Helen & Marc Younger Pg 23 [email protected] ONE OF THE RAREST MOVEABLES COMPLETE WITH UNCUT WADDLES! 120. (DETMOLD,EDWARD) 123. DISNEY,WALT. MICKEY EN LAS CARRERAS [MICKEY MOUSE WADDLE illus. FABRE’S BOOK OF BOOK]. Barcelona: Editorial Molino (1935 segunda edicion). 4to, pictorial boards, fine in slightly worn dust wrapper. THIS COPY IS ORIGINAL AND INTACT. INSECTS retold by Mrs. IT INCLUDES THE 4 WADDLE FIGURES UNPUNCHED, AND THE PICTORIAL Randolph Stawell. London: BAND THAT GOES AROUND THE COVER! THE ORIGINAL PRINTED Hodder & Stoughton, no PICTORIAL INSTRUCTION ENVELOPE CONTAINS THE RAMP AND THE date [1921]. Thick 4to, (9 x BRASS FASTENERS. Stamped “Archivo” on the instruction envelope, this copy is undoubtedly the publisher’s file copy which would account for its spectacular 11”), white cloth pictorially condition. The American edition published in 1934 by Blue Ribbon Press is the stamped in gold, fore first ever “waddle” title in which die-cut figures can be assembled into full three edge has a few spots else dimensional color figures. When attached to their legs with the brass pieces included, the figures can actually move down the ramp without contrivances! Fine in dust wrapper with Instructions for assembling the figures are in the rear. Included are Mickey, mounted color plate (dw is Minnie, Pluto (the dog) and Tanglefoot (the horse). The book is illustrated by frayed with a 2x3” piece the Disney Studios with color endpapers, 12 bright full color illustrations and many b&w’s. This Spanish edition is identical to the American edition except for off corner). Illustrated by the translated text. This is a Disney book of the utmost rarity with few copies Detmold with 12 magnificent surviving complete with all of its original components intact. $8750.00 tipped-in color plates with lettered tissue guards. A beautiful copy, scarce in the dw. $600.00

LOVELY EDITION OF “A CHRISTMAS CAROL” 121. DICKENS,CHARLES. A CHRISTMAS CAROL. London, New York, Toronto: Hodder & Stoughton, no date (owner pencilled date of 1912). 4to (7 ½ x 9 3/8”), red cloth with extensive gilt decoration and pictorial paste-on, some fraying at spine ends and spine slightly toned else VG. This edition is illustrated by A.C. Michael with 13 full page illustrations including 8 tipped-in color plates, 5 full page pen and inks plus smaller illustrations in text as well as pictorial endpapers. This is a lovely book. $225.00

LIMITED EDITION SIGNED 122. (DILLON,LEO AND DIANE) AIDA told by 5 BOOKS IN ORIGINAL COLOR PICTORIAL BOX Leontyne Price based 124. DISNEY,WALT. MICKEY MOUSE BOX: FIVE BOOKS OF ADVENTURE on Verdi’s opera. San STORIES WITH MICKEY AND HIS FRIENDS. Racine: Whitman 1939. Diego: Harcourt Brace Housed in a box measuring 10 ½” wide x 10” are 5 books oblong 5 ½ x 5”. The Jovanovich (1990). 4to books have cloth spines and brightly colored pictorial covers, front and back. (10 1/4 x 11 1/4”), purple The books are in as new condition, the box has neat small repair on flap and is gilt cloth, Fine in slipcase. slightly dusty else near Fine. The titles include The Brave Little Tailor, The Ugly LIMITED TO ONLY 250 Duckling, The Practical Pig, Mother Pluto and The Farmyard Symphony. Each COPIES SPECIALLY page of text faces a full page black and white illustration by the Disney Studios. BOUND AND SIGNED This is an amazing set of Disney books, rare in the box. $1250.00 BY PRICE AND THE DILLONS. Magnificently illustrated in color by the Dillons. CORETTA SCOTT KING AWARD. $200.00

#119 previous page 914.764.7410 Pg 24 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 111 6 MINT PINOCCHIO BOOKS IN BOX BULLDOGS BY VERNON STOKES 125. DISNEY,WALT. WALT DISNEY’S BOX OF SIX PINOCCHIO BOOKS. 129. DOGS. A TOWN DOG IN THE COUNTRY by Vernon Stokes. (London: Racine: Whitman Publishing Co. 1939, 1940. This is a group of 6 story / paint Chambers), no date, circa books, one for each character from Carlo Collodi’s classic book, all housed in 1924. Folio (10 x 12”), the original pictorial box. The books measure 8 ½ x 11 ½” and are in fine, unused pictorial boards, narrow condition. Titles include: Pinocchio, Figaro and Cleo, Geppetto, J. Worthington 1/16th inch strip of Foulfellow, Gideon the Blue Fairy and Jiminy Cricket. The child can read the darkening on corner of story and color the black and white pictures if he/she so chooses. A beautiful some pages else Fine in dust set, rarely found complete in the box. $875.00 wrapper. The adventures in the country of a wonderful “city” bulldog named Blobbs is told in verse. Illustrated by Stokes with 10 fabulous full page chromolithographs and with more full page black and whites. This is an outstanding copy rarely found so intact with the dust wrapper. $800.00

DOGS SEE ALSO 15, 247, 338, 388, 457

BEAUTIFUL HAND-COLORED FULLER PAPER DOLLS 130. DOLLS. (PAPER) PHOEBE, THE COTTAGE MAID. London: S. and J. Fuller 1811 (dated 1811 on cover of book and on slipcase, 1812 on title page). 16mo (4 x 5”), printed wraps, FINE in original slipcase with edges strengthened. Containing 7 very fine aquatinted and hand-colored figures, one head and two 126. DISNEY,WALT. ADVENTURES OF MICKEY MOUSE BOOK 1. hats. The story relates the daily life of a peasant girl. She reappears in the Philadelphia: McKay (1931). 8vo, cloth backed stiff pictorial card covers, slight next title in the Fuller series by becoming the wife of Hubert, The Cottage cover soil, near FINE AND BRIGHT! An early Disney item with fabulous color Youth. See Osborne p.1053, Gumuchian 2024-5, NBL 789 and Haining p.14-15 illustrations on every page of text. $1000.00 who notes that these Fuller books “were expensive even for the period ... are now exceedingly difficult to find.” A scarce title in this prized series. (SEE ALSO INSIDE FRONT COVER) $3850.00

DOLL HOUSE IN A BOOK 131. DOLLS. (NOVELTY) MY DOLLY’S HOME (BIDDIE’S ADVENTURE) by Doris Davey after Helen Waite. London: Simpkin Marshall Hamilton for Arts EARLY DISNEY IN DUST WRAPPER and General, (1921). Oblong 4to (11 3/4 x 9”), cloth backed pictorial boards, 127. DISNEY,WALT. THE ADVENTURES OF MICKEY MOUSE BOOK some cover soil and light stain on the bottom of a few leaves else tight and VG, NUMBER 2. Philadelphia: McKay (1932). 8vo, pictorial boards, FINE IN DUST complete with the two sheets of paper doll figures uncut. There are 8 pages WRAPPER (dw neatly repaired). Illustrated with color pictorial endpapers and of text followed by vibrant color lithographed scenes (53) which follow the color illustrations by the Disney Studios on every page. This is a really nice copy story. As each different part of the story is described, the reader uses the of a very scarce and early Disney book, rare in the dw. $1800.00 corresponding paper doll figures to re-enact the scenes as they progress from outside the house into the various rooms of the house. The rooms have doors and DISNEY SEE ALSO 353 cupboards that open up into hiding places for the dolls, and each room is finely detailed with stylish furnishings of the era. A wonderful book, scarce. $850.00 BULLDOG ILLUSTRATED BY B. PARKER 128. DOGS. BLOBBS AT THE FAIR by Vernon Stokes and B. Parker. London: Chambers, no date, circa 1920. Folio (10 x 12”), pictorial boards, slight bit of edge rubbing else Fine in dust wrapper. The misadventures of a wonderful bulldog named Blobbs at the fair are told in verse. Illustrated by Stokes and B. Parker with 11 fabulous full page chromolithographs and with more than 12 full page black & whites. This is a fantastic picture book, rarely found in such bright condition with dust wrapper. $800.00 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 25 [email protected] DOLLS SEE ALSO 130-1, 207, 266, 339, 342, 419, 470 DULAC’S SIGNED / LIMITED “TEMPEST” 135. (DULAC,EDMUND)illus. THE TEMPEST by William Shakespeare. DOYLE, RICHARD - 115 London: Hodder & Stoughton [1908]. Large 4to, full gilt vellum binding, silk ties renewed, top edge gilt, near Fine. LIMITED TO ONLY 500 NUMBERED WITH INTERESTING LETTER FROM DU BOIS COPIES SIGNED BY DULAC. Illustrated with 40 beautiful tipped-in color plates 132. DU BOIS,WILLIAM PENE. THE GREAT GEPPY. NY: Viking 1940 (1940). on heavy stock. A magnificent copy of a sumptuous book. $2500.00 4to (7 ½ x 10”), striped cloth, 92p., VG+ in slightly worn dust wrapper. 1st edition. This is a circus- detective story illustrated with 22 color drawings and 48 black and whites by Du Bois. LAID-IN IS AN INTERESTING 1 1/3 PAGE HANDWRITTEN LETTER FROM DU BOIS DATED JULY 10, 1939: “When I last saw you, you said something about a letter from a child who objected to the fact that Geppy only had one eye. You said you had sent that letter to my New York address. I haven’t received it yet and I am quite worried about it because I would like to answer the child’s letter and also because you might have enclosed my check for the second installment. Would you please look it up and let me know about it. If you sent me the name and address of the child I could answer him, or her without seeing the letter. Sincerely yours, Bill Pene du Bois. P.S. Also I have much need for the check.” See Bader p.176. DU BOIS SEE ALSO 429. $600.00

DUMMIES ( BOOK MOCK-UPS) - 182, 263, 278, 388

RARE DUPLAIX PICTURE BOOK WITH HUMANIZED PIGS 136. DUPLAIX,GEORGES. GASTON AND JOSEPHINE IN AMERICA. NY: Oxford University Press (1934). 4to (8 ½ x 11 ½”), pictorial boards, small spot on cover else Fine in VG++ dust wrapper. First edition. These wonderful French pigs take a trip to America. Because they spend all of their money on Fifth Avenue in New York City they must find work to support themselves. They travel out West where they become movie stars and take all of the prizes in a Wild West Rodeo. Written and illustrated by Duplaix with the text in calligraphy and featuring full page and large partial page color illustrations throughout. Printed by Rudge. This is an unusually fine copy in a scarce dw. 133. (DULAC,EDMUND)illus. THE DREAMER OF DREAMS by The Queen of First editions in this condition are rare. See Bader p. 278. $950.00 Roumania. London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date, [1915]. 4to (7 3/4 x 10”), grey gilt cloth stamped in blue, circular fade spot on rear cover (not visible with dust wrapper on) else Fine in dust wrapper with mounted color plate (dw frayed with some soil but VG). 1st edition. Illustrated by Dulac with 6 beautiful tipped-in color plates with tissue guards to accompany a magical fairy tale. Quite scarce in dw. $750.00

