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COVER ILLUSTRATION - #557 - Tasha Tudor Original Art from Wind in the Willows

#190 - Gordon Craig Association Copy with Letter

#383 - John R. Neill Art from Tik-Tok of

#423 - Original Art from The Little Engine That Could

#54 - Man Ray ABC - Signed Limited Helen & Marc Younger Pg 3 [email protected] MET LIFE HEALTH ABC COMPLETE WITH INSERT 1. ABC. (ADVERTISING) IN STYLE OF JANET LAURA SCOTT / ABC. NY: Metropolitan Life Ins. CLOTH ABC Co. ca 1920. 8vo, (5 1/4 x 7 3/4”) pictorial wraps, light soil, VG. 5. ABC. (ART DECO) ABC BOOK. Every letter has a rhyme dealing with the healthy thing to do or Akron: Saalfield 1930. Folio, cloth, sl. eat. Illustrated in typical 1920’s edge wear, VG+. A great art deco alphabet style in b&w by M.C. Phares. “C is for Cough And its Cousin, the printed on cloth and illustrated in color sneeze. Cover them both With your handkerchief please.” This on every page in the style of Janet Laura copy is complete with an insert Scott. $150.00 that has a full color copy of the line illustration that accompanies the letter “U”. The child is STUNNING TUCK AUTO meant to use this as a guide for coloring the illustrations ALPHABET BOOK in the book. The verso of the 6. ABC. (AUTO) MOTOR CAR sheet has a quiz on how to eat healthy. $125.00 ABC. Lond: Tuck ca 1900. Obl. folio, (13 1/8 x 9 1/2”), pictorial wraps, RARE 1867 ADVERTISING ALPHABET slightest of edge wear, near fine. A 2. ABC. (ADVERTISING) title in Father Tuck’s Pictureland WINE OF TAR PICTURE ABC Series. Featuring 8 very fine ALPHABET. (Dayton: Oliver Crook printer, 1867). 8vo, full page chromolithographed pages pictorial wraps, margins picturing old autos, plus 2 pages trimmed, some soil and some old, neat mends, in brown line, with each letter of G+. This is a fascinating the alphabet prominently featured. advertising alphabet with Quite a large and striking book. Very every letter representing a different virtue that Wine scarce. $600.00 of Tar can provide. Weak children are made strong, delicate females gain tone and vigor. W is for Wine AUTOMOTIVE ABC of Tar, a medicine of great & MOTHER GOOSE merit. Each page is divided 7. ABC. (AUTO) MOTOR into thirds, each third with GOOSE RHYMES FOR MOTOR a woodcut illustration. A GANDERS by Herman Lee great advertising alphabet Meader. NY: Grafton Press . $200.00 (1905). 12mo, (5 x 7 1/2”), decorative cloth, pictorial paste- GREAT McLOUGHLIN ABC on, [110]p., VG. Each letter of PUGS AND CATS the alphabet has 2 full page automotive related illustrations 3. ABC. (ANIMALS) in 2-color by PAL plus verse COMICAL PETS ABC. NY: integrated into the text. This McLoughlin Bros. 1899. 4to, is followed by a parody of [16]p. incl. covers, some traditional Mother Goose rhyme wear, VG+. Each letter has i.e. “Little Jack Horner/ Would dash round a corner/never a rhyme and a wonderfully would slow up a bit./ He’d not fanciful chromolithograph even warn/ With a toot of his of an animal that begins with horn / and dogs that he’d hit.” that letter. Also includes $250.00 simple word lists. 2 letters AVIATION ABC BY SHENTON feature pugs, 8 feature cats 8. ABC. (AVIATION) A NEW ALPHABET OF AVIATION by Edward and all quite charming. Shenton. Phil.: Macrae Smith (1941). 4to, 7 1/4 x 9 1/4”, cloth, Fine in frayed $275.00 dw. Written and illustrated by EDWARD SHENTON with 26 full page color ARTFUL ABC - FORWARD lithos and with smaller color illustrations throughout the BY ALFRED E. SMITH text. Each letter relates to 4. ABC. (ANIMALS) several different aspects PICTURE ZOO BOOK by of the airplane. This is a Myrtle Glenn Terry. [NY]: new version of his earlier Alphabet of Aviation done Dept. of Parks (1935). 4to, in 1928, but this edition pictorial wraps, VG. Forward has more emphasis on by Alfred E. Smith. Every the military aspects of aviation describing the B- page features a bold 3- 19 bomber, torpedo planes color litho by Lilian Swann, and more. Shenton a with verses in rhyme at the noted Pennsylvania artist trained in Philadelphia (and bottom of the page. Quite also an editor at Macrae striking. $250.00 Smith who published this book). $275.00 914.764.7410 Pg 4 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89 WONDERFUL DECORATIVE AZTEC ALPHABETS BANBURY CHAPBOOK 9. ABC. (AZTEC) ALFABETOS AZTECAS por el Dr. Antonio Penafiel. No 13. ABC. (CHAPBOOK) pub. 1900, 3rd ed. Folio, 62 GALLOPING GUIDE TO leaves, 1/4 leather and green THE ABC, Or the Child’s cloth, a few minor margin Agreeable Introduction to a mends else VG+. (OCLC lists knowledge of the Gentlemen a copy with 74 leaves. Our of the Alphabet. Banbury: copy is complete as issued). J.G. Rusher circa 1810. Printed on rectos only in 2 1/2 x 4 1/2”, pictorial shades of blue, there are wraps, [16]p. + covers, uncut 4 very fine and interesting and unopened, near fine. alphabets. One ABC uses Illustrated with 29 fine typical Aztec designs within woodcuts including covers. each standard block letter, “He who ne’er learns his ABC another does the same / Forever will a blockhead within artistically designed be. / But try to learn, be letters and a third features wise and then / You will be a different native within lov’d by all good men.” Quite a letter in large pictorial scarce. $800.00 vignette. This is a wonderful ornamental and pictorial book of alphabets. $600.00 CHELONIIDAE PRESS ONE OF 5 ARTIST’S PROOFS 14. ABC. (CHELONIIDAE PRESS) A FOWL ALPHABET. Easthampton: Cheloniidae Press 1986. 8vo (5 5/8 x 8 5/8”) bound in full vellum by Gray Parrot. HILAIRE BELLOC ABC Includes the alphabet bound in full vellum, a separate suite of proof plates 10. ABC. (BELLOC, and a Blind Alphabet housed in vellum backed chemise folder, all housed in a vellum backed cloth case, AS NEW with the Prospectus laid-in. The text for HILAIRE) A MORAL ALPHABET in words of this alphabet is based on an 1885 on Birds from Our Living World by J.G. Wood. There is an 8 page introduction followed by 26 wood engravings from one to seven syllables of the various birds by Alan James Robinson, selected for their unusual beak by H.B. [Hilaire Belloc]. formations. The lettering is a new alphabet designed and hand-lettered in a Lond.: Edward Arnold 1899. range of colors by Suzanne Moore. This was the 12th book by the Cheloniidae 6 3/4 x 8 1/2”, cloth backed Press issued in a Regular Edition of 150 copies in vellum backed marbled boards, pictorial boards, covers a Deluxe Edition of 50 signed and numbered copies, and a Full Vellum Edition soiled and edges rubbed of 26 copies. THIS IS NUMBER III OF ONLY 5 ARTIST PROOF COPIES OF else tight and VG. 1st ed. THE FULL VELLUM EDITION that has each plate in the extra suite SIGNED Each letter has a rhyme BY ROBINSON AND NUMBERED “AP III”, there is no drawing mentioned in and also a moral related to the prospectus. Printed on rives paper, frenchfold, the engravings are stunning. it. “U” for the Upas tree This is a magnificent alphabet. $2500.00 / that casts a blight/ on those that pull their sister’s hair and fight.” Humorously illustrated in line by B.T.B. (Lord Ian B.T.B. Blackwood). Scarce. $225.00

BIRD ALPHABET IN BOX 11. ABC. (BIRDS) STORY OF THE BIRDS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH BIRD ALPHABET by Gertrude Keeley. NY: Hurst (1901). 4to, cloth, pict. paste-on, AS NEW IN ORIGINAL BOX (box flaps repaired). Each letter of the alphabet is represented by a different bird including a history of the bird and a hand-lettered rhyme with a lovely full color illustrations. A beautiful copy and including some unusual birds. $275.00

4 ABC’S IN ONE BOOK 12. ABC. BOOK OF PICTURE ALPHABETS. London: T. Nelson and Sons, no date, circa 1880. 4to (9x11”), brown cloth stamped in black and gold with color pictorial label, some cover soil and tip rubbing, VG+. Containing 4 alphabets with all pages mounted on linen, printed on one side of the paper. Each page of text faces a very fine full page WITH 2 ALPHABETS chromolithograph - 16 full 15. ABC. CHILD’S PLEASURE BOOK. NY: Sheldon & Co. 1860. 5 1/4 x pages of illustration in all. 7 1/2, cloth, some cover soil and tip wear else VG. Containing ’s Includes the ALPHABET Alphabet and Maja’s Alphabet as well as Simple Simon, Henny Penny, Little Bo OF BEASTS, ALPHABET Peep, The Old Woman and Her Pig all illus. by Harrison Weir with 8 full page OF BIRDS, ALPHABET OF color illustrations and a few more stories. The Farmer Boy’s Alphabet is the NATIONS AND SCRIPTURE feature of book with 12 pages including full page color illustrations of large block ALPHABET. Very high letters that are illustrated within the letter. The facing text pages explain quality and a rare the relevance to farming. Maja’s Alphabet is a quaint non-illustrated rhyming title. $1200.00 Alphabet of names. (SEE ILLUS TOP NEXT COLUMN) $350.00 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 5 [email protected]

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CHARMING CHRISTMAS ALPHABET 16. ABC. (CHRISTMAS) CHRISTMAS A-B-C by Rev. Louis Gales. St. Paul, : DEAN RAG BOOK Guild Associates (1944). 12mo, pictorial wraps, VG+. The Christmas ABC is illus. 21. ABC. (CLOTH) MY ALPHABET. Lond.: Dean ca 1925. 4to, cloth, owner with lovely color lithos by Gladys Allie. The ABC is followed by a few Christmas name else fine. Marvelous rich color illustrations on every page, printed on cloth. poems. Scarce. 175.00 A beautiful copy. $300.00

CHRISTMAS ABC RARE COCA COLA 17. ABC. (CHRISTMAS) CHRISTMAS STORIES ABC. Chic: Donohue, ADVERTISING ABC nd circa 1915. Small 4to, pict. wraps, rear blank replaced else VG. Charming 22. ABC. (COCA-COLA) Christmas ABC with most letters represented by Christmas objects. Illustrated ALPHABET BOOK OF with color cover by C.W., 4 full page color illustrations and full page b&w’s by an COCA COLA. Atlanta: Coca unknown hand (Denslow-like style). $150.00 Cola Co. 1928. Obl. 12mo, (7 1/2 x 5 1/4”) pictorial #17 wraps, Fine. Each letter of the alphabet has a different Coke related rhyme “K is for Kitchen With ice-box nearby. If you keep Coca Cola You’ll never go dry. V is for Value, Though the dollar’s depressed, A nickel still buys The drink that is best.” Illus. in typical 20’s art deco style in color on every page. Rare. $875.00

23. ABC. (COUNTRIES) PICTURE ALPHABET OF NATIONS OF THE WORLD. Lond. & Edin.: T. Nelson & Sons, circa 1880. 4to, 8 1/2” wide x 11”. #18 pictorial wraps, sl. soil, VG+ with pages mounted on linen. Illustrated with 4 very fine McLOUGHLIN CHRISTMAS ABC full page color lithographed 18. ABC. (CHRISTMAS) MERRY CHRISTMAS ABC. NY: McLoughlin Bros. pages with each page divided 1900. Small 4to, pict. wraps, some edge wear, VG+. Illus. with great color cover into 6 sections. Each of Santa and in 2-color on every page with each letter representing a different section features a native Christmas aspect or object. Text by Carolyn Wells. $300.00 of a different nationality corresponding with the letter of the alphabet. The ABC’S OF HOW text is a short paragraph TO QUIT SMOKING about the country often 19. ABC. (CIGARETTES) ABC WAY very judgmental in nature. TO STOP SMOKING CIGARETTES by Many unusual nationalities Conrad J. Dammann. NY: Worth Pub. Co. are included: D is for Dyaks, (1950). 4 5/8 x 6”, silver pictorial cloth, K is for Kampschadales, O 128p., VG. 1st ed. A prescient look at is for Otaheitians. T is for the bad effects of cigarettes including Turks who are “lazy and a section on how tobacco companies lie stupid.” $425.00 to the public. The second section of the book is an alphabetical arrangement of suggestions to the “Nicotinist” who 27 ABC ADVERTISING wants to break the smoking habit. BOOKLETS Illustrated with full page and smaller 24. ABC. (CZECH) line drawings and with a color plate by PILNACKOVA ABECEDA. J. McA Smiley. “W stands for Wager. J. Pilnacek, Tovarna na Make a substantial bet that you cannot Mydla, Hradec Kralov, no afford to lose. If this doesn’t stop you, date, circa 1925. This is a you are almost hopeless.” $125.00 complete set of 27 alphabet booklets (no Q in the Czech alphabet), each 4 pages, measuring 3 3/4” wide x 5 3/” in fine condition. CLOTH CIRCUS ABC Illustrated with bright 20. ABC. (CIRCUS) CIRCUS ABC. Akron: Saalfield, no date, circa 1910. 4 3/4 colors on every page in the x 8”, VG-Fine. Printed on cloth, illustrated in full color on every page with most style of Rudolf Mates. letters representing different aspects of circus life. W is for Wild Man. Quite (CONT’D NEXT PAGE) scarce. (SEE ILLUS TOP NEXT COLUMN) $250.00 914.764.7410 Pg 6 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89 Each front cover is the same except for the featured letter which is in red FIRST BOOK FOR block type and changes with each booklet. Inside the front cover, the text is CHILDREN PUBLISHED BY in rhyme and has a small color illustration. Facing pages feature fanciful full SAMUEL WOOD page color illustrations in folk-peasant style. Each rear cover has a rhyme about 28. ABC. (EARLY a different product sold by Pilnacek Parfumerie along with color illustrations AMERICAN) YOUNG (shaving cream, perfume, toothpaste etc). Most likely issued as a giveaway each CHILD’S ABC, or, first time one purchased a Pilnacek product. It’s amazing to find a complete set, book. NY: Samuel Wood especially in such nice condition. (SEE ILLUS BOTTOM PRIOR PAGE) $800.00 1806. 3 x 3 3/4”, pict. wraps, fine. Containing an alphabet in hornbook form UNCOMMON DISNEY and a syllabary. Each page MUSICAL ABC has two fine wood engravings 25. ABC. (DISNEY) MICKEY in addition to two cuts on MOUSE ABC. (Printed in each cover and engraved Australia for the Publisher, title page, all of which are charming in their naiveté. London: Collins) no date, circa This is the first children’s 1936. 6 3/8 x 7 12”, [12]p., book published by Wood. stiff pictorial wraps, some Rosenbach 325, Welch cover soil and edge fraying 1461.1. $1200.00 else VG. Every page shows one of the Disney characters ESTONIAN ABC playing a different musical 29. ABC. (ESTONIA) AABITS - PILDIRAAMAT. Tartus: Oskar Luik’i Kirjastus instrument. This early Disney (1933). 4to, pictorial wraps, fine. An Estonian alphabet brightly illustrated with book has 6 pages illustrated chromolithographs filling every page by R. Kiviti Pildid. Rare. $300.00 in full color and 6 illus. in blue. $450.00 #29

DOGS * SEASIDE * ANIMALS 26. ABC. (DOGS & SEASIDE) A.B.C. Lond.: Dean & Son, no date, [1873]. 4to (9 3/4 x 12 1/4”), cloth, pictorial paste-on, VG+. This book features 3 great ABC’s plus a section on transportation, illustrated by Vernon Stokes, F.A. Williams and F.M. Barton. First is a Sea-Side Holiday Alphabet where every letter relates to an activity or item at a sea vacation. “Q” is for Quay and “S” is for Shrimping. Illustrated by F.M. Barton with fine chromolithographs. Next is an incredible alphabet of dogs (no x,y, or z). M is for Mastiff and S is for Schipperke - featuring great chromos by Vernon Stokes. The #30 section on transportation emphasizes train travel picturing famous lines of 30. ABC. (FIREFIGHTING) ABC’S OF FOREST FIRE PREVENTION by R.M. the world including the Watts. Ottawa: Cloutier, (1950). 8vo, (6 x 7 3/4”), pictorial wraps, near Fine. A Great Eastern Engine, the wonderful ABC with a fire prevention theme published by the Forestry Branch of Imperial Limited, Caledonian the Dept. of Resources and Development in Canada. Illustrated in color on every Express and others. The page - “D” stands for Death, Destruction and Danger. $200.00 book ends with a fabulous ABC of animals engaged in a variety of antics. “S stands MCLOUGHLIN ABC OF for School, which was kept NAMES IN GERMAN by Dame Owl / T for the 31. ABC. (GERMAN) DAS Tortoise, who couldn’t spell A.B.C. IN BILDERN. NY: ‘fowl’.” Illustrated with McLoughlin Bros. 1903. clever chromolithographs by 4to, cloth backed pictorial F.A. Williams. This is a great boards, slight rubbing, VG+. ABC chock full Illustrated with 4 full page of well printed and charming chromolithographed pages color illustrations. Very plus 6 pages illustrated in scarce. $750.00 brown line. Each letter stands for a child’s name and little children are TUCK DOG ALPHABET shown playing different 27. ABC. (DOGS) DOGS games or pastimes. Quite AND PUPPY DOG’S ABC. scarce. $275.00 Lond: Tuck ca 1890. 4to, (8 1/2 x 11”), stiff pictorial wraps, slight cover soil else near fine. Each letter is GREAT GNOME ALPHABET represented by a different dog: Airedale, bull dog, 32. ABC. (GNOMES) PIXIE ALPHABET chow, dachshund, Jap dogs, BOOK. Lond.: Blackie ca 1930. 4to, otter hound, poodle, pug, etc. Illus. with color cover, cloth backed pictorial boards, near fine. 4 full page chromos and This is a wonderful Gnome alphabet with brown line illustrations on other pages. The short illustrated in full color and 3-color by text is in rhyme: “P for the Poodle who’s waiting C.E.B. Bernard. Although the only text out there, How the Pug and is one word caption per letters, the Pomeranian stare!” A great ABC in the Nursery Tales pictures tell the stories of these adorable Series. $300.00 gnomes $300.00 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 7 [email protected] RARE HASSALL ABC 33. ABC. (HASSALL,JOHN) ROUND THE WORLD ABC by G.E. Farrow. Lond. “ETHNIC” ABC OF INDIA & NY: Nister and Dutton, no date circa 1904. 4to, (9 1/4 x 11 1/4”), cloth backed 36. ABC. (INDIA) BOWDEN’S pictorial boards, some edge rubbing and corner cover soil, else VG+. The text is A.B.C. BOOK OF INDIA. in limerick format and each letter represents a person of a different nationality. Bombay, India: A.C. Bowden Opposite each page of text is a striking full page color lithograph by Hassall - ca 1910. Folio, cloth backed broad style with rich colors. “A silly old man of Milan / Once went out to sea in a pictorial boards, spine ends pan / And he nearly got drowned / For he very soon found / That his vessel was frayed, some finger soil, a few leaky and ran.” A rare and wonderful alphabet book. $1200.00 old mends (not offensive) else VG. Each letter of the alphabet is represented by a different aspect of Indian culture. Each letter has two lines of text with the entire alphabet in rhyme. Illustrated with rich colors and with many stereotypical portrayals. “C is for Coolie so fond of a doze, D for the Dhobie who Bangs out the clothes.” Very scarce. $650.00

RARE CHARLES LINDBERGH ABC

GREAT 40’S ABC 37. ABC. (LINDBERGH, 34. ABC. (HAYS,ETHEL) ABC. Akron: CHARLES) LINDBERGH ALPHABET story & color Saalfield 1943. Folio, (9 3/4” x 12 3/4”), book. Arlington, CA: Mabel pictorial wraps in simulated cloth-like pages, Thomas 1928. 4to (8 1/2 x 11”). pictorial wraps, several fine. Brightly illustrated in bright color small margin mends, VG+ and on every page with adorable little boys unused. Every letter stands for an aspect of Lindbergh’s and girls in typical 40’s style by ETHEL historic flight. Two pages HAYS. The last few pages are a counting illustrated in full color and the remainder illustrated book. $100.00 in line meant to be colored (unused). “C is for Courage, / For never alone / Across the Atlantic/ Had anyone flown.” This is a rare alphabet. HOCKNEY’S LIMITED ED. ALPHABET $1250.00 35. ABC. (HOCKNEY,DAVID) HOCKNEY’S ALPHABET edited by Stephen Spender. Lond.: Faber & Faber for the Aids Crisis Trust, 1991. Folio (10 x 13”), quarter vellum and grey paper boards, housed in matching slip case with color label and vellum endpieces, Fine. LIMITED TO ONLY 250 NUMBERED COPIES FOR SALE. Published to raise money for programs for people living McLOUGHLIN ABC with AIDS, this is SIGNED BY HOCKNEY AND SPENDER and 22 of the 38. ABC. (McLOUGHLIN) FARMYARD ABC. NY: McLoughlin Bros. circa 1880. 8vo, contributors including: DORIS LESSING, WILLIAM GOLDING, SEAMUS pict. wraps, tiny edge chips else VG+. Each page illus. with extremely well executed HEANEY, JULIAN BARNES, JOHN UPDIKE, NORMAN MAILER, SUSAN color illustrations of animals and scenes with no text except for one word per letter. SONTAG, V.S. PRITCHETT, JOYCE CAROL OATES, IRIS MURDOCH, CRAIG Rear cover has pictorial ads of McLoughlin folding board games. $200.00 RAINE, KAZUO ISHIGURO, PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR, IAN McEWAN, ERICA #38 JONG, JOHN JULIUS NORWICH, MARGARET DRABBLE, NIGEL NICOLSEN, MARTIN AMIS and others. Each letter has a fabulous full page color lithograph by Hockney facing a page of text about what that letter means to the author. Each of the notables listed above contributed to a different letter. The artwork is stunning and this is a very special ABC. $2700.00

#39

NICE LINEN ABC 39. ABC. (McLOUGHLIN) JOLLY ANIMAL ABC [NURSERY ABC BOOK on cover]. NY: McLoughlin Bros. 1900. 4to, (8 3/8 x 10 3/4”), stiff pictorial wraps, near fine. Printed on linen. Each letter is represented by a different animal with a few lines of text in happy rhyme. “E is an Eel that danced a round reel with a very large oyster and very fat seal.... X is a Xantho that put out its claw, and seized a poor sad-looking dog by the paw.” Illustrated with 6 fine full page chromo pages and in 3-colors on text pages. $300.00 914.764.7410 Pg 8 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89 40. ABC. (McLOUGHLIN) OUR FOUR FOOTED FRIENDS ABC. NY: GERMAN WWII SAILOR’S ALPHABET McLoughlin Bros. nd ca 1910. Folio, pict. wraps mounted on linen, Fine. An animal 44. ABC. (MILITARY) SEEMANS ABC by Hans Bodenstedt. Leipzig: Alfred ABC illus. with full and partial page beautiful chromos. $300.00 Hans [1942]. Oblong 4to, (9 1/4” wide x 7 1/2), cloth backed pictorial boards, sl. edge wear, VG+. 1st ed. Each letter represents a different aspect of naval #40 life. Text pages are illustrated in brown line. Each page of text faces a full page color illustration (14 in all) by Karl Nathe, two of which feature the swastika on the Nazi flag, another that shows U-boats sinking Allied ships Scarce. Bilderwelt 760. $450.00

#41

UNUSUAL ARMY ALPHABET 41. ABC. (MILITARY) AN ALPHABET OF THE ARMY by Edward Shenton. Phil.: Macrae Smith 1943. 4to, (7 x 9 1/4”) cloth, Fine in chipped dw. 1st ed. Written and illustrated by EDWARD SHENTON with numerous stylized illustrations in two colors. Each letter relates to two different aspects of the army (A = Ack Ack, Artillary, B = Beachhead, Bombs etc.). Shenton was a noted Pennsylvania artist trained in Philadelphia (and also an editor at Macrae Smith who published this book). Unusual. $250.00

WITH WATERCOLOR BY AUNT LOUISA LONDON TOY BOOK AUTHOR- MILITARY ABC 45. ABC. (MILITARY) SOLDIER’S ALPHABET. Lond.: Fred. Warne, no date, 42. ABC. (MILITARY) circa 1880. 4to, (9 x 11”), COMIC MILITARY stiff pictorial wraps, some ALPHABET: ARMY, NAVY, corner wear, VG+. Pages NATIONAL GUARD by De are mounted on linen. Each Witt C. Falls. NY: Stokes letter pertains to a different 1894. 8vo, (5 1/2 x 7 3/4”), aspect of military life. Text gilt red, white and blue pages are illustrated in cloth, some cover soil, VG. 3-color and each page of Printed on rectos only. Each text faces a wonderful full letter of the alphabet is page chromolithograph plus represented by a marvelous there is a great double-page full page color illustration chromolithographed spread. of an American soldier “H is a HIGHLANDER, of from different parts of the the Black Watch / No army country and from various boasts soldiers / more brave branches of the service than the Scotch.” This is a - from Indian Troops to scarce title in the Aunt Chicago Hussars. THIS Louisa London Toy Book COPY HAS A WONDERFUL Series. $475.00 WATERCOLOR INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE ENDPAPER DEPICTING A RARE WWI ALPHABET DECORATED SOLDIER ON A ROCKING HORSE TITLED 46. ABC. (MILITARY) YPRES ALPHABET “ME” Really wonderful and by C.M. Truman and J. Leslie. no publication rare. $1500.00 information, British, ca 1916. 3 3/4” x 6 3/4”, limp green cloth, VG+. Printed on NAVY ALPHABET 43. ABC. (MILITARY) NAVAL ALPHABET by M. Berkeley. Lond.: A. & C. Black, no rectos only, each letter relates to World date, circa 1915. 4to, (8 1/2 x 11”), cloth, pictorial paste-on, light rubbing, VG+. Each War I. Text is in calligraphy, and every letter of the alphabet pertains to the Navy or the ship. Text is in rhyme followed page is illustrated with accomplished pen by a descriptive paragraph, and text pages have pictorial borders and vignettes in brown line. Each page of text faces a full page color plate, also with a pictorial and ink caricatures. “L is for the Lance/ border. “T is for Torpedo-tubes, What are they for? / To blow enemy warships to With the spike at the end/ It slips in like Jigger-um-pore.” Illustrated by J.H. Hartley, this is a well made ABC. $300.00 butter / With never a bend.” Several letters #43 make reference to specific soldiers’ names suggesting that this was probably a book meant for limited distribution. Extremely rare. $650.00

MORMON ABC 47. ABC. (MORMON) DESERET ALPHABET:BOOK OF MORMON. NY: Roberts Brothers for Deseret University 1869. 8vo, (5 3/4 x 8 7/8”), 116p., leather backed blue pictorial boards, light rubbing to top of front board and light cover soil else VG+. Published by the Mormons in their newly invented phonetic alphabet developed by Parley Pratt, Heber Kimball and George Watt. Their aim was to provide the Mormon children with their own language, spelling and orthography. It soon proved unmanageable and was abandoned after Brigham #43 Young’s death in 1877. The frontispiece offers a key to the Mormon alphabet. A most unusual item. (SEE ILLUS TOP NEXT PAGE) $475.00 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 9 [email protected]

#47 PRIMER 52. ABC. (PRIMER) BEAUTIES OF THE NEW ENGLAND PRIMER. NY: Samuel Wood & Sons and Baltimore. 2 1/2 x 4 1/8”, no date, circa 1815. Patterned wallpaper wraps, 26p., VG. The publisher felt that the New England Primer “of latter times” had becomes “useless and obsolete”, so they selected what they felt were the most relevant sections of the traditional Primer and published it as Beauties. Illustrated with 4 pages of cuts for the alphabet and 4 other cuts to accompany the Burning of John Rogers, a Cradle Hymn by Watts and more. Heartman 441. (SEE ILLUS BOTTOM PRIOR COLUMN) $250.00

PUB. BY H. & S. RAYNOR 53. ABC. (PRIMER) CHILD’S FIRST PRIMER, OR A, B, C BOOK. NY: H. & S. Raynor, circa 1845. 3 5/8 x 4 5/8”,

#48 23p., blue pictorial wraps, Fine. The upper half of 14 pages each feature 4 woodcuts of simple objects. The bottom halves of those pages have lessons beginning with 2 48. ABC. (NAMES) NURSERY ALPHABET by A. Clifton-Shelton. Lond., Nelson circa 1930. 4tom stiff pictorial wraps, fine. Each letter stands for a different letter combinations graduating to 2-syllable names. Wonderfully illustrated in typical 30’s style with full color illustrations words. The beginning of the book has several on every page by Grace Clifton-Shelton. “U” is Unita. Text is in verse. $300.00 different alphabets. A charming little primer in excellent condition. $275.00 LTD. TO 95 COPIES / PARROT PRESS 49. ABC. (NAMES) WHAT’S IN A NAME by Annie Newnham. (Oxford): Hanborough Parrot Pieces (1988). 8vo (6 1/2 x 9”), boards, no dust wrapper as issued, as new. LIMITED MAN RAY ABC LIMITED TO 150 COPIES TO ONLY 95 NUMBERED 54. ABC. (RAY,MAN) ALPHABET POUR ADULTES. Paris: Editions Pierre COPIES. Designed by Belfond, 1970. Folio (12 x 15 1/2”), loose signatures as issued enclosed in an orange Dennis Hall, printed on clamshell box, Fine. LIMITED TO ONLY 150 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY mould-made paper, top MAN RAY. Each copy has an original rayograph signed by Man Ray. The rayograph edges unopened. Ever letter is done on a sold black background and depicts a feather superimposed by large stands for a different name, color block letters “A” “B” and “C”, mounted on a faux wood backer. The actual illustrated by the author alphabet is printed on grand velin d’Arches paper and consists of 37 lithographs with b&w lithos showing the (including title) with each letter represented by more than one illustration. Each characters interacting with leaf has an artful brown litho with one word of text arranged artistically within the the letters in some fashion. illustration. Although born in America ( 1890-1976 as Emmanuel Radnitzky), Man Text is only a descriptive Ray spent most of his artistic life in Paris contributing to the Dada and Surrealist word for the name: Racing movements with his painting and photographs. This is an amazing ABC by Ray who Ruth, Slippery Sam, once said “ A letter always suggests a word and a word always suggest a book.” etc. $150.00 Very scarce and unusual. (SEE ALSO INSIDE FRONT COVER) $3000.00

50. ABC. (PHOTO ILLUSTRATED) ABC IN REAL LIFE PICTURES by Robert Moss. Lond.: Juvenile Productions, no date, circa 1950’s. 4to (8 1/4 x 10 3/4”), cloth backed pictorial boards, VG+. Each letter has a large photo accompanied by a short 2-line “story”. “G is for Golliwog and also for goat. The photos are charming and natural. $275.00

51. ABC. (PHOTO ILLUSTRATED) MY LITTLE ABC by Gilbert Cousland. London: Collins (1934). 4to, (7 1/2 x 9 1/2”), cloth, near fine in sl. worn dust wrapper. A wonderful alphabet book illustrated by Cousland with large photos of objects in a child’s world opposite each letter. Done much the same way as Steichen’s alphabet, this is particularly well executed. (This title in White but different publisher). Very scarce. $400.00 #52 #51

55. ABC. (SUNBONNET) THE SUNBONNET BABIES A-B-C BOOK: A Modern Hornbook by Eulalie Osgood Grover. Chic: Rand. McN. (1929). 4to, cloth, 64p., pict. paste-on, some cover soil and sl. finger soil, VG. 1st ed. A charming alphabet book, illustrated by BERTHA CORBETT MELCHER with lovely full page color illustrations opposite each page of text. Very scarce in the 1st ed. $250.00 914.764.7410 Pg 10 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89 ART DECO / SATIRE TUCK TRAIN ABC SHAPE BOOK 56. ABC. (THEATRE) ABC OF THE THEATRE by Humbert Wolfe. [UK]: 60. ABC. (TRAIN/TUCK) RAILROAD ABC by Rose Goldstein. Lond.: Tuck 1903. Cresset Press, [1932]. Narrow folio (7 1/2 x 14 1/2”), die-cut in the shape of a train, lower corner crease, 4to, (7 3/4 x 10 1/4”), slight spine wear, VG+. A wonderful ABC where each letter illustrates a different [51]p., pictorial boards, aspect of train travel. Each page beautifully illustrated including 4 pages of the dust wrapper has been detailed chromolithographs. (SEE ILLUS BOTTOM PRIOR COLUMN) $250.00 permanently attached to the covers otherwise fine. 1st ed. A great satirical AUNT LOUISA alphabet. Illustrated in b&w by Edward Burra. M LONDON TOYBOOK is for Maugham, N is for 61. ABC. (TRAINS) Noel, O is for O’Neill. “T RAILWAY A.B.C. Lond.: is for Tallulah. She was Warne ca 1870. 4to, pict. rightly annoyed / When a journalist called her Helen wraps, VG+. An Aunt Louisa of Freud.” Great art London Toybook printed on deco design and humorous one side of the paper by verse. $350.00 Kronheim, featuring six fine 57. ABC. (TOYS) TOY STORE ABC. Newark: Charles Graham ca 1900. 12mo, full page illustrations for pictorial cloth, near fine. This is a charming linen alphabet of toys with color rhymes about the various pictorial covers, 2 full page color illustrations and 4 full pages of brown line illustrations. Each page has many objects on it - A is for Ark, N is for Nine Pins letters - all with a railroad and O is for Omnibus depicting a horse drawn wagon. $150.00 theme. $300.00 #57 #58 62. ABC. (TUCK) ANIMAL WORLD ABC. Lond.: Tuck ca 1890. Oblong folio, stiff pictorial wraps, spine repair else VG+. Father Tuck Natural History Series. Illus. with 6 full page chromos plus 6 pages in 2- color. An attractive alphabet book. $175.00

