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#301 DR. SEUSS ORIGINAL ART FOR THE KINGS STILTS Marc Younger Pg 3 [email protected] CLARA TICE DOG ALPHABET SIGNED WITH DRAWING 1. (ABC) ALPHABET by Jean de la Fontinelle. Paris:Berger-Levrault nd ca 3. ABC. (DOGS) ABC DOGS. (NY: Wilfred Funk 1940). Folio (10 x 13”), 1915. Folio, cloth backed pict. bds, some cover soil else VG. A fabulous French cloth backed pictorial boards, tips worn and a few faint marks on cover else VG+. alphabet book, printed on rectos only and illustrated by Fontinelle with bold rich 1st edition. Dogs for every letter except “X” are illustrated in color on every colors and much humor. $150.00 page. The text is beneath each drawing. Includes Kerry , Newfoundland, #1 Sealyham, Poodle, Japanese Spaniel and more. THIS COPY IS SIGNED BY TICE WITH A CHARMING 3” DRAWING OF A SCOTTIE DOG. Artfully done and very scarce, more so with the signature and drawing. $1500.00

WONDERFUL FUTURIST ALPHABET BOOK 2. ABC. THE CUBIES ABC versed by Mary Mills Lyall. NY:Putnam (1913). Obl. 8vo, cloth, pict. paste-on, FINE. An ABC book with an artistic theme starring 3 humanized cube figures. Each letter mentions a different artistic figure of the era from Archipenko, Brancusi, Duchamp and Kandinsky to Gertrude Stein. Every page of verse faces an imaginative and unusual full page color illustration by Earl Harvey Lyall. Very scarce and very interesting. One of our favorite ABC’s and the first one we’ve sold since 1992. $750.00

FLOWER ALPHABET 4. ABC. (FLOWERS) THE STORY OF THE WILD FLOWERS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH FLOWER ALPHABET by Gertrude Keeley. NY: Hurst (1901, 1914). 4to (6 3/8 x 10 1/4”), cloth, pictorial paste-on, some slight cover soil else VG. Each of the 26 flowers from A-Z has 2 pages of #2 text plus a poem, including some uncommon varieties of flowers. Each letter is pictorially presented in color. $150.00

LOVELY GERMAN ABC 5. ABC. (GERMAN) ABC IM WALDE von Emmy Landmann. Nurnberg: Offenstadt & Fellheimer #2 (1921). Folio, cloth backed pictorial boards, near fine. 1st ed. An alphabet of the forest. Each page of letters and verse has a pictorial border and faces a beautiful full page color lithograph all done by Kurt Bottcher. Done with very rich muted colors and very lovely. $150.00 914.764.7410 Pg 4 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 118 RARE CHARLES LINDBERGH ABC GREAT 19TH CENTURY PANORAMA 6. ABC. (LINDBERGH,CHARLES) LINDBERGH ALPHABET story & color 7. ABC. (PANORAMA) PANORAMA PUZZLE. Offered here is a rare 19th book. Arlington, CA: Mabel Thomas 1928. 4to (8 1/2 x 11”). pictorial wraps, spine century ABC panorama. No publication information, French circa 1870. 3 1/4 x and a few edges professionally and discreetly strengthened and some browning, 4 1/2”, 24 panels (no W or Z) mounted on boards, bound accordion fashion with VG+ and unused. Every letter stands for an aspect of Lindbergh’s historic flight. the first and last panels backed with leather. Covers rubbed else VG+. Each Two pages are illustrated in full color and the remainder are illustrated in line letter has a very detailed chromolithograph scene with a large capital letter meant to be colored (unused). “C is for Courage, / For never alone / Across the superimposed. At the bottom of each illustration is a number which represents Atlantic/ Had anyone flown.” This is a rare alphabet. $1500.00 the number of objects within the picture that begin with the featured letter and the child is challenged to find all of the objects. Quite unusual. (SEE ILLUS BOTTOM PRIOR COLUMN) $1500.00

MAGNIFICENT COPY 8. ALADDIN. ALADIN: OMBRES CHINOISES EN QUINZE TABLEAUX poeme & images de Lucien Metivet. Paris: Flammarion (1904). Large obl. 4to, pict. boards, FINE IN PICTORIAL DUSTWRAPPER! Music for a theatrical production of Aladin is provided by Jane Vieu. The book is illustrated with magnificent, richly colored lithographs by LUCIEN METIVET - both full and partial page. The style and images are Chinese. This is a beautiful copy, rare in the pictorial dustwrapper which has served #6 to preserve the pictorial cover. See Dictionaire des Illustrateurs 1800-1914 p.694 for entry on Metivet. A great picture book. $500.00

9. ALDIN,CECIL. MERRY PUPPY BOOK. London: Henry Frowde & Hodder & Stoughton, no date, circa 1913. 4to (8 1/2 x 9”), cloth backed pictorial boards, slightest bit of edge rubbing, Fine and bright. 1st edition. A fabulous books of dogs stories including the Mongrel Puppy, The Farmyard Puppy and the Puppy. Featuring 36 full page color illustrations plus numerous and #7 throughout the text. This is a great copy of a rare Aldin title. $1200.00

RARE ALDIN TITLE 10. (ALDIN,CECIL)illus. CECIL ALDIN’S HAPPY FAMILY by May Byron. London: Henry Frowde Hodder & Stoughton 1912. Thick 4to (8 3/4 x 9 3/4”), cloth backed boards, pictorial paste-on, top edge gilt, corners worn, binding stiff and bound very tightly, some fraying to a very few of the mounts, VG. 1st edition of this magnificent picture book featuring 36 MOUNTED COLOR PLATES SIX OF WHICH ARE DOUBLE-PAGE! There are also 36 full page b&w’s to accompany the following stories:

Hungry Peter the Pig Master Quack, the Duckling Rufus the Cat Humpty & Dumpty, the Rabbits Rags, the Dog Forager, the Puppy

This is Aldin at his very best and this is essentially 6 books in one. Very hard to find in original condition. $1400.00 Marc Younger Pg 5 [email protected] 11. AMES,MRS. ERNEST. ART NOUVEAU CHILDREN’S BOOK TIM AND THE DUSTY MAN. 15. ART NOUVEAU. SUN-MOON & STARS: Lond:Grant Richards nd ca AN OWNTY DOWNTY BOOK pictures and 1905. Obl. folio, cl. backed verses for children by E. RICHARDSON. Lond: pict. bds, some cover soil else John Lane / Bodley 1899. Narrow 4to, VG. The fantasy trip of a pict. cloth, some cover soil else VG+. Printed lonely little boy named Tim who on fine paper on rectos only, each page has travels to a magic world with a hand-lettered verse surrounded by decorative robed “dusty man”. Featuring pictorial border, also with beautiful full page 24 wonderful, bold full page illustrations done in classic Art Nouveau style color illustrations showing Tim’s similar to Ethel Reed. One of the most lovely encounters during his journey. and well executed Art Nouveau children’s A great picture book, quite books. $350.00 scarce. $250.00 16. ARTZYBASHEFF,BORIS. THE FAIRY SHOEMAKER and other fairy poems. NY: Macmillan 1928 (Oct. 1928) sq. sm. 4to, cloth EARLY ANDERSEN backed boards, minimal wear else near Fine in 12. ANDERSEN,HANS CHRISTIAN. WONDERFUL STORIES FOR CHILDREN. sl. worn dw. 1st edition of the book that Lynd NY: Wiley and Putnam, (1847). 16mo, green gilt pictorial cloth, wear to spine Ward called “an enchanting and perfectly extrems and sl. cover soil, else VG+. This is an early illustrated edition to be made picture book “ (Bader p. 189-90). Five printed in America of Andersen’s first work of fairy tales translated into English. fairy poems by de la Mare and W. Allingham, (Preceded by a Ticknor edition consisting of English sheets and a Wiley & Putnam illustrated with absolutely wonderful full edition issued without illustrations) Unfortunately, this copy lacks the third of page and partial page black and whites in four plates. Other copies Artzybasheff’s unique style. This is an excellent of this edition lack the copy. $125.00 same plate, leading to the possibility that since the plates were supplied from the English edition, there may have been fewer copies of this plate. Translated by Mary Howitt who decided to translate Andersen’s works after having met the author. Author’s name mis-spelled on the title page. $1900.00

BEAUTIFUL CHROMOS BY ANDRE 13. (ANDRE,R.)illus. A WEEK SPENT IN A GLASS POND by the Great Water Beetle by JULIANA HORATIA EWING. London: Wells Gardner Darton, no date [1883]. 4to (7 1/4 x 9 1/8”), cloth backed pictorial boards, 32p., edges rubbed and some finger soil, VG+. Beautifully illustrated by Andre with detailed chromolithographs 17. (ARTZYBASHEFF,BORIS)illus. VEROTCHKA’S TALES by Mamin Siberiak on every page plus there is a stunning pictorial cover. Osborne p.984. $400.00 trans. by Roy Davidson. NY:Dutton (1922) 8vo, pink gilt pict. cloth, a few pages opened roughly else VG. 10 Russian folk tales, illustrated by Artzybasheff with pict. ep’s, blue text illus. plus wonderful full and half-page black and white #13 woodcuts. His 1st book. (Bader p.187) $100.00

18. ATTWELL,MABEL LUCIE. THE BOO- BOOS AT HONEY SWEET FARM. Dundee, London, Montreal: Valentine, no date, circa 1921. 12mo (4 1/4 x 5 1/2”), boards, pictorial paste-on, slight shelf wear, VG- Fine. First edition. Illustrated by Attwell with pictorial endpapers, 14 color plates plus many full page and partial page green line illustrations all featuring a little girl named Bunty and Attwell’s fairy Boo-Boos. Very scarce. $1000.00

HUMANIZED TOYS 14. ANTHROPOMORPHISM. WHAT THE TOYS DID! by E.L. Shute. #18 London: Frederick Warne, no date [1904]. Oblong folio 13 1/4 x 9 3/4”, cloth backed pictorial boards, some edge wear, small, barely visible crack on cover, VG+. While little Freddy sleeps, his toys come alive. Each page features a wonderful full color illustration of the various toys in action, beneath which is the story told in verse. Printed on one side of the paper, there are 24 pages in total. This is a great turn of the last century picture book and very scarce. $475.00 914.764.7410 Pg 6 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 118 SPANISH ART DECO HAPPY HOUR “SAMBO” 19. [BANNERMAN,HELEN]. EL NEGRITO SAMBO [LITTLE BLACK SAMBO]. 22. [BANNERMAN,HELEN]. THE LITTLE Barcelona: Molino ca 1935. Sq. sm. 8vo, sl. rubbing on edges else VG+. A Spanish BLACK SAMBO STORY BOOK by HELEN edition of the Macmillan Happy Hour title, illustrated by FRANK DOBIAS with BANNERMAN & FRANK VER BECK. NY:Platt striking, stylized full color illustrations (full page, double-page and in-text). & Munk (1930,1935) 4to, blue pictorial cloth, Artfully arranged and very scarce. See Bader p. 27 -33 who discusses the Fine IN DUSTWRAPPER (dw sl. worn). This Macmillan Happy Hour Series saying “ ... it was the wave of the future, and the is a fabulous anthology of Sambo tales. The results in terms of book design were little short of revolutionary.” This title is first is written and illustrated by Bannerman, particularly rare. $450.00 the creator of Sambo. The other 5 stories are written and illustrated by FRANK VER BECK and include: Sambo & the Elephant; Sambo & the monkey people; Sambo & the tiger kitten; Sambo in the bear’s den and Sambo & the crocodiles. All illus. in color. Rare in the wonderfully colorful dw. $500.00

SEQUEL TO LITTLE BLACK SAMBO 23. BANNERMAN,HELEN. STORY OF LITTLE BLACK MINGO. NY: Frederick Stokes, no date, circa 1902. 16mo (3 5/8 x 5 1/2”), green cloth spine and pictorial boards. Cover rubbed and edges worn, interior tight and clean, VG. First American edition. This was Bannerman’s sequel to Little Black Sambo wherein the Black orphan Mingo lives with wicked Black Noggy who eventually gets her comeuppance. Printed on one side of page only with each page of text facing a full page color illustration by the author. Quite scarce. $500.00 RARE FIRST EDITION OF “LITTLE BLACK SAMBO” 20. BANNERMAN,HELEN. LITTLE BLACK SAMBO. London: Grant Richards 1899. 16mo (3 1/8 x 5”), green striped cloth, vi-viii, 57p., spine faded and very slightly soiled, 2 pages printed close to margin else near fine, tight and clean. THIS COPY INSCRIBED BY A BANNERMAN FAMILY MEMBER, DATED NOVEMBER 1899! First edition of this fourth title in the Dumpy Book series with color illustrations engraved on wood and printed by . Written by Bannerman during a long train ride, it was immediately successful and went into several editions within the first year of publication. Aside from creating the now controversial characters of Sambo and his parents, the book was also revolutionary for its small size designed for small hands and may very well have influenced in designing her small format books. This is a nice copy of a rare children’s classic. $12,500.00

24. BANNERMAN,HELEN. THE STORY OF LITTLE BLACK QUIBBA. NY: Stokes Sept. 1903. 16mo, cloth backed pictorial boards, 142p., edges rubbed and light finger soil else clean, tight, VG. 1st U.S. edition of the third “Little Black” book by Bannerman, printed on one side of page and with a full page color illustration facing each page of text. $850.00

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MOVEABLE SAMBO IN DUST WRAPPER 21. BANNERMAN,HELEN. LITTLE BLACK SAMBO. NY: Duenewald (1943). 8vo, spiral backed pictorial boards, slight wear else near fine in chipped and slightly worn dust wrapper. A MOVEABLE SAMBO illustrated in color by JULIAN WEHR and featuring 6 really terrific moveable plates done in color. Nice copy, hard to find in the dw. $600.00 (SEE ILLUS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT ------>>>>>>> Marc Younger Pg 7 [email protected] 1ST ISSUE OF RARE BAUM FANTASY 29. BAUM,L.FRANK. A NEW WONDERLAND. NY: R.H. Russell 1900. 4to, cl. backed pictorial boards, x, 190p., frontis present as a high quality color facsimile 25. BANNERMAN,HELEN. STORY OF (frontis is frequently lacking in this title), water stain on lower quadrant of book LITTLE WHITE SQUIBBA. Lond.: Chatto running through the book - which varies is visibility. Affected areas of pages sl. wavy, else a tight presentable copy. 1st ed., in the first state binding with & Windus (1966). 16mo, pict. boards, 64p., pictorial endpapers. This is actually the FIRST CHILDREN’S BOOK WRITTEN fine in dw. 1st ed. Written and illustrated BY BAUM (although Mother Goose In Prose reached publication before A New Wonderland, this was written earlier and delayed in publication). This is a by Bannerman but never before published, marvelous fantasy taking place in Phunnyland inhabited by Princes Zingle and this is another in the series of little books Fiddlecumdoo, Timtom and the Princesses Truella and Pattycake. Illustrated by FRANK VER BECK with pictorial endpapers, 16 2-color plates including title, to accompany Little Black Sambo. Illus. plus numerous black and whites. This title, which was an obvious attempt to in color. $200.00 cash in on the popularity of Alice In Wonderland, was drastically reworked and later published as The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo. A notoriously rare Baum fantasy. $3000.00

MINT 1ST PRINTING IN DUST WRAPPER 26. (BAUM,L.FRANK). GIANT HORSE OF OZ by Ruth Plumly Thomson. Chic: Reilly & Lee (1928). 8vo, rust cloth, pict. paste-on, MINT in dust wrapper (dw very sl. worn, price clipped but near fine). 1st ed., 1st issue, (H/G XXII), earliest copy with the “r” in “morning” p. 116 line 1 not damaged. Illustrated with 12 color plates by J. R.NEILL. This is an outstanding copy of the 22nd Oz title, rare in this condition with the wrapper. $4000.00

TWINKLE TALE IN DUST WRAPPER 30. [BAUM,L.FRANK]. PRAIRIE-DOG TOWN by Laura Bancroft. Chicago: Reilly & Britton (1906). 8vo, pictorial cloth, 61p., FINE IN DUST WRAPPER (dw lightly soiled and chipped but VG). 1st edition of this title in the Twinkle FINE IN DUST WRAPPER Tale Series. This is a wonderful fantasy written by Baum under his Bancroft 27. (BAUM,L.FRANK) JACK PUMPKINHEAD OF OZ by Ruth Plumly Thompson. pseudonym and illustrated with 14 full page color illustrations plus color pictorial Chicago: Reilly & Lee (1929). 4to, green cloth, pict. paste-on, 252p. + 2 p. ads, title page and line illustrations by MAGINEL WRIGHT ENRIGHT. A very scarce FINE+ in dust wrapper (dw with a few tiny closed tears else fine, ads through this title, rare in the dust wrapper. $1750.00 title). 1st edition. (HG XXIII) illustrated by J.R. NEILL with pictorial endpapers and 12 color plates. A magnificent copy, rarely found co clean in a nicedw . $2000.00

28. BAUM,L.FRANK. THE NAVY ALPHABET. Chicago: 31. [BAUM,L.FRANK]. TAMAWACA Geo. Hill 1900. Folio, cloth FOLKS by John Estes Cooke. [Macatawa, backed pictorial boards. Slight Michicagan]: Tamawaca Press (1907). cover soil, edges rubbed a bit as 8vo, green cloth stamped in blue and usual, corner of blank endpaper white, 185p., FINE. 1st ed. “The title is repaired else a VG+, nice clean an anagram for Macatawa, the resort on copy. 1st and only edition. Lake Michigan where Baum wrote many of Printed on rectos only, each his books and serves as the setting for leaf has hand-lettered text this satire. Baum himself makes a brief below which appear wonderful, appearance in this ‘summer comedy’ as Mr. rich full color illustrations by Wright. The book may have been published HARRY KENNEDY - all with by Baum himself, and it was certainly a navy theme. Very scarce, available only at Macatawa and among the especially in such nice condition. small community there” (Swann/Greene $2750.00 165). Quite scarce and a beautiful copy . $2500.00

914.764.7410 Pg 8 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 118 #32 RARE BAUM BOOK #32 32. BAUM,L.FRANK. THE WOGGLE-BUG BOOK. Chicago: Reilly & Britton 1905. Folio, (11x15”). Green cloth spine, stiff pictorial card covers with yellow stippled background and the title in yellow on rear cover, [48]p. Covers soiled with a small portion of front bottom corner restored, corner of title a little frayed, else internally VG clean, overall VG. 1st ed. secondary binding (Bibliographia Oziana 1988 ed. p.78). According to the Schiller catalogue (#138) this was most likely “issued to increase interest in Reilly & Britton’s major publication of the previous season, the Marvelous Land of Oz and possibly also to promote the forthcoming musical comedy, The Woggle Bug. Featuring the most fanciful and fabulous full page and smaller color illustrations by IKE MORGAN to accompany a tale that continues the story line begun in a newspaper series entitled Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land Of Oz. A large, fragile book and consequently few intact copies have survived. (SEE ILLUS TOP NEXT COLUMN) $3000.00

FINE FIRST EDITION OF THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ 33. BAUM,L.FRANK. THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ. Chicago: George M. Hill 1900. Large 8vo, pale green cloth stamped in and green, 261p., slight wear to spine ends and some rubbing to hinge paper else FINE - clean and tight, housed in a custom quarter morocco and marbled paper case. 1st edition. ALL POINTS OF FIRST STATE except for one. There is a box around ads on page 2 (1st state), 1st line on page 14 reads “low wail on” (1st state), p.81 fourth line from 35. BEARS. SING SANG SUNG AND WILLIE bottom spells “peices” incorrectly (1st state) p.[227] 1st line reads “While Tin Woodman” (1st state), colophon in 11 lines with box (1st state), verso title page by Peggy Gulick. NY:Knopf (1947). 4to, bds, copyright is rubber stamped (state 1), perfect type on pages 100, 186 (1st state), color plates corrected on page 34 & 92 (second state). Binding state “c” with minimal wear, VG in frayed dw. Stated 1st publishers imprint in red serifed type with the “o” of “Co.” inside the “C”. Hanff/ ed. The story of 3 lonely little panda bears Greene I.1-2 binding state C, Peter Parley To Penrod p. 111-113. Illustrated with 24 wonderful color plates and other text illustrations by W.W. Denslow. This is the in Tibet and how their problem is solved. ROLAND BAUGHMAN COPY with his signature on corner of last leaf. Baughman Marvelous full color illus. on every page by was a noted Baum collector and scholar, Head of Special Collections at Columbia University from 1946 until his death in 1967. His Baum collection was exhibited ELIZABETH DRESSER. A charming picture in 1956 at Columbia and he co-edited the accompanying exhibition catalogue with book. $75.00 Joan Baum. This is a wonderful copy of an iconic children’s book. $27,500.00

BILIBIN AND PERE CASTOR 36. (BILIBIN,IVAN)illus. CONTE DU POISSON D’OR. Paris: Flammarion (1933). 4to (9 1/2 x 11”), flexible pictorial card covers, slight soil and rubbing, VG++. This is a Russian fairy tale retold in French by PERE CASTOR’S Rose Celli. Featuring 8 full page, rich color illustrations, 8 partial page black and whites and color pictorial covers - a beautiful book. (Ivan Bilibin p.203). Scarce. $750.00 #36

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BEAUTIFUL BEAR BOOK 34. BEARS. BROWN THE BEAR by Samivel. NY & Lond: Warne & Murray nd ca 1940. Folio, cl. backed pict. bds, light wear, VG-Fine. Translated from the original French, this is the story of the life and adventures of a mischievous bear, with marvelous color illustrations on every page as well as with beautiful full page color illustrations that are vaguely reminiscent of De Brunhoff but really have a style all their own. $250.00 (SEE ILLUS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT ------>>>>>>> Marc Younger Pg 9 [email protected] 37. (BILIBIN,IVAN)illus. [THE FROG PRINCESS - TZARIYEVNA LYAGUSHKA]. JOSEPHINE BAKER’S CHILDREN’S BOOK INSCRIBED St. Petersburg 1902. Folio, color pict. wraps, some cover soil else VG+. 1st ed. 40. BLACK INTEREST. (BAKER,JOSEPHINE) LA TRIBU ARC-EN-CIEL Illustrated by Bilibin with 8 striking, richly colored illustrations plus a tailpiece, by Baker in collaboration plus brown and white illus. Scarce and lovely. See Golynets plate 2. $900.00 with her husband Jo Bouillon. (Mulder & Zoon / Netherlands 1957 Opera #35 Mundi Paris). 4to, pict. cloth, ink scribbling on 2 pages else VG. A children’s book written by the famous ex-patriate Black singer Baker featuring her “rainbow” of children from all races. Wonderfully illustrated in color by PIET WORM. This copy is INSCRIBED BY BAKER and TIPPED IN IS A PHOTO OF BAKER SIGNED BY HER. Rare. $1600.00

41. BLACK INTEREST. (BLUMBERG,FANNIE) ROWENA TEENA TOT AND THE RUNAWAY TURKEY by Fannie Blumberg. ONE OF BILIBIN’S MOST BEAUTIFUL BOOKS Chic:Whitman 1936 (1936). 38. (BILIBIN,IVAN)illus. SKAZKA O YSARYE SULTANYE [THE TALE OF 4to, cloth, 32p., some cover TSAR SULTAN AND HIS soil, VG+. 1st ed. Rowena, SON PRINCE GVIDON AND Teena and Tot are three THE SWAN PRINCESS] little “colored” girls from by Alexander Pushkin. St. Indiana who visit their Petersburg 1905. Oblong grandmother down South for folio, pictorial wraps, Thanksgiving. Absolutely wear to fragile spine else charming color illustrations near Fine. 1st edition. A throughout by MARY GROSJEAN. $225.00 magnificent work illustrated with rich chromolithographed illustrations plus blue text illustrations. This book “gave GOLLIWOGG AND BEAR - A.E. KENNEDY more scope to the flow of 42. BLACK INTEREST. (GOLLIWOGG) THE TEDDY BEAR BOOK by Constance his imagination becoming a Wickham. London: Collins, no date, circa 1938. 4to (9 x 11 3/4”), green gilt consummate expression of cloth, some foxing else VG+ in VG dust wrapper reinforced on verso. The text follows the daily life and adventures of Teddy, his friend Golly a Golliwogg doll his love for the art of the and other friends. Featuring 16 fabulous full page color illustrations by A.E. 17th century Russia” (p.10 Kennedy and with black and whites on every page of text and pictorial endpapers. Ivan Bilibin by Golynets, Nice copy of the first title in this series, rare in this condition. $300.00 also repros #20-28). Nice copy. Very scarce and exceptionally beautiful. $1250.00

39. (BILIBIN,IVAN)illus. [THE TALE OF TSAREVICH IVAN, THE FIRE BIRD AND GREY WOLF]. Moscow:1901. Folio, pict. wraps, some soil, 2 closed tears not affecting illus on front cover, overall VG+. Illus. by Bilibin with cover design plus 3 full page and 5 smaller magnificent chromolithographs. The first volume in Bilibin’s large picture book series. See Golynets plate 1 for a reproduction. $800.00 #39

