: David McKay (1929). 8vo, 225p., green cloth, pictorial paste-on, AS NEW IN FINE DUST WRAPPER (dust wrapper with the most minor edge wear else Fine). 1st U.S. STAND-UP MOTHER GOOSE edition (probably preceding the British). After Potter finished her Peter Rabbit 454. POP-UP. (MOTHER GOOSE) MOTHER GOOSE STAND-UPS. Akron: series it was her intention to stop writing. It was only with the persuasion of her Saalfield 1934. Folio (10 ½ x 12 ½”), pictorial wraps, [10]p., Fine. Illustrated in American publisher, Alexander McKay, that she agreed to write this book meant color on every page by SIDNEY SAGE. This is a STAND-UP EDITION with 6 only for the American market. Illustrated by Potter with 6 color plates and pages of color die-cut figures that form 6 pop-up scenes when the reader lifts 20 full page and 42 smaller black & white drawings. Linder notes that Potter’s and folds back the stands. Mary, Mary, Jack Sprat, Barber, Old King Cole, Sing Lakeland friends “were quick to recognize many of the pictures with their local a Song of Sixpence and others. There are 2 full pages of text plus captions on settings” (p.295). See Linder p. 292-5, Quinby 29a. This is a magnificent copy pop-up pages. Scarce. $300.00 with the dw clean, white and bright, rare thus. $2000.00 POP-UPS ALSO 144, 358, 510 #454 #451- previous page 914.764.7410 Pg 74 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 113 #458 - dust wrapper RARE POTTER IN DUST WRAPPER 458. POTTER,BEATRIX. SISTER ANNE. Philadelphia: David McKay (1932). 8vo (5 3/4 x 7 3/4”), blue gilt pictorial cloth, 154p., gilt on cover bright, slightly dulled on spine, a Fine copy IN THE RARE PICTORIAL DUST WRAPPER (back strip of dw faded, square chip off of top of backstrip with light fraying, old mend at fold). 1st edition second issue with frontis correctly placed. Illustrated by KATHARINE STURGES with 13 full page black and whites which includes the frontis repeated at p. 136 but which is not listed in the illustration list. Linder explains that “after the Tale of Little Pig Robinson had been published in America, Potter promised Mr. McKay another story.” (p.324-6). The story is loosely based on Perrault’s Bluebeard. It was illustrated by Sturges because “Potter regarded the preparation of illustrations to be too much of a strain” (Linder p. 325). This is the LAST OF POTTER’S WORKS TO BE PUBLISHED IN HER LIFETIME AND IT WAS NEVER PUBLISHED IN ENGLAND. Rare in the dust wrapper. $1500.00 RARE POTTER PIRACY PANORAMA 459. [POTTER,BEATRIX]. PETER RABBIT AND HIS FRIENDS ON THE FARM. NY: Sam’l Gabriel 1920. 4to (9 1/2 x 11 3/8”), pictorial boards. light wear at folds else VG+. Bound in PANORAMA FORMAT and printed on both sides, there are 13 panels from The Tale of Peter Rabbit (with no credit given to Potter), each with a one sentence caption. The other side of the panorama shows various farm animals. Illustrated in bright colors by an unknown hand. Rare. $750.00 UNCOMMON PETER RABBIT CLOTH BOOK 461. POTTER,BEATRIX. THE TALE OF PETER RABBIT. Akron: Saalfield, no date, circa 1915. 12mo (5 1/4 x 6 3/4”), [26]p. including. covers, printed on cloth, corner stain on a few corners, VG+. Part of Saalfield’s Peter Rabbit Muslin Series. Featuring 12 full page color illustrations and 16 line illustrations after Potter’s originals (in addition to front cover and rear cover which has a pictorial border of Potter characters). The text follows the original story. Quite scarce. $275.00 #461 PETER RABBIT CELLULOID TOY WITH BOOKS IN BOX 460. [POTTER,BEATRIX]. THE PETER RABBIT BOX. Featured here are 3 books after Potter by Alma Hudson published by Cupples & Leon (1921) and a Peter Rabbit toy. Each book is 