CHILDREN’S BOOKS & ILLUSTRATED BOOKS ALEPH-BET BOOKS, INC. 85 OLD MILL RIVER RD. POUND RIDGE, NY 10576 (914) 764 - 7410 CATALOGUE 102 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 - #232 - Limited Edition Jugendstil illustrators - signed and limited #219 - Tom Seidmann Freud’s David the Dreamer #350 - Meggendorfer Slatted Moveable #160 - Moveable Babar #73 - Bemelmans Tale of Two Glimps - Artist’s Dummy #117 - Nister Picture Book - Cats and Dogs Helen & Marc Younger Pg 3 [email protected] STUNNING CUBIST ABC 1.ABC. (CUBIST) A B C D by Andre Blandin. Bruxelles: Imprimerie Scientifique BIRD ALPHABET Charles Bulens, no date, circa 1913. 4to (8 1/2 x 10”), cloth backed pictorial 5.ABC. (BIRDS) STORY OF boards, slight bit of cover soil else Fine. Printed on one side of the paper, each THE BIRDS FOR YOUNG leaf features a stunning color picture of a Dutch doll and other inhabitants of PEOPLE WITH BIRD a cubist world. The text is a one word title in 3 languages: French, English ALPHABET by Gertrude and German printed in red at the bottom of the page. Little is known about Keeley. NY: Hurst (1901, Blandin who was a Belgian artist. His association with Guillaume Apollinaire led to 1914). 4to, cloth, pictorial organizing the first exhibition of cubist and fauvist art in Belgium. This is one of paste-on, slight cover soil, the most striking alphabets in any language and quite rare. $3250.00 VG-FINE. Each letter of the alphabet is represented by a different bird. The text includes a history of the bird and a hand-lettered rhyme with a lovely full color illustrations. A nice copy and including some unusual birds. $200.00 CAT ABC 6.ABC. (CATS) ABC IN KITTENLAND by Myrtella Sutherland. Akron: Saalfield 1911. 8vo (5 1/4 x 9”), pictorial card covers, light wear, VG-Fine. Illustrated with 4 half page full color VON STOCKUM illustrations and with great ANGEL ABC 2.ABC. (ANGELS) ANGELS’ pen and ink drawings on every ALPHABET by Hilda Van page. An uncommon alphabet Stockum. NY: Viking 1948 (Sept.1948). 8vo (6 1/2 x 9 book. $175.00 1/2”), pictorial boards, near fine in slightly frayed dust wrapper. 1st ed. Written by Van Stockham with her six RARE LARGE FORMAT CLOTH ABC children, this is a collections 7.ABC. (CLOTH) BIG of poems and pictures with A-B-C BOOK. Akron: an angel theme, one for Saalfield 1913. Large 4to each letter of the alphabet. (8 7/8 x 11 1/2”), cloth, Illustrated with delicate and some fraying and soil, VG. lovely line illustrations. Illustrated in typical turn $200.00 of the 19th century style with 4 full page full color illustrations and in blue line GREAT ART DECO ABC on other pages, all printed 3.ABC. (ART DECO) on linen. “”B” is for Bat and also for Ball. When Edwin MY ABC BOOK. Akron: plays he always gets a hard Saalfield 1934. Folio, (10 fall.” This is a charming 1/8 x 12”), pictorial wraps, cloth alphabet book, much larger than is normally some rubbing, VG. A striking found. $350.00 30’s picture book with bold art deco color illustrations 8.ABC. (DOGS) DOGGIE’S ABC. NY: Sam’l Gabriel 1911. 12mo (5x7”), cloth, VG+. This on every page in the style charming ABC dogs has 4 full page color #9 of Janet Laura Scott. “V” illustrations of dogs by Harry Lyman - the is for Velocipede, “Q” is for text has each letter representing a different Quoits and “N” is Noah’s breed or a dog’s name. “I” is for Irish Wolf Dog. $150.00 Ark. $175.00 HAND-COLORED BIRD ALPHABET 4.ABC. (BIRDS) ALPHABET OF BIRDS. London: Dean & Son (1855). 4to (6 1/2 x 9 5/8”), pictorial wraps, owner name on cover else VG+. Printed on one side of the paper and illustrated with 23 fine hand-colored engravings of various birds. The text is in rhyme. A lovely mid 19th century alphabet. $800.00 Pg 4 914.764.7410 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 102 9.ABC. (DOLLS) DOLLY AT PLAY ABC. NY: Sam Gabriel, 1912. Large narrow folio, pictorial wraps, slight cover wear and hinges neatly reinforced, else VG+. A charming ABC book featuring Dolly in various activities with her friends. Illustrated in line as well as color by unknown hand. “S” for little Soldiers, Dolly in command.” (SEE ILLUS BOTTOM PRIOR PAGE) $250.00 EARLY ALPHABET PUZZLE OF NATIONS AND GEOGRAPHY + MOSAIC PUZZLE 10.ABC. (EARLY PUZZLE) NATIONS - GEOMETRICAL PLAY (NATIONEN - GEOMETRISCHES SPIEL * LES NATIONS - JEU GEOMETRIQUE titled