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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. Amsterdam: Zalt-Bommel, 1917. Quarto. Color plates on coated stock. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Some wear at extremities, some browning to endleaves and light soiling.

FIRST EDITION of this charming Dutch picture book by the author Mien Visser-Düker and her husband, the illustrator Leo Visser. Leo Visser (Amsterdam, September 7, 1880 - Hilversum, February 17, 1950) was an illustrator, glass painter, wall painter, lithographer, illustrator, industrial artist, cartoonist, bookbinding designer, and graphic artist. He worked in Amsterdam from 1909 to 1940 and after that in Blaricum. (43826) $250

Page 13 15. ANDERSON, Anne. The Patsy Book. London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1919. Quarto. Color frontispiece and twelve color pates. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards with illustration by Alan Wright. Some wear to the extremities, endpapers browned, front cover with a few spots, else a presentable copy of a scarce book.

FIRST EDITION. Scottish-born Anderson’s fluid and delicate style exemplifies the Art Nouveau movement. (40636) $250

Page 14 16. MOTHER GOOSE — SMITH, E. Boyd. The Boyd Smith Mother Goose. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1919. Quarto. 20 color plates on coated paper. Original gilt-lettered red cloth. Spine slightly toned, rear cover somewhat sunned, owner’s name on flyleaf, otherwise fresh and bright.

FIRST EDITION of Boyd Smith’s Mother Goose. The forward by Lawrence Elmendorf briefly outlines a history of Mother Goose and is followed by Mother Goose melodies collected for The Percy Society by James O’Halliwell, London in 1842. Part Two is the Original Mother Goose Melody as issued by John Newbery of London circa 1760 and Isaiah Thomas of Worcester, Massachusetts circa 1785. Part Three is ‘The Pleasant History of Little Jack Horner,’ and Part four is the ‘Famous History of Tom Thumb’. (48554) $250

17. COOPER, Frederic Tabor / Illustrations by Paul BRANSOM. An Argosy of Fables: A Representative Selection from the Fable Literature of Every Land and Age with Twenty-Four Illustrations in Color. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co, 1921. Quarto. 24 color illustrations, mounted, by Bransom. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards gilt, top edges gilt. Several small spots to front cover, some wear at extremities.

LIMITED EDITION, number 26 of 365 numbered copies signed by Bransom. (58871) $250

Page 15 18. SPRAGUE, Besse Toulouse / Illustrations by Bess Devine JEWELL. Pansy Eyes: A Maid of Japan. Chicago: The Reilly and Lee Co, Travel-Tot Tales, 1922. Quarto. Original cloth- backed pictorial boards. Original pages with the doll at front well preserved. Some light wear at extremities and rubbing to boards.

FIRST EDITION. The Japanese doll does not come from Japan but is imagined by an American girl, “Sick-a-bed Betty,” and then made for her from cloth and “olive and black paints” by her parents. Purchasers of the book could make Pansy Eyes for themselves, using printed linen sheets bound in the front of the book, to be cut out, sewn together, and stuffed. (56990) $250

19. MOTHER GOOSE -- GRUELLE, Justin C. A Mother Goose Parade. New York: P F Volland Co., 1929. Quarto. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Minor wear to the extremities, early owner’s ink inscription on front free endpaper, else a very good copy.

FIRST EDITION of Justin C. Gruelle’s Mother Goose. “...The figures are not manikins; they speak; they body emotion; they move; they show forth that intangible but very real quality which the artist dismisses with the single word ‘character’... We predict for Mr. Gruelle great things in the future, for he seems to be of that gracious company who keep the love of childhood in their heart” (contemporary review). Justin Gruelle never achieved the fame of his older brother, Raggedy Ann and Andy creator Johnny Gruelle, but his Mother Goose remains a charming artifact from the Depression-era United States. (52779) $100

