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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 111 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 - #458 - Tasha Tudor Watercolor of the Frog Prince #42 - Bemelmans watercolor from The Golden Basket #74 - Inscribed by Dodgson - vellum presentation binding #39 - Baum & Parrish #58 - by Margaret Wise Brown #210 - with watercolor in the book by the Haders #486 - Mussolini WW II propoganda #130 - A sample from Fuller Paper Doll Helen & Marc Younger Pg 3 [email protected] RARE EARLY FRENCH/POLISH ALPHABET OF TRADES MOTHER GOOSE ABC SHAPE BOOK 1. ABC. (TRADES) ABECEDAIRE UTILE, OU PETIT TABLEAU DES 4. ABC. (FAIRY TALES). RED RIDING HOOD AND NURSERY FRIENDS ARTS ET METIERS / ELEMENTARZ UZYTECZNY CZYLI KROTKI OBRAZ ABC. London: Raphael Tuck, KUNSZTOW I RZEMIOSL. Ouvrage ou les Enfans peuvent en apprenant a no date, circa 1910. Narrow lire puiser quelques idees de la Societe. A. Leipsic au Comptoire d’Industrie, folio (8 x 15”), pictorial Chez N. Glucksberg, no date, circa 1825. 4” x 6”, blind stamped cloth, [iv] 92p., boards with wrap-around some foxing else near Fine in custom cloth box. Each letter of the alphabet is color covers that are die-cut represented with a different trade or profession. The text in French and Polish in the shape of Red Riding are on opposing pages and explains the nature of the trade, including USERER Hood’s hood. Light edge (Usurier / Lichwiarz) for the letter “U” describing one as “a villainous man with wear and rubbing, VG+. Each a villainous job”. Illustrated with 24 fine hand colored copperplate engravings letter stands for a different on 12 plates each with 2 illustrations. “I” is for “Imprimeur” (printer) and has a great image of the press at work while a man selects type faces. This is an fairy tale or nursery rhyme unusual alphabet book, quite rare. $2500.00 (mainly nursery rhymes). Featuring fabulous bright full page color illustrations and large well printed brown illustrations in text by Beatrice Mallet in the style of Attwell. This is a title in Tuck’s “Hurrah” Series. $450.00 5. ABC. (McLOUGHLIN) APPLE PIE ABC. NY: McLoughlin Bros 1899. 4to (8 1/4 x 10 3/4”), stiff pictorial wraps, FINE. Merry Alphabet Series. Illustrated with 6 really great full page color illustrations plus 6 full page and one double-page 2-color illustrations. Pages are mounted on linen. A beautiful copy. $300.00 2 ABC’S PLUS PICTURE BOOK OF GAMES & HORSE STORY 2. ABC, ALPHABET. This is a curious book with no publication information anywhere. The book measures 4 ½ x 7”, cloth, inconspicuous joint repairs and few pages with old mends neatly done else VG+. Circa 1850-60, printed on one side UNUSUAL MCLOUGHLIN HAND-COLORED ABC of the paper only and illustrated with woodcuts on every page. The first part of 6. ABC. (McLOUGHLIN) FUNNY ALPHABET. NY: McLoughlin Bros. (no the book has 2 pictorial alphabets. The first has 8 words for each letter with 3 address), no date circa 1860. 4.5 x 5.5”, pictorial wraps, spine reinforced and pictures per page (J is for Jew). The second is an alphabet in rhyme, mainly of small piece of rear corner off, else VG+. Uncle Frank’s Series. Each letter of the names, with 2 illustrations per page. They are followed by a number of sections alphabet is cleverly formed by people contorted into the shapes of the letters. each one with a half page illustration. Two of these sections deal with more “W Walter and William / Were vex’d,/ X in the Alphabet, / Is sure to stand next” than 20 sports and pastimes There are a few letters per page, each with hand-colored engravings. The text including Football, Hockey, is in verse. $450.00 Tennis, Cricket, Shuttlecock, Trap Bat and Ball and more. There is the story of a horse told from the horse’s point of view. He has a series of miserable owners, is abused and finally finds a master that appreciates him. Other stories are 12 page tributes to relatives in verse like My Mother, My Father, My Grandmother, My Grandfather, My Aunt, My Brother. The illustrations are well printed and this is an interesting mid 19th century children’s McLOUGHLIN ALPHABET BOOK book. $350.00 7. ABC. (McLOUGHLIN) LITTLE BOYS AND GIRLS ABC. NY: McLoughlin Bros. 1884. 