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COVER ILLUSTRATION - #557 - Tasha Tudor Original Art from Wind in the Willows

#190 - Gordon Craig Association Copy with Letter

#383 - John R. Neill Art from Tik-Tok of Oz

#423 - Original Art from The Little Engine That Could

#54 - Man Ray ABC - Signed Limited Edition Helen & Marc Younger Pg 3 [email protected] MET LIFE HEALTH ABC COMPLETE WITH INSERT 1. ABC. (ADVERTISING) IN STYLE OF JANET LAURA SCOTT / ABC. NY: Metropolitan Life Ins. CLOTH ABC Co. ca 1920. 8vo, (5 1/4 x 7 3/4”) pictorial wraps, light soil, VG. 5. ABC. (ART DECO) ABC BOOK. Every letter has a rhyme dealing with the healthy thing to do or Akron: Saalfield 1930. Folio, cloth, sl. eat. Illustrated in typical 1920’s edge wear, VG+. A great art deco alphabet style in b&w by M.C. Phares. “C is for Cough And its Cousin, the printed on cloth and illustrated in color sneeze. Cover them both With your handkerchief please.” This on every page in the style of Janet Laura copy is complete with an insert Scott. $150.00 that has a full color copy of the line illustration that accompanies the letter “U”. The child is STUNNING TUCK AUTO meant to use this as a guide for coloring the illustrations ALPHABET BOOK in the book. The verso of the 6. ABC. (AUTO) MOTOR CAR sheet has a quiz on how to eat healthy. $125.00 ABC. Lond: Tuck ca 1900. Obl. folio, (13 1/8 x 9 1/2”), pictorial wraps, RARE 1867 ADVERTISING ALPHABET slightest of edge wear, near fine. A 2. ABC. (ADVERTISING) title in Father Tuck’s Pictureland WINE OF TAR PICTURE ABC Series. Featuring 8 very fine ALPHABET. (Dayton: Oliver Crook printer, 1867). 8vo, full page chromolithographed pages pictorial wraps, margins picturing old autos, plus 2 pages trimmed, some soil and some old, neat mends, in brown line, with each letter of G+. This is a fascinating the alphabet prominently featured. advertising alphabet with Quite a large and striking book. Very every letter representing a different virtue that Wine scarce. $600.00 of Tar can provide. Weak children are made strong, delicate females gain tone and vigor. W is for Wine AUTOMOTIVE ABC of Tar, a medicine of great & MOTHER GOOSE merit. Each page is divided 7. ABC. (AUTO) MOTOR into thirds, each third with GOOSE RHYMES FOR MOTOR a woodcut illustration. A GANDERS by Herman Lee great advertising alphabet Meader. NY: Grafton Press . $200.00 (1905). 12mo, (5 x 7 1/2”), decorative cloth, pictorial paste- GREAT McLOUGHLIN ABC on, [110]p., VG. Each letter of PUGS AND CATS the alphabet has 2 full page automotive related illustrations 3. ABC. (ANIMALS) in 2-color by PAL plus verse COMICAL PETS ABC. NY: integrated into the text. This McLoughlin Bros. 1899. 4to, is followed by a parody of [16]p. incl. covers, some traditional Mother Goose rhyme wear, VG+. Each letter has i.e. “Little Jack Horner/ Would dash round a corner/never a rhyme and a wonderfully would slow up a bit./ He’d not fanciful chromolithograph even warn/ With a toot of his of an animal that begins with horn / and dogs that he’d hit.” that letter. Also includes $250.00 simple word lists. 2 letters AVIATION ABC BY SHENTON feature pugs, 8 feature cats 8. ABC. (AVIATION) A NEW ALPHABET OF AVIATION by Edward and all quite charming. Shenton. Phil.: Macrae Smith (1941). 4to, 7 1/4 x 9 1/4”, cloth, Fine in frayed $275.00 dw. Written and illustrated by EDWARD SHENTON with 26 full page color ARTFUL ABC - FORWARD lithos and with smaller color illustrations throughout the BY ALFRED E. SMITH text. Each letter relates to 4. ABC. (ANIMALS) several different aspects PICTURE ZOO BOOK by of the airplane. This is a Myrtle Glenn Terry. [NY]: new version of his earlier Alphabet of Aviation done Dept. of Parks (1935). 4to, in 1928, but this edition pictorial wraps, VG. Forward has more emphasis on by Alfred E. Smith. Every the military aspects of aviation describing the B- page features a bold 3- 19 bomber, torpedo planes color litho by Lilian Swann, and more. Shenton was a with verses in rhyme at the noted Pennsylvania artist trained in Philadelphia (and bottom of the page. Quite also an editor at Macrae striking. $250.00 Smith who published this book). $275.00 914.764.7410 Pg 4 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89 WONDERFUL DECORATIVE AZTEC ALPHABETS BANBURY CHAPBOOK 9. ABC. (AZTEC) ALFABETOS AZTECAS por el Dr. Antonio Penafiel. No 13. ABC. (CHAPBOOK) pub. 1900, 3rd ed. Folio, 62 GALLOPING GUIDE TO leaves, 1/4 leather and green THE ABC, Or the Child’s cloth, a few minor margin Agreeable Introduction to a mends else VG+. (OCLC lists knowledge of the Gentlemen a copy with 74 leaves. Our of the Alphabet. Banbury: copy is complete as issued). J.G. Rusher circa 1810. Printed on rectos only in 2 1/2 x 4 1/2”, pictorial shades of blue, there are wraps, [16]p. + covers, uncut 4 very fine and interesting and unopened, near fine. alphabets. One ABC uses Illustrated with 29 fine typical Aztec designs within woodcuts including covers. each standard block letter, “He who ne’er learns his ABC another does the same / Forever will a blockhead within artistically designed be. / But try to learn, be letters and a third features wise and then / You will be a different native within lov’d by all good men.” Quite a letter in large pictorial scarce. $800.00 vignette. This is a wonderful ornamental and pictorial book of alphabets. $600.00 CHELONIIDAE PRESS ONE OF 5 ARTIST’S PROOFS 14. ABC. (CHELONIIDAE PRESS) A FOWL ALPHABET. Easthampton: Cheloniidae Press 1986. 8vo (5 5/8 x 8 5/8”) bound in full vellum by Gray Parrot. HILAIRE BELLOC ABC Includes the alphabet bound in full vellum, a separate suite of proof plates 10. ABC. (BELLOC, and a Blind Alphabet housed in vellum backed chemise folder, all housed in a vellum backed cloth case, AS NEW with the Prospectus laid-in. The text for HILAIRE) A MORAL ALPHABET in words of this alphabet is based on an 1885 volume on Birds from Our Living World by J.G. Wood. There is an 8 page introduction followed by 26 wood engravings from one to seven syllables of the various birds by Alan James Robinson, selected for their unusual beak by H.B. [Hilaire Belloc]. formations. The lettering is a new alphabet designed and hand-lettered in a Lond.: Edward Arnold 1899. range of colors by Suzanne Moore. This was the 12th book by the Cheloniidae 6 3/4 x 8 1/2”, cloth backed Press issued in a Regular Edition of 150 copies in vellum backed marbled boards, pictorial boards, covers a Deluxe Edition of 50 signed and numbered copies, and a Full Vellum Edition soiled and edges rubbed of 26 copies. THIS IS NUMBER III OF ONLY 5 ARTIST PROOF COPIES OF else tight and VG. 1st ed. THE FULL VELLUM EDITION that has each plate in the extra suite SIGNED Each letter has a rhyme BY ROBINSON AND NUMBERED “AP III”, there is no drawing mentioned in and also a moral related to the prospectus. Printed on rives paper, frenchfold, the engravings are stunning. it. “U” for the Upas tree This is a magnificent alphabet. $2500.00 / that casts a blight/ on those that pull their sister’s hair and fight.” Humorously illustrated in line by B.T.B. (Lord Ian B.T.B. Blackwood). Scarce. $225.00

BIRD ALPHABET IN BOX 11. ABC. (BIRDS) STORY OF THE BIRDS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH BIRD ALPHABET by Gertrude Keeley. NY: Hurst (1901). 4to, cloth, pict. paste-on, AS NEW IN ORIGINAL BOX (box flaps repaired). Each letter of the alphabet is represented by a different bird including a history of the bird and a hand-lettered rhyme with a lovely full color illustrations. A beautiful copy and including some unusual birds. $275.00

4 ABC’S IN ONE BOOK 12. ABC. BOOK OF PICTURE ALPHABETS. London: T. Nelson and Sons, no date, circa 1880. 4to (9x11”), brown cloth stamped in black and gold with color pictorial label, some cover soil and tip rubbing, VG+. Containing 4 alphabets with all pages mounted on linen, printed on one side of the paper. Each page of text faces a very fine full page WITH 2 ALPHABETS chromolithograph - 16 full 15. ABC. CHILD’S PLEASURE BOOK. NY: Sheldon & Co. 1860. 5 1/4 x pages of illustration in all. 7 1/2, cloth, some cover soil and tip wear else VG. Containing Farmer Boy’s Includes the ALPHABET Alphabet and Maja’s Alphabet as well as Simple Simon, Henny Penny, Little Bo OF BEASTS, ALPHABET Peep, The Old Woman and Her Pig all illus. by Harrison Weir with 8 full page OF BIRDS, ALPHABET OF color illustrations and a few more stories. The Farmer Boy’s Alphabet is the NATIONS AND SCRIPTURE feature of book with 12 pages including full page color illustrations of large block ALPHABET. Very high letters that are illustrated within the letter. The facing text pages explain quality printing and a rare the relevance to farming. Maja’s Alphabet is a quaint non-illustrated rhyming title. $1200.00 Alphabet of names. (SEE ILLUS TOP NEXT COLUMN) $350.00 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 5 [email protected]

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CHARMING CHRISTMAS ALPHABET 16. ABC. (CHRISTMAS) CHRISTMAS A-B-C by Rev. Louis Gales. St. Paul, : DEAN RAG BOOK Guild Associates (1944). 12mo, pictorial wraps, VG+. The Christmas ABC is illus. 21. ABC. (CLOTH) MY ALPHABET. Lond.: Dean ca 1925. 4to, cloth, owner with lovely color lithos by Gladys Allie. The ABC is followed by a few Christmas name else fine. Marvelous rich color illustrations on every page, printed on cloth. poems. Scarce. 175.00 A beautiful copy. $300.00