43. BLACK INTEREST. (HOGAN,INEZ) NICODEMUS AND HOUN’DOG by Inez Hogan. NY: Dutton (1933). 8vo, pictorial boards, name inked out on endpaper else fine in frayed dust wrapper. Stated 1st printing. Nicodemus and his sister find a dog and have adventures. Illustrated with color lithos by Hogan and featuring some Black dialect throughout. This is the second Nicodemus title. Very scarce. $400.00 914.764.7410 Pg 10 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 118 44. BLACK INTEREST) (HUGHES,LANGSTON) BLACK MISERY. NY: Paul 48. BLACK INTEREST. THE SLAVE DANCER by Paula Fox Scarsdale:Bradbury Eriksson (1969). Obl. sm. 8vo, cloth, Fine in price clipped dw. Stated 1st edition. Press (1973). 8vo, cloth, Fine in dw. Stated 1st printing. With b&w illus. by EROS Hughes’ last book, illus. by Arouni. $125.00 KEITH, winner of the NEWBERY AWARD. $250.00

JACOB LAWRENCE ILLUSTRATIONS - SIGNED BY HIM 45. BLACK INTEREST. (LAWRENCE,JACOB) HARRIET AND THE PROMISED LAND. NY: S & S (1968). 4to (9 1/4 x 12 1/4”), cloth, fine in VG+ dust wrapper with fading on backstrip and 1 closed edge tear. Stated 1st printing. Noted Black artist Lawrence did the artwork for this masterpiece and BLATANT LITTLE BLACK SAMBO IMITATION the text was added to fit. The illustrations 49. BLACK INTEREST. THE STORY OF A LITTLE COLORED COON by Conrad are bold and bright and angular. Bader Hall. London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date, circa 1910. 16mo (4 x 5”), red decorated says it is “harsh and loving, rigorous, bold, cloth, 125p. (this includes pictorial ads), tiny fade spot else Fine and bright exultant: a frenzied affirmation” (p. 382, with no wear at all. The story tells how Ebenezer, a little Black boy nicknamed illus. p. 381). THIS COPY IS INSCRIBED Snowball, saves his sister nicknamed Snowflake from the wicked Condor. It also features the mother, the father and Mrs. Condor. Printed on one side of the BY LAWRENCE - HIS FIRST BOOK FOR paper in the format of the Dumpy books, each page of text faces a full page color CHILDREN! N.Y. Times Best Illustrated illustration by REGINALD RIGBY AND JOHN MYRTLE directly copying the style Book. $875.00 and format of Bannerman’s Little Black Sambo. This is a title in the Little One’s Library series. Rarely found in such beautiful clean condition. $1200.00

50. BLACK INTEREST. (TAYLOR,MILDRED) ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY 46. BLACK INTEREST. (McLOUGHLIN PUB). SIMPLE ADDITION BY A CRY by Mildred Taylor. NY: Dial (1976). 8vo, cloth, 276p., Fine in sl. worn dw LITTLE NIGGER. NY: McLoughlin nd circa 1870. 4to, pict. wraps, later cloth with award seal. Stated 1st ed. A novel set in Mississippi at the height of the spine, several edge tears and fraying, Good. A rare McLouglin publication in the depression by Black author Taylor. Illus. by with frontis and color Uncle John’s Drolleries series. A variation on the Ten Little Niggers, illus. in dw. Newbery Award Winner. $200.00 color with 8 full page chromolithographs. “One little nigger feeling rather blue, whistled out another nig and that made two” and so on. $1200.00 #51

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UNUSUAL EDITION 51. BLACK INTEREST. (TEN LITTLE STRIKING SAMBO PICTURE BOOK NIGGERS) DIE KLEINE NEGERLEIN. #52 47. BLACK INTEREST. SAMBO AND SUSANNA by May Byron. London: Blackie, Reichenberg: Edmund Ullmann ca 1930. no date, circa 1905. Oblong Oblong 8vo (9 1/4 x 6”), pictorial card covers, 4to (11 x 7 1/2”), cloth slight spine wear else near fine. Charming 3 backed pictorial boards, color illustrations on every page by Grete covers rubbed some else Scheufler show the little boys doing things VG+. Printed on frenchfold not normally found in this rhyme i.e. sitting on paper, each page of text a beer keg and drinking, in Turkey in front of a faces a marvelous full page palace. $450.00 color illustration by ETHEL PARKINSON. The story TEN LITTLE NIGGER RAG BOOK is about stereotypically 52. BLACK INTEREST. TEN LITTLE portrayed Black children NIGGERS. Lond: Dean ca 1904. 8vo, who run away because their printed on cloth, some creasing, soil and parents are so mean. Quite discoloration, VG. Illustrated by R.J[AMES] scarce and a great picture WILLIAMS with great color illustrations on book. $650.00 every page to accompany this famous rhyme (music included). #82 Dean Rag Book. Very scarce. $650.00 Marc Younger Pg 11 [email protected]

53. BLACK INTEREST. WHEN MALINDY SINGS by Paul Laurence Dunbar. NY:Dodd EXCEEDINGLY RARE Mead 1903 (1903). 8vo, brown gilt dec. cloth, FANTASY 57. BRADLEY,LUTHER 144p., teg, FINE. 1st ed. (BAL 4948). Another DANIELS. WONDERFUL of Dunbar’s books of verses written in Black WILLIE! WHAT HE AND TOMMY DID TO SPAIN. dialect and illustrated with photos of [NY]:E.P. Dutton 1899. Obl. taken by the Hampton Institute Camera 4to, cloth backed pict. boards, Club. Also features a beautiful decorative (12x9”), edges rubbed, professionally rebacked with binding and page decorations by MARGARET new rear free endpaper, few ARMSTRONG. A particularly beautiful minor margin mends else clean, tight and overall VG+. copy of an altogether lovely and fascinating book. $225.00 Created by Bradley for his nephew who was interested MINT COPY IN BOX in the Spanish American 54. (BOUTET DE MONVEL,M.)illus. BROTHER OF THE BIRDS: a little War, this is the fantasy tale of how two little boys bring history of Saint Francis peace to Cuba with the aid of of Assisi by Louisa Meigs a giraffe and an orangutan. Green. Philadelphia: McKay (1929). 4to (9 1/4 x 11 1/4”), With hand-lettered text, purple cloth, nearly AS NEW the focus of the book is on the spectacular full page IN DUST WRAPPER AND chromolithographs, several of PUBLISHER’S BOX (box which are double-page spreads. slightly rubbed). Illustrated Helen Borgens, is her essay on by de Monvel with 21 tipped Bradley in Image and Maker in gravure-like plates that (1984) calls this a “visionary are truly wonderful. This book...that reflects Bradley’s serious interest in the is an amazing copy of a potential of children to make scarce Boutet de Monvel the world a better place than title. $400.00 they found it.” Bradley was an American cartoonist for the 55. (BOYLE,E.V.)illus. FAIRY TALES by Hans Christian Andersen trans. Chicago Daily News and this is by H.L.Ward and Augusta Plesner. NY:Scribner & Welford, circa 1875. 4to, one of the scarcest American cloth backed blue pict. boards, some wear, VG. Early if not 1st U.S. edition, children’s fantasy-picture with 10 majestic chromolithographed plates done by Emrik and Binger. This books. $750.00 edition omits the Fellow Travellers tale and thus has 2 fewer plates than the 1st Sampson & Low edition. However the remaining 10 plates compare quite favorably and are striking in their color and composition. Scarce. $300.00

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RARE MARGARET WISE BROWN / CLEMENT HURD TITLE 58. BROWN,MARGARET WISE. BUMBLE BUGS AND ELEPHANTS. NY:Wm. R. Scott 1938. Sq. 4to, spiral backed bds, some cover soil and edge rubbing, VG. With text in large type at the bottom of the page, the rest of each page is boldly and broadly illus. in full color by CLEMENT HURD with the effect of appearing hand-colored. So simple, yet so effective. Includes the publisher’s typed promo describing the point of the book and listing other similar titles. Extremely scarce. Bader RARE AMERICAN FANTASY p.216. $500.00 56. BRADLEY,LUTHER DANIELS. OUR INDIANS: A MIDNIGHT VISIT TO THE GREAT SOMEWHERE-OR-OTHER. [NY]:Dutton 1899. Oblong large 4to, cl. backed pictorial boards, edges lightly rubbed light wear to front endpaper else a near fine, tight clean copy of this rare book. With text written in verse, the story is a dream fantasy trip taken by a little girl and boy (the girl based on Bradley’s niece). They slip out at night in a flying canoe guided by an Indian who takes them to a quiet land of peace and harmony. Featuring striking full page chromolithographs (16 full page and 5 double page) - the #56 artwork by Bradley as well. Luther Daniels Bradley, educated at Yale, was an editorial cartoonist for the Chicago Daily News. In Image and Maker p.26-36 Helen Borgens notes : “Our Indians is a personal dream vision... Bradley depicted the Indians as expressing the qualities inherent in all human beings...” yet he juxtaposed this realism with absurd images of Indians serving tea in china cups or performing a vaudeville act with band instruments to celebrate a victory. It is the combination of real and surreal that gives this book its unique quality. About the artwork, Borgens says that “the symmetry of individual illustrations reinforces the symmetry of the entire book.” Altogether a wonderful book, quite rare and when found it is usually in terrible condition. $1200.00 (SEE ILLUS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT ------>>>>>>> 914.764.7410 Pg 12 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 118 JEAN CHARLOT RARE BURTON CLASSIC CALDECOTT HONOR 62. BURTON,VIRGINIA LEE. KATY AND THE BIG SNOW. Boston: Houghton 59. BROWN,MARGARET WISE. A CHILD’S Mifflin 1943 (1943). Oblong 4to (10 x 9”), pictorial cloth, slight darkening along GOOD NIGHT BOOK. NY:Scott 1943, 1950. edges else a bright and near Fine copy in dust wrapper with price intact (dw has 4to, pict. bds, FINE in dw. 1st ed. thus, of some soil, flaking at folds, several closed edge tears but really VG). 1st edition, 1st this CALDECOTT HONOR title and a modern printing. This fabulous picture book tells how Katy, a giant snow-plow, saves the classic, magnificently illus. with color lithos city of Geoppolis during a blizzard. The type and color illustrations are artfully by JEAN CHARLOT. First published in arranged on every page. First printings in dust wrapper are rare. $3000.00 small format in 1944, this was re-issued in 1950 with new illustrations by Charlot and in enlarged format in response to library resistance to the small size of the first edition. Bader p.269-70. An amazing copy. $600.00

RARE MARGARET WISE BROWN PSEUDONYM INSCRIBED BY ILLUS. 60. [BROWN,MARGARET WISE]. THE MAN IN THE MANHOLE AND THE FIX-IT MEN by Juniper Sage. NY: William R. Scott 1946. 4to (8 x 9 3/4”), pictorial boards, corners worn and slight chipping to spine paper, overall VG. 1st edition of this rare Brown book using her pseudonym of Juniper Sage, written with Edith Hurd. One of Scott’s creative education books, this shows what “fix- it men” do underneath the streets and in the air. Marvelously illustrated by Bill Ballantine in color, this copy is also INSCRIBED BY BALLANTINE! Apart from being an illustrator, Ballantine’s fascination with the circus led him to becoming a professional clown along with Emmett Kelley for Ringling Brother’s Barnum and Bailey Circus. See Bader p.391 who calls this “a lark with a firm superstructure in fact.” Rare. $1850.00

FANTASTIC COPY OF ONE OF THE RAREST CALDECOTT AWARD WINNERS 63. BURTON,VIRGINIA LEE. THE LITTLE HOUSE. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1942 (1942). 4to (9 3/4 x 9”), pictorial cloth, Slight soil on top edge of cover else a clean, Fine copy in a fabulous dust wrapper (some practically undetectable small bits of restoration of dw). 1st edition (1st printing) of one of the rarest CALDECOTT AWARD WINNERS. and a children’s classic. The story relates the conflict between an ever changing city life and tranquil country life, beautifully illustrated with color lithographs by Burton. See Bader p.201-2. Nice copies like this are very hard to find. $11,500.00

61. BROWN,PALMER. CHEERFUL. NY: Harper Brothers. (1957). 12mo (4 1/4 x 6”), cloth, Fine in dust wrapper frayed at top of backstrip else near Fine. 1st edition of the third of only 4 books by Brown - this is a fairy tale starring a city mouse named Cheerful. Illustrated with exquisite full page color illustrations and equally as lovely black and white drawings of the utmost delicacy and refinement. See Bader p. 492-3, AIGA best book 1955-57 p.23. $150.00

#61 Marc Younger Pg 13 [email protected] MODERN RARITY 64. BURTON,VIRGINIA LEE. MIKE MULLIGAN AND HIS STEAM SHOVEL. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1939 (1939). Oblong (9 1/2 x 8 1/2”), pictorial cloth, FINE condition in a dust wrapper that is NOT price clipped (dw has shelf soil, narrow 67. CARROLL,LEWIS. ALICE IN 1/2” wide chip off upper right corner, spine ends slightly frayed else VG+). First WONDERLAND. NY:Clarkson Potter edition, first printing of this classic, illustrated with rich colors by the author to accompany the wonderful story of an Irish steam shovel operator and his beloved (1973). Folio, cloth, 108p., Fine in dw. steam shovel Mary Anne. Burton, along with Sendak and McCloskey is among the handful of author/illustrators of picture books whose talents were equally Stated 1st American ed. with imaginative accomplished in both aspects of creating a successful children’s book. Bader (p.199-201) says that “Burton knew exactly what she wanted in a picture book, an unique illustrations by RALPH hers or another’s, and she wanted a good deal - information and significant detail STEADMAN. Despite its relatively late as well as the accustomed clarity, humor and imagination. The wonder is that she achieved what she wanted without losing the spontaneity...” The result is that pub. date, 1sts of this edition are hard her books were read to tatters so very few collectible first editions of this title exist. This is a nice copy in the rare non-price clipped dust wrapper. $8000.00 to find. $200.00

FIRST ITALIAN EDITION OF ALICE 68. CARROLL,LEWIS. (ITALIAN) LE AVVENTURE D’ALICE NEL PAESE DELLE MERAVIGLIE. Londra: Macmillan 1872. 8vo, red cloth, top edge gilt, near fine. 1st edition. “Another form of the first issue, the covers lack the gold lines around the border.” (WMGC 85 theorize that 1st issue sheets were bound at a later time without the gold rule). Translated by T. Pietrocola - Rossetti and illustrated in black & white by Tenniel. In this edition the tickets on the Mad Hatter’s Hat and the “Drink me” labels have been translated into Italian (not done on the French or German editions). A beautiful copy. $2500.00

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FABULOUS ART FROM RAGGEDY ANIMAL BOOK 65. CADY,HARRISON. ORIGINAL ART: SEAL SWIMMING FROM RAGGEDY ANIMAL BOOK. Offered here is an original finished pen and ink drawing signed by Cady used in the Raggedy Animal Book published by Rand McNally in 1928. The image is much larger than it appears in the book, done on artist board mounted in an acid free matte. Full of much charm and detail, the image depicts the Red Cross Seal and Traffic Carp swimming in the ocean (appears as a half- page illustration on p.35 in the book, colored during printing). Image measures 11” wide x 5 3/4” on board 15x10”. $1500.00

RARE HIGH SPOT 66. CARLE,ERIC. THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR. NY & Cleveland: World Publishing Company (1970 1-5 code). Oblong 4to (11 7/8 x 8 1/2”), pictorial boards, fine in fine dust wrapper (price clipped). 1st edition, first printing of this now classic picture book with die cut pages showing what the caterpillar ate on successive days. Illustrated in Carle’s distinctive and bold style. First editions in such nice condition are rare. See AIGA 1970 best books #78. $17,500.00 (SEE ILLUS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT ------>>>>>>> 914.764.7410 Pg 14 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 118 MARIE LAURENCIN’S BLACK SUN PRESS “ALICE” POGANY ORIGINAL ART FROM POGANY’S “ALICE” JAPANESE VELLUM 71. CARROLL,LEWIS. (POGANY) ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND 69. CARROLL,LEWIS. (LAURENCIN) ALICE IN WONDERLAND. Paris: Black ORIGINAL ART: Page 130 captioned “The moment Alice Appeared She Was Sun Press 1930. Oblong 4to, white wraps, 114p., VERY FINE IN ORIGINAL Appealed to by all Three to Settle the Question”. Offered here is Willy GLASSENE, CHEMISE AND SLIPCASE (case scuffed with some minor Pogany’s drawing that appears on page 130 of his edition of Alice published by wear and soil). LIMITED TO ONLY 370 COPIES FOR EUROPE, this is one Dutton in 1929. The book is illustrated in black and white and Pogany’s Alice of the 50 copies PRINTED ON JAPANESE VELLUM. Illustrated by MARIE is a decidedly Art Deco girl with a flapper hairdo and short skirt! The image LAURENCIN with 6 magnificent color plates. Quite scarce and a beautiful copy shows Alice talking to the King and Queen of Hearts with 4 other card figures of a most desired book. $5000.00 standing near and the Cat in the upper corner. The image measures oblong 7 1/4” wide by 4 3/4” high on flexible board that is overall 11 x 11 1/2” and is attractively matted, signed with initials. The image in the book is greatly reduced from the original measuring 3 3/4” wide x 2 1/2” high. A great item for the Alice collector, full of charm and detail. $3950.00

1ST ED. INSCRIBED BY CARROLL TO ARTHUR PENRHYN STANLEY INSCRIBED BY DODGSON 70. CARROLL,LEWIS. PHANTASMAGORIA AND OTHER POEMS. London: 72. CARROLL,LEWIS. SYLVIE AND BRUNO. London: Macmillan 1889. 8vo Macmillan 1869. 8vo (5 x 7”), 202p., beautifully bound by Riviere in full blue calf (5 1/2 x 7 3/8”), bound by Reviere in full blue calf with extensive tooling on the with extensive gilt tooling on spine, gilt rules on covers, gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt spine, all edges gilt, gilt turn-ins and with the original covers bound in the back. and with the original covers bound in. First edition, first issue with p.94 printed First edition, xiv, 400p. + ads, except for a few tiny marks on cover this is in correctly, in Fine condition. THIS COPY IS INSCRIBED BY DODGSON ON THE Fine, bright condition. 1st edition. (WMG 217). INSCRIBED BY DODGSON FLYLEAF: “To the Very Rev. the Dean of Westminster with the author’s kind IN PURPLE INK ON THE HALF-TITLE: “Lady Harrington with the kindest regards, Jan. 1869.” Arthur Penrhyn Stanley was a noted scholar, author and Dean regards from the Author. December 12, 1889.” (Lady Harrington was most of Westminster from 1864 until his death in 1881. Dodgson and Stanley were likely married to Charles W. Stanhope from the line of Earls of Harrington). acquaintances at Oxford and later were mutually friendly with Henry Liddell, the This is a fairy story based on characters from a story that Carroll wrote for father of Alice Liddell for whom Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was written. Aunt Judy’s magazine in 1874. Wonderfully illustrated by HARRY FURNISS Although Stanley was a controversial figure, he was close to members of the with full and partial page drawings (using his daughter Dorothy as the model for royal family and his wife was closely associated with Queen Victoria. Dodgson Sylvie). This, with Sylvie and Bruno Concluded is considered by WMG “the last photographed Stanley and that photo is now in the National Portrait Gallery (UK). considerable work issued by Dodgson.” (p.164). This is a bright and beautiful This is a beautiful copy of a solid association copy. $6500.00 copy made extra special by the inscription. $3500.00 Marc Younger Pg 15 [email protected] 73. CARROLL,LEWIS. THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS. NY: Clarkson Potter CONSTRUCTIVIST STYLE COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS (1973). Folio, cloth, 144p., Fine in dw. Stated 1st American ed. with imaginative 78. CIRCUS. LE CIRQUE texte de Jeanne Cappe. Paris: Desclee de Brouwer an unique illustrations by RALPH STEADMAN. $175.00 nd ca 1935. Sm. folio, cl. backed pict. bds, covers soiled, sl. bumping to corners, internally Fine. A stunning picture book on the cirus, featuring absolutley striking, angular, full page color illustrations by SANTA ROSA done in the style of the Russian Constructivists. There is one fabulous double page spread plus many full page illustrations. $600.00 #78

74. (CASPARI,GERTRUDE)illus. IL PLEUT, BERGERE par Marguerite Villeneuve. Paris: Emile Guerin nd ca 1910. Folio, cl. backed pict. bds, rear cover scuffed, VG+. A wonderful picture book with each page of text facing bold full page colors by Caspari in her distinctive style. Quite scarce. $250.00 CLARKE’S ANDERSEN 79. (CLARKE,HARRY)illus. FAIRY TALES BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN. FINE GERMAN COLOR NY: Brentanos, (printed at Complete Press in ), no date [1916]. Tall thick PRINTING 4to, grey cloth with black and white oval paste-on surrounded by intricate cloth 75. CHRISTMAS. FROHLICHE decoration in black, top edge gilt, 320p., spine slightly sunned else Fine. 1st WEIHNACHTEN! [by] Fritz American edition of Clarke’s first illustrated book (identical to British edition Baumgarten. Leipzig: A. Anson except for substitution of Brentano’s name on title). It is lavishly illustrated ca 1925. Obl. 4to, cl. backed with 16 color plates mounted on heavy stock, with lettered tissue guards, 24 full pict. bds, VG+. A Christmas page black and white plates plus many decorative tailpieces. The illustrations are picture book with Father magnificent. An increasingly scarce book. $2950.00 Christmas, elves, little children and presents galore. Featuring 8 full page color illustrations and 8 full page illus. in blue line - each with 2 lines of text below. $250.00

1837 NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS 76. CHRISTMAS. (MOORE,CLEMENT) THE NEW-YORK BOOK OF POETRY [THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS]. NY: George Dearborn 1837. Tall 8vo, pinkish-brown cloth blind stamped and stamped in gold with gilt vase on covers, 253p., cloth on spine ends chipped off (1/2” on top and 1/4” on bottom), foxing, front outer joint rubbed, altogether tight and VG. 1st edition, state A (NEW- YORK BOOK in sans-serif type face). This is the FIRST APPEARANCE IN ART DECO PINOCCHIO SEQUEL IN SPANISH BOOK FORM AND THE FIRST TIME 80. (COLLODI,CARLO). PINOCHO EMPERADOR. Madrid:Saturnino Calleja (1935). MOORE’S NAME APPEARS AS THE 4to, pict. wraps, Fine. A sequel to Pinocchio wherein he is captured by a tribe of AUTHOR (previous appearances in Black natives and during his escape, he impresses them so much that they name him the Troy Sentinel and in almanacs had as their leader. Illus. with bright Art Deco illus. by an unnamed artist. $150.00 been anonymous). The poem appears on pages 217-219. This anthology also includes 3 other poems by Moore: #77 #80 From a Father to his Children... (p.215-16); From a Husband to His Wife (p.221-24); and To a Lady (p.211- 13). See (BAL 14347), Marshall 15. $2000.00

MINT IN 19th CENTURY DUST WRAPPER / NESBIT POEMS 77. CHRISTMAS. (NESBIT,E.) CHRISTMAS DREAMS by E. Nesbit and others. Lond. & NY: W. Hagelberg circa 1890. 12mo (5” wide x 6 1/2), stiff pictorial wraps, AS NEW IN PICTORIAL DUST WRAPPER! (few repairs on dw). A book of Christmas poems, 4 of which are by E. Nesbit. Beautifully illustrated with chromolithographs on every page. A spectacular copy in the rare 19th century pictorial dust wrapper that features Santa. Rare. $1200.00 (SEE ILLUS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT ------>>>>>>> 914.764.7410 Pg 16 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 118 FIRST EDITION OF PINOCCHIO shows the man at his dining room table full of food with a cat in the foreground. IN ENGLISH The second piece has an image size of 6 1/2 x 5 1/4 on board 7 x 10 1/4”. Penciled in the margin is “P.24 o p. 25”. There is some crackling to the paper and old paper BRADLEY MARTIN COPY backing on the back. Depicted is the old man next to his empty dish cupboard, 81. COLLODI,C.[ARLO]. STORY OF A PUPPET, OR THE ADVENTURES OF surrounded by stacks and stacks of unwashed dishes, pots and pans. The story PINOCCHIO. NY: Cassell is about a man who was too lazy to wash his dishes and who eventually ran out of 1892. 12mo, decorative cloth eating implements; he then resorted to using the soap dish, ashtrays and flower with design repeated on pots! He solves his problem and vows to never again put off washing the dishes. edges, 232p., cloth age toned These are 2 great images from the book, both with much detail. Early Cooney as usual, name erased from and Krasilovsky’s first book. Sold with a clean ex-lib copy of the book. $1000.00 endpaper, tiny stain on edge of title, small inner hinge mend else really a VG+ copy in marbled slip case, the Bradley Martin copy with Mildred Greenhill’s bookplate. 1st edition of Pinocchio in English, simultaneous with the British edition and bound in the U.S. from British sheets. A title in the Children’s Library. The story first appeared serially in a children’s magazine in Italy from July 7, 1881 to January 1883 and first published in book form in Italy in 1883. Charmingly illustrated by C. Mazzanti, the illustrator of the Italian 1883 edition. This Cassell imprint is hard to find. $9500.00

84. COX,PALMER. THE BROWNIES AROUND THE WORLD. NY: Century FABULOUS WATERCOLOR BY CONOVER Co.,(1894). 4to (8 1/2 x 10 1/4”), glazed pictorial boards, xi, 144p., very slight rubbing else near Fine in dust wrapper (dw frayed on edges and folds but VG). 1st edition FROGGIE WENT A-COURTING of the 4th book wherein these little imps travel to Japan, Turkey, Arabia, 82. CONOVER,CHRIS. ORIGINAL ART: FROGGIE WENT A-COURTING Russia and all over the world. This is a particularly nice copy. $1250.00 [WALKING TO THE WEDDING p.[11-12]]. Offered here is a double page watercolor used in Conover’s Froggie Went A-Courting published by Ferrar Strauss Giroux in 1986. It is the story of a handsome humanized, seafaring frog’s wooing of Miss Mousie. An entire world of humanized creatures is created around this traditional song with text retold by Conover. Reviewed by School Library Journal as a ‘tour de force.’. This illustration measures 15 1/2” wide x 9 1/2”, signed. The scene shows all of the wedding party and the guests in all their finery, walking to the wedding chapel. There are 4 boxes that are blank where the text would be inserted. Its a great image. $1850.00

Conover has been illustrating children’s books since 1974. Her work is noted for rich colors and incredible attention to detail, some of which is executed using a magnifying glass for accuracy. There is plenty to look at but without the overcrowding that hampers so many modern children’s books.