8vo (6 x 9 1/4”), pictorial wraps, [12]pp. including covers, old neat ED EMBERLY ABC strengthening inside cover else VG+. A charming alphabet book, this has 8 pages 3. ABC. (EMBERLEY) ED EMBERLEY’S ABC. Boston: Little Brown (1978). of vibrant chromolithographs (each page divided into thirds) and 2 pages of Oblong 4to (10 x 7 3/4”), pictorial rhymes. $225.00 cloth, As New in as new dust wrapper. Stated first edition. Designed to help the child write as well as to learn the ABC’s, every letter has a 2-page spread with fabulous color illustrations by this Caldecott Award winning illustrator. For something different, Emberley has chosen some letters that appear in the middle of a word instead of the first letter. A scarce ABC in unusually fine condition. $100.00 Pg 4 914.764.7410 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 111 GREAT MILITARY ALPHABET PRINTED ON CLOTH BY KRONHEIM 8. ABC. (MILITARY) ARMY AND NAVY DROLLERIES by Captain Seccombe. 11. ABC. (PRIMER) ROUTLEDGE’S EVERLASTING ALPHABET AND LITTLE London: Frederick Warne, no date, circa 1870. 4to (9 x 10 ½”), gilt pictorial WORDS. London: George cloth, light normal wear, VG++. First edition (second edition is stated and lists Routledge, no date, circa the author as Major, not Captain). Printed on one side of the paper, every letter is represented by a full page poem dealing with various military themes and 1880, 12mo (5 1/2 x 7 1/8”), ethnic groups, printed in a large font. Accompanying the verses are fine full page flexible card wraps, slight chromolithographs printed by Kronheim. “D” is for Dragoon, “ “I is for Indian bit of spine wear and soil, Horseman, “Z” is for Zoave. This is a companion to Aunt Louisa’s picture books VG+. There are 6 different for children. First editions are rare and this is a nice copy. $850.00 alphabets in varying fonts and arrangements, plus vowels, dipthongs, 3 letter words, etc. Illustrated with 2 lovely full page chromolithographs. Printed on cloth by Kronheim. $200.00 RARE AND CLEVER VOLLAND ABC 12. ABC. (VOLLAND) ANIMAL ALPHABET by Sybil Rebman. Chicago: Volland (1917). 4to (8 3/4 x 12”), cloth backed pictorial boards, some tip and edge wear, VG+. Full page color illustrations by the author for each letter of the alphabet represent various animals and there silhouette borders as well. The text is in rhyme. What distinguishes this alphabet is that each picture is actually formed using the letters in the animal’s name. This is one of the rarest Volland titles and a very clever ABC book. $900.00 GERMAN WWII SAILOR’S ALPHABET 9. ABC. (MILITARY) DAS SEEMANNS ABC by Hans Bodenstedt. Leipzig: Alfred Hans [1942]. Oblong 4to, (9 1/4” wide x 7 ½), cloth backed pictorial boards, edges have some wear, front cover scratched otherwise clean, tight and VG+. 1st edition. Each letter represents a different aspect of naval life. Text pages are illustrated in green line. Each page of ABC SEE ALSO 64, 216, 221 text faces a full page color illustration (14 in all) by ADULT (KNOWN FOR ADULT BOOKS) - 296, 429, 443, 450 Karl Nathe, two of which feature the swastika on AESOP - 55 AFRICA - 44, 45 the Nazi flag, another that shows U-boats sinking Allied 13. ALCOTT,LOUISA MAY. MAY FLOWERS. Boston: Little Brown (1899). Tan ships Scarce. Bilderwelt cloth stamped in black and gold, 56p. + [1]p. ad, offset on endpaper else fine. 1st 760. $400.00 separate edition of this story extracted from A Garland for Girls. Illustrated with 4 halftone plates. BAL 227. Beautiful copy. $250.00 WONDERFUL PHOTO ILLUSTRATED ALPHABET OF SAFETY #14 - next page 10. ABC. (PHOTO ILLUSTRATED) ABC DE LA ROUTE by Annie Fournier. Paris: Les Editions Sociales Francaises (1960). 4to (8 ½ x 10 ½”), pictorial boards, Fine condition. The theme is safety, showing the dangers that a child can encounter on the road while riding a bicycle, playing or walking. There are “do’s” and “don’ts”: don’t cross the train tracks, stay on the side of the road to avoid cars, never ride your bike at night, etc. Each page has a fantastic gravure photo by Robert Le Pajolec showing children doing the right thing or the wrong thing. “A” is for Attention, “F” is for Feux (traffic light) - only cross the street when the traffic light is green.