RARE IDA WAUGH ABC 63. ABC. (WAUGH) IDA WAUGH’S ALPHABET RARE McLOUGHLIN FOLIO ABC OF TRADES BOOK by Amy Blanchard. 58. ABC. (TRADES) LITTLE WORKERS’ ABC AND PRETTY PICTURE BOOK. Phil: Lippincott 1888. 4to,(9 NY: McLoughlin Bros. (1901). Folio (10 3/8 x 13 1/4”), cloth backed pictorial boards, x 10 3/4”), cl. backed pict. light edge wear else near fine. A stunning McLoughlin Bros. book, this features bds, some cover soil and children in grown-up jobs such as artist, carpenter, laundress, musician, etc. “V edge wear, VG. Printed on is for the Volunteer, to fight for glory willing; He’ll make a first class soldier, heavy paper on rectos only, when he’s had a little drilling.”. Printed on coated paper with text in gold ink, each each leaf has an alphabet page is decorated in gold and features well printed, vibrant chromolithographs. pictorial border and there Quite possibly the most beautiful book McLoughlin produced. Rare. $600.00 are line illustrations for each letter of the alphabet. The HAND-COLORED TRADES ABC letters are also portrayed 59. ABC. (TRADES) NEW ILLUSTRATED TRADES ALPHABET. Lond.: T. in humanized forms being Goode no date, 1841-6 based on pub. address. 4to, 6 1/2” wide x 8”, pink pictorial composed of little children wraps, corners of rear wrap restored else VG. Illustrated with 26 hand-colored in various positions. woodcuts of different trades accompanied by 4 lines of verse under each cut. The Rare. $650.00 top of each pages has the alphabet running across in large decorative block letters. Q is for Quill Cutter: This man has, from the wings of the goose / Cut quills into pens which you see there is made / But steel pens are now mostly used / And sadly injures his trade.” U is for Undertaker, A is for Zinc Worker. Printed on very 64. ABC. (WINSHIP,FLORENCE) ABC thin paper, it is amazing that that this rare alphabet has survived. $1200.00 BOOK. Racine: Whitman, 1940. Folio, (9 #60 1/2 x 11”), pictorial wraps, [16]p. inc. covers, some cover rubbing else fine. A charming 40’s ABC book accompanied by rhymes. #59 Illustrated in vibrant, bold color by Florence Sarah Winship. $85.00

ABC SEE ALSO 90, 144, 190, 203, 209, 244, 251, 274, 279, 410, 436, 494, 554

ADAMS, FRANK – 150

ADULT (BETTER KNOWN FOR ADULT WORK) 10, 35, 54, 345, 471, 533

ADVERTISING – 1, 2, 22, 24, 160

AESOP – 137

AFRICA – 227

ALBANIA - 418 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 11 [email protected] 65. ALCOTT,LOUISA MAY. “ALL ABOUT” BOOKS – 87, 282-4 LITTLE MEN: Life at Penfield with Jo’s .Boys ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN – 344, 324, 389 Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1871 (1871). Small 8vo, GRIMM ILLUSTRATED BY (5 x 6 3/4”), green cloth ANDERSON stamped in gold on front 69. (ANDERSON,ANNE)illus. cover and spine, brown DIE GOLDKINDER UND coated endpapers, some ANDERE MARCHEN von cover rubbing, tip wear, very Bruder Grimm.. Leipzig: small worn area on lower Anton, no date, d circa 1925. outer hinge (not weak), spine Thick 4to, (9x11”), cloth extrems slightly frayed backed pictorial boards, else clean and tight, VG. 160p., tips worn, some Illustrated with 4 full page foxing on half-title and title black and whites. 1st ed., 1st else VG+. 39 of Grimm’s issue with ad listing “Pink and fairy tales are illustrated White Tyranny” as Nearly by Anderson with 8 mounted Ready, signature 1 present color plates, numerous with no priority. Peter full and partial page line Parley To Penrod p.36, BAL illustrations plus pictorial 167. $375.00 endpapers. $400.00

SMITH’S 70. (ANDRE,R.)illus. “LITTLE WOMEN” BLUE & RED OR THE 66. ALCOTT,LOUISA DISCONTENTED LOBSTER MAY. LITTLE WOMEN. by . Bost: Little Brown 1915 Lond: SPCK nd (1881). 4to, (1915). Thick 8vo, gilt cloth, cloth backed glazed pict. pictorial paste-on, 617p., All bds, 32p., repair to one edges gilt, spine lettering leaf where pages stuck and faded else near FINE. First light edge wear else VG. A edition thus. Illustrated by most unusual tale about a JESSIE WILLCOX SMITH lobster who wanted to be with cover plate plus 8 red and finally reached his other lovely color plates goal when he was cooked and pictorial endpapers. and thus dead! Told entirely A beautiful copy of in verse & fabulously Smith’s very scarce first illustrated by R. ANDRE edition. $450.00 with chromolithographs (by Emrik & Binger) filling every page. A scarce Ewing / Andre #67 RARE ALDIN RAG BOOK title. ANDRE SEE ALSO 67. (ALDIN,CECIL)illus. ANIMALS’ 270. $300.00 SCHOOL TREAT by Clifton Bingham. Lond.: Dean ca 1910. 4to, pictorial HUMANIZED cloth, some soil throughout, one page BERRIES AND FLOWERS reinforced at spine, overall VG! 24 71. ANTHROPOMORPHISM. pages of fabulous color illustrations of FLOWER AND BERRY BABIES by fanciful animals by Aldin accompanied Edna Groff Diehl. Chic. : Whitman by verse by Bingham. A rare 1924 (1923). 8vo, cloth, pict. paste- title. $1250.00 on, slight cover soil else near Fine. Tales where flowers and berries come ALDIN LIMITED TO ONLY alive. Profusely illustrated with full page and in-text color illustrations 250 COPIES by VERA STONE. An easy 68. (ALDIN,CECIL)illus. POSTHUMOUS book with text in large type and with PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB facts presented in a fanciful manner. by Charles Dickens. Lond.: Chapman $150.00 & Hall. Lawrence & Jellicoe 1910. 2 volumes, large thick 4to’s (8 1/4 x 11 ANTHROPOMORPHISM see also – 193, 1/4”), full vellum stamped in gold, 450. 270, 272, 549 457p., armorial bookplate, slight soil on the white vellum, spines slightly faded, near fine. LIMITED TO ONLY 250 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY ALDIN. APPIA, BEATRICE – 415-16 Illustrated with 24 fabulous color plates plus a profusion of great illustrations all throughout the text. When found, this set is normally soiled and grubby. It ARABIAN NIGHTS – 206, 229 is extremely rare to find this white vellum set in such nice condition. $1350.00

SCARCE ARDIZZONE TITLE #68 72. (ARDIZZONE,EDWARD)illus. THE FANTASTIC TALE OF THE PLUCKY SAILOR AND THE POSTAGE STAMP by Stephen Corrin. Lond.: Faber & Faber (1954). Sm. 4to, pict. bds, corner bumped else fine (no dw). 1st ed. The adventures of an intrepid sailor who goes to great lengths to help an old lady. Illus. in color on every page. Very scarce. $275.00

ART (ORIGINAL) – 75, 204-5, 263-4, 285, 297, 324, 383, 423, 428, 465, 472, 557-9 914.764.7410 Pg 12 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89 PURE ART DECO - CLASSIC ART DECO INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR 77. (ARTZYBASHEFF,BO 73. ART DECO. THE RIS)illus. FUNNYBONE TIRED TROLLY CAR by ALLEY by Alfred Kreymborg. Beth A.Retner. NY: Doub. NY: Macauley (1927). 4to, (7 Page 1926 (1926). 8vo, (6 7/8 x 10 1/2”), blue pictorial 1/4 x 7 3/4”) green cloth, cloth, top edge gilt, rear 158p., rub mark on endpaper cover soiled else VG. First else Fine in dust wrapper edition. This is the strange (dw light soil and fraying). fantasy of Sam Pumpernickel Stated 1st ed. A group of and his pals in the mythical 9 fantasy stories, including land called Ballyboo. the title, House of Many Illustrated by Artzybasheff Mirrors, One-Horse Town, with absolutely stunning Blue Policeman, Little Billy color pictorial endpapers, 7 Tick and more, illustrated marvelous tipped- in color in true Art Deco style with plates plus a profusion of 4 striking color plates, 5 black and whites in-text. full page b&w’s plus b&w’s Classic Art Deco at its best. and smaller b&w’s by C.E. This is one of Artzybasheff’s Millard. A real “period” most original and effective book. $275.00 works. $250.00

ART DECO also 5, 75-7, 83, 136, 157, 188, 225, 251, 254, 402-3, 410, 499, 564 NEWBERY HONOR ART NOUVEAU – 332 ARTHURIAN - 223 78. (ARTZYBASHEFF,BORIS)illus. NANSEN by Anna Gertrude Hall. NY: Viking 1940 74. ARTZYBASHEFF,BORIS. POOR SHAYDULLAH. NY: (1940). 8vo, (6 1/2 x 9 1/2”), cloth, Fine in dust Macmillan 1931 (Nov. 1931). Small square 4to, (7 3/4 x wrapper with old mends on verso. First edition. 8 3/4”), grey pictorial cloth, The story of the explorer Fridtjof Nansen, cover sl. faded else fine in dust wrapper worn on spine. illustrated by Artzybasheff with beautiful First edition. The first book written by Artzybasheff, lovely full page and smaller blue lithographs and and illustrated by him with with striking art deco endpapers. NEWBERY wonderful, bold woodcuts. The story is a fable about HONOR. $150.00 a poor Moroccan beggar. “A book of talent” (Five Years of Children’s books FAIRY TALES & MOTHER p. 479). See Bader p. GOOSE 190-1. $275.00 79. (ATTWELL,MABEL LUCIE)illus. FAIRYLAND. STRIKING RARE ARTZYBASHEFF WOODCUT No place: Nelson ca 1915. 75. ARTZYBASHEFF,BORIS. WOOD ENGRAVING: CENTAURS. The image 4to, pict. cloth, VG. A fairy measures 11 x 8” signed and numbered (80). It is reproduced in Artzybasheff’s tale and Mother Goose surreal book As I See published in 1954. This striking image shows a male combination. The first and female centaur in the woods. There are mountains and much foliage in section contains Little Red the background. Artzybasheff’s strong angular Art Deco style is particularly Riding Hood and Tom Thumb appropriate for this scene. Rare. $1850.00 illus. by Attwell with 18 b&w’s (including title page) and 3 fabulous color plates. Other stories including the Snow Queen are illustrated by HONOR APPLETON, JACK ORR and Frederick BARKER with 5 other color plates and many, many detailed line illustrations $850.00

#76

SIGNED BY ARTZYBASHEFF AND COLUM / ART DECO 76. (ARTZYBASHEFF,BORIS)illus. CREATURES by Padraic Colum. NY: Macmillan 1927 (1927). Small, slim 4to, (6 3/8 x 9 1/2”), black cloth spine, silver boards. Spine slightly faded else Fine in matching silver publisher’s slip case (case slightly scuffed and rubbed at joints but solid and VG). FIRST EDITION LIMITED TO 300 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY COLUM AND ARTZYBASHEFF. Illustrated with stunning Art Deco black and whites throughout including pictorial endpapers, 10 full page and numerous smaller text illustrations. Text is in verse. $350.00 (SEE ILLUSTRATION DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT ------>>>>>>>>) Helen & Marc Younger Pg 13 [email protected] RARE ATTWELL SEWING BOOK WITH MOVEABLE SAMBO BOO BOOS 80. (ATTWELL,MABEL IN DUST WRAPPER LUCIE)illus. STITCH 84. BANNERMAN,HELEN. LITTLE STITCH: THE LUCIE BLACK SAMBO. NY: Duenewald (1943). ATTWELL NEEDLEWORK 8vo, spiral backed pictorial boards, slight BOOK. Dundee & Lond.: Valentine [1922]. Small 4to, wear else near fine in chipped and sl. worn stiff pictorial card covers, dw. A MOVEABLE SAMBO illustrated in sl. rubbing, VG+. Illustrated color by JULIAN WEHR and featuring 6 in color and line by Attwell including the Boo Boos and really terrific moveable plates done in color. fairies. Lacks the iron-on Quite difficult to find in the dw and a nice patterns, but includes the copy. $600.00 various colored threads and the needles that the reader can use to make hankies, bags or other fabric objects. Charming color illustrations TOY THEATRE WITH 4 BOOKS on every page by Attwell. 85. [BANNERMAN,HELEN]. LITTLE BLACK SAMBO * THREE LITTLE PIGS Rare. $600.00 * RUMPELSTILTSKIN * THREE BEARS [IN] PLAYETTE MOVING PICTURE THEATRE. (NY: Playette Corp. 1942). Housed in the original shipping box are ATTWELL see also 400 AUNT LOUISA – 61 2 books, each 8 3/4 x 7 3/4 spiral bound on top. Each book has two stories - Sambo is paired with the Three Pigs. Brightly illustrated in bold colors by Dick AUSTRALIA – 393, 397-8 Briefer. The set comes with a die-cut fold-out stage, removable scenery and text for a play version on separate cards. Also has a few die-cut figures for AUTOS see 6, 7, 73, 263 decoration, admission tickets and instructions. When assembled, the theatre measures 18” wide by 10” deep and 12” high. It is designed so that the books can VERY SCARCE be inserted into a slot in the rear and the child operates a lever that changes the scene as the play is being read. Extremely rare. $850.00 AVERILL CAT BOOK SIGNED BY HER 81. AVERILL,ESTHER. JENNY GOES TO SEA. NY: Harp. Bros. (1957). 8vo, (5 1/2 x 7 3/4”), pictorial cloth Harpercrest binding, Fine in fine price clipped dust wrapper. Probable 1st edition with no listing of later titles. The ninth title in Averill’s Cat Club series, this features a little black cat named Jenny. Illus. by Averill with simple, stylized 2-color illus. throughout. THIS COPY IS SIGNED BY AVERILL on the title page. Scarce. $250.00

VERY SCARCE AVERILL CAT BOOK SIGNED BY HER 82. AVERILL,ESTHER. JENNY’S BEDSIDE BOOK. NY: Harper Brothers RARE SAMBO BLUE RIBBON POP-UP (1959). Oblong 4to, (10 1/4 x 86. [BANNERMAN,HELEN]. THE STORY OF LITTLE BLACK SAMBO. NY: 7 1/2”), cloth backed pictorial Blue Ribbon (1934). 16mo (3 3/4 x 5”), pict. bds, 60p., covers soiled some and boards, Fine in sl. worn price paper aging as usual, VG+. A title in Blue Ribbon’s Midget Pop-up Series, this clipped dust wrapper. Probable features one double-page color pop-up and 26 full page black and whites to 1st edition with no listing of accompany the story of Sambo, illustrated by C. CAREY CLOUD. Rare. $750.00 later titles. This is the second picture book format about Jenny from Averill’s Cat Club #86 series which features a little black cat named Jenny. Illus. by Averill in color on every page. THIS COPY IS SIGNED BY AVERILL on the title page. Very scarce. $400.00

AVIATION see 8, 37, 114, 180, 475, 488

ART DECO SAMBO 83. [BANNERMAN,HELEN]. LITTLE

BLACK SAMBO. Springfield: McLoughlin #87 (1938). 12mo, (5 1/4 x 6 3/4”), pictorial board covers, slightest bit of rubbing, near fine. Gloriously illustrated in art deco style GRUELLE & SAMBO 87. [BANNERMAN,HELEN]. ALL ABOUT LITTLE BLACK SAMBO. NY: Cupples in full color by HILDEGARD [LUPRIAN]. & Leon (1917). 16mo, boards, pict. paste-on, fine in dw. Illustrated by JOHNNY $300.00 GRUELLE with 8 wonderful color plates and many b&w’s. Very scarce. $600.00 914.764.7410 Pg 14 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89 ONE OF THE RAREST OF ALL MOVEABLES NEWBERY HONOR COMPLETE WITH UNCUT WADDLES! 88. (BANNON,LAURA)illus. PECOS 92. BAUM,L.FRANK. WADDLE BOOK. NY: Blue Ribbon (1934). BILL, THE GREATEST COWBOY 4to, cloth, fine in sl. frayed dw with a few mends. 1st ed., 1st state. Illustrated OF ALL TIME by James Cloyd with 8 color plates (HG p.35-6). THIS COPY INCLUDES THE 6 WADDLE Bowman. Chic.: Whitman 1937 FIGURES ALL OF WHICH ARE UNPUNCHED, THE RAMP AND THE ORIGINAL (1937). Small 4to, 296p., cloth, fine PICTORIAL BAND THAT GOES AROUND THE RAMP! Enclosed in the original in frayed dw with some chipping. 1st pictorial envelope are the ramp and fasteners. A few Waddle pieces are neatly ed. The exploits of the legendary, reinforced at creases). The “waddle” book is designed with die-cut figures that larger-than-life cowboy Pecos can be assembled into full three dimensional color figures. When the figures Bill. Illustrated by Bannon with 6 are assembled using the metal fasteners they can actually move down the ramp stunning full page lithos plus many without contrivances! Instructions for assembling the figures are in the rear. other striking full and partial page Included are , , , , Wizard and the Lion. The book b&w lithos. Newbery Honor. Very is illustrated by Denslow. This is a Baum book of the utmost rarity with few copies scarce. $275.00 surviving with the waddles intact and few are known with waddles unpunched. $38,000.00

89. BARRIE,J.M. PETER AND WENDY. NY: Scribner 1940 (1940 A). 4to (7 1/2 x 10”), grey pictorial cloth, slight cover fading else fine, 216p. 1st ed., thus, illustrated by EDMUND BLAMPIED with 12 color plates plus full page b&w’s and pictorial endpapers. $200.00

#89

PETER PAN ALPHABET BOOK 90. [BARRIE,J.M.]. PETER PAN ALPHABET by Oliver Herford. NY: Scribner 1907 (1907). 4to, (7x8 1/4”), cloth backed pictorial boards, slight cover soil, VG. 1st ed. An ABC book with each letter using a character or theme from Peter Pan and with a full page illus. facing each page of verse. Quite scarce. $400.00

FINE FIRST EDITION OF THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ 91. BAUM,L.FRANK. THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ. Chic: George M. Hill 1900. Large 8vo, pale green cloth stamped in red and green, 261p., tiny but of rubbing to rear bottom edge which also has faint soil, light mark on endpaper, otherwise perhaps the brightest fine copy we’ve seen in a while. 1st ed., MOST POINTS OF FIRST STATE. There is no box around ads on page 2 (2nd state), 1st line on page 14 reads “low wail on” (1st state), p.81 fourth line from bottom spells “peices” incorrectly (1st state) p.[227] 1st line reads “While ” (1st state), colophon in 11 lines with box (1st state), verso title page has copyright 93. BAUM,L.FRANK. NEW WIZARD OF OZ (WIZARD OF OZ ON COVER) (state 2), perfect type on pages 100, 186 (1st state), color plates corrected on Indianap: Bobbs Merrill (vd 1903). 4to, olive green cloth, pict. paste-on in dark page 34 (2nd state) but not corrected on p.92 (1st state). Binding state “B” with blue, green and orange, spine ends sl. worn 3 tiny margin mends, VG+ in tattered publishers imprint in red unserifed type. Hanff/Greene I.1-2 binding state B, dw. Fifth ed. first state. The type has been re-set for this edition and pagination Peter Parley To Penrod p. 111-113. Illustrated with 24 wonderful color plates and shortened with the removal of colored text illustrations. Hanff Greene p. 34. other text illustrations by W.W. Denslow. This is a superb copy of one of the most Illustrated by W.W. DENSLOW with 16 color plates including title. $550.00 famous children’s books of all times. (SEE ALSO REAR COVER) $36,500.00 #93

#94 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 15 [email protected]

94. BAUM,L.FRANK. OF OZ. Chic: Reilly & Britton (1913). #98 4to, green pict. cloth, 341p. + 5p. of ads. Tiny snag at base of spine and name erased from title edge else VERY FINE and bright! 1st ed. (H/G VII) ( but “c” in chap. 3 on p. 35 does not overlap text). Illustrated by J.R. Neill with fabulous color pictorial endpapers plus a profusion of color and b&w illus. throughout the text. The 5 pages of ads offer synopses of the previous five titles for those readers new to the series. A wonderful copy of this early Oz title, rare in this condition. (SEE ILLUS BOTTOM PRIOR COLUMN) $1800.00

LOST KING IN DUST WRAPPER 95. (BAUM,L.FRANK) LOST KING OF OZ by . Chic: Reilly & Lee (1925). 4to, royal blue cloth, pict. paste-on, nearly AS NEW in ORIGINAL DUST WRAPPER (dw price clipped else near fine listing Gnome King with a sticker applied for upcoming Giant Horse). 1st ed., later printing with plates coated both sides, (some inserted at wrong pages) imperfect “k” on p. 193, (H-G XIX). Illus. with 12 color plates plus pictorial ep’s and b&w’s throughout by J.R. NEILL. A magnificent copy. $950.00

#99

99. BAUM,L.FRANK. PHOEBE DARING. Chic: Reilly & Britton (1912). 8vo, grey cloth stamped in black with orange white and grey pictorial cover, 298p. + [8]p. ads, Fine. 1st ed. The second of only two series books written by Baum using his own name. Illus. with plates by Joseph Pierre Nuyttens. Beautiful copy. $550.00

FINE COPY OF BAUM’S JUVENILE SPEAKER 100. BAUM,L.FRANK. L. FRANK BAUM’S JUVENILE SPEAKER.: and recitations in prose and verse humorous and otherwise. Chic.: Reilly & Britton (1910). 4to, tan cloth pictorially stamped in red black and silver, 196p. + ads, FINE. Baum wrote this book for use in schools as an aid in teaching public speaking. This book for children contains Baum’s selections from what he considered some of his best stories plus he provided introductions for stories that originally formed parts of complete books. It contains selections from the Oz books, Father Goose, etc. as well as previously unpublished works like Prince Marvel, a playlet for children based on the Enchanted Island of Yew. Illustrated by JOHN R. NEILL and MAGINEL WRIGHT ENRIGHT in black and white. This is a beautiful copy of a rare Baum book. $950.00 96. (BAUM,L.FRANK). SPEEDY IN OZ by Ruth Plumly Thompson. Chic: Reilly & Lee (1934). 4to, blue cloth, pict. paste-on, 298p., light shelf wear, fox spots on bottom of a few pages else VG+. 1st ed. Illustrated by JOHN R.NEILL with 12 color plates plus pict. ep’s and many b&w’s. A nice copy of one of the most uncommon Oz titles. H-G XXVIII. $750.00

NEAR FINE COPY - BAUM AND PARRISH 97. BAUM,L.FRANK. MOTHER GOOSE IN PROSE. Chic: Way & Williams (1897). 4to, 265p., grey pictorial cloth stamped in color on both covers. Name erased from endpaper and slightest soil on covers else a tight near Fine copy. First edition, second issue (all 16-page signatures, terminal leaf concluding on p. [272] - see Schiller catalogue #5). Illustrated by MAXFIELD PARRISH. This is the FIRST BOOK WITH MAXFIELD PARRISH’S ILLUSTRATIONS AND ALSO L. FRANK BAUM’S FIRST PUBLISHED BOOK FOR CHILDREN! Illustrated by Parrish with wonderful color pictorial covers, pictorial title page, plus 12 full page black and white plates. For the text, Baum retells many classic nursery rhymes in story format. An unusually nice copy of one of the most desired of all children’s books, rare in this condition. $7500.00

ILLUS. BY WALTER ENRIGHT 101. BAUM,L.FRANK. FATHER GOOSE’S YEAR BOOK. Chicago: Reilly & Britton (1907). Narrow 4to, cloth, pict. paste-on, cover plate sl. rubbed else near fine and unused. 1st and only edition. A yearly appointment calendar with many pages of original verse by Baum, each faced with a page for notes. Illustrated by WALTER ENRIGHT with pictorial endpapers and with many full page and in-text color illustrations in the broad, flat style of poster artists of that time. Enright was a political cartoonist who married Maginel Wright (Frank ’s sister and illustrator of other Baum works) and father of award winner Elizabeth Enright. $600.00

BAUM AS SCHUYLER STAUNTON 102. [BAUM,L.FRANK]. THE FATE OF A CROWN by Schuyler Staunton. Chic.: Reilly & Britton 1905 (1905). 8vo, red cloth stamped in white gold and black, spine faded else Fine. 1st ed. first state SONGS OF FATHER GOOSE IN DUST WRAPPER! with text terminating on p. 306, chapters 98. BAUM,L.FRANK. SONGS OF FATHER GOOSE. Chic: Geo. M. Hill (1900). starting on right and left, and illus. counted Large 4to, cl. backed pict. bds, tips lightly worn else FINE IN DUST WRAPPER in pagination. Illus. by Glen Sheffer with 6 (dw tape repairs, 3” piece off top edge, chips off spine ends). 1st ed. Illustrated b&w plates. This is the first novel for adults by Denslow with a new color cover for this volume and in b&w inside to accompany written by Baum and one of only two under music for verses from Father Goose. A beautiful copy, rare in this condition with the Staunton pseudonym. Scarce and a nice a dust wrapper. (SEE ILLUS TOP NEXT COLUMN) $1500.00 copy. $500.00 914.764.7410 Pg 16 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89 BAUM USING LAURA BANCROFT PSEUDONYM #107 103. [BAUM,L.FRANK]. BABES IN BIRDLAND: a nature fairy tale by Laura Bancroft. Chic: Reilly & Britton (1911). Small 4to, green cloth spine, pictorial boards, 115+ [1]p + 3p. ads, slight edge and corner wear else VG+. First ed. Illustrated by MAGINEL WRIGHT ENRIGHT with 8 color plates and many b&w’s. This is a very scarce Baum item and a nice copy. $800.00

#108

BAUM AS FLOYD AKERS 108. [BAUM,L.FRANK]. BOY FORTUNE HUNTERS IN YUCATAN by Floyd Akers (pseud. of Baum). Chic.: Reilly & Britton (1910). 8vo, brown cloth stamped in black, red and green, 343p., very faint stain on end pages else near fine. 1st (and only) edition of the fifth Boy Fortune Hunter title, illustrated with a half- tone frontis by George Rieman. This is a great copy of a rare series book by Baum writing under his pseudonym of Akers. $1200.00

Baum - See also 383, 546, 547 RARE BAUM AS FLOYD AKERS 104. [BAUM,L.FRANK]. BOY FORTUNE HUNTERS IN CHINA by Floyd Akers (pseud. of Baum). Chic.: Reilly & Britton (1909). 8vo, brown cloth stamped in RARE EARLY TEDDY BEAR BOOK black and white, 324p., + [2]p. ads, slight rubbing else near fine. 1st ed., 1st 109. BEARS. THE BUSY BEARS by printing of this boy’s adventure series by Baum (quill and lamp on title, 3 titles George W. Gunn. Chicago: J.I. Austen listed on verso of title, p. [325] discusses series with box, 2 pages of ads list two Airship Boys, 4 Aunt Jane’s Nieces and Annabel - See Baum Bugle Spring 1972). 1907. Folio, pict. wraps, some soil and Illus. with half-tone frontis by E.A. Nelson. A beautiful copy, rare. $1850.00 margin repairs, G-VG. The mischief and adventures of twin Teddy bears BAUM AS FLOYD AKERS 105. [BAUM,L.FRANK]. BOY FORTUNE HUNTERS IN EGYPT by Floyd Akers named Teddy and Freddy. Illustrated (pseud. of Baum). Chic.: Reilly & Britton (1909). 8vo, brown cloth stamped in with 6 full page color illustrations plus black and white, 291p., + [2]p. ads, slight rubbing else near fine. 1st ed. of this 6 full page half-tones as well as line boy’s adventure series by Baum. (open book device on title, verso of half-title illustrations and color covers. Very lists 3 including this, text ends “in the Boy Fortune Hunters of China” ). Illus. with half-tone frontis by E.A. Nelson. A beautiful copy. $800.00 scarce. $350.00

BEARS / MOTHER GOOSE PICTURE BOOK 110. BEARS. FRANK VER BECK’S BEARS IN MOTHER GOOSE LAND, new lines by Hanna Rion, old lines by Mother Goose herself. NY: Doran, circa 1910, large 4to, cloth backed pictorial boards, sl. spine wear, VG+. Illustrated by FRANK VER BECK with color frontis plus 2-color or b&w’s on each page. (Ver Beck was the illustrator of Baum’s New Wonderland and a Joel Chandler Harris Uncle Remus book). Printed on heavy coated paper. Nice and quite scarce! $750.00 BAUM AS FLOYD AKERS 106. [BAUM,L.FRANK]. BOY FORTUNE HUNTERS IN PANAMA by Floyd Akers LARGE FORMAT (pseud. of Baum). Chic.: Reilly & Britton (1908). 8vo, brown cloth stamped in black, TEDDY BEAR BOOK cream and white, 310p., sl. cover soil, VG-Fine. 1st edition, 1st printing of the second 111. BEARS. LITTLE Boy Fortune Hunter title (open book on title, no ads at end, last line “is powerless JOHNNY AND THE TEDDY to control”), illustrated with 4 color plates by Howard Heath. This is a great copy BEARS by Robert Towne. of a rare series book by Baum writing under his pseudonym of Akers. $1200.00 Chic.: Reilly & Britton 1907. Obl. folio, cloth backed pictorial card covers, corner BAUM AS FLOYD AKERS of cover repaired else 107. [BAUM,L.FRANK]. BOY FORTUNE HUNTERS IN THE SOUTH SEAS by amazingly tight and clean. Floyd Akers (pseud. of Baum). Chic.: Reilly & Britton (1911). 8vo, brown cloth Printed on rectos only, each stamped in black red and green, 263p. + [2]p. ads, 2 small indents in gutter and light leaf is divided into panels cover soil else VG+. 1st edition of the sixth and last Boy Fortune Hunter title (quill and illustrated in color by and lamp device on title, p. 263 concludes with ad in box, 2 pages of ads at end, 6 J.R. Bray. The text in verse titles listed on half-title. See Baum Bugle Spring 1972). Illustrated with a 3-color tells of the misadventures frontis by Emile Nelson. This is a nice copy of a scarce series book by Baum writing of a gang of teddy under his pseudonym of Akers. (SEE ILLUS TOP NEXT COLUMN) $600.00 bears. $850.00 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 17 [email protected] McLOUGHLIN 117. BENNETT,CHARLES. 112. BEARS. OLD MOTHER PROVERBS WITH PICTURES. BRUIN AND HER FOOLISH Lond: Wm. Tegg 1877. 4to, CUBS. NY: McLoughlin Bros. cl. backed pict. bds, 48p., nd ca 1880. Obl. 4to (10 5/8 foxing else VG. 1st pub. in x 9”), pictorial wraps, spine 1859. Printed on rectos only, neatly repaired, light soil, each of the 48 plates features VG. Featuring 6 very fine common proverbs accompanied full page chromolithographs by clever and enormously depicting the adventures and witty engravings by Bennett. misadventures of these three $300.00 bears. A rare McLoughlin title. $350.00 BERRY, ERICK – 568, 581

113. BEARS. PADDINGTON TAKES THE TEST by Michael Bond. Lond: Collins BIANCO, MARGERY – 325 (1979). 8vo, cloth, 125p., Fine in sl. worn dw. 1st ed. The 11th Paddington story, BIRDS – 11, 12, 103, 148, illus. by PEGGY FORTNUM. $100.00 234, 566 #113

DUNBAR 1ST ED. - MINT IN DUST WRAPPER! 118. BLACK INTEREST. POEMS OF CABIN AND FIELD by Paul Laurence Dunbar. NY Dodd Mead 1899 (1899). 8vo, green pictorial cloth with gilt lettering, top edge gilt, 125p. AS NEW IN DUST WRAPPER! (printed dw with finger smudges and a few mends). 1st ed. Poems in Black dialect, illustrated with fascinating photographs of plantation life showing daily activities of Blacks. Beautiful decorations on all text pages by ALICE MORSE plus cover design done by her in the style of Margaret Armstrong. This is a remarkable copy, rare in the dust wrapper. $2500.00

#114

FLYING TEDDY & GOLLIWOGG 114. BEARS. THE TEDDY BEAROPLANE by May Byron. NY: Hodder & Stoughton nd ca 1910. Sm. 4to, cl. backed pict. bds, some edge wear and light soil, VG+. The adventures of Teddy Bear, a Golliwogg and other toys (Dutch doll, Japanese doll) as they fly through the air in their plane. Marvelously illustrated by J.R. SINCLAIR with pictorial endpapers, 12 color plates and many b&w’s. A super book, rare. $1200.00