Page 16 20. MILLER, Olive Beaupré. My Book House [and] My Travelship. Complete Set in Original Wooden House. [With:] Continuation volumes, and A Picturesque Tale of Progress. Chicago: The Bookhouse for Children, 1929-33. A very good set of the six-volume “My Book House” and three-volume “My Travelship” in the original wooden house. Original cloth, with mounted cover illustrations, showing characteristic wear, some hinges cracked, soiling, etc., but overall a fine original set, preserved in the wooden case that shows a few small cracks to the wood and chips to the paint, but has chimneys intact and gilt title-paint fresh and bright, lacking the front steps as often given the tenuous attachment to the frame. Each volume is lavishly illustrated in color by such artists as N.C. Wyeth and Milo Winter, and prints classic children’s stories, poems, myths, history, and tales. WITH THE CONTINUATION OF THE SERIES: Volumes Eight through Twelve of “My Book House,” 1928-34; and the eight-volume series “A Picturesque Tale of Progress,” 1929-33. Together 22 volumes. (400207) $750 Page 17 21. CREW, Helen Coale. The Shawl with the Silver Bells. New York: Macmillan, 1932. Octavo. Original cloth; original pictorial dust jacket.

FIRST EDITION, in a very clean and fresh dust jacket. (108528) $75

Page 18 22. DE BRUNHOFF, Jean. Le voyage de Babar. Paris: Editions du Jardin des modes, 1932. Quarto. In French. Original pictorial boards. Cover stained at the upper left [also a bit at the rear], else a very good copy.

FIRST EDITION, first state. This is the second Babar book, copyright page mentions only “Histoire de Babar”. (62891) $350

Page 19 23. LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE — GRAY, Harold . The “Pop-Up” Little Orphan Annie and Jumbo, the Circus Elephant. Chicago: Pleasure Books, Inc., 1935. Quarto. Original pictorial boards. Very minor wear to the heel and crown else a nearly fine copy. The three “pop-ups” are very bright and clean.

FIRST EDITION. Annie steals the show at the circus, but as usual there are deeper themes at work. Harold Gray brought Annie to life in 1924, and his cartoons quickly developed her from a simple, sketch-like character to a fully realized voice, expressing Gray’s anti-FDR conservative political philosophy. (52883) $250

Page 20 24. McKENNA, Helen. Strange Animal Stories: Picture in Third Dimension. Chicago: Dickery, 1936. Quarto. 13 pages. Six three-dimensional photos. “Ortho-Scope” glasses present in the pocket in the front. Original printed wrappers. Front cover with minor soiling, otherwise a very good copy with only minor wear at extremities.

FIRST EDITION of this unusual production — the reader can view the pictures through the “Ortho-Scope” glasses to see the three-dimensional images rise from the page. (109219) $150

Page 21 25. THOMPSON, Kay / lllustrated by Hilary KNIGHT. Kay Thompson’s Eloise: A Book for Precocious Grown Ups. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955. Quarto. The pullout (pages 13-16) is present but detached (bright with no tears). Original decorated cloth; original dust jacket. Cloth with some light wear at ends of spine, slight toning, a few old tape adhesions; jacket spine panel lacking, some chipping, inner flaps detached but present.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of the original Eloise — a work initially meant for adults (its re-release in 1969 was aimed at children). This book spawned three further tales of the girl who lives on “the tippy-top floor” of the Plaza hotel (and one posthumous book). Thompson’s goddaughter, Liza Minelli, has been cited as a possible model for Eloise, as has Thompson herself. Laid in is a slip correcting text on p. 50 — “Lily Dache” to “Coco Chanel.” (12329) $1,250

Page 22 26. CLARK, Ann Nolan / Illustrated by Lynd WARD. Santiago. New York: The Viking Press, 1955. Octavo. Frontispiece and illustrations by Lynd Ward. Original tan decorated cloth; original pictorial dust jacket. Cloth with tiny split to front joint, jacket with some very light edgewear.

FIRST EDITION. Ann Nolan Clark worked for forty years in the US Bureau of Indian Affairs, and created lyrical novels for and about Native American children. Santiago is her best known book, along with Secret of the Andes (1952) which beat Charlotte’s Web to the Newbery Medal. Lynd Ward illustrated over one hundred books for others, this being a notable example as he drew upon his experiences from a year spent in Mexico. (31012) $50

27. MINAREK, Else Holmelund / Illustrated by . Little Bear. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957. Octavo. Original pictorial boards; original unlaminated pictorial dust jacket with original price of $2.50, rear panel of jacket and boards have blue vine design [not glossy covers]. Dust jacket a little worn at extremities, with chip at foot of spine, small stain on front panel.

