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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 108 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 - #410 - Charles Schulz original ‘Snoopy’ Art #367 - Rare lithograph of Union Square with L. Frank Baum #452 - Hugh Thomson original watercolor #181 - Rare C. B. Falls ABC #358 - Rare Blimp Pop-Up Pg 3 Helen & Marc Younger [email protected] GREAT CHROMOS 1. ABC. (BIANCO) 5. ABC. (FARM)FRIENDS ON THE FARM ABC. NY: Sam’l Gabriel 1923. BEGINNING WITH A by Folio (9 5/8 x 12”), stiff pictorial wraps, near fine. Illustrated with 6 fine full page chromolithographed pages full color covers and other pages in 3-colors with Pamela Bianco. NY: Oxford letters representing different aspects of life on a farm. Two lines in rhyme University Press 1947 accompany each letter. “O” is for Owl, “T” is for Terrier and “X” is for Xmas (1947). 4to (7 1/4 x 10”), turkey. Attractive and an excellent copy. $150.00 cloth, Fine in dust wrapper frayed at spine ends and lightly rubbed.First edition of this charming alphabet of children’s names that has a rhyme and a full page illustration for each letter. $200.00 2. ABC.(CLOTH) DOLLY’A ABC. NY: Charles E. Graham & Co., no date, circa 1915. 12mo (6 x 8 1/8”), printed on cloth, VG-Fine. Illustrated with 6 charming full page color illustrations depicting children engaged in various activities.Also illustrated with 6 full page pen and ink drawings in brown that present the alphabet in a different manner than usual. EARLY ABC PANORAMA The child plays Hide and Seek 6. ABC. (FRENCH HAND COLORED)ALPHABET AVEC TETES D’ANIMAUX with the Little Letters and augmente des Voyelles. Metz: Litho’d de Gangel, no date, circa 1850. Oblong 4 3/4 x is challenged to find a letter 3 3/4”, hand colored label on newer pictorial boards, near fine. There are 15 panels, within a word of the text in each featuring 2 letters represented with fabulous hand-colored illustrations of verse. “There’s an m in the humans each with the head replaced with the head of an animal. The text is a one motors we see in town, / And word identifier in both French and Spanish for the letters A-Z plus an additional an n in the omnibus big and 5 for the vowels A E I O U. “I” is Ibis d’Egypte (Egyptian Ibis) with the head of brown.” $250.00 a bird and dressed as a soldier with a sword, “K” is a woman with the head of a Kakatoe (Cockatiel bird) in fancy dress playing the piano, “V” is Vautour (Vulture) STUNNING CUBIST ABC dressed as a scholar holding a book, etc. Rare and definitely original. $2250.00 3. ABC.(CUBIST) A B C D by Andre Blandin. Bruxelles: Imprimerie Scientifique Charles Bulens, no date, circa 1913. 4to (8 1/2 x 10”), cloth backed pictorial boards, slight bit of rubbing on one page else Fine. Printed on one side of the paper, each leaf features a stunning color picture of a Dutch doll and other inhabitants of a cubist world. The text consists of a one word title in 3 languages: French, English and German printed in red at the bottom of the page. Little is known about Blandin who was a Belgian artist. His association with Guillaume Apollinaire led to organizing the first exhibition of cubist and fauvist art in Belgium. This is one of the most striking alphabets in any language and quite rare. $3250.00 #4 4. ABC.(DOGS) DOGGIE’S ABC. NY: Sam’l Gabriel 1911. 12mo (5x7”), cloth, VG+. This charming alphabet of dogs has 4 full page color illustrations of dogs by Harry Lyman - the text has each letter representing a different breed or a dog’s name. “I” is for Irish Wolf Dog. $150.00 (SEE ILLUS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT ------>>>>>>>) Pg 4 914.764.7410 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 108 LOVELY TURN OF THE FINE LARGE FORMAT CENTURY GERMAN ABC MCLOUGHLIN ABC 7. ABC. (GERMAN)ABC 10. ABC. (McLOUGHLIN) BILDERBUCH text von GIRLS & BOYS NAME William Hey and Mathilde ABC. NY: McLoughlin Bros. Coester Cassel. Mainz: 1889. Folio (10 x 12”), Scholz [1905]. Large 4to, flexible pictorial wraps, cloth backed pictorial Fine condition. Each letter boards, some cover soil and is brightly illustrated wear, VG-. A beautiful turn of with chromolithographs the century German alphabet accompanied by rhymes illustrated by HANS containing boys’ and girls’ THOMA with 22 full page names: U is for Una, Q is chromolithographs (including for Queenie, V is for Vinnie. title). $275.00 A very scarce McLoughlin title in remarkable condition. $500.00 CHARMING HEBREW ALPHABET McLOUGHLIN LINEN ABC 8. ABC.