12mo (5 x 6 1/4”), boards, pictorial paste-on, Fine in dust wrappers, housed in their original box with color plate on top. Each book is illustrated in color after Potter by Richard Hudson. Titles include: PETER RABBIT IN MOTHER GOOSE LAND, PETER RABBIT AT THE CIRCUS and PETER RABBIT AND THE FAIRIES. ALONG WITH THE BOOKS IS A 6 INCH CELLULOID PETER RABBIT TOY! A wonderful and very scarce Potter item in excellent condition. Not in Quinby or Linder. $1500.00 RARE PRANG CHILDREN’S BOOK 462. PRANG PUBLISHER. A GAY DAY FOR 7 by Rose Mueller Sprague. Boston: L. Prang 1887. Oblong 4to (9 ½ x 7 ½”), pictorial boards, wear to edges and corners, VG+. 1st and only edition. Printed on one side of the page on heavy coated paper, each page is individually hinged into the book. This is the simple story of how 7 little girls entertained themselves on a rainy day. Illustrated by the author with charming chromolithographs. See McLintock: Chromolithographs of L. Prang p. 52. Rare. $350.00 PRE 1870 IMPRINTS - 4, 68, 74, 125-6, 173, 205 - 217, 307, 349, 359, 405 SCARCE LARGE FORMAT PRESTON BOOK 463. PRESTON,CHLOE. THE PEEK-A-BOOS’ HOLIDAY. London: Henry Frowde / Hodder & Stoughton [1912]. Oblong folio, cloth backed pictorial boards. bds, corner crease on rear board, light cover soil and edge rubbing, a few tiny margin mends, really VG+ to near Fine. The book tells about the travels and adventures of Paul, Peter, Plantagenet and Cassandra, four adorable, large-eyed children. Their story is presented in rhyme and there are 18 fabulous, bold color plates. This is a nice copy of a large format picture book which is rarely found in such nice condition due to the size of the book. $1200.00 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 75 [email protected] PEEK-A-BOO GYPSIES! COMPLETE PUPPET THEATRE 464. (PRESTON,CHLOE)illus. THE PEEK-A-BOO GIPSIES. London: Humphrey 468. PUPPETS. TEATRO COMICO DI BURATTINI DI ZIO ROLLI (pseud. of Milford / Oxford University Press, no date, circa 1922. 8 3/4 x 10 1/4”, pictorial Gero Rolf). Published in 1949 by Arnoldo Mondadori. Oblong folio ( 14” wide boards, some edge x 9 3/4 high), 45ff, pictorial wraps, Fine and unused in dust wrapper that rubbing, VG+. Featuring when removed unfolds into a giant poster (repaired at folds). First edition. 6 of the most wonderful Illustrated with bold primary colors, the book includes pages to create 27 color plates done on a puppets operated by hand including Punch, as well as 7 plays and accessories slate blue background as needed to create a puppet theatre (stage, backdrops, tickets, etc.). $875.00 well as numerous black and whites - all showing the misadventures of these adorable little children as Gypsies. One of the rarer titles in this series and unusual for the different look of the illustrations. Just great. $475.00 JAPANESE INTEREST 465. (PRESTON,CHLOE)illus. THE PEEK-A-BOO JAPS by Tom Preston. London: Henry Frowde / Hodder & Stoughton no date, circa 1915. Square 4to, pictorial boards, color paste-on, some of the white lettering rubbed on cover, inner margin mend on one plate (not noticeable) else near fine. Featuring 12 exceptional color plates plus numerous black and whites depicting these adorable little children as Japanese (pictorial endpapers as well). One of the scarcer titles in the Peek-a-Boo series. $850.00 466. (PRESTON,CHLOE)illus. WILLIAM & WOGGS: A Peek-A-Boo Adventure by May Byron. London: Henry Frowde / Hodder & Stoughton, no date, circa 1910. 8vo (6 ½ x 7 3/4”), boards, PUPPETS ALSO 142 - 144 PUSS IN BOOTS - 338 pictorial paste-on, slight cover rubbing else Fine. Featuring 6 fabulous McLOUGHLIN CUBE PUZZLE color plates, 16 black and 469.