CHRISTMAS ABC RARE COCA COLA 17. ABC. (CHRISTMAS) CHRISTMAS STORIES ABC. Chic: Donohue, ADVERTISING ABC nd circa 1915. Small 4to, pict. wraps, rear blank replaced else VG. Charming 22. ABC. (COCA-COLA) Christmas ABC with most letters represented by Christmas objects. Illustrated ALPHABET BOOK OF with color cover by C.W., 4 full page color illustrations and full page b&w’s by an COCA COLA. Atlanta: Coca unknown hand (Denslow-like style). $150.00 Cola Co. 1928. Obl. 12mo, (7 1/2 x 5 1/4”) pictorial #17 wraps, Fine. Each letter of the alphabet has a different Coke related rhyme “K is for Kitchen With ice-box nearby. If you keep Coca Cola You’ll never go dry. V is for Value, Though the dollar’s depressed, A nickel still buys The drink that is best.” Illus. in typical 20’s art deco style in color on every page. Rare. $875.00

23. ABC. (COUNTRIES) PICTURE ALPHABET OF NATIONS OF THE WORLD. Lond. & Edin.: T. Nelson & Sons, circa 1880. 4to, 8 1/2” wide x 11”. #18 pictorial wraps, sl. soil, VG+ with pages mounted on linen. Illustrated with 4 very fine McLOUGHLIN CHRISTMAS ABC full page color lithographed 18. ABC. (CHRISTMAS) MERRY CHRISTMAS ABC. NY: McLoughlin Bros. pages with each page divided 1900. Small 4to, pict. wraps, some edge wear, VG+. Illus. with great color cover into 6 sections. Each of Santa and in 2-color on every page with each letter representing a different section features a native Christmas aspect or object. Text by Carolyn Wells. $300.00 of a different nationality corresponding with the letter of the alphabet. The ABC’S OF HOW text is a short paragraph TO QUIT SMOKING about the country often 19. ABC. (CIGARETTES) ABC WAY very judgmental in nature. TO STOP SMOKING CIGARETTES by Many unusual nationalities Conrad J. Dammann. NY: Worth Pub. Co. are included: D is for Dyaks, (1950). 4 5/8 x 6”, silver pictorial cloth, K is for Kampschadales, O 128p., VG. 1st ed. A prescient look at is for Otaheitians. T is for the bad effects of cigarettes including Turks who are “lazy and a section on how tobacco companies lie stupid.” $425.00 to the public. The second section of the book is an alphabetical arrangement of suggestions to the “Nicotinist” who 27 ABC ADVERTISING wants to break the smoking habit. BOOKLETS Illustrated with full page and smaller 24. ABC. (CZECH) line drawings and with a color plate by PILNACKOVA ABECEDA. J. McA Smiley. “W stands for Wager. J. Pilnacek, Tovarna na Make a substantial bet that you cannot Mydla, Hradec Kralov, no afford to lose. If this doesn’t stop you, date, circa 1925. This is a you are almost hopeless.” $125.00 complete set of 27 alphabet booklets (no Q in the Czech alphabet), each 4 pages, measuring 3 3/4” wide x 5 3/” in fine condition. CLOTH CIRCUS ABC Illustrated with bright 20. ABC. (CIRCUS) CIRCUS ABC. Akron: Saalfield, no date, circa 1910. 4 3/4 colors on every page in the x 8”, VG-Fine. Printed on cloth, illustrated in full color on every page with most style of Rudolf Mates. letters representing different aspects of circus life. W is for Wild Man. Quite (CONT’D NEXT PAGE) scarce. (SEE ILLUS TOP NEXT COLUMN) $250.00 914.764.7410 Pg 6 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89 Each front cover is the same except for the featured letter which is in red FIRST BOOK FOR block type and changes with each booklet. Inside the front cover, the text is CHILDREN PUBLISHED BY in rhyme and has a small color illustration. Facing pages feature fanciful full SAMUEL WOOD page color illustrations in folk-peasant style. Each rear cover has a rhyme about 28. ABC. (EARLY a different product sold by Pilnacek Parfumerie along with color illustrations AMERICAN) YOUNG (shaving cream, perfume, toothpaste etc). Most likely issued as a giveaway each CHILD’S ABC, or, first time one purchased a Pilnacek product. It’s amazing to find a complete set, book. NY: Samuel Wood especially in such nice condition. (SEE ILLUS BOTTOM PRIOR PAGE) $800.00 1806. 3 x 3 3/4”, pict. wraps, fine. Containing an alphabet in hornbook form UNCOMMON DISNEY and a syllabary. Each page MUSICAL ABC has two fine wood engravings 25. ABC. (DISNEY) MICKEY in addition to two cuts on MOUSE ABC. (Printed in each cover and engraved Australia for the Publisher, title page, all of which are charming in their naiveté. London: Collins) no date, circa This is the first children’s 1936. 6 3/8 x 7 12”, [12]p., book published by Wood. stiff pictorial wraps, some Rosenbach 325, Welch cover soil and edge fraying 1461.1. $1200.00 else VG. Every page shows one of the Disney characters ESTONIAN ABC playing a different musical 29. ABC. (ESTONIA) AABITS - PILDIRAAMAT. Tartus: Oskar Luik’i Kirjastus instrument. This early Disney (1933). 4to, pictorial wraps, fine. An Estonian alphabet brightly illustrated with book has 6 pages illustrated chromolithographs filling every page by R. Kiviti Pildid. Rare. $300.00 in full color and 6 illus. in blue. $450.00 #29

DOGS * SEASIDE * ANIMALS 26. ABC. (DOGS & SEASIDE) A.B.C. Lond.: Dean & Son, no date, [1873]. 4to (9 3/4 x 12 1/4”), cloth, pictorial paste-on, VG+. This book features 3 great ABC’s plus a section on transportation, illustrated by Vernon Stokes, F.A. Williams and F.M. Barton. First is a Sea-Side Holiday Alphabet where every letter relates to an activity or item at a sea vacation. “Q” is for Quay and “S” is for Shrimping. Illustrated by F.M. Barton with fine chromolithographs. Next is an incredible alphabet of dogs (no x,y, or z). M is for Mastiff and S is for Schipperke - featuring great chromos by Vernon Stokes. The #30 section on transportation emphasizes train travel picturing famous lines of 30. ABC. (FIREFIGHTING) ABC’S OF FOREST FIRE PREVENTION by R.M. the world including the Watts. Ottawa: Cloutier, (1950). 8vo, (6 x 7 3/4”), pictorial wraps, near Fine. A Great Eastern Engine, the wonderful ABC with a fire prevention theme published by the Forestry Branch of Imperial Limited, Caledonian the Dept. of Resources and Development in Canada. Illustrated in color on every Express and others. The page - “D” stands for Death, Destruction and Danger. $200.00 book ends with a fabulous ABC of animals engaged in a variety of antics. “S stands MCLOUGHLIN ABC OF for School, which was kept NAMES IN GERMAN by Dame Owl / T for the 31. ABC. (GERMAN) DAS Tortoise, who couldn’t spell A.B.C. IN BILDERN. NY: ‘fowl’.” Illustrated with McLoughlin Bros. 1903. clever chromolithographs by 4to, cloth backed pictorial F.A. Williams. This is a great boards, slight rubbing, VG+. ABC picture book chock full Illustrated with 4 full page of well printed and charming chromolithographed pages color illustrations. Very plus 6 pages illustrated in scarce. $750.00 brown line. Each letter stands for a child’s name and little children are TUCK DOG ALPHABET shown playing different 27. ABC. (DOGS) DOGS games or pastimes. Quite AND PUPPY DOG’S ABC. scarce. $275.00 Lond: Tuck ca 1890. 4to, (8 1/2 x 11”), stiff pictorial wraps, slight cover soil else near fine. Each letter is GREAT GNOME ALPHABET represented by a different dog: Airedale, bull dog, 32. ABC. (GNOMES) PIXIE ALPHABET chow, dachshund, Jap dogs, BOOK. Lond.: Blackie ca 1930. 4to, otter hound, poodle, pug, etc. Illus. with color cover, cloth backed pictorial boards, near fine. 4 full page chromos and This is a wonderful Gnome alphabet with brown line illustrations on other pages. The short illustrated in full color and 3-color by text is in rhyme: “P for the Poodle who’s waiting C.E.B. Bernard. Although the only text out there, How the Pug and is one word caption per letters, the Pomeranian stare!” A great ABC in the Nursery Tales pictures tell the stories of these adorable Series. $300.00 gnomes $300.00 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 7 [email protected] RARE HASSALL ABC 33. ABC. (HASSALL,JOHN) ROUND THE WORLD ABC by G.E. Farrow. Lond. “ETHNIC” ABC OF INDIA & NY: Nister and Dutton, no date circa 1904. 4to, (9 1/4 x 11 1/4”), cloth backed 36. ABC. (INDIA) BOWDEN’S pictorial boards, some edge rubbing and corner cover soil, else VG+. The text is A.B.C. BOOK OF INDIA. in limerick format and each letter represents a person of a different nationality. Bombay, India: A.C. Bowden Opposite each page of text is a striking full page color lithograph by Hassall - ca 1910. Folio, cloth backed broad style with rich colors. “A silly old man of Milan / Once went out to sea in a pictorial boards, spine ends pan / And he nearly got drowned / For he very soon found / That his vessel was frayed, some finger soil, a few leaky and ran.” A rare and wonderful alphabet book. $1200.00 old mends (not offensive) else VG. Each letter of the alphabet is represented by a different aspect of Indian culture. Each letter has two lines of text with the entire alphabet in rhyme. Illustrated with rich colors and with many stereotypical portrayals. “C is for Coolie so fond of a doze, D for the Dhobie who Bangs out the clothes.” Very scarce. $650.00