in 3 languages). No publishing information, probably German, circa 1830. There is a wooden box measuring 6 7/8 x 6 1/4”, with a sliding top. The entire top has a fine hand colored lithograph highlighted in gold that is also the guide for assembling the puzzle pieces. Inside there are 52 triangular wooden pieces of varying size, each with extraordinary hand-colored lithographs with extensive use of gold and black. To complete the puzzle the child can arrange two sets of letters of the alphabet in circles to match pictures of people from different countries in traditional costumes. The 4 corners have large triangles illustrating landscapes of different regions (castle in Europe, Mongolian Temple, Roman ruins, bullfighting in Spain). The 24 nations represented are: Arab, Brazil, China, Dsjavaner (Java), English, French, Groenlander, Hottentot, Italy, Kamchatka (region of Russia), Lapland, Mexico, Negro, Otahaitian (Haiti), Persia, Quadaloupian (Guadeloupe), Russia, Spain, Turkey, Ungar (Hungary), Virginian (Virgin Islands), Walache (part of Romania), Youchadanian and Zantian (Zante Island Greece). The versos of each piece are finely painted in 3 different colors that form a mosaic pattern when the puzzle is completed. This is an extraordinary game, rare and in such beautiful condition. $4750.00 (SEE ILLUS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT -->>>>) STUNNING 1853 SWEDISH ABC 13.ABC. (GAY,ROMNEY) 11.ABC. (EARLY SWEDISH) PRINSESSAN LOVISA’S ABC BOK MED ROMNEY GAY ABC. NY: BILDER. no publishing information [Stockholm, Sweden], (1853). 4to (6 1/2 Grosset & Dunlap (1946). x 9 1/8”), blue cloth gold and blind stamped , all edges gilt, 84p., re-cased with 4to, pictorial boards, original spine laid down, occasional soil, VG+. The first 10% of the book features Fine in slightly worn dust 10 alphabets printed in a variety of typefaces and font sizes, plus syllables, wrapper. This is an ABC for numbers, and a few fables illustrated with black and white engravings. The beginning readers that is remaining 90% of the book has a pictorial alphabet with each color lithographed simply written and brightly plate having 15 or so objects pictured on the plate. For each object there illustrated by Gay with full is paragraph of description. Includes 24 lithographed plates by A.J. Salmon color lithos in typical 40’s including litho’d title page. This is a sumptuous first book for a young child that style. $200.00 only the wealthiest of families could have afforded. $1200.00 14.ABC. (GERMAN) ABC BILDERBUCH text von William Hey and Mathilde Coester Cassel. Mainz: Scholz [1905]. Large 4to, cloth backed pictorial boards, some light edge wear, else near fine. A beautiful turn of the 19th century German alphabet, this is illustrated by HANS THOMA with 22 full page chromolithographs (including title). $350.00 12.ABC. (FRENCH) ALPHABET POUR LES GERMAN CONSTRUCTION TOUT PETITS texte par ADVERTISING ABC Marcelle Verite. (Bruges): 15.ABC. (GERMAN) BAUSPARER Desclee de Brouwer (1947). ABC GRAZ. Graz (Germany): Small 4to, cloth backed Vereinigten Alpenlandischen boards, slight cover soil, VG+. Bausparkassa, no date, circa 1938. This is a lovely French ABC 8vo (5 7/8 x 8 1/2”), pictorial book with beautiful color wraps, fine. An alphabet of the illustrations highlighted building trades where each full in gold on each page done page illustration representing the by JOSETTE BOLAND. letter faces a page of advertising $250.00 for various building trades. The half-tone illustrations are full of humor. $200.00 Pg 5 Helen & Marc Younger [email protected] ATTRACTIVE GERMAN ABC ART DECO 16.ABC. (GERMAN) BILDER ABC MIT REIMEN. (Wesel: W. Duma) ca 1880. 20.ABC. (HERFORD,OLIVER) SEA LEGS by Oliver Herford. Philadelphia: 4to, cloth backed pictorial boards, some cover rubbing and soil, neat hinge Lippincott (1931). Oblong 12mo, (6 1/4 x 4 3/4”), cloth backed pictorial boards, reinforcement, really VG. Printed on thick card pages, this charming alphabet Fine in slightly worn dust wrapper. A fantastic “period” book, each page of text in has text in rhyme inside both covers with the various letters presented on 8 rhyme faces a full page color pages of chromolithographs. Each page is divided into 6 panels with colored illustration by Herford, scenes of everyday life with much detail and fine printing.