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CHILDREN’S BOOKS & ILLUSTRATED BOOKS ALEPH-BET BOOKS, INC. 85 OLD MILL RIVER RD. POUND RIDGE, NY 10576 (914) 764 - 7410 CATALOGUE 92 ALEPH - BET BOOKS - TERMS OF SALE Helen and Marc Younger 85 Old Mill River Rd. Pound Ridge, NY 10576 phone 914-764-7410 fax 914-764-1356 www.alephbet.com Email - [email protected] POSTAGE: UNITED STATES. 1st book $8.00, $2.00 for each additional book. OVERSEAS shipped by air at cost. PAYMENTS: Due with order. Libraries and those known to us will be billed. PHONE orders 9am to 10pm e.s.t. Phone Machine orders are secure. CREDIT CARDS: VISA, Mastercard, American Express. Please provide billing address. RETURNS - Returnable for any reason within 1 week of receipt for refund less shipping costs provided prior notice is received and items are shipped fastest method insured VISITS welcome by appointment. We are 1 hour north of New York City near New Canaan, CT. Our full stock of 8000 collectible and rare books is on view and available. Not all of our stock is on our web site COVER ILLUSTRATION - #376 ORIGINAL ART BY GISELLA LOEFFLER #115 - 1826 Anti-Slavery #289 - Paul Hosch (Swiss) Picture Books #386 - Little Nemo in Slumberland Printer Proof #291 - German Art Nouveau Picture Book Helen & Marc Younger Pg 3 [email protected] THE ITEMS IN THIS CATALOGUE WILL NOT BE ON TUCK CLOTH BIRD ABC OUR WEB SITE FOR A FEW WEEKS. THIS IS TO 5. ABC. (BIRDS) BIRDS ABC [ABC OF BIRDS on title]. London: Raphael Tuck 1899. 160 (4 1/2 x 6 3/4”), pictorial cloth, light shelf wear, VG+. Printed on cloth. ENSURE THAT OUR LONG TIME CLIENTS WILL HAVE Illustrated with 2 full page chromolithographs (plus cover) of birds to accompany text THE FIRST CHANCE AT BUYING. in rhyme by J.W.S. A title in Father Tuck’s Dolly Dear ABC Series. $150.00 #5 #6 GREAT TUCK AUTO ABC 1. ABC. (AUTOMOBILE) OUR AUTO ABC. London et al: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1912. Narrow folio, (7 1/2 x 1 41/2”), pictorial wraps, a few minor margin mends, corner crease and spine wear, overall clean and VG. A lovely ABC book featuring early cars. Illustrated with 5 beautiful full page chromolithographs (including cover) and with illustrations in brown on other pages. $350.00 RARE EARLY TEDDY BEAR ALPHABET 2. ABC. (BEARS) THE TEDDY BEAR ABC by Laura Rinkle Johnson. Boston: H.M. Caldwell (1907). Square 4to, (8 3/4 x 8 1/4”), pictorial cloth, some cover soil and finger soil else really VG+. First edition. Illustrated in color by Margaret Landers Sanford to accompany text in rhyme. Each page of text has a rhyme related to teddy bears with pictures of bears surrounding the CHRISTMAS CLOTH ABC text. Facing pages have charming full page 6. ABC. (CHRISTMAS) CHRISTMAS ABC. Akron: Saalfield 1910. Narrow color illustrations of the bears. This is a folio, (6 x 12 1/2”), printed cloth, some light normal soil, VG+. A super ABC book nice copy of a rare and very early Teddy Bear with a Christmas theme - the cover has a great Santa and each letter has a picture book. $1250.00 in color and rhyme dealing with a different aspect of Christmas. $250.00 7. ABC. (CHRISTMAS) SANTA CLAUS ABC. NY: Charles Graham and Co., no date circa 1915. Folio (10 x 12”), pictorial wraps, faint stain on bottom of a few pages, a few small closed tears, VG. This is an ABC with Christmas theme. There is a great full color cover of Santa and most letters are represented by toys a child might want for Christmas. Illustrated in 3-color by unknown hand. $275.00 UNUSUAL ABC OF CITIES 8. ABC. (CITIES) ALPHABET STORY OF FAMOUS CITIES. Phil.: National Pub. 1905, new 3. ABC. (BIANCO) BEGINNING WITH A by Pamela Bianco. NY:OUP 1947 edition 1915. Small 4to, (1947). 4to, cloth, Fine in sl. worn dw. First edition of this charming alphabet cloth backed pictorial book that has a rhyme and a full page illustration for each letter. Each letter’s boards, some margin soil, VG. rhyme and picture represents a different child’s name. $150.00 #3 An unusual alphabet book with 26 different cities #4 represented (incl. X for Xenia, Ohio) and with many of the cities having military or nationalistic rhymes. Illustrated with bright full page color illus. Following the alphabet are many pages of nursery rhymes with detailed illustrations. A wonderful American picture book. $250.00 FABULOUS SAALFIELD CLOTH BOOK 9. ABC. (CLOTH) BABY’S ABC BOOK. Akron: Saalfield circa 1904. 4to, pictorial cloth, some cover soil and fraying, VG. “B” stands for Baseball, “F” is for the BILINGUAL ABC Fourth of July”. Printed on 4. ABC. (BILINGUAL) ABC BRAINS TRUST by Bruno Frost. Lond.: Conrad cloth in full color on every Press ca 1949. 