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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 107 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 - #186 - illustrated by Tom Seidmann Freud #114 - Walter Crane original watercolor from Robin Hood #159 - Rowland Emett watercolor #284 - Meggendorfer hand colored picture book #227 - 1st edition of Struwwelpeter in English Pg 3 Helen & Marc Younger [email protected] MacKINSTRY’S ARTHURIAN ABC CLARA TICE DOG ALPHABET 1. ABC. (ARTHURIAN) THE FAIRY ALPHABET:AS USED BY MERLIN 6. ABC. (DOGS)ABC by Elizabeth Mackinstry. DOGS. (NY: Wilfred Funk NY: Viking 1933 (1933). 4to 1940). Folio (10 x 13”), cloth (7 x 9 3/4”), cloth, pictorial backed pictorial boards, tips paste-on, Fine in VG dust worn and some marks and wrapper with small piece off rubbing on rear cover else VG, top edge. First edition. One tight and internally fine. 1st of Mackinstry’s most lovely edition. Dogs for every letter books, each page is printed except “X” are illustrated on one side only and features in color on every page. a large and intricate black The text is beneath each and white drawing - one drawing. Includes Kerry Blue, for each letter of a fairy Newfoundland, Sealyham, ABC. Features Merlin, Poodle, Japanese Spaniel and Ariel, Caliban, Puck, Undine more. Artfully done and very and others. Verse written scarce. $500.00 by MacKinstry as well. (Five Years of Children’s AUNT MAVOR TOY BOOK Books p.24 &33). Great 7. ABC. (EARLY ENGLISH)PICTURE copy. $375.00 ALPHABET. London: George Routledge CAT ALPHABET SHAPE BOOK and Sons, circa 1880. 4to (7 1/4 x 9 3/4”), 2. ABC.(CATS) PUSSY’S ABC. London: pictorial wraps, near fine. Printed on one Tuck, no date circa 1890. Folio, (7.5 x 14.5”), side of the paper, each page is divided into stiff pictorial wraps, unusually clean and a near Fine copy. Die-cut in the shape of a cat and sections containing either 3 or 4 letters. illustrated with great color cover, 4 full page Each letter is presented in large color chromolithographed pages and in brown line on with 2 lines of verse plus there is a fine text pages to accompany a charming cat ABC book. $350.00 color lithograph captioned with 3 words beginning with that letter. T is a Turkish man smoking a hookah. “This trim and turban’d TURK, More fond of smoking than of work. A title in the Aunt Mavor Toy Book series. $325.00 TUCK MOTHER GOOSE & FAIRY TALE ABC 8. ABC.(FAIRY TALES) NURSERY LAND ABC. London: Raphael Tuck no date, circa 1910. 4to (8 1/2 x 11”), flexible card covers. a few small margin mends and stain on top edge of pages else tight and really G-VG. This ABC book uses classic fairy tale characters and nursery rhymes for the letters. BEAUTIFUL LARGE FORMAT CHRISTMAS ABC Featuring 4 striking color 3. ABC. (CHRISTMAS)CHRISTMAS A.B.C.. Newark: Charles Graham, no plates on black backgrounds, date, circa 1900. 4to (10 14/ x 12 1/4”), stiff pictorial wraps, light cover soil, color covers and lovely VG+. In an interesting arrangement, there are 2 alphabets side by side. There 2-color illustrations covering are 6 super full page chromolithographs. The Christmas alphabet features each page of text. A really 6 super full page chromolithographs, 6 full pages illustrated in 3-color and 2 nice ABC book. (Incl. Red in brown and white. Each page of the Christmas alphabet faces a page of an Riding Hood, Puss, Goldilocks alphabet of objects. Unusual, well illustrated and very scarce. $450.00 etc.). $250.00 NATIONALSTIC ABC OF CITIES 4. ABC. (CITIES) ALPHABET STORY OF FAMOUS CITIES. Philadelphia: 9. ABC.(FARJEON,ELEANOR) THE COUNTRY National Pub. 1905, new edition 1915. Large 8vo (6 x 9”), cloth backed pictorial CHILD’S ALPHABET by Eleanor Farjeon. boards, near Fine. This London: Poetry Bookshop 1924. Sm. 4to, ABC has 26 different cities pictorial boards, slight wear to paper on spine represented (including X else near Fine. 1st ed. of this delicate and lovely for Xenia, Ohio) and most alphabet, illustrated by WILLIAM MICHAEL of the cities have military ROTHENSTEIN with 26 fine full page art or nationalistic themes deco illustrations, each with a country theme. (Atlanta - Sherman’s march, Scarce. $750.00 Detroit - Hull’s surrender, Richmond - Lee, Trenton - George Washington, #5 #9 etc.). Illustrated with bright full page color illustrations. Following the alphabet are a counting rhyme, nursery rhymes and holidays - all illustrated. This is a great copy of a wonderful American picture book. $300.00 FABULOUS SAALFIELD CLOTH BOOK 5. 