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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 97 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 - #506 - Dr. Seuss advertising art for New Departure Ball Bearings #344 #372 - Nast’s Fat Boy #481 #309 - Box for Jessie King book #44 - Margot Austin watercolor for Mother Goose #77 Helen & Marc Younger Pg [email protected] READING THIS CATALOGUE YOU WILL SEE MANY NAUGHTY CHILDREN ABC 5. ABC. (CARDS) ALPHABET CARDS . This is a COMPLETE SET OF 26 BOOKS IN THEIR ORIGINAL BOXES. THEY ALPHABET CARDS! Circa 1880, each card measures 3” x 4 1/2” (blank versos). REPRESENT A SELECTION FROM A RECENTLY Each card has gilt background with large letter in red in the upper left corner and stamped in the upper right is advertising for Blake’s Piano Palace in Boston. PURCHASED COLLECTION AND WE’RE THRILLED Each card is humorously illustrated in bright colors in a style reminiscent of TO OFFER BOOKS IN SUCH AMAZING CONDITION Crowquill, two thirds of which feature misbehaving, naughty little children. A scarce and charming set. $800.00 1. ABC. (ADVERTISING) ABC JINGLES. Syracuse: Hanford Mfg Co. 1911. 5x7”, pictorial wraps, [16]p. incl. covers, VG. Each letter stands for a different ailment or scenario that can be handled by using Hanford’s Balsam, accompanied by charming color illustrations. For instance T is for the throat that’s sore / Buy Handford’s Balsam at the store / Apply it as directions tell / To CAT ALPHABET make the throat strong and SHAPE BOOK well.” $200.00 6. ABC. (CATS) PUSSY’S ABC. Lond: Tuck nd ca 1890. Folio, (7.5 x 14.5”), stiff BAKED BEANS ABC (IT’S A TOOT) pictorial wraps, neat mend 2. ABC. (ADVERTISING) ADVENTUROUS to tip of ear, some light edge BILLY AND BETTY by Edward Carney. wear, VG++. Die-cut in the Van Camp Products 1923. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2”, shape of a cat and illustrated pictorial card covers, [26]p. including covers, with great color cover, 4 full VG+. The text in verse and prose relates the many adventures that Billy Van and Betty Camp page chromolithographed experience. These include meeting the Fairies pages and in brown line on Sing A Ling and Ting A Ling, escaping the text pages to accompany cannibals and more. Featuring wonderful full a charming cat ABC color illustrations throughout by Carl Mueller. book. $300.00 Most letters deal with Van Camp’s Baked Beans: “B is for Beans / And is also for Baked / If KENDREW CHAPBOOK they have Van Camp’s label / There’s no better 7. ABC. (CHAPBOOK) make.” $250.00 MRS. LOVECHILD’S GOLDEN PRESENT FOR ALL GOOD LITTLE BOYS AND GIRLS. York: Kendrew circa 1820. 2 1/2 GREAT ART DECO TOY ABC x 4”, printed wraps, 31p., 3. ABC. (ART DECO) TOYS by C.W. Beaumont. Lond.: C.W. Beaumont 1930. fine. The ABC is followed 4to, cloth, cover faded in spots else Fine in dw. A fabulous ART DECO alphabet by the Lord’s Prayer and of toys, illustrated with 8 color plates and many b&w’s by Eileen Mayo. A stands a story titled the Virtue for Ark. A true Art deco children’s book. $250.00 of a Rod. The alphabet is # illustrated with 26 charming woodcuts and the text is in verse. “I” was an Indian Sooty and Dark. There is a full page woodcut frontis and 6 other woodcuts in- text. See Opie Collection Treasures of Childhood p.10. $325.00 #4 # 5 ABC’S IN BOX – FLOWERS * TRADES * MOTHER GOOSE 4. ABC. (BOXED LIBRARY) BOX OF ABC BOOKS. Kenosha: Samuel Lowe 1944. Five books in pictorial box, box flaps repaired else fine. Contains: The Object Alphabet Book (which is really an ABC of names), The Alphabet of Things That Grow, The ABC Mother Goose Book (which is actually an ABC of Trades), The Alphabet Book of Flowers and The Alphabet Book of Animals. Illustrated with charming color lithos in every book in typical 40’s style (no illustrator named). The box itself can be used to make stand-up toys to cut out. $200.00 (SEE ILLUS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT ---->>>>>>>> Pg 4 914.764.7410 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 97 KENDREW CHAPBOOK GREEK READER 8. ABC. (CHAPBOOK) THE SILVER 12. ABC. (GREEK). [GREEK PENNY, FOR THE AMUSEMENT AND INSTRUCTION OF GOOD CHILDREN. ABC AND READER]. NY: York: Kendrew no date, circa 1820. 