RARE CHARLES LINDBERGH ABC

GREAT 40’S ABC 37. ABC. (LINDBERGH, 34. ABC. (HAYS,ETHEL) ABC. Akron: CHARLES) LINDBERGH ALPHABET story & color Saalfield 1943. Folio, (9 3/4” x 12 3/4”), book. Arlington, CA: Mabel pictorial wraps in simulated cloth-like pages, Thomas 1928. 4to (8 1/2 x 11”). pictorial wraps, several fine. Brightly illustrated in bright color small margin mends, VG+ and on every page with adorable little boys unused. Every letter stands for an aspect of Lindbergh’s and girls in typical 40’s style by ETHEL historic flight. Two pages HAYS. The last few pages are a counting illustrated in full color and the remainder illustrated book. $100.00 in line meant to be colored (unused). “C is for Courage, / For never alone / Across the Atlantic/ Had anyone flown.” This is a rare alphabet. HOCKNEY’S LIMITED ED. ALPHABET $1250.00 35. ABC. (HOCKNEY,DAVID) HOCKNEY’S ALPHABET edited by Stephen Spender. Lond.: Faber & Faber for the Aids Crisis Trust, 1991. Folio (10 x 13”), quarter vellum and grey paper boards, housed in matching slip case with color label and vellum endpieces, Fine. LIMITED TO ONLY 250 NUMBERED COPIES FOR SALE. Published to raise money for programs for people living McLOUGHLIN ABC with AIDS, this is SIGNED BY HOCKNEY AND SPENDER and 22 of the 38. ABC. (McLOUGHLIN) FARMYARD ABC. NY: McLoughlin Bros. circa 1880. 8vo, contributors including: DORIS LESSING, WILLIAM GOLDING, SEAMUS pict. wraps, tiny edge chips else VG+. Each page illus. with extremely well executed HEANEY, JULIAN BARNES, JOHN UPDIKE, NORMAN MAILER, SUSAN color illustrations of animals and scenes with no text except for one word per letter. SONTAG, V.S. PRITCHETT, JOYCE CAROL OATES, IRIS MURDOCH, CRAIG Rear cover has pictorial ads of McLoughlin folding board games. $200.00 RAINE, KAZUO ISHIGURO, PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR, IAN McEWAN, ERICA #38 JONG, JOHN JULIUS NORWICH, MARGARET DRABBLE, NIGEL NICOLSEN, MARTIN AMIS and others. Each letter has a fabulous full page color lithograph by Hockney facing a page of text about what that letter means to the author. Each of the notables listed above contributed to a different letter. The artwork is stunning and this is a very special ABC. $2700.00

#39

NICE LINEN ABC 39. ABC. (McLOUGHLIN) JOLLY ANIMAL ABC [NURSERY ABC BOOK on cover]. NY: McLoughlin Bros. 1900. 4to, (8 3/8 x 10 3/4”), stiff pictorial wraps, near fine. Printed on linen. Each letter is represented by a different animal with a few lines of text in happy rhyme. “E is an Eel that danced a round reel with a very large oyster and very fat seal.... X is a Xantho that put out its claw, and seized a poor sad-looking dog by the paw.” Illustrated with 6 fine full page chromo pages and in 3-colors on text pages. $300.00 914.764.7410 Pg 8 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89 40. ABC. (McLOUGHLIN) OUR FOUR FOOTED FRIENDS ABC. NY: GERMAN WWII SAILOR’S ALPHABET McLoughlin Bros. nd ca 1910. Folio, pict. wraps mounted on linen, Fine. An animal 44. ABC. (MILITARY) SEEMANS ABC by Hans Bodenstedt. Leipzig: Alfred ABC illus. with full and partial page beautiful chromos. $300.00 Hans [1942]. Oblong 4to, (9 1/4” wide x 7 1/2), cloth backed pictorial boards, sl. edge wear, VG+. 1st ed. Each letter represents a different aspect of naval #40 life. Text pages are illustrated in brown line. Each page of text faces a full page color illustration (14 in all) by Karl Nathe, two of which feature the swastika on the Nazi flag, another that shows U-boats sinking Allied ships Scarce. Bilderwelt 760. $450.00

#41

UNUSUAL ARMY ALPHABET 41. ABC. (MILITARY) AN ALPHABET OF THE ARMY by Edward Shenton. Phil.: Macrae Smith 1943. 4to, (7 x 9 1/4”) cloth, Fine in chipped dw. 1st ed. Written and illustrated by EDWARD SHENTON with numerous stylized illustrations in two colors. Each letter relates to two different aspects of the army (A = Ack Ack, Artillary, B = Beachhead, Bombs etc.). Shenton was a noted Pennsylvania artist trained in Philadelphia (and also an editor at Macrae Smith who published this book). Unusual. $250.00

WITH WATERCOLOR BY AUNT LOUISA LONDON TOY BOOK AUTHOR- MILITARY ABC 45. ABC. (MILITARY) SOLDIER’S ALPHABET. Lond.: Fred. Warne, no date, 42. ABC. (MILITARY) circa 1880. 4to, (9 x 11”), COMIC MILITARY stiff pictorial wraps, some ALPHABET: ARMY, NAVY, corner wear, VG+. Pages NATIONAL GUARD by De are mounted on linen. Each Witt C. Falls. NY: Stokes letter pertains to a different 1894. 8vo, (5 1/2 x 7 3/4”), aspect of military life. Text gilt red, white and blue pages are illustrated in cloth, some cover soil, VG. 3-color and each page of Printed on rectos only. Each text faces a wonderful full letter of the alphabet is page chromolithograph plus represented by a marvelous there is a great double-page full page color illustration chromolithographed spread. of an American soldier “H is a HIGHLANDER, of from different parts of the the Black Watch / No army country and from various boasts soldiers / more brave branches of the service than the Scotch.” This is a - from Indian Troops to scarce title in the Aunt Chicago Hussars. THIS Louisa London Toy Book COPY HAS A WONDERFUL Series. $475.00 WATERCOLOR INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE ENDPAPER DEPICTING A RARE WWI ALPHABET DECORATED SOLDIER ON A ROCKING HORSE TITLED 46. ABC. (MILITARY) YPRES ALPHABET “ME” Really wonderful and by C.M. Truman and J. Leslie. no publication rare. $1500.00 information, British, ca 1916. 3 3/4” x 6 3/4”, limp green cloth, VG+. Printed on NAVY ALPHABET 43. ABC. (MILITARY) NAVAL ALPHABET by M. Berkeley. Lond.: A. & C. Black, no rectos only, each letter relates to World date, circa 1915. 4to, (8 1/2 x 11”), cloth, pictorial paste-on, light rubbing, VG+. Each War I. Text is in calligraphy, and every letter of the alphabet pertains to the Navy or the ship. Text is in rhyme followed page is illustrated with accomplished pen by a descriptive paragraph, and text pages have pictorial borders and vignettes in brown line. Each page of text faces a full page color plate, also with a pictorial and ink caricatures. “L is for the Lance/ border. “T is for Torpedo-tubes, What are they for? / To blow enemy warships to With the spike at the end/ It slips in like Jigger-um-pore.” Illustrated by J.H. Hartley, this is a well made ABC. $300.00 butter / With never a bend.” Several letters #43 make reference to specific soldiers’ names suggesting that this was probably a book meant for limited distribution. Extremely rare. $650.00

MORMON ABC 47. ABC. (MORMON) DESERET ALPHABET:BOOK OF MORMON. NY: Roberts Brothers for Deseret University 1869. 8vo, (5 3/4 x 8 7/8”), 116p., leather backed blue pictorial boards, light rubbing to top of front board and light cover soil else VG+. Published by the Mormons in their newly invented phonetic alphabet developed by Parley Pratt, Heber Kimball and George Watt. Their aim was to provide the Mormon children with their own language, spelling and orthography. It soon proved unmanageable and was abandoned after Brigham #43 Young’s death in 1877. The frontispiece offers a key to the Mormon alphabet. A most unusual item. (SEE ILLUS TOP NEXT PAGE) $475.00 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 9 [email protected]

#47 PRIMER 52. ABC. (PRIMER) BEAUTIES OF THE NEW ENGLAND PRIMER. NY: Samuel Wood & Sons and Baltimore. 2 1/2 x 4 1/8”, no date, circa 1815. Patterned wallpaper wraps, 26p., VG. The publisher felt that the New England Primer “of latter times” had becomes “useless and obsolete”, so they selected what they felt were the most relevant sections of the traditional Primer and published it as Beauties. Illustrated with 4 pages of cuts for the alphabet and 4 other cuts to accompany the Burning of John Rogers, a Cradle Hymn by Watts and more. Heartman 441. (SEE ILLUS BOTTOM PRIOR COLUMN) $250.00

PUB. BY H. & S. RAYNOR 53. ABC. (PRIMER) CHILD’S FIRST PRIMER, OR A, B, C BOOK. NY: H. & S. Raynor, circa 1845. 3 5/8 x 4 5/8”,

#48 23p., blue pictorial wraps, Fine. The upper half of 14 pages each feature 4 woodcuts of simple objects. The bottom halves of those pages have lessons beginning with 2 48. ABC. (NAMES) NURSERY ALPHABET by A. Clifton-Shelton. Lond., Nelson circa 1930. 4tom stiff pictorial wraps, fine. Each letter stands for a different letter combinations graduating to 2-syllable names. Wonderfully illustrated in typical 30’s style with full color illustrations words. The beginning of the book has several on every page by Grace Clifton-Shelton. “U” is Unita. Text is in verse. $300.00 different alphabets. A charming little primer in excellent condition. $275.00 LTD. TO 95 COPIES / PARROT PRESS 49. ABC. (NAMES) WHAT’S IN A NAME by Annie Newnham. (Oxford): Hanborough Parrot Pieces (1988). 8vo (6 1/2 x 9”), boards, no dust wrapper as issued, as new. LIMITED MAN RAY ABC LIMITED TO 150 COPIES TO ONLY 95 NUMBERED 54. ABC. (RAY,MAN) ALPHABET POUR ADULTES. Paris: Editions Pierre COPIES. Designed by Belfond, 1970. Folio (12 x 15 1/2”), loose signatures as issued enclosed in an orange Dennis Hall, printed on clamshell box, Fine. LIMITED TO ONLY 150 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY mould-made paper, top MAN RAY. Each copy has an original rayograph signed by Man Ray. The rayograph edges unopened. Ever letter is done on a sold black background and depicts a feather superimposed by large stands for a different name, color block letters “A” “B” and “C”, mounted on a faux wood backer. The actual illustrated by the author alphabet is printed on grand velin d’Arches paper and consists of 37 lithographs with b&w lithos showing the (including title) with each letter represented by more than one illustration. Each characters interacting with leaf has an artful brown litho with one word of text arranged artistically within the the letters in some fashion. illustration. Although born in America ( 1890-1976 as Emmanuel Radnitzky), Man Text is only a descriptive Ray spent most of his artistic life in Paris contributing to the Dada and Surrealist word for the name: Racing movements with his painting and photographs. This is an amazing ABC by Ray who Ruth, Slippery Sam, once said “ A letter always suggests a word and a word always suggest a book.” etc. $150.00 Very scarce and unusual. (SEE ALSO INSIDE FRONT COVER) $3000.00