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DULAC IN DUST WRAPPER 134. (DULAC,EDMUND)illus. STORIES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS retold by L. Housman. London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date [1907]. Thick large 4to (9 x 11”), gilt decorated cloth, xvi, 133p., Fine in lovely pictorial dust wrapper with mounted color plate (soiled area on dw). First edition in this preferred format, illustrated with the 50 beautiful tipped in color plates with guards interspersed throughout the text instead of all together at the back of the book. This is a beautiful copy of an increasingly scarce book, rarely found with the dust wrapper. $2200.00 (SEE ILLUS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT ------>>>>>>) 914.764.7410 Pg 26 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 111 DUTCH INTEREST - 146, 407, 488 HAND COLORED COPPERPLATE ENGRAVINGS 140. EARLY AMERICAN. GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF THE INSCRIBED AND WITH LETTER CORONATION REGALIA OF THE KINGS OF ENGLAND; WITH THE 137. DUVOISIN,ROGER. THE HOUSE OF FOUR SEASONS. NY: Lothrop DEGREES AND COSTUME OF DIFFERENT RANKS. Philadelphia: Morgan and Lee and Shepard (1956, Yeager, no date, circa 1825. Printed wraps 4 1/4 x 7”, some offsetting and slight 11th printing). 4to (8 1/4 x foxing, VG+. Printed on one side of the paper, there are 12 very fine hand colored 10”), pictorial cloth, durable copperplate engravings full of detail. Rosenbach 665. Very scarce. $1500.00 binding for library use, Fine in dust wrapper with a few small edge chips. Artfully illustrated by Duvoisin in bright colors on every page. This copy is inscribed by Duvoisin plus laid-on is a handwritten letter to a fan and an unused greeting card with an original design of 2 penguins on the cover. This is a special copy of a very scarce Duvoisin title. $200.00

VERY SCARCE CALDECOTT WINNER 138. (DUVOISIN,ROGER)illus. WHITE SNOW BRIGHT SNOW by Alvin Tresselt. NY: Lothrop Lee Shepard, 1947. 4to (9 x 10 ½”), pictorial boards, Fine condition in nice dust wrapper with a few small closed tears, not price clipped, award seal). 1st edition, 1st printing. Wonderful color illustrations are on every page by Duvoisin. This is an excellent copy of the 1948 CALDECOTT AWARD WINNER, very difficult to find in any condition. $950.00 NEWBURYPORT 1797 141. EARLY AMERICAN. DR. WATTS’S PLAIN AND EASY CATECHISMS FOR CHILDREN AND PRESERVATIVE FROM THE SINS AND FOLLIES OF CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH: To which is added the SHORTER 1787 ISAIAH THOMAS AMERICAN CATECHISM with EXPLANATORY NOTES: NAUGHTY CHILDREN also, some short PRAYERS FOR CHILDREN. 139. EARLY AMERICAN. THE JUVENILE BIOGRAPHER; containing the Newburyport: Edmund M. Blunt 1797. 16mo lives of little masters and misses; including a variety of good and bad (3 1/4 x 5 ½”), leather backed wooden boards characters. By a little biographer. The First Worcester Edition [attributed covered with paper, iv, [5]. 6-154p., lacks to Richard Johnson by Welch]. Worcester, Massachusetts. Isaiah Thomas ..., free endpapers, paper on boards worn off Sold also by. ; E. Battelle, Boston 1787. 32mo, (2 ½ x 3 7/8”), viii [9] 10-119 on corner of front cover, spine ends chipped, [120], [4]p. ads, [4]p. blank. Two faint blind stamps on title, occasional spot some foxing, tight and VG. First edition, else VG in (later?) floral patterned paper wraps, housed in custom cloth box. meant “to furnish some introductory easy and First American edition from British John Newbery title. Fictitious biographies concise forms of knowledge... upon the minds of various naughty and good children meant to teach morals. Illustrated with of children in a way more suited to their 20 woodcuts, tailpieces & ornamental rules including a frontis cut titled “The feeble capacities.” Evans 33167, not in Welch Bust of the Little Author”. The stories include: Miss Betsey Allgood -- Master or Rosenbach. $1200.00 Bill Bad-enough -- Miss Nancy Careful -- Master Sammy Careful -- Miss Fanny Daudle – Master Billy Easy -- Miss Polly Charity -- Master Simon Lovepenny – Miss Betsey Pert -- Master Dickey Sprightly -- Miss Charlotte Thoughtful -- Master Jenny Studious -- Miss Amelia Lovebook – Master Isaac Curious -- Miss Fiddle Faddle – Master Billy Bashful -- Miss Fanny Squeamish -- Master Tommy ANIMAL CRUELTY AND NAUGHTY BOYS Prudence -- Miss Polly Honeycomb -- Master Francis Bacon. See Rosenbach 119, 142. EARLY AMERICAN. LITTLE PRATTLE OVER A BOOK OF PRINTS, Evans 20440, Welch 680.1. Quite scarce. $1950.00 WITH EASY TALES FOR CHILDREN. Philadelphia: J. Johnson 1808. 3” x 5 1/4”, marbled wraps, 60p.. some chipping and a few tiny mends, light soil, VG+. First American edition. The text is composed of short cautionary stories, many about cruelty to animals and naughty boys. Illustrated with fine woodcuts throughout the text. The text is taken from Darton and Harvey’s 1804 edition, however there is a change for the American edition referring to the Fourth of July in the story about Playing With Gunpowder. Rosenbach 372, Shaw and Shoemaker series 2 (early American imprints) 15439. Quite scarce. $1200.00 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 27 [email protected] CHAPBOOK - CUT OF “A MUSIC AND EXERCISE JEW” ON REAR COVER 143. EARLY AMERICAN. CALISTHENIC SONGS ILLUSTRATED. FOR THE 147. EARLY ENGLISH. THE USE OF BOTH PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS by Flora Parsons. NY: HISTORY OF THE HOUSE Ivison, Blakeman Taylor (1869), Oblong 7 x 5”, gilt lettered cloth, 68p. plus THAT JACK BUILT. index, light shelf wear, VG+. Nearly every page of musical notation faces an London: Houlston & Son, illustrated page of calisthenics with detailed directions. The author explains no date, circa 1820. 24mo that the music, the lyrics and the calisthenics were all original done specifically (2 ½ x 4), pictorial wraps, for this book. $200.00 14p. +1p. ads, fine. The traditional nursery rhyme is illustrated with woodcuts on each page plus cuts on both covers. The rear cover has a cut titled “A Jew” showing a stereotypical Jewish man with beard and hat carrying a box of wares for sale. $350.00

HAND-COLORED MOTHER GOOSE 148. EARLY ENGLISH. BYSH’S EDITION OF NURSERY RHYMES. London: Printed by T. Richardson for J. Bysh, no date but owner inscribed 1828. 3 ½ x 5 ½”, pictorial wraps, 36p., bound in later marbled boards, top and bottom margins 1797 BALTIMORE of front cover trimmed, final leaf 144. EARLY AMERICAN. DAS KLEINE DAVIDSCHE PSALTERSPIEL DER lacking a piece from the bottom KINDERS ZIONS, von alten und neuen Auserlesenen geists Gesängen, allen resulting in the loss of a few lines wahren Heilsbegierigen Säuglingen der Weisheit, insonderheit aber denen of text on each side, housed in a Gemeinden des Herrn, zum Dienst und Gebrauch mit Fleiss zusammen getragen custom cloth clamshell box. 52 in gegenwärtigbeliebiger nursery rhymes are illustrated Form und Ordnung. Nebst with 6 fanciful full page hand- einem dreyfachen, darzu colored engravings, each page nützlichen und der Materien with 2 pictures. Most of the halben nöthigen Register. rhymes although familiar are Zweyte verbesserte auflage, definitely different from the Baltimore: Samuel Saur versions we know today. The 1797. 8vo, full leather, metal final 10 pages have select pieces clasps, 572p. [+ register], such as My Mother, My Sister, bound with Die Kleine Harpe etc. $275.00 dated 1792. Normal rubbing and wear, VG. A popular book 1808 FLOWER FAIRIES - HARRIS PUBLICATION first published in Germany 149. EARLY ENGLISH. FLORA’S GALA. London: J. Harris 1808. 4 x 5”, bound in 1791, “ The American without wrappers in later full leather binding with gilt design, leather slightly edition also became quite bowed else Fine. 4 lines from Darwin’s Botanic Garden are on the title. The popular with some sects, text in verse tells about the flower fairies’ gala. Illustrated with 6 fine hand- Dunkers, Mennonites, etc.” colored copperplate engravings, well printed by H. Bryer. Scarce and quite Curiously, although the book lovely. See Moon 291. $1200.00 is dated 1797, the second section is dated 1792 and the owner inscription is dated 1792 as well. Evans 31815. $1500.00

145. EARLY AMERICAN. PORTFOLIO FOR YOUTH by Robert Ramble [John Frost]. Philadelphia: J. Crissy 1835. 12mo (4 ½ x 6 ½”), leather backed boards, xvi, 17-352p., ink from owners name bled through to 2 leaves, spine ends worn, edges rubbed, some foxing, tight and VG. First edition (and probably only edition). Written as a series of stories and fables by Captain Ramble for his nephew Frank Hearty and illustrated with numerous engravings. Robert Ramble was the pseudonym of John Frost, a prolific author in the mid 1800s. $300.00

KENDREW CHAPBOOK 150. EARLY ENGLISH. THE HISTORY OF A LITTLE BOY FOUND UNDER AN HAYCOCK [by Richard Johnson]. York: Kendrew, no date, circa 1820. 16mo (2 5/8 x 3 7/8”), yellow wraps, 16p., fine. Illustrated with 14 woodcuts to accompany this tale of a worthy orphan, also includes Little Boy Blue rhyme integrated HAND-COLORED WITH NAUGHTY BOY BEING SPANKED into the story. Osborne 146. EARLY DUTCH. PRENTENBOEK [by] H.J. T. Matveld. Leyden ca 1840. p.270. See Opie Collection 16mo, printed wraps, fine. A nice hand-colored Dutch picture book for children Treasures of Childhood with each page featuring a fine illustration with a caption. One in particular p. 10 for others in this shows a bare bottomed boy being hit with a broom by his mother. $300.00 series. $175.00 914.764.7410 Pg 28 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 111 #153 KENDREW “JACK DANDY” CHAPBOOK 151. EARLY ENGLISH. JACK DANDY’S DELIGHT OR THE HISTORY OF BIRDS AND BEASTS; IN PROSE AND VERSE. York: Kendrew, no date, circa 1820. 16mo (2 5/8 x 4”), yellow wraps, 16p., Fine. Illustrated with 13 woodcuts to accompany text. “Handy spandy, Jacky Dandy, Loves plum-cake and sugar candy, He bought some at the Grocer’s shop, And pleas’d, away went hop, hop, hop.” Osborne p.98. See Opie Collection Treasures of Childhood p.10 for others in the series. $175.00

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3 ALEXANDRA EXTER PERE CASTOR PANORAMAS EXTER,ALEXANDRA. PANORAMAS. Offered here are 3 Pere Castor RARE EARLY AUSTRIAN PICTURE BOOK panoramas illustrated by Russian emigré artist ALEXANDRA EXTER and ENGRAVED BY NEIDL published in Paris by Flammarion. All have text by Marie Colmont. The panoramas 152. EARLY GERMAN. NEUESTE KLEINIGKEITEN FUR LIEBE JUGEND EIN measure 9 3/4” square bound in pictorial card covers, opening to 8 feet. One side BILDERBUCH ZUM NUZEN UND BERGNUGEN. Vienna: Johann Neidl, no of the panorama has a striking full color illustration. The other side has the text date, circa 1810. Oblong 8 ½” x 6 3/4”, original marbled wraps with printed label, and is illustrated in black & white. In his article on Russian emigré artists (DAPA title page plus 6 leaves, near Fine condition. Each of the 6 pages printed on one Winter 1989), A. L. de Saint-Rat comments about Pere Castor books: “If a break side, has 20 fine hand colored engravings of a wide variety of things: children was to be made in format and style, Exter was to make it in the grandest manner... playing different games, animals, musical instruments, clocks, weapons, flowers [the panoramas] are masterpieces of graphic design unsurpassed to this day.” and more. There is short text in verse at the bottom of each page. Johann Neidl, Priced individually at $525.00 who published this book, was also a highly regarded engraver best known for his portraits of Beethoven and Haydn. He also engraved the illustrations for this 153. PANORAMA DE LA COTE. (THE COAST) 1938. slight soil VG+. book. Rare. $2000.00 154. PANORAMA DE LA MONTAGNE (MOUNTAIN) 1938. Slight soil, VG+.