16mo (2 1/2 x 3 7/8”), heavier tan pictorial wraps, D.C. Divry 1935. Small 4to, [32]p., fine. Illustrated with woodcuts on (6 1/2 x 9 3/4”). pictorial both covers, woodcut frontis plus 26 half- page woodcuts in-text for the letters of cloth, [42]p., covers soiled the alphabet accompanied by verse for each else VG. A Greek ABC printed letter. The last 3 pages have a the story of the Silver Penny or the Fatal Effects in blue and red, including of a Bad Education. well printed. Osborne charming full color half- p. 104. $400.00 page illustrations on every page. $200.00 CLARA TICE DOG ALPHABET SIGNED WITH DRAWING 9. ABC. (DOGS) ABC DOGS. (NY: Wilfred Funk 1940). Folio (10 x 13”), RABAN HEBREW ART NOUVEAU ABC cloth backed pictorial boards, tips worn and a few faint marks on cover else VG+. 1. ABC. (HEBREW) [ALEPH-BET] (in Hebrew on title page). Opposite title 1st edition. Dogs for every letter except “X” are illustrated in color on every page in German: Alphabet: page. The text is beneath each drawing. Includes Kerry Blue, Newfoundland, Zeichnungen von Z. Raban, Sealyham, Poodle, Japanese Spaniel and more. THIS COPY IS SIGNED BY TICE verse von L. Kipniss. WITH A CHARMING 3” DRAWING OF A SCOTTIE DOG. Artfully done and Jerusalem: Bezalel printed very scarce, more so with the signature and drawing. $1500.00 in Germany 1923. 4to, cloth backed boards, sl. scrape on rear cover and foxing of blank ep’s else fine. Printed on heavy coated paper, each page has a magnificent full color illustration by noted Art Nouveau artist Z’EV RABAN of the BEZALEL SCHOOL, founded by A.M. Lilien. The letters of the Hebrew alphabet are presented in gilt, with text on the bottom of the page. A rare and fascinating ABC book. $2000.00 JOB’S ALPHABET 14. ABC. (JOB) ABC PAR JULES LEMAITRE. Tours: Mame (1919). 4to (9 3/4 x 11 3/4”), cloth backed pictorial boards, tips lightly rubbed else VG-Fine. 1st edition of this beautiful French alphabet book illustrated by JOB with full and partial DEAN RAG BOOK page color illustrations in his 10. ABC. (DOGS) distinctive lavish and style. DOGGIE’S ABC. London: Each letter has several Dean’s Rag Book Co., no illustrations of the object date [1914]. 16mo (4 1/2 accompanied by infor- x 5”), some random spots mational text. (See Mahoney else VG+. Every page has et al. Illus. Child. Bks p.148 - charming color illustrations outstanding foreign picture of different dogs or dog book). $475.00 characteristics by Edith Berkeley. “J” is the Japanese Spaniel, “O” is the Otter Hound. Really wonderful. $250.00 FRENCH MILITARY ABC TUCK ABC OF FLOWERS PANORAMA 11. ABC. (FLOWERS) THE 15. ABC. (MILITARY) LITTLE GARDENER ABC. ALPHABET MILITAIRE. NY, London, Paris: Raphael Pairs: D. Marchand nd, ca Tuck & Sons, no date, circa 1860. 12mo, decorative 1890. 4to (8 1/2 x 10 wraps, fine. Containing 8 7/8”) stiff pictorial wraps, panels opening panorama some cover rubbing, VG+. style. Each panel has 3 Illustrated with 4 lovely illustrations and text in full page chromolithographs English and French. Each and in brown line on other letter is represented by a pages to accompany this different military rank or charming alphabet of type. A charming bi-lingual flowers. A title in Father ABC. $600.00 Tuck’s Little Folks Series A.B.C. $300.00 Pg 5 Helen & Marc Younger [email protected] McLOUGHLIN SOLDIER ALPHABET 26 MINIATURE ABC BOOKS IN A BOX 16. ABC. (MILITARY) SOLDIER ABC. NY: McLoughlin Bros. ca 1900. Folio 20. ABC. (NOVELTY) ALPHABLOCK BOOKS by Edward Ernest. NY: Grosset (10 1/4 x 13 1/4”), pictorial and Dunlap 1943. There are 26 miniature books - each 4” square, housed in the wraps, a few margin mends publisher’s pictorial box measuring 9 1/2” square. Books are fine, box is slightly and spine mend, VG+. dusty else near Fine. Each book has illustrations and words for a different letter, Brightly illustrated with 2 illustrated in typical 40’s style by Lee Morss. The covers of the books have large full page chromolithographs block letters.