50. ABC. (PHOTO ILLUSTRATED) ABC IN REAL LIFE PICTURES by Robert Moss. Lond.: Juvenile Productions, no date, circa 1950’s. 4to (8 1/4 x 10 3/4”), cloth backed pictorial boards, VG+. Each letter has a large photo accompanied by a short 2-line “story”. “G is for Golliwog and also for goat. The photos are charming and natural. $275.00

51. ABC. (PHOTO ILLUSTRATED) MY LITTLE ABC by Gilbert Cousland. London: Collins (1934). 4to, (7 1/2 x 9 1/2”), cloth, near fine in sl. worn dust wrapper. A wonderful alphabet book illustrated by Cousland with large photos of objects in a child’s world opposite each letter. Done much the same way as Steichen’s alphabet, this is particularly well executed. (This title in White but different publisher). Very scarce. $400.00 #52 #51

55. ABC. (SUNBONNET) THE SUNBONNET BABIES A-B-C BOOK: A Modern Hornbook by Eulalie Osgood Grover. Chic: Rand. McN. (1929). 4to, cloth, 64p., pict. paste-on, some cover soil and sl. finger soil, VG. 1st ed. A charming alphabet book, illustrated by BERTHA CORBETT MELCHER with lovely full page color illustrations opposite each page of text. Very scarce in the 1st ed. $250.00 914.764.7410 Pg 10 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89 ART DECO / SATIRE TUCK TRAIN ABC SHAPE BOOK 56. ABC. (THEATRE) ABC OF THE THEATRE by Humbert Wolfe. [UK]: 60. ABC. (TRAIN/TUCK) RAILROAD ABC by Rose Goldstein. Lond.: Tuck 1903. Cresset Press, [1932]. Narrow folio (7 1/2 x 14 1/2”), die-cut in the shape of a train, lower corner crease, 4to, (7 3/4 x 10 1/4”), slight spine wear, VG+. A wonderful ABC where each letter illustrates a different [51]p., pictorial boards, aspect of train travel. Each page beautifully illustrated including 4 pages of the dust wrapper has been detailed chromolithographs. (SEE ILLUS BOTTOM PRIOR COLUMN) $250.00 permanently attached to the covers otherwise fine. 1st ed. A great satirical AUNT LOUISA alphabet. Illustrated in b&w by Edward Burra. M LONDON TOYBOOK is for Maugham, N is for 61. ABC. (TRAINS) Noel, O is for O’Neill. “T RAILWAY A.B.C. Lond.: is for Tallulah. She was Warne ca 1870. 4to, pict. rightly annoyed / When a journalist called her Helen wraps, VG+. An Aunt Louisa of Freud.” Great art London Toybook printed on deco design and humorous one side of the paper by verse. $350.00 Kronheim, featuring six fine 57. ABC. (TOYS) TOY STORE ABC. Newark: Charles Graham ca 1900. 12mo, full page illustrations for pictorial cloth, near fine. This is a charming linen alphabet of toys with color rhymes about the various pictorial covers, 2 full page color illustrations and 4 full pages of brown line illustrations. Each page has many objects on it - A is for Ark, N is for Nine Pins letters - all with a railroad and O is for Omnibus depicting a horse drawn wagon. $150.00 theme. $300.00 #57 #58 62. ABC. (TUCK) ANIMAL WORLD ABC. Lond.: Tuck ca 1890. Oblong folio, stiff pictorial wraps, spine repair else VG+. Father Tuck Natural History Series. Illus. with 6 full page chromos plus 6 pages in 2- color. An attractive alphabet book. $175.00

RARE IDA WAUGH ABC 63. ABC. (WAUGH) IDA WAUGH’S ALPHABET RARE McLOUGHLIN FOLIO ABC OF TRADES BOOK by Amy Blanchard. 58. ABC. (TRADES) LITTLE WORKERS’ ABC AND PRETTY PICTURE BOOK. Phil: Lippincott 1888. 4to,(9 NY: McLoughlin Bros. (1901). Folio (10 3/8 x 13 1/4”), cloth backed pictorial boards, x 10 3/4”), cl. backed pict. light edge wear else near fine. A stunning McLoughlin Bros. book, this features bds, some cover soil and children in grown-up jobs such as artist, carpenter, laundress, musician, etc. “V edge wear, VG. Printed on is for the Volunteer, to fight for glory willing; He’ll make a first class soldier, heavy paper on rectos only, when he’s had a little drilling.”. Printed on coated paper with text in gold ink, each each leaf has an alphabet page is decorated in gold and features well printed, vibrant chromolithographs. pictorial border and there Quite possibly the most beautiful book McLoughlin produced. Rare. $600.00 are line illustrations for each letter of the alphabet. The HAND-COLORED TRADES ABC letters are also portrayed 59. ABC. (TRADES) NEW ILLUSTRATED TRADES ALPHABET. Lond.: T. in humanized forms being Goode no date, 1841-6 based on pub. address. 4to, 6 1/2” wide x 8”, pink pictorial composed of little children wraps, corners of rear wrap restored else VG. Illustrated with 26 hand-colored in various positions. woodcuts of different trades accompanied by 4 lines of verse under each cut. The Rare. $650.00 top of each pages has the alphabet running across in large decorative block letters. Q is for Quill Cutter: This man has, from the wings of the goose / Cut quills into pens which you see there is made / But steel pens are now mostly used / And sadly injures his trade.” U is for Undertaker, A is for Zinc Worker. Printed on very 64. ABC. (WINSHIP,FLORENCE) ABC thin paper, it is amazing that that this rare alphabet has survived. $1200.00 BOOK. Racine: Whitman, 1940. Folio, (9 #60 1/2 x 11”), pictorial wraps, [16]p. inc. covers, some cover rubbing else fine. A charming 40’s ABC book accompanied by rhymes. #59 Illustrated in vibrant, bold color by Florence Sarah Winship. $85.00

ABC SEE ALSO 90, 144, 190, 203, 209, 244, 251, 274, 279, 410, 436, 494, 554

ADAMS, FRANK – 150

ADULT (BETTER KNOWN FOR ADULT WORK) 10, 35, 54, 345, 471, 533

ADVERTISING – 1, 2, 22, 24, 160

AESOP – 137

AFRICA – 227

ALBANIA - 418 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 11 [email protected] 65. ALCOTT,LOUISA MAY. “ALL ABOUT” BOOKS – 87, 282-4 LITTLE MEN: Life at Penfield with Jo’s .Boys ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN – 344, 324, 389 Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1871 (1871). Small 8vo, GRIMM ILLUSTRATED BY (5 x 6 3/4”), green cloth ANDERSON stamped in gold on front 69. (ANDERSON,ANNE)illus. cover and spine, brown DIE GOLDKINDER UND coated endpapers, some ANDERE MARCHEN von cover rubbing, tip wear, very Bruder Grimm.. Leipzig: small worn area on lower Anton, no date, d circa 1925. outer hinge (not weak), spine Thick 4to, (9x11”), cloth extrems slightly frayed backed pictorial boards, else clean and tight, VG. 160p., tips worn, some Illustrated with 4 full page foxing on half-title and title black and whites. 1st ed., 1st else VG+. 39 of Grimm’s issue with ad listing “Pink and fairy tales are illustrated White Tyranny” as Nearly by Anderson with 8 mounted Ready, signature 1 present color plates, numerous with no priority. Peter full and partial page line Parley To Penrod p.36, BAL illustrations plus pictorial 167. $375.00 endpapers. $400.00

SMITH’S 70. (ANDRE,R.)illus. “LITTLE WOMEN” BLUE & RED OR THE 66. ALCOTT,LOUISA DISCONTENTED LOBSTER MAY. LITTLE WOMEN. by Juliana Horatia Ewing. Bost: Little Brown 1915 Lond: SPCK nd (1881). 4to, (1915). Thick 8vo, gilt cloth, cloth backed glazed pict. pictorial paste-on, 617p., All bds, 32p., repair to one edges gilt, spine lettering leaf where pages stuck and faded else near FINE. First light edge wear else VG. A edition thus. Illustrated by most unusual tale about a JESSIE WILLCOX SMITH lobster who wanted to be with cover plate plus 8 red and finally reached his other lovely color plates goal when he was cooked and pictorial endpapers. and thus dead! Told entirely A beautiful copy of in verse & fabulously Smith’s very scarce first illustrated by R. ANDRE edition. $450.00 with chromolithographs (by Emrik & Binger) filling every page. A scarce Ewing / Andre #67 RARE ALDIN RAG BOOK title. ANDRE SEE ALSO 67. (ALDIN,CECIL)illus. ANIMALS’ 270. $300.00 SCHOOL TREAT by Clifton Bingham. Lond.: Dean ca 1910. 4to, pictorial HUMANIZED cloth, some soil throughout, one page BERRIES AND FLOWERS reinforced at spine, overall VG! 24 71. ANTHROPOMORPHISM. pages of fabulous color illustrations of FLOWER AND BERRY BABIES by fanciful animals by Aldin accompanied Edna Groff Diehl. Chic. : Whitman by verse by Bingham. A rare 1924 (1923). 8vo, cloth, pict. paste- title. $1250.00 on, slight cover soil else near Fine. Tales where flowers and berries come ALDIN LIMITED TO ONLY alive. Profusely illustrated with full page and in-text color illustrations 250 COPIES by VERA STONE. An easy reading 68. (ALDIN,CECIL)illus. POSTHUMOUS book with text in large type and with PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB facts presented in a fanciful manner. by Charles Dickens. Lond.: Chapman $150.00 & Hall. Lawrence & Jellicoe 1910. 2 volumes, large thick 4to’s (8 1/4 x 11 ANTHROPOMORPHISM see also – 193, 1/4”), full vellum stamped in gold, 450. 270, 272, 549 457p., armorial bookplate, slight soil on the white vellum, spines slightly faded, near fine. LIMITED TO ONLY 250 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY ALDIN. APPIA, BEATRICE – 415-16 Illustrated with 24 fabulous color plates plus a profusion of great illustrations all throughout the text. When found, this set is normally soiled and grubby. It ARABIAN NIGHTS – 206, 229 is extremely rare to find this white vellum set in such nice condition. $1350.00

SCARCE ARDIZZONE TITLE #68 72. (ARDIZZONE,EDWARD)illus. THE FANTASTIC TALE OF THE PLUCKY SAILOR AND THE POSTAGE STAMP by Stephen Corrin. Lond.: Faber & Faber (1954). Sm. 4to, pict. bds, corner bumped else fine (no dw). 1st ed. The adventures of an intrepid sailor who goes to great lengths to help an old lady. Illus. in color on every page. Very scarce. $275.00