TEDDY BEAR EDUCATIONAL BOOK 115. BEARS. TEDDY BEARS PAINTING & DRAWING BOOK by F.I. Wetherbee. NY: H.B. Claflin (1907). Oblong 4to, cloth backed pictorial boards, KEMBLE ILLUSTRATIONS edges rubbed and some normal 119. BLACK INTEREST. shelf wear, some blank pages (KEMBLE,E.W.) KEMBLE’S already artfully colored, VG. 1st COONS: a of ed. Designed by the author to Southern sketches by entertain the child, “designed to Edward W. Kemble. NY: train the eye and hand and give Russell 1897 (1896). Large the little folks a proper idea how oblong 4to, (12 x 9”), cloth to plan out lessons.” Containing backed pictorial boards, 24 full page color plates of covers rubbed and lightly Teddy Bears with the same soiled else VG+. A collection illustrations in line only designed of incredible full page to be colored by the child. Also plates (printed on glossy includes other subject matter as paper on rectos only) with well. A rare early Teddy Bear captions in dialect, each book. $500.00 portraying stereotypical Blacks of various ages. $500.00

BEARS see also – 139, 168, 521, 549 RARE TITLE BELLOC, H. - 10 120. BLACK INTEREST. PLAYTIME IN DIXIE. no pub. info except that this was a giveaway by Lansburgh CALDECOTT AWARD WINNER & Bro. in Washington D.C., 116. BEMELMANS,LUDWIG. MADELINE’S circa 1910. 8vo (5 3/4 x RESCUE. NY: Viking 1953 (1953). Folio, 7 1/2”), pictorial wraps, cloth, 56p., old paper clip mark on top of some cover soil and light stain, VG. Each page shows a few pages else Fine in near fine dw. 1st stereotypical Black children ed. Madeline is saved from drowning by a at play including minstrel dog. Beautiful color illustrations by the players, hunting, playing author. An unusually nice copy, rare in this baseball, playing soldiers condition. CALDECOTT AWARD WINNER and more. Illustrated in 3-color with text in verse . $1200.00 printed in large type. Rare. $600.00 914.764.7410 Pg 18 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89 WITH WONDERFUL 126. BLACK INTEREST. DRAWING BY BRONSON (GORDON, ELIZABETH) 121. BLACK INTEREST. WATERMELON PETE (NASSAU-WEST INDIES) AND OTHER STORIES by CHILDREN OF THE SEA Elizabeth Gordon. Chic: Rand written and illus. by Wilfrid McNally (1914). 8vo, cloth, Bronson. NY: Harc. Brace pict. paste-on, sl. rubbing (1940 I). 4to, (7x9”) cloth, and light soil, VG+. 1st ed. 6 264p., fine in slightly worn stories by Gordon including dust wrapper. 1st ed., The the title story about a story of a dolphin and his little Black boy who meets friendship with a Black boy a little Black fairy when on the island of Nassau. he sneaks out to find some Illustrated by Bronson with watermelon. Illustrated by color frontis plus many CLARA POWERS WILSON b&w’s. THIS COPY HAS with lovely full page and A FABULOUS FULL PAGE in-text color illustrations. PEN AND INK DRAWING An uncommon Gordon OF SMUDGY (a little Black title. $200.00 boy) AND HIS DOLPHIN SIGNED BY BRONSON. 127. BLACK INTEREST. TEN LITTLE Selected as a notable book for the year by Horn Book NIGGERS. NY: McLoughlin Bros. nd Magazine. $350.00 circa 1895. 4to, pict. wraps, sl. soiling to covers, else VG+. Illustrated with 12 122. BLACK INTEREST. (WEST INDIES) JEANNE-MARIE GOES TO fabulous full page chromolithographed MARKET by Sari. NY: Grosset & Dun. 1938. Sq. 4to, cl. backed pict. bds, Fine in sl. worn dw. A story set in the West Indies, with wonderful full page and smaller illustrations (one is a double-page spread, color illus. by the author. $250.00 not the same illustrations as in the Aunt Louisa version), and with musical notation inside both covers. Great color covers as well. A great edition and very scarce. $1100.00

AMERICAN EDITION 128. BLACK INTEREST. TEN LITTLE NIGGERS. Chicago: McLaughlin Co., no date circa 1890. 4to, pictorial wraps, [12]p. + covers, some cover soil and a chip else VG. Illustrated with pictorial covers, 6 full DOMINICAN REPUBLIC SETTING page chromolithographs and 123. BLACK INTEREST. THE COCOA DANCER by Flora C. Rue. Chic.: Whitman 1945. 4to, cloth, pict. paste-on, Fine in dw. 1st ed. The story of little Ebony 6 full page illustrations in who lives in the Dominican Islands. Wonderfully illustrated with a full page color brown line to accompany this illustration opposite each page of text by GLADYS ROURKE BLACKWOOD. One famous poem. An uncommon of the few children’s books to be set in this area of the world. $325.00 edition. $600.00 GREAT STYLIZED ILLUSTRATIONS 124. BLACK INTEREST. BIM UND BUM bild und text von Johanna Freund. Wien: Humboldt circa 1945. Large 8vo, pictorial boards, fine. The misadventures of two 129. BLACK INTEREST. TEN LITTLE NIGGER BOYS. No place, (B.B. Ltd) no date little Black African natives named Bim and Bum. Printed on one side of the paper, there ca 1945. 4to, pict. wraps, Fine. Illustrated by an unknown hand with 5 fine full page are charming, bright color lithographs on every page by the author. $275.00 color illustrations and 5 half-page line illustrations plus color cover. Also includes a few other nursery rhymes with 3 color plates. An interesting edition. $250.00

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#130

McLOUGHLIN HOFFMANN IMITATION 125. BLACK INTEREST. THE INKY BOYS. NY: McLoughlin Bros. nd ca 1870. 130. BLACK INTEREST. TEN LITTLE NIGGER BOYS. (Lond.: BB Ltd.) ca 1950. 4 5/8 x 6 3/4”, pict. wraps, [12]p. incl. covers, fine and unopened. 2 stories, the 8vo, stiff pictorial wraps, fine. A jolly, non-stereotypical portrayal of this group first about a “black-a-moor” and St. Nicholas, the other entitled Simple John. of Black boys brightly illustrated with 4 full page color illustrations, color covers Very revealing of prevailing social views. $225.00 plus 6 b&w’s. $225.00 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 19 [email protected] 131. BLACK INTEREST. TEN in the style of Richard Scarry and are LITTLE NIGGER BOYS illustrated in heavy outline inside. The AND TEN LITTLE NIGGER child can use the crayons or the paint GIRLS by Nora Case. NY: to color them. There is also a sheet Dutton, no date, circa 1910. 16mo, (4 1/4 x 5 1/2”, 95p., of die-cut figures for the child to decorative boards, pictorial make finger puppets with. Completely paste-on, Fine in sl. worn unused and in fine condition, this dust wrapper. Originally is a charming 1950’s boxed . issued as Number 26 in the BOXED LIBRARY see also 371, Dumpy and then issued in this format by 421. $200.00 Chatto in the U.K. This title is wonderfully illustrated 136. BRADLEY,WILL. PETER with full page red, black and POODLE: Toy Maker to the King. white drawings opposite each NY: Dodd Mead, 1906. (Oct. page of text. Printed on one 1906) 4to, cloth backed pictorial side of the paper. Extremely boards, some edge, corner & scarce. $800.00 cover wear, VG. First edition of one of the most imaginative children’s books. Illustrated by Bradley with 26 full page 132. BLACK INTEREST. TEN LITTLE color illustrations plus many, NIGGER BOYS and all about them. Lond.: many in text color illustrations. Gale and Polden, no date ca 1910. 4to, cloth Written by Bradley as well as illustrated by him, this is backed pict. boards, some edge rubbing, a fantasy tale set in Toyville. VG. Illustrated by R. & C. Kennedy with 6 Scarce. $1200.00 color plates, 2 full page illus. in brown and BRANDYWINE ARTISTS – 66, 12 smaller illus. in brown plus pictorial title 97, 274, 405-7, 456-64, 474, 529-31, 567, 587, 598-9 page. The text is presented in story format instead of in rhyme. Rare and an interesting 137. (BRANSOM,PAUL)illus. AN ARGOSY OF FABLES selected edition. $600.00 & edited by F. T. Cooper. NY: Stokes (1921). Large thick 4to, 485p., dark blue pict. cloth, near Fine. Hundreds of fables RARE EDITION from many eras and many lands including Aesop, Phaedrus, 133. BLACK INTEREST. Babrius. Hindoo, Persian, Chinese, LINDSAYBYRNE’S TEN Armenian, Turkish, Polish, LITTLE NIGGERS. No pub. English, American Indian and info., ca 1870. 12mo, 8 p. more. Illustrated by Bransom with 24 richly colored and very text, lacks covers, bound in beautiful mounted color plates boards with original cover plus lovely pictorial endpapers. label else VG. Illus. in b&w Really a nice book. (Realms of Gold p.105) $250.00 on every page - a rare an unusual version of this WITH WALTER BROOKS LETTER rhyme. $750.00 138. BROOKS,WALTER. FREDDY AND THE SPACE SHIP. NY: Knopf 1953 (1953). 8vo, cloth, Fine in very sl. worn dw. Stated 1st ed. Freddy the Pig and the crew travel to Mars! Illustrated in b&w by KURT WIESE. Nice copy. SOLD TEN LITTLE NIGGERS WITH A FINE 1 PAGE LETTER FROM BROOKS in which he mentions the title 134. BLACK INTEREST. offered here,, typed on his personal stationary including the envelope. The text DIE GESCHISCHTE of the letter reads: “I called at Mrs. V’s yesterday to look at some books, VON DEN 10 KLEINEN and in the course of the conversation with her daughter, told her of the NEGERBUBEN. Dusseldorf: children’s books I have written. She said none of them were in your library, Merkur (1946). 8vo, pict. and I thought you might be interested in trying them, so am sending you bds, fine. The classic a copy of a promotion piece we got out for Book Week a number of years counting rhyme with ago. This is a newspaper published by the hero of the stories, Freddy, German text, illustrated the pig on the Bean farm. There are now twenty titles in the series - the by ADOLF UZARSKI latest being Freddy and the with art deco stylized Space Ship. The books are color illustrations on each published by Alfred Knopf page. This edition is newly and as to their popularity illustrated with different and suitability, I can refer illustrations from Uzarski’s you to any of the reference earlier version. Bilderwelt works dealing with children’s 1914. $750.00 literature. By the way, if you are ever disposing of any discards, or gift books, in good condition, I would BLACK INTERST see also 83-7, 114, 278, 292-3, 302, 310, 537, 556 be interested in making an offer for them. It occurs PINOCCHIO * RED RIDING HOOD * AESOP & MORE to me that Mrs. T, from 135. BOXED LIBRARY. PLAYTIME LIBRARY OF CHILDREN’S CLASSICS. NY: whom I bought some books Capitol Pub. Co. 1952. Housed in the colorful publisher’s double-sided box are 6 a year or so ago, may have illustrated books on one side and crayons, paints, a brush and a die cut sheet on mentioned my books to you. Sincerely, Walter Brooks.” the other side. The box measures 6” wide x 5 3/4 high and is 1 1/2” thick. When It sounds like Brooks was a closed it has a rounded back and can sit on a shelf simulating a book. The book book collector as well as an titles include Pinocchio, Aesop’s Fables, Sleeping Beauty, Jack and the Beanstalk, author! $1200.00 Little Red Riding Hood and the Gingerbread Boy. They have bright color covers 914.764.7410 Pg 20 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89

WALTER BROOKS - INSCRIBED INSCRIBED WITH FINE DRAWING 139. BROOKS,WALTER. STORY OF 143. (BROWN,PAUL)illus. POLO: A Non- FREGINALD. NY: Knopf 1942 (1936). technical Explanation of the Galloping Game. NY: Scribner 1949. 8vo, cloth, Large 8vo, pict. cloth, 249p., near fine 83p., fine in frayed dw. A guide to the in chipped dw with 2 pieces restored. pertinent facts about polo - for children Second printing. The story of a bear and adults. Illustrated by Brown in b&w named Freginald and his adventures when throughout. THIS COPY IS INSCRIBED he joins the circus. Illus. by KURT WIESE BY BROWN WITH A FINE DRAWING OF A in 2-color and line throughout. THIS HORSE DATED 1949. Scarce title, special COPY IS INSCRIBED BY BROOKS! Quite copy. $850.00 scarce. $750.00

GOOP NAUGHTY CHILDREN JEAN CHARLOT - ABC CALDECOTT HONOR 144. BURGESS,GELETT. 140. BROWN,MARGARET GOOP TALES WISE. A CHILD’S GOOD ALPHABETICALLY TOLD. NIGHT BOOK. NY: Scott NY: Stokes (1904). 4to, (8 x 1943, 1950. 4to, pictorial 10 1/3”), blue pictorial cloth, boards, fine in a dust wrapper faint trace of color on a few (dw with mild spine chipping illustrations else VG+. 1st otherwise VG dw). 1st ed. ed. A wonderful ABC book thus, of this CALDECOTT involving Burgess’s famous HONOR title and a modern naughty children who just classic, magnificently illus. don’t do what they should. with color lithos by JEAN Each letter represents CHARLOT. First published a different behavior in small format in 1943, pattern ( “L”=LEMEETRI; this was re-issued in 1950 “T”=TUCHIM & TAKIM) with new illustrations by with a separate alphabet for Charlot and in an enlarged boys and girls. Illustrated format in response to with great line illustrations library resistance to the and pictorial endpapers. small size of the first $650.00 edition. Bader p.269- 70. $650.00 PURPLE COWS! 145. BURGESS,GELETT. THE PURPLE COW. San Francisco: William Doxey no date, circa 1899 with ad in rear dated 141. BROWN,MARGARET WISE. 1899. 8vo, pict. wraps string bound, [32]p., + covers, some edge chipping else VG+. An MARGARET WISE BROWN’S early edition of Burgess’ first separately published book, (1st separate edition issued WONDERFUL STORY BOOK. NY: Simon in 1895). Illustrated in black throughout to accompany nonsense verse. The center & Schuster (1948). 4to, (9 x 11 1/4”), spread contains his famous Purple Cow poem pictorial boards, slight edge wear else which was originally published anonymously. In this edition the last leaf contains Burgess’ VG+. 1st edition. A Big Golden Book. 42 admission that he authored the poem: “Ah yes, I wrote the “Purple Cow” - I’m sorry, stories and poems by Brown illustrated now, I wrote it; But I can tell you Anyhow I’ll kill you if you quote it!” A scarce with wonderful color and black and white item. $500.00

lithos by J.P. MILLER. $200.00 RARE BURGESS/CADY ITEM 146. BURGESS,THORNTON. ANCIENT AND SUPREME ORDER OF QUADDIES. Kansas City, : Quaddy Playthings 1915. This is a rare, rare Burgess toy housed in the original pictorial and printed envelope which measures (oblong) 16x9”. Envelope is brittle with some archival mends else fine and unused. RARE BROWN TITLE The envelope text explains the background of the Quaddies. Inside are colored board backgrounds and characters to be cut-out and assembled for play - illus. by 142. (BROWN,PAUL)illus. Cady. Includes 23 pieces with all of Burgess’ famous characters. Rare. $875.00 EQUESTIONNAIRE by Harry Disston. NY: Harper Bros. 1936 (1936). 8vo, (5 1/2 x 8 7/8”), pictorial boards, 189p., VG+ in dw with old mends. Stated 1st ed. 600 questions and answers for horsemen divided into sections. The first part of the book features questions involving all aspects of horseback riding and the answers are in the second part. Illustrated with great color cover by Brown and with many line illustrations throughout the text. A rare Brown title. $375.00 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 21 [email protected] BURGESS / BOXED VOLLAND 147. BURGESS,THORNTON. THE BEDTIME STORY CALENDAR: Enchanting Tales of Field and Forest Playmates for #151 Little People. Chic: Volland 1915. 5 1/2 “ wide x 11” tall, paper wraps bound with silk tassels, [54]p. incl. title page plus 1p. ad, sl. soil on covers of calendar else near fine in original pictorial box! (box flaps replaced). Printed on rectos only, there are 53 different stories illustrated in blue and black by an unknown hand (initialed “D”). The cover is in full color in typical Volland style. Very scarce. Wright p.57. $600.00

148. BURGESS,THORNTON. BLACKY THE #152 CROW. Bost: Little Brown 1922 (April 1922). 8vo, blue cloth, pict. paste-on, near Fine. 1st ed. Illustrated by HARRISON CADY with 8 color plates. Nice copy of 152. CARROLL,LEWIS. (BOWLEY,A.L.) ALICE IN WONDERLAND. Lond.: one of the scarcer Burgess 1st editions. Raphael Tuck, circa 1930. Small 8vo (5 1/4 x 7 3/4”) red cloth stamped in gold, $225.00 color plate on cover, 220 + [3]p, foredge sl. foxed else near fine. Illustrated by ADA BOWLEY with 6 terrific color plates plus b & w’s in text similar in style to Mabel Lucie Attwell. $300.00

McLOUGHLIN’S “ALICE” 153. CARROLL,LEWIS. (McLOUGHLIN) ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND AND THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS. NY: McLoughlin Bros. ca 1910. 4to, (8 1/2 x 10 1/2”), cloth backed pictorial boards, 190, 132p., edges worn, VG. Illustrated with great full page chromolithographed frontis of the Trial of the Knave of Hearts, plus 42 b&w illus. by Tenniel in Alice and 50 b&w’s in Through and a charming orange pictorial border on all text pages. An attractive edition. $200.00

#153

149. BURGESS,THORNTON. BOWSER THE HOUND. Bost: Little Brown 1920 (April 1920). 8vo, green cloth, pict. paste-on, sl. rubbing else VG-Fine. 1st ed.. Illustrated with 8 great color plates by HARRISON CADY. $175.00

CADY, HARRISON – 146, 148-9 #154 CALDECOTT WINNER – 116, 198, 268, 343, 353, 525, 562-3, 600

CALDECOTT HONOR – 140, 384, 506, 595 NEILL’S “ALICE” 154. CARROLL,LEWIS. (NEILL) ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND and HUMPTY DUMPTY from THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS. Chic: Reilly and Britton (1908). 12mo, (5 1/4” wide x 7), red boards, pictorial paste-on, 150. CARROLL,LEWIS. (ADAMS) ALICE light rubbing, VG-Fine. A very scarce Alice, illustrated by J.R. NEILL with 16 wonderful full page color illustrations plus b&w’s (8 illus. per story). $500.00 IN WONDERLAND. Lond: Blackie, no date,

owner inscribed 1923. 12mo (5 x 7 1/4”), NEWELL’S ALICE green cloth stamped in green, pict. paste-on, 155. CARROLL,LEWIS. (NEWELL) ALICE’S 126p., near fine. Illus. by FRANK ADAMS ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. NY: Harper Bros. 1901 (1901) 8vo, white gilt pict. with 4 really great color plates. An uncommon bds, (193)p., teg, fine in original dust wrapper edition. $275.00 (some soil on dw). 1st ed. of the magnificent PETER NEWELL EDITION illustrated with gravure frontis of Carroll and by Newell 151. CARROLL,LEWIS. ALICE’S ADVENTURES UNDERGROUND. Lond.: Mac. with 40 extraordinary plates. Each page 1886. 8vo, red cloth stamped in gold, all edges gilt, [96]p. +[2] ad, black endpapers, sl. soil and rubbing on front cover else near fine. 1st ed. (printed in an edition of 5000 of text features a green pictorial border copies). Leaf measures 184 x 125mm (indicates not the remaindered sheets edition by R. M. One of the best editions of this of 1930’s). A facsimile of the original manuscript in the British Museum, written in Carroll’s hand, illustrated by him and with an introduction by him as well. It was classic. $650.00 this manuscript that eventually became Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Lovett 178, WMGC p.144. A nice copy. . (SEE ILLUS TOP NEXT COLUMN) $1200.00 914.764.7410 Pg 22 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89 156. CARROLL,LEWIS. 159. CARROLL,LEWIS. (NEWELL) THROUGH THREE SUNSETS AND THE LOOKING GLASS OTHER POEMS. Lond.: and what Alice found Macmillan 1898. Sm. 4to, there. NY: Harper 1902 cloth stamped in gold, all (Oct. 1902). 8vo, white edges gilt, [68]p. + 2p. ads, imitation vellum, FINE IN very sl. spine faded and ORIGINAL GREEN CLOTH sl. wear to spine extrems, BACKED WRAPPER. 1st VG-Fine. 1st ed. Poems ed. thus, illus. by PETER by Carroll, most of which NEWELL with gravure appeared previously in frontis of Newell plus 40 Phantasmagoria and Sylvie full page plates - wonderful and Bruno, but two of and imaginative. There is which appear here for the also a beautiful pictorial first time. Beautifully border on each page of illustrated by E. GERTRUDE text done by Robert THOMSON with 12 delicate Murray Wright. A nice full page engravings copy. $650.00 of fairies. See WMG #286. $500.00 LIMITED EDITION OF POGANY’S ART DECO ALICE 157. CARROLL,LEWIS. (POGANY) ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. 160. CARROLL INTEREST. ALICE IN NY: Dutton (1929). 4to (6 1/2 x 9 5/8), cloth backed art deco boards, FINE PHILCOLAND. No place: Philco Corp., 1949. IN ORIGINAL SLIPCASE (small piece off of top edge of case repaired, some Folio, pict. wraps, fine and unused. A coloring finger soil on case). LARGE PAPER COPY LIMITED TO ONLY 200 NUMBERED book published by the Philco refrigerator COPIES SIGNED BY WILLY POGANY! Illustrated by WILLY POGANY with company based on the Alice in Wonderland nearly 100 black and whites (including an illustration on the slipcase not repeated story. Meant as an advertisement for in the text) - all done in classic Art Deco style, making this an a somewhat the company, all proceeds went to the unconventional, yet wonderful and very desirable version of Alice. Very rare in March of Dimes. Illus. with color covers the limited edition and a beautiful copy. $2250.00 and in line with all of the Alice characters shown interacting with Philco products. Rare. $250.00

CARROLL see also 494

CARTOONS – 263, 264

161. (CASPARI,GERTRUD)illus. WUNDERSAME GES- CHICHTEN UND GEDICHTE von Marthe Kastner Andrae und Adolf Holst. Leipzig: Alfred Hahns, circa 1910. 4to ( 9 x 11 1/2”), cloth backed pictorial boards, edges and tips rubbed else VG. 1st ed. Fairy tales and poems are illustrated by Caspari with beautiful full page and partial page color illustrations plus pictorial SIGNED BY “ALICE” endpapers. $300.00 158. CARROLL,LEWIS. (TENNIEL) ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. NY: Limited Editions Club, 1932. 8vo, gilt calf, Fine in original slipcase (which curiously has “Through the Looking Glass” on spine). Printed by Rudge and bound in beautiful full leather (gilt tooled) binding by Frederic Warde. SIGNED BY CLOTH BOOK WARDE AND ALICE LIDDELL HARGREAVES, the girl after whom the character of Alice is modeled. LIMITED TO 1500 NUMBERED COPIES (of which only a 162. CATS. MY PERT PUSSIES. NY: Sam. few hundred were signed by Hargreaves). Illustrated by Tenniel. $2200.00 Gabriel 1928. 7 1/4 x 8 1/2”, printed on

linen, some cover soil else VG. Charming

color illustrations of cats on every page by

an unknown hand with minimal text printed

in blue. $100.00

INCLUDING WAIN! 163. CATS. PICTURE BOOK OF KITTENS by Jessie Pope. Lond.: Ward Lock, circa 1915. 4to, cloth backed pict. boards, edges rubbed else VG+. A books of rhymes and stories entirely about kittens. Illus. with 16 color plates (2 by Louis Wain) and numerous b&w’s (2 full page by Wain) and with many charming photos. A great cat book. (SEE ILLUS TOP NEXT COLUMN) $500.00 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 23 [email protected]

#164 CHELONIDAE PRESS – 14

CHINA - 104

#163 GOLLIWOGGS, SANTA, BEARS 168. CHRISTMAS. BROWNIE IN CHRISTMAS LAND by Marian Jack. Lond.: Warne nd ca 1910. Sm. 4to, cl. backed boards, near fine. Publisher’s file copy, so stamped. A Christmas story with Santa, Golli, Teddy Bear, Brownie, toy soldiers and humanized flowers. Illus. by the author with 8 great color plates and illus. in brown line. $300.00

INCLUDING NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS AND NAST 169. CHRISTMAS. CHRISTMAS IN ART AND SONG: A Collection of Songs, Carols and Descriptive Poems relating GREAT TUCK CAT BOOK to the festival of Christmas. 164. CATS. TALES FROM KITTENLAND. NY: Tuck, nd circa 1910. Folio, NY: Arundel Printing and pict. wrappers, near fine. An adorable cat book with 5 beautiful full-page Pub. Co. 1879 (1878). 4to, chromolithographs (incl. cover), and numerous other illus. in brown line to (7 1/4 x 9 1/4”), green cloth accompany text in rhyme. A title in the Tuck Wide Awake Series, $350.00 stamped in black and gold, CATS see also 81-2, 164, 260, 286-7, 330, 384, 433, 491, 588-90 all edges gilt, 128p., VG- Fine. The text by various CHAPBOOKS – 13, 28 authors is embellished with beautiful tinted engravings BEAUTIFUL COPY by leading artists of the PETER PARLEY TO PENROD time including Thomas Nast 165. CHAMPNEY,LIZZIE W. THREE who illustrates the Night VASSAR GIRLS ABROAD. Bost.: Estes Before Christmas, Birket and Lauriat 1883. 4to, (7 x 8 1/2”). pictorial Foster, John Gilbert, John boards with elaborate pictorial design, Hows and others. This is a slight tip wear else near Fine. 1st ed. of beautiful Christmas book in this Peter Parley To Penrod title (p.69), excellent condition. $450.00 illustrated by Champ (J. Wells Champney the author’s husband) and others. This was the first of a series of stories written by RARE DUMPY BOOK Champney. This relates the escapades of 3 college students on a European trip. Due 170. CHRISTMAS. (DUMPY to the fragile nature of the paper binding, BOOK) IRENE’S CHRISTMAS it is rare to find this book in such nice PARTY by Richard Hunter. condition. $250.00 Lond: Grant Richards 1904. 16mo, (3 1/4 x 5”). green striped CHARLIP’S FIRST BOOK PUB. BY SCOTT cloth, 104p., VG+. 1st edition 166. CHARLIP,REMY. DRESS of the 33rd Dumpy Book (of UP AND LET’S HAVE A PARTY. NY: Wm. R. Scott 1956. Oblong which series Little Black Sambo 8vo, (8 1/4 x 5 3/4”), pictorial was Number 4). Printed on boards, Fine in dust wrapper one side of the paper, each with a few small edge chips. 1st ed. of CHARLIP’S FIRST page of text faces a marvelous BOOK. Minimal text with great full page color illustration by color illustrations on every page. Bader p.358, 530. 1st editions Ruth Cobb - a rare Dumpy in dust wrappers are very title. $400.00 scarce. $200.00

NEWBERY AWARD - INSCRIBED WITH SKETCH 167. (CHARLOT,JEAN)illus. AND NOW MIGUEL by Joseph FINE GERMAN COLOR Krumgold. NY: Crowell (1953). PRINTING 8vo, cloth, 245p., Fine in sl. 171. CHRISTMAS. FROHLICHE worn dw. Stated 1st printing. WEIHNACHTEN! [by] Fritz NEWBERY AWARD WINNER. Baumgarten. Leipzig: A. Anson Striking color endpapers and ca 1925. Obl. 4to, cl. backed wrapper plus full and partial page pict. bds, VG+. A Christmas b&w’s by Charlot to accompany picture book with Father a Mexican story. This copy Christmas, elves, little children is INSCRIBED BY CHARLOT and presents galore. Featuring AND WITH A CARD FROM 8 full page color illustrations CHARLOT WITH A PEN SKETCH and 8 full page illus. in blue ON IT. CHARLOT see also line - each with 2 lines of text 140. $600.00 below. $350.00 914.764.7410 Pg 24 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89 TUCK CHRISTMAS BOOK DENSLOW IMITATION /NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS / MCLOUGHLIN 172. CHRISTMAS. (MOORE,CLEMENT) 177. CHRISTMAS. (MOORE,CLEMENT) THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS. Lond: [by Clement Moore]. NY: McLoughlin Bros. no date ca 1903. 4to, stiff pictorial Tuck nd ca 1900. 4to, stiff pict. wraps, wraps, pinhole in upper corner and slight soil, near fine. Illustrated in bright sl. corner wear, VG-Fine. Illustrated colors on every page signed by F.J.E. directly imitating Denslow’s edition of this with 4 full page chromolithographs and classic. A rare version. Marshall 156. (SEE ILLUS BOTTOM PRIOR COLUMN) with brown illustrations in-text. Great $650.00 color cover. Father Tuck’s Nursery Tales Series. $350.00 RARE SANTA SHAPE BOOK 178. CHRISTMAS. SANTA CLAUS LETTER TO HIS CHILDREN. No publication information except published in Austin, Texas, circa 1910. 6” wide x 11 1/4”, pictorial wraps, die-cut in the shape of Santa, near fine. Every page covered with full color illustrations of Santa and his toys with a few lines of text #172 enclosed within a box. The illustrations are signed with a stylized letter “A”. This is a wonderful and rare Christmas book. $500.00 #173 #178 #178

173. CHRISTMAS. (MOORE,CLEMENT) NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS. Rochester: Stecher 1917. Folio, pict. wraps, die-cut on top, slight soil, VG+. Illustrated with color covers and absolutely beautiful color lithos on every page by MARGARET EVANS PRICE. A lovely edition of this classic. $250.00

174. CHRISTMAS. (MOORE,CLEMENT) NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS. Racine: Whitman 1947. Folio, [12]p. incl. covers, fine. Printed on textured paper, every page has wonderfully colorful illustrations by Hilda Miloche and Wilma Kane. $200.00 ADAPTED FROM #174 SWEDISH TALE 179. CHRISTMAS. SANTA’S PARTY adapted from a Swedish folk tale. Printed in Sweden for the Ramborn Corp., no date, circa 1945. Oblong 4to (12” wide x 8 3/4”), flexible card covers, near fine. Illustrated by A. Justina with 7 great full page color lithos and pictorial covers, all done with vivid colors and featuring humanized berries, trolls and fairies. $225.00 #175 SANTA SHAPE BOOK 180. CHRISTMAS. (SHAPE BOOK) SANTA AND HIS AEROPLANE. Chicago: SANTA SHAPE BOOK Ideal Book Builders 1911. 4to, pict. wraps, near Fine. DIE-CUT IN THE SHAPE 175. CHRISTMAS. (MOORE,CLEMENT) NIGHT BEFORE CHISTMAS. OF SANTA’S HEAD! Santa gives the reindeer a break and flies a bi-plane to Newark: Charles Graham ca 1915. Small 8vo, pictorial wraps, near fine. Die-cut deliver his presents. Wonderfully illustrated in full color and line, with text in the shape of a Santa on the roof of a house. Illus. by an unknown hand in the in rhyme. An imaginative book with relatively early depiction of aviation in style of Mabel Lucie Attwell with great full color covers and on every page in children’s books. $325.00 either 3 color or 2-color. $200.00 #180 NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS & MOTHER GOOSE BY NEILL 176. CHRISTMAS. (MOORE,CLEMENT) THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS [and] MOTHER GOOSE RHYMES AND JINGLES. Chic.: Reilly & Britton (1908). 8vo, (5 1/4 x7”), red boards, pictorial paste-on, 57p. + [3]p. ads, slight rubbing else near fine. A title in the Children’s Red Book series, illustrated in full color by JOHN R. NEILL. Also includes Mother Goose. Very scarce. $500.00

#176

#181

181. CHRISTMAS. STORY OF SANTA CLAUS FOR LITTLE PEOPLE by Margaret Cole. Lond.: G. Bell & Sons ca 1920. 16mo, boards, color plate on cover, 112p., VG+. Illustrated by Alice B. Woodward with 15 color plates and many art nouveau style b&w’s. Similar in size and format to Potter’s little books, this is quite rare. $200.00 #177 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 25 [email protected] UNCOMMON EDITION IN ITALIAN TUCK CHRISTMAS SHAPE BOOK 185. COLLODI,CARLO. 182. CHRISTMAS. (TUCK) FATHER LE AVVENTURE DI PINOCCHIO. Firenze: CHRISTMAS. Lond: Tuck nd ca 1900. Societa Editrice Toscana no date, circa 1923. 4to, (7 Folio, stiff pict. wraps die-cut on the 3/4 x 10”) cloth, pictorial side in the shape of Santa and 2 young paste-on, 191p., paper aging on edges, 2 leaves creased, children, near fine. Illustrated with 4 endpapers renewed, G- VG. A wonderful Italian full page chromolithographs and with language edition of this brown illustrations in-text. Text is classic, illustrated with color cover by C. TOPPI and in verse by Clifton Bingham. Father with 7 color plates, 7 half- tone plates and many line Tuck Happy Hour Series. Great color illustrations by C. SARRI. cover. $500.00 Great! $450.00 RARE DISNEY NOVELTY IN ITALIAN 186. COLLODI,CARLO. PINOCCHIO: ALBUM DI COSTRUZIONE. Milano: CHRISTMAS see also 16-18, 379-80, 463, Carroccio, no date, ca 1940. Sq. folio, (13 1/8 x 12 3/4”), stiff pictorial wraps, 506, 511, 531, 542, 560, 594 slight bit of soil else VG+ AND UNUSED. There are 6 leaves of characters, furniture, etc. for the reader to cut out and use to construct Gepetto’s studio in intricate detail. Based upon the Disney illustrations, rare. $600.00