155. PANORAMA DU FLEUVE (RIVER) 1937. Slight soil VG.

FABLES - 45, 55

CHEWING GUM PIXIES 156. FAIRIES. THE ADVENTURES OF TOMMY TEABERRY. Pittsburgh: Clark Chewing Gum Co. (1944). 4to (8 X 10 1/4”), cloth backed pictorial boards, slightest of tip wear else fine in dust wrapper with corner chip. The story tells of a little boy who meets a family of pixies in the woods. Teaberry- Ticklebeard is the King of the Pixies and he, along with Chicle, Tickle, Nickle, Dixie, Rixie and Nixie, take the little boy on a guided tour of how they produce Clark chewing gum in Teaberry Town. Illustrated in typical 40’s style in bright full colors by Ben Jorj Harris. LAID IN IS AN INTERESTING EDUCATION - 11. 143. 192 EICHENBERG, FRITZ - 169 LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER explaining “This book was prepared.. before the paper ELEPHANTS - 356, 401 EMBERLEY, ED - 3 shortage became acute and we subsequently stopped production on it so that we ENGLEBRECHT - 335 ENRIGHT, MAGINEL WRIGHT - 38 only have a limited supply now.” Great ESKIMO 171 EVANS, EDMUND - 40 copy. $200.00 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 29 [email protected] LOVELY HUMANIZED HERBERT COLE ILLUSTRATIONS BUTTERFLIES 161. FAIRY TALES. FAIRY GOLD: A BOOK OF OLD ENGLISH FAIRY 157. FAIRIES. BUTTERFLY TALES ed. by Ernest BABIES by George Butler. Rhys. London & NY: Dent & Chicago: Magill Weinsheimer Dutton 1906. Thick 8vo (6 x [1917]. 16mo (4 1/4 x 6”), 8”), gilt pictorial cloth, top pictorial boards, light soil edge gilt, 474p., light cover and spine rubbing, VG+. rubbing else VG+. First Every other page features edition of this outstanding the most wonderful and book of nearly 70 fairy unusual humanized butterfly tales of English origin. fairies - many representing Illustrated by HERBERT different nationalities. COLE with 12 color plates Includes a Black Pickaninny and 70 beautiful drawings butterfly eating watermelon, with the color work Brown Malays, American similar to Walter Crane Indians, Japanese and more! and the line illustrations Text is in verse. Quite reminiscent of Burne unusual. $250.00 Jones and Robert Anning Bell. First editions are rare. $450.00 NEW ZEALAND FAIRIES 158. FAIRIES. MAORI MOTHS by Margaret Wells. Wellington, N.Z.: Harry Tombs, no BEAUTIFUL TRADE BINDING date. 4to, boards, pictorial paste-on, [27] 162. FAIRY TALES. HOUSEHOLD TALES AND FAIRY STORIES. London, p., VG+. The story told in verse and prose New York and Manchester: is about tiny fairies of Aotearoa who battle George Routledge 1893 dragons that live in volcanos, and giants. (1893). Thick 8vo (6 ½ x Wonderfully illustrated. by EDNA KUALA 8 ½”), brown cloth with with 1 color plate, 4 black & white plates plus beautiful gilt pictorial cover numerous black & whites in text. A lovely fairy and spine, 567p., VG-Fine. book. $275.00 Nearly 50 fairy tales are included - traditional and 159. FAIRIES. ROSE FYLEMAN FAIRY lesser known. Illustrated BOOK. London: Methuen (1923). 4to, blue with over 100 very fine cloth, VG+. 1st edition. A book of fairy engravings by F.A. Fraser, J. poetry, illustrated by HILDA MILLER D. Watson, Alfred Croquill, with 12 beautiful tipped in color plates, J. Absolon, Harrison Weir, 12 delicate black and whites in text and H.K. Browne, John Gilbert pictorial endpapers. (See Meigs p.592 and others including 6 lovely and Realms of Gold p. 77). A lovely fairy full page chromolithographs. book. $475.00 Well printed and a fine example of a turn of the 19th century book of fairy tales. $300.00

FAIRIES AND FAIRY TALES 163. FAIRY TALES. THE ROSE FAIRIES by Olivia McCabe. Chicago: Rand McNally (1911). Small 4to, cloth, pictorial paste-on, 133p., slight cover soil, near Fine. 1st edition. Six original fairy stories including the title, The White Cock of the Enchanted Palace, The Shoes of Silence, Fairy Twilight and the Princess, Prince of the Sun Bright Isle and The Little Girl and the Crow in Fairyland. Illustrated by HOPE DUNLOP with 12 beautiful color plates plus black & whites in-text and pictorial endpapers. $275.00 GERMAN BOOK OF FLOWER FAIRIES 160. FAIRIES. VOM ELFLEIN DAS SIENEN NAMEN VERGAS [THE ELF THAT FORGOT HIS NAME] von L. Schultz - Kunstmann. Dresden: Walter Flechsig (1936). 8vo (5 ½ x 7 3/4”), MCLOUGHLIN CINDERELLA boards, pictorial paste-on, 164. FAIRY TALES. CINDERELLA OR THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER. (book 31p., boards lightly toned cover reads “and”, first page reads “or”). NY: McLoughlin Bros., no date, circa else VG+. 1st edition. The 1865. 12mo (4 ½ x 6 ½”), text is a fantasy taking place pictorial wraps highlighted in the forest where flowers in gold, mounted on linen, come alive. Illustrated Fine condition. This title in by Mathilde Ritter with 4 the Fairy Moonbeam Series beautiful color plates and 22 features 8 brightly colored charming color illustrations half-page illustrations that in-text showing a host of are well printed. Listed as humanized flowers, insects a “New Series” on the rear and more. Delicate and well cover. This book comes printed. $250.00 from a 19th century drug store whose contents were found intact which accounts FAIRIES SEE ALSO 27, 149, for the gilt cover retaining 163, 330, 344 its sparkle. Beautiful copy. $300.00 914.764.7410 Pg 30 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 111 HOLIDAY HOUSE BOXED SET WARNE TOY BOOK INCLUDING NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS 165. FAIRY TALES. (DICK 169. FAIRY TALES. A PRESENT FOR GOOD LITTLE BOYS AND GIRLS. WHITTINGTON) THE NY: Holiday House (1937). This is a set of 4 “stocking stuffer” books in the OLD BALLAD OF DICK original slip case. Titles include: The Night Before Christmas (illus. by Ilse WHITTINGTON. London: Bischoff), Old Woman and Her Pig / Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse (illus. by Warne, no date, circa Jack Tinker), Cinderella (illus. by Hilda Scott) and Dick Whittington and His 1870. 4to, wraps, slight Cat (illus. by Fritz Eichenberg). They measure 3 ½” wide x 5” high, cloth backed offsetting on text pages pictorial boards, except for edge toning on one book, all are in Fine condition else near fine. Each page is in the publisher’s pictorial slip case (small stain on case). Designed by Helen mounted on linen. Illustrated Gentry (formerly of the Grabhorn Press) and printed by Rudge, they are all with 6 very fine full page illustrated with charming color woodcuts. Little books for little hands that chromolithographs printed children find irresistible. This boxed set is rare. See Bader p.212 who describes by Kronheim. $300.00 the books in this series as “revolutionary little revivals.” $375.00

JACK & THE BEANSTALK STECHER LITHOS 166. FAIRY TALES. JACK AND THE BEANSTALK. NY: George Sully (1920). 8vo (5 7/8 x 7 1/4”), pictorial boards, slight spine wear else Fine IN PUBLISHER’S PICTORIAL BOX. Illustrated by W. Stecher with beautiful full page and smaller color lithographs including pictorial endpapers. Done in the same style and format of the Volland Sunny Books series, this is a great version of a classic. $125.00

1861 HAND-COLORED 167. FAIRY TALES. (THREE LITTLE PIGS) THREE TINY PIGS. London: Dean & Son, 1861. 4to (6 ½ x 9 7/8”), pictorial wraps, small part of spine rubbed else near Fine. Papa Please- Well Series. The traditional fairy tale about the 3 little pigs who leave home to build their own houses and their encounters with the WELSH FAIRY TALES Wolf. Printed on one side 170. FAIRY TALES. of the paper, there are 8 (WALES) WONDER TALES large 3/4 page hand-colored OF ANCIENT WALES by illustrations with the text Bernard Henderson. Boston: of the story below each Small Maynard [1921]. 4to, picture. The illustrations blue pictorial cloth, top used here are the same edge gilt, 166p., slightest as those in McLoughlin’s cover soil, VG+. 13 Welsh Three Tiny Pigs from the Mama Lovechild Series fairy tales, illustrated by with a different cover. DORIS WILLIAMSON Scarce. $500.00 with 8 wonderful color plates reminiscent of Anne H.J. FORD Anderson plus black & whites ILLUSTRATIONS in text. $250.00 168. FAIRY TALES. OLD FRIENDS AMONG THE FAIRIES: selected and edited by Andrew Lang. FAIRY TALES - 4, 60, 68, 94, 98, 133, 161-70, 197, 211-12, 236, 239, 241, London et al: Longmans Green 243-5, 249, 259, 274-6, 280, 322-4, 369-9, 375, 393, 404, 1926. 8vo (6 3/4 x 8 ½”), 420, 458, 472, 475 green pictorial cloth, VG+. 1st edition. 23 fairy tales from traditional to those RARE ESKIMO POLAR FANTASY - ANIMAL RIGHTS less known, are illustrated 171. FANTASY. ICE KIDS by Constance White. Chicago: M.A. Donohue (1910). by H.J. Ford with 4 beautiful 4to (9 1/4 x 11 ½”), cloth backed pictorial boards, edges worn, some cover soil, tipped-in color plates, lovely overall VG condition with strong binding and internally Fine. This is the adventure dragon motif cover design of 2 Eskimo boys named Abba and Babba who are taken to the magical City of and pictorial endpapers. Rainbows under the sea ruled by the Great Walrus. In exchange for their lifelong Also featuring a profusion of safety the Walrus demands that they stop killing all animals and to eat only full page and smaller black vegetables and eggs which the Walrus would provide. Surviving many harrowing and whites by Ford, G.P. adventures the boys eventually arrive home. Printed on heavy coated paper, Jacomb Hood and Lanceclot there are many brightly colored full page and smaller illustrations by White done Speed. An interesting with a fanciful flair. This is a great American picture book, Rare. $600.00 and uncommon book of (SEE ILLUS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT ------>>>>>>) tales. $175.00 FANTASY - 100, 160, 228, 246, 257 291, 296, 397, 435, 444, 451, 484