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 Fourth of July”. Printed on cloth in full color on every page. A great American turn of the century alphabet and a fine example of the genre. $300.00 (SEE ILLUS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT ------>>>>>>>) Pg 4 914.764.7410 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 107 CLEVER ABC WHERE PICTURES FORM LETTERS GREAT 14. ABC. (HEBREW)SAVA ALEPH-BET [GRANDPA’S ALPHABET] by Shlomo GNOME ALPHABET Yedidia. Tel Aviv: Difus Dvar [1945]. Oblong 8 1/4 x 7 1/4”, cloth backed 10. ABC. (GNOMES) pictorial boards, near Fine. Each letter has a large picture of the letter next ALPHABET PICTURE to which is an animal BOOK. London: Blackie or an object formed ca 1930. 4to, pictorial in the shape of the card covers, fine. This is a letter done by the wonderful Gnome alphabet author. There is illustrated in full by C.E.B. a short story for Bernard. Although the only each letter beneath text is one word caption per which is a series of letters, the pictures tell the 20 squares with an stories of these adorable interesting pictorial gnomes $250.00 history showing how the letter evolved from a pictograph to the current usage. HEBREW ABC WITH STEREOTYPICAL BLACK Unusual. $600.00 11. ABC. (HEBREW)ALEPH BET LEYALDEH PHENIKS (ALPHABET FOR PHOENIX CHILDREN) by Anda Pinkerfeld. Jerusalem: Haoman (?) 1935. 8vo (6 3/4 x 9 1/2”), flexible card covers, light cover soil else VG+. Illustrated by A.K. Henschel with artful full page pen and ink drawings on every other page with LARGE FORMAT FARM text in verse by Pinkerfeld. Some of the pictures have a touch of humor and ALPHABET the illustration for the letter “caf” is a stereotypical African Black figure called 15. ABC. (FARM)FARM Cooshi, the Hebrew slang word for Blacks. $400.00 FRIENDS ABC. [Chicago]: M.A. Donohue 1916. Folio (10 1/4 x 1`3 1/2”), pictorial wraps, a few tiny margin mends else near Fine. Illustrations in 3-colors fill every page with each letter representing a different farm animal. Text is in verse. “V” is for Vole and “U” is for Urchin. An attractive large format book. $100.00 NICE MCLOUGHLIN ABC 16. ABC.(McLOUGHLIN) GOLDEN ABC. NY: McLoughlin Bros., no date, circa 1870. Large 12mo, (4 3/x 7 1/2”), pictorial wraps, near Fine. Printed in deep orange and black with word lists for each letter in large type. Each letter has INTERESTING PRE-STATEHOOD a fine engraving with the letter in red superimposed on the illustration. Nicely JEWISH ABC illustrated and well printed. “C” is for Cannon and “E” is for Eagle. $275.00 12. ABC. (HEBREW)ALEPH-BET (ALPHABET) by Y.A. Aldema. Tel Aviv: Tsolshan [1944]. Oblong 8 x 5 1/4”, flexible pictorial boards, string tie, edges worn and some spotting, VG. Printed on heavy tan paper and illustrated by Y.A. Aldema. Each page has a large decorative letter and an illustration followed by a list of words beginning with that letter. Each page is printed in a different color and the effect is striking, This is a very scarce alphabet book printed before Israel became a state. $600.00 RARE HEBREW ABC WITH EXTRA PAGES IN POCKET 13. ABC. (HEBREW)ALEPH-BET. Frankfurt am Main: Omanut Publishing 1922. 6 1/4” square, cloth backed boards, some cover rubbing else VG+. Omanut was a Jewish publishing house founded in Moscow in 1916. Printed on one side of 17. ABC.(McLOUGHLIN) OUR FOUR FOOTED FRIENDS ABC. NY: the paper, each leaf features 4 letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Each letter McLoughlin Bros. no date ca 1895. Folio, pictorial wraps mounted on linen, Fine. is embedded in a beautifully intricate An animal ABC illus. with full and partial page beautiful chromos. $300.00 design by Jacob Apter showing the influence of E.M. Lilien. Housed in a McLOUGHLIN CLOTH ABC pocket in the front of the book are 5 OF TOYS & GAMES printed and folded sheets 6 1/2” x 9” 18.