ART (ORIGINAL) – 75, 204-5, 263-4, 285, 297, 324, 383, 423, 428, 465, 472, 557-9 914.764.7410 Pg 12 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89 PURE ART DECO - CLASSIC ART DECO INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR 77. (ARTZYBASHEFF,BO 73. ART DECO. THE RIS)illus. FUNNYBONE TIRED TROLLY CAR by ALLEY by Alfred Kreymborg. Beth A.Retner. NY: Doub. NY: Macauley (1927). 4to, (7 Page 1926 (1926). 8vo, (6 7/8 x 10 1/2”), blue pictorial 1/4 x 7 3/4”) green cloth, cloth, top edge gilt, rear 158p., rub mark on endpaper cover soiled else VG. First else Fine in dust wrapper edition. This is the strange (dw light soil and fraying). fantasy of Sam Pumpernickel Stated 1st ed. A group of and his pals in the mythical 9 fantasy stories, including land called Ballyboo. the title, House of Many Illustrated by Artzybasheff Mirrors, One-Horse Town, with absolutely stunning Blue Policeman, Little Billy color pictorial endpapers, 7 Tick and more, illustrated marvelous tipped- in color in true Art Deco style with plates plus a profusion of 4 striking color plates, 5 black and whites in-text. full page b&w’s plus b&w’s Classic Art Deco at its best. and smaller b&w’s by C.E. This is one of Artzybasheff’s Millard. A real “period” most original and effective book. $275.00 works. $250.00

ART DECO also 5, 75-7, 83, 136, 157, 188, 225, 251, 254, 402-3, 410, 499, 564 NEWBERY HONOR ART NOUVEAU – 332 ARTHURIAN - 223 78. (ARTZYBASHEFF,BORIS)illus. NANSEN by Anna Gertrude Hall. NY: Viking 1940 74. ARTZYBASHEFF,BORIS. POOR SHAYDULLAH. NY: (1940). 8vo, (6 1/2 x 9 1/2”), cloth, Fine in dust Macmillan 1931 (Nov. 1931). Small square 4to, (7 3/4 x wrapper with old mends on verso. First edition. 8 3/4”), grey pictorial cloth, The story of the explorer Fridtjof Nansen, cover sl. faded else fine in dust wrapper worn on spine. illustrated by Artzybasheff with beautiful First edition. The first book written by Artzybasheff, lovely full page and smaller blue lithographs and and illustrated by him with with striking art deco endpapers. NEWBERY wonderful, bold woodcuts. The story is a fable about HONOR. $150.00 a poor Moroccan beggar. “A book of talent” (Five Years of Children’s books FAIRY TALES & MOTHER p. 479). See Bader p. GOOSE 190-1. $275.00 79. (ATTWELL,MABEL LUCIE)illus. FAIRYLAND. STRIKING RARE ARTZYBASHEFF WOODCUT No place: Nelson ca 1915. 75. ARTZYBASHEFF,BORIS. WOOD ENGRAVING: CENTAURS. The image 4to, pict. cloth, VG. A fairy measures 11 x 8” signed and numbered (80). It is reproduced in Artzybasheff’s tale and Mother Goose surreal book As I See published in 1954. This striking image shows a male combination. The first and female centaur in the woods. There are mountains and much foliage in section contains Little Red the background. Artzybasheff’s strong angular Art Deco style is particularly Riding Hood and Tom Thumb appropriate for this scene. Rare. $1850.00 illus. by Attwell with 18 b&w’s (including title page) and 3 fabulous color plates. Other stories including the Snow Queen are illustrated by HONOR APPLETON, JACK ORR and Frederick BARKER with 5 other color plates and many, many detailed line illustrations $850.00

#76

SIGNED BY ARTZYBASHEFF AND COLUM / ART DECO 76. (ARTZYBASHEFF,BORIS)illus. CREATURES by Padraic Colum. NY: Macmillan 1927 (1927). Small, slim 4to, (6 3/8 x 9 1/2”), black cloth spine, silver boards. Spine slightly faded else Fine in matching silver publisher’s slip case (case slightly scuffed and rubbed at joints but solid and VG). FIRST EDITION LIMITED TO 300 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY COLUM AND ARTZYBASHEFF. Illustrated with stunning Art Deco black and whites throughout including pictorial endpapers, 10 full page and numerous smaller text illustrations. Text is in verse. $350.00 (SEE ILLUSTRATION DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT ------>>>>>>>>) Helen & Marc Younger Pg 13 [email protected] RARE ATTWELL SEWING BOOK WITH MOVEABLE SAMBO BOO BOOS 80. (ATTWELL,MABEL IN DUST WRAPPER LUCIE)illus. STITCH 84. BANNERMAN,HELEN. LITTLE STITCH: THE LUCIE BLACK SAMBO. NY: Duenewald (1943). ATTWELL NEEDLEWORK 8vo, spiral backed pictorial boards, slight BOOK. Dundee & Lond.: Valentine [1922]. Small 4to, wear else near fine in chipped and sl. worn stiff pictorial card covers, dw. A MOVEABLE SAMBO illustrated in sl. rubbing, VG+. Illustrated color by JULIAN WEHR and featuring 6 in color and line by Attwell including the Boo Boos and really terrific moveable plates done in color. fairies. Lacks the iron-on Quite difficult to find in the dw and a nice patterns, but includes the copy. $600.00 various colored threads and the needles that the reader can use to make hankies, bags or other fabric objects. Charming color illustrations TOY THEATRE WITH 4 BOOKS on every page by Attwell. 85. [BANNERMAN,HELEN]. LITTLE BLACK SAMBO * THREE LITTLE PIGS Rare. $600.00 * RUMPELSTILTSKIN * THREE BEARS [IN] PLAYETTE MOVING PICTURE THEATRE. (NY: Playette Corp. 1942). Housed in the original shipping box are ATTWELL see also 400 AUNT LOUISA – 61 2 books, each 8 3/4 x 7 3/4 spiral bound on top. Each book has two stories - Sambo is paired with the Three Pigs. Brightly illustrated in bold colors by Dick AUSTRALIA – 393, 397-8 Briefer. The set comes with a die-cut fold-out stage, removable scenery and text for a play version on separate cards. Also has a few die-cut figures for AUTOS see 6, 7, 73, 263 decoration, admission tickets and instructions. When assembled, the theatre measures 18” wide by 10” deep and 12” high. It is designed so that the books can VERY SCARCE be inserted into a slot in the rear and the child operates a lever that changes the scene as the play is being read. Extremely rare. $850.00 AVERILL CAT BOOK SIGNED BY HER 81. AVERILL,ESTHER. JENNY GOES TO SEA. NY: Harp. Bros. (1957). 8vo, (5 1/2 x 7 3/4”), pictorial cloth Harpercrest binding, Fine in fine price clipped dust wrapper. Probable 1st edition with no listing of later titles. The ninth title in Averill’s Cat Club series, this features a little black cat named Jenny. Illus. by Averill with simple, stylized 2-color illus. throughout. THIS COPY IS SIGNED BY AVERILL on the title page. Scarce. $250.00

VERY SCARCE AVERILL CAT BOOK SIGNED BY HER 82. AVERILL,ESTHER. JENNY’S BEDSIDE BOOK. NY: Harper Brothers RARE SAMBO BLUE RIBBON POP-UP (1959). Oblong 4to, (10 1/4 x 86. [BANNERMAN,HELEN]. THE STORY OF LITTLE BLACK SAMBO. NY: 7 1/2”), cloth backed pictorial Blue Ribbon (1934). 16mo (3 3/4 x 5”), pict. bds, 60p., covers soiled some and boards, Fine in sl. worn price paper aging as usual, VG+. A title in Blue Ribbon’s Midget Pop-up Series, this clipped dust wrapper. Probable features one double-page color pop-up and 26 full page black and whites to 1st edition with no listing of accompany the story of Sambo, illustrated by C. CAREY CLOUD. Rare. $750.00 later titles. This is the second picture book format about Jenny from Averill’s Cat Club #86 series which features a little black cat named Jenny. Illus. by Averill in color on every page. THIS COPY IS SIGNED BY AVERILL on the title page. Very scarce. $400.00

AVIATION see 8, 37, 114, 180, 475, 488

ART DECO SAMBO 83. [BANNERMAN,HELEN]. LITTLE

BLACK SAMBO. Springfield: McLoughlin #87 (1938). 12mo, (5 1/4 x 6 3/4”), pictorial board covers, slightest bit of rubbing, near fine. Gloriously illustrated in art deco style GRUELLE & SAMBO 87. [BANNERMAN,HELEN]. ALL ABOUT LITTLE BLACK SAMBO. NY: Cupples in full color by HILDEGARD [LUPRIAN]. & Leon (1917). 16mo, boards, pict. paste-on, fine in dw. Illustrated by JOHNNY $300.00 GRUELLE with 8 wonderful color plates and many b&w’s. Very scarce. $600.00 914.764.7410 Pg 14 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89 ONE OF THE RAREST OF ALL MOVEABLES NEWBERY HONOR COMPLETE WITH UNCUT WADDLES! 88. (BANNON,LAURA)illus. PECOS 92. BAUM,L.FRANK. WIZARD OF OZ WADDLE BOOK. NY: Blue Ribbon (1934). BILL, THE GREATEST COWBOY 4to, cloth, fine in sl. frayed dw with a few mends. 1st ed., 1st state. Illustrated OF ALL TIME by James Cloyd with 8 color plates (HG p.35-6). THIS COPY INCLUDES THE 6 WADDLE Bowman. Chic.: Whitman 1937 FIGURES ALL OF WHICH ARE UNPUNCHED, THE RAMP AND THE ORIGINAL (1937). Small 4to, 296p., cloth, fine PICTORIAL BAND THAT GOES AROUND THE RAMP! Enclosed in the original in frayed dw with some chipping. 1st pictorial envelope are the ramp and fasteners. A few Waddle pieces are neatly ed. The exploits of the legendary, reinforced at creases). The “waddle” book is designed with die-cut figures that larger-than-life cowboy Pecos can be assembled into full three dimensional color figures. When the figures Bill. Illustrated by Bannon with 6 are assembled using the metal fasteners they can actually move down the ramp stunning full page lithos plus many without contrivances! Instructions for assembling the figures are in the rear. other striking full and partial page Included are Dorothy, Toto, Scarecrow, Tin Man, Wizard and the Lion. The book b&w lithos. Newbery Honor. Very is illustrated by Denslow. This is a Baum book of the utmost rarity with few copies scarce. $275.00 surviving with the waddles intact and few are known with waddles unpunched. $38,000.00