FARJEON, ELEANOR - 20 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 31 [email protected] SIGNED INSCRIBED BY FIELD 172. (FEELINGS,TOM)illus. SOUL LOOKS BACK IN WONDER. NY: Dial 175. FIELD,RACHEL. A LITTLE BOOK OF DAYS. NY: Doubleday Page 1927 Books (1993). Oblong (1927). 4 ½ x 5 3/4”, green 10 3/4 x 9 3/4”0, cloth cloth, fine in dust wrapper backed boards, As new (dw worn, ½” piece off in as new dust wrapper. backstrip, soiled, Good First printing (1-10 code). condition). Stated first Feelings compiled poems edition. A charming book, by 13 major Black poets each page of text faces which he illustrated with a wonderful full page striking color illustrations on illustration by Field. The every page. Includes Maya text in verse presents short Anjelou, Lucille Clifton, poems about different Langston Hughes, Mari holidays and significant Evans and more. THIS COPY days in a child’s life. THIS HAS TOM FEELINGS’ BOLD COPY IS INSCRIBED AND SIGNATURE laid-in on Dial DATED 1927 BY FIELD. See stationery. $100.00 Realms of Gold p. 45. Quite scarce with dust wrapper FELLOWS, MURIEL - 225 and inscription. $225.00

INSCRIBED BY FIELD * ELVES AND FAIRIES 173. FIELD,RACHEL. ELIZA AND THE ELVES. NY: Macmillan 1926 (1926). 8vo (5 ½ x 8”), cloth, 96p., Fine in dust INSCRIBED WITH wrapper (dw nickel size SKETCH / SILHOUETTES piece off upper corner 176. FIELD,RACHEL. THE a few other chips, VG). POINTED PEOPLE. New 1st edition. All you ever wanted to know about Haven: Yale Univ. Press elfland is told in prose 1924 (1924). 8vo (5 1/4 x and verse. Illustrated 7 ½”), cloth, spine faded by ELIZABETH else VG+. 1st edition. Field MACKINSTRY with wrote a book of poems color wrapper, pictorial endpapers, 2 color plates arranged in categories and a profusion of black and also illustrated it and whites throughout with 17 full page and many the text. THIS COPY IS smaller silhouettes. THIS INSCRIBED BY FIELD, COPY IS INSCRIBED DATED SEPTEMBER 19th, 1926. Quite WITH A SKETCH “For scarce in the wrapper my distinguished “Twin” and a wonderful from Rachel Lyman Field. book. $400.00 September 19, 1924. Below the inscription Field drew INSCRIBED BY FIELD a sailboat on the water. A 174. FIELD,RACHEL. special copy of a charming HEPATICA HAWKS. NY: book. $300.00 Macmillan 1932 (Oct. 1932). 8vo (5 ½ x 8”), cloth, 239p., VG-Fine in dust wrapper (few archival mends on verso). 1st printing. The story FABULOUS COPY IN BOX is set in a traveling freak 177. (FISHER,HARRISON)illus. A DREAM OF FAIR WOMEN. Indianapolis: show and Hepatica is part Bobbs Merrill (1907 October). 4to (7 1/4 x 9 3/4”), tan cloth, pictorial paste-on, of the show. Illustrated by nearly As New with original blue ribbon, glassine wrapper and pictorial box (box Allen Lewis with woodcuts. worn on flaps). 1st edition. Printed on heavy coated paper and illustrated with THIS COPY IS INSCRIBED 20 beautiful full page color illustrations of women by Fisher. The text is in verse BY FIELD: “For Louise - surrounded by lovely art nouveau decorations by E. Stetson Crawford. This is an One of Hepatica’s earliest unusually nice copy. $850.00 friends and well wishers - with love in October 1932. Rachel” $275.00

#171 previous page 914.764.7410 Pg 32 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 111 RARE ANGUS -- LAUREN FORD’S CHRISTMAS BOOK. NY: Dodd Mead (1963). FIRST EDITION Oblong 4to, cloth, Fine in dust wrapper. 1st edition. LAID IN ARE 178. FLACK,MARJORIE. THREE WOODCUTS on Japan paper for the illustrations in the book. ANGUS AND THE CAT. NY: Doubleday Doran 1931 -- COPIES OF AN APPRECIATION of Ford published the year (1931). Oblong 8vo, pictorial of her death providing biographical and bibliographical information. boards, near Fine in dust wrapper with rectangular INCLUDING AN ORIGINAL DRAWING pieces off blank edge of dw -- ORIGINAL DRAWING AND AN ARRAY OF 21 ETCHINGS OR flap. Stated 1st ed. The WOODCUTS AND 7 CARDS WITH ENGRAVINGS BY FORD. Many second of Flack’s marvelous signed, and several possibly used for some of the many beautiful greeting picture books about this cards Ford did. Included is an original signed pencil drawing 4 ½” wide x 7 “ little Scottie, with bold high. It is a most beautiful and detailed pencil drawing of a nativity scene color illustrations on every with Mary holding Baby Jesus, a man by her side, a young boy seated looking page. See Bader p. 61-3. up at all of them. They are surrounded by a donkey, a bull and 2 lambs. Rare. $850.00 The collection. (SEE ALSO REAR COVER) $5500.00 FLOWERS - 104, 105, 149, 160, 34, 467 FORD, H.J. 168, 243

LAUREN FORD COLLECTION 179. FORD,LAUREN. COLLECTION. We are pleased to be able to offer this interesting collection of Lauren Ford material including special copies of books, original art and more. Lauren Ford (1891-1973) was not only an award winning illustrator of children’s books but she wrote them as well. According to her mother, she began to draw at the age of only four and eventually studied with F.V. du Mond and George Bridgman. She began professionally by illustrating her mother’s books and dust wrappers (her mother was noted children’s author Julia Ellsworth Ford). She first collaborated with her mother on Imagina which was illustrated by Arthur Rackham. In 1923 she illustrated entirely on her own, her mother’s book Pan and Santa Claus. In 1926 she held her first one man show at the Feragil Gallery in New York which sold-out.

Ford is perhaps best known for two books, the Ageless Story, which was a Caldecott Honor title in 1940, and the Little Book About God about which Mahoney and Whitney wrote: “The artist is considered a modern Breughel and the book has the quality of the handmade books of the Middle Ages” (See 5 Years of Children’s Books p.18, 148-9). In Illustrator’s of Children’s books p. 242, Mahoney and Whitney comment that with the publication of the last mentioned books “it is as if Botticelli’s angels found themselves dressed in blue gingham in a Connecticut farmhouse and feeling perfectly at home there. And with it they have lost none of their beauty though translated into a homely modern setting.” Her art hangs at the Metropolitan in New York, Washington’s Corcoran, Art Institute of Chicago and other major museums. Following are the details:

-- A BOOK OF FUNNY ONES - AN ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT. This item features 38 watercolor illustrations plus text done for an unpublished book by Ford (possibly not complete). Oblong 8vo on paper, penciled title page dated 1908, reading “Pictured by L.F., versified by S.F.” (most likely Ford’s father whose name was Simeon). The illustrations themselves are signed by Lauren and many are dated 1897 which would represent her earliest work! According to the dust wrapper blurb from Lauren Ford’s Christmas Book “her mother is the authority for the statement that Ford began to draw at the age of four.” They are necessarily rather childish - she was only 4 years old - yet they are all the more remarkable for that.

-- PAN AND SANTA CLAUS by Julia Ellsworth Ford. NY: Dutton (1923). Slim 12mo, cloth, fine in frayed dw. 1st ed. Illus. with lovely color dust wrapper repeated as color frontis.

ONE OF TWO COPIES WITH ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR -- THE LITTLE BOOK ABOUT GOD. NY: Doubleday Doran 1934 (1934). 8vo, full red leather binding with gilt decorations (by the French Binders), Fine. Stated 1st edition. THIS IS ONE OF ONLY TWO COPIES SPECIALLY BOUND BY THE PUBLISHER WITH AN EXQUISITE ORIGINAL SIGNED WATERCOLOR BY FORD BOUND IN. Laid in is a letter from the original owner (who was Ford’s editor at Doubleday) discussing the production process and the difficulty and expense of printing in 7 colors. She notes: “ The text was scrawled in ink by Lauren...Marguerite hand-lettered the whole thing for me as a work of love because she had always admired Lauren’s paintings and wanted to help me to make this little book a possibility.” With hand- lettered text, this is magnificently illustrated in color on every page (litho’d by Glaser). Cited as a Notable Picture Book in 5 Yrs. of Children’s Books (p.18, 148-9) it says “The artist is considered a modern Breughel and the book has the quality of the handmade books of the Middle Ages.” A special copy.

LIMITED EDITION INCLUDING 4 ORIGINAL WATERCOLORS -- AGELESS STORY. NY: Dodd Mead 1939 (1939). 4to, 1/4 cloth, Fine in worn slipcase. 1st edition. LIMITED TO ONLY 350 NUMBERED COPIES, this with AN ORIGINAL SIGNED DRAWING ON ENDPAPER! (drawing of an angel). Magnificently illustrated in rich colors with gold highlights. LAID IN ARE4 OF THE ORIGINAL WATERCOLORS used for the illuminated pictorial initials next to which is Ford’s hand-done musical notation for the Gregorian songs.

SIGNED WITH A DRAWING -- OUR LADY’S BOOK. NY: Dodd Mead 1962. 8vo, cloth, Fine in worn dust FORD, LAUREN SEE ALSO 371 wrapper. 1st edition. Signed by Ford with an ORIGINAL DRAWING in color. Helen & Marc Younger Pg 33 [email protected] BATIK CHILDREN’S BOOK FOLIO PICTURE BOOK 180. (FRANCOISE)illus. LA PLUS VIELLE HISTOIRE DU MONDE. Paris: Jardin 183. FRENCH. FRANCOIS I by Gustave Toudouze. Paris: Boivin 1909. Folio, des Modes no date [1931]. pictorial cloth, all edges gilt, corners bumped and slight cover soil, VG. 1st Oblong 4to (10 x 8 1/4”), edition. This is a lavishly produced book printed on heavy paper with each page printed on cloth, slightest individually hinged into the book. Illustrated with remarkably detailed and vivid of cover soil, near Fine. One full page color illustrations (some double-paged) by ROBIDA. Really a beauty with of the first BATIK printed a magnificent pictorial cover. One of the scarcest titles in this series. $600.00 books (using vegetable dyes) this features Francoise’s charming, stylized full color illustrations on every page. Quite scarce and certainly unusual. Bader (p.52) calls this book “a minor work of art” and adds that Francoise’s sense of space and composition is strongest in this book. (pictured on Bader p. 53). A nice copy. $1200.00

FRASCONI & PABLO NERUDA WITH SIGNED WOODCUT 181. (FRASCONI,ANTONIO)illus. BESTIARY by Pablo Neruda. NY: Harcourt Brace World (1965). 4to (8 ½ x 11 ½”), cloth backed pictorial boards, Fine in glassine and slipcase with printed label. LIMITED TO 300 COPIES SIGNED BY FRASCONI AND THE PRINTER (JOSEPH BLUEMTHAL), THIS IS PART OF A SPECIAL UNSTATED LIMITATION WITH AN ORIGINAL 3-COLOR WOODCUT SIGNED BY FRASCONI. Printed on Rives mouldmade paper and illustrated by Fransconi with striking woodcuts done in orange and black printed from the original blocks. Neruda’s text is in both English and Spanish. $850.00

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3 WATERCOLOR MOCK-UPS / SHAKESPEARE 182. FREEMAN,DON. WILL’S QUILL. Offered here are 3 progressive mock ups plus separate watercolor designs for the title page by Freeman for his highly regarded book Will’s Quill published by Viking in 1975. The story is about a country goose in England named Willoughby Waddle and how he changes history when he meets, is befriended by and ultimately helps William Shakespeare.