CIGARETTES – 19 CINDERELLA – 230, 246, 282

CIRCUS – 20, 139, 203, 352, 573, 587

CIVIL WAR – 556 CLEMENS, SAMUEL – 375, 561

CLOTH BOOKS – 5, 20-1, 57, 67, 162, 514, 552

183. COLLODI,C. ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO. NY: Mac. 1926. Large 4to, pict. cloth, [406]p., verso of portrait foxed else VG-Fine. 1st edition of this English edition of this classic, and probably the best edition in English, printed on high quality COLLODI see also 135 paper and translated by Carol Della Chiesa and printed in Italy. COLUM, PADRAIC - 76 Almost all pages are illustrated CHARMING FANTASY with wonderful color illustrations 187. (CORY,FANY)illus. MAISIE AND by ATTILIO MUSSINO. plus HER DOG SNIP IN FAIRYLAND by there are fabulous full page color Bennet Musson. NY: Harper Brothers 1903 (1903). 4to, (7 x 8 1/2”), pictorial cloth, illustrations as well. An excellent 165p., near fine. 1st ed. Maisie’s fantasy copy. $700.00 trip to a land of gnomes, fairies and griffins, wonderfully illustrated by Cory with 6 color plates and many line illus. in-text. A charming story and a most uncommon Cory title. $200.00 FIRST EDITION OF PINOCCHIO PRINTED IN AMERICA RARE CLASSIC ART DECO 184. COLLODI,C. 188. COUNTING BOOK. PINOCCHIO’S ADVENTURES JE JONGLE AVEC LES CHIFFRES by Maurice IN WONDERLAND. Trans. from Tranchant. Paris: Jardin des Italian by Hezekiah Butterworth. Mondes, no date circa 1925. Bost: Jordan Marsh (1898) 12mo, Small 4to (7 1/4” wide x 9), 212p., 1/2 cloth, dec. boards, stiff pictorial card covers, tips sl. rubbed else near fine VG+. Illustrated with (including a 2 page introduction stunning color lithographs by Tranchant that are artfully by Hezekiah Butterworth). First arranged on the pages. The edition of this classic printed text is printed in different in America and very scarce, colors in a large script font - especially in such beautiful classic art deco from start to condition. Illustrated with b&w finish. $1200.00 chapter head and tailpieces. $1200.00 COUNTING BOOKS also 129-34, 437

COWBOYS - 88 914.764.7410 Pg 26 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89 WITH ORIGINAL BROWNIE DRAWING AND POEM SCARCE CRANE TITLE PETER PARLEY 1ST ED. 191. CRANE,WALTER. THE ROMANCE OF 189. COX,PALMER. THE BROWNIES: THEIR BOOK. NY: Century (1887). THE THREE R’S. Lond: Marcus Ward 1886. 4to, pictorial boards, spine Sq. 4to, (8 3/4”), cloth backed pictorial extrems worn with 1” repair boards (80)p., half-title foxed and some tip in gutter, front hinge starting rubbing else clean, tight and VG+. 1st ed. for 3”, overall a tight and VG Containing Slateandpencilvania, Little Queen copy of the 1st ISSUE of the Anne and Pothooks and Perserverance - all first Brownie book (PETER written by Crane. Illustrated by him with PARLEY TO PENROD p. 84). cover and ep design plus absolutely charming Illustrated on every page with color illustrations on each page. In the the busy little Brownie men preface, Crane explains that his original getting into mischief. LAID intention was to issue these three titles IN IS A 2 1/” PEN AND INK together to help children with reading, DRAWING OF A BROWNIE writing and arithmetic. Scarce. $600.00 WITH A HANDWRITTEN POEM BY COX. The Brownie is in red and black ink. The poem reads” Peace and plenty be your RARE CRANE PICTURE BOOK lot. / Easy kept, and easy got. / 192. (CRANE,WALTER)illus. CHATTERING JACK’S PICTURE BOOK. Lond: Not a sorrow, care nor blot. / Routledge ca 1867. 4to, pictorial cloth, slightest of cover soil else Fine. Containing Ever at you get a shot. / Palmer 4 of Crane’s early toybooks bound with new cover design by Crane - Chattering Cox / Brownie Castle, Granby, Jack, How Jessie Was Lost, Grammar in Rhyme and Annie and Jack in London. Que.” $1250.00 Illustrated in color on every page in Crane’s early style including 32 full page illustrations printed on one side of the paper. Engraved and printed by Edmund CRAIG’S ABC ASSOCIATION COPY WITH LETTER Evans. Rare and a great copy. (SEE ILLUS TOP NEXT PAGE) $1200.00 190. CRAIG,EDWARD GORDON. GORDON CRAIG’S BOOK OF PENNY TOYS. London: Sign of the Rose 1899. Small folio (10 1/2 x 13”), cloth spine, pictorial boards. Some light soil, more on rear cover, some edge rubbing, otherwise a fine, clean tight copy. Edward Gordon Craig was a multi-faceted and multi-talented individual. He was the illegitimate son of Edward Godwin and the actress Ellen Terry from who he inherited a love of the theatre. In his life he was an actor, theater producer, director and set designer as well as a magazine publisher and author. He was married with children when he began an affair with Isadora Duncan with whom he had a daughter who died at a young age. The Book of Penny Toys must have been a labor of love. It was LIMITED TO 250 COPIES (200 for sale) HAND-COLORED BY THE AUTHOR. Although the limitation reads 550 copies, Craig himself destroyed 250 copies. Craig wrote:” It pleased me to think I burned 250 of them for if I hadn’t I should have had to colour them all by hand.” (p.177 Ray Illus. and Book in England). Illustrated with absolutely charming and wonderful full page and smaller hand-colored wood blocks of old toys, accompanied by verse by Craig’s sister Edith presented in large type. Printed on one side of the paper, Craig gently scolds the child in his preface “you’ll use the blank pages on which you’ll draw your own ideas and that’s all the thanks I shall get for making you the book.” LAID-IN IS A ONE PAGE HAND WRITTEN LETTER ABOUT THE BOOK FROM CRAIG ON HIS “THE PAGE” STATIONARY TO [ANDREW] TUER, children’s book historian and co-=owner of the Leadenhall Press. (The Page was a magazine that Craig published). The letter reads:

Dearest Tuer, Can you tell me of any known book about Penny Toys? The “Oilcake Crusher” and the “White Admiral on a stick” - these are some very early and curious creatures. I am my book myself. Macmillan has thought of the same subject & put the same name to it. Luckily, as there is only one Gordon Craig, ‘Gordon Craig’s Book of Penny Toys’ can hardly be a title for any other publisher to chance on and if the book is to be of any use it should come out now. May I send you a copy in exchange for the book you are sending me? I intend to hand-color all the copies - 550.”

This is a special copy of one of the rarest and most wonderful children’s books ever, chosen by Ray in his Illustrator and the Book In England as one of the top 100 outstanding illustrated books printed in England between 1790 and 1914. (SEE ALSO INSIDE FRONT COVER) $19,500. Helen & Marc Younger Pg 27 [email protected] BIBILIOGRAPHER! His bookplate is #196 #192 on the endpaper, as is the following note in Cohn’s hand: “These proofs are from the Truman Collection and are the #193 finest impressions I have ever seen. They must be carefully distinguished from the India Proof reprints of a much later date. AMC” Cohn 190. $1750.00

CUBA - 452

HUMANIZED FLOWERS 193. (CRANE,WALTER)illus. FLOWERS FROM SHAKESPEARE’S GARDEN. Lond: Cassell 1906. 4to, (7 1/2 x 10”), cloth backed pictorial boards, corners worn, some edge wear, VG. Printed on frenchfold paper, each leaf features a magnificent full page color portrayal of a humanized flower with reference to the Shakespeare play in which the flower is mentioned. $600.00 CUSTER AND INDIANS IN DAKOTA 197. CUSTER,ELIZABETH B. BOOTS AND SADDLES or Life in Dakota with 194. (CRANE,WALTER)illus. General Custer. NY: Harper & Brothers 1885 (1885). 8vo, (5 1/4 x 7 1/2”), brown cloth stamped in black and gold, 312p., light cover soil, slight lean to binding, THE NECKLACE OF paper rubbed a bit at front hinge (not weak), really a beautiful VG+ copy. 1st ed. PRINCESS FIORIMONDE Custer’s wife has written about the domestic life of an army family in an isolated cavalry post. Illustrated with engraved portrait of General Custer and a map. A by Mary de Morgan. Lond: nice copy of a scarce Peter Parley to Penrod border line selection. $450.00 Mac. 1880. 8vo, (5 1/4 x 7”) DARLEY, F.O.C. – 215 DARTON PUB. - 237 grey gilt pictorial cloth, all edges gilt, sl. cocked else VG. CALDECOTT AWARD WINNER 1st ed. Wonderful original fairy tales with beautiful 198. D’AULAIRE,INGRI & EDGAR. full page and smaller ABRAHAM LINCOLN. NY: Doub. 1939 b&w’s by Crane. Quite (1939). Large 4to, cloth backed pictorial scarce. $350.00 boards, fine in dw worn at folds, chipped at

spine ends. Stated 1st ed. FIRST ISSUE

WITH THE ERRATA SLIP p. 52. Illustrated

195. (CRANE,WALTER)illus. with really beautiful full color lithos

QUEEN SUMMER. Lond: throughout. CALDECOTT AWARD WINNER. Cassell 1891. 4to, (8 1/4 Rare. $1500.00 x 11 1/4”), cloth backed pictorial boards, 40p., some cover soil and edge wear, tight, internally fine. 1st ed. Printed on french- 199. D’AULAIRE,INGRI & EDGAR. fold paper with each page CHILDREN OF THE NORTHLIGHTS. featuring a beautifully NY: Viking, 1935, (Sept. 1935). Large 4to, intricate color illustration by Crane - with calligraphic cloth backed pictorial boards, slightest text enclosed within a of edge wear else Fine in sl. worn but VG banner. Beautiful pict. ep’s dw. First edition. A beautiful picture book as well. $450.00 set in Lapland and illustrated with pictorial PROOFS ON INDIA PAPER - COHN’S COPY endpapers plus many full page color and black 196. (CRUIKSHANK,GEORGE)illus. ’S OMNIBUS. [Lond.: Bogue 1841-2]. Folio, (12 x 17 1/2”), 1/2 leather and cloth, edges and and white lithographs. One of their scarcest joints worn, with light stain, corner of rear cover lightly stained, internally clean titles. $350.00 and fine. These are proofs on India paper for Cruikshank’s Omnibus. Each proof is mounted on a separate leaf. The images are remarkable for their clarity and definition. This copy is from the LIBRARY OF ALBERT COHN - CRUIKSHANK’S 914.764.7410 Pg 28 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89 2 PIECES OF DENSLOW ART FOR MOTHER GOOSE SIGNED BY BOTH D’AULAIRES & PER (DENSLOW,W.W.)illus. ORIGINAL ART: ROBBIN & RICHARD FROM 200. (D’AULIARE,INGRI & EDGAR)illus. MOTHER GOOSE. Offered here are 2 large and wonderful finished pen and ink JOHNNY BLOSSOM by Dikken Zwilgmeyer. drawings for Ye Old Time Nursery Rhymes by Mother Goose. Although the book Bost.: Pilgrim Press (1948). 8vo, (6 1/4 x with this title was actually published in 1939 by Baldwin & Strachan in Buffalo 9”), cloth, 157p., Fine in slightly worn dust (when the art was re-discovered after Denslow’s death), the art itself was most wrapper. 1st D’Aulaire ed. translated from likely executed circa 1910 when Denslow was actively illustrating advertising the Norwegian by Emilie Poulsson. This story booklets. In their of Denslow, Greene and Hearn write about of a little Norwegian boy was first published this art as follows: “The drawings were discovered in 1939 in the scrapbook in 1912 with different illustrations. of one William W. Reed. Since a man named Horace Reed was connected with This edition was newly designed by the Niagara Lithograph Company, it is likely that Denslow drew the pictures for one D’Aulaires and illustrated by them with of his advertising pamphlets. The pictures first appeared in Youth Magazine, a color wrapper, pictorial endpapers plus many hand-out to patrons of Dodd’s Dairy in Buffalo. In issue eleven, this pamphlet full page and smaller b&w lithos. THIS was announced as available from Dodd’s milkmen for ten cents.” Executed on COPY IS SIGNED BY BOTH D’AULAIRES Strathmore drawing board measuring 19 1/2” wide x 14 1/2” high, the images nearly AND BY PER (their son). This is a special fill the entire space, signed by Denslow with his characteristic seahorse design. copy of a very uncommon D’Aulaire This is a rare opportunity to own very fine published work by Denslow. title. $375.00 204. DENSLOW MOTHER GOOSE ART: ROBBIN & RICHARD $6000.00

201. DE BRUNHOFF,JEAN. LES

VACANCES DE ZEPHIR. Paris:

Hachette (1936). Large folio, cloth

backed pict. bds, edges and tips rubbed

else VG+. 1st ed. of the 5th Babar

book wherein Babar’s friend Zephir the

monkey goes on vacation. Illus. in glorious

color. $450.00

DEFOE, DANIEL - 211

205. DENSLOW MOTHER GOOSE ART: THERE WAS AN OWL. $6000.00 202. DENSLOW,W.W. DENSLOW’S

ZOO. NY: Dillingham (1903). 4to, flexible

off-white pictorial wraps, light cover

soil and pinhole in upper corner else VG+.

Wonderful bold color illus. on every page by

Denslow, part of his 12 book picture book

series. $325.00

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ABC * 5 LITTLE PIGS * TOM THUMB 203. (DENSLOW,W.W.)illus. DENSLOW’S ONE RING CIRCUS and other stories. NY: Dillingham (Aug. 1903). 4to, red cloth, pictorial paste-on, slight cover soil, near fine. 1st ed. Containing six of the 1903 picture book soft covers listed below, with new cover and title page by Denslow: 1. One Ring Circus 2. Zoo. 3. Tom Thumb 4. A.B.C. 5. 5 Little Pigs 6. Jack & the Beanstalk . Boldly and wonderfully illustrated in full color throughout by Denslow and very scarce. $1200.00

DENSLOW see also 91, 93, 98

BOXED EDITION OF DETMOLD’S ARABIAN NIGHTS 206. (DETMOLD,EDMUND)illus. ARABIAN NIGHTS. NY: Dodd Mead (1925). Thick large 4to, blue gilt cloth, AS NEW IN ORIGINAL BOX (mounted color plate on box). 1st US ed. of this masterful work, illustrated by Detmold with 12 incredibly beautiful mounted color plates with tissue guards plus pictorial title page and b&w’s in-text. It is interesting to note that these b&w’s do not appear in the U.K. edition. A gorgeous copy. (SEE ADDTL ILLUS TOP NEXT PAGE) $1800.00 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 29 [email protected] #206 211. DISNEY,WALT. MICKEY MOUSE, CRUSOE. Racine: Whitman 1936. 4to, stiff pictorial card covers, 70p., spine sl. rubbed else near Fine. Illustrated by the Disney Studios with color covers, color frontis and with numerous full and partial page b&w’s. A beautiful copy, very scarce. $475.00

#207

207. (DETMOLD,E.J.)illus. BOOK OF BABY BEASTS by Florence Dugdale (Mrs. Thomas Hardy). Lond: Hodder & Stought. nd [1911]. 4to, cloth backed dec. bds, pict. paste-on, [120]p., tips slightly worn else near Fine. An uncommon Detmold book featuring 19 212. (DISNEY,WALT). WALT DISNEY’S FANTASIA by Deems Taylor. NY: wonderful color plates of a variety of animals Simon & Schuster 1940 (1940). Folio, tan cloth, 158p., a few light marks on cover from a wonderful rat to a chimp. Quite else fine in frayed but VG+ dw. 1st ed. Illustrated with pictorial endpapers plus many tipped-in color plates in addition to illustrations throughout the text in scarce. $350.00 color and b&w. Based on Disney’s now classic full length animated movie (recently re-released) for which KAY NIELSEN did the Bald Mountain sequence. Sold DICKENS, CHARLES - 68 with the movie program booklet which has photos of the production plus color illustrations. $2250.00

FIRST DONALD DUCK BOOK WITH WALT DISNEY STUDIO SIGNATURE 208. DISNEY,WALT. DONALD DUCK. Racine: Whitman 1935. Folio, yellow 213. DISNEY,WALT. WALT DISNEY’S SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN linen-like pict. wraps, [16]p., slightest of cover soil, near Fine. THE FIRST DWARFS adapted from Grimm’s Fairy Tales. NY: Harper Bros. 1937 (1937). Folio, BOOK DEVOTED TO DONALD DUCK! Gloriously illus. in bright colors on every cl. backed pict. bds, 79p., FINE in worn dw. Stated 1st ed. Illus. with 32 color page by the Disney Studios including Donald, Mickey Mouse and his nephews. illustrations and many b&w’s by the Disney Studios - the first book adaptation of Nice early Disney item. $800.00 the first full length animation by Disney and the only complete story of the movie version. THIS COPY HAS A BOLD WALT DISNEY SIGNATURE - A STUDIO #209 SIGNATURE BY ONE OF THOSE AUTHORIZED TO SIGN. $750.00

DISNEY see also 25, 186, 434

RARE MICKEY MOUSE APHABET BOOK 209. DISNEY,WALT. MICKEY MOUSE ABC STORY. Whitman: Racine (1936). 4to, (7 x 9 1/4”), pictorial boards, some edge and tip wear, VG. Each page features a fabulous color illus. done in shades of orange and black by the Disney Studios - 1 letter per page with all the Disney characters and an ABC song at the end. An early Disney book. $400.00

PIRATES 210. DISNEY, WALT. MICKEY MOUSE 214. (DOBIAS,FRANK)illus. PLAYBOOK OF PIRATES by Susan Meriwether. AND HIS FRIENDS. Whitman: 1936. NY: Harper Bros. 1929 (1929). Large 4to, stiff pictorial wraps, Fine in outer Large 4to, stiff pict. wraps, slightest wrapper with neat reinforcement at folds. 1st ed. The first few pages relate of cover wear, owner name on cover, the stories of famous pirates. The rest of the book consists of brightly colored else near Fine. Printed on heavy linen- figures designed to be cut and used to play with against the bold color backdrop like paper and illus. in bold color on of the removable cover. The cover opens up to form a large 4-panel backdrop. every page. Nice copy - quite scarce. See Realms of Gold (p. 153) citing these books as being unusually fine and $450.00 important additions to play books. $400.00 914.764.7410 Pg 30 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89 NAST AND DARLEY – HANS BRINKER 219. DOLLS. KATY KRUSE AT THE 215. DODGE,M.E. HANS SEASIDE: or the deserted islanders BRINKER, OR THE SILVER by . Phil: McKay nd SKATES. NY: James O’Kane [1932]. 4to, cloth, pict. paste-on, fine MDCCCLXVI [1866] (1865). in chipped dw. There are 12 wonderful 8vo, brown cloth stamped in color photo plates of real dolls posed in gold, 347p. + [4]p. ads, blank the various activities described in the corner of one leaf restored text. This is a beautiful copy of a scarce else near Fine in custom 1/4 title. $400.00 leather slipcase. 1st edition. The story tells of Hans and #219 his sister who want to win a skating competition to help support their father. One section of the book retells the famous story about a little boy holding back the waters by putting his finger in a hole in the dike. Illustrated by Thomas Nast and F.O.C. Darley This is a great copy of a classic. Peter Parley To Penrod p. 25. $1500.00 #220 SCARCE BOSTON TERRIER TITLE BY “BILLY WHISKERS” AUTHOR 216. DOGS. DOGS AND PUPPIES by Frances Trego Montgomery. NY: Barse & Hopkins (1908). 6 1/4 x 8 1/4”, cloth, pictorial paste-on, 57p., sl. fading on rear HUGE PAPER DOLL else near fine. A story told from the dog’s point of view, starring a Boston 220. DOLLS. (PAPER) LET’S PLAY HOUSE: 3 ROOMS WITH COMPLETE Terrier but also with a Saint Bernard. Illustrated by Hugo Von Hofsten with 7 FURNISHINGS by Robert Bazucha. Racine: Whitman 1932. Giant folio (12 1/2 color plates and 6 full page b&w’s. This is a scarce title by the author best known x 19 12/”), pictorial wraps, some rubbing, UNUSED! This is a fabulous paper doll for the Billy Whiskers Series. $225.00 book of rooms and furnishings for the Playroom, Bed Room and Dining Room of a typical 30’s house. Featuring 250 pieces on 6 card stock pages (including covers) #215 and with die-cuts of the three rooms as well. Rare. $800.00

RARE PAPER DOLL BOOK UNUSED AND UNCUT! 221. DOLLS. (PAPER) REAL LIFE IN DOLLYLAND FOR PAINTING, CUTTING OUT, AND DRESSING. Chicago: Charles Thompson, (1913). Oblong folio, pict. wraps, cover soiled, and corners sl. chipped, else near fine, UNUSED AND UNCUT! A great paper doll book featuring Mother, Nurse, Baby, Bride, Groom, Beth, Marjorie, Betty, Teddy and Tom dolls with clothing plus sheets full of children’s toys and furniture - all in typical turn of the century style. Each page of color illustration is faced by the identical illustration in line designed to be colored by the child. $750.00

#216

UNUSUAL AND LARGE DOG BOOK 217. DOGS. DOGS IN RHYME. NY: Intl. Paper Goods 1927. Folio, stiff pict. wraps, VG. Poems about various breeds of dogs with great full color and 3-color illustrations covering the pages. Includes 2 pages on each dog featuring Boston Terrier, Pekingese, Bull Dog, Saint Bernard, Collie, Police Dog and Bloodhound. Quite unusual. $250.00

DOGS see also 3, 26, 27, 149, 267, 285-6, 394

GREAT DOLL BOOK 218. DOLLS. DOLL TOWN DOLLS see also 168, 246, 278, 281, 411, 419, 550-1, 553, 560 DAY with rhymes by Jessie Pope. Lond.: Blackie and Son, no date, circa 1910. 4to (7 x 10”), pictorial boards, SCARCE SECOND slightest of edge wear, near TEENIE WEENIE BOOK fine. Life in a town where dolls 222. DONAHEY,WILLIAM. DOWN THE come alive and engage in all of RIVER WITH THE TEENIE WEENIES. the activities that humans Chic: Reilly & Lee (1921). 4to, green cloth, do. Text in rhyme describes pict. paste-on, 128p., endpapers and the a garden party where they 8 pages opposite the plates foxed, some play croquet, a roller skating finger soil, VG+. 1st edition of the second afternoon, a regatta, a Punch Teenie Weenie book. Featuring 8 fine and Judy Show, an aviation color plates by the author (plus another meeting, a fire brigade and color plate on the cover not repeated in more. Illustrated by G.F. the text) as well as a profusion of full page Christie with 16 full page and smaller b&w’s detailing the adventures rich color illustrations and of these little people in their miniature in line on text pages. This is land. $650.00 a nice copy of a scarce and particularly charming picture book. $850.00 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 31 [email protected] AFRICA - PETER PARLEY TO PENROD DORE ARTHURIAN FOLIO 227. DU CHAILLU,PAUL. 223. (DORE,GUSTAVE)illus. STORIES OF THE GORILLA GUINEVERE by Alfred Lord Tennyson. COUNTRY narrated for young people. NY: Harper NY: Geo. Routledge 1868. Large folio & Brothers 1868 (1867). (12x17”). Green gilt decorated cloth, 8vo, (5 1/4 x 7 1/2”). green cloth stamped in gold, 292p. all edges gilt. sl. wear to tips and spine + 4p. ads, foxing on rear ends, hinges neatly strengthened, endpaper, offsetting on a few pages, VG+. 1st edition. VG+. Illus. with 9 exquisitely detailed An exciting narrative about engraved plates. Rare and an excellent life in Africa illustrated copy. $800.00 with 37 full and partial page engravings. This is the first of several books about Africa written by Du Chaillu for DORSET, CATHERINE ANN – 236, young people. He traveled 294 extensively in Africa, often living with various tribes and speaking several African languages. He also SCARCE DOYLE is credited with bringing 224. (DOYLE,RICHARD)illus. KING the first gorilla to the U.S. This is a scarce Peter Parley OF THE GOLDEN RIVER: or the to Penrod first edition ( p.27). $350.00 Black Brothers by John Ruskin.

Boston: Mahew & Baker 1860. 8vo, (5 LIMITED ED. WITH 1 PAGE LETTER LAID-IN 228. (DULAC,EDMUND)illus. A FAIRY GARLAND being fairy tales from the 1/2 x 7 1/4”), red gilt cloth, all edges Old French. Lond: Cassell (1928). Large 4to, vellum backed blue cloth, sl. foxing else fine. LIMITED TO 1000 LARGE PAPER NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED gilt, very faint almost invisible stain BY DULAC. Old French fairy tales by Perrault, D’Aulnoy and Count Hamilton, on edge of a few pages else VG+. 1st illustrated by Dulac with 12 beautiful color plates. Laid in is an interesting ONE PAGE HANDWRITTEN LETTER FROM DULAC written to the editor of the Daily American edition of this wonderful Graphic. Dulac was obviously upset that the public’s right to hear all music was being modified. His letter expresses his outrage and certainly is a window into Doyle book, illustrated with detailed his personality: I wonder sometimes what the world would do without the help wood engravings (full page and in of the men “who know what the public want”! ... their concern for the intellectual aesthetic welfare of others is paramount, their hardiness can only be compared text). $750.00 to that of the methusalesque tortoise, their only weakness is that they do not always know “what the public what” - and which I understand, is taken into account in Mr. de Lara’s scheme - is to be treated like a lot of undeveloped children, and be administered music like a medicine in graduated doses. Discussions of the RARE DRAYTON HANKY BOOK relative merits of Parsifal and Maritana are futile, and it is precisely in avoiding 225. [DRAYTON,GRACE]. KIDDIES HANDERCHIEF PAINTING BOOK. these absurd restrictions of the use of certain types of music to certain classes No pub. info., circa 1915. of people, that Mr. de Lara’s scheme is valuable. Maritana was not composed for Square 4to (10” x 10”), the “uneducated” nor Parsifal for the “highbrows.” What the public wants is the color pictorial wraps, Fine. opportunity for the largest possible number to hear the largest possible number Consisting of 6 charming of operas. All premature expressions of opinion as to what should or should not color handkerchiefs, each be given them is preposterous. Yours faithfully Edmund Dulac.” $1650.00 featuring Drayton’s adorable little kiddies engaging in different activities: rowing a boat, hanging wash, playing with dolls, etc.. Opposite each handkerchief is a full page line illustration duplicating the hanky picture, meant to be painted by the child. This is a rare Drayton book as well as a rare hanky book. $1500.00

SCARCE DU BOIS TITLE / RUDI GERNREICH MODEL 226. DU BOIS,WILLIAM PENE. PRETTY PEGGY MOFFITT. NY: Harper & Row (1968). 8vo (6 1/4 x 8 1/4”), pictorial cloth, fine in dust wrapper with a few small mends on verso. 1st ed. The story is a fictionalized account of the real-life ‘60’s fashion model Peggy Moffitt, best known for her modeling Rudi Gernreich’s topless bathing suit. Illustrated in full color by Du Bois in typical 60’s style. A very scarce title in the dw and very evocative of the era. $200.00 914.764.7410 Pg 32 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89 BOXED EDITION OF PRINCESS BADOURA SCARCE TITLE 229. (DULAC,EDMUND)illus. PRINCESS BADOURA: A TALE FROM THE 232. EARLY AMERICAN. ARABIAN NIGHTS retold by Laurence Housman. Hodder & Stoughton, FORSAKEN INFANT; nd (1913). 4to, white cloth pictorially stamped in blue and gold, FINE IN OR ENTERTAINING PUBLISHER’S BOX WITH COLOR PLATE ON COVER (box soiled, sl. worn). First HISTORY OF LITTLE ed. Illustrated by Dulac with cover design plus 10 magnificent tipped-in color JACK [by Thomas Day]. NY: plates with pictorial guards. A lavishly produced and beautiful book in excellent Printed and Sold by J.C. condition, rare in the box. $1200.00 Totten, 1819. 3 5/8” x 5 1/2”, pictorial wraps, 46p., neat spine repair, near fine. Illustrated with 11 large woodcuts including covers. BOX The story relates the life from birth through young adulthood of a motherless infant found by a poor man in the forest. Rosenbach 574 notes that the English edition was originally written for Stockdale’s Children’s Miscellany with the cuts by Bewick. A very scarce title. $325.00

1809 PHILDELPHIA 233. EARLY AMERICAN. KLEINE ERZAHLUNGEN UBER EIN BUCH MIT KUPFERN, oder leichte Geschichte fur Kinder. Phil: Johnson and Warner 1809. 16mo, marbled paper over boards, fine. A German language edition of Little DUMPY BOOKS – 131, 170 Prattle over a Book of Prints from an American edition HAND-COLORED containing a reference to CINDERELLA Fourth of July. Illustrated with numerous fine 230. EARLY AMERICAN. woodcuts, printed by Jacob CINDERELLA OR THE Meyer. Rosenbach 395. GLASS SLIPPER. Baltimore: $600.00 Bayly & Burns 1837. 8vo, (4 1/2 x 7 1/4”) pict. wraps, HAND-COLORED BIRDS VG+. Illustrated with 234. EARLY AMERICAN. pictorial cover plus 8 fine PICTURE GALLERY OF half-page hand-colored BIRDS. Baltimore: J.S. woodcuts. This is a nice Horton 1836. 4 1/2 x 5 toybook with an uncommon 1/2”, pictorial wraps, s8p., imprint. $600.00 some spotting and soil else VG. Each of the 8 pages has 1797 BALTIMORE text about a different bird, 231. EARLY AMERICAN. illustrated with a half-page DAS KLEINE DAVIDSCHE hand-colored engraving. PSALTERSPIEL DER KINDERS ZIONS, von alten und neuen $250.00 Auserlesenen geists Gesängen, allen wahren Heilsbegierigen Säuglingen der Weisheit, insonderheit aber denen Gemeinden des Herrn, zum Dienst und Gebrauch mit Fleiss zusammen WITH JEWISH INTEREST getragen in gegenwärtigbeliebiger 235. EARLY AMERICAN. PRIDE OF Form und Ordnung. Nebst einem dreyfachen, darzu nützlichen und der PETER PRIM or, Proverbs that will suit Materien halben nöthigen Register. the young or the old. Cooperstown: H. & Zweyte verbesserte auflage, E. Phinney 1848. 3 5/8 x 5 3/8”, pictorial Baltimore: Samuel Saur 1797. 8vo, wraps, 31p., small piece restored on corner full leather, metal clasps, 572p. [+ of cover else clean and VG+. 14 proverbs register], bound with Die Kleine Farfe dated 1792. Normal rubbing are presented, each facing a full page and wear, VG. A popular book first illustration by an unknown hand. Some are published in Germany in 1791. “The initialed J.H. [John Hall]. The 13th proverb American edition also became quite is “One Mans Meat is Another Man’s Poison” popular with some sects, Dunkers, and features Levi, a stereotypical Jewish Mennonites, etc.” Curiously, although the book is dated 1797, the second man who is offered a loin of pork. He section is dated 1792 and the owner refuses saying “If it vash veal I vood eat inscription is dated 1792 as well. Evans it; but it is de forbidden fruit; I no touch 31815. $1500.00 it.” $400.00 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 33 [email protected] BEAUTIFUL HAND-COLORED 19TH CENTURY PLATES / HARRIS PUB. ETIQUETTE 236. EARLY ENGLISH. 240. EDUCATION. [DORSET,CATHERINE ANN]. THE ETIQUETTE FOR LITTLE LION’S MASQUERADE. A sequel FOLKS. NY: J.Q. Preble to the Peacock at Home written by (1856). 16mo, (3 3/4 x 4 a Lady. Lond: Harris 1807. Sq. 16mo, 1/2”), cloth, 96p., light cover blue pictorial wraps, 16p., slightest soil, VG+. Susie Sunbeam of spine wear else Fine in custom Series. Printed in large type cloth case. 1st edition. Illustrated and sized for little hands. with 6 fine hand-colored copperplate Each page covers various engravings by W. MULREADY. Rear aspects of proper etiquette cover lists 6 other Harris titles and for a young child in a variety front cover does not mention Harris’s of locations and situations Cabinet. Moon 214 (1A). Great (at church, at the table, in copy. $1200.00 school). At the table, “Smell not of your food, Spit not EARLY DARTON WITH forth anything that is not TWINKLE TWINKLE convenient to be swallowed, LITTLE STAR but with your left hand, neatly 237. EARLY ENGLISH. move them to the side of your SELECT RHYMES FOR THE plate.” $1325.00 NURSERY with copperplate engravings [by Ann and Jane Taylor]. London: Darton and CHARMING MID 19TH CENTURY WM. RAINE BOOK Harvey 1808 (1809 on cover 241. EDUCATION. PENMANSHIP BOOK. This is a child’s blank book to be and 2 plates dated 1809). 4 used to practice penmanship. 4to, HAND-COLORED pictorial wraps, a few pages x 6 1/4”, tan printed wraps, used otherwise blank. Published by William Raine, the front cover has a lovely spine repaired, some soil and hand-colored full page illustration and the rear cover has a hand-colored cut of foxing, VG. 34 poems from a mother and her daughter. $125.00 Rhymes for the Nursery including an early printing of The Star (Twinkle Twinkle Little Star) along with other lovely little poems. Illustrated with 22 charming copperplate engravings. See Darton G922.2. $650.00

