Volland (1922). 4To, Cloth Backed Pictorial Boards with Gold Spine, Slight Edge Wear, Near VOLLAND INGLENOOK TITLE Fine
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Helen & Marc Younger Pg 43 [email protected] 307. GRUELLE,JOHNNY. THE MAGICAL LAND OF NOOM. Chic: Volland (1922). 4to, cloth backed pictorial boards with gold spine, slight edge wear, near VOLLAND INGLENOOK TITLE fine. 1st ed. of this desirable and scarce Gruelle book. Johnny and Janey fly to the moon and have many other fantastic adventures. Illus. with 12 color plates 312. (GRUELLE,JUSTIN)illus. NANNETTE plus a profusion of black and whites in text and pictorial. ep’s. $500.00 by Frances Margaret Fox. Chic: Volland (1929) red gilt cloth, VG+. Prob. 1st ed. in the VOLLAND INGLENOOK SERIES. The tale of a little girl who is the “slavey” in a boarding house, and how she finally finds happiness. Illustrated by Gruelle with color illustrations throughout. Nice copy. $150.00 GRUELLE, JOHNNY SEE ALSO 110 MACMILLAN HAPPY HOUR BOOK 313. (HADER,BERTA & ELMER)illus. CHICKEN LITTLE AND LITTLE HALF CHICK. NY: Macmillan 1927 (Aug. 1927). Square 12mo, ( x 5 3/4”), pictorial boards, some cover soil and rubbing else VG in dust wrapper. 1st edition of this scarce BOXED RAGGEDY ANN VOLLAND Macmillan Happy Hour Book. Illus. by the 308. GRUELLE,JOHNNY. MARCELLA STORIES. Joliet: Volland (1929). 8vo, Haders with bright and bold colors on every cloth backed pictorial. boards, 94p. + 1p. ads. Fine in box (neat flap repairs). 1st page in their art deco 20’s style. Scarce, ed. (no additional printings listed and no listing of later titles). A Raggedy Ann especially in dust wrapper. $250.00 story featuring all of Gruelle’s favorites and illustrated in color throughout. A great copy. $600.00 ART DECO / ALICE INTEREST 314. HADER,BERTA AND ELMER (illus) DONALD IN NUMBERLAND by Jean M. Peedie. NY: Rae Henkle (1927). Slim 8vo, (6 x 8 1/2”), pictorial boards, slight SCARCE GRUELLE BOOK soil on endpaper else VG+ in 309. GRUELLE,JOHNNY. RAGGEDY dust wrapper (dw frayed with some soil). 1st and probably ANN’S SUNNY SONGS. NY: Miller only edition. When little (1930). Folio, pictorial. boards, 36p., small Donald has trouble with math he must stay after school chip at base of spine else VG+ in tattered where he embarks upon an “Alice” inspired fantasy trip dust wrapper. Sixteen Raggedy Ann fanciful to a land full of humanized songs with verses featuring all the favorite numbers. Illustrated by the HADERS with fabulous Art characters. Wonderfully illustrated in Deco, bold color lithographs, color on every page by Gruelle and with both full page and in-text. An excellent copy of an music by Will Woodin. A scarce Gruelle uncommon Hader title, using item. $225.00 the Alice In Wonderland theme. $200.00 RARE GRUELLE TITLE 310. (GRUELLE,JOHNNY)illus. THE STORY OF THE GINGERBREAD MAN by POP-UP PUSS IN BOOTS Josephine Lawrence. Racine: Whitman (1930). Small 4to, 315. (HALE,KATHLEEN)illus. PUSS pictorial boards, some spine IN BOOTS. Lond: Fold. Bks 1951. wear and paper aging, VG. This is a very rare Gruelle 8vo, cl. backed pictorial. boards, light book illustrated in b&w edge wear, VG. 1st ed. A wonderful by Gruelle and colored by Robert Bezucha. $325.00 PEEPSHOW BOOK, illus. in color thru- out by Hale (of Orlando the Cat fame). This consists of six 3- dimensional color 311. (GRUELLE,JOHNNY)illus. SUNNY scenes that form a pentagon shaped BUNNY by Nina Wilcox Putnam. Chic: POP-UP display when opened up. The text for the story is beneath each scene. Volland (1918, 53rd ed. inscribed 1927). 8vo, Nice! $350.00 pictorial. boards, FINE IN PICTORIAL BOX (box flaps repaired). A great copy of this HAND-COLORED SEE 12, 68, 133, 172, 248, 263, 280, 297, 316, 320, 321, 328, VOLLAND SUNNY BOOK with wonderful 334, 346, 359, 373, 390, 421, 436 color illus. throughout by Gruelle plus nice pictorial endpapers. $300.00 HANNA-BARBERA - 275 914.764.7410 Pg 44 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 90 RARE 1771 HARLEQUINADE OLD MOTHER HUBBARD - HAND-COLORED PLATES 316. HARLEQUINADE. THE ELOPEMENT: A NEW ENTERTAINMENT. BOOK 320. HARRIS (JOHN) PUBLISHER. THE COMIC ADVENTURES OF OLD 8. London: Robert Sayer, April 12, 1771. Original plain brown wraps slightly frayed MOTHER HUBBARD AND HER DOG in which are shown the wonderful powers on edges, crease on edge of 2 bottom flaps obscuring a few letters else near Fine. that good old lady possessed in the education of her favourite animals [by Sarah Consisting of 4 large sections, each folded over at the top and bottom, divided Catherine Martin]. Lond.: John Harris, no date, ca 1830. 