(HEBREW) ALEPH BET ARTZAH REHD [ALPHABET OF THE RED 11. ABC. (MCLOUGHLIN) LAND].[Jerusalem: Marcus], (1959). 8vo (7 1/4 x 8”), red boards, color pictorial LITTLE PET’S ABC BOOK. paste-on, VG+. Written by Shlomo Skolsky and illustrated with charming NY: McLoughlin Bros., no color lithographs on every page by Mira Luba. Each letter has a large central date, circa 1870. 5 3/4 x illustration surrounded with 8 1/4”, linen pictorial wraps, a border of smaller pictures some soil, VG.Illustrated - all richly colored and well with 4 pages of full color printed. The letter “C” pictures for letters of the is “Cushim”, Hebrew slang alphabet and with other for Blacks and depicted pages having word lessons. are 2 stereotypical little Charming color covers as African children. The last well. “E” is for Engineer, “J” picture shows little children is for Jockey and “N” is for dancing around a tree. All Negro. $200.00 of the pictures have at least one picture of Jewish items and all have a naivety typical of the era. Quite McLOUGHLIN LINEN ABC scarce. $1200,00 12. ABC. (MCLOUGHLIN) LITTLE PET’S LINEN ABC. NY: McLoughlin Bros., no date, circa 1870. 5 3/4 x 8 1/4”, linen pictorial wraps, small corner repair, VG.Illustrated HEBREW ALPHABET with 4 pages of full color ORIGINAL ART pictures for letters of the alphabet and with other pages 9. ABC.(HEBREW) having word lessons. Charming HEBREW ALPHABET: color covers as well. “B” is ORIGINAL ART. Offered for Bear Bat Barrel, “E” is for Elephant Eel Engine, “J” here are 10 finished original is for Jug January Juggler color drawings for 9 letters and “N” is for Negro Net of a probably unpublished Nest. $200.00 Hebrew alphabet book (one letter has 2 pieces). Not ALPHABET OF NATIONALITIES “J is for JEW” dated but circa 1940, signed 13. ABC.(NATIONS) CHILDREN OF THE WORLD by Thomas Stevens. NY: by M. Genlis. The work is R.H. Russell 1903 (1903). 4to (8 1/2” x 11), pictorial cloth, endpapers foxed done on art paper. Each else VG+ 1st edition. Illustrated by A.H. COLLINS with 26 wonderful color plates, each one depicting a child of a different nationality, many stereotypically: image is oblong measuring 7 3/8” wide x 4 1/2” high J is a Jewish boy, eager they say, For business at almost all hours of the day. on paper 10 1/4 x 8 1/2”. And if he makes money he never will stop Includes the following In a street in Jerusalem stands his queer shop. Hebrew letters: ALEPH, BET, VAV, ZAYIN, TET, Q is for Queenslad (a young MEM, PEI, TZADEI and jackeroo), R is a Rajput, B RESH (2). Pictured are a for Boer, F for Fijiian who large SHIP, HOUSE, TRAIN eats his dainty child, U for (2), ROSE, WINDMILL, Uganda, Z for Zulu etc. Each TREE, BUTTERFLY, GUARD color plate faces a rhyme about the particular country TOWER and BIRD - high and each letter is preceded quality with much detail and by a full page pictorial charm. $1800.00 large block letter relating to the nationality. Very scarce. $1350.00 Pg 5 Helen & Marc Younger [email protected] SPANISH ALPHABET DEAN NOAH’S ARK 18. ABC. (SPANISH)ABC. Barcelona: Ramon Sopena, circa 1935. 4to, CLOTH ABC cloth backed pictorial boards, sl. cover soil, VG+. Printed on coated paper and 14. ABC. (NOAH - illustrated in color on every page with several letters per page. Nice! (SEE CLOTH)NOAH’S ABC. ILLUS BOTTOM PRIOR COLUMN) $200.00 London: Dean’s Rag Book, no date [1910]. 8vo (5 3/4 ABC SEE ALSO 181 275 301 344 x 8”), cloth, cover faded, 2 pages faint pencil mark, 19. (ADAMS,FRANK)illus. SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE. London: Blackie, overall VG. Noah and the circa 1915. Large 4to, cloth backed pictorial boards, light cover soil and tips animals are portrayed as rubbed else VG.