EDUCATION FOR GIRLS RARE 1ST EDITION 238. EDUCATION. AMERICAN GIRLS HANDY BOOK by Lina and Adelia B. Beard. NY: Charles Scribners Sons 1887 (1887). Thick 8vo, (6 x 7 1/2”), brown cloth pictorially stamped n black with gilt letters, 474p. + ads, foredge stain on some pages (not glaring or offensive), spine ends worn EDUCATION see also 80, 115, 244, 447 otherwise clean, tight and VG condition. 1st edition. The authors felt there was an inequality in the numbers of books published ITEM # 239 - A FEW OF THE BLOCKS for boys compared to offerings to girls. One of their objectives was “to impress upon the minds of the girls the fact that they all possess talent and ability to achieve more than they suppose possible” and it was also their intention to make this book “peculiarly American.” Illustrated with 100’s of detailed drawings to accompany the text. First editions of this title are rare. $500.00

FASCINATING MATHEMATICAL WOOD BLOCK SET IN BOX 239. EDUCATION. DISSECTED MATHEMATICAL BLOCKS. Offered here is a fascinating set of unusual hinged wooden blocks plus 15 illustrated instruction booklets entitled The Arithmetic of Practical Measurements: A manual for the use of teachers accompanying A.H. Kennedy’s Dissected Blocks, 39 pages dated 1894. All are housed in the original wooden box with hinged top. The box measures 16” wide x 13 1/2” deep and 10” high. The box top is present but needs repair. The set was apparently devised by A.H. Kennedy for use in his classroom to teach geometry and measurements. The star of the set is a great wooden sphere comprised of 32 pieces of wood hinged with a leather base. The set also includes: a metal cone into which fits a wooden cone made from 8 hinged pieces of wood that can either fit together or can open up to show the interior, a 6 “ high metal cylinder containing 2 hinged wooden blocks of six sections each. There are 2 semi-circular sections each with 6 hinged wooden blocks. There is a series of individual blocks of various shapes, most with little stubs allowing the student to combine pieces to form other shapes: 6 trapezoids of various sizes, 3 squares, 1 cube, 1 rectangle, 1 equilateral triangle, 1 solid triangle, 2 isosceles triangles, 3 solid isosceles, 1 large triangle and 3 small solid squares. The manual walks you through various mathematical formulas and shows how the wooden sections can be used to explain the concepts. A similar set is at the Smithsonian. This is a rare and fascinating educational tool. $3500.00 914.764.7410 Pg 34 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89 RARE PETER PARLEY TITLE TUCK FAIRY TALE PANORAMA WITH DOLL PIECES 242. EGGLESTON,EDWARD. THE HOOSIER SCHOOL-BOY. NY: Charles 246. FAIRY TALES. IN FAIRYLAND. Lond: Tuck no date, ca 1900. Large Scribner’s Sons 1883 (1883). 12mo (5 1/2 x 7 1/2”), mustard cloth stamped in red 4to 12 x 10 1/2” opening to 4 times that size. Minor expert repair to hinges and and black with a picture of a boy reading a book. Tail of spine frayed and some on back flap else fine and COMPLETE WITH 16 DOLL FIGURES! Featuring 4 cover soil, one old small edge mend else tight and VG+. 1st edition, 1st state with nursery tales: Cinderella; Red Riding Hood; Sleeping Beauty and Puss In Boots. frontis of Cousin Sukey and with all illustrations in the earliest placement order. Each of the panels is beautifully illustrated in color. There are numbered slats The story takes place earlier in the 1800’s and tells of how hard a boy’s life was into which the reader inserts the corresponding doll to complete the scene. on the Ohio River and how difficult it was to get an education in rural Indiana. Quite scarce and a beautiful copy. (See Haining: Moveable Books p. 86-87 for Illustrated by Mr. Bush with 5 engraved plates. This is really nice copy of the text and photos and Whitton: Raphael Tuck p.106-8.) $1250.00 earliest state of a rare Peter Parley to Penrod selection (p.71-2). $400.00

ELDER, PAUL (PUBLISHER) - 420

#242

INDIAN FAIRY TALES LARGE PAPER COPY 247. FAIRY TALES. INDIAN FAIRY TALES by Joseph Jacobs. Lond.: DAVID NUTT 1892. Narrow 4to, parchment covers,, 255p., cover soiled else VG. LIMITED TO ONLY 160 243. ENRIGHT,ELIZABETH. RETURN TO GONE-AWAY. NY: Harc. Brace NUMERBERD COPIES FOR World (1961). 8vo, cloth, 191p., Fine in dw (not price clipped, sl. frayed at spine SALE PRINTED ON JAPAN ends). Stated 1st ed. A sequel to the Newbery Honor Gone-Away Lake. Illustrated VELLUM AND SIGNED in line by Beth and Joe Krush. Quite scarce and a nice copy. $250.00 BY NUTT. 29 fairy tales from India featuring 8 fine ENRIGHT, MAGINEL – 103, 578 plates in glorious detail by ENRIGHT, WALTER – 101 ESTONIA - 29 JOHN BATTEN - each in 2 states and with many smaller illustrations as well. INCLUDES “A GOOD GIRL’S The high quality of the ALPHABET” paper greatly enhances the 244. ETIQUETTE. COCKADOODLEDONT illustrations. Osborne p.33 FOR A LITTLE GIRL by E.H.W. Meyerstein. notes:” Jacobs was born...in London: Cecil Palmer (1927). Slim 12mo Sydney, was an authority on folk-lore... although he made (5” wide x 7 3/4), batik paper design on his collections for children, covers, 56p., sl. toning to paper else VG. he included scholarly Stated 1st ed. Advice to little girls on how notes and references at to behave, presented as a series of poems. the end of each volume.” Illustrated in b&w by Peggy Norgate with This limited ed. is quite scarce. $750.00 charming vignettes reminiscent of Lovat Fraser. “This lady danced before a King / She also thinks that she can sing/ Do CELTIC FAIRY TALES - LARGE PAPER COPY one thing well, that’s always best / And 248. FAIRY TALES. MORE CELTIC FAIRY TALES by Joseph Jacobs. Lond.: don’t be proud about the rest.” Also DAVID NUTT 1894. Narrow 4to, flexible cream colored covers,, x, 234p., some of the inevitable cover soil else near fine. LIMITED TO ONLY 115 NUMBERED includes a Good Girl’s Alphabet. Very COPIES FOR SALE PRINTED ON JAPAN VELLUM AND SIGNED BY NUTT. scarce. $250.00 A continuation of Jacob’s Celtic Fairy Tales, this EVANS, EDMUND – 192, 276 EWING, J.H. – 70 has 20 fairy tales from IRELAND SCOTLAND AND FABLES – 137, 298 WALES featuring 8 fine plates in glorious detail by JOHN BATTEN - each WONDERFUL ELVES in 2 states and with many 245. FAIRIES. TWINKIE TOWN TALES smaller illustrations as well. BOOK NO. 3 by Carlyle Emery. St. Louis: The high quality of the Hamilton Brown Co. (1926). 8vo, pict. paper greatly enhances the illustrations. Osborne p.33 bds, Fine. The story of little elves called notes:” Jacobs was born...in Twinkies and of their town full of humanized Sydney, was an authority on insects and animals. Marvelously illustrated folk-lore... although he made in detail and in bright colors by ARTHUR his collections for children, HENDERSON. Very scarce and a beautiful he included scholarly notes and references at copy. $350.00 the end of each volume.” This limited ed. is quite scarce. $800.00

FAIRIES see also 32, 79, 159, 179, 187, 245, FAIRY TALES see also 69, 79, 135, 194, 213, 230, 255, 282, 297, 323, 326, 377, 397-8 389, 407, 418, 426-7, 457, 466, 476, 559, 596 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 35 [email protected] UNUSUAL PICTURE BOOK FANTASY - INSCRIBED RARE HARRISON FISHER FOLIO 249. FANTASY. 253. FISHER,HARRISON. PICTURES IN SNIPSNOPS AND THE WOO-WOO BIRD by COLOR. NY: Scribner 1910. Large folio (17 Margaret Coligny. NY: 1/2 x 12 1/4”), cl. backed boards lettered Cupples & Leon (1923). 4to, in gold, pictorial paste-on, corners rubbed (8 x 10 1/4”), blue cloth, and cover sl. faded else fine. 1st ed. of this pict. paste-on, fine. The story itself is written in glorious work featuring 16 color plates (done calligraphic text with gilt on heavy coated paper, printed on one side). illuminated, brightly colored There is also a portrait of Fisher. A beautiful illustrations on each page. The Snipsnops are very copy of a lavish work, and a rare Fisher strange little people who title. $1850.00 come at night to the homes of good little children and FLOWERS – 71, 193, 272, 276, 392, 415 reward them with toys (the Woo-Woo bird carries the BATIK CHILDREN’S BOOK goods). Their home is in the 254. (FRANCOISE)illus. LA PLUS VIELLE HISTOIRE DU MONDE. Paris: Borghese Gardens! THIS Jardin des Modes nd [1931]. Obl. COPY IS INSCRIBED BY 4to, (10 x 8 1/4”), accordion- THE AUTHOR. $250.00 style folded linen pages, slight cover soil, and faint stain on BASED ON RADIO SHOW inner corner of 2 pages else near 250. FANTASY. UNCLE WIP AND HIS Fine. One of the first BATIK FRIENDS; their bed-time stories. NY, printed books (using vegetable dyes) this features Francoise’s Philadelphia & London: Gimbel Brothers charming, primitive style color 1924. 8vo (6 1/2 x 9”), green cloth stamped illustrations on every page. Quite in black, pictorial paste-on, 155p., slight rear scarce and certainly unusual. cover soil else VG+. Christopher Graham Bader (p.52) calls this book “a became Uncle Rip in 1921 when he began to minor work of art” and adds that Francoise’s sense of space broadcast his show from a studio at Gimbels and composition is strongest department store. The stories are fantasy in this book. (pictured on page tales in Castle Broadcast with Frowny Fairy 53). $1200.00 Godmother, giants and more. Illustrated by O.P. Arouse with 8 color plates and more FAIRY TALES WRITTEN than 40 smaller line illustrations. $150.00 BY ANNE FRANK 255. FRANK,ANNE. WEET JE NOG? FANTASY see also 77, 187, 476, 496-7 Amsterdam: Uitg. Contact (1949). 8vo, cloth, 64p., fore edge slightly GREAT ART DECO ILLUSTRATIONS / WITH 3 ABC’S foxed else near fine in dust wrapper 251. FARJEON,ELEANOR. (dw faded with some soil but overall NUTS AND MAY: A VG+). 1st ed. While in hiding, Anne MEDLEY FOR CHILDREN. Frank wrote a series of fairy tales Lond: Collins nd ca 1929. and fables that are published in this Thick 4to, (8x10”), 264p., volume for the first time. “Blurry” is a cloth, pict. paste-on, Fine in fable about a bear cub that ventures sl. frayed dust wrapper. An out to see the world. He returns to anthology of poems, plays his mother, disillusioned by what he and stories by Farjeon with finds. “Eva’s Droom” [Eve’s Dream] the first section devoted to is a story about humanized flowers; Italy and with 3 wonderful the rose is beautiful but has a nasty theme alphabets, each with personality. Illustrated with full page 1 page devoted to each and smaller b&w by Kees Kelfkens. letter. Illus. in classic Art Quite scarce, especially in such nice Deco style by ROSALIND condition with the dust wrapper. THORNYCROFT with pict. Rare. $2750.00 ep’s, many full page bold color illus. and a profusion on b&w’s. A fine example FRASCONI, ANTONIO - 527 of children’s literature and illustration from that NURSERY RHYMES era. FARJEON see also 256. (FRASER,CLAUD 219. $375.00 LOVAT)illus. NURSE FIRE ENGINE MODEL BOOK LOVECHILD’S LEGACY BEING 252. FIREFIGHTING. BOOK A MIGHTY FINE COLLECTION OF MODEL FIRE ENGINES OF THE MOST NOBLE, designed by Wallis Rigby. MEMORABLE AND VERACIOUS NY: Grosset & Dunlap 1951. NURSERY RHYMES. London: Oblong folio (14x11”), spine paper repaired else VG Poetry Bookshop 1916. 16mo and almost unused (lacks (3 1/2 x 5 1/2”), cloth backed a few small firemen and pictorial boards, 60p. + [4]p. wheel guards). Make your ads, sl. faded else near fine. 54 own authentic scale models nursery rhymes compiled from from die-cut parts in color. The child can assemble fire early 19th century chapbooks, engines and a fire house to illustrated by Fraser with use with a host of other 2 charming cuts per page. figures. Quite hard to find This first edition is quite in un-punched condition. scarce. $225.00 $350.00 914.764.7410 Pg 36 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89 LIMITED ED. SIGNED BY GAG 257. FREEMAN,DON. MOP TOP. NY: WITH WOOD ENGRAVING 260. GAG,WANDA. MILLIONS OF CATS. NY: Coward McCann 1928 (1928). Viking 1955 (1955). 4to, 7 1/2 x 10”, cloth, Obl. small 4to, (9 7/8” wide x 6 3/4), pictorial boards, one corner bumped else FINE IN ORIGINAL PUBLISHER’S SLIP CASE with pictorial label (edge neatly fine in frayed dw. 1st ed. The story of a reinforced). LIMITED TO ONLY 250 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY GAG AND CONTAINING AN ORIGINAL WOOD ENGRAVING ALSO SIGNED BY six year old boy who didn’t want to get a GAG! A high spot of children’s literature and one of the best books for children of all time, beautifully illustrated and with hand-lettered text. See Bader p.34 haircut. Illustrated in color by Freeman. who describes this classic as “form and character fused ... [where] words and pictures reinforce one another.” Rare in the limited edition especially with the One of his less common titles and a charming wood engraving. $7500.00

story. $175.00

FRENCH – 54, 188, 201, 228, 254, 261, 290, 298, 307, 311-12, 316, 333, 345, 356, 373, 402-3, 413-14, 416-17, 424, 434

FREYHOLD HAND-COLORED COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS 258. FREYHOLD,KONRAD. OSTERBUCH [HASENBUCH ON COVER] by Christian Morgenstern. Berlin: Cassirer [1910]. Obl. 4to, (12 1/4” wide x 9 1/2”) cloth backed pictorial board covers, covers sl. soiled and faded else VG+. Featuring striking, stylized full page hand-colored illustration depicting humanized rabbits at play, causing mischief with humans. Similar to Tom Seidmann Freud’s work of the same era. The richness of the colors and the unusual style with angular designs are fantastic. Rare. $2750.00

EARLY MINIATURE HAND-COLORED GAME 261. GAME. ES SPUCKT * LA NECROMANCE [GAME OF GHOSTS] oder: Die Beisterbeschworung. Vienna: J. Bermann, no date, circa 1815. Housed in the original marbled folder with printed label are 12 fine hand-colored cards (as called for) in a pink chemise, plus a folded instruction sheet with directions for play in German and French, all in fine condition. Each card measures 2 x 2 3/4” and each has a finely printed hand-colored figure with one or two lines of text at the bottom. This is a superb little game. $1350.00

FROG SHAPE BOOK 259. FROGS. LITTLE FROGGIE GREEN. Akron: Saalfield 1917. 4to, pict. wraps, light rubbing, VG+. Die cut in the shape of a frog playing a cabbage-banjo and wonderfully illustrated in color on every page. Bright colors and great humanized frogs. FROG see also 583. $150.00 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 37 [email protected] WALLIS HAND-COLORED GAME FABULOUS LARGE UNCLE WIGGILY WATERCOLOR 262. GAME. WALLIS’S TOUR THROUGH ENGLAND AND WALES, A NEW 264. GARIS,HOWARD AND GEORGE CARLSON. UNCLE WIGGILY ORIGINAL GEOGRAPHICAL PASTIME (on case: WALLIS’S NEW GEOGRAPHICAL GAME ART - UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE PEPPERMINT - COVER OF BOOK published EXHIBITING A TOUR THROUGH ENGLAND AND WALES). Lond: John by Platt and Munk in 1939. Garis originally created Uncle Wiggily for the Newark Wallis (slip case dated 1802, game dated 1794). Consisting of one large sheet 26 Evening News in 1910 and it became so popular that it was nationally syndicated on x 20” mounted on linen and folded into 16 sections (this includes the instructions a daily basis. The comic strip evolved into a series of books illustrated by several which are printed on the game itself), housed in a case with engraved pictorial different illustrators. The art here is the large finished watercolor used on the label. The case is rubbed with an old mend but solid and very good, game has a cover of the book by George Carlson. The image measures 14” wide x 16 1/2” high light stain on the verso but also very good. The game features a hand-colored on paper 16 x 19 1/2”. It is signed and matted. Uncle Wiggily is visiting the drug map of England and Wales meant for up to 6 players. Most “misses” call for loss store to buy peppermint candy for Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy but the store is closed of a turn but a few call for payment. The 117 numbered towns or interesting with a note posted to the door “ I have gone to a baseball moving picture show. places have pertinent data including predominant commerce or trade in the area. Mrs. Monkey Doodle.” Much detail, bright colors and really great. $1950.00 It starts in Rochester and ends in London. Whitehouse p.9-10. $975.00

GAMES see also 146, 368, 414

FABULOUS LARGE UNCLE WIGGILY ART 263. GARIS,HOWARD AND ELMER RACHE. UNCLE WIGGILY ORIGINAL ART - UNCLE WIGGILY’S AUTOMOBILE - COVER OF BOOK published by Platt and Munk in 1939. Garis originally created Uncle Wiggily for the Newark Evening News in 1910 and it became so popular that it was nationally syndicated on a daily basis. The comic strip evolved into a series of books illustrated by several different illustrators. The art here is the large finished pen and ink by Elmer Rache used on the cover of the book. The image measures 14” wide x 16 1/2” high on paper 15 x 20”. It is signed and matted. Uncle Wiggily is attempting to repair his auto. There are tools on the ground and a humanized crow and dog in the background. There is much detail, and really great. $1250.00

EAST GERMAN DIE-CUT TRANSPORATION PANORAMA 265. GERMAN. UNSERE FAHRZEUGE. no pub. info., [East Berlin circa 1946]. Pictorial double-sided die-cut panorama showing various forms of transportation. Opening to 3 feet, in includes a streetcar driven by a woman, fire truck, tractor, Minol petrol station and more. One panel shows women reclaiming bricks from the rubble in order to re-build a building. $300.00

GERMAN READER 266. GERMAN. WIENER KINDER 1 BUCH herausgegeben von J. Heeger und A Legrun. Wien-Leipzig: Deutscher Verlag fur Jugend und Volk (1927, 1930). 4to (7 1/4 x 9 1/2”), cloth backed pictorial boards, 80p.,ink mark on 2 pages else VG+. This is a school book for the youngest reader illustrated in bright bold colors throughout the text by Franz Wacik. Very well printed, with stunning pictorial endpapers this is a good example of a typical book of the era. Heller: Die Bunte Welt 683 also pictured on p.42. $350.00

GERMAN see also 31, 44, 69, 124, 134, 161, 171, 213, 258, 261, 300, 303, 311, 332, 351, 382, 422, 522, 555, 565 914.764.7410 Pg 38 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89 267. GIPSON,FRED. OLD YELLER. NY: Harper Bros. (1956). 8vo, two-tone LIMITED EDITION cloth, 158p. fine in dust wrapper (not price clipped, slightly frayed but VG). 1st “WIND IN THE ed. The story set in Texas of a boy and the love he has for his dog. Although there is a sad ending, the message of the story is uplifting. Illustrated in b&w WILLOWS” by Carl Burger. $150.00 271. GRAHAME,KENNETH. THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS. Lond: Methuen (1931). 4to, cl. backed boards, 312p., very sl. cover soil else VG-Fine. LIMITED TO ONLY 200 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY GRAHAME AND ERNEST SHEPARD. Illus. by Shepard and printed on hand-made paper. Rare. GRAHAME see also 557-8. $9500.00

HAND-COLORED FLOWERS 272. (GRANDVILLE,J.J.)illus. LES FLEURS ANIMEES. Intro. par Alph. Karr, texte par Taxile Delord. Paris: Gabriel de Gonet, 1847. Thick 4to, two volumes in one. 3/4 morocco and marbled boards, gilt GNOMES – 32, 291, 455 decorated spine, top edge gilt, 364, 132p., Fine. 1st CALDECOTT WINNER edition. Illustrated with 268. GOBLE,PAUL. GIRL WHO LOVED WILD HORSES. Scarsdale: Bradbury 50 magnificent hand- Press (1978). 4to, cloth, Fine in dust wrapper (sl. soil and margin closed colored plates plus 2 hand- tear). 1st ed. CALDECOTT AWARD WINNER with magnificent color illus. by colored title pages, each Goble. Scarce. $300.00 plate depicting Grandville’s marvelous humanized flowers. Also including 2 269. (GOBLE,WARWICK)illus. b&w botanical engravings STORIES FROM THE as well. This is a bright PENTAMERONE by and beautiful copy with no Giambattista Basile. Lond: foxing or wear. Gumuchian Macmillan 1911. 4to, red gilt 2799 & plate p.226 variant cloth, (304)p., Fine. 1st ed., cover. $2000.00 illustrated by Goble with 32 magnificent tissue-guarded color plates. A beautiful PETER PARLEY TO PENROD copy. $400.00 273. GRANT,ROBERT. JACK HALL: THE SCHOOL DAYS OF AN AMERICAN BOY. Boston: Jordan Marsh and Company 1888 RARE HUMANIZED GOLF CLUBS - R. ANDRE (1888). 8vo (5 1/4 x 7 1/2”), green pictorial 270. GOLF. COLONEL BOGEY’S SKETCH BOOK by R. Andre. Lond.: Longmans, cloth stamped in black394p., slightest bit of Green & Co. 1897. Oblong 4to, 11” wide x 8 1/2”. Cloth backed pictorial boards, cover soil else near Fine. 1st edition. A real 44p., covers a little scratched, hinges neatly strengthened, VG+. 1st edition. A tongue and cheek history of golf begins with the prehistoric Golfosaurian and slice of life of an American boy in the latter moves on to the missing “link” the Golfolinkius Anthropomorphus. Andre’s text part of the 19th century, illustrated with full on “Modern” golf proves that the golf widow was not a 20th century phenomenon with his assertion that “golf is antagonistic to domestic happiness.” There page and black and whites by F.G. Attwood. are humorous parodies about golf (A Lay of Link Lunacy) and depictions of A scarce Peter Parley To Penrod title golfing animals including the Putting Pachyderm. The illustrations throughout the text are detailed and clever. Andre is best known for his children’s book (p.87). $225.00 illustrations, but he was also an avid golfer, even one of the founders of the West Herts Golf Club. This is a wonderful and rare golf book. $2750.00

BRANDYWINE ABC BOOK 274. (GREEN,ELIZABETH SHIPPEN)illus. AN ALLITERATIVE ALPHABET AIMED AT ADULT ABECEDARIANS. Phil: McKay (1947). 4to (8 x 9 1/2”), blue pictorial boards, minimal edge wear else near Fine in chipped dust wrapper. 1st ed. of Green’s last book, done in collaboration with her husband Huger Elliott who wrote the verse. Every other page illustrated with large 2-color illustration (one for each letter of the alphabet) with rhymes written in calligraphy and printed in 2-colors on each facing GORDON, ELIZABETH – 126, 549, 557, 567, 569 page. $250.00 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 39 [email protected] UNCOMMON SCARCE GRUELLE TITLE 280. GRUELLE,JOHNNY. LITTLE SUNNY STORIES. Chic: Volland (1919, 275. (GREENAWAY,KATE)illus. A later ed). 8vo pict. bds, Fine IN BOX (box with few minor flap repairs). A CRUISE IN THE ACORN by Mrs. VOLLAND SUNNY BOOK of fairy stories with beautiful full page and in text Alice Jerrold. Lond: Marcus Ward color illustrations. Very scarce. $375.00 1875. 8vo, brown gilt and black cloth, pict. paste-on, 140p. + 4p. ads, Fine. 1st ed. of this rare Greenaway work featuring 6 unsigned mounted color illustrations on gilt backgrounds to accompany a charming fantasy tale. A beautiful copy. Schuster 63-1 (a) but this with date on title page, green cloth. $1500.00

276. (GREENAWAY,KATE)illus. LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. Lond: Routledge nd [1884]. 12mo, green glazed pictorial bds, green spine, yellow BOXED VOLLAND edges, grey-green endpapers, 80p., light 281. GRUELLE,JOHNNY. RAGGEDY ANN AND ANDY AND THE CAMEL WITH THE WRINKLED KNEES. Chic: Volland (1924, no additional cover soil and preliminary leaves foxed listed). 8vo, pict. bds., Fine in ORIGINAL BOX (flap repaired). A Volland Happy else, VG+. 1st ed. (Schuster 107-1i). Children Book. Wonderfully illustrated in color throughout by Gruelle and a nice copy not often found in the box. $425.00 Beautiful color illustrations throughout by Greenaway, engraved by Edmund

Evans. $275.00 282. (GRUELLE,JOHNNY)illus. ALL

ABOUT CINDERELLA retold and illus. by

277. (GREENAWAY,KATE)illus. John B. Gruelle. NY: Cupples & Leon & Leon MOTHER GOOSE OR THE OLD (1916). 16mo, 48p., bds, pict. paste-on, fine NURSERY RHYMES. Lond: Routledge nd [1881]. 12mo, 48p., white cloth, pink in sl. worn dw. Printed on coated paper and

spine, lattice design on covers, olive ep’s, illustrated by Gruelle with 8 color plates plus sl. cover toning, VG+. 1st ed. second b&w’s. $300.00 issue (Schuster 140-1b). Engraved by and illustrated in color throughout by Greenaway. A beautiful copy. $450.00 283. (GRUELLE,JOHNNY)illus. ALL GROVER, EULALIE - 55 ABOUT THE LITTLE SMALL RED HEN. 278. GRUELLE,JOHNNY. BELOVED BELINDY. Joliet: Volland (1926 2nd ed). 8vo, pict. bds, spine paper worn and some mild finger soil, VG. A Raggedy Ann NY: Cupples & Leon (1917). 16mo, durable story featuring Belindy, the Black “mammy” doll and wonderfully illus. on color by Gruelle. Nice copy of the original Volland edition. $300.00 cloth, color pictorial paste-on, fine in frayed

dw. Illus. by Gruelle with 8 great color

plates plus black and whites. Very scarce

in dw. $450.00

284. GRUELLE,JOHNNY. ALL ABOUT LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD retold and illus. by Gruelle. NY:Cup. & Leon (1916). 16mo, boards, pict. paste-on, fine in dust wrapper (dw frayed). Illustrated with wonderful color plates and many 279. GRUELLE,JOHNNY. JOHNNY GRUELLE’S GOLDEN BOOK. Chic: b&w’s by Gruelle. A nice copy, rare in Donohue (vd) circa 1930. Folio 4to, cloth backed pict. bds, 79p., sl. edge rubbing else fine in frayed dw. A great Gruelle item containing Little Brown Bear; Cheery the dw. $300.00 Scarecrow; Eddie Elephant; Way to Fairyland; Singing Thread; Mrs. Goodluck Cricket; Raggedy Ann’s Alphabet; and Raggedy Ann’s Numbers. Illustrated in color throughout by Gruelle and printed on heavy coated stock. Scarce. $300.00 GRUELLE see also 87, 577 914.764.7410 Pg 40 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89 HADERS ARTIST DUMMY - DOG STORY 285. HADER,BERTA & ELMER. TIMOTHY HAS IDEAS - ARTIST’S DUMMY. FIRST ORLANDO BOOK This is the Hader’s artists dummy for the book written by Miriam Mason and published in 1943 by Macmillan. The story tells the adventures of a little 287. HALE,KATHLEEN. ORLANDO cocker spaniel puppy and when published was in black and white. This dummy THE MARMELADE CAT: A is a preliminary layout for the book containing 54 pencil drawings. This is an CAMPING HOLIDAY. NY: Scribner interesting look at the early creative process in producing a picture book. Sold with a first edition of the book INSCRIBED BY THE HADERS. $2500.00 no date [1938]. Folio, pictorial boards, sl. wear to tips and spine else fine in soiled dw with chips off edges. 1st U.S. edition of the first Orlando book! Orlando and his wife Grace and children take a camping vacation and naturally have adventures. Illustrated by Hale with beautiful color lithographs throughout. Rare. $1200.00

PUMPKINS! 288. HALLOWEEN. THE PROUD PUMPKIN by Nora Unwin. NY: Aladdin Books and Junior Lit. (1953). Small 4to (6 3/4 wide x 8 1/2”), pictorial cloth, Fine in dust wrapper (lightly soiled and frayed). Stated First Edition. The story of a pumpkin that boasted it would live forever. Written by Unwin and illustrated by her in color on every page. Very hard to find in a 1st ed. with dw. $150.00

CURIOUS PICTURE BOOK ARTIST’S & PUBLISHER’S DUMMY FOR HADER BOOK 289. HAND-COLORED. HOCKA - GERIFFA by Sigmund 286. HADER,BERTA AND ELMER. GOOD LITTLE DOG - ARTIST’S DUMMY & Epstein. (NY: Sigmund Epstein PUBLISHER’S DUMMY written by Anne Stoddard and illustrated by the Haders, 1939, 1945). 4to, (8 3/4 x 10 published in 1930 by the Century Co. 2 dummies for the same title are offered 3/4”), spiral backed boards, here. First is the Haders’ dummy for a book about a little dog named Bingo, corner worn else fine in sl. used for layout and color direction. The dummy measures 7 1/4 x 8 1/2”. It is chipped dust wrapper. This is completely hand-made by the Haders. It includes water colored covers and color the story of a curious animal title plus 3 other full page color illustrations and 54 pencil drawings. One line of that hatches from a large egg text beneath each illustration is in pencil. The second dummy is the publisher’s - it is a giraffe with feet like mockup. Proof pages for each page are cut and pasted in proper order in a book poodles, eyes like cats and with printed covers and proof state of the dust wrapper. This is a charming geography printed on his body. book, chock full of art and a fascinating look at two pre-production stages of the Illustrated by Mary and Marion same picture book. Sold with a first edition of the book, INSCRIBED BY THE E. with art deco color printed HADERS WITH A WATERCOLOR DRAWING. $4250.00 and hand colored illustrations. This is a strange and charming and possibly self-published book. $225.00

STUNNING FRENCH/ENGLISH WWI BOOK 290. HAND-COLORED. MARIE- ANNE ET SON ONCLE SAM par H. Gazan. Paris: G. Boutitie (1919). Oblong folio (15” wide x 11 1/2), boards, pictorial paste-on, offset marks on rear board and some edge wear, VG+. LIMITED TO 600 NUMBERED COPIES on arche paper. With text in both French and English, this book was meant to reinforce French-American friendship in WWI and is dedicated “to all those who have lent a friendly hand to the children of France in her hour of need.” Each page of text faces a stunning full page of hand- colored illustrations by the author to accompany the story of how Marianne was rescued from sharks, drowning and sea monsters by Uncle Sam. A rare and interesting children’s book. $2000.00 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 41 [email protected] HAND-COLORED see also 59, 188, 230, 234, 236, 261-2, 272, 298, 300, 316, 350, MAGNIFICENT DELUXE FLORENCE HARRISON BOOK 357, 374, 424 295. (HARRISON,FLORENCE)illus. POEMS BY CHRISTINA ROSSETTI. Lond: Blackie, 1910. Thick 4to, (8 1/2 HANKY PANORAMA x 10 1/2”) white cloth with 291. HANKY BOOK. extensive gilt decoration, HANKY-GO-ROUND. no top edge gilt, slightest of place, J.S.C (Julian Cohn cover soil else Fine. 1st ed. Creation), ca 1945. 8vo, Illustrated by Harrison with (6 1/4 x 8”), pictorial 36 magnificent mounted wraps, Fine. Opening color plates (on heavy stock), accordion style in 8 panels. 34 full page b&w illus. plus Illustrated in color in typical many b&w text illus. all in her 40’s style by Estelle. A best pre-Raphaelite style to carousel themed book that accompany Rossetti’s classic has 6 has real pictorial verse. A lavish production, cloth hankies inserted beautifully illustrated into slots in the pages. and quite difficult to find HANKY BOOK see also in such clean condition. 225. $300.00 HARRISON see also 400. $1350.00 HARDING,CHARLOTTE - 474 HASSALL, JOHN – 33, 400 292. HARRIS,JOEL CHANDLER. MINGO VERY FINE COPY AND OTHER SKETCHES IN BLACK AND CELIA THAXTER AND CHILDE HASSAM 296. (HASSAM,CHILDE)illus. AN ISLAND GARDEN BY Celia Thaxter. Bost: HM WHITE. Bost.: James R. Osgood and Co. 1894 (1894). 4to, green cloth, gilt Art Nouveau decorated covers, 126p., top edge 1884. Grey cloth stamped in black and gilt, Very Fine. 1st ed. of this wonderful book, illustrated with beautiful full page chromolithographs and chapter heads in color by Hassam and with lovely cover design gold, only the mildest of cover dusting by Sarah Wyman Whitman. A fantastic copy of a very desirable and scarce book. (See BAL 19923, Harvard’s Artists of the Book in Boston p.8-11). $3000.00 else near fine. 1st ed. of Harris’ third

book. Four stories written with much

dialect. A nice copy, very scarce. BAL

7112. $400.00

293. HARRIS,JOEL CHANDLER. ON THE

PLANTATION: a story of a Georgia boy’s adventures during the war. NY: D. PIED PIPER ORIGINAL ART 297. (HAUMAN,GEORGE & DORIS)illus. PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN: Appleton 1892. 8vo, orange cloth stamped ORIGINAL ART. Offered here is a wonderful large watercolor by the Hauman’s that appears in Stories That Never Grow Old published by Platt & Munk. The in colors, 233p. + ads, fine. 1st ed. BAL images measures 10 13/4” wide x 13 1/2” on art paper 12 1/2 x 17 1/2”. It is signed G & D Hauman and matted. The Pied Piper is walking down the cobble stoned 7124. Illus. with photo frontis of Kemble streets playing his pipe and all of the children are following him. There is much detail and bright colors - a great image. HAUMAN see also 423. $750.00 and in b&w by E.W. KEMBLE. A superb copy.. $350.00