1. The first mock up is in a large oblong artist pad (17 x11”) with a fabulous watercolor of Willoughby and his quill filling the entire cover. Inside are 11 watercolors for the book and one pencil sketch, all in preliminary form with no text other than the title. (There are also 2 pen sketches of D. Bronkowski).

2. The second mock up is in a plain folder 8 ½ x 11 3/4” that includes 28 pages of typed text, each page with a watercolor, plus a double page title illustration, a half title watercolor and a copyright page watercolor. On some pages you can see several versions of the text and there are pen corrections.

3. The third mock up is 9 x 12” and has 30 pages of typed text in more finished state with fewer corrections. There are many changes from mock up 2. There are 31 watercolors plus cover.

4. Also included are 6 different watercolor ideas for the cover, a watercolor concept for one of the text illustrations, one pen drawing and a page of text with a rough concept for one of the pages, written in ink by Freeman with an ink sketch.

Taken together, this really demonstrates the creative process involved in writing a picture book. It is rare to have 3 mock ups and art for one book. (SEE ALSO REAR COVER) $7500.00 914.764.7410 Pg 34 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 111 COMIC ARTIST ARSENE BRIVOT FRENCH SEE ALSO 1, 10, 1, 23-4, 52-3, 114, 153-5, 180, 216-18, 256, 278, 184. FRENCH. JOJO RICHISSIME by Arsene Brivot. Paris: Editions Prima 283-90, 307, 326, 329, 336, 339-40, 342, 353, 394 (1930. Large 4to (9 x 12 GERMAN MOVEABLE 3/4”), cloth backed pictorial 188. FREUD,TOM SEIDMANN. DAS ZAUBERBOOT. Berlin: Stuffer 1930 boards, edges worn, some (1929 7-11 tausand). 4to (8 x 9 ½”), cloth backed pictorial boards, light cover soil cover soil, VG. Jojo, an and a few internal spots else VG-fine and complete. This is a very rare MOVEABLE orphan, discovers he has BOOK done by the niece of Sigmund Freud. Her moveable books were immediately inherited millions of dollars hailed for their innovations, but because of her Jewish heritage, most copies of her books were destroyed and very few remain intact today. In this book, there but he must travel to are a variety of moveable pages including a revolving wheel and a Punch and Judy Australia to claim it. He theatre. There is also a grid with cut-outs that enables the reader to develop goes with his “Uncle” and 4 different stories from one page, and a clever tale that lets the reader make they have adventure after part of the illustrations disappear using special red paper. Hurlimann (p. 216-17) adventure. Written comic mentions these innovative books, remarkable not only for their moveable parts but for their integration of suitable text with artistic achievement. $2000.00 book style each page is divided into panels with vivid color illustrations by the author. $150.00

STUNNING ART DECO ILLUSTRATIONS 185. FRENCH. PIAF LE CHEVAL ENCHANTE by Leon Chancerel. Bouasse Jeune et Cie, no date, circa 1936. Large 4to (9 ½ x 12 1/4”), flexible pictorial card wraps, slight edge wear, near Fine condition. This story about an enchanted horse is illustrated by Rene Gabriel with the most striking art deco illustrations on every page. Printed on good quality paper with pure, vivid colors. Rene Gabriel is best known as a noted furniture designer. Leon Chancerel was active and influential in theatrical training with emphasis on improvisation. This is a title in Les Albums de L’Oncle Sebastien. Really fantastic. $350.00

STUNNING ART DECO ILLUSTRATIONS TOM SEIDMANN FREUD (SIGMUND FREUD’S NIECE) 186. FRENCH. PIPHAGNE by Leon Chancerel. Bouasse Jeune et Cie, no date, circa 189. (FREUD,TOM [SEIDMANN])illus. DAVID THE DREAMER by Ralph 1937. Large 4to (9 ½ x 12 1/4”), flexible pictorial card wraps, slight edge wear Bergengren. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press (1922). Oblong 4to (10 3/4 x 8 1/2”), and soil, near Fine condition. green gilt cloth, pictorial paste-on, 67p., Fine condition in the rare dust wrapper This story is about a man (dw chipped and mended on verso). The story is an unusual fantasy about a young named Piphagne who creates boy and his dream adventures, magnificently illustrated by Freud with stylized a group of automatons, and color plates that are aesthetically pleasing and artistically Art Deco in style. his adventures with them. Tom (born Martha Gertrude) was a German children’s book illustrator who was Illustrated by Turenne one of the pioneers of the avant garde art movement “neue sachlichkeit” in post Chevallereau with truly WWI Germany that coincided with the Bauhaus school design. Her innovations striking art deco illustrations in children’s books were felt the world over. This book marks her first American on every page. Printed on appearance, rare in the dust wrapper. (SEE ALSO REAR COVER) $2500.00 good quality paper with pure, vivid colors. Leon Chancerel was active and influential in theatrical training with emphasis on improvisation. This is a title in Les Albums de L’Oncle Sebastien. Really fantastic. $350.00

STUNNING ART DECO ILLUSTRATIONS 187. FRENCH. SYLVESTRE LE SALTIMBANQUE: PRINCE DES 4 CHEMINS by Leon Chancerel. Bouasse Jeune et Cie, no date, circa 1937. Large 4to (9 ½ x 12 1/4”), flexible pictorial card wraps, slight edge wear and soil, near Fine condition. This story tells about the life and adventures of a man named Sylvestre who can magically change his appearance. Illustrated by Turenne Chevallereau with truly striking art deco illustrations on every page. Printed on good quality paper with pure, vivid colors. Leon Chancerel was active and influential in theatrical training with emphasis on improvisation. This is a title in Les Albums de L’Oncle Sebastien. Really fantastic. $350.00 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 35 [email protected]

FROST, A.B. - 74, 214 FULLER PAPER DOLLS - 130 GERMAN ART NOUVEAU FURNISS, HARRY - 78-80 FYLEMAN, ROSE - 159 STUDENT ARTIST 193. GERMAN. KINDERSOMMER SCARCE GAG CALDECOTT HONOR TITLE bilder und verse von Ilse Breit. 190. GAG,WANDA. NOTHING AT ALL. NY: Coward-McCann (1941). Oblong 9 3/4 x 6 3/4”, orange pictorial boards, Fine in VG+ dust wrapper with 1 small Leipzig: F. Hirt & Sohn (1924). edge chip. 1st edition Large oblong 4to (13 x 10”), (correct price, no add. cloth backed pictorial boards, printings listed). This light cover soil and faint scratch story of an invisible dog else a clean and tight VG+ has hand-lettered text and copy. Featuring 6 magnificent beautiful color lithographs full page color illustrations by on nearly every page (litho’d Ilse Breit in the style of the by GLASER). Despite its Wiener Werkstatte, this being relatively late date, this WIENER JUGENDKUNST- is an incredibly scarce BILDERBUCHER No. 3. Breit title and this is a beautiful was a student of Franz Cizek, copy. See Bader p.37. a controversial figure in art CALDECOTT HONOR. education whose arts and $750.00 crafts style school in Vienna produced illustrators of several striking picture books. He WANDA GAG ORIGINAL ART wrote the introduction to the 191. GAG,WANDA. ORIGINAL ART - SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN book. $600.00 DWARFS -SNOW WHITE AND PRINCE CHARMING. This is a wonderful finished pen and ink study for the illustration appearing of p. 39 of Gag’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” published by Coward McCann. The image measure 7 1/4 s 7 ½” and is archivally matted, framed and glazed. Signed by Gag. Snow CIZEK STUDENT - White has fallen asleep after eating the poisoned apple and lays under glass SILHOUETTES cover in the woods. Prince charming is approaching on the left, a dwarf sleeps in a tree to the right, and forest creatures watch in anticipation. A wonderful 194. GERMAN. HEI VON image and a chance to an original art by Gag which is quite rare. $18,500.00 ALLERLEI verse and pictures by Adele Bailer. Leipzig: Ferdinand Hirt & Sohn (1924). Oblong 13 x 10 1/4”, cloth backed white pictorial boards, small scrape on cover else near Fine. Illustrated with magnificent silhouettes by Bailer, a student of Cizek who has written the introduction. This is a great copy of a beautiful book. Heller #774. $650.00

195. GERMAN. LUTTJEMANN UND PUTTJERINCHEN marchen von Hermann Lons. Hanover (Germany): Sponholtz 1924. Small 4to, cloth backed pictorial boards, near Fine. Illustrated by FRITZ HANS EGGERS with wonderful, and fanciful color lithos. $225.00

GAMES - 2 GANNETT, RUTH - 464 UNUSUAL LARGE GERMAN PICTURE BOOK ON CHINA CASPARI READER 196. GERMAN. VOM 192. GERMAN. (CASPARI, KAISER HUANG-LI by GERTRUDE) CASPARI Furstin Marie Thurn Taxis FIBEL: ein lesebuch mit Hohenlohe. Berlin: Carl vielen bunten bildern Chryseliusscher 1922 fur die esrste schulzeit (1922). Oblong large 4to [by] Gertrude Caspari. (12 3/4 x 10”), cloth backed Stuttgart: Volkskunst Rich. decorative boards, Fine. 1st Keutel, no date, circa 1910. edition of this unusual fairy 8vo, pictorial cloth, 76p., tale set in China. Illustrated slight cover soil, VG+. A with lovely full page and wonderful early reader for smaller color lithographs. the young child, illustrated $250.00 in bright colors by GERTRUD CASPARI. $350.00 GERMAN ALSO 9, 44, 50, 98, 152, 160, 188-9, 191, 234-5, 242, 279, 315, 351, 365, 422 914.764.7410 Pg 36 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 111 RARE WARWICK GOBLE 200. GOREY,EDWARD. LARGE PAPER LIMITED EDITION THE GREEN BEADS. NY: Albondocani Press 1978. 197. (GOBLE,WARWICK)illus. GREEN WILLOW AND OTHER JAPANESE Oblong 12mo (6 x 5”), FAIRY TALES by James Grace. London: Macmillan & Co. 1910. Large, thick pictorial wraps, Fine. 1st 4to (9 ½ x 11 ½”), publishers full vellum binding, silk ties, top edge gilt, 281p., edition. LIMITED TO some soil and rubbing to vellum, internally clean and fine and overall VG+. DE 400 NUMBERED COPIES LUXE LARGE PAPER EDITION (LIMITED TO 500 COPIES). Featuring 40 SIGNED BY GOREY. magnificent tipped-in color plates with printed guards by Goble. The illustrations Printed on fine paper on are mounted on heavy stock brown paper and are perfectly suited to the tales. one side of the page and This limited edition is rare. $2000.00 handsewn. Each page has a full page illustration with no text. Toledano A71b. $500.00

SCARCE LIMITED EDITION 201. GOREY,EDWARD. LOATHSOME COUPLE. NY: Dodd Mead (1977). Oblong 7 1/4 x 6 3/4”. pictorial boards, fine in dust wrapper and slipcase. 1st ed. LIMITED TO 250 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY GOREY. Very scarce in the limited edition. Toledano A67b. $1200.00