FIRST STATE OF FIRST BROWNIE BOOK IN DUST WRAPPER 85. COX,PALMER. THE BROWNIES: THEIR BOOK. NY: Century Co. (1887). 4to (8 1/2 x 10 1/4”), glazed pictorial boards, light inoffensive margin stain to last third of the book, small chip to head of spine, occasional soil else a lovely copy in the pictorial DUST WRAPPER. First edition of the first title in the Brownie series, first state with the DeVinne device directly below the date on the title page. Illustrated on every page showing the busy little Brownie men getting into mischief. First states with the dust wrapper are rare. Peter Parley To Penrod p. 84. $2500.00

2 EARLY COONEY ORIGINAL WATERCOLORS 83. (COONEY,BARBARA)illus. TWO WATER COLORS FROM “THE MAN WHO DIDN’T WASH HIS DISHES” by Phyllis Krasilovsky. (pub. by Doub. in 1950). Offered here are 2 charming watercolors used in Krasilovsky’s first book, purchased from Krasilovsky with her provenance on a slip of paper. The first image measures 5 1/2 x 8” on board 8 x 11 1/2”. A blank corner is restored, there is some crackling to the paper and old paper backing on the back. The image Marc Younger Pg 17 [email protected] BRILLIANT FOLK-PEASANT ILLUSTRATIONS 91. DARWIN,BERNARD & ELINOR. TALE OF MR. TOOTLEOO. 86. CZECHOSLOVAK. COCK AND THE HEN translated and published by R.D. London:Nonesuch nd (1925) oblong 4to, pictorial boards, Fine in partial Szalatnay. NY:1925. Oblong 4to, cloth backed boards, AS NEW IN ORIGINAL dustwrapper. First edition of this now classic children’s nonsense book written WORN GLASSENE. Illustrated by RUDOLF MATES with pictorial endpapers by the grandson of Charles Darwin. Illustrated with 22 bold, rich full page color and many vivid and beautiful full page color illustrations that almost appear to lithographs. (See Realms of Gold p. 147) $150.00 be hand-colored plus pictorial color border on text pages. Mahoney et al p. 136 #91 remark that “Mates’s picture books ...are lively and vivid, full of folk humor.” A companion to Mates’s other 2 titles The Magic Flute and The Forest Story and really a beautiful book. $250.00 #87

92. DARWIN,BERNARD & ELINOR. TOOTLEOO TWO. London:Nonesuch Press. No date, circa 1927. Oblong 4to, pictorial boards, near FINE. First edition. A nonsense story in verse, sequel to Mr. Tootleoo and beautifully illustrated with 20 rich and wonderful full page color illustrations (printed on rectos only) Nice copy of this title. $150.00 #92

FOLK-PEASANT ILLUSTRATIONS 87. CZECHOSLOVAK. FOLK SONGS OF BOHEMIA translated by Raf. Szalatnay. Printed in Prague by Koppe-Bellman. Pub. in NY by Raf. Szalatnay in 1925. Oblong 4to, cloth backed pict. boards, edges of boards sl. browned else near Fine in worn original glassene wrapper. A companion to Rudolf Mates beautiful picture books, this is illustrated with pictorial endpapers and many beautiful full page color illustrations by MARIE FISCHEROVA - KVECHOVA to accompany traditional folk songs arranged by Dorothy Cooper. The illustrations are in the folk-peasant style of Mates and are quite lovely. (See Mahoney et al. p.136). $200.00

88. CZECHOSLOVAK. A FOREST STORY by Joseph Kozisek. NY:Macmillan 1929. 4to, cloth backed decorative boards, edges rubbed some else tight VG+. First English edition. A magnificent book, illustrated by RUDOLF MATES with CALDECOTT AWARD WINNER vibrant full page color illustrations that almost appear to be hand-colored. (See 93. D’AULAIRE,INGRI & EDGAR. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. NY: Doubleday Five Years of Children’s Books p.80 and others by Mates in Mahoney et al p.136 Doran & Co, 1939 (1939). and 145) Done in a folk- peasant style, this is a lovely companion to Mates’ other Large 4to (9 x 12 3/8”), book The Magic Flutes. (Great humanized frogs) $150.00 cloth backed pictorial boards, fine in VG+ price clipped dust wrapper with a neat closed tear on rear panel, slight wear to spine ends, no award sticker). Stated 1st edition. THIS IS THE FIRST ISSUE WITH THE ERRATA SLIP p. 52. Illustrated with really beautiful full color lithographs throughout. CALDECOTT AWARD WINNER. Rare in this condition. $1500.00

#90 FANTASY PICTURE BOOK - BEES! 89. CZECHOSLOVAK. KULIHRASEK S MAJDALENKOU verse by MartA Voleska. Praze: Gustav Volesky 1935. Oblong 4to (10 3/4 x 9 3/4”), cloth, pictorial paste- on, slight bit of cover soil, VG+. This is the fantasy trip of two little children who shrink to the size of insects and have adventures with the insect world. Beautifully illustrated by noted Czech artist ARTUS SCHEINER with bold colors on every page. See Illus. of Children’s Books v.1 p. 136, 145 for others by Scheiner. $200.00

MINT COPY OF SCARCE LIMITED EDITION 90. DAHL,ROALD. THE WITCHES. NY: Farrar Straus Giroux (1983). 8vo (6 3/8 x 9 1/2”), blue pictorial cloth, 201p. AS NEW IN YELLOW SLIPCASE AND ORIGINAL PRINTED MAILER. First American edition LIMITED TO ONLY 300 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY DAHL AND QUENTIN BLAKE It is wonderfully illustrated in line by Quentin Blake. The story tells how a boy and his grandmother fight the witches who vow to change every child in England into a mouse, It was made into a movie in 1990 starring Angelica Huston. This is an amazing copy, very scarce. $2000.00 (SEE ILLUS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT ------>>>>>>> 914.764.7410 Pg 18 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 118 D’AULAIRE’S DETMOLD’S ARABIAN NIGHTS IN PUBLISHER’S BOX RARE FIRST BOOK 98. (DETMOLD,EDWARD J.)illus. THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. Lond: Hodder & 94. D’AULAIRE,INGRI Stoughton [1925]). Large thick 4to, white gilt pictorial cloth, slight soil on rear & EDGAR. THE MAGIC cover and light foxing on fore edge else near FINE IN ORIGINAL PUBLISHERS RUG. NY: Doubleday Doran BOX WITH COLOR PLATE ON COVER! (box flaps repaired). First edition, 1931 (1931). Oblong 4to (10 illustrated by Detmold with 12 exquisite tipped in color plates with tissue guards. 3/4 x 8 1/4”), cloth backed A beautiful book, rare in the box. $2500.00 pictorial boards, Fine in nice, VG dust wrapper with a few unobtrusive mends, rubbed at folds, chip at top of spine and 1” off base of spine. Stated FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST BOOK DONE BY THE D’AULAIRE’S TOGETHER. Set in Africa, the story is a fantasy tale about a magic Oriental rug. Illustrated with magnificent color lithographs throughout for which the pair spent a winter in Africa for inspiration. This is an excellent copy, rare in such nice condition. $1200.00

95. DE BOSSCHERE,JEAN. CHRISTMAS TALES OF FLANDERS. Lond&NY:Hein. & Dodd (1917). 4to, blue gilt and blind stamped pictorial cloth, Very Fine condition. First edition. Twenty three Christmas tales from Flanders illustrated by de Bosschere with 12 brightly colored plates with tissue guards DETMOLD’S AESOP plus many full page black and whites, many full page 2-color illustrations, and 99. (DETMOLD,EDWARD J.)illus. THE FABLES OF AESOP. London, NY & profusion of black and whites as well as pict. ep’s. One of his best books and an Toronto: Hodder & Stoughton, no date, [1909[. Large thick 4to, (8 3/4 x 11”) exceptional copy. $200.00 tan cloth, extensive gilt pictorial cover, slightest of cover soil else near fine. 1st trade edition, illustrated by Detmold with pictorial endpapers plus 23 of the most magnificent tipped-in color plates that you will ever see (with lettered #95 tissue guards) as well as many beautiful b&w’s in text. $875.00 #99

100. (DETMOLD,EDWARD J.)illus. NEWS OF SPRING by Maurice Maeterlinck. 96. DE BOSSCHERE,JEAN. FOLK TALES OF FLANDERS. NY:Dodd 1918. NY:Dodd Mead 1913 (1913). 4to, green cloth extensively decorated in gold, top Large 4to, green gilt and blind stamped cloth, [179]p., Fine IN DUSTWRAPPER edge gilt, light cover soil, near Fine. 1st American ed. Illustrated by Detmold (dw with sl. wear). Stories collected by de Bosschere and illustrated by him as with 20 magnificent, richly colored tipped-in color plates with tissue guards - well with pictorial endpapers, 12 wonderful full page color plates and a profusion nature scenes, flowers, insects etc.. A beautiful book, issued in England under of wonderful black and whites. Beautiful copy, rare in dw. $300.00 the title “Hours of Gladness”. $250.00

97. DE BRUNHOFF,JEAN. BABAR ET LE PERE NOEL. NY: Random House (1941). Folio (10 1/2 x 141/2”), cloth backed pictorial boards, inconspicuous mend on two leaves else VG+ in dust wrapper (dw chipped with some soil). 1st French language edition (simultaneous with the edition printed in France and following the American English language edition by 1 year). Featuring calligraphic text and wonderful color lithographs throughout. Babar makes the long trip to enlist Father Christmas’ help. Scarce in dust wrapper. $1875.00 Marc Younger Pg 19 [email protected] RARE CATHEDRAL ELEPHANT FOLIO BIG BOOK FABULOUS DISNEY WATERCOLOR 101. DICK AND JANE. BIG BOOK: THE NEW OUR BIG BOOK: CATHEDRAL 104. DISNEY,WALT. ORIGINAL ART: MICKEY, DONALD AND GOOFY EDITION. Chic.: Scott Foresman 1951. This is the giant sized Dick and Jane PLAYING SOLDIER. Offered here is a marvelous original watercolor from the folio made for teachers to use as display in the class of parochial schools. Bound Walt Disney Studio. Done on artists board, the image measures 9x12”, matted. in black cloth measuring 19” wide x 26” high, sl. rubbing, VG-fine condition. The upper margin has publishing notations reading: “Walt Disney Studio (stamp), Pages 3-26 are present - each page has a wonderful full color illustration the Walt Disney’s Wonder Book p.64, reduce to 2/3.” Not dated or signed, circa same as in the regular edition only for this version Dick becomes John, Jane 1950. Captioned in the corner: “Marching on to don’t know where / Don’t care becomes Jean and Sally becomes Judy. Puff and Spot remain their non sectarian if we don’t get there / So long as we are home to tea / Jolly soldier boys are selves. The text has the famous “Oh, Oh, Look, Look” etc. captions beneath the we.” Depicted are the 3 characters marching along with Donald playing the illustrations. The book is designed with easels that extend to make the book its flute, Goofy playing a bucket drum with spoons and Mickey carrying theflag. own exhibit piece. Rare. $1850.00 $3000.00

102. DISNEY,WALT. ADVENTURES OF MICKEY MOUSE BOOK 1. Philadelphia: McKay (1931). 8vo, red cloth, pictorial paste-on, fine. 1st edition of this early Disney item with fabulous color illustrations on every page of text and with color pictorial endpapers. Nice copy! $1800.00

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FIRST MICKEY MOUSE BOOK - BIBO AND LANG 103. DISNEY,WALT. MICKEY MOUSE BOOK / HELLO EVERYBODY. NY: Bibo and Lang 1930, copyright Walter E. Disney. 4to (9 x 12”), green pictorial wraps, 15p., a fine intact copy with no soil or wear. This is the true first Mickey Mouse book (one of the early issues with bottom panel of rear cover blank and with the word “kill” retained in the song). Published in order to raise money for his new film studio, this includes the Story of Mickey Mouse, Mickey Mouse Game, Mickey Mouse March and a Mickey Mouse Song entitled “Mickey Mouse (‘You Cute Little Feller’) with accompanying arrangement for the ukelele. Illustrated by the Disney Studios with full page and partial page drawings in black, green and white. The story was written by Bobette Bibo, the 11 year old daughter of one of the publishers. Due to its fragile nature, few copies of quality exist today. See Munsey: Disneyana (p.163, 166) who notes “The book was a small venture, and a relatively small number was produced. Today, the few that survive complete with the game board are eagerly sought by collectors.” A beautiful copy. $7500.00 (SEE ILLUS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT ------>>>>>>> 914.764.7410 Pg 20 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 118 ONE OF THE RAREST DULAC’S VELLUM / SIGNED ARABIAN NIGHTS 20th CENTURY CHILDREN’S BOOK 108. (DULAC,EDMUND)illus. STORIES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS retold by L. Housman. Lond: Hodder & Stoughton, (1907). Thick 4to (9 1/2 x 11”), 105. DU BOIS, WILLIAM PENE. ELISABETH THE COW GHOST. NY:Thos. gilt pictorial vellum, top edge gilt, 133p., minimal soil, Fine with original ties and Nelson 1936. Sq. 8vo, pict. cloth, Fine in sl. worn dw. FIRST EDITION OF with none of the warping that is usually found on this title. First ed. LIMITED DU BOIS FIRST BOOK. The story of a gentle cow who wanted to be fierce. TO ONLY 350 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY DULAC and illustrated with 50 Bader says: “ a neat, tight little book...pure storytelling.” Almost impossible tipped in color plates at the back of the book as issued. This is a beautiful copy to find, this is an outstanding copy. In 1964 Du Bois rewrote the textand of a very scarce Dulac limited edition with some of his finest work. $5500.00 re-drew the illustrations (inferior to the original). See Bader p.175-6, 182. $3500.00

IN DUST WRAPPER FINE COPY OF DULAC’S LIMITED “ANDERSEN” 106. (DULAC,EDMUND)illus. MY DAYS WITH THE FAIRIES by Mrs. Rodolph 109. (DULAC,EDMUND)illus. STORIES FROM HANS ANDERSEN. London: Stawell. London: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., no date [1920]. 4to (7 1/2 x 10”), red Hodder & Stoughton, (1911). Large thick 4to, (10 1/2 x 12 1/2”), full vellum cloth with elaborate gilt pictorial binding, scattered foxing on beginning pages else binding decorated in gold, top edge gilt, tips bumped else a FINE copy Fine in dust wrapper. The wrapper design duplicates the cover of the book (mild with original ties, housed in a custom cloth case. LIMITED TO ONLY 750 fraying and soil on rear panel of dw else VG+). An edition of Fairies I Have Met with NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY DULAC. Illustrated with 28 wonderful tipped 8 magnificent tipped - in color plates by Dulac with lettered tissue guards (tissue in color plates with lettered guards plus decorative borders on each page of guards also have delicate illustrations). The stories are enchanting fantasies of text. Contains The Snow Queen, The Nightingale, The Real Princess, The fairies in far away lands that come to life through Dulac’s artistry. Beautiful Mermaid, The Garden of Delight, The Emperor’s New Clothes and The Wind’s trade binding, not often found with the dust wrapper. Hughey 15f. $1500.00 Tale. This is a great copy of a really beautifully illustrated book. $4500.00

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RARE DULAC LIMITED EDITION 107. (DULAC,EDMUND)illus. SINDBAD THE SAILOR AND OTHER STORIES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. Hodder & Stoughton, no date (1914). Thick large 4to, full vellum with elaborate gilt decorations on cover and spine, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, small area of front and rear lower corners of cover discolored else VG-Fine with original silk ties. 1st edition, LIMITED TO 500 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY DULAC (this not numbered). A most sumptuous and beautiful book, illustrated by Dulac with 23 tipped - in color plates on gilt decorated mounts with lettered guards and with gilt decorations and borders on text pages. One of Dulac’s most lovely and desired books and very scarce in the limited edition. $6500.00 (SEE ILLUS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT ------>>>>>>> Marc Younger Pg 21 [email protected] 110. DUNCAN,JOHN. WOODMAN & THE ELVES. Dundee (Scotland):Valentine 114. (EISGRUBER, ELSA)illus. TULIFANTCHEN DER ZWERGHELD von K. nd ca 1910. Obl. 4to, cloth, pict. paste-on, light wear, near Fine. An eerie, odd Immermanns. Leipzig:Wunderlich, nd [1936]. Large, oblong 4to, cloth backed picture book about a woodman who finds some eggs that hatch into elves that pict. bds, sl. corner bump else near Fine. Probable 1st ed of this beautiful resemble our modern day conception of Aliens. Each page of text faces a full fairy tale about a tiny fairy in a world of humanized insects. Illustrated by page color illustration by the author. Very very unusual. $200.00 Eisgruber with unusual and lovely full page color lithos plus many line illus. in text . (see Hurlimann p. 220). Rare. $400.00 #110 #114

DUPLAIX PICTURE BOOK WITH HUMANIZED PENGUINS BEAUTIFUL FAIRY ART BY MILLAR & BURLEIGH 111. DUPLAIX,GEORGES. PEE-GLOO: a little penguin from the South 115. FAIRIES. BOY WITH FAIRIES. Offered here is a beautiful fairy pen and Pole. NY:Harp. Bros. 1935 (1935). 4to, pict. bds, near FINE IN DW. 1st ink watercolor signed by both Frederick Millar and Averil Burleigh. The image ed. Introduced by Gaston and Josephine, Duplaix’s humanized pigs, this itself measures 9” wide x 11” high, nicely matted and framed to 17 1/2 x 21”, both story features the adventures of a humanized penguin. Hand-lettered text Millar and Burleigh’s names on bottom edge, dated 1910. Shown is a young boy accompanies fantastic color lithos that span the pages. Much like Babar but with with a flute, seated on a hill at night and surrounded by many fairies, bunnies and its own unique charm. Very scarce and a beautiful copy. $325.00 birds. Both artists were British. Burleigh (1883 - 1949) was the wife of artist Charles H.H. Burleigh. This is a thoroughly charming image. $2000.00 #111

DUVOISIN’S FIRST BOOK 112. DUVOISIN, ROGER. A LITTLE BOY WAS DRAWING. NY:Scribner 1932 (1932 A). 4to, patterned cloth, near Fine. 1st ed. of DUVOISIN’S FIRST BOOK which began as a story by his son and ended up as a fabulous Art Deco children’s book chock full of bright splashes of bold color lithos and stylized black and whites (full and partial page). Very very scarce and wonderful. See Bader p.128. $300.00 #112

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SCARCE CALDECOTT WINNER SIGNED BY DUVOISIN 113. (DUVOISIN,ROGER)illus. WHITE SNOW BRIGHT SNOW by Alvin Tresselt. NY: Lothrop Lee Shepard, 1947. 4to (9 x 10 1/2”), pictorial boards, tiny rubbed area at top of spine, near Fine condition in nice dust wrapper (with medal, not price clipped, small triangular piece off rear corner, small chip front edge, spine ends frayed, really much nicer than it sounds). 1st edition, 1st printing. Wonderful color illustrations are on every page by Duvoisin, text in a large readable font. THIS COPY IS INSCRIBED BY DUVOISIN TO MARIAN YOUNG, A PROMINENT LIBRARIAN AND A MEMBER OF THE CALDECOTT AWARD SELECTION COMMITTEE. This is an excellent copy of the 1948 CALDECOTT AWARD WINNER, very difficult to find in any condition, especially inscribed. $1200.00 (SEE ILLUS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT ------>>>>>>> 914.764.7410 Pg 22 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 118 WONDERFUL FAIRIES -NONSENSE VERSE FABULOUS FANTASY 116. FAIRIES. THE WHIMSEY BOOK by Constance Rowlands. Lond.: 120. FANTASY. THE QUOKS by Luxor Price. NY:Stokes 1924 (1924). Large Southwark nd ca 1920. Obl. 4to, cl. backed pict. bds, slightest of cover 4to, red cloth, pict. paste-on, 64p., near Fine. 1st ed. The story of a creature soil, near fine. A stunning book of fairies, whimsical humanized insects and named Bumpy who lives on Cookie Island with the Quoks. Illustrated by Price with anthropomorphized leaves, printed in bold colors that “took nine printings to pictorial borders on each page of text, ABC endpapers, plus the most absolutely colour.” The illus. are accompanied by charming nonsense verse. $100.00 incredible full page color illustrations and full page black and whites - rich in detail and depicting very strange creatures. This is certainly one of the most original and fancifully illustrated children’s books and a nice copy. $400.00 #120

CALDECOTT HONOR 117. FALCONER,IAN. OLIVIA. NY: Atheneum (2000). 4to, (9 x 11 1/4”), boards, New in dust wrapper. 1st printing of the first title in this series about a RARE FOLIO charming pig. CALDECOTT HONOR. $200.00 121. FISHER,HARRISON. PICTURES IN COLOR. NY: Scribner 1910. Large folio (17 1/2 x 12 1/4”), cloth backed boards lettered in gold, pictorial paste-on, UNUSUAL INDIAN FANTASY corners rubbed and cover slightly faded else fine. 1st edition of this glorious 118. FANTASY. THE CLAN OF MUNES by Frederick J. Waugh. NY: Charles work featuring 16 color plates (done on heavy coated paper, printed on one side). Scribner 1916 (Nov. 1916). Large oblong 4to (12 3/4 x 9 1/2”), (57)p. light cover There is also a portrait of Fisher. A beautiful copy of a lavish work, and a rare soil else near Fine. 1st edition of the author’s first and only book. Printed on heavy Fisher title. $1850.00 coated paper. This is a tale of the Tlingit and Haida Indians wherein a wizard from the north took eroded and rotted spruce stumps and created bizarre creatures called Munes, and this is their story. Illustrated with the most fabulous full page plates (8 color and 20 black and white) plus decorative initials and illustrations in-text. The tree people in “Clan” were based on actual trees found in Cathedral Woods at the artists retreat on Monhegan Island, Maine. The retreat was founded by and Waugh was among the many noted artists who spent time there. He had hoped to write a book to rival Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland but it did not sell well and the publishers eventually sold the remaining copies which were eventually destroyed. Nice copies like this are hard to find. $850.00 WITH SIGNED WATERCOLOR 122. FREEMAN,DON. CYRANO THE CROW. NY: Viking (1960). 4to (8 1/2 x 11”), pictorial cloth, Fine in slightly chipped dust wrapper. 1st edition. This is the story of a crow that was invited to appear on television. Written and GERMAN ART NOUVEAU illustrated in color by Freeman. THIS COPY HAS A GREAT FULL PAGE SIGNED WATERCOLOR OF CYRANO on the endpaper. A super copy. $1200.00 119. FANTASY. MUCKI eine wunderliche Weltreise. Mainz:Scholz [1910]. 4to, cl. backed pict. bds, near fine. A marvelous fantasy trip taken by a little boy, illustrated in typical Jugendstil style by ARPAD SCHMIDHAMMER with artful color illustrations on every page. Printed on rectos only. A great picture book. See Bilderwelt im Kinderbuch #534. $300.00 Marc Younger Pg 23 [email protected] INSCRIBED WITH WATERCOLOR RARE FREUD PICTURE BOOK 123. FREEMAN,DON. DANDELION. NY: Viking Press (1964). Oblong 4to (10 128. FREUD,TOM SEIDMANN. BUCH DER ERFULLTEN WUNSCHE [BOOK 1/4 x 8 1/2”), pictorial cloth, Fine in dust wrapper (dw has chip on spine and a OF WISHES]. Pottsdam: Muller few closed tears). First edition. This is the story of a lovable lion that gets & Kiepenheuer (1929). 4to (8 3/4 into trouble. Illustrated in color throughout. THIS COPY HAS A FULL PAGE x 10 1/8”), cloth backed pictorial MULTICOLOR DRAWING OF DANDELION INSCRIBED BY FREEMAN on the boards, covers sl. dusty and edges endpaper. Great copy. $1200.00 rubbed else clean, tight and VG-Fine. 1st and probably only edition of this very rare German picture book and Freud’s last book. This is illustrated by Freud (nee Martha, and Sigmund Freud’s niece) with delicate and unusual color lithographs on every page plus a beautiful double page color spread. Because of her Jewish background, Ms. Freud’s books disappeared from bookstores during Hitler’s regime and are thus exceptionally difficult to find. They are now avidly sought after by both collectors and museums. (See Hurlimann p. 216) $3500.00 #128

124. FRENCH. ANEMONE AU PAYS DES ETOILES (by) M.T.M. Paris:Marcus (1946). Obl. 4to, pict. bds, may lack ffe else VG. The story of a beautiful little girl named Anemone and her fantasy trip. Illustrated by JEAN MERCIER with absolutely beautiful watercolor illustrations throughout. $100.00 #128