16mo, violet pictorial in the middle. Each section has 4 fine hand-colored engraved illustrations, and wraps, 16p. + 1p. ads through by lifting the flaps the reader reveals a new illustration below. The story tells 58, sl. wear to paper on how Columbine, a fair maiden, is united and lives happily ever after with her love spine and a few spots, near Harlequin (Harley) despite the objections of her father. This type of moveable fine, housed in custom represents the earliest form of action book and became an immediate success leather backed box with with children. See Gumuchian 2944 and NBL 821 for this title, Haining p. 10-11, marbled boards simulating Whitton p. 56-7 for others. (SEE ALSO INSIDE FRONT COVER) $6500.00 a book when shelved. A title in Harris’ Cabinet of Amusement and Instruction. Printed on one side of the paper, each leaf has a fine hand-colored illustration plus there is a full page portrait frontis of Old Mother Hubbard and a vignette of a dog on the title. See Moon 560 (4) except this copy blank on rear cover. $2250.00 HAND-COLORED PLATES 321. HARRIS (JOHN) PUBLISHER. THE REMARKABLE ADVENTURES OF AN OLD WOMAN AND HER PIG. Lond.: John Harris, no date, ca 1827, (printed before 1829 as it is printed by S. & R. Bentley later Samuel Benley). 16mo, tan pictorial wraps, 16p. + 1p. ads through 56, sl. wear 317. HARRIS,JOEL CHANDLER. PLANTATION PAGEANTS. Bost: HM 1899 to paper on spine and a few (1899). 8vo, pictorial cloth, 247p., near Fine. 1st ed. (BAL 7142). Illustrated by spots, near fine, housed E. BOYD SMITH with 20 black and white plates. This is a nice copy of a very in custom leather backed early E. Boyd Smith book and also a terrific Harris item. $1000.00 box with marbled boards simulating a book when shelved. A title in Harris’ Cabinet of Amusement and Instruction. Printed on one side of the paper, each leaf (except 2) has a fine hand-colored illustration - 14 in all. See Moon 708. Rare. $2250.00 HARRIS ALSO - 172, 334 HARTE, BRET - 299 HAWTHORNE - 480 MINT SET OF HEARN’S CREPE PAPER FAIRY TALES 322. HEARN,LAFCADIO. JAPANESE FAIRY TALE SERIES rendered into English by Hearn. There are 5 volumes of Japanese fairy tales, each bound with silk ties and printed on crepe paper, and all published in Tokyo by Hasegawa from 1898 - 1922. They are all housed in a folding case with ivory clasps and pictorial lining (case sl. faded and scuffed). (cont’d next page) 318. HARRIS,JOEL CHANDLER. TOLD BY UNCLE REMUS: NEW STORIES FROM THE OLD PLANTATION. NY: McClure Phillips 1905 (Oct. 1905). 8vo, red gilt pictorial. cloth, teg, sl. wear to background of cover illus. else near Fine. 1st ed. (BAL 7156). With b&w illus. by A.B. FROST, J.M. CONDE AND FRANK VERBECK. Nice bright copy. $200.00 UNCLE REMUS 319. HARRIS,JOEL CHANDLER. UNCLE REMUS AND HIS LEGENDS OF THE OLD PLANTATION. London: David Bogue 1881. 12mo, grey cloth stamped in black and gold, all edges yellow, 192p. + ads, sl. soil and small mend on verso of one page else VG+. 1st English edition of the first Uncle Remus book, published the same year as U.S. ed. but slightly abridged. Illus. by F. Church and J. Moser. See Blanck 7101. A nice copy, not often seen in good condition. $2500.00 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 45 [email protected] Without exception, each is in FINE bright condition with delicate silk ties intact. RARE MCLOUGHLIN HOFFMANN NAUGHTY CHILDREN IMITATION Each of the 5 volumes is hand-colored with beautiful woodblock illustrations. 327. [HOFFMANN,HEINRICH]. SKETCHES OF LITTLE GIRLS (by Thomas Included are the following titles (all large paper copies): The Boy Who Drew Lovechild) edited by Mrs. Sarah Jane Hale. NY: McLoughlin Bros. nd circa 1870. Cats; The Goblin Spider; The Old Woman Who Lost Her Dumpling; The Fountain 12mo, cloth backed pictorial boards, [64]p, edges rubbed, some soil, VG. Including: of Youth and Chin Chin Kobakama. Although not first issues, they are a beautiful Thoughtless Little Girl, Good-Natured Little Girl, Vain Little Girl, Orderly Little set of Hearn’s titles which are especially desirable. See BAL v. 4 p.75 and #’s Girl, Slovenly Little Girl, Snappish Little Girl, Persevering Little Girl, Modest Little 7930, 7932. 7937, 7939, 7975. $2000.00 Girl and the Awkward Little Girl. Illustrated by J.H. HOWARD with 8 full page colored illustrations (including color pictorial title page). Little Boys and Girls Library. The Conclusion, by Thomas Lovechild reads in part: “What a pleasure SIGNED BY BOTH it would be to me to find, next summer, that Charlotte NEWBERY AWARD had lost the awkwardness 323. HENRY,MARGUERITE. KING OF which spoils everything THE WIND. NY: Rand McNally (1948 she does; that Sophia had grown more modest, Susan A). 4to, red cloth, fine in very slightly more amiable and Mary worn dust wrapper. 1st ed. The story of more neat... particularly the Godolphin Arabian horse, illustrated if their reformation was owing to the perusal of by WESLEY DENNIS with color dust this little book...