89. BARRIE,J.M. PETER AND WENDY. NY: Scribner 1940 (1940 A). 4to (7 1/2 x 10”), grey pictorial cloth, slight cover fading else fine, 216p. 1st ed., thus, illustrated by EDMUND BLAMPIED with 12 color plates plus full page b&w’s and pictorial endpapers. $200.00

#89

PETER PAN ALPHABET BOOK 90. [BARRIE,J.M.]. PETER PAN ALPHABET by Oliver Herford. NY: Scribner 1907 (1907). 4to, (7x8 1/4”), cloth backed pictorial boards, slight cover soil, VG. 1st ed. An ABC book with each letter using a character or theme from Peter Pan and with a full page illus. facing each page of verse. Quite scarce. $400.00

FINE FIRST EDITION OF THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ 91. BAUM,L.FRANK. THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ. Chic: George M. Hill 1900. Large 8vo, pale green cloth stamped in red and green, 261p., tiny but of rubbing to rear bottom edge which also has faint soil, light mark on endpaper, otherwise perhaps the brightest fine copy we’ve seen in a while. 1st ed., MOST POINTS OF FIRST STATE. There is no box around ads on page 2 (2nd state), 1st line on page 14 reads “low wail on” (1st state), p.81 fourth line from 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 has copyright 93. BAUM,L.FRANK. NEW WIZARD OF OZ (WIZARD OF OZ ON COVER) (state 2), perfect type on pages 100, 186 (1st state), color plates corrected on Indianap: Bobbs Merrill (vd 1903). 4to, olive green cloth, pict. paste-on in dark page 34 (2nd state) but not corrected on p.92 (1st state). Binding state “B” with blue, green and orange, spine ends sl. worn 3 tiny margin mends, VG+ in tattered publishers imprint in red unserifed type. Hanff/Greene I.1-2 binding state B, dw. Fifth ed. first state. The type has been re-set for this edition and pagination Peter Parley To Penrod p. 111-113. Illustrated with 24 wonderful color plates and shortened with the removal of colored text illustrations. Hanff Greene p. 34. other text illustrations by W.W. Denslow. This is a superb copy of one of the most Illustrated by W.W. DENSLOW with 16 color plates including title. $550.00 famous children’s books of all times. (SEE ALSO REAR COVER) $36,500.00 #93

#94 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 15 [email protected]

94. BAUM,L.FRANK. PATCHWORK GIRL OF OZ. Chic: Reilly & Britton (1913). #98 4to, green pict. cloth, 341p. + 5p. of ads. Tiny snag at base of spine and name erased from title edge else VERY FINE and bright! 1st ed. (H/G VII) ( but “c” in chap. 3 on p. 35 does not overlap text). Illustrated by J.R. Neill with fabulous color pictorial endpapers plus a profusion of color and b&w illus. throughout the text. The 5 pages of ads offer synopses of the previous five titles for those readers new to the series. A wonderful copy of this early Oz title, rare in this condition. (SEE ILLUS BOTTOM PRIOR COLUMN) $1800.00

LOST KING IN DUST WRAPPER 95. (BAUM,L.FRANK) LOST KING OF OZ by Ruth Plumly Thompson. Chic: Reilly & Lee (1925). 4to, royal blue cloth, pict. paste-on, nearly AS NEW in ORIGINAL DUST WRAPPER (dw price clipped else near fine listing Gnome King with a sticker applied for upcoming Giant Horse). 1st ed., later printing with plates coated both sides, (some inserted at wrong pages) imperfect “k” on p. 193, (H-G XIX). Illus. with 12 color plates plus pictorial ep’s and b&w’s throughout by J.R. NEILL. A magnificent copy. $950.00

#99

99. BAUM,L.FRANK. PHOEBE DARING. Chic: Reilly & Britton (1912). 8vo, grey cloth stamped in black with orange white and grey pictorial cover, 298p. + [8]p. ads, Fine. 1st ed. The second of only two series books written by Baum using his own name. Illus. with plates by Joseph Pierre Nuyttens. Beautiful copy. $550.00

FINE COPY OF BAUM’S JUVENILE SPEAKER 100. BAUM,L.FRANK. L. FRANK BAUM’S JUVENILE SPEAKER.: Readings and recitations in prose and verse humorous and otherwise. Chic.: Reilly & Britton (1910). 4to, tan cloth pictorially stamped in red black and silver, 196p. + ads, FINE. Baum wrote this book for use in schools as an aid in teaching public speaking. This book for children contains Baum’s selections from what he considered some of his best stories plus he provided introductions for stories that originally formed parts of complete books. It contains selections from the Oz books, Father Goose, etc. as well as previously unpublished works like Prince Marvel, a playlet for children based on the Enchanted Island of Yew. Illustrated by JOHN R. NEILL and MAGINEL WRIGHT ENRIGHT in black and white. This is a beautiful copy of a rare Baum book. $950.00 96. (BAUM,L.FRANK). SPEEDY IN OZ by Ruth Plumly Thompson. Chic: Reilly & Lee (1934). 4to, blue cloth, pict. paste-on, 298p., light shelf wear, fox spots on bottom of a few pages else VG+. 1st ed. Illustrated by JOHN R.NEILL with 12 color plates plus pict. ep’s and many b&w’s. A nice copy of one of the most uncommon Oz titles. H-G XXVIII. $750.00

NEAR FINE COPY - BAUM AND PARRISH 97. BAUM,L.FRANK. . Chic: Way & Williams (1897). 4to, 265p., grey pictorial cloth stamped in color on both covers. Name erased from endpaper and slightest soil on covers else a tight near Fine copy. First edition, second issue (all 16-page signatures, terminal leaf concluding on p. [272] - see Schiller catalogue #5). Illustrated by MAXFIELD PARRISH. This is the FIRST BOOK WITH MAXFIELD PARRISH’S ILLUSTRATIONS AND ALSO L. FRANK BAUM’S FIRST PUBLISHED BOOK FOR CHILDREN! Illustrated by Parrish with wonderful color pictorial covers, pictorial title page, plus 12 full page black and white plates. For the text, Baum retells many classic nursery rhymes in story format. An unusually nice copy of one of the most desired of all children’s books, rare in this condition. $7500.00

ILLUS. BY WALTER ENRIGHT 101. BAUM,L.FRANK. FATHER GOOSE’S YEAR BOOK. Chicago: Reilly & Britton (1907). Narrow 4to, cloth, pict. paste-on, cover plate sl. rubbed else near fine and unused. 1st and only edition. A yearly appointment calendar with many pages of original verse by Baum, each faced with a page for notes. Illustrated by WALTER ENRIGHT with pictorial endpapers and with many full page and in-text color illustrations in the broad, flat style of poster artists of that time. Enright was a political cartoonist who married Maginel Wright (Frank ’s sister and illustrator of other Baum works) and father of award winner Elizabeth Enright. $600.00

BAUM AS SCHUYLER STAUNTON 102. [BAUM,L.FRANK]. THE FATE OF A CROWN by Schuyler Staunton. Chic.: Reilly & Britton 1905 (1905). 8vo, red cloth stamped in white gold and black, spine faded else Fine. 1st ed. first state SONGS OF FATHER GOOSE IN DUST WRAPPER! with text terminating on p. 306, chapters 98. BAUM,L.FRANK. SONGS OF FATHER GOOSE. Chic: Geo. M. Hill (1900). starting on right and left, and illus. counted Large 4to, cl. backed pict. bds, tips lightly worn else FINE IN DUST WRAPPER in pagination. Illus. by Glen Sheffer with 6 (dw tape repairs, 3” piece off top edge, chips off spine ends). 1st ed. Illustrated b&w plates. This is the first novel for adults by Denslow with a new color cover for this volume and in b&w inside to accompany written by Baum and one of only two under music for verses from Father Goose. A beautiful copy, rare in this condition with the Staunton pseudonym. Scarce and a nice a dust wrapper. (SEE ILLUS TOP NEXT COLUMN) $1500.00 copy. $500.00 914.764.7410 Pg 16 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89 BAUM FAIRY TALE USING LAURA BANCROFT PSEUDONYM #107 103. [BAUM,L.FRANK]. BABES IN BIRDLAND: a nature fairy tale by Laura Bancroft. Chic: Reilly & Britton (1911). Small 4to, green cloth spine, pictorial boards, 115+ [1]p + 3p. ads, slight edge and corner wear else VG+. First ed. Illustrated by MAGINEL WRIGHT ENRIGHT with 8 color plates and many b&w’s. This is a very scarce Baum item and a nice copy. $800.00

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BAUM AS FLOYD AKERS 108. [BAUM,L.FRANK]. BOY FORTUNE HUNTERS IN YUCATAN by Floyd Akers (pseud. of Baum). Chic.: Reilly & Britton (1910). 8vo, brown cloth stamped in black, red and green, 343p., very faint stain on end pages else near fine. 1st (and only) edition of the fifth Boy Fortune Hunter title, illustrated with a half- tone frontis by George Rieman. This is a great copy of a rare series book by Baum writing under his pseudonym of Akers. $1200.00

Baum - See also 383, 546, 547 RARE BAUM AS FLOYD AKERS 104. [BAUM,L.FRANK]. BOY FORTUNE HUNTERS IN CHINA by Floyd Akers (pseud. of Baum). Chic.: Reilly & Britton (1909). 8vo, brown cloth stamped in RARE EARLY TEDDY BEAR BOOK black and white, 324p., + [2]p. ads, slight rubbing else near fine. 1st ed., 1st 109. BEARS. THE BUSY BEARS by printing of this boy’s adventure series by Baum (quill and lamp on title, 3 titles George W. Gunn. Chicago: J.I. Austen listed on verso of title, p. [325] discusses series with box, 2 pages of ads list two Airship Boys, 4 Aunt Jane’s Nieces and - See Baum Bugle Spring 1972). 1907. Folio, pict. wraps, some soil and Illus. with half-tone frontis by E.A. Nelson. A beautiful copy, rare. $1850.00 margin repairs, G-VG. The mischief and adventures of twin Teddy bears BAUM AS FLOYD AKERS 105. [BAUM,L.FRANK]. BOY FORTUNE HUNTERS IN EGYPT by Floyd Akers named Teddy and Freddy. Illustrated (pseud. of Baum). Chic.: Reilly & Britton (1909). 8vo, brown cloth stamped in with 6 full page color illustrations plus black and white, 291p., + [2]p. ads, slight rubbing else near fine. 1st ed. of this 6 full page half-tones as well as line boy’s adventure series by Baum. (open book device on title, verso of half-title illustrations and color covers. Very lists 3 including this, text ends “in the Boy Fortune Hunters of China” ). Illus. with half-tone frontis by E.A. Nelson. A beautiful copy. $800.00 scarce. $350.00