RARE PICTURE BOOK BY SIGMUND FREUD’S NIECE 129. FREUD,TOM SEIDMANN. BUCH DER HASENGESCHICHTEN [THE ’S BOOK]. Berlin: Peregrin 1924. Oblong 4to, cloth backed pict. bds, near Fine. There are 12 beautiful and quite strange full page hand colored illustrations in Freud’s unique, stylized fashion. Freud was Sigmund’s niece who was an innovator in writing and illustrating books for children in Germany. She emigrated to Israel to escape the Nazi’s and died a tragic death. A 125. FRENCH. LE PETIT PERE MULOT by Benjamin Rabier. Paris:Garnier companion to Freud’s (1933) oblong 4to, stiff pictorial wraps, near MINT. This copy, INSCRIBED BY Die Fischreise but RABIER WITH TINY SKETCH! Illustrated in color on every page in Rabier’s considerably more rare. wonderful comic style. A beautiful copy. $250.00 See Mahoney-Illus. of Children’s Books p. 137 126. FRENCH. LES TROIS PAPILLONS ROSES [story by] Bernard Roy. for other. Considered by Paris:Marcus (1942,1947). Sq. 4to, pict. bds, VG+. A fairy tale featuring 3 many to be her finest work magical butterflies and stunningly illustrated in color by JEAN MERCIER with and scarce, especially stylized and unusual pictures throughout, nicely printed. $75.00 in this condition. $5250.00

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127. FRENCH. MENAGE CLAPOTIN AU PAYS DES CACTUS by Louis Bailly. Paris: Librarie Furne no date circa 1915. Folio, cloth backed pictorial boards, edges rubbed and new endpapers, VG. The adventures of Mr. Clapotin and his family when they travel to Tunis. Illustrated by noted artist Bailly with marvelous hand-colored illustrations throughout. See Dict. Des Illus. 1890-1945 p. 46-7. $200.00 914.764.7410 Pg 24 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 118 PICTURE BOOK BY SIGMUND FREUD’S NIECE LIMITED EDITION SIGNED WITH WOOD ENGRAVING 130. FREUD,TOM SEIDMANN. DIE FISCHREISE [PEREGRIN AND THE 132. GAG,WANDA. MILLIONS OF CATS. NY: Coward McCann 1928 (1928). GOLDFISH]. Berlin:Peregrin 1923. Oblong 4to, cloth backed pict. bds, boards Oblong small 4to, (9 7/8” wide x 6 3/4), pictorial boards, FINE IN ORIGINAL sl. dusty else fine. 1st PUBLISHER’S SLIP CASE with pictorial label (edges neatly reinforced). ed. There are 12 beautiful LIMITED TO ONLY 250 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY GAG AND and unusual full page color CONTAINING AN ORIGINAL WOOD ENGRAVING ALSO SIGNED BY GAG! lithographs in Freud’s A high spot of children’s literature and one of the best books for children of all unique, stylized fashion. time, this is beautifully illustrated and has hand-lettered text. See Bader p.34 Freud was Sigmund’s niece who describes this classic as “form and character fused ... [where] words and who was an innovator in pictures reinforce one another.” Rare in the limited edition especially with the writing and illustrating books wood engraving and the case. $7500.00 for children in Germany. She emigrated to Israel to escape the Nazi’s and died a tragic death. This was the first children’s book of the Peregrein Press. See Mahoney-Illus. of Children’s Books p. 137 for photo. Very scarce. $5250.00 #130 #130

RARE AMERICAN MOVEABLE BY FREUD’S NIECE 131. FREUD,TOM SEIDMANN. THE MAGIC BOAT. Berlin: Stuffer nd [1935]. 4to, cloth backed pict. bds, blue cloth spine. In remnants of original RARE GAZE FAIRY TITLE glassene dust wrapper, FINE. The nicest copy we have ever handled. This is a 133. GAZE,HAROLD. THE CHEWG-UM-BLEWG-UM. Melbourne, Aukland, very rare English language edition of Das Zauberboot, a MOVEABLE BOOK done Christchurch, Dunedin and Wellington and London: Whitcombe & Tombs Limited, by the niece of Sigmund Freud. Her [1919]. 4to (7 3/4 x 10”), [30]p., wraps, color plate on cover, string ties, erasure moveable books were immediately mark on 2 pages of text else Fine. Illustrated by Gaze with 2 tipped-in color hailed for their innovations, but plates (plus color plate on cover repeated in-text), 1 tipped-in black and white because of her Jewish heritage, most plate and 8 pen and ink drawings in-text all featuring a koala, a fairy and a copies of her books were destroyed strange animal with the body of an emu and a camel’s head. The story is told in and very few remain intact today. verse. This is one of 3 titles in the Mite Merry Series. Gaze was born in New In this book, there are a variety of Zealand and except for a short stint at art school in London, he was largely self- moveable pages including a revolving taught. He eventually moved to Pasadena where he did some work for the Disney wheel and a Punch and Judy theater. Studio. He didn’t illustrate a large number of books but his work is distinctive There is also a grid with cut-outs and wonderful. Holden in Golden Age p. 80 notes about the books in this series that enables the reader to develop that “by Australian standards these titles were milestones in the history of 4 different stories from one page, children’s book production. Their large quarto format and pleasing typography and a clever tale that lets the and layout were indicative of the publisher’s understandable enthusiasm and reader make part of the illustrations belief that a major new talent had arrived.” Marcie Muir notes that “After disappear using special red paper. Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, the artist who dominated the fairy genre in Australian Hurlimann (p. 216-17) comments upon children’s books was Harold Gaze “ (Hist. Aust. Child. Bks. p77). See Muir Bib. these innovative books, remarkable 2699 This is a great copy of a rare book. $1450.00 not only for their moveable parts but for their integration of suitable text with artistic achievement. $4200.00

#131 Marc Younger Pg 25 [email protected] 134. GERMAN. PECHVOGEL UND GLUCKSPITZ by Ludwig Enders. Munchen: LIMITED EDITION Dietrich (1918). 4to, cloth backed pict. boards, sl. rubbing to hinges else tight WITH ORIGINAL GOBLE WATERCOLOR and VG+. One of the most unusually illustrated picture books, this features 16 139. (GOBLE,WARWICK)illus. WATER BABIES by . London: full page color illustrations by Enders that are enormously detailed and done in a Macmillan 1909. Featured here is the LIMITED EDITION OF THE BOOK IN full range of colors. With much action and including a host of unusual characters, A FULL MOROCCO BINDING HOUSED IN A LARGE PICTORIAL CLAMSHELL this is an exceptionally wonderful book. $500.00 BOX WITH AN ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR USED IN THE BOOK. The book is a thick quarto measuring 9” x 11 1/4”, bound in a full blue morocco binding by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. The book spine is decorated in gilt with raised bands and the covers are heavily decorated with triple gilt rules and floral decorated corners. Inside the covers there are gilt dentelles and silk doublures (silk lining). The book is the magnificent DELUXE EDITION, LIMITED TO ONLY 260 COPIES printed on hand-made paper and illustrated by Goble with 32 mounted color plates with lettered tissue guards. The book is housed in a velvet lined cradle. On the opposite side of the box is a special insert holding the original watercolor signed by Goble that appears as a full page color plate on page 32 of the book. The actual image measures 13 1/2” wide x 9 1/4” high and is captioned “Play by me, bathe in me mother and child”. It is a beach scene with the mother and the water baby reclining on the sand, with the ocean, rocks and beach related flora surrounding them. This image is duplicated in gilt onthe cover of the book and also on the cover of the box. The box is 13 1/2” wide x 17 3/4” high with the backstrip rounded to simulate the spine of a book with extensive gilt decorations and raised bands. Goble’s Water Babies is arguably the best edition of this classic story. In his book “Early Children’s Books” (p.80), Eric Quayle comments on all the various editions of Water Babies and adds about Goble’s edition: “None of these in either artistic or financial terms 135. GERMAN. TISCHLEIN DECK DICH ein marchen der BRUDER GRIMM. approaches the sumptuous edition of 1909.” Nice copies of the limited edition Zurich: Globi 1945. Obl. 4to, cl. backed pict. bds, light wear, VG. 1st ed. are rare, an offering like this is a once in a lifetime copy. $22,000.00 Fabulously illustrated in full color by HERBERT LEUPIN in a broad comic style and beautifully printed. $75.00

136. GERMAN. WEIST DU WIEVIEL STERNLEIN STEHEN verse von Gertrud Klett. Esslingen und Munchen:Schreiber nd ca 1925. Sq. 4to, cloth backed pict. bds, sl. cover soil else VG+. A beautiful German picture book with full page color illustrations facing each page of text by ANNELIESE LEWINSKI reminiscent of Olfers’ Root Children books, This features little star-children and is really nice and well printed. $100.00

GNOMES 137. GNOMES. DIE HEINZELMANNCHEN von August Kopisch. Mainz: Jos. Scholz, nd circa 1930. Oblong 4to, cloth backed pictorial boards, one head creased slight corner bump else near Fine. A wonderful counting book along the lines of the Ten Little Indians. The cover of the books has a die-cut hole #138 through which the heads of 10 little gnomes are visible - one on each page. As each page is turned, the number of heads decreases by one. Wonderful color lithos on every other page by B. BRAUN- FOCK. $200.00

WARWICK GOBLE ORIGINAL ART 138. GOBLE,WARWICK. ORIGINAL ART: PRINCESS AND THE HOLY MAN. Offered here is an extremely beautiful watercolor by Goble, The visible image measures oblong 13 1/4 x 9 1/4”, attractively matted, glazed and framed to 31 x 17” and is in fine condition. A Japanese princess in a multi-colored gown hovers genii-like over the ground while a simply dressed monk looks at her in the background (which also has boulders, clouds and a lone tree). The full range of colors seamlessly blend into one flowing image that is quite spectacular. It is done in the exact style as his work in Green Willow but this image does not appear in the book. Goble’s art does not often appear on the market and this is a truly lovely image. $5500.00 (SEE ILLUS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT ------>>>>>>> 914.764.7410 Pg 26 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 118 #143

SCARCE LIMITED EDITION 140. 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

ANIMAL RIGHTS 144. (GRISET,ERNEST)illus. PURGATORY OF PETER THE CRUEL by James INSCRIBED BY GOREY AND SAMUEL BECKETT Greenwood. Lond & NY:Routledge 1868. 4to, green cloth, gilt pictorial cover, 141. (GOREY,EDWARD)illus. ALL STRANGE AWAY by Samuel Beckett. NY: sl. soil else fine and bright. 1st ed. A marvelous tale about Cruel Peterwho Gotham Book Mart (1976). 4to (7 5/8 x 10 5/8”), leather spine, marbled boards, was always brutal to animals and insects and was then sent to sea to reform FINE IN SLIP CASE. This is the first appearance of Beckett’s text, illustrated his ways. When he suddenly died in a fall he returned to life as a beetle where with color engravings by Gorey. LIMITED TO 200 NUMBERED COPIES THIS he encountered all the insects and animals he had hurt during his lifetime and IS INSCRIBED BY BECKETT AND SIGNED BY GOREY. Laid-in is a note that they exact their revenge. Wonderfully illustrated by Griset with 36 illustrations explains that this is one of only 5 copies inscribed by Beckett to a major Gorey drawn on wood. Great copy. $150.00 collector, the other 4 were inscribed to the publisher, Gorey, the printer and the binder. Toledano B61b. $3000.00 PERHAPS THE RAREST GRUELLE BOOK 145. (GRUELLE,JOHNNY)illus. QUACKY DOODLES’ AND DANNY DADDLES’ BOOK by Rose String Hubbell. Chicago: Volland (1916, twelfth printing). 8vo (6 1/4 x 9 1/4”), pictorial boards, tiny bit of tip rubbing else Fine and bright in facsimile box. The story centers around the toy duck named Quacky Doodles and his friend Teddy Bear and other toy friends. Illustrated in color on every page by Gruelle and with silhouette endpapers. This is a beautiful copy of one of the rarest if not the rarest Gruelle book. $1000.00

#142 SIGNED BY GRAHAME AND SHEPARD 142. GRAHAME,KENNETH. THE DREAM DAYS. London: John Lane / Bodley (1930). Tall 8vo, vellum backed marbled boards, FINE IN #142 SLIP CASE. LARGE PAPER EDITION LIMITED TO ONLY 275 COPIES SIGNED BY KENNETH GRAHAME AND ERNEST SHEPARD. Printed on special rag paper and illustrated by ERNEST H. SHEPARD with beautiful black and whites. $1200.00

143. (GRISET,ERNEST)illus. THE HATCHET THROWERS by James Greenwood. Lond: J. Hotten 1866. 4to, blue gilt cloth, hinges neatly strengthened and sl. internal soil else VG+. The “astonishing adventures “ of three mariners who encounter a band of Black natives. Illustrated with 36 marvelous hand-colored illustrations by Griset (plus great gilt vignette on cover). The tale itself was “condescendingly racist in tone” (Lambourne p.42) and the portrayals of the natives are very stereotypical, but the illustrations are really wonderful works of art. (Osborne p. 349) $400.00 (SEE ILLUS TOP NEXT COLUMN) Marc Younger Pg 27 [email protected] INSCRIBED WITH WATERCOLOR MAGNIFICENT DELUXE FLORENCE HARRISON BOOK CALDECOTT AWARD WINNER 150. (HARRISON,FLORENCE)illus. POEMS BY CHRISTINA ROSSETTI. Lond: Blackie, 1910. Thick 4to, white cloth with extensive gilt decoration, teg, front 146. HADER,BERTA AND ELMER. THE BIG SNOW. NY: Macmillan 1948 cover and spine fine, rear cover with pale blue markings else, near Fine. 1st ed. (1948). 4to, (8 3/4 x 10 1/4”), cloth, Fine condition in VG+ dust wrapper (no thus, illustrated by Harrison with 36 magnificent mounted color plates (on heavy award seal, not price clipped, spine ends chipped, light fraying)). 1st edition stock), 34 full page b&w illus. plus many b&w text illus. all in her best pre-Raphealite (stated 2nd printing). CALDECOTT AWARD WINNER, illustrated in color style to accompany Rossetti’s classic verse. A lavish production. $1250.00 and black & white by the Haders and written by them as well. THIS COPY IS INSCRIBED WITH A WATERCOLOR DRAWING TO MARIAN YOUNG, A PROMINENT LIBRARIAN AND MEMBER OF THE CALDECOTT AWARD SELECTION COMMITTEE. The drawing spans the half title and facing page. They have drawn a cottage with trees, all surrounded with snow. $1750.00

151. HELLE,ANDRE. LA BELLE HISTOIRE QUE VOILA. Paris:Berger-Levrault nd ca 1920. Folio, pict. cloth sl. soiled else clean, tight and VG. A stunning French picture book illustrated by Helle with great pictorial endpapers and with rich, deep colors on every page (most likely pochoir) in his typical 20’s style - very striking. See Mahoney et al p. 148 listed as a Notable Foreign Picture Book. $300.00 MACMILLAN ART DECO HAPPY HOUR BOOK 147. (HADER,BERTA AND ELMER)illus. THE LITTLE RED HEN. NY: Macmillan #151 1928. 8vo (6 x 5 7/8”), fine in dust wrapper with some soil on rear panel. 1st edition. Illustrated by the Haders with striking, stylized full color lithos (full page, in-text). 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.” $275.00

SIGNED COPY OF SECOND CALDECOTT AWARD WINNER 148. HANDFORTH,THOMAS. MEI LI. NY: Doubleday Doran 1938 (1938). Folio (9 1/4 x 12 1/4”), orange cloth, near Fine in VG dust wrapper (not price clipped, no medal, small piece off top of spine, frayed at bottom, two small closed tears). Stated 1st edition. WINNER OF THE SECOND CALDECOTT AWARD! This #149 is a Chinese tale set in Peiping where Handforth lived. It features beautiful black and white lithographs by him on every page. THIS COPY IS SIGNED BY HANDFORTH and comes from the collection of Marian Young (signed by her), a prominent librarian and member of the Caldecott Award Selection Committee. $1350.00

BEAUTIFUL COPY 149. HARRIS,JOEL CHANDLER. UNCLE REMUS: HIS SONGS AND SAYINGS. NY: D. Appleton and Company 1881. 8vo (5 1/4 x 7 5/8”), olive green cloth stamped in gold and black, 231p. + [viii]p. ads, just a touch of rubbing else near Fine and bright in custom box. 1st ed., 1st issue with “presumptive” mis- spelled on p. 9 bottom line and without ads for this title in rear. Illustrated by Frederick Church and James Moser. Harris was the first American author to set out to chronicle American Black legends and stories. Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox have become American icons. This is a beautiful copy of this book. Peter Parley to Penrod p56, BAL 7100, Grolier, 100 Influential American Books prior to 1900 #83.. $8500.00 (SEE ILLUS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT ------>>>>>>> 914.764.7410 Pg 28 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 118 152. HELLE,ANDRE. LE TOUR DU MONDE EN 80 PAGES. Paris: J. Ferenczi RARE AMERICAN ADAPTATION OF STRUWWELPETER et Fils (1927). 4to, (9 x 10 3/4”), cloth backed pictorial boards, slight bit of edge 156. [HOFFMANN,HEINRICH]. PETER TEETER STORIES adapted from the rubbing else near Fine. Written by Helle with a preface by noted French author famous German Struwwelpeter Gaston Cherau. Around the World in 80 Days via Helle’s art deco designs begins with original additions by in Japan and ends in a little boy’s bed as he wakes up from his dream trip. Every Prof. Otto H.L. Schwetzky. page has color illustrations of places and things typical of the country visited. Chic:Thompson & Thomas (1904). Nice one! $300.00 Obl. 4to, cl. backed pict. bds, edges rubbed and spine extrems frayed else VG+. Illus. in color on every page by RAYMOND GARMAN showing the exploits and misadventures of naughty children (including a great Fourth of July debacle). Extremely scarce. $900.00

HYMAN WATERCOLOR - CALDECOTT HONOR BOOK 157. HYMAN,TRINA SCHART. ORIGINAL ART: HERSHEL AND THE HANUKKAH GOBLIN. Offered here is a wonderful finished watercolor used for the title page of Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblin written by Eric Kimmel and published by Holiday House in 1989. It was awarded the Caldecott Honor in 1990. The image measures 9.5” wide x 11” high on art paper 11 3/4 x 13 1/2” and features a menorah with all of the candles lit and the Goblin hovering overhead. Done with rich colors it is quite charming. Hyman won numerous awards for her books including 153. (HELLE,ANDRE)illus. FRENCH TOYS. Paris:L’Avenir Feminin (1915) 8vo, the Caldecott and her books are avidly collected. She died in 2004. $2500.00 pictorial wraps, light wear, near Fine. Reminiscences about their childhood toys written by various French authors, and illustrated with marvelous stylized color illustrations throughout by noted French artist ANDRE HELLE. English text. A fragile and lovely book. $200.00

#153

HELLE HAND-COLORED LIMITED EDITION 154. (HELLE,ANDRE)illus. LA MAISON DES AIEULES by Pierre Loti. Paris: Henri Floury (1927). 4to (7 1/2 x 9 1/2”), pictorial wraps, Fine. LIMITED TO 302 NUMBERED COPIES printed on velin d’Arches. Illustrated with 77 fabulous pochoir illustrations (hand-colored by Saude) to accompany the charming story about Mademoiselle Anna, a poor rag doll. Based upon an actual doll, Loti had the doll buried with him when he died. Scarce and wonderful. $1200.00

#155

INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR 155. (HELLE,ANDRE)illus. LES HISTOIRES DE PATACHOU par Tristan Dereme. Paris: Emile- Paul (1932). Large 4to (10 X 13”), cloth backed pictorial boards, slightest of cover rubbing else VG-Fine. A charming French picture book, this is illustrated by ANDRE HELLE with art deco style color illustrations on every page. THIS COPY HAS A LENGTHY INSCRIPTION FROM THE AUTHOR TRISTAN DEREME ON THE HALF-TITLE DATED 1932. Dereme was a French poet and author whose real name was Philippe Huc. Tristan Dereme was a pseudonym he adopted in 1908. This is a great copy of a scarce Helle title. $1250.00 (SEE ILLUS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT ------>>>>>>> Marc Younger Pg 29 [email protected] 1786 BI-LINGUAL MOHAWK PRIMER 158. INDIANS. PRIMER FOR THE USE OF THE MOHAWK CHILDREN, To acquire the Spelling and Reading of their own, as well as to get acquainted with the English Tongue. Waerighwaghsawe Iksaongoenwa Tsiwaondad - derighhonny Kaghyadoghsera [by Daniel Claus]. London: C. Buckton 1786. 24mo (5 1/2 x 4”), 98p., original tree calf with gilt rule, joints rubbed, very small insignificant edge stain on first two blanks and frontis, else VG+ or better, housed in a custom cloth box. First London edition set from the 1781 Montreal edition. Apart from being the only obtainable edition it is also THE FIRST EDITION WITH ILLUSTRATIONS. Only a handful of copies (it is thought fewer than 10) of the Montreal edition survive. That edition comprised approximately 300 copies, 250 of which were burned and caused the printing of this London edition. Illustrated with a wonderful mezzotint frontis by James Peachy depicting Indian students at work in school and with 1 full page wood engraving. The title page and text are printed in both English and Mohawk. Wright (Prayer Books p.33-4) suggests that Paul Sahonwadi, a Mohawk ROUMANIAN FAIRY TALE clerk and teacher was the actual author or co-author of the primer. He and Claus had 162. (JOB)illus. THE STORY OF NAUGHTY KILDEEN by Marie, Queen of collaborated on the Mohawk Book of Prayer in 1780. This is a rare and fascinating Roumania. NY: Harcourt Brace and Co, no date, ca 1922. Folio (10 1/2 x 13”), early children’s book. Sabin 65548, Field 1074, Church 1216. $18,500 95p. pictorial boards, some cover spotting else VG-fine. Printed in France on heavy paper, there are magnificent HAND-COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS by JOB on almost every page. $1750.00

159. ITALIAN INTEREST. TOMASO testo e illustrazioni di Vittorio Accornero. Arnaldo Mondadori (1944). 4to, cloth backed pictorial boards, sl. edge wear, VG+. A cat and dog tale set at Christmas time and illus. by the author with wonderful full and partial page color lithos. $200.00

160. ITALIAN. TOMASO CACCIATORE testo e illustrazioni di Vittorio Accornero. Arnaldo Mondadori (1950). 4to, cloth backed pictorial boards, near fine in dw with tape mends. A dog and bunny tale set at Christmas time and illus. by the author with wonderful full and partial page color lithos. $150.00

163. JOYCE,WILLIAM. BENTLY & EGG. NY: Harper Collins (1992). 4to, cl. backed boards, AS NEW in dw. Stated 1st ed. The adventures of Bently the frog and his painted egg, marvelously illus. in color by Joyce. $50.00

#163

CLASSIC ART DECO COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS 161. IVANOVSKY,ELISABETH. GRANDS ET PETITS [by] Elisabeth Ivanovsky. (Bruges): Desclee de Brouwer (1931). Sq. 4to, pict. bds, 19p., Fine. Each page of text, in thick bold type, is faced by a beautiful full page color illus. by Russian emigre artist Ivanovsky in classic Art Deco style. Ivanovsky was born in Russia but schooled in Belgium. This is a stunning book. $250.00 914.764.7410 Pg 30 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 118 RARE AD REINHARDT / RUTH KRAUSS’S FIRST BOOK BLUE FAIRY BOOK 164. KRAUSS,RUTH. A GOOD MAN AND HIS GOOD WIFE. NY: Harper & FIRST TITLE IN THE FAIRY SERIES Brothers, 1944. 8vo (6 1/4 x 8 3/4”), cloth, Fine in near Fine dust wrapper. 1st 167. LANG,ANDREW. THE BLUE FAIRY BOOK. London: Longmans 1889. 8vo, edition (first printing). This is a marvelous nonsense story about a man who’s blue cloth, gilt pictorial cover, all edges gilt, binding leaning, spine faded a bit and wife constantly changed things around so he never knew where anything might light soil, VG. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST TITLE IN THE FAIRY BOOK be. Cleverly illustrated by AD REINHARDT in deceptively simple two colors SERIES! Illustrated by H.J. FORD and G.P.J. HOOD with full page and in-text on every page such that the child’s eye is immediately drawn to the essence black and whites. This is a nice copy of the very elusive first edition. $3500.00 of the picture. This was Krauss’ first book and likewise Reinhardt’s (it was his last children’s books as well). Reinhardt went on to become a “leading abstract painter.” This first edition in dust wrapper is rare. It was re-issued in 1963 with illustrations by Marc Simont. See Bader p.417 - 419 who devotes 3 pages to this wonderful picture book. $2500.00

AUTOGRAPHED NOTE FROM LANG LAID IN FLOWER FAIRIES 168. LANG,ANDREW. THE RED FAIRY BOOK. London: Longmans Green 1890. 165. KREIDOLF,ERNST. ALPENBLUMENMARCHEN. Zurich:Erlenbach (1922). 8vo (5 1/4 x 7 1/4”), red gilt pictorial cloth, all edges gilt, spine slightly dulled, Large obl. 4to, cl. backed pict. bds, near Fine. Featuring 18 magnificent full page scattered foxing, slight lean, overall tight and VG condition. 1st edition, 1st color illus. and pictorial endpapers portraying the humanized flower fairies and printing of the second fairy book. Illustrated by H.J. FORD with 100 illustrations insects of Kreidolf’s make-believe world. Absolutely wonderful. $350.00 - 4 black and white plates and numerous black and whites throughout the text. LAID IN IS A HUMOROUS NOTE FROM LANG READING: “WOULD THAT #165 AMERICANS BOUGHT MY BOOKS HALF AS MUCH AS THEY REQUEST MY AUTOGRAPH! . This is a nice copy of arguably the rarest title in the series. $1500.00