FIRST EDITION, THE SCARCE FIRST ISSUE, of the first book in Harper & Row’s “I Can Read” series. This book spawned a series of books, a television series and specials, and a direct-to-video movie. The New York Times wrote: Critics praised the Little Bear books not only for Ms. Minarik’s prose, which combined crystalline accessibility with evocative warmth, but also for their tender, Victorian-inflected illustrations by a young artist named Maurice Sendak.” In all, a very good copy of the scarce first issue. Hanrahan A26. (42197) $700

Page 23 28. SENDAK, Maurice, illustrator -- KRAUSS, Ruth. Somebody Else’s Nut Tree [two issues]. New York: Harpers, 1958. “Reinforced Library Edition”, and “Harpercrest Edition”. Quartos. Original cloth; original pictorial dust jackets. Each very good, with light rubbing to jackets.

FIRST EDITIONS, variants. The first is price clipped and repriced at $2.99 and states “Reinforced Library Edition” on the front of the jacket. The second is price clipped and priced at net $2.19 and states “Harpercrest edition” on the front of the jacket. The first is in a gray-brown cloth stamped in black and the second is in an orangish cloth stamped in black and red. (107613) $125

Page 24 Page 25 29. SILVERSTEIN, Shel / Foreword by Jean SHEPHERD. “Now, Here’s My Plan:” A Book of Futilities. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. Quarto. Original printed wrappers. Pages darkened as usual, otherwise a near fine copy, only minor wear at edges, corners clean, spine straight and tight.

FIRST EDITION, AN OUTSTANDING ASSOCIATION COPY, WITH A LENGTHY INSCRIPTION BY SILVERSTEIN in blue ink to Harper & Row Sales Executive Frank Scioscia on the inner front wrapper: “Dear Frank — Thank you for telling me that S+S [Simon & Schuster] was about to reprint this book so that I could offer my assistance to Johnathan who could ask me to do more drawings so that the book could become so large that S+S would refuse to do it so that I could bring it to Harpers so that Wynn would want it so that I could spend this last year working on it so that it could become a masterpiece so that its disgustingly obscene content could cost us all our lives and livelihood. Love and thanks for all the help — for so many book[s] for so long — Shel.” (62300) $2,500

Page 26 30. UNGERER Tomi / Introduction by Art BUCHWALD. Horrible: An Account of the Sad Achievements of Progress. New York: Atheneum, 1960. Folio. Original cloth; original pictorial jacket. Slightly cocked else very good with slightly worn jacket.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, INSCRIBED WITH A DRAWING on the front free endpaper to Lou Gless. (63877) $250

31. RHINEHART, Susan / Illustrated by Arnold LOBEL. Something Old, Something New. New York: Harper and Bros, 1961. Octavo. Original cloth; original pictorial dust jacket. Fine, save a single short tear to jacket, otherwise clean and fresh.

FIRST EDITION of one of Arnold Lobel’s earliest works. His first published set of illustrations was for Tamar Grand’s ‘Happy Times with Holiday Rhymes’ (1958); his first self-written book was not published until 1962. (107534) $150

Page 27 32. SENDAK, Maurice, illustrator -- UDRY, Janice May. Let’s Be Enemies. New York: Harper and Bros, 1961. Square small quarto. Original pictorial boards; original printed dust jacket priced $1.95. Child’s bookplate of front free endpaper, some chips/tears to jacket at edges.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, published in Sendak’s first major year as a budding artist: the year he received the remarkable letter of encouragement from his editor, , and the year he created his superb illustrations to Tolstoy. Let’s Be Enemies is a classic reverse-psychology exercise, similar to Ruth Krauss’s I’ll Be You and You Be Me which Sendak had illustrated six years earlier. Hanrahan A46 (54116) $250

33. SILVERSTEIN, Shel. Uncle Shelby’s Story of Lafcadio, The Lion Who Shot Back. New York: Harper and Row, 1963. Quarto. Original pictorial cloth; original printed dust jacket. End of spine lightly bumped, jacket somewhat cockled and with some light wear at extremities.