GOBLE’S LIMITED EDITION WATER BABIES 198. (GOBLE,WARWICK)illus. WATER BABIES by Charles Kingsley. London: Macmillan 1909. Thick 4to (9 1/4 x 11 ½”), bound in full vellum with gilt pictorial 1 OF ONLY 26 cover top edge gilt, silk ties, slight spotting on cover edge and endpaper and LETTERED COPIES cover very slightly bowed, VG+ clean and fresh copy. This is the magnificent 202. GOREY,EDWARD. THE RAGING DELUXE EDITION, LIMITED TO ONLY 260 COPIES printed on hand-made TIDE: or The Black Doll’s Imbroglio. paper and illustrated by Goble with 32 mounted color plates with lettered tissue NY: Beaufort Books (1987). Oblong guards. This is one of the most if not the most beautiful edition of this classic 8 3/4 x 6 3/4”, boards, Fine in fine story. In his book “Early Children’s Books” (p.80), Eric Quayle comments on all dust wrapper. 1st ed. LIMITED TO the various editions of Water Babies and adds: “None of these in either artistic 200 NUMBERED COPIES AND 26 or financial terms approaches the sumptuous edition of 1909” (this edition). LETTERED COPIES RESERVED FOR Very scarce. $2500.00 THE AUTHOR AND DISTRIBUTOR. THIS IS ONE OF THE LETTERED COPIES, SIGNED BY GOREY. The reader can create various stories by following a choice of directions at the bottom of each page. Each page of text faces a full page illustrations. Rare. A93a. $2000.00

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199. (GOBLE,WARWICK)illus. THE WATER BABIES by Charles Kingsley. London: Macmillan, 1909 (1909). Thick 4to (7 ½ x 10”), green gilt pictorial cloth, all edges gilt, spine faded and offsetting on endpapers else Fine. First Goble edition, illustrated by him with 32 magnificent tipped in color plates, mounted on heavy stock with lettered tissue guards. This is undoubtedly the most beautiful edition of this classic story featuring some of Goble’s best work. Nice clean copies are not easy to find. $1200.00 (SEE ILLUS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT ------>>>>>>)

GOETHE, J. - 322 GOLDEN BOOKS - 367, 443

GOLDSMITH, OLIVER - 448 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 37 [email protected] BOXED EDITION GRUELLE FAIRIES 3 SIGNED BOOKS 207. GRUELLE,JOHNNY. FRIENDLY FAIRIES. Chicago: Volland (1919 no 203. GOREY,EDWARD. THREE additional printings). 8vo, pictorial boards, light wear to spine ends, half-title spotted, VG+ in PUBLISHER’S BOX (flaps repaired). 1st edition of this Volland BOOKS FROM THE FANTOD Happy Children Book containing 15 fairy stories including the Fairy Ring, The PRESS: THE DERANGED Three Little Gnomes, Mr. & Mrs. Thumbkins and others. Illustrated throughout COUSINS, THE ELEVENTH with bright colors. A nice copy of an uncommon Gruelle title. $675.00 EPISODE, [THE UNTITLED BOOK]. Fantod Press (1971). 3 books, pictorial wraps, faint crease on one cover else Fine in publisher’s VG+ tan printed envelope. Fine. Limited to 500 sets printed by Gorey’s press, each of these books is SIGNED BY GOREY on the title page. Toledano A42b. $1200.00

FIRST SHEPARD EDITION IN DUST WRAPPER 204. GRAHAME,KENNETH. THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS. London: Methuen (1931). 8vo (5 1/2 x 7 3/4”), green gilt cloth, book has an ever so slight lean, light foxing else Fine in lovely pictorial dust wrapper (dw slightly frayed at spine ends, spine slightly toned). First edition with illustrations by E.H. SHEPARD including wrapper design, pictorial endpapers and numerous illustrations throughout the text. Because the first edition was barely illustrated, this GUERTIK, HELENE - 336 edition is most sought after for the perfect marriage of illustrations and text. Nice copies in dust wrapper are not easy to find. $2000.00 INSCRIBED TO SISTER WITH WATERCOLOR 208. HADER,BERTA & ELMER. THE FRIENDLY PHOEBE. NY: Macmillan 1953 (1953). 8vo (6 3/4 x 8 3/4”), cloth, Fine in dust wrapper with some fraying. Stated 1st printing. This is a lovely story about how the McGintey’s saved a little bird’s life. Illustrated by the Haders in color and black & white. THIS COPY HAS A LOVELY NEARLY FULL PAGE WATERCOLOR OF A BIRD ON A BRANCH OVERLOOKING A RIVER, WITH MOUNTAINS AND BOATS IN THE BACKGROUND. INSCRIBED TO BERTA’S SISTER “A special page for Leota with love from Berta and Elmer.” $850.00

SIGNED WITH SKETCH 205. GRAMATKY,HARDIE. BOLIVAR. NY: G. P. Putnam (1961). 8vo (7 ½ x 9 ½”), cloth, Fine condition in near fine dust wrapper. 1st edition. This is the story of an adorable burro in Quito, Ecuador, wonderfully illustrated with full page color illustrations #206 by Gramatky. THIS COPY IS INSCRIBED ON THE ENDPAPER BY GRAMATKY WITH A SKETCH OF BOLIVAR. A great copy of a charming book. $325.00

GRANT, GORDON - 442 GRAVES, ROBERT - 412

WITH PENCIL SKETCH BY GREENAWAY 206. (GREENAWAY,KATE)illus. KATE GREENAWAY by M. H. Spielmann and G. S. Layard. London: A & C Black 1905. Large thick 4to, white cloth, top edge gilt, FINE!. LIMITED TO 500 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY JOHN GREENAWAY (Kate’s brother), AND WITH AN ORIGINAL PENCIL SKETCH DONE BY GREENAWAY which is matted and bound in with John Greenaway’s signature of authenticity (background of sketch is foxed). The sketch is of a little girl wearing a hat, and gazing over her shoulder. The book features much text, more than 50 color plates, plus many b&w’s. This is a fabulous copy of an important book for any Greenaway collector, rarely found with the white binding so clean. $2250.00 (SEE ILLUS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT ------>>>>>>)

GRIMM BROTHERS - 98, 191, 211, 375, 409 914.764.7410 Pg 38 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 111 INSCRIBED WITH WONDERFUL WATERCOLOR #211 BY THE HADERS 209. (HADER,BERTA & ELMER)illus. BABY BEAR by Hamilton Williamson. (NY: Doubleday Doran & Co.. 1930). 8vo (7 x 8 1/4”), pictorial boards, spine bottom chipped, ½ split at joint, slightly dusty, really VG+ in dust wrapper with several pieces off, worn at folds. Stated First Edition. THIS COPY HAS A FULL PAGE WATERCOLOR, INSCRIBED BY THE HADERS. DEPICTED ARE A MAN WITH A CAN AND A YOUNG GIRL BOTH STANDING NEXT TO BABY BEAR, EACH HOLDING ONE OF ITS PAWS. The book is the charming story of Bimba, a baby bear in the jungle. Illustrated with striking color plus black & white lithographs by the Haders. First editions of this book are very hard to find, this is made extra special by the inscription and super watercolor. $1000.00

ONLY 50 COPIES WITH ORIGINAL DRAWING 212. (HAGUE,MICHAEL)illus. RAINBOW FAIRY BOOK classic fairy tales edited by Andrew Lang. NY: William Morrow (1993). 4to (8 1/4 x 10 1/4”), cloth, pictorial paste-on, spine faded else Fine condition in a cloth slip case which is faded on edges. 1st edition, 1st printing (1-10 code). LIMITED TO ONLY 50 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY HAGUE AND WITH A 4” DRAWING OF A WIZARD. 30 fairy tales from Grimm, Perrault and around the world, beautifully illustrated by Hague. This limited edition is rare. HAGUE SEE ALSO 498. $350.00

HAND COLORED - 1, 6, 23, 130, 140, 146, 148,152, 167, 217, 236, 265-6, 273, 276, 279, 282, 306, 339

FINE COPY OF SECOND CALDECOTT AWARD WINNER 213. HANDFORTH,THOMAS. MEI LI. NY: Doubleday Doran 1938 (1938). Large 4to (9 1/4 x 12 1/4”), orange cloth, Fine in near fine dust wrapper without medal and not price clipped. Stated 1st edition and WINNER OF THE SECOND CALDECOTT AWARD! This is a Chinese tale written by Handforth and magnificently WITH A FANTASTIC WATERCOLOR BY THE HADERS illustrated by him with black and white 210. HADER,BERTA AND ELMER. JAMAICA JOHNNY. NY: Macmillan lithos on every page. Rare in this 1935 (Oct. 1935). 8 3/4” square, green pictorial cloth, Fine in VG+ dust condition. $1250.00 wrapper with a few chips and small closed tears. 1st edition. This is the story set in Jamaica about a little Black boy named Johnny. The Haders went to the tropics to research the culture. Illustrated by them with wonderful full page color lithographs and smaller black and white lithos. THIS COPY HANKIES - 328 HAS A FABULOUS FULL PAGE WATERCOLOR SIGNED BY EACH OF THE HARRIS, JOHN PUBLISHER - 149 HADERS on the endpaper. A special copy of one of their most desired titles. (SEE ALSO INSIDE FRONT COVER) $1500.00 GIFT EDITION 214. HARRIS,JOEL CHANDLER. UNCLE REMUS: HIS SONGS AND SAYINGS. NY: D. Appleton Century 1935 (1920). Thick 4to (7 ½ x 10”), green gilt cloth, 265p., cloth ever so slightly darkened on top edge of covers else bright and VG+. This is a deluxe gift edition, with an introduction by Thomas Nelson Page. Illustrated by A.B. FROST AND E.W. KEMBLE with 12 color plates, in-text illustrations and with pictorial borders on each page of text as well. This is a beautiful edition of this classic. $400.00

MACMILLAN HAPPY HOUR 211. (HADER,BERTA AND ELMER)illus. HANSEL AND GRETEL by Grimm Brothers. NY: Macmillan 1927 (Aug. 1927). 8vo, (6” x 6), pictorial boards, minor shelf wear VG-Fine. 1st edition of this Macmillan Happy Hour Book featuring many full and partial page color lithographs in the bold, flat style of the 20’s. Artfully arranged and very scarce. See Bader p. 27 -33 who discusses the Macmillan Happy Hour Series saying “ ... it was the wave of the future, and the results in terms of book design were little short of revolutionary.” Very hard to find. (SEE ILLUS TOP NEXT COLUMN) $200.00 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 39 [email protected] FABULOUS ILLUSTRATIONS BY BULL & ROUNTREE 218. (HELLE,ANDRE)illus. LE LIVRE DES ENFANTS poesies de Marceline 215. HARRIS,JOEL CHANDLER. UNCLE REMUS. London: Raithby, Lawrence, Desbordes Valmore. Paris: Garnier Freres (1924). Large 4to (9 3/4 x 12 ½”), no date (originally cloth backed pictorial boards, 47p., a Fine copy. First edition. Beautifully illustrated in color on nearly every page in Helle’s distinctive 1920’s style. Nelson 1908) circa Printed on good quality, heavy paper that enhances the colors. This is a charming 1915. Folio, cloth, [111] French picture book and a less common Helle title. $525.00 p., one inconspicuous mend else VG+ in dust wrapper with mounted color plate. Fabulously illustrated by HARRY ROWNTREE with 12 vibrant, action packed color plates and by RENE BULL with 84 large pen and inks. A super edition of this classic. $900.00

HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL - 441

SCARCE HELLE PATRIOTIC

WWI MILITARY ALPHABET BOOK HENDERSON, ARTHUR - 446 216. HELLE,ANDRE. ALPHABET DE LA GRANDE GUERRE 1914-1916. Paris: Berger-Levrault [1915]. 4to (10 x 12 ½”), cloth backed pictorial boards, covers FIRST EDITION INSCRIBED BY THE HOBANS dusty and slightly soiled else clean, tight and a VG+. Each page features a large, 219. HOBAN,RUSSELL. MOUSE AND HIS CHILD. NY: Harper & Row (1967). stylized full color illustration (one for each letter), each with a World War 6 ½ x 9 ½”, pictorial cloth, 182p., Fine in dust wrapper with price intact (dw I theme. The text in rhyme by Helle is aimed to give children pride in their rubbed on corners, light soil rear panel, VG). 1st edition (correct price, which country. There are also color pictorial endpapers showing the flags of the Allies. must be present to determine edition). The “philosophical fantasy” (Bader p. Very scarce. (SEE ALSO REAR COVER) $1500.00 477) about 2 mechanical toy mice - a father and son and his son who are rescued from the trash but can no longer dance. Beautifully written by Hoban and illustrated by his wife Lillian. THIS COPY IS INSCRIBED BY THE HOBANS. Nice copies of firsts are quite scarce. $600.00