HIGH SPOT - MODERN RARITY 166. KUNHARDT,DOROTHY. PAT THE BUNNY. NY: Simon & Schuster 1940. 12mo, (4 1/8” wide x 5 3/8), pictorial boards, small mend to paper on edge else Fine in publisher’s box (box soiled and repaired). A now classic book, illustrated in color. Every other page offers a different activity for the youngest child to enjoy (7 in all): 1. pat the white fur of the bunny, 2. cloth covering a face can be lifted to play peek-a-boo, 3. smell the flowers, 4. shake mommy’s button box, 5. sandpaper on Daddy’s face simulates his scratchy beard, 6. read Judy’s book, 7. a hole in a page lets the child pretend to try on mommy’s ring. The first issue of this title had a ball that squeaked when the child pressed it. Because it malfunctioned most of the time, it was replaced with a box of real buttons. The mirror in the first issue was replaced with scented flowers that gave off their aroma when scratched. This is one of the rarest of all modern picture books, especially in the original box. See Bader p.238- 9. $5000.00 Marc Younger Pg 31 [email protected] SIGNED COPY OF 1ST BOOK 171. (LE MAIR,H.WILLEBEEK)illus. A WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY LATHROP CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES by 169. LATHROP,DOROTHY. THE FAIRY CIRCUS. NY:Macmillan, 1942 (1931, . Lond:Harrap 5th printing). Oblong 4to, orange pictorial cloth, FINE IN DUSTWRAPPER (1931) oblong 4to, cloth backed pictorial (dw lightly soiled. Early printing of the first book written and illustrated by boards, edges of boards darkened with a Lathrop, and also one of her most lovely white mark on rear cover else Fine. First and desired books. This copy is SIGNED ed. thus, illustrated by Le Mair with BY LATHROP! Featuring a beautiful cover pictorial endpapers plus 12 delicately design plus 8 magnificent and enchanting beautiful color plates. One of the most color plates, as well as 12 beautiful black lovely versions of these classic poems and white plates plus black and whites in and one of Le Mair’s most difficult to find text. (NEWBERY HONOR.) $250.00 books. $150.00 ‘

172. (LEBEDEV)illus. ICE CREAM MAN, SILLY LITTLE MOUSE, THE CIRCUS by Marshak. Lond:Transatlantic Press, nd circa 1930`s. 4to, cloth backed pictorial boards, light wear, VG. Three of the most famous Russian picture books of the period (first published in Russian in 1925), every page is fabulously illustrated with color illustrations by Lebedev in his distinct and very influential style. The first story is particularly charming - about a fat (capitalist)man LAWSON ART WITH 2 LETTERS who ate so much ice-cream that he turned into a snow man. Really a wonderful 170. LAWSON,ROBERT. ORIGINAL ART: COUNTRY COLIC. Offered here book. $400.00 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 written and illustrated by Lawson. The caption (written on an overlay in Lawson’s hand) reads: “When Adam delved and Eve span, Who was then the laundryman?” The image is 6” wide x 4” high on board that measures 8 x 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 humor, signed with initials on the right. SOLD WITH 2 HANDWRITTEN LETTERS from Lawson to a noted book collector named William Easton Louttit. In the first letter dated May 15 [1944], Lawson responds to Mr. Louttit’s request for this drawing. It reads in full:

“Dear Mr. Louttit: Thank you so much for your delightful letter of May 4th. I 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 back from the publisher is a rather long drawn out process. They are usually sent out for exhibition in book shops, libraries, etc. and used in various ways 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 drawing as can be seen in the next letter. Written on August 15th, the day after V-J Day when the Japanese surrendered in WWII (this is referred to in the letter):

“Dear Mr. Louttit: May I thank you for your overgenerous liquid token, which arrived most opportunely yesterday afternoon, barely two hours before the glorious news was given us. Nothing could have been more timely nor more appreciated by myself, my family and neighbors. We all thank you most heartily 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 original published art is generally unavailable. $6000.00 914.764.7410 Pg 32 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 118 173. LEGRAND,EDY. VOYAGES ET GLORIEUSES DECOUVERTES DES 176. LEWIS,C.S. THE MAGICIANS NEPHEW. London: Bodley Head 1955 GRANDS NAVIGATEURS ET EXPLORATEURS FRANCAIS. Paris:Tolmer (1955). 8vo (5 3/4 x 8”), green cloth, 183p., small rubbed area on endpaper under (1921) folio, cloth backed pict. boards, light cover wear else VG-Fine. Pict. front front flap and slight bit of fading else Fine in dust wrapper with price intact ep’s, rear ep’s blank) Illustrated by Legrand with incredibly rich and vibrant hand (dw slightly frayed at base of spine, 2 very small closed edge tears, lower left color (pochoir) illustrations throughout, both full page and large partial page, as margin of rear panel repaired). 1st edition, 1st printing of the sixth Narnia tale, well as 2 fold-out maps. A nice copy of a magnificent book (See Mahoney et. al that explains how all of the Narnia adventures began. Illustrated by PAULINE vol.1 p. 147- an outstanding foreign picture book) $400.00 BAYNES in black and white throughout the text. An attractive copy, $2000.00

#173

RARE CLASSIC FANTASY 174. L’ENGLE,MADELEINE. A WRINKLE IN TIME. (NY): Ariel Books Ferrar, Strauss & Cudahy (1962). 8vo (5 1/2 x 8 1/4”), 1/4 cloth, 211p., very slight fading PICTURE BOOK BY NOTED POLISH ARTISTS to edge of cloth else FINE IN DUST WRAPPER. The dust wrapper (illustrated 177. LEWITT AND HIM. THE FOOTBALL’S REVOLT. Lond:Country Life 1939. by Ellen Raskin), is in really nice condition with price intact (very faint fading 4to, pict. boards, sl. wear to tail of spine else Fine. A stunning picture book where seal was removed, a light bit of soil on the rear panel and a touch of wear by these noted Polish emigré artists featuring striking full page and smaller to spine ends). 1st edition 1st color illustrations - stylized and reminiscent of post-revolutionary Russia. See printing of this fantasy that Mahoney et al Illustrators of Child. Books p.333,335. $150.00 has become a modern classic. In the stranger than fiction 178. LEWITT AND HIM (illus). LA LOCOMOTIVE by Julien Tuwim. Paris:Ed. category, A Wrinkle In Time des Arts & Metiers Graphiques, circa 1934. Obl. 8vo, cl. backed pict. boards, had a difficult time getting light soil, Fine in chipped published. According to “A dw. Contains the title story Special Message from Madeline plus Le Navet and La Radio L’Engle” on the Random House des Oisueax. Wondrously web site: “After trying “forty- illustrated in color by LEWITT odd” publishers (L’Engle later and HIM (Polish artists) in said “twenty-six rejections”), art deco style. Listed as a L’Engle’s agent returned the notable foreign juvenile in vol.1 manuscript to her. Then at of Mahoney who comments on Christmas, L’Engle threw a tea the illustrator’s “vivid sense of party for her mother. One of strength and continuity (p.141- the guests happened to know 4). See also Opie: Treasures John Farrar of Farrar, Straus of Childhood p.41. very & Giroux, and insisted that scarce. $450.00 L’Engle should meet with him. Although the publisher did not at the time publish a line PETER PARLEY TO PENROD TITLE of children’s books, Farrar 179. LOFTING,HUGH. THE STORY OF DOCTOR DOLITTLE. NY:Stokes 1920 met L’Engle, liked the novel (1920). 8vo, orange cloth, pict. paste-on, 180p., VERY sl cover soil else clean and ultimately published it. A and near FINE. 1st edition of the FIRST DOCTOR DOLITTLE BOOK (PETER Wrinkle In Time is the winner PARLEY TO PENROD P. 138). Illustrated with pictorial endpapers, color frontis, of the NEWBERY AWARD and black and white plates plus many full page line illustrations by Lofting. Very hard the Shelf Award. to find in the condition. $1200.00 This is a really nice copy, very hard to find in collectible #179 condition. $9750.00

RARE LENSKI “NOAH” 175. LENSKI,LOIS. MR. AND MRS. NOAH. NY: Crowell (1948). Oblong 12mo (5 3/4 x 5”), cloth, VG+ in complete but sl. worn price- clipped dust wrapper. 1st ed. (correct code). The story of Noah is retold for the very young. Each page of text faces a bright and bold full page color illustration by Lenski. There are also color pictorial endpapers and dw by Lenski. Very scarce. $250.00 Marc Younger Pg 33 [email protected] McCLOSKEY’S 1ST BOOK 183. McCLOSKEY,ROBERT. LENTIL. NY: Viking 1940 (1940). Large 4to, cloth, Fine in VG lightly frayed dust wrapper with a few closed tears. FIRST EDITION 180. LOFTING,HUGH. VOYAGES OF OF McCLOSKEY’S FIRST BOOK! tThis is the story of a little boy who was very DOCTOR DOLITTLE. NY:Stokes 1922 happy except he couldn’t sing a note. Small town life in 1940’s America with (1922). 8vo, grey cloth stamped in black, great illustrations Bader p.154-5. $1350.00 pictorial paste-on, slightest of cover #183 soil, near fine. 1st edition. NEWBERY AWARD WINNER. Illustrated by Lofting with color pictorial endpapers, guarded color frontis, one other color plate plus charming black & whites. This is the second in the Doctor Dolittle series and also the second book to win the Newbery Award. Extremely scarce and a nice copy. $1200.00

181. (LORIOUX,FELIX)illus. LE BUFFON DES ENFANTS: LES OISEAUX DE CHEZ NOUS by Bernard Roy. Paris: Marcus (1946). Square 4to (10 x 10”), pictorial boards, slight edge rubbing, near fine. Featuring the most absolutely stunning full page color illustrations by Lorioux of birds (rooster, stork, owl, peacock, pelican etc.) accompanied by his detailed and humorous humanized animals and insects. Beautifully printed with rich colors including pictorial endpapers. $300.00

20th CENTURY RARITY 184. McCLOSKEY,ROBERT. MAKE WAY FOR DUCKLINGS. NY:Viking / Junior Literary Guild 1941 (1st published August 1941). 4to, rust colored cloth with picture of a duck in lower right corner, bottom edge rubbed and the inevitable and always present offset on endpapers from binding else VG+ in dust wrapper with price intact, with no award medal and with no mention of the Junior Literary Guild. (Jacket has 1/4” piece off spine ends and corners, fraying with some closed tears on bottom edge, rough at crease). 1st edition, CALDECOTT AWARD WINNER.

[A word of explanation about the Junior Literary Guild: The Junior Literary Guild was created in 1929 as a literary book club for children. It prided itself in often selecting the best award winning books before publication. This is most likely due to its editorial board that included amongst others Carl Van Doren and Eleanor Roosevelt who was an active member of the board. Unlike other book clubs that FIRST AMERICAN EDITION offered cheap reprints, the Guild books used first edition sheets with the only 182. MACDONALD,GEORGE. AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND. NY: changes being different binding color and the inclusion of the words “Junior Lit. George Routledge & Sons 1871. 8vo (5 1/4 x 7 1/8”), blue cloth stamped in gold Guild” on the title page and spine. Because they are in fact first editions, Guild and black, all edges gilt, 378p., chip at head of spine, binding lightly rubbed books are almost as valuable as the Viking copies but they can sell for a bit less]. with slight lean and corner bump, really a nice bright VG+ copy. 1st American edition, printed from British sheets with the same dates on both title pages, Because every child who read this book, read it to death, first editions in dust this is one of a few copies sent to the U.S. to secure copyright. The story wrappers are notoriously rare, and ardently sought after. This one is a prize. was serialized beginning in 1868 in a children’s magazine Good Words For The See Bader p. 155-6. $7,500.00 Young. It is a fantasy adventure about a young boy named Diamond who flies to another country on the back of the lady North Wind. Illustrated by ARTHUR HUGHES with many detailed line illustrations throughout the text. Considered a masterpiece of children’s literature, this first edition is quite scarce. $1750.00 914.764.7410 Pg 34 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 118 185. MEGGENDORFER,LOTHAR. FUR BRAVE KINDER. Munchen: Braun & Schneider ca 1890. 4to, cl. backed boards, cover soiled and corners worn with new spine, VG-. Featuring 8 fine hand-colored tab operated moveable plates #185 including: two children playing with a pear tree, a boy on a toy rocking horse, two roosters, frogs and bird in river, cat and mouse, two soldiers, a family in a row boat and a man at a forge. $1750.00

RARE AND INGENIOUS MEGGENDORFER 186. MEGGENDORFER,LOTHAR. IM STADPARK [THE CITY PARK]. Munchen: Braun & Schneider, no date [1887]. 10.5 x 12”, pictorial boards, hinges strengthened, slight edge rubbing else near fine. An incredibly ingenious fold out book that can be opened up and arranged in a variety of ways, each offering a different view of a Sunday afternoon in a European park in 3 dimension. Inside each cover is a poem accompanied by diagrams of the various configurations (that can start at either end of the book). For instance, by arranging the book in a circle, the child gets to see one set of scenes and by placing it in a linear fashion there is another view. The magic is that all of the cut-out figures on all of the panels are illustrated on both sides and their images seem to fit effortlessly into whatever design the child cares to use. Rare. $7500.00

#186

RARE MEGGENDORFER PANORAMA 187. MEGGENDORFER.LOTHAR. IM SOMMER. Munchen: Braun & Schneider SET OF THE POOH BOOKS IN DUST WRAPPERS ca 1890, 19 auflage. Large oblong 4to, boards, near Fine. This is a 6panel 189. MILNE,A.A. WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG * WINNIE THE POOH * panorama offering one continuous scene of two young boys engaging in a variety * . Lond: Methuen (1924, of summertime activites - with fine hand-colored illustrations and with a few 1926, 1927, 1928). 8vo, blue, green, red and pink cloths, top edges gilt, books are lines of text beneath each illustration. $2000.00 VERY FINE IN DUST WRAPPERS (dw on When We Were Very Young has light general soil and fraying at spine extrems, dw on Winnie and Now We Are Six are sunned on spines with fraying to head of spine, other dw near fine). As a set it is quite attractive, protected with cloth covers with leather labels. First editions (When We Were Very Young has p.ix, thus not 1st state). Charmingly illustrated in line by E.H. SHEPARD. $15,000.00

188. MEXICO. CUENTOS MEXICANOS (by)

Pascuala Corona. Mexico:1945 (1945) large

4to, blue cloth sl. faded on edges else VG in tattered dw. Illustrated by “T” with brightly colored plates done in an interesting and FINE LIMITED WINNIE SIGNED BY MILNE 190. MILNE,A.A. WINNIE THE POOH. Lond: Methuen (1926). 4to, cloth somewhat primitive style. A beautiful book. backed boards, Fine in dust wrapper (dw VG, some toning with small repair to chips at folds). Housed in custom chemise and 1/4 leather case. 1st ed. LARGE $100.00 PAPER COPY LIMITED TO 350 NUMBERED COPIES ON HANDMADE PAPER SIGNED BY MILNE AND SHEPARD! Illustrated by E.H. Shepard. $16,500.00 (SEE ILLUS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT ------>>>>>>> Marc Younger Pg 35 [email protected] ONE OF 20 COPIES PRINTED ON VELLUM FINE COPY OF RARE BOOK OF POETRY BY MONTGOMERY 191. MILNE,A.A. WINNIE THE POOH. London: Methuen (1926). 4to, FULL 194. MONTGOMERY,L.M. THE WATCHMAN AND OTHER POEMS. Toronto: VELLUM BINDING, very light soil else fine. 1st edition. ONE OF ONLY 20 McClelland, Goodchild and Stewart (1916). 8vo, blue cloth printed in black, 159p., COPIES PRINTED ON VELLUM AND SIGNED BY MILNE AND SHEPARD. Rare FINE condition. 1st edition, (published in the U.S. a year later). Poetry had in this extremely limited version. $57,500.00 long been Montgomery’s passion, but prior to this book she didn’t pursue it. The poem “The Watchman” was read at her funeral. This is a scarce title in any condition and when found always has several defects. This is a beautiful copy, rare in this condition. $3000.00

ABC INSCRIBED BY MORROW / D’HARNONCOURT ILLUSTRATIONS FAIRIES AND HUMANIZED 195. MORROW,ELIZABETH. (D’HARNONCOURT,RENE) BEAST, BIRD AND INSECTS AND FROGS FISH by Elizabeth Morrow. NY: Alfred A. Knopf 1933 (1933). 4to (8 1/4 x 13 192. (MOE,LOUIS)illus. DEN 3/4”), pictorial cloth, some cover soil else VG+, no dust wrapper. Stated 1st GRONNE SPILLEMAND [THE edition. This is an animal alphabet book with text presented in verse and including GREEN FIDDLER] by George musical notation. Every Kalkar. Copenhagen: Henrik letter has a very beautiful Koppels nd ca 1920’s. Large full page color illustration by obl. 4to, cl. backed pict. bds, RENE D’HARNONCOURT in light cover soil VG+. A fabulous his distinctive folk-peasant book full of humanized insects, style and with his use of flat frogs and fairies. Illus., with colors. A perfect alphabet 10 fine full page color plates and book by the collaborators of many detailed black and whites the Painted Pig (Morrow was on text pages - similar to Elsa Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s Beskow in style. A great picture mother and wife of the book. $200.00 American ambassador to Mexico). THIS COPY IS INSCRIBED BY ELIZABETH MORROW. Bader p.71. Very INSCRIBED BY MONTGOMERY! scarce. $400.00 193. MONTGOMERY,L.M. RILLA OF INGLESIDE. NY: Frederick Stokes (1921). 8vo, blue cloth, pictorial paste-on, Fine condition. 1st ed. (simultaneous with Canadian ed.). Set on Prince Edward Island, this is a continuation of the Anne of Green Gables saga telling of Anne’s daughter Rilla. Illustrated by #193 MARIA KIRK with color frontis. that is repeated on cover. THIS COPY IS INSCRIBED: YOURS SINCERELY L.M. MONTGOMERY NOV. 20 1921. Books inscribed by Montgomery are hard to find. $5500.00 (SEE ILLUS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT ------>>>>>>>

#190 914.764.7410 Pg 36 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 118 RARE HAND-COLORED RARE VOLLAND GEAR MECHANISM MOVEABLE MOVEABLE ABC 200. MOVEABLE. (VOLLAND) MY WHIRLIGIG FAIR BOOK by Ruth Stemm 196. MOVEABLE. (ABC) Morgan. Minneapolis: Gordon VOLLAND (Buzza), 1929. Folio (11 x 12 3/8”), cloth IMPROVED MOVEABLE backed pictorial boards, slight bit of cover fading, else near Fine. Each page is ALPHABET. no pub. info., completely and brightly illustrated in typical Volland colors in a style identical to circa 1840. There is a Janet Laura Scott’s or Gertrude Kay’s. There are 8 moveable pages operated charming (7 1/2 x 6”) hand with notched wheels with GEAR MECHANISMS so that turning one wheel causes colored illustration showing another wheel to turn and 2 pieces move. This is an unusual mechanism and a rare a mid-19th century family Volland book. $1250.00 together in their game room. There is a small hole cut in the picture and when the wheel is turned, different letters of the alphabet are shown. Rare. $1200.00

MOVEABLE BY SIGMUND FREUD’S NIECE 197. MOVEABLE. DAS WUNDERHAUS von TOM SEIDMANN-FREUD. Berlin: Stuffer 1927. The very scarce FIRST EDITION with no other dates on bottom of front cover. 4to, cloth backed pict. boards, near Fine. A unique activity and moveable book, done by Sigmund Freud’s niece. Each page offers the reader a different activity from lifting flaps to reveal pictures beneath, to turning a wheel to WONDERFUL MOVEABLE MOTHER change scenes, to creating text GOOSE for different stories by using a 201. MOVEABLE. (WEHR) ANIMATED moveable grid. Das Wunderhaus MOTHER GOOSE. NY: Grosset & Dunlap (The House of Wonders) is one (1942). Oblong 4to (10 1/2 x 8”), spiral of only 2 moveable books done backed pictorial boards, FINE IN DUST by Ms. Seidmann Freud whose WRAPPER (dw sl. soiled). Illustrated with books were “very successful but color lithos by JULIAN WEHR including disappeared from bookstores in 4 fabulous tab-operated moveable about 1937 owing to the author’s plates. A great copy of a scarce Wehr non Aryan descent.” The book title . $325.00 comes with 2 separate grids and one color picture and has 5 leaves UNCOMMON WEHR MOVEABLE with 9 activities. (See Hurlimann 202. MOVEABLE. (WEHR) FUN WITH p.216-17). This is a nice copy FACES by Van. Garden City: Garden City of an exceedingly scarce book. Books 1950. 4to, spiral backed bds, tiny $3250.00 bit of rubbing else near fine. Limerick style verses by Van are illustrated in bright color throughout by Julian Wehr. EARLY HAND-COLORED DEAN MOVEABLE Featuring 6 comical color plates operated 198. MOVEABLE. (DEAN HAND-COLORED) THE OLD WOMAN AND HER with tabs letting the reader make comical SILVER PENNY. London: Dean & Son 11 Ludgate Hill 1858 (1858 code on rear faces. $450.00 cover). 4to (7 x 10”), cloth backed pictorial boards, some edge rubbing else VG+. Featuring 8 fine hand-colored moveable plates operated by tabs with several pieces moving simultaneously. The text is beneath each illustration. Scarce and a beautiful copy. $3500.00

#199

FINE NISTER MOVEABLE 199. MOVEABLE. (NISTER) VANISHING PICTURES: a novel picture book with dioramic effects. London: Nister, no date, circa 1890. 4to (8 1/2 x 9”), cloth backed pictorial boards, VG-Fine. Featuring 6 round chromolithographed pages with ribbon ties. The upper illustration revolves to reveal a new illustration below. Also illustrated in brown line. The illustrations are particularly charming in this book, which is also in especially nice shape. $900.00 (SEE ILLUS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT ------>>>>>>> Marc Younger Pg 37 [email protected] NAZI ANTI-SEMITIC CHILDREN’S BOOK 206. NAZI CHILDREN’S BOOK. DER GIFTPILZ [THE POISONED MOVEABLE MUSHROOM] by Ernst Hiemer. Nurnberg: Sturmer (1938 31-60 tausand). 4to WIZARD OF OZ (8 1/4 x 10 1/2”), cloth spine and edges, pictorial boards, near Fine. Published by 203. MOVEABLE. WIZARD Der Sturmer under the direction of the notorious Julius Streicher. Illustrated OF OZ by L. Frank in full color by Fips featuring grossly stereotypical depictions of Jewish men Baum. Akron: Saalfield and women. The Jews are portrayed as dirty and conniving and the German 1944. 8vo (6 3/4 x 8 3/4”), youth as wholesome and clean. This title, along with Elvira Bauer’s “Trau Keinem spiral backed bds, Fine Fuchs” remains one of the most striking examples of the power of propaganda in in chipped dust wrapper. children’s literature, however this title is more difficult to find. $4000.00 This is the wonderful animated edition featuring 6 fine moveable plates by JULIAN WEHR as well as many color illustrations throughout the text. Scarce in dw. $400.00

204. (NARBUT,GEORGY)illus. IGRISHKY (TOYS). Moscow:Knebel 1911. 4to, stiff pictorial wraps, near Fine. Illustrated with 9 very stylized and beautiful color illustrations enclosed within decorative border. Narbut was a student of Bilibin and his books are especially desirable. This is a beautiful copy. $750.00

#204

DER STURMER ANTI-SEMITIC CHILDREN’S BOOK 207. (NAZI CHILDREN’S BOOK) DER PUDELMOPSDACKELPINSCHER UNE ANDERE BESINNLICHE ERZAHLUNGEN (The Poodle-Pug-Dachsund-Pinscher) and Other Contemplative Narratives) by Ernst Hiemer and illustrated by Willi Hofmann. Nurmberg: Der Sturmer - Buchverlag, (1940). First edition. The third and last of Julius Streicher’s children’s books published by Der Sturmer. Although not in full color like the others (Der Giftpilz & Trau Keinem Fuchs), this book is considered the most virulently anti-semitic with several stories ending with outright calls to kill the Jews. Illustrated by Hoffman with simple black and white line drawings of the unpleasant creatures that were compared to Jews. Few copies in collectible condition are known. Scarce in any condition but even more so in this tight, clean copy. $5000.00

