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TOM LECKY 12 Washington Avenue (914) 478-1339 office Hastings-on-Hudson NY 10706 (914) 216-1336 mobile [email protected] riverrunbookshop.com LIST TWO FINE CHILDREN’S BOOKS 1. [BARROW, Sarah L.]. The Sock Stories by “Aunt Fanny’s” Daughter: Red, White, and Blue Socks, Part First, Being the First Part of the Series; Part Second Being the Second Book of the Series; German Socks Being the Third Part of the Series; Funny Little Socks, Being the Fourth Part of the Series; Funny Big Socks, Being the Fifth Part of the Series; Neighbor Nelly Socks, Being the Sixth and Last Part of the Series. New York: Leavitt & Allen, 1863. Six volumes, complete, twelvemos. Frontispieces, with tissue guards, and plates. Original green blind-embossed decorated cloth. Tops slightly dusty and bookplates in each, else a nearly fine set. Sarah L. Barrow was the daughter of Frances Barrow, who wrote the “Nightcaps”, “Mittens” and other popular series under the name “Aunt Fanny.” (205913) $450 Page 2 2. CALDECOTT, Randolph. A Complete Set of the Picture Books: The House that Jack Built; The Diverting History of John Gilpin; An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog; The Babes in the Wood; The Three Jovial Huntsmen; Sing a Song for Sixpence; The Queen of Hearts; The Farmer’s Boy; Hey Diddle Diddle and Baby Bunting; A Frog He Would a-Wooing Go; The Milkmaid (Where are you going, my pretty maid); Fox Jumps over the Parson’s Gate; Come Lasses and Lads; Ride A Cock Horse to Banbury Cross and A Farmer Went Trotting Upon His Grey Mare; Mrs. Mary Blaize; [and] The Great Panjandrum Himself. London: George Routledge & Sons, 1878-85. Original printed chromoxylographic wrappers; in two folding cloth boxes. Several a little worn at the extremities else a very good set. Four of the issues are present in two states. (42218) $2,000 Page 3 3. VANDEGRIFT, Margaret. The Dead Doll and Other Verses. Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1889. Quarto. Frontispiece, plates, and illustrations in text. Original green pictorial cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine. Some spotting to a few leaves and lightest wear at extremities, but generally clean and fresh. FIRST EDITION. The ‘American Annual Catalogue 1886-1900’ (New York, 1889) described the book: “The young readers of ‘St. Nicholas’, ‘Harper’s Young People’, ‘The Youth’s Companion’, and ‘Wide Awake’ already know and love many of these wise and witty verses. They will find new ones quite as pretty as ‘The dead doll’ and ‘The fate of the face-maker,’ which Miss Vandegrift sends out to the public for the first time in this volume. The volume is full of pictures and uniform with ‘Davy and the goblin’.” A fine, clean copy. (63930) $100 Page 4 4. CLEMENS, Samuel L. (“Mark Twain”). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Charles L. Webster & Co, 1891. Octavo. Frontispiece and illustrations in text. Original decorated tan cloth. A tight copy, small inking on rear joint, lightly rubbed, but generally fresh and clean. Early reprint of Clemens’ classic novel, first published in 1884. (400333) $110 5. RHYS, Grace, introduction / Illustrated by R. Anning BELL. Sleeping Beauty and Dick Whittington and His Cat. London: J. M. Dent, 1894. Twelvemo. 60 pages. Original gilt-decorated cloth, top edges gilt. Ties perished else a very good copy. Robert Anning Bell (1863-1933) designed, with George Frampton, the altarpiece exhibited at the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society. He was later appointed chief of the design section at the Glasgow School of Art, and from 1918 to 1924 he was professor of design at the Royal College of Art. Bell worked from 1922 on mosaics for the Palace of Westminster. (206640) $125 Page 5 6. UPTON, Bertha / Illustrated by Florence K. UPTON. The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a “Golliwogg”. London & New York: Longman’s Green & Co., [1895]. Oblong quarto. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Pp. 23/4 and pp 55/56 have duplicate page numbers. P. 21 with marginal tear just crossing text, inscription on front free endpaper, a little shaken. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING of the book that started the best-selling “Golliwogg” sensation. Inspired by a minstrel doll she had as a child, Upton illustrated 13 golliwog stories that were published between 1895 and 1909, set to verse written by her mother, Bertha. (121658) $125 Page 6 7. HARRIS, Joel Chandler / Illustrated by Oliver HERFORD. The Story of Aaron (So Named), The Son of Ben Ali Told by His Friends and Acquaintances. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1896. Octavo. Frontispiece and plates by Oliver Herford. Original decorated cloth, the front cover with full-panel block executed in black, green and gilt, black-lettered on spine. Spine with slightest toning and minor wear at foot. FIRST EDITION. Though best known for his Uncle Remus stories, Harris wrote six books for children, including this story of an African American slave in Georgia who communicates with animals. A fresh, bright copy. (100355) $250 Page 7 8. NEWELL, Peter. Topsys & Turvys. New York: The Century Co., 1902. Oblong quarto. Color illustrations. Original glazed pictorial boards. Contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper, some wear with light loss at extremities. Each page offers a metapicture, framed by a couple — the first line appears below the image and right-side up, the second line above and upside-down. One turns the book 180 degrees to complete the rhyme, and perspective completely alters the picture’s meaning (see ‘Keywords for Children’s Literature, ed. Philip Nel and Lisa Paul, New York: NYU Press, 2011, p.182). First published in 1893, with a second series in 1894, this edition was used — presumably due to the greater clarity of reproductions of Newell’s illustrations — for the Dover reprint in 1964. The book has been celebrated in modern times as an exemplar of metafiction. (121657) $100 Page 8 9. HUDSON, W. H. / Illustrated by A. D. M’CORMICK. A Little Boy Lost. London: Duckworth & Co, 1905. Octavo. Frontispiece, plates, and illustrations in text by A.D. M’Cormick. Original decorated cloth, the front cover with a block of a ship executed in black and gilt, gilt-lettered on spine, top edges gilt. Some minor intermittent pale spotting, slightest toning to cloth. Provenance: Charles MacA. Willcox (bookplate), Denver banker and bookman. FIRST EDITION, WITH A TWO-PAGE AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by Hudson tipped to the front free endpaper, 16 November [1912?], to “Dear Curle,” thanking him for sending a George Meredith book, arranging a meeting, and telling him he may keep the copy of English Reviews that was loaned. This is presumably Richard Curle (1883-1963), Scottish author, traveler, and bibliophile who wrote the earliest critical and biographical work on Joseph Conrad. A Little Boy Lost is a mystical story about the thrills of nature as seen by a little boy who wanders through the plains, the high Sierras and along the seashore. Animals and mirages take human shape and the spirits of the Rockies and the ocean lure him on. (104032) $750 Page 9 10. MOTHER GOOSE — HALE, Edward Everett, introduction. The Only True Mother Goose Melodies. Boston: Lothrop, Lee, and Shephard, 1905. Twelvemo. Illustrated throughout with line drawings. Publisher’s original cloth-backed pictorial boards; original printed dust jacket. Jacket with some light wear at ends of spine and edges, but generally fresh and bright. FIRST EDITION of Hale’s edition of Mother Goose, a late work for the Unitarian minister remembered as the author of “The Man Without a Country.” Very scarce in a jacket. (44429) $250 11. BAUM, L. Frank, introduction. Animal A.B.C. and A Child’s Visit to the Zoo. Chicago IL: Reilly and Britton Co, Christmas Stocking Series, 1905. 103 x 75 mm. 124 pages. Color plates by John R. Neill and E. S. Hardy. Original cloth, pictorial mounted cover. Front joint cracked, front free endpaper loose, some wear at extremities and a few occasional pale stains. FIRST EDITION, part of the miniature Christmas Stocking Series: collections of fairy tales, each of which includes an identical introduction written by Baum. (205702) $325 Page 10 12. SOMERVILLE, Ralph / Illustrated by Edmund SMITH. The Good Girls’ and Bad Boy’s Alphabet. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co, circa 1906. Twelvemo. 26 color illustrations. Original red decorated cloth. Front joint cracked, spine and board edges somewhat faded, pencil inscription on flyleaf, stain near gutter to several leaves at center of text block. “For each letter, there is a poem about [a] pair of children whose behavior illustrates the admirable and the despicable. The boys, who are always bad, are, of course, the more entertaining of the two” (Cotsen Collection). Advertisement for the series on p. [2] and specimen pages from other titles in the series on pp. 112-121. (63462) Page 11 13. DONAHEY, Mary Dickerson / Illustrated with color plates by J. R. CLAY and illustrations in the text by Ruth Elliott NEWTON. The Castle of the Grumpy Grouch: A Fairy Story. Philadelphia: Barse & Hopkins, 1909. Quarto. 8 color plates. Original pictorial cloth. Slight toning to cloth, generally very good. FIRST EDITION, second printing. Mary Augusta Dickerson (or Donahey), a native New Yorker, began writing for newspapers and magazines in 1896. She met William Donahey while both worked as writers for The Plain Dealer, and she encouraged him to become a comic strip writer and illustrator. Their summer home in Grand Marias, Michigan, known as the Pickle Barrel House, is now a tourist attraction. (62271) $125 Page 12 14. VISSER-DÜKER, Mien / Illustrated by Leo VISSER / With music by Maria van Ebbenhorst TENGBERGEN. Baron van Hippelepip: Een Verhaaltje voor Kinderen met Plaatjes en Musiek.