4to, cloth backed pictorial boards, near Fine. An artful ABC page. A great American with each page illustrated in color showing a variety of objects dealing with a turn of the century alphabet particular letter. On the bottom of each page, printed upside down, are words and a fine example of the for the pictures printed in both English and French. $200.00 genre. $300.00 Pg 4 914.764.7410 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 92 GREAT ABC OF NAMES HAND-COLORED 10. ABC. (CLOTH) MY PLAYMATES ABC. Akron: Saalfield 1906. 8 3/4 x 5 UNCUT AND UNFOLDED 3/4”, sl. fraying, VG+. This is a wonderful alphabet of names printed on cloth. EARLY ABC TOYBOOK Illustrated in typical turn of the century style in bright colors. “M is for Matthew, 15. ABC. (DUTCH) NIEUW Quite fond of his books. N is for Nathan. too vain of his looks.” $300.00 PRENTEBOEKJE VOOR DE LIEVE #11 KLEINEN met bijgevoegde leeslesjes naar hunne vatbaarheid. Eerste stukje, met 7 plaatjes. Te Frankener by G. Ypma. no date, circa 1810. This is a wonderful early Dutch ABC that “escaped” from the printer unfolded and uncut. It comes as one large sheet measuring 19 x 12”, folded in half. Featured are 7 very fine hand colored illustrations (a man making a bonfire, a cat, a sea monster, a boy ice- skating, etc). Faint edge stain else fine and most wonderful. $400.00 PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH ABC SCHOOLBOOK 16. ABC. (EARLY AMERICAN) HOCH-DEUTSCHES LUTHERISCHES ABC UND NAMEN BUCHLEIN FUR KINDER welche #12 anfangen zu lernen. Neue und verbesserte ausgabe. DIANA THORNE DOG ABC Phil.: Schafer und Koradi 11. ABC. (DOGS) A-B-C OF DOGS verse (1832). 12mo, (4 1/4 x 6 by Freeman Lloyd. Chic.: Rand McNally 1938. 3/4”), cloth backed pictorial 8vo, pictorial boards, Fine in chipped dust boards, 35p., sl. cover soil, wrapper. Publisher file copy. Wonderfully VG+. A charming American illustrated in 2-color by noted dog artist abecedarium and easy- DIANA THORNE. Dogs include amongst others: reading German syllabarium. Airedale, Bulldog, Kerry, Mastiff Whippet Front panel has fine woodcut etc. $150.00 of Martin Luthor at his desk and rear panel has an equally fine woodcut of a rooster perched on a fence. 12. ABC. (DOLLS) DOLLY AT PLAY ABC. The front paste-down has a NY: Sam Gabriel, 1912. Large narrow folio, pictorial alphabet of animals pictorial wraps, slight cover wear and hinges with 24 small woodcuts. neatly reinforced, else VG+. A charming ABC After the several woodcuts book featuring Dolly in various activities with and syllabaries there are her friends. Illustrated in line as well as color 4 stories, each with a fine by unknown hand. “S” for little Soldiers, Dolly in woodcut. $325.00 command.” $250.00 1695 ABC 13. ABC. (DUTCH) ABC 17. ABC. (EARLY GERMAN) ABC CUM NOTIS VARIORUM herausgegeben WIE ZOEKT ER MEE. von einem Dessen Nahmen im A.B.C. stehet. Leipzig und Dresden zu finden Netherlands: Alkmaar, no zu Johann Christoph Miethen und Johann Christoph Zimmerman 1695. 16mo date circa 1940. Square (3 7/8 x 6 3/8”), leather over boards, [iv], [1]-210p.[really 212p. because page 6 1/8” square, spiral numbers 172 and 173 are used twice, not repeating the text just repeating page backed boards, Fine. This numbers], lacks spine and leather lacking from half of both covers, half of page is a Dutch alphabet of 197 lacking, fold-out plate between p. 178-9 defective (lacks fold-out and part of objects, illustrated by other page). Front paste-down and free endpaper heavily notated. First edition Rinus Van’twoud with lush (second ed. was 1703). The letters of the alphabet are paired with numbers to full color or brown-tone create a system of writing with numerical significance. Often referred to as lithos covering every a mystical Cabbalistic form this system was also used for poetry, funerals and page. A graphically well wedding compositions. Illustrated with a handsome frontis of a rooster hand- designed and charming colored in red (often lacking) plus decorative hand and tailpiece. Title printed in book. $200.00 black and red followed by a page of the letters of the alphabet. $750.00 HAND-COLORED UNCUT AND UNFOLDED EARLY ABC TOYBOOK 14. ABC. (DUTCH) NIEUW PRENTEBOEKJE VOOR DE LIEVE KLEINEN met bijgevoegde leeslesjes naar derzelyer vatbaarheid. Tweede stukje, met 7 plaatjes. Te Frankener by G. Ypma. no date, circa 1810. This is a wonderful early Dutch ABC that “escaped” from the printer unfolded and uncut. It comes as one large sheet measuring 19 x 12”, folded in half. Featured are 7 very fine hand colored illustrations (a bee-hive, windmill, two children doing their lessons, children in a goat-drawn cart, roosters with chickens, etc.).