#207

NAZI ANTI-SEMITIC CHILDREN’S BOOK 205. NAZI - ANTI-SEMITISM. EIN BILDERBUCH FUR GROSS UND KLEIN (on title page) TRAU KEINEM FUCHS AUF GRUENER HEID’ UND KEINEM JUD’ BEI SEINEM EID Ein Bilderbuch fur Gross und Klein von Elvira Bauer. The title translates to “Trust No Fox On The Green Heath and No Jew By His Oath. Nurnburg: Sturmer Verlag, (1936). Oblong 4to (9 1/4 x 8”), cloth backed pictorial boards, occasional spot else VG+. First edition of the most virulently anti-Semitic children’s book ever printed. Illustrated in bright colors with the fine German color printing typical of the era, Jews are depicted as the most base and vile beings that exist - unshaven, dirty, leering, nasty and monstrous. The Germans are of course angelic, strong, clean and brave. The accompanying text, written by a kindergarten teacher, is full of hate for the Jews and it is horrifying to think that this is what little children grew up learning as fact in their classrooms. It is not necessary to read German to understand the message of this book. The publisher Sturmer under the direction of Julius Streicher also published the virulently anti semitic newspaper Der Sturmer. First editions of this title are quite hard to find. $3500.00

#205 #205 914.764.7410 Pg 38 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 118 OJO IN OZ ORIGINAL DRAWINGS 211. (NIELSEN,KAY)illus. EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOON. 208. NEILL,JOHN R. ORIGINAL ART: SNUFFERBUX [from OJO IN OZ]. NY: Doran, circa 1920. Sm. 4to, yellow cloth, 204p., FINE IN DUSTWRAPPER (dw Offered here is a wonderful large drawing of Snufferbux the brown bear. The chipped). Illustrated by Nielsen with color pictorial endpapers, 25 magnificent image measures 9 1/2 x 11” matted to larger. Its executed in pencil and ink and mounted color plates plus numerous lovely black and whites throughout the has much detail. Sold with a FULL PAGE OF DRAWINGS of Snufferbox. There text. The dustwrapper repeats the title page illus. in orange. An especially are 9 charming pencil and ink drawings of Snufferbox in a variety of poses. The nice copy. $1000.00 image measures 8 x 10 and is matted to larger. Snufferbux appears in Ojo in Oz. He meets Ojo when they are both in captivity and they have many adventures together. $1600.00 #211

SIGNED/LIMITED EDITION OF PIRATE TWINS 209. NICHOLSON,WILLIAM. THE PIRATE TWINS. Lond: Faber and Faber [1929]. Oblong 8vo, pictorial boards, FINE. SPECIAL EDITION LIMITED TO BOXED NIELSEN IN POWDER AND CRINOLINE ONLY 60 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY NICHOLSON! A now classic book 212. (NIELSEN,KAY)illus. IN POWDER AND CRINOLINE: fairy tales retold about which Eyre says “a gay,witty, imaginative effort that was one of the most by Sir Arthur Quiller Couch. London: Hodder & Stoughton no date [1913]. 4to, successful British children’s books printed in color”(p.41). It was also successful lavender pictorial cloth, some light foxing throughout else really NEAR FINE IN in the United States with the striking color lithographs capturing the fancy of ORIGINAL PUBLISHERS PICTORIAL BOX WITH MOUNTED COLOR PLATE young and old alike. (See also Bader p.60- 61). This is a magnificent copy of the (box soiled, corners strengthened). 1st trade ed. (second issue bound all in cloth very rare limited edition. $4200.00 instead of cloth backed boards). Illustrated by Nielsen with 24 beautiful tipped-in color plates with pictorial tissue guards, pictorial endpapers plus text decorations. This is an excellent copy, rarely found with the original box. $1950.00

VERY FINE COPY OF NIELSEN’S “EAST OF THE SUN” 210. (NIELSEN,KAY)illus. EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOON. [London] Hodder & Stoughton, no date [1914]. Large 4to, (9 x 11 1/2”), blue cloth with extensive gilt decoration - a Very Fine copy with gilt bright. 1st edition of Nielsen’s most desired book, illustrated with pictorial endpapers and featuring 25 magnificent tipped-in color plates with lettered guards as well as numerous detailed black and whites throughout the text. A beautiful copy of the first edition. $4500.00 Marc Younger Pg 39 [email protected] SCARCE KEWPIE BOOK WITH BOXED KEWPIE HANKIES 216. O’NEILL,ROSE. THE KEWPIES THEIR BOOK written and illustrated CARNEGIE AWARD FANTASY by Rose O’Neill. NY: Frederick Stokes (Nov. 1913). 4to (8 1/4 x 11”), boards, 213. NORTON,MARY. THE pictorial paste-on, slightest bit of rubbing else near Fine condition. 1st edition BORROWERS. London: J.M. Dent of this early Kewpie book. Illustrated by O’Neill with pictorial endpapers, (1952). 8vo, blue pictorial cloth, cover plate, plus numerous 2-color illustrations on every page depicting the tiny imperfection in cloth else fine adventures of the Kewpies. Sold with the book is a BOXED SET OF 3 KEWPIE in a very good dust wrapper with HANDKERCHIEFS! The hankies measure 10 3/4” square and are silk screened slight fraying restored. 1st edition, with color images of the Kewpies and their friends. The publisher’s box, which Carnegie Award Winner. The first of has flaps strengthened, has a great pictorial cover of the Kewpies. Nice copies Norton’s wonderful fantasies about of the book are quite scarce and the boxed hankies are rare. $2200.00 these miniature people who must live by borrowing from humans, and what happens when their daughter becomes friendly with a human boy. Illustrated by DIANA STANLEY with pictorial endpapers, color frontis plus many nice text illustrations. (See Lynn p.157). $1450.00

1867 NOVELTY WITH ACTUAL CLOTH DRESSES 214. NOVELTY. (CLOTH DRESS BOOK) LINA, HET VERMISTE KIND naar het Engelsch. Deventer, A. Tjaden no date, inscribed 1867. 4to, cloth backed pictorial boards, 27p., several mends and binding strengthened, overall VG. Featuring 6 HAND-COLORED pages each with a detailed hand-colored scene; at the center of each page is a little girl wearing an ACTUAL CLOTH DRESS. There are 6 different and quite elaborate dresses, equal to six dressed dolls. An unusual novelty book in the same size and format as Dean’s Rose Merton. See Haining p. 27-29 for similar item. Very scarce. $1950.00

OUTHWAITE FAIRY STORY 217. [OUTHWAITE] RENTOUL,IDA)illus. THE LADY OF THE BLUE BEADS her book: being an account of her first blue moon spent on sun island by Annie R. Rentoul. Melbourne et al: George Robertson [1908]. 4to, cloth near fine. 1st ed. of Outhwaite’s 4th book and “her first major story book” (Muir/Holden p.40). This is a charming fairy-doll book with kangaroos, natives, fairies and “a distinctly Australian fairy story” (Muir: History p.71). Illustrated by Outhwaite with 13 full page and several partial page black & whites. See Muir Bib. p. 736. $1500.00

RARE NEWBERY WINNER - ANIMAL RIGHTS 215. O’BRIEN,ROBERT. MRS. FRISBY AND THE RATS OF NIMH. NY: Atheneum 1971 (1971). 8vo (5 1/2 x 8 1.2”)y cloth, 233p., fine in fine dust wrapper. Stated 1st edition. A story about animal testing told from the animal’s point of view. Illustrated by Zena Bernstein. NEWBERY AWARD WINNER. Made into a successful animated movie. First editions in this condition are rare and this is a great copy. $2500.00 914.764.7410 Pg 40 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 118 GLORIOUS POLAR BEARS 222. (PARRISH,MAXFIELD)illus. KNICKERBOCKER’S HISTORY OF NEW 218. PARKER,B. AND N. ARCTIC ORPHANS. London & Edinburgh.: W. YORK by Washington Irving (on cover). A History of New York From The Beginning & R. Chambers, no date, circa 1920. Oblong folio (12 1/4 x 9 1/2”), pictorial Of The World To The End Of The Dutch Dynasty by Diedrich Knickerbocker. boards, slight tip rubbing else FINE IN DUST WRAPPER (dw chipped NY: R.H. Russell, 1900 (1900). Folio (9 1/2 x 12 1/2”), cloth backed boards, with a few mends). The adventures of three young polar bears that lose pictorial paste-on, (299)p., top edge gilt, except for some spine and cover soil their parents is told in verse by B. Parker. Illustrated by N. Parker with and rubbing, this is a near Fine copy of the 1st edition. A very early Parrish work, 13 incredible full page full color illustrations plus illustrations in text, this features the cover plate plus 8 very wonderful black and white plates full pictorial endpapers and striking color covers. One of the rarest of the of detail and imagination that are a perfect partner to Irving’s clever parody. Parkers’ fine picture books and a beautiful copy in the rare dust wrapper. Printed by UPDIKE AT THE MERRYMOUNT PRESS. (See Ludwig p.25-6,30-1). $2000.00 A nice copy of a book that is hard to find in decent condition. $1850.00

PARKER’S HUMANIZED BUNNIES! 219. PARKER,B AND N. FUNNY BUNNIES. London: W.& R. Chambers, no date, circa 1905. Oblong folio, (12 3/4 x 9”), pictorial boards, light rubbing on edges and corners, near Fine. The daily doings of a family of humanized bunnies are told in verse. Illustrated by N. PARKER with 12 wonderfully detailed color plates and with illustrations in brown line INCREDIBLE COPY as well. This is a fine picture book in 223. PETERSHAM,MAUD & MISKA. MIKI AND MARY AND THEIR particularly nice condition. $1200.00 SEARCH FOR TREASURES. NY: Viking, 1934 (Nov. 1934). 4to (9 x 11 1/4”), cloth backed pictorial boards Fine in near Fine dust wrapper. 1st edition. Illustrated with full page color lithographs plus many partial page lithos as well. Miki and FINE COPY - EDITH WHARTON AND PARRISH Mary take a long trip to France, Italy, 220. (PARRISH,MAXFIELD) illus. ITALIAN VILLAS AND THEIR GARDENS Greece, Israel and elsewhere in search by Edith Wharton. NY: Century, 1904. 4to, gilt pictorial cloth, top edge gilt, of adventure. “A more perfect synthesis except for light corner bump and a very few fox spots on tissue guards, a Fine and a vicarious experience hard to top” bright copy. 1st edition. Beautiful cover by the firm Decorative Designers plus (Bader p.41). An especially nice, clean 26 stunning full page color and black and whites by Parrish. A lovely copy of book copy, rare in this condition. $200.00 that is collected for Wharton’s text as well as for the illustrations. $2500.00

#221

221. (PARRISH,MAXFIELD)illus. KNAVE OF HEARTS by Louise Saunders. NY: Scribner 1925 (1925) folio, black cloth, pictorial paste-on, FINE. First edition of Parrish’s masterwork. Illustrated with glorious pictorial endpapers plus really magnificent full page color illustrations (printed on rectos only) and numerous rich color illustrations in-text, all printed on thick, heavy coated paper. Beautiful copy. $3000.00 (SEE ILLUS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT ------>>>>>>> Marc Younger Pg 41 [email protected]

EASTER BUNNY FANTASY PICTURE BOOK BY GERMAN ARTIST 224. PICTURE BOOK. FUNNY BOOK OF BUNNY by Richard Priess. St. Louis: Louis Lange Pub. Co. 1923. 4to (7 1/2 x 8 3/4”), pictorial boards, 48p., some spine wear, slight cover soil, tight and VG+. The story in verse tells how the BEAUTIFUL PINKNEY ART Easter Bunny left his egg-laying job to travel the world. During his voyage he 226. PINKNEY,JERRY (HARRIS,JOEL CHANDLER)illus. ORIGINAL ART: escapes many disasters. He meets a stork that is tending to a brood of human MORE TALES OF UNCLE REMUS - RABBIT AND SNAKE - by Joel Chandler babies waiting to be delivered, he travels to Fairyland where fairy tale figures Harris. We are pleased to offer this art by Pinkney used in his edition of More come alive, Santa Claus hides Tales of Uncle Remus published in 1988 by Dial. This is a great watercolor that him in the clouds from appears as a double page spread on p. 54-55. The image is 14 1/4” wide x 10 1/2” the hunters, he winds up high on art paper 17 x 13 1/2” and is signed. $9500.00 in Africa with little Black children and so much more Jerry Pinkney has been illustrating children’s books since 1964 and has the happens until he returns rare distinction of being the recipient of three Caldecott Honor Medals -- in home in a dirigible just in 1995 for John Henry by Julius Lester (Dial), in 1990 for The Talking Eggs time for the next Easter by Robert D. San Souci (Dial) and in 1989 for Mirandy and Brother Wind by celebration. Each page Patricia C. McKissack (Knopf). He has won the Coretta Scott King Award three has a fantastic full page times and a Coretta Scott King Honor twice. Mr. Pinkney has received four color lithograph by German awards for his body of work: the Drexel Citation for Children’s Literature, illustrator Ernst Kutzer the David McCord Award , the Philadelphia School of Art and Design Alumni with pictorial endpapers Award, and the Keene State College Children’s Literature Festival Award. as well. The entire book is most likely translated In addition to his work on children’s books, he is an extremely successful artist from German origin. who has had eleven one-man retrospectives at venues ranging from the Museum Rare. $450.00 of the National Center of Afro-American Artists to the Art Institute of Chicago. His current one-man show entitled, “Building Bridges, the Art of Jerry Pinkney” NOAH’S ARK THEME was organized by the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum and will be traveling through 225. PICTURE BOOK. THE TOY VILLAGE by Georgia Roberts. London & 1998. Mr. Pinkney has illustrated for a wide variety of clients, including National NY: Nister & Dutton, no date, circa Geographic , the National Parks Service, the U.S. Postal Service, the American 1906. Oblong 4to (11 1/4 x 9”), Library Association and the Association of Booksellers for Children.... Many of Mr. cloth backed pictorial boards, edges Pinkney’s children’s books celebrate multicultural and African American themes. rubbed else VG+. This is a fabulous ‘Working on both the Uncle Remus tales and John Henry has shown me an important picture book with text in rhyme link between pivotal and opposite African American folk heroes. Brer Rabbit, the relating the tale of Noah and his sly trickster, originated during slavery and was the first African American folk crew after they came off of the Ark. hero. Slaves who wanted to get the better of their masters needed to be cunning Illustrated by Katharine Greenland and sly -- hence the trickster role.’ “ (from Penguin web site). $7500.00 with 20 full page chromolithographs portraying all of the characters as toys. See Peeps Into Nisterland p.281. This is a charming picture book. $400.00 914.764.7410 Pg 42 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 118 TOLMER ART DECO HAND-COLORED PICTURE BOOK POGANY’S RUBAIYAT IN LIMP 227. POCHOIR. HISTOIRE AVENTUREUSE DE LUDOVIC LE JOLI PETIT SUEDE AND BOX CANARD VERT [THE WONDERFUL ADVENTURES OF LUDO THE LITTLE 230. (POGANY,WILLY)illus. RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. London: Harrap GREEN DUCK] by Jack Roberts. Paris: [1909]. 4to (8 1/4 x 11 1/2”), full limp brown suede binding stamped in gold, top Tolmer 1924. 8vo (7 1/4 x 7”), pictorial edge gilt, except for a few scattered oxidation spots on first few pages this is boards, paper spine shows some flaking VERY FINE IN ORIGINAL PICTORIAL BOX (flaps repaired). First edition. This else VG+. Convinced that because he is is a lavish production, lithographed by Vincent Day and illustrated with pictorial green, he is meant for better things, endpapers, 24 tipped-in color plates, and decorative text-pages with calligraphy Ludo the little green duck leaves home by Pogany. Magnificent copy, rare in this binding and with the box. $1200.00 for adventure. He travels the world over only to discover there’s “no place like home.” Illustrated by Roberts with 1 double page and 6 full page absolutely stunning hand-colored, pochoir pages and illustrated in green and black on virtually every other page. Text is done in calligraphy and the overall style is classic Art Deco. A wonderful book. $600.00 #227

POGANY’S TANNHAUSER IN PUBLISHER’S BOX 231. (POGANY,WILLY)illus. TANNHAUSER by Richard Wagner. London: Harrap (1911). 4to (7 3/4 x 11”) grey cloth stamped in gold. FINE IN PUBLISHER’S LEGRAND’S FIRST BOOK PICTORIAL BOX (some 228. POCHOIR. MACAO ET COSMAGE par EDY LEGRAND. Paris:Nouvelle rubbing and tape marks Revue (Nov.30th 1919). Square folio, cloth backed pictorial boards, Nicely to box). 1st edition. A rebacked, covers sl. soiled, else clean and VG+. Really a masterpiece, every beautiful book, illustrated page is boldly illustrated with vibrant POCHOIR illustrations in bold colors to by Pogany with 16 tipped- accompany minimal text. Legrand’s first book for children. Bader (p.118) quotes in 4-color plates, full page critics of the era: “...far more inventive in ...sweeping use of color than almost black and whites, orange anything that has appeared since.” (See also Mahoney et all Notable books for text illustrations plus children p.147). A beauty. $300.00 beautiful color pictorial #228 endpapers. Calligraphic text with decorative initials also by Pogany, printed on heavy grey paper. A sumptuous production and a magnificent copy. $1350.00

WITH LARGE FINISHED WATERCOLOR ON ENDPAPER 232. POLITI,LEO. THE POINSETTIA. Best-West Pub. (1967). Folio (9 1/2 x 12 1/2”), pictorial cloth, Fine in dust wrapper. 1st edition. THIS COPY HAS A LARGE FINISHED WATERCOLOR ON A BLANK PRELIMINARY PAGE, SIGNED “SEASONS GREETINGS LEO POLITI”. A young boy and girl are standing between 2 trees on a blue background. There are flowers, bells and a butterfly on the branches. The book contains Christmas customs from various lands, explained by Politi and beautifully illustrated in full color throughout. Books by Politi with large finished watercolors like this are rare. $1500.00

POGANY’S LIMITED “MOTHER GOOSE” 229. POGANY,WILLY. WILLY POGANY’S MOTHER GOOSE. NY: Nelson (1928). 4to, 1/4 cloth, blue boards, fine. First edition, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES NUMBERED AND SIGNED BY WILLY POGANY. One of the most outstanding editions of Mother Goose, illustrated by Pogany with unique full page color illustrations as well as many half-page color illustrations, marvelous black and whites and silhouettes all in classic Art Deco style. Wonderful and also exceptionally rare in the limited edition. $2750.00 Marc Younger Pg 43 [email protected] 233. POP-UP. (BLUE RIBBON / PLEASURE BOOKS) TIM TYLER IN THE POP-UP TARZAN JUNGLE by Lyman Young. Chicago: Pleasure Book (1935). 4to (8 x 9 1/4”), 237. POP-UP. (BLUE RIBBON/PLEASURE BOOKS) NEW ADVENTURES OF pictorial boards, some light wear, near FINE! Featuring 3 wonderful color pop-up TARZAN “POP-UP” by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Chic: Pleasure Books/Blue Ribbon pages and illustrated in black & white on text pages. See Whitton: Paper Toys of (1935). Sq. 4to, pictorial bds, a few areas of rubbing on page opposite the title the World who calls these pop-ups “spectacular” (p. 74, illus. p.75). One of the (not bad) else VG-Fine. A fabulous pop-up Tarzan book with 3 double- page pop- scarcer books in this series and an excellent copy. $475.00 ups by STEPHEN SLESINGER and with 2 b&w’s on each page of text. A nice copy of the rarest title in this series. $725.00

234. POP-UP. (BLUE RIBBON) DICK TRACY: THE CAPTURE OF BORIS ARSON by Chester Gould. Chicago: Pleasure Books (1935). 4to (8 x 9 1/4”), pictorial boards, a Fine copy. Illustrated with 3 great color pop-ups and with black and whites all throughout the text. Whitten: Paper Toys of the World p. 76. $650.00 BOOKANO IN BOX 238. POP-UP. (BOOKANO) BOOKANO STORIES NO. 4 ed. by S. Louis Giraud. London: Strand no date ca 1937. 4to (7 x 8 1/2”), pictorial boards, slight rubbing, near FINE IN ORIGINAL PUBLISHER’S BOX. Featuring 5 particularly wonderful double page color pop-ups, full of action and detail including a great SANTA AND CHRISTMAS TREE, Enchanted Horse, Pan and his Pipes, Prehistoric Man and a funny pop-up dog. Illustrated in color and b&w to accompany a variety of stories. Beautiful copy, rare in box. $450.00

235. POP-UP. (BLUE RIBBON) JACK THE GIANT KILLER and other tales. NY: Blue Ribbon (1932). Pictorial boards, except for the usual hinge strains and some internal margin soil this is in near FINE condition in dust wrapper (dw soiled and frayed). Containing the title story as well as Little Red Riding Hood and Sleeping Beauty. Illustrated by HAROLD LENTZ LENTZ with color endpapers, many black and whites and 4 fabulous double page color pop-ups. 239. POP-UP. (BOOKANO) BOOKANO STORIES NO.9 ed. by S. Louis Giraud. Because of the thickness of the pages few copies of this title have survived. A London: Strand no date, circa 1940. 4to (7 x 8 1/2”), pictorial boards, Fine nice copy of a marvelous pop-up. $750.00 condition. Featuring 5 particularly wonderful double page color pop-ups, full of action and detail including Arabian Nights, Birthday Party, Chinese Pagoda, a peacock and a stork attacking a frog. Illustrated in color and black & white to accompany a variety of stories. Nice copy! $450.00

RARE BLUE RIBBON POP-UP 236. POP-UP. (BLUE RIBBON) MOTHER GOOSE. NY: Blue Ribbon (1933). Thick #236 4to (7 x 8 3/4”), pictorial boards, hinges strengthened with some stress on binding, but it is tight and VG IN DUST WRAPPER (dw frayed at spine ends). Hundreds of nursery rhymes are illustrated by HAROLD LENTZ with color endpapers, many black and whites and 4 fabulous double page color pop-ups. Because of the thickness of the pages few copies of the thick Blue Ribbon pop-ups have survived in fine condition and this seems to be the rarest title in this series. $975.00 (SEE ILLUS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT ------>>>>>>> 914.764.7410 Pg 44 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 118 240. POP-UP. (BOOKANO) HANS ANDERSEN’S FAIRY STORIES. London: 244. POP-UP. (KUBASTA) TIP AND TOP GO CAMPING. (London: Bancroft Strand no date, circa 1945. 8vo, pictorial boards, small nick on endpaper else 1962). Large 4to (10 1/8” square), stiff pictorial card covers, near Fine. This near Fine and bright. This Bookano pop-up has 8 fairy tales by Andersen and is a fabulous action book featuring 6 double-page pop-up pages that also have features 4 great pop-ups that can be viewed from 2 sides. Nice copy. $350.00 moveable tab-operated parts. Illustrations in color and moveables designed by V. KUBASTA. $475.00

McLOUGHLIN POP-UP WITH MOVEABLE CREPE PAPER POP-UP 245. POP-UP. (McLOUGHLIN) LITTLE 241. POP-UP. (CREPE PAPER) CINDERELLA. Phil.: B. Wilmsen ca 1900. 4to (7 3/8 SHOWMAN’S SERIES NO.2: WINTER. x 10 3/4”), stiff pictorial wraps, some cover soil, VG+. Illustrated with 5 double- NY: McLoughlin Bros. 1884. Folio, 10 1/2” page chromolithographed scenes onto which are applied folded crepe-paper pop- x 13 1/2”, cloth backed pictorial boards, ups that replace part of the picture and pop-up as the page is turned. $450.00 some edge wear else VG+. A very scarce Mcloughlin pop-up, this features 1 beautiful chromolithographed 3- dimensional pop- up scene of children enjoying the winter weather in front of their house. The verse is on the lower board. By pushing in the window on the house, another room in the house is revealed in quite a clever way. The rear cover shows a sample page of New Object Teaching Book. $625.00

RARE BLIMP POP-UP 246. POP-UP. (NISTER) AIRSHIP PANORAMA BOOK. London & NY: Nister & Dutton, no date, circa 1910. Oblong 4to (8 1/2 x 7 1/2”), cloth backed pictorial boards, slightest but of cover rubbing else a fine copy. Illustrated with 4 fabulous pop-up pages, each with a different blimp or balloon that pops-up as the page is turned: airship flies over a polar bear in the frozen north, airship flies over soldiers in the battlefield firing a gun, airship flies over a garden party JOLLY JUMP-UP ABC BOOK with festive balloons, airship hovers over the Statue Of Liberty in New York 242. POP-UP. (JOLLY JUMP-UP) THE JOLLY JUMP-UPS ABC BOOK by Harbor. The text is in verse and text pages are illustrated in brown. Rarely Geraldine Clyne. Springfield: McLoughlin 1948. Oblong 4to, pictorial boards, found in such nice intact condition. $2750.00 slight edge wear, else VG+. Illustrated with 6 wonderful double-page pop-ups that also have some moveable pieces. Nice book! $200.00

WONDERFUL SCARCE KUBASTA SPACE TRAVEL POP-UP 243. POP-UP. (KUBASTA) TIP AND TOP DANS LA LUNE [TIP AND TOP AND THE MOON ROCKET]. Paris: Del Duca 1965. Square 4to (10”), stiff pictorial card covers, some edge rubbing RARE PETER RABBIT MOVEABLE and some non offensive pen marks on rear 247. [POTTER,BEATRIX]. PETER RABBIT MOVIE. NY: Toy Pub. Co. 1930. cover, VG+. This fabulous action book Obl. 4to, pict. card covers, VG+. Inside, there is a color illustration with a features 6 double-page pop-up pages each window. When the wheel is turned, various color scenes appear through the hole. of which also has moveable tab-operated Illustrated in color by an unknown hand. Very scarce. $375.00 parts - all showing the space adventures (SEE ILLUS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT ------>>>>>>> of Tip and Top. Illustrated in color by V. Kubasta who also designed the moveables. Rare. $450.00 Marc Younger Pg 45 [email protected] RARE POTTER IN DUST WRAPPER IN RARE PRINTED DUST WRAPPER 248. POTTER,BEATRIX. SISTER ANNE. Philadelphia: David McKay (1932). 251. POTTER,BEATRIX. TALE OF TIMMY TIPTOES. London: Warne 1911 8vo (5 3/4 x 7 3/4”), blue gilt pictorial cloth, 154p., gilt on cover bright, slightly (1911). 12mo (4 1/4 x 5 3/4”), dark green boards, pictorial paste-on, small owner dulled on spine, a Fine copy IN THE RARE PICTORIAL DUST WRAPPER (back inscription else Fine IN ORIGINAL PRINTED GLASSENE WRAPPER which lists strip of dw faded, square chip off of top of backstrip with light fraying, old this title last on the rear panel, lists Roly Poly, Pie, and Ginger on front flap and mend at fold). 1st edition second issue with frontis correctly placed. Illustrated Fierce Bad Rabbit and Miss Moppet on rear flap. (wrapper has 1/2” chip top of by KATHARINE STURGES with 13 full page black and whites which includes the spine, base of spine has “1-net” price, a few smaller chips elsewhere but overall frontis repeated at p. 136 but which is not listed in the illustration list. Linder VG). 1st ed. Illustrated with color frontis plus 26 color plates and pictorial explains that “after the Tale of Little Pig Robinson had been published in America, endpapers (plate X, Quinby 20). Exceptional copy, rare in wrapper. $3250.00 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

252. (PROVENSEN,ALICE AND MARTIN) A VISIT TO WILLIAM BLAKE’S INN by Nancy Willard. NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1981). 4to (8 1/4 x 10 1/4”), cloth backed boards, AS NEW in dust wrapper. 1st edition, winner of both the NEWBERY AWARD AND CALDECOTT HONOR featuring great color illustrations throughout. $200.00

DELUXE BINDING JEREMY FISHER 249. POTTER,BEATRIX. TALE OF MR. JEREMY FISHER. Lond & NY:Warne 1906 (1906). 12mo, lavender cloth, gilt lettering and decorations, pictorial paste- on, all edges gilt, paste-on scraped, some rear cover soil,hinge rubbing, VG. 1st ed. (Quinby 10), DELUXE BINDING (this not in Quinby) with 26 color illustrations and text all relating the mis-adventures of this wonderful humanized frog. Rare in this binding. $2500.00

#250 1907 DELUXE EDITION OF PETER RABBIT 250. POTTER,BEATRIX. THE TALE OF PETER RABBIT. London, Warne [1907]. Deluxe edition, 1907 printing, 12mo, Green moire silk binding with gilt stamping and color onlay. All edges gilt, pictorial endpapers and color illustrations including the re-engraved rabbits on p. 68 and p. 81. Very minor soil to covers, VG+.