FIRST EDITION OF SHEL SILVERSTEIN’S FIRST CHILDREN’S BOOK. Lafcadio first appeared in the November 1963 issue of Playboy, and was subsequently developed into this novel-length, illustrated book. Lafcadio had rave reviews from the New York Times, Time magazine, and Publishers Weekly, as well as a starred review from Kirkus. Somewhat scarce in the first edition with jacket. (54198) $250

Page 28 34. GOFFSTEIN, M. B. Sleepy People. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1966. Small square quarto (4 3/4 x 5 inches). Original blue cloth; original pictorial dust jacket. Jacket a little sunfaded at edges.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING of this charming book. Kirkus reviewed it with understatement: “The title gives the small show away. It’s a slow and pleasant piece of propaganda to use with reluctant nappers or at bedtime. The sleepy people shown have the same shapes (nearly formless, very simple wash and line) of The Gats (1965) a Herald Trib honor award book we failed to appreciate much at Kirkus. They are shown as a family unit preparing for bed with their eyes tightly closed and the combination of text and pictures urges imitation. The Sleepys go through a routine for bedding down that includes stretching, yawning, singing quietly and snoring. Effective.” (Kirkus Reviews, 1 September 1966). (202560) $90

35. SENDAK, Maurice, illustrator — SINGER, Isaac Beshevis. Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories Translated from the Yiddish by the Author and Elizabeth Shub. New York: Harper & Row, 1966. Octavo. With tipped-in plates and meant to be signed by Singer and Sendak. Original linen, front cover with inset image mounted. Some pale foxing to front cover.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE of the limited issue. When the books were shipped to Sendak, he was unhappy with the production (the tipped in plates were trimmed too much, and the corner registration marks showing where the plates were to be inserted were still visible after the plates were tipped in). Sendak removed the limitation page from each copy and returned the rejected run to the publisher, with the instruction that the edition was to be redone. Few copies survive of this, the aborted first attempt of the limited issue. (64015) SOLD

Page 29 36. BROWN, Margaret Wise / Illustrated by . Little Fur Family. New York: Harper and Row, [1968]. 3 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches. AS NEW IN THE ORIGINAL PRINTED BOX AND UNOPENED: in the original plastic seal and with retail price sticker of $3.95. A fine copy in the original printed box.

Originally published in 1946, this miniature version is covered in real fur. Later editions were issued with artificial fur (or no fur at all). (107242) $450

37. SENDAK, Maurice, illustrator — MINARIK, Else Holmelund. A Kiss For Little Bear. New York: Harper and Row, An I Can Read Book, 1968. Octavo. The uncorrected proof of the reissue, in plain black wrappers. A fine, bright copy.

SIGNED on the title-page by Sendak. (62848) $250

Page 30 38. BENCHLEY, Nathaniel / Illustrated by Hilary KNIGHT. Feldman Fieldmouse: A Fable. New York: Harper & Row, 1971. Octavo. Original pictorial boards; original pictorial dust jacket. Some pale foxing on rear panel, tiniest wear at extremities.

FIRST EDITION. “’There’s nothing wild about talking to mice,’” Lonny tells his parents. “’The real trick is to get them to talk to you.’” Called “An engaging fanciful tale, spiced with brisk and sophisticated dialogue, about a mouse who aspires to one glorious night of beauty” (The Best in Children’s Books, ed. Zena Sutherland, University of Chicago Press, 1973). (14282) $150

Page 31 39. LOBEL, Arnold. Frog and Toad Together. New York: Harper and Row, An I Can Read Book, 1972. COMPLETE SET of uncut long galley sheets, 24 x 9 inches. Some light age-toning, otherwise fine.

GALLEY PROOFS of the second Frog & Toad book. It was a Newbery Honor Book, and runner-up for the American Library Association Newbery Medal. Kirkus Reviews: “Five more wise and wonderful stories to reaffirm the happy truth that Frog and Toad Are Friends.” (48095) $325

Page 32 40. CARLE, Eric. The Mixed-Up Chameleon. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1975. Folio. Dye-cut pages, with color illustrations. Original glazed pictorial boards.

FIRST EDITION of Eric Carle’s classic dye-cut tale of the confused chameleon. (109063) $60

Page 33 41. SILVERSTEIN, Shel. The Missing Piece. Harper and Row, 1975. Four long sheets of the text only. 24 x 9 inches. Dated 11-13-75. Old paperclip mark and crease to lower corner, else a very good set folded into thirds [slightly misfolded].