294. HARRIS, JOHN - PUBLISHER. [DORSET, CATHERINE ANN]. THE PEACOCK AT HOME written by a Lady. Lond: Harris 1808. Sq. 16mo, tan pictorial wraps, 16p., VG+. A new edition with new plates (on cover). Illustrated with 6 fine copperplate engravings by W. MULREADY which were re-engraved for this printing. Rear cover lists 6 other Harris titles. Moon 215 (3). A nice early juvenile. HARRIS PUB. also 236. $600.00 914.764.7410 Pg 42 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89

HAYS, ETHEL – 34 302. [HOFFMANN,HEINRICH]. HEBREW - 310 PETER PRIM’S STORY BOOK. NY: McLoughlin nd SCARCE HELLE FABLES ca 1880. 8vo, cloth, pict. 298. (HELLE,ANDRE)illus. LES FABLES paste-on, some internal soil, DE FLORIAN. (Nancy): Berger - Levrault edge wear and paste-on sl. (1948). Folio, (9 3/4 x 12 3/4”), cloth scuffed, else VG. Containing 9 of McLoughlin’s Slovenly backed pictorial board covers, Fine. Peter imitations: Heedless Fables illustrated by Helle with charming Johnny; Truant Peter; Pauline pochoir (hand-colored through stencil) & The Matches; Simple illustrations throughout. A beautiful John; Cruel Frederick; Flying copy of a scarce and charming Helle Robert; Lazy Charlotte; Envious Minny; and the Inky title. $1250.00 Boys - the last being about a “black-a-moor and Saint Nicholas. Illustrated with HENDERSON, ARHTUR - 245 48 chromolithographs. Quite scarce. $1750.00 HERFORD’S FIRST BOOK 299. HERFORD,OLIVER. PEN AND INKLINGS. NY: STRUWWELPETER George Allen (1893). 12mo, PARODY green cloth, minor wear and 303. [HOFFMANN,HEINRICH]. SLOVENLY PETER’S STORY soiling, else VG+. Herford’s BOOK. NY: McLoughlin FIRST BOOK. Verses by Bros. no date inscribed Herford with charming 1877. 12mo, cloth stamped in black and gold, pictorial black and whites throughout. paste-on, few minor mends, Scarce. HERFORD see also paper worn on one page and 90. $350.00 finger soil throughout, tight and overall VG. Containing: Dirty Child, Little Glutton, Tom the Thief, Little HOCKNEY - SEE ALSO #35 - HOCKNEY’S ALPHABET Jacob, Sammy Tickletooth, Untidy Tom, Little Suck-a- Thumb, Johnny Sliderlegs, Carrie and the Candle and HAND-COLORED Rocking Philip. Illustrated with 48 chromolithographs. 300. HOFFMAN,HEINRICH. Rare. $1750.00 SLOVENLY PETER. Phil: HOLLAND – 572, 584 Henry T. Coates, ca 1880. 4to, gilt and pict. cloth, VOLLAND fine. Each illustration is 304. HOLLING,HOLLING C. LITTLE individually hand colored BIG-BYE-AND-BYE written and after the original and also illustrated by Holling. Chic: VOLLAND including Hoffmann imitation (1926). 12mo, pictorial boards, light cover soil, VG+. Stated first printing rhymes. A beautiful copy of this VOLLAND SUNNY BOOK. in English of this classic An Indian story set in the pueblos, German juvenile. $475.00 illustrated with magnificent and stunning color illustrations throughout. This is a nice copy of a scarce Volland title. $300.00 UNCOMMON VERSION

301. [HOFFMANN,HEINRICH]. GREEDY WONDERFUL WARNE HORSE PETER. Lowell: J. Merrill circa 1870. 4x6”, RACING NOVELTY 305. HORSES. THE HORSE yellow pictorial wraps, [12]p. incl. covers, PICTURE PUZZLE TOY BOOK. Lond. & NY: Warne nd ca 1880. 4to, some soil, VG. Every page illustrated pict. wraps, FINE AND UNUSED. There are 6 very fine full page with a half page engraving. A title in chromolithographed illustrations. Many areas in each illustration have the Cousin Grace Pretty Story Book been left blank. There are 2 sheets of figures designed to be cut out by the series. $250.00 reader and glued into the appropriate spaces. When completed there are six horse racing scenes in intricate detail. Rare. HORSES see also 142- 3, 514 $600.00 HOFFMANN see also 144 HOUSMAN, LAURENCE - 229 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 43 [email protected] UNCOMMON HUMPHREY TITLE RARE 1933 ANTI-NAZI BOOK 306. (HUMPHREY,MAUD)illus. OLD YOUNGSTERS by Elizabeth Tucker. NY: 311. JEWISH INTEREST. ISRAEL SOUVIENS TOI! THINK OF IT ISRAEL! Stokes 1897. 4to, cloth backed pictorial boards, edges rubbed else tight VG+. ISRAEL DENKE DRAN! by Varlin [Willy Guggenheim]. (Paris: E Varlin 1933). Stories and verses plus text illustrations by Tucker, featuring 6 magnificent full 4to, (8 1/2 x 10 1/2”), pictorial wraps, some cover soil and corner of front cover page chromolithograph illustrations by Humphrey depicting children posed doing repaired else VG+. This is a remarkable anti-Nazi wake-up call to France warning adult activities (playing golf, gossiping, cooking, sewing, having tea etc). A very them about the dangers of Hitler and the Nazi party platform and urging people scarce Humphrey title. $950.00 to boycott all things German. Illustrated with color covers and in line inside. #307 Each page is illustrated with black and white caricatures by Varlin outlining the historical persecution against the Jews culminating with the Nazi threat. “Not only Jews, but all those who think are persecuted in Germany.” Text is in French, English and German. Varlin was the name taken by the Swiss born artist Willy Guggenheim who spent 11 years in Paris beginning in 1923. He was discovered by the noted art dealer Zborovski, who set him up in a studio and suggested that he change his name to Varlin. This is a fascinating, rare book. $2500.00

HUNGARY – 427 HURD, CLEMENT – 533

INDIA – 36, 247 INDIANS – 268, 304 JEWISH INTEREST see also 235, 255, 527 IRISH INTEREST – 248, 328 ITALIAN – 183-6, 251, 269, 432 RARE POCHOIR PATRIOTIC SCARCE IVANOVSKY TITLE BOOK ILLUSTRATED BY “JOB” 307. (IVANOVSKY,ELISABETH)illus. UN TAS D’HISTOIRES par Jeanne 312. (JOB)illus. ALLONS ENFANTS Cappe. Paris: Desclee de Brouwer (1931). 4to, (7 1/4 x 9 1/2”), cloth backed DE LA PATRIE par Jean Richepin. pictorial boards, mend on front paste-down else VG. Illustrated with charming Tours: Mame nd ca 1920. Small folio, color lithographs throughout the text. An uncommon title by her. $375.00 (11 x 13 1/2”) white cloth stamped in blue red and gilt, Fine. The history of 308. JAPANESE INTEREST. JAPANESE PICTURE BOOK - GIRL’S CLUIB . France as seen through its patriotic This is a fascinating Japanese picture book published by Toppan in 1955. 8vo (5 heroes and heroines, and their 3/4 x 8 1/4”) pictorial wraps, 294+ pages, Fine in original pictorial box. A girl’s military accomplishments. The text magazine/book full of color comic illustrations, photos, foldouts and inserts of describing the exploits is in verse. various sizes. An elaborate production. $225.00 Illustrated with a patriotic theme with more than 30 truly magnificent #308 full page POCHOIR (hand-colored with stencil) plates full of JOB’s detail and action. There are also more than 30 full page illus. in line to accompany verse by Richepin. A very scarce JOB title and a beautiful copy. $1200.00

313. JOHNSON,CROCKETT. GORDY AND THE PIRATE. NY: Putnam (1965). 8vo, pict. cloth, VG+ in sl. worn dw. First ed. based on price and ads. This is a Walter Mitty tale for children starring a young boy named Gordy and his wishes. Written by Johnson and illustrated by him with great full page color illustrations. Very scarce. $450.00

#309

309. JAPANESE INTEREST. JAPANESE PICTURE BOOK - THINGS YOU RIDE ON . This is a fascinating Japanese picture book published by Kodansha in 1921. 4to (7 1/4 x 10”). stiff pictorial wraps, #310 edge of rear cover chipped else Fine. Each page is brightly and busily illustrated in color showing Japanese children and adults using different forms of transportation - autos, trains, buses, ships and more. $400.00

JAPANESE see also 428, 451, 575

ARAB AND BLACK STEREOTYPES 310. JEWISH INTEREST. HA PININAH HA ANAKEET [THE GIANTIC PEARL] by F. RUTH KRAUSS AND CROCKETT JOHNSON Spiegel. Tel Aviv: Pressa no date circa 1947 314. (JOHNSON, CROCKETT)illus. IS THIS YOU? by Ruth Krauss. NY: William (printed in Palestine). 4to, (6 3/4 x 9 1/2”), Scott 1955. 8vo, (6 1/4 x 7 1/4”), pictorial boards, slight tip wear else VG+ in pictorial wraps, archival spine strengthening, dust wrapper with light soil and a few small edge mends. 1st ed. Designed to VG+. Striking color illustrations by Elisabeth help a child define his world, it is a companion to Krauss’ A Hole Is To Dig and is Herrmann feature stereotypical Arabs and wonderfully illustrated by Johnson (Krauss’ husband.) Bader p. 435. AIGA Best Blacks. $275.00 Children’s Books 1955-1957 #59. Very scarce. $600.00 914.764.7410 Pg 44 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89

KAY, GERTRUDE - 587 #318

NOAH’S ARK BY WALT KELLY (POGO) PSEUDONYM #319 315. KELLY,WALT as TONY MACLAY. TROUBLE ON THE ARK by Tony Maclay. NY: Veritas Press 1945. 4to (7 1/4 x 10 1/4”), pictorial boards, Fine in dust wrapper (dw slightly frayed). The story centers on the discord amongst the animals once they were aboard the Ark, and how they came together to save themselves. Written and illustrated by Walt Kelly famous for his Pogo books, here using his little known pseudonym of Maclay under which name he only illustrated 4-5 books. Rare. $650.00

KEMBEL, E.W. – 199, 293

JESSIE KING POCHOIR LIMITED EDITION INSCRIBED BY CHARLOTTE ZOLOTOW 316. (KING,JESSIE)illus. L’HABITATION FORCEE by . 319. (KNIGHT,HILARY)illus. WHEN I HAVE A LITTLE GIRL by Charlotte Paris: Kieffer 1921. Small 4to, pictorial wrappers, fine in original glassine. Zolotow. NY: Harper and Row, 1965. Oblong 12mo, (6 1/4 x 5 1/2”), pictorial LIMITED TO ONLY 500 NUMBERED COPIES ON HAND-MADE PAPER. boards, fine in dust wrapper. 1st edition. A charming book about a little girl who Featuring 28 magnificent hand-colored POCHOIR illustrations by King plus tells us what the rules will be when she has a daughter. This book contains a pictorial covers and half- “controversial” illustration where the little girl is tucking the milkman into bed with title. In his book on Jessie a caption that reads, “ She can have a friend stay overnight whenever she wants.” King, Colin White says: “One Later editions do not have this illustration because of suggestions of impropriety. set of illustrations that did Illustrated in black, white and green by Hilary Knight. THIS COPY IS INSCRIBED command interest after the BY ZOLOTOW to children’s book author / illustrator Crosby Bonsall. $250.00 war was for a translation of Rudyard Kipling’s story An INSCRIBED BY Enforced Habitation which CHARLOTTE ZOLOTOW Jessie had done in 1914 320. (KNIGHT,HILARY)illus. WHEN for...Mercure. The company I HAVE A SON by Charlotte Zolotow. closed down during the war NY: Harper and Row, 1967. Oblong but the book eventually 12mo, (6 1/4 x 5 1/2”) pictorial cloth appeared under Kieffer’s Harpercrest, fine in dust wrapper. imprint in 1921 in a sumptuous 1st ed. A charming picture book told limited edition with the from a boy’s point of view about what watercolours beautifully the rules will be when he has his own reproduced in pochoir.” son. Illustrated in black, white and (p.86 also p. 88, 93, #120 in blue by Hilary Knight. THIS COPY IS bibliography). A beautiful INSCRIBED BY ZOLOTOW to children’s copy. $2350.00 book author / illustrator Crosby Bonsall. $250.00 SCARCE KING BOOK 317. (KING,JESSIE)illus. SONGS OF THE ETTRICK KNIGHT, HILARY also 542-5 SHEPHERD by James KRAUSS, RUTH -314, 505 Hogg. Lond. & Edin.: Foulis [1911]. 4 1/2” wide x 6 5/8”, cream colored decorative HIGH SPOT - MODERN RARITY wraps over plain cream 321. KUNHARDT,DOROTHY. PAT THE BUNNY. NY: Simon & Schuster paper, pictorial paste-on, 1940. 12mo, (4 1/8” wide x 5 3/8), pictorial boards, light finger soil on covers 151p. + ads, spine creased else near Fine in original box (box with soil and some cresing but VG). FIRST and repaired else fine. EDITION of this now classic book, illustrated in color. Every other page Illustrated by King with offers a different activity for the youngest child to enjoy (7 in all): pat the mounted color plate title white fur of the bunny, cloth covering a face can be lifted to play peek-a-boo, page and illustration page, 1 make dolly’s ball squeak (not operative as usual), look in the mirror, sandpaper on double-page mounted color Daddy’s face simulates his scratchy beard, read Judy’s book, a hole in a page lets plate and 4 other mounted the child pretend to try on mommy’s ring. This issue has a ball that squeaked color plates to accompany when the child pressed it. Because it malfunctioned most of the time, it was verse. This is a rare and replaced in later issues with a box of real buttons. The mirror in the first fragile King title, variant of issue was later replaced with scented flowers that gave off their aroma when White B109 (this copy has scratched. This is one of the rarest of all modern picture books, especially in Pilgrim Series list of titles the original box. See Bader p.238-9. (SEE ALSO REAR COVER) $8500.00 printed inside front wrap and color plate for Toledo the Heart of Spain inside rear wrap). $400.00

KINGSLEY, CHARLES - 530

LOVELY COPY OF A CLASSIC 318. KIPLING,RUDYARD. JUST SO STORIES for little children. Lond.: Macmillan 1902 (1902). 4to, (7 1/4 x 9 1/4”), red cloth stamped in white and black, owner inscription on endpaper, near Fine. 1st ed., but without the chalky ink that flecked off that was used on the first copies. These now classic tales, including How the Camel Got His Hump and How The Leopard Got His Spots. illustrated in black and white by the author. A beautiful copy. (SEE ILLUS TOP NEXT COLUMN) $1200.00

KIRK, MARIA - 366 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 45 [email protected] BLUE FAIRY BOOK BY THE AUTHOR OF “VELVETEEN RABBIT” 322. LANG,ANDREW. THE BLUE FAIRY BOOK. Lond: Longmans 1889. 8vo, 325. (LAWSON,ROBERT)illus. HURDY-GURDY MAN by Margery Bianco. London, blue cloth, gilt pictorial cover, all edges gilt, binding ever so slightly cocked else New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, [1933]. Square 8vo, (7 1/4”) pictorial fine. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST TITLE IN THE FAIRY BOOK SERIES! boards, slight foxing on endpapers else near Fine in lightly worn dust wrapper with Illustrated by H.J. FORD and G.P.J. HOOD with full page and in-text black and two old mends on verso. 1st. ed. A title in the Hurdy-Gurdy Series. Illustrated whites. A beautiful copy of the very elusive first edition. $6000.00 with color dust wrapper and many lovely pen and ink illustrations throughout. The story relates the adventures of the Hurdy Gurdy man in a “too neat” town. Nice copy of a very scarce Lawson title. See Bader p. 143-4. $400.00

STUNNING BINDING MINT IN DUST WRAPPER 323. (LANG,ANDREW). THE BOOK OF PRINCES AND PRINCESSES by RARE LAWSON Mrs. Lang, edited by . 326. (LAWSON,ROBERT)illus. JUST FOR FUN. Chic: Rand McNally (1940 “A”). Lond.: Longmans 1908. 8vo, 361p. + 4to, (8 x 10 1/4”), pictorial cloth, 64p., Fine in dust wrapper repaired on verso. ads, blue cloth with extensive gilt 1st ed. Stories and verses about dragons, princes and fairies by Padraic Colum pictorial binding, all edges gilt, few and others. Illustrated by Lawson with bright color dust wrapper, color pictorial spots on endpaper else MINT IN endpapers plus full and partial page line illustrations on nearly every page - full DUST WRAPPER (dw only sl. worn of detail and action and some of his very best work. One of his rarest books, on edges). First ed. A book of 14 especially in wrapper.. $800.00 fairy tales based on the lives of real princes and princesses, illustrated 327. (LAWSON,ROBERT)illus. STORY OF JESUS by Walter Russell Bowie. by H. J.FORD with 8 color plates, NY: Charles Scribner 1937 (1937 A). Large 8vo, (6 1/2 x 9”), cloth, Fine in very full page b&w’s and many lovely text slightly worn dust wrapper. 1st ed. Illustrated by Lawson with 8 striking full page illustrations. This is an amazing color illustrations plus many b&w’s throughout and color wrapper. A beautiful copy copy, rare in the pictorial wrapper. of an extremely scarce Lawson title and one of his few books in color. $325.00 $1350.00

RARE LAWSON ETCHING 324. LAWSON,ROBERT. ETCHING: THE MERROW (LITTLE MERMAID) for the story by Hans Christian Andersen. Done in [1930] and limited to only 100 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY LAWSON. The image measures 5 x 7” on laid paper watermarked “Hand Made” measuring 8 3/4 x 11 3/4”. The image shows Andersen’s Little Mermaid perched on rocks at the shore with waves breaking in background. From a group of about 30 etchings Lawson produced between 1928-1933; for his work he was awarded the Taylor Arms Prize of the Society of American Etchers in 1931. This is a rare Lawson item. $1250.00

IRISH FANTASY 328. (LAWSON,ROBERT)illus. TREASURE OF THE ISLE OF MIST by W.W. Tarn. NY: Putnam (1934). 8vo (6 x 81/2”), black cloth, 184p., Fine in chipped dw. 1st ed. An Irish fantasy with a touch of magic, illustrated with blue pictorial endpapers, 9 full page, 1 double page and numerous half-page pen and ink drawings by Lawson. A nice copy of a very uncommon Lawson title. $275.00

SCARCE LAWSON TITLE 329. (LAWSON,ROBERT)illus. UNDER THE TENT OF THE SKY ed John Brewton. NY: Macmillan 1937 (May 1937). 8vo, (6 1/4 x 9 1/2”), blue pictorial cloth, Fine in frayed dust wrapper. 1st ed. A collection of poems by noted poets about a variety of animals. Illustrated with wrapper design, pictorial endpapers, 20 full page line illustrations plus several smaller b&w’s in Lawson’s detailed and beautiful style. A very scarce Lawson title. $350.00 914.764.7410 Pg 46 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89 330. LAWSON,ROBERT. CAPT. KIDD’S CAT. Boston: Little Brown (1956). UNCOMMON LENSKI TITLE 8vo, (6 5/8 x 8 1/2”), cloth, FINE in dust wrapper slightly worn at spine ends. 335. LENSKI,LOIS. JUDY’S JOURNEY. Phil: Lippincott 1947 (1947). 8vo, (6 3/4 Stated 1st ed. The story of Capt. Kidd as told by his cat. Written by Lawson and x 8 3/4”), cloth, 212p., Fine in frayed dw. Stated 1st edition. One of Lenski’s regional illustrated by him with really great b&w’s throughout. $250.00 stories, this tells about Judy and her migrant family as they leave their shack in the Alabama cotton fields. Illus. by Lenski with many b&w’. A scarce title. $200.00

SCARCE LE MAIR BOOK IN DUST WRAPPER 331. (LE MAIR,H.WILLEBEEK)illus. CHILDREN’S CORNER by R.H. Elkin. 336. LENSKI,LOIS. PRAIRIE SCHOOL. Phil.: Lippincott 1951 (1951). 8vo, (6 Lond. & Phil.: Augener & McKay nd [1914]. Obl. 4to, gilt cloth, pict. paste-on, 3/4 x 8 3/4”), red cloth, Fine in sl. frayed dw. Stated 1st edition. Lenski’s eighth Fine in repaired dw with 2 pieces off rear panel. Illustrated by Le Mair with regional story, this is set in South Dakota during the Great Blizzard of 1949. 16 magnificent color plates to accompany rhymes by Elkin. Some of her most Illus. in b&w throughout. $200.00 beautiful work and a very scarce book, especially in dust wrapper. $550.00 NEWBERY AWARD WINNER LEBEDEV, VLADIMIR - 491 337. LENSKI,LOIS. STRAWBERRY GIRL. Phil.: Lippincott (1945). 4to, green cloth, fine in dust wrapper (dw no award seal, small hole in spine otherwise VG+. STUNNING Stated 1st ed. Florida in the early 1900’s. Illus. in b&w by Lenski. NEWBERY ART NOUVEAU AWARD WINNER. $750.00 ILLUSTRATIONS 332. (LEFLER,HEINRICH)illus. MOZART with verse by Richard Specht. Vienna: Munk [1919]. 4to (9 3/4 x 12 1/2”), wraps, pictorial paste- on, fine in dust wrapper with oval window (dw has some soil and repairs on verso). Illustrated with 12 beautiful color art nouveau plates by Lefler surrounded with gilt decorations. $1000.00

DELUXE EDITION OF ONLY 100 COPIES 333. (LEGRAND,EDY)illus. LINE EN NOUVELLE - CALEDONIE by Pierre Mille. Paris: Callman Levy 1934. 4to, stiff pictorial wraps, loose as issued and As New in publisher’s decorative slipcase. LIMITED TO ONLY 100 338. LEWIS,C.S. THE LAST BATTLE. Lond: Bodley Head 1956 (1956). 8vo, DELUXE COPIES, unopened and blue cloth, 184p., Fine in dust wrapper sl. frayed at top of spine else nice and free printed on Arches paper. The story of tears. 1st ed. of the seventh and last Narnia tale, illus. by PAULINE BAYNES, for children is set in New Caledonia, winner of the Carnegie Medal. A nice copy. $2400.00 a French territory comprised of a series of islands east of Australia SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR in the South Pacific. Illustrated 339. LIDDELL,MARY. LITTLE MACHINERY. NY: Doubleday Page. (1926). by Le Grand with magnificent color 4to, (8 1/8 x 9 1/4”), cloth backed pictorial boards, Fine (no dust wrapper). lithographs printed by Mourlot. The First edition of this unique and innovative children’s book cited by Meigs, difference between the trade edition Bader and Mahoney for its integration of style and story. Really a Modernist and this limited edition is substantial. picture book, the story centers Rare in the limited edition and quite around a mechanical boy wonderful. $1000.00 who grew out of machine parts. Illustrated by the author with bold, stylized RARE LENSKI MOTHER GOOSE full colors on every page, Bader calls it “an enchanted 334. LENSKI,LOIS. JACK HORNER’S PIE. erector set...the first and NY: Harper Brothers (1927). 4to (7 1/4 x 9 last of its kind.”(p.25). THIS COPY IS SIGNED BY 1/2”), yellow pictorial cloth, 83p., near fine THE AUTHOR on the title in dust wrapper. A book of Mother Goose page and initialed by her on the endpaper. Surprisingly nursery rhymes selected by Lenski and few copies of this title have illustrated by her with 18 full page color survived and this is a special illustrations and many other smaller color copy. $350.00 illustrations throughout the text. This is some of her best work and is a rare and early title LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB – 158 LINDBERGH, CHARLES - 37 by her. $750.00 LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD – 246, 284, 373 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 47 [email protected] PETER PARLEY TO PENROD TITLE MATHEMATICS - 239 340. LOFTING,HUGH. THE STORY OF DOCTOR DOLITTLE. NY: Stokes 1920 (1920). 8vo, orange cloth, pict. paste-on, 180p., FINE.. 1st ed. of the MAN RAY - SEE #54 - ALPHABET POUR ADULTES FIRST DOCTOR DOLITTLE BOOK (PETER PARLEY TO PENROD P. 138). Illus. with pict. ep’s, color frontis, b&w plates plus many full page line illus. by Lofting. PUBLISHER’S FILE COPY A scarce title. $1000.00 345. MAUROIS,ANDRE. FATAPOUFS & THINIFERS trans. by Rosemary Benet. NY:H. Holt (1940). 4to, cloth, Fine in sl. worn dw. 1st ed., PUBLISHER’S FILE COPY (on title). The Fatapoufs are fat people who enjoy eating as a major sport. The scowling Thinifers are the opposite. This is the fantasy tale of the Double Brothers’ visit to both lands. Illustrated by JEAN BRULLER with wonderfully bold color illustrations throughout. $600.00

NEWBERY AWARD WINNER 341. LOFTING,HUGH. VOYAGES OF DOCTOR DOLITTLE. NY: Stokes 1922 (1922). 8vo, dec. cloth, pict. paste-on, slightest of cover soil, fine. 1st ed. SIGNED WITH SKETCH NEWBERY AWARD WINNER. Illustrated by Lofting with color pictorial ep’s, 346. MAYER,MERCER. PROFESSOR guarded color frontis, one other color plate plus charming b&w’s. This is the WORMBOG IN SEARCH FOR THE second in the Doctor Dolittle series and also the second book to win the Newbery ZIPPERUMP-A-ZOO. NY: Golden Press Award. Extremely scarce and a nice copy. $1200.00 1976. Large 4to, pict. bds, light soil, VG+. 1st ed. (a-j code). A marvelous picture book BETSY-TACY INSCRIBED illus. in bold colors on every page. THIS 342. LOVELACE,MAUD COPY IS INSCRIBED BY MAYER WITH A HART. BETSY-TACY. SKETCH OF A MOUSE. $200.00 NY: Crowell 1940 (1940). 8vo, pink cloth, slightest 347. McCLOSKEY,ROBERT. BURT of cover soil else near fine. DOW DEEP-WATER MAN. NY: Viking The first Betsy Tacy book, (1963). Folio, (9 1/4 x 11 1/2”), cloth, THIS COPY IS INSCRIBED Fine in dust wrapper. 1st ed. Set on the BY LOVELACE on the Maine coast, boldly illus. in full color on title page. Illustrated every page by McCloskey. Beautiful copy. by LOIS LENSKI with $300.00 many full page and smaller b&w’s. Rare and a special copy. $600.00 348. MCCLOSKEY,ROBERT. CENTERBERG TALES. NY: LOW, JOSEPH - 372 Viking 1951 (1951). 4to, (7 x 9 1/4”), pictorial cloth, 191p., Fine in very slightly CALDECOTT AWARD rubbed dust wrapper. 1st edition. A continuation of 343. MACAULAY,DAVID. BLACK AND WHITE. McCloskey’s “Homer Price”, profusely illustrated with Bost.: HM 1990. 4to, cl. backed bds, Fine in dw. 16 full page drawings and more than 50 half page 1st ed. CALDECOTT AWARD WINNER, SIGNED black and whites as well BY MACAULAY. Illus. in full color by the as color wrapper. Scarce title. $400.00 author. $150.00

344. (MACKINSTRY, FIRST IN THE SERIES ELIZABETH)illus. ANDERSEN’S FAIRY TALES 349. (McCLOSKEY,ROBERT)illus. HENRY introduced by Anne Carroll REED, INC. by Keith Robertson. NY: Moore. NY: Coward McCann (1933), large 4to, (9x11”), Viking (1958). 8vo, (5 3/4 x 8 1/2”), cloth, 255p., red cloth, Fine in frayed dust wrapper. Stated 206p., Fine in dust wrapper (dw has a chip 1st ed. 15 stories selected by in upper corner, lightly soiled and slightly Mackinstry and illustrated by her with pictorial endpapers, worn spine ends but really VG). Stated 3 full page color illustrations, 1st ed. of the first Henry Reed story, 12 full page black and whites, plus numerous text illustrated with full and partial page line illustrations. Quite scarce illustrations by McCloskey and with color dw. and a great book of fairy tales. $300.00 Scarce. $450.00

MAGIC – 448 914.764.7410 Pg 48 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89 MCLOUGHLIN NAUGHTY CHILDREN - 2 BOOKS IN 1 353. MILHOUS,KATHERINE. THE 350. MCLOUGHLIN PUB. LITTLE BOYS & GIRLS LIBRARY: THE WISE EGG TREE. NY: Scribner (1950 A). 4to, BOYS [AND] SKETCHES OF LITTLE BOYS (by Thomas Lovechild) edited by Mrs. Sarah J. Hale. NY: McLoughlin Brothers (24 Beekman Street) ca 1860. cloth, Fine in dust wrapper (dw with a few 16mo, red cloth, 64, 63p., some rubbing and foxing, VG. The first book contains closed tears but VG with no award seal and Fred. Forethought, Matthew Merrythought, Luke Lovebook, Ben. Bee and more. The second includes Well- not price clipped). 1st ed. CALDECOTT Behaved Little Boy, Attentive AWARD WINNER. The story of a Little Boys, Inattentive children’s egg hunt set in Pennsylvania Little Boy, Covetous Little Boy, Exact Little Boy, Dutch country and wonderfully illus. in Quarrelsome Little Boy and color by the author. MILHOUSE see also Good Little Boy. Illustrated by J.H. HOWARD with 385. $475.00 14 hand-colored cuts plus hand-colored titles pages (each book includes 7 full AMERICAN REVOLUTION / PETER page hand-colored cuts PARLEY TO PENROD plus hand-colored title). 354. MILITARY INTEREST. BOYS OF ‘76 by Charles Carlton Coffin. NY: Harper A rare, early McLoughlin Brothers 1877 (1876). 4to (6 3/4 x 9 1/8”), gold cloth stamped in black and title. $850.00 gold, 398p.,some cover soil, tips worn, spine ends frayed, McLOUGHLIN see also 3, 18, 31, 38-40, 58, 83, 112, 125, 127, 153, 177, 302-3, hinges strengthened, overall 381, 435, 441, 515-6, 548 tight, Good+. The story of the American Revolutionary 351. MEGGENDORFER,LOTHAR. IMMER LUSTIG! Munchen: Braun & War illustrated with many Schneider nd ca 1890. Folio, cloth backed pict. bds, sl. edge wear, new spine full page and smaller matching the original, tabs extended, VG+ in custom clamshell box. Featuring engravings. Carleton was a 8 fabulous hand-colored moveable plates: musical conductor, drummer, man noted war correspondent. swatting a fly, hunter chasing a rabbit, a gnome with a jack-in-the-box, a man Peter Parley to Penrod spanking his son, a fisherman, and a Black child with a turtle. Great movements p.47. $85.00 and altogether wonderful. $3200.00

WORLD WAR II 355. MILITARY INTEREST. EYES RIGHT! THE ARMY OF TODAY by Captain A.O. Pollard. Lond.: Tuck circa 1940. Oblong 4to (11 1/4” wide x 8 1/4), pictorial wraps, 31p., VG+. A description and glorification of army life, illustrated with color and b&w lithos by Steven Spurrier. $250.00

TOLMER PUBLICATION 356. MILITARY INTEREST. HISTOIRE DE JEAN-MARIE LE FRANCOIS laboureur et soldat du Roi. Paris: Tolmer (1946). 8vo, pictorial boards, near fine. The story was handed down through generations and finally came into print with this volume by Tolmer. RARE MEGGENDORFER MOVEABLE - CIRCUS THEME Charming folk-peasant style color illustrations are by Russian born artist Serge 352. MEGGENDORFER,LOTHAR. THE MONKEY THEATRE. [Lond: Gravel] ca 1895. Wischnevsky, bringing to life country and military life in the mid sixteenth Obl. folio, cl. backed pict. bds, tips rubbed and light wear, and soil, possible renewal of century. Printed on thick card pages the color illustrations are so vibrant they metal pieces else near Fine. Featuring 8 very fine and detailed color moveable plates, seem to be hand done. $750.00 all featuring HUMANIZED MONKEYS dressed to the nines, with several scenes taking place in the circus ring. Quite wonderful and very scarce. $3500.00 #356 MEXICO -9, 167

ELEGANT HAND COLORED COPPER PLATE ENGRAVINGS 357. MILITARY INTEREST. MILITARY HEROES THAT HAVE DISTINGUISHED THEMSELVES DURING THE LATE WAR. EMBELLISHED WITH EQUESTRIAN PORTRAITS. London: R. Miller, no date (circa 1825). 16mo (5 1/2” by 3 1/2”). Original marbled boards with leather spine. Spine damaged and repaired, front hinge strengthened else VG. Printed on one side of the paper, illustrated with hand-colored title page and thirteen plates all printed from copperplate engravings. The Military Heroes are shown mounted on their horses and include: Frederick, Duke of York; Leopold, Prince of Saxe-Coburg; Emperor Alexander of Russia; King of Prussia; Duke of Wellington; Prince Blucher; Bernadotte, King of Sweden; Prince of Orange; Marquis of Anglesea; Lord Rowland Hill; Sir Thomas Picton; Sir Ralph Abercrombie. A 12 page catalogue is bound in at the back. A scarce title with fine color plates. Osborne p. 169. (SEE ILLUS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT --->>>) $750.00 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 49 [email protected] 1864 AMERICAN - PLAYING SOLDIERS LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY MILNE 358. MILITARY INTEREST. SPIRIT OF YOUNG AMERICA: A SERIES 360. MILNE,A.A. WINNIE THE POOH. Lond: Methuen (1926). 4to, cl. backed OF SEVEN PICTURES in nine colors, in oil with descriptive text. Fall River, boards, small bump and rub on lower corner, some natural toning to paper else MA: Fall River Lithographic Co. 1864. Obl. 8vo, pict. wraps, spine neatly Fine in dust wrapper (conserved on verso), in custom slip case. 1st ed. LARGE strengthened else near fine. Each of the 7 full page chromolithographs PAPER COPY LIMITED TO 350 NUMBERED COPIES ON HANDMADE PAPER (including cover not repeated in text) depicts boys playing soldier, accompanied SIGNED BY MILNE AND SHEPARD. Illus. by E.H. Shepard. A nice copy. (SEE by text in verse extolling the virtues of being brave soldiers. Rare. $1500.00 ALSO REAR COVER) $15,000.00

MILITARY INTEREST see also 8, 42-6, 197, 382, 454, 484, 488

1ST “POOH” BOOK LIMITED TO ONLY 100 SIGNED COPIES 359. MILNE,A.A. WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG. Lond: Methuen (1924). 4to, cloth backed boards, Fine in sl. soiled VG dw with old tape marks on verso sl. visible on front, housed custom chemise and leather backed case. LIMITED TO ONLY 100 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY MILNE AND SHEPARD! 1st ed. of the first Pooh book, printed on hand-made paper. Rare and a beautiful copy. (SEE ALSO REAR COVER) $30,000.00

NICE COPY OF RARE MILNE ITEM

361. MILNE,A.A. THE CHRISTOPHER ROBIN CALENDAR 1929. Lond: Methuen. 4to, (8 x 10”), 12 heavy card sheets loose as issued and tied at the top with red silk ribbon. Slightest hint of cover soil else FINE. Printed on rectos only in a range of colors with and wonderfully illustrated by E.H. SHEPARD in line to accompany hand- lettered text and small calendar for each

#357 (Previous Page) month. A beautiful copy of a rare Milne item. $900.00

SIGNED BY MILNE

362. MILNE,A.A. IF I MAY.

Lond.: Methuen (1920). 12mo,

blue gilt cloth, 183p. + ads, fine

in dw chipped and worn on spine.