HELLE HAND-COLORED LIMITED EDITION 217. (HELLE,ANDRE)illus. LA MAISON DES AIEULES by Pierre Loti. Paris: HOLIDAY HOUSE - 169, 223 HOLIDAY, HENRY - 74 Henri Floury (1927). 4to (7 ½ x 9 ½”), pictorial wraps, Fine. LIMITED TO 302 NUMBERED COPIES printed on velin d’Arches. Illustrated with 77 fabulous CHIPPEWA AND SIOUX pochoir illustrations (hand-colored by Saude) to accompany the charming story 220. HOLLING,HOLLING C. CLAWS OF THE THUNDERBIRD by Holling C. about Mademoiselle Anna, a poor rag doll. Based upon an actual doll, Loti had the Holling. Joliet: Volland (1928). 8vo (6 ½ x 8 ½”), cloth, rear cover faded, slight doll buried with him when he died. Scarce and wonderful. $1200.00 wear to spine ends, VG+. 1st edition of this VOLLAND ADVENTURE SERIES BOOK illustrated by Holling with bold full page and in-text color illustrations plus black and whites. Text deals with Chippewa & Sioux Indians. $150.00 914.764.7410 Pg 40 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 111 ABC - UNUSUAL LARGE LEATHER HORNBOOK 221. HORNBOOK. LEATHER HORNBOOK. Offered here is a very large, early leather hornbook. It measures 12 ½” high x 6” wide with carved extensions on either side of the handle, housed in a custom velvet lined box with a sculpted insert in the shape of the hornbook to hold it in place. The printed text which would have been under the horn is lacking and the horn covering is cracked in several pieces. There are traces of gilt embellishment on the side with the horn that also has numbers written along the edges by an early owner. On the reverse side there is an elaborate gilt decorative diamond shaped panel 3 ½” wide x 5 1/4” high with the figures of a little boy and a little girl on opposite ends of the diamond. The handle is curved and comes to a point and there is a large red cross running down the length of the handle. Hornbooks were early ABC learning devices for children. They usually consisted of a sheet of parchment or paper containing the alphabet and other simple words, numbers or prayers. This was then mounted on leather, wood or bone and covered with a thin sheet of horn for protection. A hole in the handle was used for a piece of string that would be tied to the child’s clothing - this example has no hole. Wealthier families might have had hornbooks made of silver or ivory. Early hornbooks have become quite scarce and this larger size example is quite unusual. $3750.00 INDIA - 368

HORSES - 2, 69, 185, 229, 283, 285-7, 289, 353, 392, 394, 488 HOPI INDIANS - INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR 225. INDIANS. THE LAND OF LITTLE RAIN by Muriel Fellows. Philadelphia, HUDSON, GWYNNED - 81 Toronto, Chicago: John C. Winston (1936). 8vo (6 1/4 MAUD HUMPHREY CALENDAR x 9”), decorative cloth, Fine 222. (HUMPHREY,MAUD)illus. CALENDAR FOR 1893. This is a calendar in dust wrapper (dw frayed, rubbed at fold, light soil, VG). published by Stokes in 1892. First edition. This is a story It consists of 6 leaves 9 about Hopi Indian children x 11”, printed on heavy, named Sah-mee and Moho quality stock, with ribbon who live with their family on tie on top - in fine condition. a mesa in the Land of Little Rain. Illustrated by the The calendar features 6 author with 47 illustrations, of the most magnificent, many in 5 colors that bring large chromolithographs alive the daily activities of by Humphrey depicting Hopi life. THIS COPY IS elaborately dressed women. INSCRIBED BY FELLOWS. $750.00 $225.00

HUNTING - 16 INDIAN READER INSCRIBED BY THE ARTIST 226. INDIANS. (READER) THE LITTLE HERDER IN SUMMER by Ann Clark. SIGNED BY HYMAN U.S. Office of Indian Affairs (1942). Oblong 4to (10 1/4 x 7 1/4”), pictorial cloth, 223. (HYMAN,TRINA SCHART)illus. THE KITCHEN KNIGHT: A TALE 126p., slight soil, near Fine. Written in English and NAVAJO and wonderfully OF KING ARTHUR retold by Margaret Hodges. NY: Holiday House (1990). illustrated in brown line by native American artist Hoke Denetsosie, a full blooded Oblong 10 1/4 x 9 3/4”, cloth backed boards, Fine in fine dust wrapper. Navajo who depicts life of the Navajos in the 1940’s. This copy inscriberd by the Stated first edition. The text retells the first part of The TaleofSir artist. Fascinating. See Bader p.161-3. Inscribed copies are rare. $475.00 Gareth of Orkney from Malory’s Morte D’Arthur. Featuring beautiful color illustrations by Hyman. THIS COPY IS SIGNED BY HYMAN the free endpaper. $275.00

INDIANS - 21-2, 61, 63, 93, 117, 220, 225-6, 442

INGELOW, JEAN 249

IRISH EPIC 227. IRISH INTEREST. THE ANCIENT IRISH EPIC TALE TAIN BO CUALNGE “THE CUALNGE CATTLE RAID” by Joseph Dunn. London: David 224. (HYMAN,TRINA SCHART)illus. MAN WHO LOVED BOOKS by Jean Nutt 1914. 6 3/4 x 10 ½”, green cloth, xxxvi, 382p., light normal wear, VG+. Fritz. NY: G.P. Putnam (1981). Oblong 9 1/4 x 7 1/4”),, cloth, Fine in near fine 1st edition. The saga is about the Brown Bull of Cualnge. In the informative dust wrapper with a tiny closed tear. Stated first impression. This is the story preface, Dunn notes: “...the composition of the Tain Bo Cualnge antedates by a of Saint Columbia, the patron saint of book lovers. Beautifully illustrated in full considerable margin the epic tales of the Anglo Saxons, the Scandinavians, The color on every page by Hyman. $100.00 Franks and the Germans”. He also refers to it as the Iliad of Ireland. IRISH SEE ALSO 25. (SEE ILLUS TOP NEXT PAGE) $250.00 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 41 [email protected] #227 - previous page IN ORIGINAL CASE 232. JAPANESE INTEREST. POETICAL GREETINGS FROM THE FAR EAST: JAPANESE POEMS adapted from the German of Dr. Karl Florenz by A. Lloyd. Tokyo: T. Hasegawa (1896). 8vo (5 7/8 x 7 5/8”), silk ties, light crease on first two leaves else Fine in pictorial case with ivory clasps (case is unobtrusively re-lined with restored spine and original laid-down). The text is an anthology of Japanese poems for any age, mainly from the 8th century. Bound with frenchfold pages, every page is completely illustrated with beautiful color woodblock prints by Japanese artists SHOSO, KWA-SON, YOSHIMUNO, HANKO and SADAHIKO. IRVING, WASHINGTON - 374, 379 $450.00 ITALIAN - 72, 87, 96-7, 125, 314, 347, 366, 486

SIGNED 228. JACQUES,BRIAN. OUTCAST OF REDWALL. NY: Philomel (1996). 8vo (6 ½ x 9 1/4”), cloth backed boards, As CHARMING MINIATURE ALMANAC new in as new dust wrapper. Stated 233. JAPANESE INTEREST. ROUTLEDGE’S JAPANESE ALMANAC. Boston: first American edition, first printing W.B. Clark & Curruth (1-10 code). This is the 8th title in (1886). Printed in New York, Jacques fantasy series, illustrated copyright by Joseph Blamire. with chapter headpieces by Allan 24mo (3 1/8 x 4”), cloth Curtiss. THIS COPY IS SIGNED BY backed pictorial boards, Fine. BRIAN JACQUES. $100.00 Illlustrated with 8 beautiful full page chromolithographs JAMAICA - 210 and with smaller chromos on every text page, all in 229. JAMES,WILL. YOUNG Japanese style. The text COWBOY. NY: Charles Scribner’s has sunrise, sunset and Sons 1935 (1935 A). Oblong 4to (9 moon phase for each day 3/4 x 7 ½”), cloth, pictorial paste-on, of the month followed Fine in dust wrapper (dw with some by illustrations of the 4 soil and fraying but overall VG). 1st seasons and ending with a edition. The text is arranged for short poem. Very lovely and young readers from Big Enough and unusual. $325.00 Sun Up. Illustrated by James with 5 color plates plus many full page and smaller black and whites. This is a great copy, rare in the dust wrapper. JAPANESE SEE ALSO 197, 465, 487, 496, 497 $1200.00

LARGE FORMAT JAPANESE CREPE PAPER BOOK RARE NAZI ANTI SEMITIC EDUCATIONAL POSTER 230. JAPANESE INTEREST. JAPANESE PICTURES OF JAPANESE LIFE. 234. JEWISH INTEREST. (ANTI SEMITISM) LEHRSCHAU-BOGEN: DIE Tokyo: T. Haswgawa, (1929 3rd ed.). 8vo (5 3/4 X 7 ½”), crepe paper, silk ties, JUDEN IN DER WELT [JEWS AROUND THE WORLD]. Berlin: Reichswaltung As New condition. The book illustrates daily scenes of Japanese life including des Nationalsozialistischen Leherbundes [1940]. One folio sheet oblong 23 street scenes, firemen, marriage ceremony, carpenters, wrestling match and 1/x x 16 1/2”, small margin mend else VG+ condition. This is a 2 sided poster more. This is a large format crepe paper book, beautifully illustrated on every printed on behalf of the Teacher’s Association of the Reich Government for page by Y. Arai with hand printed color woodblocks. A scarce large format crepe use in schools. Illustrated with anti Semitic photos and drawings and with text paper book. $850.00 by Prof. Johann von Leers, a Waffen SS officer who was an important figure in developing Nazi ideology. Questions for the students to answer are in the corner (translated): How did the Jews come here? What does the Talmud say? Why are we opponents of Jews? Why is this a war about Jews? Rare. $1850.00

LARGE FORMAT CREPE PAPER BOOK - STORY TELLERS 231. JAPANESE INTEREST. JAPANESE STORY - TELLERS from the French of Jules Adam by Osman Edwards. Tokyo: T. Hasegawa, no date. 8vo (5 ½ x 7 ½”), crepe paper bound with silk ties, Fine condition. The text describes what to expect and how to act when going to see a public story teller called a hanashika. Told from the perspective of a European visiting Japan. Illustrated with lovely hand printed color woodcuts. A very scarce title. $400.00 914.764.7410 Pg 42 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 111 RARE ANTI SEMITIC CHILDREN’S BOOK KEMBLE, E.W. 150, 151 KENDREW PUB. - 150, 151 235. JEWISH INTEREST. (ANTI-SEMITISM) DAS LIED VOM LEVI [THE SONG OF LEVI] by Eduard Schwechten. Koln: Verlag der Antisemitischen KINGSLEY, CHARLES - 198, 199 Buchhandlung (Eduard Hentel) 1895. 8vo (6 1/4 x 9 3/4”, pictorial wraps, 46, 238. KIPLING,RUDYARD. JUST SO STORIES. London: Macmillan 1913 [1]p., some cover soil, corners chipped and one edge mend on rear cover, spine (1913). 4to (7 ½ x 9 ½”), blue gilt pictorial cloth, 249p. VG+. First edition with 12 reinforced, stamp on title page, really sound and VG. Rare first edition of this color plates by Joseph M. Gleeson. Also illustrated in black and white from the anti-Semitic story for children told in verse. It features nearly 50 disgusting first edition. A beautiful gift type version of these classic stories. KIPLING full and partial page anti Semitic half tone illustrations by Siegfried Horn. First SEE ALSO 391. $250.00 editions of this book are rare. $2000.00