BEARS / MOTHER GOOSE PICTURE BOOK 110. BEARS. FRANK VER BECK’S BEARS IN MOTHER GOOSE LAND, new lines by Hanna Rion, old lines by Mother Goose herself. NY: Doran, circa 1910, large 4to, cloth backed pictorial boards, sl. spine wear, VG+. Illustrated by FRANK VER BECK with color frontis plus 2-color or b&w’s on each page. (Ver Beck was the illustrator of Baum’s New Wonderland and a Joel Chandler Harris Uncle Remus book). Printed on heavy coated paper. Nice and quite scarce! $750.00 BAUM AS FLOYD AKERS 106. [BAUM,L.FRANK]. BOY FORTUNE HUNTERS IN PANAMA by Floyd Akers LARGE FORMAT (pseud. of Baum). Chic.: Reilly & Britton (1908). 8vo, brown cloth stamped in black, TEDDY BEAR BOOK cream and white, 310p., sl. cover soil, VG-Fine. 1st edition, 1st printing of the second 111. BEARS. LITTLE Boy Fortune Hunter title (open book on title, no ads at end, last line “is powerless JOHNNY AND THE TEDDY to control”), illustrated with 4 color plates by Howard Heath. This is a great copy BEARS by Robert Towne. of a rare series book by Baum writing under his pseudonym of Akers. $1200.00 Chic.: Reilly & Britton 1907. Obl. folio, cloth backed pictorial card covers, corner BAUM AS FLOYD AKERS of cover repaired else 107. [BAUM,L.FRANK]. BOY FORTUNE HUNTERS IN THE SOUTH SEAS by amazingly tight and clean. Floyd Akers (pseud. of Baum). Chic.: Reilly & Britton (1911). 8vo, brown cloth Printed on rectos only, each stamped in black red and green, 263p. + [2]p. ads, 2 small indents in gutter and light leaf is divided into panels cover soil else VG+. 1st edition of the sixth and last Boy Fortune Hunter title (quill and illustrated in color by and lamp device on title, p. 263 concludes with ad in box, 2 pages of ads at end, 6 J.R. Bray. The text in verse titles listed on half-title. See Baum Bugle Spring 1972). Illustrated with a 3-color tells of the misadventures frontis by Emile Nelson. This is a nice copy of a scarce series book by Baum writing of a gang of teddy under his pseudonym of Akers. (SEE ILLUS TOP NEXT COLUMN) $600.00 bears. $850.00 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 17 [email protected] McLOUGHLIN 117. BENNETT,CHARLES. 112. BEARS. OLD MOTHER PROVERBS WITH PICTURES. BRUIN AND HER FOOLISH Lond: Wm. Tegg 1877. 4to, CUBS. NY: McLoughlin Bros. cl. backed pict. bds, 48p., nd ca 1880. Obl. 4to (10 5/8 foxing else VG. 1st pub. in x 9”), pictorial wraps, spine 1859. Printed on rectos only, neatly repaired, light soil, each of the 48 plates features VG. Featuring 6 very fine common proverbs accompanied full page chromolithographs by clever and enormously depicting the adventures and witty engravings by Bennett. misadventures of these three $300.00 bears. A rare McLoughlin title. $350.00 BERRY, ERICK – 568, 581

113. BEARS. PADDINGTON TAKES THE TEST by Michael Bond. Lond: Collins BIANCO, MARGERY – 325 (1979). 8vo, cloth, 125p., Fine in sl. worn dw. 1st ed. The 11th Paddington story, BIRDS – 11, 12, 103, 148, illus. by PEGGY FORTNUM. $100.00 234, 566 #113

DUNBAR 1ST ED. - MINT IN DUST WRAPPER! 118. BLACK INTEREST. POEMS OF CABIN AND FIELD by Paul Laurence Dunbar. NY Dodd Mead 1899 (1899). 8vo, green pictorial cloth with gilt lettering, top edge gilt, 125p. AS NEW IN DUST WRAPPER! (printed dw with finger smudges and a few mends). 1st ed. Poems in Black dialect, illustrated with fascinating photographs of plantation life showing daily activities of Blacks. Beautiful decorations on all text pages by ALICE MORSE plus cover design done by her in the style of Margaret Armstrong. This is a remarkable copy, rare in the dust wrapper. $2500.00

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FLYING TEDDY & GOLLIWOGG 114. BEARS. THE TEDDY BEAROPLANE by May Byron. NY: Hodder & Stoughton nd ca 1910. Sm. 4to, cl. backed pict. bds, some edge wear and light soil, VG+. The adventures of Teddy Bear, a Golliwogg and other toys (Dutch doll, Japanese doll) as they fly through the air in their plane. Marvelously illustrated by J.R. SINCLAIR with pictorial endpapers, 12 color plates and many b&w’s. A super book, rare. $1200.00

TEDDY BEAR EDUCATIONAL BOOK 115. BEARS. TEDDY BEARS PAINTING & DRAWING BOOK by F.I. Wetherbee. NY: H.B. Claflin (1907). Oblong 4to, cloth backed pictorial boards, KEMBLE ILLUSTRATIONS edges rubbed and some normal 119. BLACK INTEREST. shelf wear, some blank pages (KEMBLE,E.W.) KEMBLE’S already artfully colored, VG. 1st COONS: a collection of ed. Designed by the author to Southern sketches by entertain the child, “designed to Edward W. Kemble. NY: train the eye and hand and give Russell 1897 (1896). Large the little folks a proper idea how oblong 4to, (12 x 9”), cloth to plan out lessons.” Containing backed pictorial boards, 24 full page color plates of covers rubbed and lightly Teddy Bears with the same soiled else VG+. A collection illustrations in line only designed of incredible full page to be colored by the child. Also plates (printed on glossy includes other subject matter as paper on rectos only) with well. A rare early Teddy Bear captions in dialect, each book. $500.00 portraying stereotypical Blacks of various ages. $500.00

BEARS see also – 139, 168, 521, 549 RARE TITLE BELLOC, H. - 10 120. BLACK INTEREST. PLAYTIME IN DIXIE. no pub. info except that this was a giveaway by Lansburgh CALDECOTT AWARD WINNER & Bro. in Washington D.C., 116. BEMELMANS,LUDWIG. MADELINE’S circa 1910. 8vo (5 3/4 x RESCUE. NY: Viking 1953 (1953). Folio, 7 1/2”), pictorial wraps, cloth, 56p., old paper clip mark on top of some cover soil and light stain, VG. Each page shows a few pages else Fine in near fine dw. 1st stereotypical Black children ed. Madeline is saved from drowning by a at play including minstrel dog. Beautiful color illustrations by the players, hunting, playing author. An unusually nice copy, rare in this baseball, playing soldiers condition. CALDECOTT AWARD WINNER and more. Illustrated in 3-color with text in verse . $1200.00 printed in large type. Rare. $600.00 914.764.7410 Pg 18 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89 WITH WONDERFUL 126. BLACK INTEREST. DRAWING BY BRONSON (GORDON, ELIZABETH) 121. BLACK INTEREST. WATERMELON PETE (NASSAU-WEST INDIES) AND OTHER STORIES by CHILDREN OF THE SEA Elizabeth Gordon. Chic: Rand written and illus. by Wilfrid McNally (1914). 8vo, cloth, Bronson. NY: Harc. Brace pict. paste-on, sl. rubbing (1940 I). 4to, (7x9”) cloth, and light soil, VG+. 1st ed. 6 264p., fine in slightly worn stories by Gordon including dust wrapper. 1st ed., The the title story about a story of a dolphin and his little Black boy who meets friendship with a Black boy a little Black fairy when on the island of Nassau. he sneaks out to find some Illustrated by Bronson with watermelon. Illustrated by color frontis plus many CLARA POWERS WILSON b&w’s. THIS COPY HAS with lovely full page and A FABULOUS FULL PAGE in-text color illustrations. PEN AND INK DRAWING An uncommon Gordon OF SMUDGY (a little Black title. $200.00 boy) AND HIS DOLPHIN SIGNED BY BRONSON. 127. BLACK INTEREST. TEN LITTLE Selected as a notable book for the year by Horn Book NIGGERS. NY: McLoughlin Bros. nd Magazine. $350.00 circa 1895. 4to, pict. wraps, sl. soiling to covers, else VG+. Illustrated with 12 122. BLACK INTEREST. (WEST INDIES) JEANNE-MARIE GOES TO fabulous full page chromolithographed MARKET by Sari. NY: Grosset & Dun. 1938. Sq. 4to, cl. backed pict. bds, Fine in sl. worn dw. A story set in the West Indies, with wonderful full page and smaller illustrations (one is a double-page spread, color illus. by the author. $250.00 not the same illustrations as in the Aunt Louisa version), and with musical notation inside both covers. Great color covers as well. A great edition and very scarce. $1100.00

AMERICAN EDITION 128. BLACK INTEREST. TEN LITTLE NIGGERS. Chicago: McLaughlin Co., no date circa 1890. 4to, pictorial wraps, [12]p. + covers, some cover soil and a chip else VG. Illustrated with pictorial covers, 6 full DOMINICAN REPUBLIC SETTING page chromolithographs and 123. BLACK INTEREST. THE COCOA DANCER by Flora C. Rue. Chic.: Whitman 1945. 4to, cloth, pict. paste-on, Fine in dw. 1st ed. The story of little Ebony 6 full page illustrations in who lives in the Dominican Islands. Wonderfully illustrated with a full page color brown line to accompany this illustration opposite each page of text by GLADYS ROURKE BLACKWOOD. One famous poem. An uncommon of the few children’s books to be set in this area of the world. $325.00 edition. $600.00 GREAT STYLIZED ILLUSTRATIONS 124. BLACK INTEREST. BIM UND BUM bild und text von Johanna Freund. Wien: Humboldt circa 1945. Large 8vo, pictorial boards, fine. The misadventures of two 129. BLACK INTEREST. TEN LITTLE NIGGER BOYS. No place, (B.B. Ltd) no date little Black African natives named Bim and Bum. Printed on one side of the paper, there ca 1945. 4to, pict. wraps, Fine. Illustrated by an unknown hand with 5 fine full page are charming, bright color lithographs on every page by the author. $275.00 color illustrations and 5 half-page line illustrations plus color cover. Also includes a few other nursery rhymes with 3 color plates. An interesting edition. $250.00