The long uncut galley sheets issued in advance of the finished book. Perhaps the only set to survive. (61492) $750

Page 34 42. PATERSON, Katherine. Jacob Have I Loved. New York: Crowell, 1980. Octavo. Original cloth; original pictorial dust jacket. A fine, bright jacket, with Newbery seal.

FIRST EDITION of this Newbery Medal Award- winning novel set on the Maryland shore. (100906) $50

43. LOBEL, Arnold. Fables. New York: Harper and Row, 1980. Small folio. Original cloth; original pictorial dust jacket. Slightest rubbing to rear panel, generally fresh and bright in dust jacket.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING of the 1981 Caldecott Winner for illustration. Publisher’s Weekly called it “the most remarkable of the author- illustrator’s 60-plus, bestselling award winners.” Lobel provides twenty fables, each allocated a page of text facing a full-page illustration. (107378) $75

Page 35 44. GACKENBACH, Dick. Little Bug. New York: Houghton Mifflin / Clarion Books, 1981. Square quarto. Original pictorial boards; original dust jacket. Slightest age-darkening at edges of jacket.

FIRST EDITION. Gackenbach worked for many years as an Art Director at J.C. Penney, and began writing children’s books after his retirement in 1972. Born on a farm in Pennsylvania, he later attributed his love of children’s books to the fact that, due to his family’s poverty, he had no books of his own as a child. (53654) $250

45. LOBEL, Arnold. Uncle Elephant. New York: Harper and Row, An I Can Read Book, 1981. Quarto. Original glazed pictorial boards; pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped).

FIRST EDITION, THE DEDICATION COPY TO , INSCRIBED WITH A DRAWING by Arnold Lobel on the verso of the front free endpaper: “Loud trumpets of love for Charlotte from Arnold [drawing of an elephant] Dec, 1981.” The printed dedication is on the verso of the title-page: “For Charlotte Zolotow.” A superb association, celebrating Lobel’s close relationship with Charlotte Zolotow (1915-2013), prolific author of more than 70 children’s books. She was also an editor at Lobel’s publisher, Harper & Row, and they had collaborated on two books in the 1960s: The Quarelling Book (1963) and Someday (1965). In very fine condition. (54205) $400

Page 36 46. PROVENSEN, Alice, with Martin PROVENSEN. The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot July 25, 1909. New York: Viking, 1983. Oblong quarto. Original pictorial boards; original pictorial dust jacket, with Caldecott sticker. Jacket with two short tears, price sticker on front panel.

FIRST EDITION, the Caldecott winner for illustration in 1984. A biography of the man whose fascination with flying machines produced the Bleriot XI, which in 1909 became the first heavier- than-air machine to fly the English Channel. (108331) $90

47. DEPAOLA, Tomie. Tomie dePaola’s Favorite Nursery Tales. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1986. Quarto. Original pictorial glazed boards; original pictorial dust jacket. Jacket with some light chipping at edges.

FIRST EDITION, later issue. INSCRIBED BY DEPAOLA on the half-title “For Sophie & Michael / Tomie [with a heart] ‘92/97.” dePaola created a richly illustrated book of nursery tales, taken from fairy and folk tales, and the fables he most loved as a boy. (400310) $50

Page 37 48. VAN ALLSBURG, Chris. Just a Dream. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. Oblong quarto. Original cloth; original pictorial dust jacket. Fine save a soft crease to the front free endpaper, the jacket fresh and bright.

FIRST EDITION, heralded by Publisher’s Weekly upon publication: “Two-time Caldecott Medalist Van Allsburg reaches a new pinnacle of excellence in both illustration and storytelling in his latest work.” (107996) $50

49. McCULLY, Emily Arnold. Mirette on the High Wire. New York: Putnam, 1992. Quarto. Original glazed pictorial boards; original pictorial dust jacket. Fine, without the Caldecott sticker.

FIRST EDITION, the 1993 winner for illustration. Mirette is a French girl who learns to walk on a tightrope. Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt (creators of The Fantasticks) created a musical version in 1996. (19433) $250

Page 38 50. SILVERSTEIN, Shel. Makin’ Love and Babies. np, circa 1992. Twenty-seven 8-1/2” x 11” Xeroxed sheets.

An unpublished book, submitted to Harpers and never released. Contains (in the copy) editorial corrections and comments. (63065) $275

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