Lindner (p.422) notes that in the autumn of 1907 a new set of blocks was made and 2 of the drawings are different. Deluxe editions of Peter Rabbit began in 1902 when the first trade edition was published. This 1907 deluxe edition is the first using the newly redesigned plates and I find no specific mention of it in any of the standard Potter references. I did locate another 1907 deluxe edition, that one in brown.

Very scarce and a wonderful addition to a Potter collection. $7500.00 (SEE ILLUS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT ------>>>>>>> #247 914.764.7410 Pg 46 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 118 RARE PUBLISHER’S MOROCCO IN PUBLISHER’S BOX RARE SIGNED EDITION OF ONLY 50 COPIES 253. PYLE,HOWARD. ’S BOOK OF PIRATES compiled by Merle 256. (RACKHAM,ARTHUR)illus. FAIRY TALES OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM Johnson. NY: Harper & Brothers. 1921 (1921 KV). Folio (9 3/4 x 12 1/2”), full translated by Mrs. Edgar Lucas. NY: Doubleday Page 1909. Large thick 4to brown morocco stamped in gold with gold decoration, top edge gilt, Fine condition (10 1/4 x 12 3/4”), 325p., full limp suede binding with yapp edges, top edge in original publisher’s box with printed label stamped “full morocco” (box flaps gilt, others uncut, moire endpapers, gilt pictorial spine, repair to corner of rear repaired). 1st edition, early printing. A collection of pirate stories compiled by endpaper, faint crease on corner of frontis some wear to suede on edges as is Johnson and illustrated by Pyle with pictorial endpapers plus an abundance of inevitable with this type of binding, else near FINE and remarkably sound and color and black & white plates as well as many line illustrations throughout the clean. This is the rare DELUXE AMERICAN LARGE PAPER EDITION SIGNED BY text. (This copy is boldly signed by Percival G. Hart, most likely the distinguished RACKHAM ON THE HALF-TITLE AND LIMITED TO ONLY 50 COPIES. Printed World War I hero awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and author of a book on fine paper and featuring 40 fabulous tipped-in color plates with guards plus on the 135th Aero Squadron). Nice copy of the rare leather binding. $1800.00 a profusion of full page and smaller black and whites. This is the only American limited edition of this title, never issued as a typical American limited edition. Arguably his best work and very, very rare in this edition in such nice condition. Not in Latimore/Haskell. Riall p.97, Swann/Sutton sale #112. $6000.00

WITH EXTRA COLOR PLATE SIGNED BY RACKHAM 257. (RACKHAM,ARTHUR)illus. LITTLE BROTHER & LITTLE SISTER by the RACKHAM’S “ALICE” LIMITED EDITION Brothers Grimm. London: Constable (1917). Folio (9 1/2 x 12”), grey cloth with 254. (RACKHAM,ARTHUR)illus. ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN pictorial label stamped in gold, top edge gilt, bottom edge of both covers have WONDERLAND by Lewis Carroll. London & NY:Heinemann and a corner stain 3” long, 1/2” high, stain inside rear cover and on corner of one Doubleday nd [1907]. Large 4to, green cloth spine, gilt green boards page else tight, clean and VG. LIMITED TO ONLY 525 NUMBERED COPIES with mounted illustration, teg, edges sl. rubbed else near Fine. SIGNED BY RACKHAM COMPLETE WITH THE ADDITIONAL SIGNED COLOR Limited to 500 numbered copies for the US. Illustrated with 13 large, fabulous PLATE IN THE ENVELOPE! Illustrated by Rackham with 13 beautiful tipped-in tipped-in color plates by Rackham (with guards) and with numerous full page and color plates (one more than in the trade edition) plus pictorial endpapers and in-text illustrations in line as well as pictorial endpapers. The color plates in 43 black & whites to accompany 40 fairy tales. This is a hard to find limited the limited edition are considerably larger than those in the trade edition and edition with great Rackham illustrations, rarely found complete with the extra because the paper is hand-made, the black and whites reproduce with greater color plate. $3500.00 clarity in this limited edition. Quite scarce in this binding. $2000.00 #257

#255

RACKHAM LIMITED EDITION 255. (RACKHAM,ARTHUR)illus. THE ALLIES’ FAIRY BOOK with intro. by Edmund Gosse. London: Heinemann no date [1916]. 4to, gilt cloth, top edge gilt, cloth darkened slightly on edges and some foxing, a miniscule corner crease else VG. LIMITED TO ONLY 525 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY RACKHAM. A collection of fairy tales from various countries (English, Scottish, Welsh, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Russian and more) with lengthy and informative introduction by Gosse. Featuring 12 magnificent tipped-in color plates and a profusion of fabulous line illustrations throughout the text that reproduce with superior clarity due to the fine quality paper used in this edition. $1850.00 (SEE ILLUS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT ------>>>>>>> Marc Younger Pg 47 [email protected] FANTASTIC RACKHAM WATERCOLOR RACKHAM’S LIMITED/SIGNED “PETER PAN” 258. (RACKHAM,ARTHUR)illus. ORIGINAL ART: SIEGFRIED AND THE 260. (RACKHAM,ARTHUR)illus. PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS TWILIGHT OF THE GODS. We’re pleased to offer a wonderful watercolor by by J.M. Barrie. London: Hodder & Stoughton 1906. Large 4to (9 1/2 x 11”), full Rackham used in Siegfried And The Twilight Of The Gods published in 1911. The vellum binding with gilt design, slightest bit of cover soil and some very minor image measures 6 1/4 x 10 1/4”, beautifully framed (plexiglass) to 16” wide x 20” high, foxing. Near Fine condition lacking ties, housed in a custom quarter morocco in fine condition, signed and dated. The image shows the Wanderer and the Dwarf; solander case. LIMITED TO 500 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY RACKHAM! the former has challenged the dwarf to answer a second riddle in order to save his Featuring 50 mounted color plates with tissue guards (in rear of book) and with life. This is a fantastic piece, richly colored and with much detail. $45,000.00 black & white drawing on title page and endpaper. Most people don’t realize that this is the true first edition of this title, not simply the first illustrated edition. This is a beautiful copy of one of the scarcest and most desired Rackham limited editions. (Latimore /Haskell p.27; Cutler:Barrie Bibliog. #56). $9500.00

#259

LIMITED EDITION WITH ORIGINAL RACKHAM DRAWING 259. (RACKHAM,ARTHUR)illus. PEER GYNT by Henrick Ibsen. London: Harrap (1936). 4to (8 x 10 3/4”), full vellum decorated in gold, top edge gilt VERY FINE. LIMITED TO ONLY 460 COPIES SIGNED BY RACKHAM! Illustrated with pictorial endpapers, 12 color plates, plus numerous fanciful black and whites. With this copy is THE ORIGINAL PEN AND INK DRAWING THAT APPEARS ON PAGE 78 OF THE TEXT! The drawing is actually larger than the printed version, it measures 5 1/2 x 5”, and depicts a bevy of wierd and fanciful goblins in motion. A special copy, the book itself being very scarce and made extra special with the drawing. $8500.00 (SEE ILLUS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT ------>>>>>>> 914.764.7410 Pg 48 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 118 RACKHAM’S PETER PAN IN ORIGINAL BOX 261. (RACKHAM,ARTHUR)illus. PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS by J.M. Barrie. London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date [1912]. Large 4to (9 x 11 #261 1/8”), green, smooth, gilt pictorial cloth, 125 numbered pages, a FINE COPY IN THE PUBLISHER’S BOX AND PRINTED GLASSENE WRAPPER WITH A BLIND STAMPED DESIGN (dw creased, box dusty with flaps repaired). First edition of Rackham’s enlarged edition, first issue with pictorial endpapers and title printed in 2 colors. This has a new color plate done for this edition, plus there are 7 black and whites not in the 1906 edition. In all, illustrated by Rackham with 50 mounted color plates with tissue guards and with 7 full page black and whites and pictorial endpapers. The illustration on the box cover is plate 37 “An afternoon when gardens were white with snow”. An excellent copy of one of Rackham’s most desired titles, rare in the box. (Latimore/Haskell p.40, Riall p. 114.) $3750.00 (SEE ILLUS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT ------>>>>>>>

RARE RACKHAM RIP VAN WINKLE GERMAN PORTFOLIO 262. (RACKHAM,ARTHUR)illus. RIP VAN WINKLE von Washington Irving. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann 1905. Large 4to (9 1/2 x 12”), Fine. The text is perfect bound in green wraps, illustrated in line. Each of the 50 incredible tipped-in color plates is mounted on a separate sheet of heavy green paper (plates have a white border). Both the text and the illustrations are housed in the original RARE CURIOUS GEORGE’S ABC publisher’s tan cloth portfolio that has lettering and an illustration in brown on 265. REY,H.A. CURIOUS GEORGE LEARNS THE ALPHABET. Boston: Houghton the cover. Printed in Leipzig on fine laid paper. First German edition. Although Mifflin 1963 (1963). Small 4to, (7 1/4 x 9 1/4”), pictorial cloth, child’s name on not a stated limited edition and not signed, this is obviously a deluxe production. endpaper else Fine in dust wrapper with small piece off corner and a few closed Not in Riall or Latimore/Haskell. A beautiful copy, rare. $2750.00 tears. 1st edition. The letters are shown integrated into actual objects and animals, brightly illustrated in color on every page. Scarce in dust wrapper. $2000.00

RAND’S FIRST CHILDREN’S BOOK 263. (RAND,PAUL)illus. I KNOW A LOT OF THINGS by Ann and Paul Rand. NY: Harcourt Brace and World (1956). 4to, (8 3/4 x 10 1/4”), pictorial cloth, fine in dust wrapper (some general shelf soil on dw else VG). Stated 1st edition. Paul Rand was an acclaimed artist and graphic designer whose talents were recognized early in his career. This is the couple’s first book for children, written for and dedicated to their daughter Catherine. It is a deceptively simple picture book illustrated in bright colors with images that nearly leap off the page. Bader RARE REY PICTURE BOOK devotes 5 pages to Rand (p.338-342) who is considered one of the greatest graphic 266. REY,H.A. HOW THE FLYING FISHES CAME INTO BEING. (Lond:Chatto designers of all time. First editions in dust wrappers are hard to find. $1200.00 & Windus) nd [1938]. Obl. sm. 4to, pict. wraps with string ties, some chipping to corners, internally near Fine. A story told entirely in pictures featuring 8 wonderfully vibrant full page color illustrations by Rey. His second book in the same format as his first, Zebrology, and very rare. $600.00 #264

264. REY,H.A. CURIOUS GEORGE. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1941 (1941). 4to (8 1/2 x 10 1/2”), red pictorial cloth, no dust wrapper. Narrow fading on bottom edge of covers, some small spots on front cover, 3 tiny margin mends, overall VG. 1st edition, first printing of the first Curious George Book. Illustrated with bright color lithographs on every page. This is a nice copy of one of the rarest of all first edition children’s books. $2000.00 (SEE ILLUS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT ------>>>>>>> Marc Younger Pg 49 [email protected] RUSSIAN FAIRY TALE BY NATALIE CODRAY 1st EDITION OF 270. (ROJANKOVSKY,FEODOR)illus. GLOBUSNYI TCHELOVETCHIK [THE LITTLE MAN IN THE GLOBE] by Natalya Kodryskaya [Natalie Codray]. (Printed CURIOUS GEORGE TITLE in Paris by Ourlot Freres 1954). 4to (8 1/2 x 11”), boards, pictorial paste-on, [68] 267. (REY,H.A.)illus. CURIOUS GEORGE p., Fine. In this fairy tale / fantasy, a little man comes out of a globe and takes a GOES TO THE HOSPITAL by Margaret Rey. little girl on adventures. Illustrated by Rojan with 5 full page and 16 partial page beautiful lithographs. Codray, the author was a well respected RUSSIAN who left Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1966 (1966). 8vo Russia for Europe and then left Europe with her husband for America during WWII (7 1/4 x 9 1/4”), cloth, Fine in dust wrapper (where they changed their last name to Codray). After the war they returned to (dw VG+, complete but some wear.. Stated France where they helped other Russian literary and artist emigres. $300.00 1st printing. George has to have an operation #270 and the hospital will never be the same. Great color illustrations. This is a nice copy, quite scarce. $1500.00

1st EDITION OF HEATH ROBINSON MASTERPIECE 268. ROBINSON,W.HEATH. THE ADVENTURES OF UNCLE LUBIN. NY: Brentanos 1902. 8vo, (6 1/2 x 8”), green pictorial cloth stamped in red, green and white, rear cover lightly soiled, binding tight, recased with paper at hinges neatly repaired, margin of tissue guard and frontis narrow light brown discoloration, really a clean and VG+ copy. First US edition of the first book written and illustrated by Robinson (same year as UK ed. and printed in Great Britain). Featuring color frontis, 55 full page b&w’s and 72 vignettes plus pictorial endpapers. Entirely designed by Robinson, the story is a fantasy tale of Uncle Lubin’s voyages and mishaps taken in balloons, boats, submarines etc., all constructed as Robinson’s famous complicated contraptions. The text is often laid out in irregular format to fit around the vignettes. It was the publication of this book that brought Robinson to commercial success and this first edition is a rarity. $2850.00 271. RUSSIAN. BYELOSNEZHKA. Published in Berlin, circa 1920, oblong 4to, cloth backed pict. boards, near Fine. Russian text of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs with color decorative border on each page of text, plus many lovely full page illus. by “W.E.”. Beautiful and scarce. $200.00

272. RUSSIAN. GOVORYASHAYA PITEETZA (THE TALKING BIRD) Moscow:Knebel, ca 1900. 4to, stiff pict. wraps, slightest of cover soil else Fine. A Russian children’s translation of an Arab fairy tale with beautiful color lithos on each page by GLAGOLYVA. A stunning book, scarce and in Fine cond. $400.00 SPECTACULAR COPY IN BOX 269. (ROBINSON,W.HEATH)illus. A SONG OF THE ENGLISH by . London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date [1909]. Large 4to (9 1/4 x 11 1/4”), blue gilt cloth with gilt pictorial decoration, NEARLY AS NEW IN #272 PUBLISHER’S BOX with pictorial label on cover (box VG+ slightly soiled and lightly faded). 1st edition with iIlustrations by Robinson including 30 magnificent tipped- in color plates with illustrated / lettered guards and with 59 line illustrations throughout the text. This is a spectacular copy, rarely found with the box. (Beare 61a). $1500.00 914.764.7410 Pg 50 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 118 VASNETSOV 276. RUSSIAN. LESNAYA TZAREVNA. (THE WOODEN PRINCESS) 273. RUSSIAN INTEREST. RUSSIAN FAIRY TALE IN THE ART OF YU A. Moscow:Knebel, circa 1900. 4to,stiff pict. wraps, slightest of edgewear else VASNETSOV by Vsevolod Petrov. Pub. in Moscow ca 1972. Folio, 139p., cloth, Fine. An extraordinarily lovely book. Printed on a brown background, text pages fine in dw and plain slipcase. Text is in both Russian and English and there are have a decorative border and the full page chromolithographs (by an unnamed hundred’s of reproductions of the fairy tale illustrations by Vasnetsov. $150.00 artist) are rich and detailed. Simply beautiful. Scarce. $400.00

277. RUSSIAN. LOUTORSHENKA. Moscow:Knebel circa 1910. 4to, pict. 274. RUSSIAN. KOLIVILNYA PYESENKA (LULLABYES) Moscow:Knebel circa wraps,near Fine. A Russian folk tale illus. in full color on each page by 1900. 4to stiff pict. wraps, Fine++. A stunning book of Russian lullabyes illus. GUBEERNYA YARASLAVSKA. A stunning book, printed on stiff woven paper, with full and partial page color illus. by A. LOZHKIN. A beautiful book in unusual illustrated with vibrant chromolithographs. Scarce in any condition but especially condition. Scarce. $500.00 so in such Fine condition. $300.00

MITROKHIN / KNEBEL PICTURE BOOK ALMOST BANNED - HUMANIZED INSECTS 278. RUSSIAN. (MITROKHIN) ZIMENOI GLOBUS [MY FATHER’S GLOBE] 275. RUSSIAN. (KONASHEVICH,V.) MUKHA TSOKOTOOKA [THE by R. Gustavsen. Moscow: Knebel (1912). 4to, stiff pictorial wraps, spine rough, CHATTERING FLY] [by] K. Chukovskii. 1933. Small 4to (7 x 8 5/8”), pictorial some light shelf wear, VG. This is a stunning fairy tale illustrated by DMITRI wraps, corner creases else VG. 1st edition. This is the story of humanized MITROKHIN with full page and in-text, stylized color illustrations. Mitrokhin, flies and what happens when one is grabbed at her birthday party by a spider. along with Narbut and Bilibin, were the leading illustrators of the era in Russia. There are wonderful, fanciful black and white illustrations by V. Konashevich on Mitrokhin studied in Russia under Vasnetsov and in Paris under Eugene Grasset every page. This title was denounced and almost banned by the government as and Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen. See Bilderwelt 2771, Defining Russian bourgeois and not suitable for Soviet children who were meant to read books Graphic Arts by Rosenfeld p.94-5. Quite scarce. $800.00 grounded in realism. See Leveque: Dictionnaire p. 114. $1500.00 Marc Younger Pg 51 [email protected] ANTHROPOMORPHISM ARMY PROPAGANDA 279. RUSSIAN. MOIDODIR by K. Chukovskii. Weisbaden : Russischekul- 282. RUSSIAN. PARAD KRASNOY ARMEE (THE PARADE OF THE RED turgemeinschaft (1947). 4to, pictorial wraps, soil and crease on last leaf else ARMY). (Moscow): Giz 1930. 4to, pictorial wraps, slight soil, VG. A startling book VG. Published in Germany for Russians. A little boy who refuses to wash has composed only of pictures dreams where sinks and combs and other inanimate objects come alive to clean done by noted Russian him. Printed in blus and fancifully illus. in red on every page. $200.00 artist A. DEINEKA. Each page portrays a different facet of the Russian Army with stylized color illustrations throughout. Particularly impressive is an illustration featuring 4 Russian women marching in line, each wearing gas masks. See Leveque Dictionnaire p.35. $500.00

280. RUSSIAN. MUZHIK MEDEVED LISA (THE MAN, THE BEAR AND THE FOX) Moscow: Knebel, circa 1905. 4to,stiff pict. wraps, one corner bumped else Fine. Each page illus. in full color by A.K. ZHABA. Beautiful and scarce. $400.00

CATS 283. RUSSIAN. PESNI PISCHIKA [SQUEAKY SONGS] by N. Aceev. Leningrad: Raduga 1925. 4to, pict. wraps, fine. Squeaky cat sounds, illustrated with fabulous bold color lithos of cats by Malahovskii Snomkov. $300.00

281. RUSSIAN. NIKITA KOZHINIYAKA. Moscow:Knebel, circa 1900. 4to, stiff pict. wraps,sl. cover soil else Fine. Illus. by A. AKIMENKO with incredibly beautiful chromolithographs on each page and full page. Scarce and in unusual 284. RUSSIAN. SKAZKA AU CEREBREYNUM BLUDITCHKYA Y MALIVNON condition. $300.00 YABLOICHYA (THE STORY OF THE SILVER PLATE AND THE BEAUTIFUL APPLE. Moscow: Knebel, circa 1900, 4to,stiff pict. wraps, Fine++. Many beautiful full page and smaller color illustrations (unsigned) A scarce book in incredible condition. $400.00 914.764.7410 Pg 52 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 118 285. RUSSIAN. SKAZKA AU RAZNOTYETNICH ARIBUCH.(STORY OF THE 289. RUSSIAN. SKAZKI ZVEROLOVA. Published by the Youth COLORED FISH) Moscow:Knebel, circa 1900. 4to,stiff pict. wraps, sl. cover Communist League, 1938. 4to, pict. wraps, Fine. Many wonderful full wear else Fine. Illus. with stunning full page and smaller chromolithographs by N. page and partial page color illus. by A. RILOV . Unusual and scarce. ULYANOVA. Scarce and beautiful in unusually nice condition. $750.00 $200.00

290. RUSSIAN. XOPOBOA (CIRCLE DANCE). Large 4to, cloth backed pict. bds, light wear, VG+. A beautiful picture book with Russian text and very fine color 286. RUSSIAN. SKAZKA PUSHKINA illustrations on each page of text in a folk- peasant style. $175.00 AU REBAKYE Y REBKYE (THE TALE OF THE FISHERMAN AND THE FISH) by Pushkin. St. Petersberg:R. Golikye, 1899. Obl. 8vo pict. wraps, front cover chipped, some wear, VG. Illus. with many full page chromolithographs by A. AZ. Scarce and fragile. $125.00

STUNNING RUSSIAN ILLUSTRATIONS 287. RUSSIAN. SKAZKI [by] Chukovsky. (Moscow): Academia 1935. Sm. 4to, green pict. cloth, 158p., sl. fading else Fine in chipped dw. A collection of Russian fairy tales by one of its leading authors for children. Illustrated by V. KONASHEVITCH with 8 incredibly RARE PUSHKIN RUSSIAN PANORAMA BY VASNETSOV striking chromolithographs and 291. RUSSINA. PESN O VESCEM OLEGE (SONG ABOUT OLEG THE SEER) [by] Alexander Pushkin. St. Petersburg Pub. by the Exposition of Government with hundreds of wonderful b&w’s. Papers, May 26, 1899. Folio, composed of one large sheet of paper folded Quite fabulous. $500.00 accordion-style opening to 106” and printed on one side (except for rear cover which has lettering). Sl. soil on front cover, else Fine. The text relates the epic tale of the ancient Russian hero Oleg, and is illustrated by noted illustrator Vasnetsov with 4 incredibly beautiful large half-page chromolithographs plus text decorations. The lettering with decorative initials is also by Vasnetsov. A #287 #287 painter and stage designer like Bilibin, Vasnetsov was inspirational to Bilibin: “I was greatly affected by the Winter of 1898/99 in St. Petersburg. Victor Vasnetsov exhibited his works...including his Russian Epic Heros. I walked around in a daze after that exhibition. I saw in Vasnetsov’s canvas that towards which my soul was striving...then I visited Vasnetsov’s house” (p. 182 Ivan Bilibin). A rare and fragile work of art. See Bilderwelt im Kinderbuch #2725. $1250.00 (SEE ILLUS TOP OF NEXT PAGE