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McLOUGHLIN HOFFMANN IMITATION 125. BLACK INTEREST. THE INKY BOYS. NY: McLoughlin Bros. nd ca 1870. 130. BLACK INTEREST. TEN LITTLE NIGGER BOYS. (Lond.: BB Ltd.) ca 1950. 4 5/8 x 6 3/4”, pict. wraps, [12]p. incl. covers, fine and unopened. 2 stories, the 8vo, stiff pictorial wraps, fine. A jolly, non-stereotypical portrayal of this group first about a “black-a-moor” and St. Nicholas, the other entitled Simple John. of Black boys brightly illustrated with 4 full page color illustrations, color covers Very revealing of prevailing social views. $225.00 plus 6 b&w’s. $225.00 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 19 [email protected] 131. BLACK INTEREST. TEN in the style of Richard Scarry and are LITTLE NIGGER BOYS illustrated in heavy outline inside. The AND TEN LITTLE NIGGER child can use the crayons or the paint GIRLS by Nora Case. NY: to color them. There is also a sheet Dutton, no date, circa 1910. 16mo, (4 1/4 x 5 1/2”, 95p., of die-cut figures for the child to decorative boards, pictorial make finger puppets with. Completely paste-on, Fine in sl. worn unused and in fine condition, this dust wrapper. Originally is a charming 1950’s boxed library. issued as Number 26 in the BOXED LIBRARY see also 371, Dumpy Book series and then issued in this format by 421. $200.00 Chatto in the U.K. This title is wonderfully illustrated 136. BRADLEY,WILL. PETER with full page red, black and POODLE: Toy Maker to the King. white drawings opposite each NY: Dodd Mead, 1906. (Oct. page of text. Printed on one 1906) 4to, cloth backed pictorial side of the paper. Extremely boards, some edge, corner & scarce. $800.00 cover wear, VG. First edition of one of the most imaginative children’s books. Illustrated by Bradley with 26 full page 132. BLACK INTEREST. TEN LITTLE color illustrations plus many, NIGGER BOYS and all about them. Lond.: many in text color illustrations. Gale and Polden, no date ca 1910. 4to, cloth Written by Bradley as well as illustrated by him, this is backed pict. boards, some edge rubbing, a fantasy tale set in Toyville. VG. Illustrated by R. & C. Kennedy with 6 Scarce. $1200.00 color plates, 2 full page illus. in brown and BRANDYWINE ARTISTS – 66, 12 smaller illus. in brown plus pictorial title 97, 274, 405-7, 456-64, 474, 529-31, 567, 587, 598-9 page. The text is presented in story format instead of in rhyme. Rare and an interesting 137. (BRANSOM,PAUL)illus. AN ARGOSY OF FABLES selected edition. $600.00 & edited by F. T. Cooper. NY: Stokes (1921). Large thick 4to, 485p., dark blue pict. cloth, near Fine. Hundreds of fables RARE EDITION from many eras and many lands including Aesop, Phaedrus, 133. BLACK INTEREST. Babrius. Hindoo, Persian, Chinese, LINDSAYBYRNE’S TEN Armenian, Turkish, Polish, LITTLE NIGGERS. No pub. English, American Indian and info., ca 1870. 12mo, 8 p. more. Illustrated by Bransom with 24 richly colored and very text, lacks covers, bound in beautiful mounted color plates boards with original cover plus lovely pictorial endpapers. label else VG. Illus. in b&w Really a nice book. (Realms of Gold p.105) $250.00 on every page - a rare an unusual version of this WITH WALTER BROOKS LETTER rhyme. $750.00 138. BROOKS,WALTER. FREDDY AND THE SPACE SHIP. NY: Knopf 1953 (1953). 8vo, cloth, Fine in very sl. worn dw. Stated 1st ed. Freddy the Pig and the crew travel to Mars! Illustrated in b&w by KURT WIESE. Nice copy. SOLD TEN LITTLE NIGGERS WITH A FINE 1 PAGE LETTER FROM BROOKS in which he mentions the title 134. BLACK INTEREST. offered here,, typed on his personal stationary including the envelope. The text DIE GESCHISCHTE of the letter reads: “I called at Mrs. V’s yesterday to look at some books, VON DEN 10 KLEINEN and in the course of the conversation with her daughter, told her of the NEGERBUBEN. Dusseldorf: children’s books I have written. She said none of them were in your library, Merkur (1946). 8vo, pict. and I thought you might be interested in trying them, so am sending you bds, fine. The classic a copy of a promotion piece we got out for Book Week a number of years counting rhyme with ago. This is a newspaper published by the hero of the stories, Freddy, German text, illustrated the pig on the Bean farm. There are now twenty titles in the series - the by ADOLF UZARSKI latest being Freddy and the with art deco stylized Space Ship. The books are color illustrations on each published by Alfred Knopf page. This edition is newly and as to their popularity illustrated with different and suitability, I can refer illustrations from Uzarski’s you to any of the reference earlier version. Bilderwelt works dealing with children’s 1914. $750.00 literature. By the way, if you are ever disposing of any discards, or gift books, in good condition, I would BLACK INTERST see also 83-7, 114, 278, 292-3, 302, 310, 537, 556 be interested in making an offer for them. It occurs PINOCCHIO * RED RIDING HOOD * AESOP & MORE to me that Mrs. T, from 135. BOXED LIBRARY. PLAYTIME LIBRARY OF CHILDREN’S CLASSICS. NY: whom I bought some books Capitol Pub. Co. 1952. Housed in the colorful publisher’s double-sided box are 6 a year or so ago, may have illustrated books on one side and crayons, paints, a brush and a die cut sheet on mentioned my books to you. Sincerely, Walter Brooks.” the other side. The box measures 6” wide x 5 3/4 high and is 1 1/2” thick. When It sounds like Brooks was a closed it has a rounded back and can sit on a shelf simulating a book. The book book collector as well as an titles include Pinocchio, Aesop’s Fables, Sleeping Beauty, Jack and the Beanstalk, author! $1200.00 Little Red Riding Hood and the Gingerbread Boy. They have bright color covers 914.764.7410 Pg 20 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89

WALTER BROOKS - INSCRIBED INSCRIBED WITH FINE DRAWING 139. BROOKS,WALTER. STORY OF 143. (BROWN,PAUL)illus. POLO: A Non- FREGINALD. NY: Knopf 1942 (1936). technical Explanation of the Galloping Game. NY: Scribner 1949. 8vo, cloth, Large 8vo, pict. cloth, 249p., near fine 83p., fine in frayed dw. A guide to the in chipped dw with 2 pieces restored. pertinent facts about polo - for children Second printing. The story of a bear and adults. Illustrated by Brown in b&w named Freginald and his adventures when throughout. THIS COPY IS INSCRIBED he joins the circus. Illus. by KURT WIESE BY BROWN WITH A FINE DRAWING OF A in 2-color and line throughout. THIS HORSE DATED 1949. Scarce title, special COPY IS INSCRIBED BY BROOKS! Quite copy. $850.00 scarce. $750.00

GOOP NAUGHTY CHILDREN JEAN CHARLOT - ABC CALDECOTT HONOR 144. BURGESS,GELETT. 140. BROWN,MARGARET GOOP TALES WISE. A CHILD’S GOOD ALPHABETICALLY TOLD. NIGHT BOOK. NY: Scott NY: Stokes (1904). 4to, (8 x 1943, 1950. 4to, pictorial 10 1/3”), blue pictorial cloth, boards, fine in a dust wrapper faint trace of color on a few (dw with mild spine chipping illustrations else VG+. 1st otherwise VG dw). 1st ed. ed. A wonderful ABC book thus, of this CALDECOTT involving Burgess’s famous HONOR title and a modern naughty children who just classic, magnificently illus. don’t do what they should. with color lithos by JEAN Each letter represents CHARLOT. First published a different behavior in small format in 1943, pattern ( “L”=LEMEETRI; this was re-issued in 1950 “T”=TUCHIM & TAKIM) with new illustrations by with a separate alphabet for Charlot and in an enlarged boys and girls. Illustrated format in response to with great line illustrations library resistance to the and pictorial endpapers. small size of the first $650.00 edition. Bader p.269- 70. $650.00 PURPLE COWS! 145. BURGESS,GELETT. THE PURPLE COW. San Francisco: William Doxey no date, circa 1899 with ad in rear dated 141. BROWN,MARGARET WISE. 1899. 8vo, pict. wraps string bound, [32]p., + covers, some edge chipping else VG+. An MARGARET WISE BROWN’S early edition of Burgess’ first separately published book, (1st separate edition issued WONDERFUL STORY BOOK. NY: Simon in 1895). Illustrated in black throughout to accompany nonsense verse. The center & Schuster (1948). 4to, (9 x 11 1/4”), spread contains his famous Purple Cow poem pictorial boards, slight edge wear else which was originally published anonymously. In this edition the last leaf contains Burgess’ VG+. 1st edition. A Big Golden Book. 42 admission that he authored the poem: “Ah yes, I wrote the “Purple Cow” - I’m sorry, stories and poems by Brown illustrated now, I wrote it; But I can tell you Anyhow I’ll kill you if you quote it!” A scarce with wonderful color and black and white item. $500.00

lithos by J.P. MILLER. $200.00 RARE BURGESS/CADY ITEM 146. BURGESS,THORNTON. ANCIENT AND SUPREME ORDER OF QUADDIES. Kansas City, MO: Quaddy Playthings 1915. This is a rare, rare Burgess toy housed in the original pictorial and printed envelope which measures (oblong) 16x9”. Envelope is brittle with some archival mends else fine and unused. RARE BROWN TITLE The envelope text explains the background of the Quaddies. Inside are colored board backgrounds and characters to be cut-out and assembled for play - illus. by 142. (BROWN,PAUL)illus. Cady. Includes 23 pieces with all of Burgess’ famous characters. Rare. $875.00 EQUESTIONNAIRE by Harry Disston. NY: Harper Bros. 1936 (1936). 8vo, (5 1/2 x 8 7/8”), pictorial boards, 189p., VG+ in dw with old mends. Stated 1st ed. 600 questions and answers for horsemen divided into sections. The first part of the book features questions involving all aspects of horseback riding and the answers are in the second part. Illustrated with great color cover by Brown and with many line illustrations throughout the text. A rare Brown title. $375.00