1st ed. A collection of essays

on diverse topics such as war,

gardens, desert islands and

Christmas presents. THIS COPY

IS SIGNED BY MILNE on the title

page. $500.00 914.764.7410 Pg 50 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89 RARE UNUSED MOTHER GOOSE GAME INSCRIBED BY MILNE 368. MOTHER GOOSE. GAME OF MOTHER GOOSE THAT I CAN MAKE MYSELF by Mary Belle McKellar. NY: Cupples & Leon (1918). 4to, (9x12”), stiff pictorial 363. MILNE,A.A. SUCCESS: A wraps, Fine and unused. Printed on thick card pages are 4 Mother Goose rhymes PLAY. Lond.: Chatto & Windus that can be cut up into cards. The child is directed to study the rhymes intact. 1923. 8vo, cloth, xv, 94p., fine When committed to memory, the child cuts up the pages into cards along the dotted lines to play the game. The cards are dealt and the object of the game is to make in dw. 1st ed. THIS COPY IS a complete rhyme. The instructions for play are inside the rear cover. Each of INSCRIBED BY MILNE “My best the rhymes has charming color illustrations by the author. The book can be kept as a Mother Goose book, or it can be cut up to play the memory game. $350.00 play (except the one he hasn’t seen yet) A.A. Milne”. Interesting #368 8 page intro. by Milne. A special copy. $850.00

MINIATURE - 261

THE SECOND “ANNE” TITLE 364. MONTGOMERY,L.M. ANNE OF AVONLEA. Bost: Page 1909 (1909). 8vo, (5 1/4 x 7 3/4”) green cloth, pictorial paste-on, 367p. + [8]p.ads, FINE. Stated 1st impression of the second Anne book. Illus. with color frontis by George Gibbs. Extremely scarce and a beautiful copy. $1100.00

#364 #369

MAINE POLITICAL SATIRE 369. MOTHER GOOSE. MOTHER GOOSE COMES TO PORTLAND by Frederic Freeman. Portland, Maine: Southworth Print. Co. (1918). 12mo (5 1/4 x 7 1/2”), cloth backed pictorial boards, nearly As New is original onion skin wrapper. Traditional Mother Goose characters and rhymes are adapted to Maine political figures of the era. Each figure is identified by name and positions and is illustrated in line by the author. Florence Brooks Whitehouse, the Chairman for Maine of the National Woman’s Party is pictured as Mrs. Pieman. When Simple Simon asks to taste her ware she replies “Advance my measure” of Justice to Women and Simon replies “If that’s the price - with pleasure.”. A clever little book. $200.00

UNUSUAL BUZZA MOTHER GOOSE NOVELTY 370. MOTHER GOOSE. MOTHER GOOSE IN MOTION PICTURES. Minneapolis: Buzza, no date circa 1920. 4to, (7x9 1/2”), stiff pictorial wraps, near Fine. There are 8 classic Mother Goose rhymes. Each left had page has a great full 365. MONTGOMERY,L.M. ANNE OF WINDY POPLARS. Toronto: McClelland page color illustration of the Stewart (1936). 8vo, cloth, 301p., fine in dw frayed at spine ends. 1st Canadian rhyme. Each right hand page edition of this title with a color dw by an unknown hand. Scarce in the dw. has the verse of the rhyme $600.00 surrounded with silhouettes. Attached to the top edge IN DUST WRAPPER of every page is a 7” die-cut full color figure that projects 366. MONTGOMERY,L.M. ANNE’S out the top of the book. The child can ‘jiggle” the figure HOUSE OF DREAMS. NY: Stokes (1917). as the rhyme is read. The figures (really paper dolls) are 8vo, lavender cloth, pict. paste-on, fine in removable and could be played with separately. A bit difficult dw (dw with some chips and creases). 1st to describe but definitely unusual, especially complete in ed. The 5th book about Anne where she such nice condition. $350.00 marries Dr. Gilbert Blythe. Illustrated #367 by MARIA KIRK with tissue-guarded frontis repeated on cover. Nice copy, rare in dw. $2000.00

FINE COPY OF RARE BOOK OF POETRY BY MONTGOMERY 367. MONTGOMERY,L.M. THE WATCHMAN AND OTHER POEMS. Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild and Stewart (1916). 8vo, blue cloth printed in black, 159p., FINE condition. 1st edition, (published in the U.S. a year later). Poetry had long been Montgomery’s passion, but prior to this book she didn’t pursue it. The poem “The Watchman” was read at her funeral. This is a scarce title in any condition and when found always has several defects. This is one of the nicest copies ever, rare thus. $4000.00 (SEE ILLUS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT------>>>>>>>>>>>)

MOORE, CLEMENT – 172-77, 379 MORMON - 47 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 51 [email protected] 6 BOOKS FINE IN ORIGINAL PUBLISHER’S BOX AMERICAN HARLIQUINADE 371. MOTHER GOOSE. MOTHER GOOSE LIBRARY. NY: Sam’l Gabriel Sons 375. MOVEABLE. (HARLEQUINADE). METAMORPHOSE Showing in a curious & Co., no date (ca. 1930). 6 books, 8vo (7 1/4 x 8 1/4”), pictorial wraps, fine in manner the natural disposition of mankind for obtaining EARTHLY TREASURES original publisher’s box (box shows sl. wear and soil). This set includes: MOTHER by Thomas Clement. Boston: Improved and Published by D.B. Clement 1852. GOOSE RHYMES and other rhymes, LITTLE BO-PEEP and other rhymes, DING 16mo (3 3/4 wide x 4 5/8”), red cloth with extensive gilt decoration on front and DONG BELL and other rhymes, MISTRESS MARY and other rhymes, QUEEN OF blind stamped on rear cover, light inner margin stain else VG+. Consisting of one HEARTS and other rhymes AND LIITLE BOY BLUE and other rhymes. Beautifully continuous sheet of paper opening accordion style into 5 panels. Each panel has illustrated in color on every page in typical 30’s style by unknown hand. $275.00 upper and lower flaps that can be lifted or laid down to form a variety of pictures to accompany verses. Top illustrations include Adam, Abel, a lion, a man with a gold coin and soldier. First published in the 1760’s in England, this type of novelty was among the first mechanical books. This is a very scarce American moveable. $1850.00

HEIROGLYPHIC MOTHER GOOSE JOSEPH LOW 372. MOTHER GOOSE. MOTHER GOOSE RIDDLE RHYMES. NY: Harc. Brace (1953). 8vo, (7 1/2 x 8 3/4”), cloth backed decorative boards. VG+ in dust wrapper with some closed tears. Stated 1st ed. A Mother Goose guessing game illustrated in full color on every page by JOSEPH LOW with pictures replacing words. See Bader p. 347-8. N.Y. Times Best Book of the year. Scarce. $200.00

MOTHER GOOSE see also 97, 110, 176, 204-5, 277, 334, 410, 442, 517-18, 540, AMERICAN HARLIQUINADE 577, 583 376. MOVEABLE. (HARLEQUINADE). METAMORPHOSIS INTENDED FOR THE AMUSEMENT OF GOOD CHILDREN. Boston: Degen Estes & Co., no MOVEABLE RED RIDING date, circa 1865. 16mo (3 7/8 wide x 6 1/8”), orange pictorial wraps with a HOOD nice cut of a little drummer boy on cover, a few tiny archival margin mends 373. MOVEABLE. (CAPENDU on cover else VG in cloth folder. Consisting of 4 panels. Each panel has upper PUB.) LE CHAPERON and lower flaps that can be lifted or laid down to form a variety of pictures ROUGE [LITTLE RED to accompany verses. Top illustrations include Master Charles and his boat, RIDING HOOD] [by little boy dragging his brother in cart, a man with a jackass to sell and a basket. Charles Perrault]. Paris: First published in the 1760’s in England, this type of novelty was among the A. Capendu ca 1890. Large first mechanical books. This seems to be of American origin which are far less 4to, [14]p., cl. backed common than the usual reprints of English versions. $1850.00 pict. bds, edges rubbed, VG+. Featuring 6 fine tab operated moveable plates with chromolithographed illustrations. Also illustrated in brown on text pages. Very scarce and a nice copy. $1000.00

EARLY DEAN “PUNCH AND JUDY” HAND-COLORED MOVEABLE 374. MOVEABLE. (DEAN) PUNCH AND JUDY (on cover: The Royal Punch & Judy as played before the Queen at Windsor Castle & The Crystal Palace). Lond: Dean & Son 11 Ludgate Hill (1859 code on rear cover). 4to, (7 1/4 x 11 1/4”), stiff pict. wraps, edges frayed light soil, a few tabs extended, VG. Featuring 8 fabulous HAND-COLORED MOVEABLE PLATES, 6 of which also have moveable figures on the bottom halves of the page. Very scarce. $3500.00 914.764.7410 Pg 52 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89 RARE NISTER WITH UNUSUAL MECHANISM NAST’S YANKEE DOODLE PUBLISHED BY McLOUGHLIN 377. MOVEABLE. (NISTER) COME AND GO IN FAIRYLAND! Lond.: Nister 381. [NAST,THOMAS]illus. ca 1890. Obl. 4to, cl. backed YANKEE DOODLE. NY: pict. bds, some cover rubbing McLoughlin Bros. (1899). and normal wear, VG+. nd ca 1885. Sq. 4to, (9 Sleeping Beauty, Goldilocks, 1/4 x 10 1/2”), pictorial Cinderella, Babes in the wraps, [16] p. incl. covers, Wood and Red Riding hood tiny pinhole in corner are rendered into verse by else VG-Fine. Featuring L.L. Weedon. Featuring 5 6 magnificent full page beautiful mechanical plates chromos plus great color that feature a rarely seen covers showing Uncle Sam mechanism. There are 2 on a horse surrounded by a slender ribbons attached to flag motif. A nice copy of each side of the plate. As a very scarce McLoughlin the ribbon is pulled, part of item. $475.00 the illustrations revolves 180 degrees to reveal a NAST see also 215 another illustrations below that relates to the verse. NAZI CHILDREN’S BOOK PROPAGANDA Text pages are illus. in line. 382. NAZI INTEREST. MEIN BUCH zum Anschauen, Zeichnen, Lesen und Rare. $2750.00 Schreiben von Hans Bruckl. Munchen: R. Oldenbourg, no date, circa 1936. 8vo, (6 x 8 1/2”), 120p., cloth backed pictorial boards, near fine. An early reader for children illustrated in typical 30’s style by Ernst Kutzer with bold color illustrations and b&w’s depicting everyday life of little children. Interspersed throughout the RARE 19TH CENTURY METAMORPHIC SLICE BOOK book are 4 Nazi illustrations including a color portrait of Hitler. Although most 378. MOVEABLE. (SLICE) WASSENBEELDENSPEL in kluchtige metamorphosen German school books of this type were “de-Nazified” by the government by coloring van menschen en dieren. Haarlem: I. de Haan, circa 1870. 8vo, (6 1/2” wide over or excising Nazi pages, some copies such as this do exist. Rare. $975.00 x 7 3/4”), pictorial boards, a few small old repairs (not offensive) else VG. Similar to titles in Dean’s Surprise Picture Book series. Illustrated with 6 extremely fine chromo- lithographed leaves of 12 full page illustrations, each sliced into thirds enabling the reader to make more than 500 different humorous combinations of people and birds to accompany text in verse. Quite scarce. $1250.00

MOVEABLE “NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS” NAZI see also 311 379. MOVEABLE. (WEHR) THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS by Clement ORIGINAL NEILL DRAWING FROM TIK-TOK OF OZ Moore. Duenewald: 1949. 8vo, spiral 383. NEILL,JOHN R. ORIGINAL ART: QUEEN ANN FROM TIK- backed pict. bds, VG. Illus. in color by TOK OF OZ. This is a beautiful pen and ink drawing from Tik-Tok of Oz. JULIAN WEHR featuring 4 nice moveable The image measures 10 x 7,5” matted and framed to 10 x 18”. It appears as plates. $250.00 a chapter head on p. 27 of the book and is a beautiful image of Queen Ann. NEILL see also 94-6, 100, 154, 176, 547. (SEE ALSO INSIDE FRONT COVER) $6250.00 MOVEABLE see also – 84, 92, 351-2, 429, 439-41, 493

MUSIC – 25, 98

MYTH & LEGEND – 389, 418, 426, 427

NAST & CHRISTMAS 380. NAST,THOMAS. THOMAS NAST’S CHRISTMAS DRAWINGS FOR THE HUMAN RACE. NY: Harper Bros. 1890. 4to, (9 x 11 1/2”), tan pictorial cloth, light soil, corner bumped, occasional very light inner margin stain, overall VG. 1st ed. The first collection of Nast’s work with engraved frontis, title and 60 engraved plates. Having a Christmas theme this includes reproductions of hundreds of Nast’s CALDECOTT HONOR Christmas art in line including 384. NEWBERRY,CLARE TURLAY. APRIL’S KITTENS. NY: Harper Brothers of course his famous 1940 (1940). 4to, (9x11”), tan cloth, slight cover soil else near fine in lightly Santa Claus. Extremely frayed dust wrapper. First ed. A wonderful story about a little girl’s difficult scarce. $2000.00 decision - which of 4 kittens to keep - is happily resolved and beautifully illustrated with full page color illustrations on every other page. Tipped-in at the end of the book is an extra plate for framing. CALDECOTT HONOR. (SEE ILLUS TOP NEXT PAGE) $275.00 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 53 [email protected] #384 389. (NIELSEN,KAY)illus. FAIRY TALES BY HANS ANDERSEN. Lond: Hodder & Stoughton nd [1924]. Large 4to, elaborate gilt pictorial moire, FINE IN PICTORIAL DUSTWRAPPER! (dw sl. frayed). 1st ed. Illustrated by Kay Nielsen with 12 beautiful tipped in color plates plus many full page black and whites to accompany 16 fairy tales. A beautiful copy with the gilt #385 binding quite bright, scarce in the dw. $1850.00 dust wrapper

INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR - 385. [NEWBERY,JOHN] A BOOK FOR JENNIFER by Alice Dalgliesh. NY: BOXED NIELSEN IN POWDER AND CRINOLINE Charles Scribner’s Sons 1941 (1940). 8vo (6 x 8 1/4”). decorative cloth, 114p., 390. (NIELSEN,KAY)illus. IN POWDER AND CRINOLINE: fairy tales retold Fine in rubbed and frayed dust wrapper. The book relates the life and times by Sir Arthur Quiller Couch. Lond: Hodder & Stoughton nd [1913]. 4to, lavender of John Newbery and his Juvenile Library bringing alive the world of children’s pictorial cloth, some light foxing throughout else really NEAR FINE IN ORIGINAL books in the 18th century. Illustrated by Katharine Milhous with 10 charming PUBLISHERS PICTORIAL full page color illustrations and with 11 cuts taken from old books. Dalgliesh used BOX WITH MOUNTED Wilbur Macy Stone’s collection for reference and the design of the book cover COLOR PLATE (box soiled, and jacket reproduces paper used on an actual 18th century book of Stone’s. corners strengthened). 1st THIS COPY IS INSCRIBED BY DALGLIESH. $175.00 trade ed. (second issue bound all in cloth instead NEWBERY AWARD WINNER – 167, 337, 341 of cloth backed boards). Illustrated by Nielsen with NEWBERY AWARD HONOR – 78, 88, 260 24 tipped-in color plates with pictorial tissue guards, NICE COPY OF ROCKET BOOK pictorial endpapers plus 386. NEWELL,PETER. THE ROCKET BOOK. NY: Harp Bros (Oct. 1912). 8vo, text decorations. This is cloth, pict. paste-on, slight fading on rear cover else near fine. 1st ed. Fritz, a beautiful copy of a really the janitor’s naughty son, launches a rocket and the book follows the trail of magnificent book, rarely destruction that results, with a hole in each full page illustration where the found with the original rocket has gone through. Text is in verse. This is a nice copy of a book that is box. $1950.00 difficult to find in clean condition. NEWELL see also 155-6. $800.00

NIELSEN see also 212 NISTER PUB. – 33, 377

NOAH’S ARK - 315

GNOMES - KITTELSEN 391. NORWEGIAN INTEREST. SYVER OG TOSTER tekst av Lillian Wildenvey Sonning. Oslo: Grondahl no date. Obl. folio, cl. backed pict. bds, VG+. The adventures of 4 little children in the forest with gnomes and others. Wonderfully illustrated with full page color illustrations opposite each page of text by CHR. KITTELSEN. NORWAY see also 199- 200. $250.00

NOVELTIES – 135, 186, 214, 252, 305, 321, 370, 399, 401, 413, 448, 455, 493, 517, 522, 553 (see also books listed under Games, Pop-Ups, Moveables, 387. NICHOLSON,WILLIAM. BOOK OF BLOKES. [London] (Faber & Faber Panoramas, Peepshows, Toys) [1929]. 12mo (5 x 7 3/8”), white boards, green pictorial labels on both covers, Fine. 1st edition. Printed on one side of the paper, each page has a line illustration of a different English man (bloke), originating from sketches Nicholson did to amuse his children. There is no text and the drawings are impressionistic in style, executed in a variety of colors. $500.00 TUCK FLOWER NURSERY RHYMES 392. NURSERY RHYMES. HOW DOES OBSCURE NICHOLSON BOOK YOUR GARDEN GROW? Lond.: Tuck 388. (NICHOLSON, ca 1900. 4to (8 1/2 x 11”), pictorial WILLIAM)illus. MOSS AND wraps, VG+. Text features nursery and FEATHER by W.H. Davies. Lond.: Faber & Gwyer 1928. other rhymes dealing with flowers from 8vo (5 1/2 x 8 1/2”), printed around the world. Beautifully illustrated boards, slightest of cover soil else VG-Fine. LIMITED with 4 full page chromolithographs TO 500 NUMBERED LARGE and in 2-color on other pages. A PAPER COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, DAVIES. title in the Father Tuck Nursery Illustrated with 2 full Series. $150.00 page designs, one striking one in full color. Printed at the Curwen Press, this is Number 10 of the Ariel Poems. $225.00 NUTT PUBLISHER see 247-8 OAKLEY, VIOLET - 529 914.764.7410 Pg 54 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89 AUSTRALIAN INTEREST FINE COPY IN DUST WRAPPER! 393. (O’HARRIS,PIXIE)illus. LITTLE ROUND GARDEN by Gladys Lister. 397. OUTHWAITE,IDA RENTOUL. BLOSSOM: A FAIRY STORY written and Sydney & Lond.: Angus & Robertson 1938. 4to, pict. boards, [109]p., fine in sl. illus. by Outhwaite. Lond.: A & C Black (1928). 4to, cloth backed patterned soiled dw. 1st ed. Illus. by Harris with full and partial page brown line illustrations boards, 94p. + 2 p. ads, slightest of rear cover soil else FINE IN DUST full of charm and detail (fairies etc.). This copy is SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. WRAPPER (wrapper some soil and some mends). 1st U.K. ed. Illustrated by See Muir p.499. $400.00 Outhwaite with pict. ep’s, 8 beautiful color plates, 8 detailed and lovely b&w plates plus drawings in-text. A beautiful copy. $2750.00

398. OUTHWAITE,IDA RENTOUL. BUNNY & BROWNIE: the adventures of George and Wiggle written and illus. by Outhwaite. Lond: A & C Black (1930). 4to, (7 3/4 CLASSIC DOG STORY x 10”), cloth backed pictorial 394. OLLIVANT,ALFRED. BOB SON OF BATTLE. NY: Doubleday & McClure boards and decorated rear 1898 (1898). 8vo (5 1/4 x 7 1/2”), green decorative cloth with gilt embellishment, cover, 99p. + ads, tips worn, 356p., slight bit of cover wear, near Fine. 1st ed. The story of a young boy and cover illustration worn in two sheep dogs, set in the English countryside. Nice copy. $200.00 areas, spine soiled, else tight, internally fine with RARE PETER PARLEY TITLE - MASS MARKET ADVENTURE BOOK absolutely no foxing that 395. OPTIC,OLIVER. BOAT CLUB; OR, THE BUNKERS OF RIPPLETON. A generally affects this title. Tale for Boys. Boston: Brown, Bazin and Company 1855 (1855). 12mo, (4 3/4 x 6 1st U.K. ed. Illus. with pict. 3/4”), brown pictorial cloth with front cover and spine stamped in gold, all edges endpapers, 8 beautiful color gilt, spine ends frayed, light oval stain on endpaper and next 2 leaves, tight, clean plates, 8 fine detailed b&w and overall VG+. 1st edition, presumable publisher’s presentation binding. Peter plates plus drawings in- Parley To Penrod p. 12 calls for blind stamped covers with only an ornamental text. Muir p. 645. Very panel and publisher’s monogram and no gilt edges. This copy has all edges gilt and scarce. $1650.00 the front cover has a gilt vignette of 3 boys on a boat repeated on rear cover in blind stamping. Illustrated with 4 plates. This was only the third book written by the prolific William Taylor Adams (here using his Oliver Optic pseudonym). PUBLISHER’S FILE COPY - Before the “Boat Club” American children had few adventure stories available THREEPENNY PAINTING BOOK to them. Although not without a moral message, imparting morality was not the 399. PAINTING BOOK. EASY PAINTING main message in this book. This title was a marked change from Sunday School BOOK NO. 3 - OBJECTS. Lond.: stories or Jacob Abbott’s books. It was so successful that Adams wrote 5 more Warne, circa 1900. 4to, stiff pictorial Boat Club titles creating the first of his prolific adventure tale series and also wraps, fine and unused. Featuring 4 creating a “first” in mass market publishing for boys. Rare. $1200.00 full page chromolithographed pages of various household and everyday objects #395 to be used as guides for painting the other pages in brown line. Directions for coloring are on the back cover. Publisher’s file copy. Scarce and a beautiful copy. $225.00

ATTWELL * HARRISON * HASSALL & MORE 400. PAINTING BOOK. LOTS OF PICTURES TO PAINT. Lond.: Cassell & Co., no date, owner inscribed 1915. 4to (7 1/2 x 9 3/4”), cloth backed pictorial boards, tips rubbed else near fine SCARCE PETER PARLEY TITLE and UNUSED. Illustrated 396. OTIS,JAMES. JENNY WREN’S BOARDING HOUSE: A STORY OF with 16 color plates facing NEWSBOY LIFE IN NEW YORK. Boston: Estes and Lauriat (1893). 8vo, (6 3/4 the same illustration in x 8”), brown cloth stamped in line for the child to paint. black and gold, 173p., slight There are also a few other wear to spine ends else VG+. pages in line. Illustrated 1st edition. Otis, whose real with charming art by name was James Otis Kaler MABEL LUCIE ATTWELL, was also the author of Toby FLORENCE HARRISON, Tyler or Ten Weeks with a JOHN HASSALL, Circus. Illustrated with 12 ROSA PETHERICK, black and white plates by KATE FRICERO, HARRY W.A. Rogers. This is a nice NIELSON and FLORENCE copy of a scarce Peter Parley HARDY. $225.00 To Penrod selection (p.97). $200.00 PALMER, DORIS – 480 PANAMA - 106 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 55 [email protected] PANORAMA WITH RARE PARRISH PORTFOLIO PUNCH-OUTS - 1950’s 406. (PARRISH,MAXFIELD)illus. MAXFIELD PARRISH’S FOUR BEST STEREOTYPES PAINTINGS. NY: P.F. Collier no date ca 1910. Oblong folio (19x14”). Black 401. PANORAMA. I WISH boards with printed label, sl. edge rubbing else fine. Inside are 4 matted color I WERE A NURSE. NY: illustrations by Parrish, 3 of which have a printed label describing them as the De Garden City 1952. Obl. 8vo, Luxe Edition and describing the setting of the art (from Arabian Nights). The prints themselves are 8 3/4 x 11”. Incredibly rare. $1600.00 pict. boards, fine. This is a 5 foot panorama with 3 sections of punch-out figures that the reader can use to play with and then replace for storage. Illustrated in typical 50’s style by VIVIENNE and replete with 50’s gender stereotypes. $350.00

PANORAMAS see also 246, 265, 291, 425, 550, 594

PERE CASTOR 402. PARAIN,NATHALIE. LES JEUX EN IMAGES [THE PICTURE PLAY BOOK]. Paris: Flammarion (1933). 4to, wraps with printed label, faint toning on title and bookplate removed from inside cover else near fine. 1st edition of this stunning PERE CASTOR title, wonderfully illustrated in Parain’s bold, stylized manner with full page color lithos depicting children at play in a variety of pastimes. Bader, p.125-6 remarks on the “strong clear color, clean outlines RARE PARRISH BOOK and a counterpoint of 407. (PARRISH,MAXFIELD) interesting textures.” illus. RUBY STORY BOOK: $850.00 Tales of Courage and Heroism retold by Penrhyn Coussens. NY: Duffield 1916 SCARCE PARAIN PICTURE BOOK (1916). 8vo, (5 x 7 1/2”), red 403. (PARAIN,NATHALIE)illus. FRIGOULET blind stamped cloth, light shelf wear, VG+. 1st edition A AU PAYS DES CHIFFRES by Jean Francois- book of fairy tales with a list Primo. Paris: Editions Excelsior [1933]. Large of sources in the back of the 4to, (10” wide x 12 3/4”), cloth backed pictorial book. Illustrated by Parrish boards, 36p., boards sl. toned, tips rubbed, with a beautiful color frontis. VG+. The adventure of a young boy named Rare. $300.00 Frigoulet, his cat Praline, his dog Croquignole PARRISH see also 97 and his donkey Mistoufle. Illustrated with 1 full page and dozens of in text color lithographs PARROT PRESS - 9 in Parain’s art deco style. A scarce Parain title. $800.00 408. (PEARSE,S.B.)illus. AMELIARANNE AND THE GREEN UMBRELLA by Constance Heward. Lond.: Harrap (August 1920). Small 8vo, boards, pict. paste-on, slight cover rubbing, near fine. 1st PARKER’S HUMANIZED BUNNIES! ed. Wonderful full page color illus. opposite each 404. PARKER,B AND N. FUNNY BUNNIES. London: W.& R. Chambers ca page of text, plus b&w pictorial borders on text 1905. Oblong folio, (12 3/4 pages, all printed on coated paper. Extremely x 9”), pictorial boards, tiny corner of title restored and scarce. $500.00 slight rubbing, near Fine. The daily doings of a family of humanized bunnies, told in verse. Illustrated by N. #405 #405 PARKER with 12 wonderfully detailed color plates and with illustrations in brown line as well. One of the scarcest of the Parker’s very fine picture books, this in particularly nice condition. $950.00

KNAVE OF HEARTS IN BOX 405. (PARRISH,MAXFIELD)illus. KNAVE OF HEARTS by Louise Saunders. NY: Scribner 1925 (1925) folio, black cloth, pictorial paste-on, FINE IN ORIGINAL BOX! (box restored as usual). An incredibly beautiful copy of the first edition of Parrish’s masterwork. Illustrated with glorious pictorial endpapers plus really magnificent full page color illustrations (printed on rectos only) and numerous rich color illustrations in-text, all printed on thick, heavy coated paper. $4000.00

(SEE ILLUSTRATIONS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT ------>>>>>>) 914.764.7410 Pg 56 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89

PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH - 353

409. (PEARSE,SUSAN B.)illus. PATIENCE STRONG’S WITH “MAGIC GLASSES” 413. PERE CASTOR. ALBUM MAGIQUE textes de Rose Celli. Paris: Flammarion NURSERY VERSERY. Lond.: Fred. Muller (1948). 5 x 1932 (1950). 4to, flexible pictorial wraps, Fine and complete with anaglyph glasses. Not 1st ed. Each page of text faces a full page 2- 7 1/2”, cloth backed pictorial boards, 47p., near fine. color illustration printed in red and blue but which 1st ed. Lovely rhymes are illustrated by Pearse with cannot be clearly seen. When the child wears the 8 color plates and many b&w’s. This is a charming little “magic glasses” provided, they can see 2 pictures - book. $150.00 one in red and one in blue. Illustrated by Russian emigres artists Nathalie Parain and Helene Guertik. Rare. $275.00 TRUE 1st PEAT ART DECO MOTHER GOOSE ALPHABET 410. PEAT,FERN BISEL. MOTHER GOOSE by Fern and Frank Peat. Akron: Saalfield (1929). Folio, (10x12”), black cloth, pict. paste-on, some soil on rear cover, light shelf wear, VG. 1st ed. A stunning ABC Mother Goose with fabulous Art PERE CASTOR GAME IN BOX Deco color illustrations 414. PERE CASTOR. AU JARDIN: JEU DE PERE CASTOR. Paris: Flammarion by Fern Bisel Peat on 1952. Housed in the original every page (printed on pictorial box are 64 cards. heavy glossy paper). Each The front of each card is letter of the alphabet has illustrated with something a Mother Goose nursery related to the garden and rhyme and a striking full the back of each card has the color Art Deco style illus. items name. The instruction by Peat. Although Peat’s sheet is laid-in. The child can title of Mother Goose play any games by grouping can be found in other items into any number of abridged versions, this different categories and it first ed. is very scarce can also be used as a memory and quite wonderful. game. $250.00 $600.00

415. PERE CASTOR. CONTE DE LA MARGUERITE [TALE OF A DAISY] by Beatrice Appia. Paris: Flammarion 1935. 4to, pict. wraps, fine. A Pere Castor 411. (PEAT,FERN BISEL)illus. RAG DOLL book illustrated with charming color lithos by Appia in a folk-peasant style telling SUSIE: HER ADVENTURES ON LAUGHING the story of a humanized flower. An uncommon Pere Castor title. $250.00

ISLAND by Anne Wurth. Akron: Saalfield #415 1939. Sq. 4to, pict. bds, small chip to base of spine else near Fine in sl. worn dw with some creases. Illustrated with 6 fine full page color illus. and with several smaller b&w’s to accompany the adventures of the toys. Very scarce. $200.00

#416

CHARMING MINIATURE PEEPSHOW 412. PEEPSHOW. PRINCE OF WALES & PRINCESS ALEXANDRA. Happily 416. PERE CASTOR. TALE OF A DAISY by Beatrice Appia. Racine: Whitman United March 10th 1863. no publication information, British circa 1863. 4 1/2” 1939. 4to, pict. wraps, fine. A Pere Castor book illustrated in color on every page wide x 3” high, yellow boards, hand-colored pictorial label, light soil, VG+. This by Appia in a folk-peasant style. A charming and uncommon Pere Castor title. is a charming little commemorative peepshow with 2 interior scenes and another This is the English language edition of the previous title. $225.00 pasted on the bottom cover. By looking through the hole in the center of the cover a 3-dimensional scene of the Prince and Princess walking in the park can be 417.PERE CASTOR. TRICOTI TRICOTA par May d’Alencon. Paris: Flammarion viewed. This is an uncommon peepshow. $1750.00 1939. Sq. 8vo, pictorial wraps, fine. 1st ed. The comical life of Mrs. Tricoti and her 12 children. Wonderfully illustrated with color lithos by Francoise Themerson. $150.00