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288. RUSSIAN. SKAZKI STAROUCHI GOVORUCHI OH JEVOTNICH (AN OLD WOMAN’S TALES ABOUT ANIMALS) St. Petersberg:Debrienne, circa 1900, 4to, pict. wraps, slight wear to cover else near Fine. Illustrated by DUBIN and TKACHENKO with many lovely partial page color illus., plus text black and whites. Scarce and in nice condition of a fragile book. $300.00 (SEE ILLUS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT ------>>>>>>> Marc Younger Pg 53 [email protected] #291 #291 WITH ORIGINAL DRAWING 295. (SENDAK,MAURICE)illus. THE BIG GREEN BOOK by Robert Graves. NY: Crowell- Collier (1962). 8vo (6 1/4 x 9”), pictorial cloth, Fine in dust wrapper. Stated 1st printing in new format. THIS COPY HAS A MARVELOUS PEN DRAWING OF JACK AS AN OLD MAN WITH A CANDLE, SIGNED BY SENDAK. Featuring wonderfully detailed illustrations on every page. $1200.00

TRIER ILLUSTRATIONS - SOCIAL COMMENTARY 292. SATIRE. THE ANIMALS’ CONFERENCE by Erich Kastner. NY: McKay (1949). 4to (8 x 11”), cloth backed pictorial boards, near Fine in sl. worn dw. Translated from the German entitled “Die Konferenz der Tiere”. When the disillusioned animals see what a mess of the world the humans make, they decide to have a conference of their own. Wonderfully illustrated by Czech artist Walter Trier in color throughout. Scarce. $250.00

RARE SENDAK TITLE 296. (SENDAK,MAURICE)illus. THE GIANT STORY by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers. NY: Harper & Brothers (1953). 4to, (8 1/4 x 11”), pictorial cloth, Fine in sl worn dust wrapper with price intact. 1st edition. The story in de Regniers’ first book, tells of a little boy who decides to become a giant for a day. Broadly and boldly illustrated in color by Sendak on every page. Hanrahan A9. This is an outstanding copy of one of the rarest Sendak first editions, especially with the dust wrapper. $1250.00

REVIEW COPY 1ST BOOK WRITTEN & ILLUSTRATED BY SENDAK 293. SENDAK,MAURICE. KENNY’S WINDOW. NY: Harper & Brothers (1956). 4to (7 3/4 x 9 1/4”), dark brown spine, tan pictorial cloth, Fine condition in bright fine dust wrapper with price intact. First edition REVIEW COPY WITH THE SLIP LAID-IN. This was the FIRST BOOK BOTH WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY SENDAK, with beautiful full page and in-text color illustrations throughout in muted tones. One of Sendak’s scarcest books - great copy. $1275.00

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294. SENDAK,MAURICE. WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE. NY: Harper Row, 1963. Oblong 4to, cloth backed pictorial boards, Fine very lightly soiled and slightly frayed price clipped dw. 1st edition of one of the most important and most elusive modern picture books and winner of the Caldecott Award. First edition dust wrappers are distinctive not for the issue price ($3.50) but for the content of the information on the flaps. A first edition has no mention of this title having won the Caldecott Award amongst other changes from the first (this is confirmed by the fact that it is not uncommon to find a dust wrapper with the correct $3.50 issue price but with the later wrapper blurbs). $13,500.00 (SEE ILLUS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT ------>>>>>>> 914.764.7410 Pg 54 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 118 FINE COPY OF LESSER KNOWN SENDAK TITLE RARE 1st ISSUE - SAM I AM 297. (SENDAK,MAURICE)illus. GOOD SHABBOS, EVERYBODY by Robert 299. SEUSS,DR. GREEN EGGS AND HAM. NY: Random House 1960. 8vo, orange Garvey. United Synagogue Commission (1951). 4to, pictorial boards, slight glazed pictorial boards, fine in beautiful dust wrapper with 2 small edge mends. 1st rubbing to corners and top and bottom of spine, else fine. 1st edition. edition of this scarce Beginner Book, FIRST ISSUE with “50 Word Vocabulary” Illustrated with color pictorial covers, pictorial endpapers and with color or statement applied as a sticker on the right corner of the dust wrapper, not printed black & white illustrations on every page by Sendak (with Leonard Weisgard as on the paper (this isn’t price clipped but the price is not a factor in determining Art Consultant). This is a particularly bright and clean copy. $1650.00 edition of this title, it needs to have the correct ads), This is a great copy of one of Seuss’s most popular and well known titles. Younger / Hirsch 27. $4750.00 #297

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ONE OF THE RAREST SENDAK ITEMS 298. (SENDAK,MAURICE)illus. SEVEN LITTLE STORIES ON BIG SUBJECTS by Gladys Baker Bond. NY: Anti Defamation League (1955). 7 volumes, 12mo, (4 1/2 x 7 1/4”), pictorial wraps, neat owner name on covers and box else FINE IN ORIGINAL PICTORIAL BOX (box slightly soiled). This is a complete set of 7 rare booklets published by the Anti Defamation League, each illustrated by Sendak with cover art and a few b&w’s inside. The stories deal with various conflicts and situations that a young school child might face and how to handle HARD TO FIND them without getting physical. Including: #1 On Your Mark, #2 Jacob’s SEUSS FIRST EDITION Friendliest Town, #3 The Crankiest Man On Main Street, #4 Down The Old Bear Trail, #5 Johnny Red Feather, #6 Lonesome Feet and #7 The Secret. A 300. [SEUSS,DR]. HOOPER wonderful Sendak item, rare complete in the box. $3500.00 HUMPERDINK.? NOT HIM ! by Theo. LeSieg [a pseudonym of Dr. Seuss’]. NY: Random House (1976). 8vo (6 x9”), glazed pictorial boards, tips and spine ends lightly rubbed otherwise near Fine. First edition, 1st printing of this Bright & Easy Book (correct number code). Illustrated by Charles A Martin. Extremely scarce in 1st edition despite the late date. Younger / Hirsch 29. $1350.00

RARE SEUSS PUBLISHED ART USED IN THE KING’S STILTS 301. (SEUSS,DR.)illus. ORIGINAL ART: KING’S STILTS. THIS IS THE ORIGINAL ARTWORK USED IN SEUSS’S SECOND CHILDREN’S BOOK THE KING’S STILTS! The image measures 9.25 high x 14.25”, executed in carbon pencil, India ink wash and white guache on illustration board, signed lower left (after publication). It is in fine condition, matted and framed. The image illustrates the moment when Eric (the Everyboy of the story) reluctantly digs a hole and buries the King’s beloved stilts on the orders of the solemn and self important Lord Droon (it appears about halfway through the book). Since very few published published pieces of Seuss’s art from his children’s books have ever been available for sale, this is indeed a rarity. $45,000.00

The drawings for this book were reproduced by drop-out halftone and the edges of the light greys came out somewhat raggedy in the first edition. Sometime down the line when the printers went to re-photograph the original art to improve upon this raggedy quality they discovered that Seuss had given away this original. Having lost contact with the recipient Geisel drew another picture for later editions which differ slightly from this original. (SEE ILLUS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT ------>>>>>>> Marc Younger Pg 55 [email protected] 2 SEUSS BOOKS SIGNED MODERN CLASSIC INSCRIBED WITH DRAWING 302. (SEUSS,DR.)illus. SECRETS OF THE DEEP [and] SECRETS OF THE DEEP 303. SILVERSTEIN,SHEL. THE GIVING TREE. NY: Harper & Row (1964). VOLUME II by Old Captain Taylor. (Standard Oil): Essomarine 1935, 1936. 2 4to (7 1/4 x 9”), pictorial cloth Fine in near fine second state dust wrapper. volumes, 8vo, pictorial wraps, 34p., small margin mend and crease to volume 2 else First edition of this touching story, both VG+. A humorous look at yachting, illustrated in color by Seuss with large now a modern classic and the holy grail red, white and blue aquatints and featuring a sea creature whose face appears of the new generation of collectors. years later as the Cat In The Hat. BOTH VOLUMES ARE INSCRIBED BY SEUSS! Illustrated in black line by Silverstein. Rarely found signed by Seuss. See Younger/Hirsch #’s 69-70. $2700.00 From the collection of Craig Anderson. Maxwell Anderson’s son and long time manager of the Strand’s rare book room. THIS COPY INSCRIBED TO MONICA, CRAIG’S WIFE WITH A DRAWING ON THE PASTE-DOWN BY SILVERSTEIN. There is a full page drawing of a tree . Within the tree trunk Silverstein wrote: “For / M/ O/ N/ I/ C/ A/ With love Shel Silverstein” Inscribed first editions of the Giving Tree are rare and sought after by old and young collectors and by non-collectors as well who all remember the impact that the book had on them. $9500.00

#301 914.764.7410 Pg 56 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 118 BEAUTIFUL COPY OF STEINBECK’S CHILDREN’S BOOK - LIMITED EDITION SIGNED ’S TOUR DE FORCE 306. STEINBECK,JOHN. THE RED PONY. NY: Covici Friede 1937. 4to (7 x 10 1/8”), flexible tan pictorial cloth, light toning of spine else Fine in torn glassene 304. (SMITH,JESSIE WILLCOX AND ) and in the publisher’s slip case with the limitation number on spine (case mildly illus. THE BOOK OF THE CHILD by Mabel Humphrey. NY: Frederick Stokes, rubbed at spine else clean and tight). 1st edition, LIMITED TO 699 NUMBERED October 1903. Large folio (13 3/4” x 15”). cloth backed pictorial boards, except COPIES SIGNED BY STEINBECK. The limited edition originally sold for $10.00 for slight general soil and tip wear this is a bright, clean and near Fine copy. - a large sum for the time, but it sold out. The first edition has no illustrations; First edition. In 1902, with Smith’s and Green’s successful Bryn Mawr calendar an illustrated edition came out in 1945. Printed on hand made paper. This behind them, the two women collaborated on a “self-invested calendar project limited edition would make a special addition to any book collection. $4000.00 that featured some of the most beautiful works either woman ever painted.” (Schnessel p. 38). Stokes immediately asked to publish the illustrations in book form and commissioned Mabel Humphrey to write poems to match the illustrations. The result was the Book Of The Child. Printed on rectos only (one side of the paper), there are 4 magnificent full page color illustrations by Green (one is tipped-in) with smaller illustrations in-text. There are 3 exquisite full page color illustrations by Smith plus the charming color cover (on both covers) as well as smaller text illustrations. The colors are rich and the artwork is almost breathtaking. (A few are reproduced in Schnessel p. 56-7,65 but only 1 in color). This is a scarce title, rarely found in such clean condition. $3000.00

CHILDREN’S HIGH SPOT 307. STEVENSON,ROBERT LOUIS. A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES. London: Longmans, Green & Co. 1885. 8vo, blue cloth stamped in gold, top edge gilt, x, 101p., small spot on front cover else near Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing (of 1000 copies). A nice copy of this most enduring book of poems for children. $3500.00

CALDECOTT AWARD WINNER 305. STEIG,WILLIAM. SYLVESTER AND THE MAGIC PEBBLE. NY: Simon 308. SWEDISH. HVAD LILLE ARNE DROMTE by Magnhild Havardsholm. no & Schuster / Windmill (1969). Large 4to (9 1/4 x 12 1/4”), green cloth, edges place, Halcosen & Larsen 1921. Folio, cloth backed pictorial boards, some paper faded else fine in dust wrapper (not price clipped, no award medal, light stain on chipping on extrems else VG. A magnificent picture book with few words. Each upper corner). Stated 1st edition. Illustrated by Steig in color on every page. page is entirely covered with very, very beautiful color lithographs is a unique CALDECOTT AWARD WINNER. Bader (p.562-3) says “Sylvester is the rare style. Should be seen to be appreciated. $150.00 book that merits the accolade ‘a born classic’...it is also a great picture book.” Quite hard to find in the first edition. $1500.00 #305 #308 Marc Younger Pg 57 [email protected] WONDERFUL TENGGREN / GULLIVER’S TRAVELS ART 309. (TENGGREN,GUSTAF)illus. ORIGINAL ART - GULLIVER Offered here is a wonderfully detailed finished pencil drawing by Tenggren that appears in TIMLIN’S FANTASY reduced size on page 87 of Tenggren’s Story Book published in 1944. The image 312. TIMLIN,WILLIAM. THE SHIP itself is 6” wide x 5.5” high, matted and framed to 15” square. Pictured is the THAT SAILED TO MARS. London: emperor as child, seated at a table and contemplating an egg. Because the child Harrap, no date [1923]. Large 4to (9 cut his finger while breaking an egg, his father declared that thereafter, all eggs 1/2 x 12 1/4”), gilt decorated vellum- had to be opened at the smaller end, beginning a rebellion and a war with the backed boards, spine slightly darkened empire of Blefuscu. The son is drawn very much like one of the dwarves in Snow some tip and edge wear, a clean and VG+ White. A great image. $4500.00 copy. An incredible fantasy - science fiction tale. Every page of calligraphic text is individually mounted on heavy gray paper (47 pages of text). There are 48 mounted color plates by Timlin that are really magnificent. Timlin was born in England in 1893 but grew up in South Africa. A most fabulous and desired book. $1250.00

TIMLIN WATERCOLOR 313. (TIMLIN,WILLIAM)illus. ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR. Offered here is a fabulous watercolor by William Timlin, best known for his Ship That Sailed to Mars. The image measures 5.5 x 7” matted and in a magnificent frame to 13 x 15” and is in fine condition. Although Timlin was born in England, he was raised in South Africa. Along with his success in painting, Timlin was also a practicing architect. The “Ship” was Timlin’s masterpiece. He executed a later series of pictures intended for a book to be called The Building of A Fairy City which was never published. The piece offered here is signed by Timlin and captioned “Gossip” in his hand. Done with rich colors in Timlin’s Rackhamesque style, the fanciful picture shows a huge tree trunk used as a house. Standing at the door of the tree house is a young woman who is talking to a gnome-like man who is leaning on a fence. Peeking out of a window in the tree house is an elf-like man. Done with much detail and quite wonderful. Timlin’s original work is quite rare. $8750.00

310. THOMPSON,KAY. ELOISE. NY: Simon & Schuster 1955 (1955). 4to, white cloth, slight offset on front paste-down else near Fine in VG+ dust wrapper with light soil and a few small chips. Stated first printing of the of the first Eloise book, illustrated by HILARY KNIGHT with pictorial endpapers plus color illustrations on every page including one fold-out illustration. Great copy, increasingly scarce. $2500.00

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“SHIP THAT SAILED TO MARS” 311. TIMLIN,WILLIAM. THE SHIP THAT SAILED TO MARS. London: George G. Harrap & Co., no date [1923]. Large 4to (9 1/2 x 12”), gilt decorated vellum- backed boards, FINE IN DUST WRAPPER (dw lacks 2 x 2” piece off dw spine, some closed tears). First edition, limited to a reported 2000 copies (including 250 for America). Every page of calligraphic text is individually mounted on heavy gray paper (48 pages of text). The text is accompanied by 48 mounted color plates by Timlin that are really magnificent. Timlin was born in England in 1893 but finished his education in South Africa where he was trained as an architect. This is a beautiful copy of a most fabulous and desired fantasy tale. $6200.00 914.764.7410 Pg 58 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 118 TUDOR’S SECOND BOOK 314. TUDOR,TASHA. ALEXANDER THE GANDER. NY: Oxford Univ. Press (1939). 16mo, green polka-dotted cloth, fine in VG dust wrapper with light soil and edge wear. 1st edition (1st printing) of Tudor’s second book after Pumpkin RAREST GOLLIWOGG TITLE Moonshine. This is a Calico Book with calligraphy by Hilda Scott (pictorial initials CHRISTMAS by Tudor) and with full page color illustrations by Tudor facing each page of text 317. (UPTON,FLORENCE) plus pictorial endpapers and title page. Rare. $1500.00 illus. GOLLIWOGG’S CHRISTMAS by Bertha Upton. London: Longmans Green 1907. Large oblong 4to (11 x 8 5/8”), cloth backed pictorial boards, light cover soil else near Fine. 1st edition, Illustrated with 31 fabulous full page color illustrations featuring a Black Golliwogg Santa! This is an excellent copy of the rarest title in the series. $750.00

VAN ALLSBURG’S FIRST BOOK 318. VAN ALLSBURG,CHRIS. GARDEN OF ABDUL GASAZI written and illustrated by Van Allsburg. Boston: Houghton Mifflin TASHA TUDOR’S MOTHER GOOSE 1979. Large oblong 4to (12 LIMITED SIGNED EDITION 1/4 x 9 7/8”), cloth, short 315. (TUDOR,TASHA)illus. MOTHER GOOSE. NY: Oxford University. Press narrow stain on bottom edge (1944). 7 x 7 3/4”, cloth, 87p., Fine in dust wrapper and slip case with pictorial of some pages else VG+ in dust label (dw age toned with small chip on rear else VG+, slip case neatly strengthened wrapper (dw as new, no award on corners else VG+). LIMITED TO ONLY 500 COPIES FOR PRIVATE sticker, not price clipped). DISTRIBUTION SIGNED BY TUDOR. This copy comes with a letter laid in First edition, first printing from the publisher presenting the book to the owner. Illustrated on every page of VAN ALLSBURG’S FIRST by Tudor, most in full color, with verse below. One of the most lovely editions of BOOK (code 1-10). This is Mother Goose and a special copy, quite scarce in this special edition. $2000.00 an eerie story about a young boy named Alan’s encounter with Gasazi, a who turned Fritz the dog into a duck. The illustrations are brilliant works of art. $1200.00

AMERICAN VICTORIAN PICTURE BOOK 319. VICTORIAN COLORPLATE. UPS AND DOWNS ALL SMILES NO FROWNS by M.J. Tilsley. NY: Dutton ca 1880. 4to, cl. backed pict. bds, edges sl. rubbed else VG+. A charming American chromolithographed picture book with colorful illustrations filling every page. $200.00

#316 #316 RAREST BINDING OF FULL SHEEP 316. TWAIN,MARK [CLEMENS,SAMUEL]. THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN by Mark Twain. NY: Charles Webster 1885 (1884). 4to, full sheep binding, leather labels on spine in black and red. Hinges strengthened professionally and unobtrusively, some restoration to leather, scattered foxing, binding rubbed but sound, housed in custom half morocco box. Overall an attractive VG+ copy of this most famous American novel for children and adults alike. First U.S. edition with all points of the earliest copies: title leaf is bound in with copyright 1884 (C), frontis 1st state with cloth visible and Heliotype, (A) page 13 1st state incorrectly listing “Him and another man” on p.88 (A), p. 9 decided (later decides) (A), p.57 1st state “with the was” (A), p. 143 1st state missing “l” (A), p.155 1st state with final 5 absent (A), p.161 1st state with signature mark absent (A), p.283 engraving intact with “sexy” curve in fly (A). Illus. by E.W. KEMBLE with 174 black and white drawings. A nice copy in the rarest binding. BAL 3415, McBride p.92-3. $18,500.00 (SEE ILLUS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT ------>>>>>>> Marc Younger Pg 59 [email protected] STUNNING CLASSIC ART DECO BOOK DESIGN IN GERLACH’S SERIES HUMANIZED INSECTS 320. VIENNESE SECESSIONIST. 323. (WENZ-VIETOR,ELSE)illus. SONNENKINDERSTUBEN von M. Dingler. AUSGEWAHLTE GEDICHTE by August Kopisch. Wien & Liepzig:Gerlach Oldenberg:Stalling 1925. Sq. & Wiedling nd ca 1904. Sq. 12mo, sm. 4to, cl. backed pict. bds, cloth backed pict. bds., 96p., sl. cover Fine in soiled and frayed dw. soil else near Fine. Volume 13 of Nurnburger Bilderbucher GERLACH’S JUGENDBUCHEREI, this is illustrated by Viennese Secessionist No. 36. Featuring 11 full artist FERDINAND ANDRI with page page and 2 partial page fine after page of fabulous, stylized color and fabulous full page color designs, notable for their geometric appearance. There are also many illustrations depicting a fascinating full page color illustrations variety of humanized insects that combine with the designs to make (butterflies, ants, etc) and this an unusual and striking book. (See Dictionnaire des illustrateurs. p.52). humanized mice. Beautiful One of the best books in the Gerlach’s color printing. $150.00 series. $400.00

SCARCE WAIN TITLE INSCRIBED BY WHITE IN DUST WRAPPER 321. (WAIN,LOUIS)illus. FUN AND FROLIC by Clifton Bingham. Lond.: Nister 324. WHITE,E.B. CHARLOTTE’S WEB. NY: Harper & Bros, (1952). 8vo (5 1/2 [1902]. 4to, cloth backed pictorial boards, 144p., a few tiny margin mends, and x 8 1/8”), tan cloth, owner name on corner of free endpaper else FINE IN DUST some cover soil, VG+. Illustrated by Wain with 6 fabulous color plates and with WRAPPER (dw scraped on blank rear edge, very slightly frayed at spine ends, marvelous b&w’s on every page of text - 9 of which are double-page and 95% of overall clean and VG+). Stated First Edition, (first printing) with correct code. which are of cats. A great book, very scarce. $1500.00 THIS COPY IS INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY WHITE TO THE BOOK OWNER on the half-title. Charlotte’s Web is the beloved classic story about Charlotte, a spider and her friend Wilbur a pig. Illustrated by GARTH WILLIAMS with more than 40 pen and ink illustrations plus the color pictorial dust wrapper. This is nice clean copy of the book, made more special with White’s inscription. A most sought after modern classic and a NEWBERY HONOR AWARD winner. $14,500.00

RARE UNUSED WAIN BOOK 322. (WAIN,LOUIS)illus. THE ZOOLAND POSTCARD PAINTING BOOK. (London: Valentine & Sons), no date, circa 1910. Oblong 7 1/4/x 5 1/4”, pictorial card covers, chip off upper corner, spine rubbed, light general wear, the paints that originally came are no longer there but the postcards are all unused, a VG+ copy. There is a great full color cover by Wain. Inside there are 10 postcards (2 copies of each image) which have illustrations in brown line meant to be painted by the child. The cards feature different humanized animal families: The Jolly Jumbos, Mr. Lion Tells a Story, The Monkey’s Dinner Time, The Tale of a Tiger and Who Wants Butter (bears). On the back cover Wain has illustrated each image in full color to be used as a guide for the child. Rare. $1350.00

#324 914.764.7410 Pg 60 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 118 BOYLE’S COPY SIGNED BY HER 328. (WYETH,N.C.)illus. KIDNAPPED by Robert Louis Stevenson. NY: Scribner 325. WILDER,LAURA INGALLS. THESE HAPPY GOLDEN YEARS. NY: 1913 (Oct. 1913). 4to (7 1/4 x 9”), black cloth, pictorial paste-on, top edge gilt, Harper & Bros (1943). 8vo, pictorial cloth, 299p., slight cover soil, near Fine in near Fine. 1st edition. A Scribner Classic, illustrated by Wyeth with cover very slightly frayed dust wrapper. Stated 1st edition. Illustrated by HELEN plate, pictorial endpapers and title page plus 14 color plates and a fold-out map. SEWELL AND MILDRED BOYLE with color dw, color frontis plus full page black This is Wyeth’s second Scribner Classic and very difficult to find in such nice and whites. Laura is almost 16 and teaching school. The last of the Little House condition. $850.00 books. This copy was purchased from Boyle’s family and was BOYLE’S COPY INSCRIBED HER TO HER NIECE! $2750.00 #328

329. (WYETH,N.C.)illus. THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS by James Fenimore BLACK ARROW IN DUST WRAPPER Cooper. NY: Scribner 1919 (1919). 4to, (7 1/2 x 9 1/2”), black cloth, pictorial 326. (WYETH,N.C.)illus. THE BLACK ARROW by Robert Louis Stevenson. paste-on, slightest bit of shelf wear else near Fine. 1st Scribner Classic edition, NY: Scribner 1916 (Oct. 1916) 4to, black cloth, pict. paste-on, top edge plain, illustrated by Wyeth with pictorial endpapers and title page plus 14 color plates nearly AS NEW IN ORIGINAL DUST WRAPPER (dw only Good lacking front (later editions only have 9 color plates). This is one of the more difficult to find flap with 1 “ pieces off spine ends and edge chipping). First ed. of this Scribner Wyeth first editions, quite scarce in this condition. Allen p. 201-2. $750.00 Classic, second issue with top edge plain instead of gilt, illustrated by Wyeth #329 with cover plate, pictorial endpapers and title page plus 14 color plates. This is a beautiful copy of one of the scarcest Wyeth first editions, rare in the fragile white paper wrapper. $850.00

WYETH’S FIRST SCRIBNER CLASSIC 330. (WYETH,N.C.)illus. by Robert Louis Stevenson. NY: Scribner 1911 (Sept. 1911). 4to (7 1/4 x 9 1/2”), black cloth, pictorial paste-on, small area of back cover darkened (very difficult to discern) else Fine. First JINGLEBOB IN FINE DUST WRAPPER edition of Wyeth’s first Scribner Classic (top edge gilt, mis-numbering of page 327. (WYETH,N.C.)illus. JINGLEBOB by Philip Rollins. NY:Scribner 1930 123 in the table of contents). This is illustrated by N.C. Wyeth with cover plate, (1930). 4to, black cloth, pict. paste-on, Fine IN FINE DUST WRAPPER WITH pictorial endpapers, plus 14 beautiful color plates with lettered guards. This is a MOUNTED COLOR PLATE. 1st ed. of this Scribner Classic, illustrated by beautiful copy of one of Wyeth’s most desired books. $1500.00 Wyeth with cover plate, pictorial endpapers plus 4 other plates (wrapper plate duplicates the illus. on p. 32). A MAGNIFICENT copy, rare in the wrapper, #330 especially such a nice one. Allen p.217. $1800.00