KIRK, MARIA - 297, 298 KNIGHT, HILARY - 445

NORSE FAIRY TALES & LEGENDS 239. (KNOWLES,REGINALD & HORACE J.)illus. NORSE FAIRY TALES selected and adapted by Sir George Webb Dasent. London & Philadelphia: George Routledge & Lippincott, no date, circa 1912. Thick 8vo (6 x 7 ½”), 463p., elaborate pictorial boards, some edge and hinge rubbing, VG+. Illustrated by the Knowles Brothers with magnificent color pictorial covers and spine, pictorial JEWISH INTEREST - 147, 234-5, 315, 410, 427-8 endpapers, fantastic color frontis and title page, 6 color plates plus a profusion of full page and in-text line illustrations that are detailed and fantastic. See FAIRY TALE BY THE QUEEN OF ROUMANIA Peppin: Fantasy p. 108-11 for reproductions. One of the best designed and 236. (JOB)illus. THE STORY OF NAUGHTY KILDEEN by Marie, Queen of executed books of fairy tales. $600.00 Roumania. London et al: Oxford Univ. Press 1922. Folio (10 3/4 x 13 1/4”), gilt pictorial cloth, near Fine condition with minor tip and edge wear. 1st edition Featuring magnificent HAND-COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS plus detailed black and whites on almost every page, with the text superimposed on the illustration #239 in some cases. This is a fabulous picture book in especially bright condition in a beautiful pictorial trade binding. $1850.00

RARE NEWBERY TITLE INSCRIBED 240. KONIGSBURG,E.L. FROM THE MIXED UP FILES OF MRS. BASIL E. FRANKWEILER. NY: Atheneum 1967. LIMITED TO ONLY 250 SIGNED 8vo (5 1/8 x 8 ½”), cloth, COPIES - WITH SKETCH half-titled toned else 237. JOYCE,WILLIAM. SANTA fine in fine dust wrapper CALLS. NY: Harper Collins (1993). (price clipped). Stated 11 1’4” square, cloth, pictorial paste- 1st edition. NEWBERY on, As new in slipcase (case sl. faded AWARD WINNER. The on edge). LIMITED TO ONLY 250 story is about Claudia’s NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY adventure in New York JOYCE this also has a small pen City’s Metropolitan drawing of Santa. 1st edition. Three Museum of Art, written and children take a fantasy voyage to illustrated by Konigsburg. toyland where they save Santa THIS COPY HAS A WARM from the Dark Elves. Rich color INSCRIPTION DATED illustrations by Joyce who dedicates 1967 BY KONIGSBURG this book to Winsor McCay. ON THE HALF-TITLE! This limited edition is very hard Nice 1st’s in dust wrapper to find. $400.00 are rare, inscribed copies even rarer. $1200.00 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 43 [email protected] KOREAN FOLK AND FAIRY TALES 241. KOREAN INTEREST. OMJEE THE WIZARD by Homer Hulbert. 245. LANG,ANDREW. THE Springfield, MA: Milton RED BOOK OF HEROES by Bradley (1925). 4to (7 Mrs. Lang, edited by Andrew 1/4 x 9 ½”), black pictorial Lang. London: Longmans cloth, 156p., Fine in frayed Green 1909. 8vo, red gilt dust wrapper. First edition. cloth, all edges gilt, spine Korean folk and fairy tales very slightly dull else Fine taken directly from Korean with beautiful and elaborate folklore by Hulbert who gilt cover design. 1st lived there for twenty years. edition, 1st printing. Stories Illustrated by HILDEGARD of heroes from Hannibal to LUPPRIAN with full page Father Damian, illustrated color illustrations, pictorial by A. Wallis Mills with 8 borders on text pages lovely color plates 17 black printed in a range of colors and white plates, 23 black and a fantastic dust jacket. and whites in text and A scarce title, rare in the pictorial endpapers. $300.00 dust wrapper. $275.00

KRAUSS, RUTH - 408, 413 LANG, ANDREW SEE ALSO 168, 212

KREDEL, FRITZ - 396 LATHROP FANTASY 246. LATHROP,DOROTHY. THE LOST MERRY-GO-ROUND. NY: Macmillan 242. (KREIDOLF,ERNST) 1934 (Oct. 1934). 8vo (7 ½ x 8 3/4”), red pictorial cloth, 104p., cover faded along illus. TRAUMGESTALTEN bottom and side edge else VG+ in dust wrapper (dw G-VG with some soil, worn on [THE DREAM GARDEN] corners with small pieces off backstrip). 1st edition. This is a wonderful fantasy by Leopold Weber. Zurich about little children who are swept away on adventures when they discover a und Leipzig: Rotapfelverlag magic merry go round in the woods. Written by Lathrop and illustrated by her (1922). 4to (8 x 10 ½”), with pictorial endpapers, color frontis plus 10 very beautiful full page black and pictorial cloth, 144p., whites. A rare Lathrop title, especially in dust wrapper. $750.00 light cover soil, VG+. First edition. Illustrated by Kreidolf with 10 eerie color plates, 3 full page black and whites and pictorial endpapers to accompany 16 stories in 3 sections by Weber. $300.00

BLUE FAIRY BOOK FIRST TITLE IN THE FAIRY SERIES 243. LANG,ANDREW. THE BLUE FAIRY BOOK. London: Longmans 1889. 8vo, blue cloth, gilt pictorial cover, all edges gilt, binding leaning, spine faded a bit, slightly soiled. VG. . FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST TITLE IN THE FAIRY BOOK SERIES! Illustrated by H.J. FORD and G.P.J. HOOD with full page and in-text black and whites. This is a nice copy of the very elusive first edition. $3500.00

#244

LARGE PAPER PRESENTATION EDITION 244. LANG,ANDREW. PRINCE RICARDO OF PANTOUFLIA: BEING THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF PRINCE PRIGIO’S SON. Bristol: Arrowsmith, no date, [1893]. 4to, 3/4 vellum and brown cloth, 204p., vellum slightly age toned else fine. 1st edition. LARGE PAPER PRESENTATION COPY (so stamped). This original fairy tale by Lang is a sequel to Prince Prigio. Rare in this edition. Illustrated by Gordon Browne with 12 plates plus 12 illus. in text. $500.00 (SEE ILLUS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT ------>>>>>>>>) 914.764.7410 Pg 44 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 111 LAWSON ART WITH 2 LETTERS SIGNED BY LATHROP 250. LAWSON,ROBERT. ORIGINAL ART: COUNTRY COLIC. Offered 247. LATHROP,DOROTHY. THE here is an original pen and ink drawing that appeared greatly reduced opposite the Contents page of Country Colic, published by Little Brown in 1944, both SKITTLE-SKATTLE MONKEY. NY: written and illustrated by Lawson. The caption (written on an overlay in Macmillan 1945 (Oct. 1945). 8vo Lawson’s hand) reads: “When Adam delved and Eve span, Who was then the (7 1/4 x 8 3/4”), red boards, VG+ laundryman?” The image is 6” wide x 4” high on board that measures 8 x in dust wrapper (dw soiled, a few 10”. Done with his characteristic detail there is a caterpillar walking across a clothes line where 2 leaves are hanging attached by clothes pins. Subtle closed tears, better than good). 1st humor, signed with initials on the right. SOLD WITH 2 HANDWRITTEN edition. SIGNED BY DOROTHY LETTERS from Lawson to a noted book collector named William Easton Louttit. LATHROP. Written by Lathrop In the first letter dated May 15 [1944], Lawson responds to Mr. Louttit’s request for this drawing. It reads in full: as well as illustrated by her there are beautiful full page illustrations “Dear Mr. Louttit: Thank you so much for your delightful letter of May 4th. I throughout featuring Jasmine the am so glad that you enjoyed Country Colic and would be very happy to tender the Adam and Eve drawing, but, as you perhaps know, getting original drawings monkey, a Pekingese and other animals. back from the publisher is a rather long drawn out process. They are usually This is one of her less common sent out for exhibition in book shops, libraries, etc. and used in various ways titles. $200.00 for publicity purposes. I will write Little Brown about this particular drawing, but fear it may be quite a long time before it is returned. With many thanks for your interest, I am Sincerely yours, Robert Lawson. Rabbit Hill May 15.

It would appear that Lawson was successful in retrieving the drawing, because it accompanies this letter to Louttit. He must have been grateful to receive the RARE LATHROP INSCRIBED WOOD ENGRAVING drawing as can be seen in the next letter. Written on August 15th, the day after V-J 248. LATHROP,DOROTHY. WOOD ENGRAVING: JASPA AND ME. The Day when the Japanese surrendered in WWII (this is referred to in the letter): image measures 8” x 10” and is matted and attractively framed (with acrylic, not glass) to 17 ½ x 20”. Depicted is a detailed portrait of Lathrop with Jaspa, her pet “Dear Mr. Louttit: May I thank you for your overgenerous liquid token, which monkey that is perched upon her shoulder. It is signed and titled, with an additional arrived most opportunely yesterday afternoon, barely two hours before the inscription from Lathrop to a previous owner. This self-portrait was done in 1949 glorious news was given us. Nothing could have been more timely nor more for the National Academy of Design when she was elected an Associate of that appreciated by myself, my family and neighbors. We all thank you most heartily organization. This is a wonderful Lathrop item of exceptional rarity. $1500.00 and wish you the best of everything at this happy time to which you have added so considerably. Sincerely yours, Robert Lawson. Rabbit Hill Aug. 15th 1945.””

A wonderful item with fine art and the letters showing the interaction between an illustrator and a collector. Lawson’s original published art is generally unavailable. (SEE ILLUS TOP NEXT PAGE) $6000.00

FIRST BOOK WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY LAWSON - INSCRIBED 251. LAWSON,ROBERT. BEN AND ME: an astonishing life of Benjamin Franklin written by Robert Lawson. Boston: Little Brown 1939 (1939). 8vo (6 5/8 x 8 ½”), brown cloth, fine in dust wrapper (dw slightly faded on edge with one small closed tear otherwise beautiful and much nicer than is usually found). Stated 1st edition of the first book both written and illustrated by Lawson, this is the story of Benjamin Franklin told from the perspective of his mouse Amos. Printed in brown and featuring many wonderful full and partial page illustrations plus pictorial endpapers. THIS COPY IS INSCRIBED BY LAWSON on the half- title. Fine first editions of this book are rare, and the inscription is the cherry on the cake. $1500.00

#249 #249 - dust wrapper

FAIRY TALE ILLUSTRATED BY LATHROP 249. (LATHROP,DOROTHY)illus. MOPSA THE FAIRY by Jean Ingelow. NY: Harper & Bros. 1927 (1927 I-B). 8vo (6 x 8 1/4”), maroon cloth, pictorial paste-on, 259p., FINE IN DUST WRAPPER (wrapper frayed, light soil). FIRST EDITION. . One of the scarcest Lathrop titles, this is illustrated by her with color frontis, 12 full page black and whites plus numerous half-page black & whites and pictorial endpapers to accompany this classic fairy tale. Rare in the dust wrapper. $750.00 (SEE ILLUS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT ------>>>>>>)