PERE CASTOR also 402 PERRAULT, CHARLES – 282, 466, 373 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 57 [email protected] PETER PARLEY TO PENROD TITLES – The 6 VOLUME SET - 72 DOUBLE PAGE CHROMOS following numbers are books from a 422. PICTURE BOOK. J. STAUB’S BILDERBUCH Ein Buch fur Haus und Schule. collection we purchased that has many Zurich: Gebr. Kunzli 1922-3. 6 volumes, 4to (9” wide x 11 1/2”), cloth backed Peter Parley To Penrod titles. If you’re pictorial boards, Fine and complete. Designed as a 20th century orbus pictus, looking for specific titles, let us know. each volume presents text and illustrations covering all aspects of life that a child 65, 165, 189, 197, 227, 215, 242, might encounter or wonder about. The 72 double-page chromolithographs offer 273, 340, 354, 396, 459, 461, 526, detailed views of home life, recreation, life in foreign countries, exotic flora and 556, 561, 592 fauna as well as depicting the more mundane objects and views of everyday life. This was a successful set that was translated into many languages, no doubt due ALBANIAN FAIRY TALES to the high quality of the printing and attention to detail. $1350.00 418. (PETERSHAM,MAUD & MISKA)illus. ALBANIAN WONDER TALES by Post Wheeler. NY: Doubleday Doran 1936 (1936). 8vo, (5 3/4 x 8”), pictorial cloth, 282p., Fine in dust wrapper (dw worn along gutter and spine ends). 1st ed. 10 tales from Albanian folklore, with color endpapers, color frontis plus b&w’s in text. An uncommon Petersham title, especially in dust wrapper, and an interesting book. $125.00

UNUSUAL DOLL BOOK PUB. BY ELDER 419. PHOTO ILLUSTRATED. DOLLY DAYS AND DOLLY WAYS DOLLY’S RECORD BOOK by Abbie N. Smith. San Francisco: Paul Elder (1916). Small 4to (6 3/4 x 8 1/2”), flexible pictorial cloth covers, 47p., paper toned else VG. The story of dolls in Dollville, illustrated with photos of real children with their real dolls. The end of the book has pages meant PIGS – 138, 203, 583 to filled out by the child recording important days in their dolls’ lives. Quite LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD – GREAT ORIGINAL ART unusual. Others by Smith 423. PIPER,WATTY. LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD: ORIGINAL ART. in White but this not in Offered here is a fabulous watercolor by George & Doris Hauman for the story White. $225.00 of the Little Engine That Could that appears in Platt & Munk’s Stories That Never Grow Old on p. 62 (1954). The image measures 11” wide x 7” on art paper PHOTO ILLUSTRATED see also 50, 51, 118, 163, 219, 597 13 7/8 x 11. It is matted, and signed in the lower corner “H.” and dated on the verso 1954. The image illustrates the text where the blue Little Engine asks CHARMING BOOK BY ELLEN HOUGHTON the toys what the problem is. All of the toys are pictured in bright bold colors. 420. PICTURE BOOK. ADVENTURES OF LITTLE MAN CHESTER or Recollections This is a great image from a classic. WATTY PIPER see also 297. (SEE ALSO of the ROYAL JUBILEE EXHIBITION. (Manchester: Abel Heywood 1887). INSIDE FRONT COVER) $1750.00 Sq. 4to, (10” sq.), pictorial wraps, Fine. The story relates the adventure of little Chester as he wanders the streets of a strange city. When Chester awakes he realizes that the adventure was really a dream. Illustrated with 8 fabulous full page color illustrations and in brown line on other pages. There is minimal text and much detail in the pictures by Houghton showing the influence of and . This is a remarkable copy of a scarce and charming book. $600.00

1940’S BOXED LIBRARY 421. PICTURE BOOK. DAY IN DAY OUT: LIBRARY OF PICTURE BOOKS. PIRATES – 214, 313 NY: Sam. Gabriel (1940). Housed in the pictorial publisher’s box measuring 8 x 9 1/4” are 6 picture books including Travel Friends, Helping Father, At School, City 1930’S ALGERIA -HAND-COLORED Friends, Helping Mother and In the Country. Illustrated by an unnamed artist 424. POCHOIR. ALGERIE with charming full color depictions of a child’s life in various settings. $200.00 by Louis Cheronnet. Paris: Duchartre (1930). Folio, cloth backed pictorial boards, some cover soil and toning of paper, VG. The history of Algeria is presented in large type. Every page is illustrated in typical 1930’s style by MAURICE TRANCHANT with charming hand-colored (pochoir) illustrations. One of the few picture books on this country. POCHOIR see also 316. $750.00 914.764.7410 Pg 58 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89 POE, EDGAR ALLAN - 469 430. POP-UP. (BLUE RIBBON / PLEASURE BOOKS). TERRY AND THE SCARCE POGANY PANORAMA PIRATES IN SHIPWRECKED by Milton 425. (POGANY,WILLY)illus. THE CHILDREN AT THE POLE. NY: Henry Holt ca Caniff. Chic: Pleasure Books (1935). Sq. 1920. 12mo, pict. bds, edges rubbed and covers lightly soiled else VG. A wonderful 4to, pict. bds, clean and near FINE. PANORAMA book opening accordion fashion with one side offering the text and Featuring 3 fabulous color pop-ups and the other fully illustrated in color by Pogany on each panel. Scarce. $450.00 b&w’s throughout the text. A really nice copy. $475.00

431. POP-UP. (BLUE RIBBON) JACK THE GIANT KILLER and other tales. NY: Blue Ribbon (1932). Thick 4to, pictorial boards, usual hinge strains, some internal margin soil else near FINE in dust wrapper (dw soiled and frayed). Containing the title story as well as Little Red Riding Hood and Sleeping Beauty. Illustrated by HAROLD LENTZ with color endpapers, many black and whites and 4 fabulous double page color pop-ups. Because of the thickness of the pages few copies of this title have survived. A nice copy of a marvelous pop-up. $750.00 TURKISH FAIRY TALES 426. (POGANY,WILLY)illus. FORTY FOUR TURKISH FAIRY TALES collected by Ignácz Kanos. Lond: Harrap nd [1913]. 4to, pict. cloth, top edge sl. soiled else Very Fine in Dust wrapper (dw with 3 pieces out of edge). 1st ed. Illus. by Pogany with 16 tipped-in color plates plus magnificent full and partial page line illustrations full of detail and life. An uncommon Pogany title, rare in dw. $700.00

HUNGARIAN FAIRY TALES 427. (POGANY,WILLY)illus. #428 HUNGARIAN FAIRY BOOK by Nandor Pogany. NY: Fred. Stokes, no date [1913]. 8vo, blue pictorial cloth, 287p., fine in dust wrapper. 26 Hungarian fairy tales, illus. by Pogany with color frontis plus a profusion of full and partial page black and whites in Pogany’s Art Nouveau style. A very scarce and lovely Pogany item and an interesting collection of fairy tales as well. $600.00

POGANY see also 157

BEAUTIFUL LARGE LITHOGRAPH - JAPANESE GIRLS 428. POLITI,LEO. ORIGINAL ART: THREE JAPANESE GIRLS. Offered here is a beautiful color lithograph signed in the image by Politi dated 1967 and signed in the margin. It measures 19.5” wide x 27” high matted to larger. Done on a pale green background each of the little girls is wearing a decorative kimono and has flowers in her hair. They are each eating some sort of fruit from a cone. There is much detail and the image is quite beautiful. Rare $2500.00

POLO - 143

UNCOMMON MECHANICAL 429. POP-UP AND MOVEABLE. BENNY BEAVER AND FUZZY BEAR. Kenosha: John Martins House 1945. Sq. small 4to, spiral backed boards, VG. Benny and Fuzzy report to the arsenal to assemble tanks and get into mischief. Illustrated with 3 moveable pages and one double-page pop-up. Uncommon. $225.00 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 59 [email protected] JOLLY JUMP-UP ABC MARVELOUS POP-UP BOOK PINOCCHIO 436. POP-UP. (JOLLY 432. POP-UP. (BLUE RIBBON) JUMP-UP) THE JOLLY THE POP-UP PINOCCHIO by JUMP-UPS ABC BOOK by Harold Lentz. NY: Blue Ribbon Geraldine Clyne. Springfield: (1932) sq. thick 8vo, pict. bds, faintest stain on back strip else McLoughlin 1948. Oblong near FINE IN DUSTWRAPPER 4to, pictorial boards, sl. edge (dw frayed). Illustrated by wear, else VG+. Illustrated Lentz with 4 marvelous color with 6 wonderful double- pop-ups plus numerous b&w text page pop-ups that also have illustrations and color endpapers. some moveable pieces. Nice Scarce in such nice condition. book! $200.00 $775.00

JOLLY JUMP-UP 437. POP-UP. (JOLLY JUMP-UP) JOLLY JUMP- UPS NUMBER BOOK by Geraldine Clyne. Springfield : McLoughlin 1950. Obl. 4to, pict. bds, Fine. A pop-up COUNTING BOOK with 6 great double-page color pop-ups. Quite scarce and an exceptional copy. $225.00

438. POP-UP. (KUBASTA) MOKO AND KOKO IN THE JUNGLE. Lond: Bancroft, nd ca 1962. Folio, cl. backed pict. bds, 433. POP-UP. (BLUE RIBBON) PUSS IN BOOTS. Illus. Pop-up ed. by C.Carey sl. wear to bds. else VG+. Illus. in color Cloud and Harold B. Lentz. NY: Blue Ribbon (1934) sq. 4to, pict. bds, some cover by KUBASTA and featuring an absolutely soil else VG+. Illus. with 3 fabulous double-page color pop-ups and with several stunning, large pop-up scene of an elaborate b&w’s in-text. $250.00 jungle scene with moveable pieces as well. $300.00 RARE COMBINED POP-UP MICKEY AND MINNIE 434. POP-UP. (DISNEY,WALT). MICKEY HOP-LA! [POP-UP MICKEY AND WONDERFUL SCARCE KUBASTA MINNIE]. Paris: Hachette SPACE TRAVEL POP-UP (1934). 4to, pict. boards, 439. POP-UP. (KUBASTA) TIP AND TOP fine in frayed dw. A AND THE MOON ROCKET. (Lond: Bancroft curious Disney pop-up, this 1964). Large square 4to, stiff pict. wraps, combines BOTH the Pop- fine. Printed in Czechoslovakia. A fabulous Up Mickey and the Pop-Up action book featuring 6 double-page pop- Minnie featuring 4 fabulous up pages each of which also has moveable pop-ups (two from each of tab operated parts - all showing the space the American versions). adventures of Tip and Top. Illustrations in Pluto’s name on his dish is color and moveables designed by V. KUBASTA. changed to “Tom” and the Rare. $500.00 book, including the pop-ups, is physically larger and the #439 colors more vibrant than in the American edition. Very scarce. $950.00

#434

RARE KUBASTA POP-UP 440. POP-UP. (KUBASTA) TIP AND TOP AND TAP LOOK AT SHIPS. (Lond: Bancroft 1964). Large square 4to, stiff pict. wraps, Fine. A pop-up also including Tap the dachshund. A fabulous action book featuring 6 double-page pop-up 435. POP-UP. (JOLLY JUMP-UP) THE JOLLY JUMP UPS VACATION pages - all showing the sea adventures TRIP by Geraldine Clyne. Springfield: McLoughlin. 1942. Oblong 4to, cloth of Tip and Top. Illustrations in color backed pictorial bds, VG+. Illus. with 6 great color pop-ups. The family goes to and pop-ups designed by V. KUBASTA. Washington D.C.; Grand Canyon; Annapolis; West Point & camping. $150.00 Rare. $475.00 914.764.7410 Pg 60 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89 McLOUGHLIN POP-UP 444. POTTER,BEATRIX. APPLEY DAPPLY’S NURSERY RHYMES. Lond: Fred. Warne 441. POP-UP. (McLOUGHLIN) LITTLE SHOWMAN’S SERIES NO.2: AUTUMN. and N.Y. nd [1917]. 16mo, green boards stamped in red, some cover soil and spine NY: McLoughlin Bros. 1884. Folio, 10 1/2” x 13 1/2”, cloth backed pict. bds, slight wear, else tight and internally clean and VG. 1st ed. Quinby 23 with no date as issued edge wear and light cover soil, VG+. A very scarce McLoughlin POP-UP featuring and correct endpapers. Charming color illustrations and quite scarce. $600.00 1 beautiful chromolithographed, 3- dimensional pop-up scene of children enjoying the autumn weather. There is also a marvelous MOVEABLE seesaw. Text in verse is below the pop-up and outside of rear cover shows a sample page of New Object Teaching Book. There is also a marvelous MOVEABLE SEESAW. $525.00

445. POTTER,BEATRIX. THE TALE OF TIMMY TIPTOES. Lond & NY: Warne 1911. 12mo, brown boards, pict. paste- on, light normal wear with occasional finger smudge, VG+. 1st ed. Quinby 8 POP-UPS BY #20. $775.00 GERALDINE CLYNE IN POP-UP BOX. 446. POTTER,BEATRIX. PETER RABBIT’S 442. POP-UP. MOTHER ALMANAC FOR 1929. NY: Warne. 16mo GOOSE PLAYHOUSE. NY: (3 3/4 x 5 1/16”), pictorial boards with color J.S. Pub Co. nd ca 1945. paste-ons on both covers, light cover soil, Folio pictorial box with a VG+. 1st American ed. of this wonderful great, elaborate pop-up that little book, illustrated by Potter with emerges when the cover is pictorial endpapers, pictorial title page, opened (box with normal frontis plus 12 color plates as well as text wear and rubbing), VG+ and illustrations in brown line. Potter’s first complete. Inside are pop-up and only almanac. Linder p. 254-5. Quite Mother Goose rhymes, each scarce. $800.00 in its own color pictorial booklet, with illustrations by RARE PETER RABBIT SCHOOL GERALDINE CLYNE. Issued ACTIVITY BOOK with 8 pop-ups. Titles include: 447. POTTER,BEATRIX. PETER RABBIT PICTURES TO CUT, COLOR AND PASTE purposeful 1. Old King Cole seat work, silent reading and 2. Baa Baa Black Sheep thought tests. Chic.: Hall & 3. Sing a Song of Sixpence McCreary (1927). Obl. narrow 4. Hey Diddle Diddle 4to, pict. wraps, fine and unused. 5. Was An Old Woman 6. Mary’s Lamb A Peter Rabbit coloring book 7. Mistress Mary and test designed as seat work 8. Ding Dong Bell for the second and third grade child. Illus. in line and with color cover, includes a 2 page synopsis Quite rare and a of the text on rear covers. wonderful pop-up Rare. $300.00 item. $750.00

POP-UP see also 86

FINE FIRST EDITION OF PETER RABBIT 443. POTTER,BEATRIX. THE TALE OF PETER RABBIT. Lond: Fred. Warne [1902]. 12mo, brown boards, 97p., the most minor of cover rubbing else near FINE! 1st trade edition after the privately printed edition. This copy has the white dot in the “o’s” on the cover, leaf patterned endpapers, the word “wept” on p. 51 and all other points of first printing per Quinby 2. The text and illustrations were engraved and printed by Edmund Evans and this first edition contains four color plates that do not appear after the fourth impression. This is a beautiful first edition of one of the most famous and important children’s books and very rare in such fresh condition. $16,000.00 (SEE ILLUSTRATION DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT ------>>>>>>) Helen & Marc Younger Pg 61 [email protected] MAGIC IN A BOX! history picturing the early battles of Fidel, Ernesto “Che” Guevara, Raul Castro, 448. [POTTER,BEATRIX]. PETER RABBIT THE MAGICIAN by Mel Camilo Cienfuegos, Hubert Matos and the other revolutionaries and ending with Richards. Aurora, IL: Strathmore 1942. 4to, spiral backed bds, [16]p., Fine IN Fidel’s triumphant return to Havana in 1959. This is a very rare and fascinating ORIGINAL PICTORIAL BOX (box rubbed with repairs). A unique book starring bit of children’s propaganda. (SEE ALSO REAR COVER) $6000.00 Potter’s Peter Rabbit as a magician (with brief mention of Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail). Illustrated in color throughout, this copy is complete with 6 tricks RARE COMMUNIST CHILDREN’S BOOK with all of the removable props including: 5 admission tickets, 5 portraits, 453. PROPAGANDA. OUR LENIN edited by Ruth Shaw and Harry Alan Potamkin. Macgregor’s wallet with cabbage, loaf of bread with knife, 2 phantom cards, NY: International Publishers (1934). Oblong 4to, (10 1/2 x 9”), cloth backed Cottontail’s fantastic folder, magic mailbox with envelope, 3 hat sections in hat pictorial boards, 62p., edges rubbed and some cover soil else VG. A book for the box, all of which are incorporated into the story line. Instructions for each American child about the life of Lenin and therefore also the rise of Socialism trick are included. Rare in the box with all of the pieces. $450.00 in Russia, beginning with life under the Tsar. All of the typical rhetoric of the movement is included in a very readable narrative using “real” families and situations. Each page has a red border on top and on bottom and nearly every page is strikingly illustrated in b&w in typical 30’s style by William Siegel. This is a rare and fascinating children’s book. $1750.00

PRE 1870 – 2, 13, 15, 28, 52-3, 117, 196, 223-4, 227, 230-7, 240-1, 261-2, 272, WORLD WAR II ANTI-NAZI CHILDREN’S BOOK 294, 350, 357-8, 375-6, 412, 534, 537, 556 454. PROPAGANDA. YUSSUF THE OSTRICH by Emery Kelen. NY: Hyperion Press / G.P. Putman (1943). 4to (7 1/2” wide x 11), cloth backed pictorial boards, 449. (PRESTON,CHLOE)illus. BARBARA PEEK – A - BOOS HOLIDAY. Lond: near fine in lightly soiled Humphrey Milford / OUP nd ca 1915. Sq. 4to, pict. bds, color paste-on, slight dust wrapper. 1st ed. Set wear to paper and sl. soil, VG+. Featuring 8 fine color plates plus numerous in North Africa, Yussuf the black and whites showing the trials and tribulations of Barbara with adorable ostrich is scorned when he humanized bunnies. $500.00 appears to be helping the Nazis. In reality he became 450. [PRESTON,CHLOE]illus. THE CHUNKIES AT THE SEASIDE [by May a double agent. When he Byron]. Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., no date ca 1920. Sq. 4to, pict. boards, was released from prison pict. paste-on, sl. rubbing, VG-Fine. The Chunkies are a wide-eyed companion by German dachshunds (who group to Preston’s Peek-a-boos, who have adventures and get into mischief. were really not Nazis) and Illus. by Preston with 8 great color plates, black and whites in-text and pictorial saved the Americans, he endpapers. Scarce. $500.00 became a hero. Illustrated with 24 pages of color lithos and 24 pages with b&w lithos (using the Gloeckner process). Rare in nice condition with the dust wrapper. $400.00

PROPAGANDA see also 382

PUPPETS – 135, 183-6, 374, 432

JIG-SAW PUZZLE BOOK 455. PUZZLE. MY FIRST JIG-PUZ BOOK. Lond.: John Lend nd ca 1930. 4to, cl. backed pict. bds, FINE. Stories in verse about GNOMES, PIXIES AND ELVES. Printed on thick board pages, each page of text is faced with a full page brightly colored JIG SAW PUZZLE - five in all. A JAPANESE INTEREST great book in excellent condition. 451. (PRESTON,CHLOE)illus. THE PEEK-A-BOO JAPS by Tom $300.00 Preston. Lond: Henry Frowde / Hodder & Stoughton nd ca 1915. Sq. 4to, pict. bds, color paste-on, corner of half-title snipped off PUZZLES see also 239, and slightest of rubbing, VG-Fine. Featuring 12 exceptional color 305, 481 plates plus numerous black and whites depicting these adorable little children as Japanese. Hodder & Stoughton’s answer to the success of Longman’s Golliwoggs. One of the scarcest titles in the Peek-a-Boo series. $850.00

PRICE, MARGARET EVANS - 173

CUBAN REVOLUTION / FIDEL AND CHE 452. PROPAGANDA. LIBERTAD O’ MEURTE! Episodios de la Revolution textos Raul Quintana Suarez. Habana, Cuba: Dibujos Publicitarious Luque circa 1960. 4to, (8 3/4 x 12”), pictorial wraps, 40p., some cover soil, VG+ and complete. This album contains a complete set of 325 numbered picture cards. Each card is mounted in a numbered space with a printed caption. When complete, it offers the child the Communist version of Cuban 914.764.7410 Pg 62 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89 SCARCE SIGNED ETCHING BY PYLE 458. PYLE,HOWARD. MEN 456. PYLE,HOWARD. ETCHING: ISAAC WALTON. This is a large and OF IRON. NY: Harper & wonderful etching by W.H.W. Bicknell after an original by Pyle. It is one of 5 Brothers 1892 (1891). 8vo, such illustrations commissioned for Thomas Frognall Dibden’s book “ (6 x 8 1/2”), 328p., red or Book Madness”. Because they were so highly acclaimed at the time of pictorial cloth stamped in publication, the Bibliophile Society decided to issue them as large limited edition black and silver, covers show etchings. Printed by the Bibliophile Society in Boston, LIMITED TO 302 COPIES soil (not offensive) else clean, SIGNED BY PYLE AND BICKNELL. The image measures 10 1/x x 18 (17 1/2 x tight and VG. 1st edition. A 24 1/2 with borders) framed and glazed in contemporary frame. Pitz notes that story of chivalry set in 15th “the Albrecht Durer influence, so apparent in the drawings from Otto of the century England written Silver Hand, crept back into this later Bibliophile series.” (Howard Pyle p.187- by Pyle and illustrated 188). Executed with beautiful detail. (See Morse & Brinckle p.201. $1850.00 by him with frontis plus 20 black & white plates. Very scarce in the first edition. $275.00

FIRST EDITION OF PYLE’S ROBIN HOOD 459. PYLE,HOWARD. MERRY ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD. NY: Charles Scribners Sons MDCCCLXXXIII (1883). 4to, (7 1/2 x 9 3/4”). Original publisher’s embossed leather binding, hinges repaired long ago, leather spine is stamped in gold. Although not original it is clearly early and has outer joint repair on bottom part of covers, spine ends a bit worn. The binding is in overall VG condition for this title which when found is generally in miserable condition. It is overall a Very Good, tight clean copy. First edition of Pyle’s tour de force, written and illustrated by him. There are 23 illustrations, pictorial head and tail-pieces, pictorial initials and 28 decorations. Considered the book which changed the course of American . Previous to Pyle’s emergence with this title, no great American book illustrators had appeared to rival the British market. With the publication of this book, the Golden Age of American book illustration had its birth. Pyle “was a one-man movement which would exert an incalculable influence on the whole course of illustration...” (Illustrators of Children’s Books v. 1 p. 105). Due to the fragility of the leather binding and to the fact that only 3000 copies of this edition were printed (of this 510 copies were sent to England), it is a rare book. Peter Parley To Penrod p.73, Morse and Brinckle p. 115. $1750.00

460. PYLE,HOWARD. A MODERN ALADDIN: OR THE WONDERFUL ADVENTURES OF OLIVER MUNIER. NY: PYLE FANTASY 457. PYLE,HOWARD. THE GARDEN BEHIND THE MOON written and Harper & Brothers 1892 (1891). 8vo, (5 1/4 illustrated by Pyle. NY: Scribner 1895 (1895). 8vo, (6 1/2 x 8 1/2”), green x 7 1/2”), blue gilt cloth stamped in red, gilt cloth stamped in red and 205p. + 2p. ads (listing A Modern Aladdin green, very light cover soil, bookplate removed from as “just ready”), slight cover soil and very endpaper, VG+. 1st ed. A slight lean to binding else VG+. First edition. magical fantasy - fairy tale Written by Pyle and illustrated by him with illustrated with 10 full page black and white plates plus 32 black and white plates (line illustrations). many in- text illustrations. This is a nice copy of an uncommon Pyle Meigs (p.304) says: “It’s title. $250.00 writing makes Pyle the peer of the classic writers in the field of fantasy.” This copy has an intriguing inscription from H.P. A nice copy. $275.00 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 63 [email protected] INCREDIBLE COPY OF A RARE PYLE TITLE WITH HANDWRITTEN LETTER 461. PYLE,HOWARD. OTTO OF THE SILVER HAND. NY: Charles Scribner’s 466. (RACKHAM,ARTHUR)illus. CINDERELLA retold by C.S. Evans. Lond: Sons 1888 (1888). Large 8vo, (7 x 9”), green cloth stamped in red, gold and Heinemann (1919). 4to, cloth backed pictorial boards, fine in dw with piece black, original brown off top of spine. 1st ed. Illustrated with pictorial endpapers, tipped-in color embossed leather spine, frontis and many beautiful silhouettes. Beautiful copy. Sold with a THREE PAGE slight bit of fading on cloth HANDWRITTEN LETTER FROM RACKHAM (light stain) dated Oct. 12 1919 in corner of cover else Fine. to Mrs. Dawson Scott, regretting that he will be unable to fulfill a speaking 1st edition of this rare engagement and making recommendations for his replacement. In the letter and early Pyle book set in he refers twice to Evans who retold this version of Cinderella. He writes: I am medieval Germany. Written extremely sorry but I am going to Devonshire tomorrow and cannot be back in time by Pyle and illustrated to fulfill my engagement to talk at the ? Club on Thursday. I was looking forward by him with 25 full page to an interesting evening and could I have postponed my departure from town I drawings, 36 decorations, would have done so gladly. You will however have no difficulty in filling my place pictorial headpieces and - everyone except myself has had their holiday and you will have plenty of choice. tailpieces, and pictorial May I suggest E.J. Sullivan - a very interesting talker as well as, in my opinion, initials. The high quality of by far the finest artist among the illustrators of our country today. He knows both the paper and printing Evans too. Or there really accentuate the is Greiffenhagen and fine detail of Pyle’s work. Higgens. I name them This is an amazing copy. as they are so get- Peter Parley To Penrod able for an organizing p.91. $1200.00 secretary. I should add that my absence 462. PYLE,HOWARD. from London has been PRICE OF BLOOD: AN necessitated without EXTRAVAGANZA OF any warning or I would NEW YORK LIFE IN 1807 have given you longer written and illustrated by notice. I may also Pyle. NY: Richard Badger add that I have in the 1899 (1899). 8vo, (6 1/4 last few weeks let Mr. x 8 1/8”), red cloth spine, Evans into the workings pictorial boards, all edges of an illustrator’s mind red, edges rubbed and white so persistently and pictorial boards show soil as annoyingly that I really usual else tight and VG+. 1st think he could say more ed. Illustrated by Pyle with 6 and worse about my tissue-guarded color plates. ideas and methods than This is a very scarce Pyle I could myself. Yours title. $250.00 Sincerely, . Book and 463. (PYLE,HOWARD)illus. THE FIRST CHRISTMAS TREE by Henry Van letter $1650.00 Dyke. NY: Charles Scribners Sons 1897 (1897). 8vo (6 x 8 1/2”), green gilt #465 decorated cloth, top edge gilt, owner inscription and foxing on endpapers, some cover fading and small area of outer joint wear, tight, clean, VG. First edition. Featuring 4 full page gravures by Pyle Illustrated with lovely art Nouveau decorative border on each page by Amy Richards who also designed the cover. Text is a fictional story about the first Christmas tree. $75.00

TWAIN AND PYLE 464. (PYLE,HOWARD)illus. SAINT JOAN OF ARC by . NY: Harper Brothers (May 1919 D-T). 4to, (7 x 9 1/2”), gilt cloth, pictorial paste-on, top edge gilt, 2 leaves opened roughly else VG+. First edition, 1st issue with pictorial endpapers and illustration on page 18 not upside down. Illustrated by Pyle with mounted color plate on the cover plus 4 tipped-in color plates as well as many lovely line illustrations in the text done by Wilfred Jones. A nice copy. $350.00

BEAUTIFUL RACKHAM ORIGINAL ART 465. RACKHAM,ARTHUR. ORIGINAL ART: “THE TREASURE AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW”. This is a beautiful original pen and ink and guache drawing signed by Rackham and captioned in his hand. Executed on artist’s board measuring 9” wide by 13 1/2” high in fine condition It appears in St. Nicholas Magazine July 1898 to illustrate the story The Treasure at the End of the Rainbow by A.E. Bonser. The image is an art nouveau style drawing of a beautiful lady in her garden and has much detail. Beneath the image in Rackham’s hand is the title of the story and the caption “She had often thought of him & wondered if she should ever see him again.” This is a beautiful example of Rackham’s earlier illustrative style. $5500.00 914.764.7410 Pg 64 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89 467. (RACKHAM,ARTHUR)illus. IMAGINA by Julia Ellsworth Ford. NY: reading in part: “I’m furiously busy trying to get a novel finished: + I’ll be honest Duffield 1914 (1914). 4to, cloth, edges sl. faded and sl. wear to top of spine else with you, there are a dozen or so books piled up here from various cheerful birds VG. 1st ed. Illustrated with 2 beautiful color plates by Rackham plus pict. ep’s and I don’t know when I’ll summon enough energy to write in ‘em and pack ‘em up and b&w’s. $225.00 + get ‘em off... I’m really struggling like a hooligan to do a decent book and I am #467 so hellishly unsystematic about tying up plays, it sometimes seems more than the human will can tackle.” A special copy. $3250.00

RADIO – 250 RAE, JOHN – 567

RAY, MAN – 54 READERS – 266, 382, 447

REFERENCE BOOKS – 385, 479, 495, 552

RELIGION – 12, 327

CURIOUS GEORGE ORIGINAL ART! 472. REY,H.A. CURIOUS GEORGE: ORIGINAL ART. Offered here is a marvelous large drawing of Curious George. It is executed on light tan art paper in chalk, signed. The image is large measuring 8” wide x 9 1/2” high in fine condition. George is seen throwing a large beach ball in the air. Sitting in the grass in front of him is a rabbit and there is a bird flying nearby. Simply a great piece by a beloved children’s book artist whose original work is rare. $15,500.00 RACKHAM LIMITED TO 250 COPIES BOUND IN KID 468. (RACKHAM,ARTHUR)illus. THE ROMANCE OF KING ARTHUR by Sir Thomas Malory. NY: Macmillan (1917). Large thick 4to, full kid binding decorated in gold, light soil and rubbing else VG IN ORIGINAL PUBLISHER’S BOX (box worn). LIMITED TO ONLY 250 COPIES OF THE AMERICAN EDITION! Illustrated with 16 mounted color plates with lettered tissue guards, 7 black and white plates , plus a profusion of lovely text illus. as well. Although the American limited edition was not signed by Rackham (Latimore Haskell p.47) it is considerably more rare, especially in the rare box (the cover of the box is printed with the title and limitation information).$3200.00

469. (RACKHAM,ARTHUR)illus. TALES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION by Edgar Allen Poe. Lond: Harrap (1935). 4to, grey cloth stamped in gold, Fine in sl. chipped dw. First Rackham illustrated edition of one of his most desired and elusive titles. Illustrated with pictorial endpapers, 12 fine color plates with tissue guards, plus many b&w’s. The dust wrapper illustration is not repeated in the text. (Riall p. 189). A beautiful copy. $1200.00

470. (RACKHAM,ARTHUR)illus. UNDINE by De la Motte Fouque adapted from the German by W.L. Courtney. Lond. & NY: Heinemann & Doub. 1909. 4to, cloth backed pict. bds, edges sl. rubbed, else near fine in sl. worn dw. 1st American ed. Illus. with 14 beautiful tipped-in color plates mounted on heavy paper and with lovely line illus. in text. A nice copy. $600.00 SIGNED FINE COPY 473. REY,H.A. FIND THE RACKHAM LIMITED CONSTELLATIONS. Bost: Houghton EDITION / MORLEY Mifflin 1954 (1954). 4to, (9 1/2x LETTER LAID-IN 471. (RACKHAM,ARTHUR)illus. 11”), cloth, Fine in fine dust wrapper. WHERE THE BLUE BEGINS 1st ed. Illustrated with color by Christopher Morley. lithographs on every page of text Lond: Heinemann [1922]. by Rey with scientifically accurate 4to, cloth backed boards, text by him as well including quizzes, 227p., partially unopened, slightest of cover soil charts and sky views that show the and tips rubbed else near sky throughout the year. THIS Fine. LIMITED TO ONLY COPY IS INSCRIBED BY REY WITH 175 NUMBERED COPIES A SMALL SKETCH OF A LITTLE SIGNED BY RACKHAM. GIRL AND STARS. Great copy, Illustrated with 4 beautiful rarely found so bright or inscribed. and unusual color plates plus fantastic and fanciful $1500.00 b&w’s in text and pictorial endpapers. Laid in is a TWO PAGE HANDWRITTEN LETTER FROM MORLEY RICHARDSON, FREDERICK – 575, 579 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 65 [email protected] CHARLOTTE HARDING ILLUS. - INSCRIBED 478. (ROBINSON,W.HEATH)illus. A 474. ROBIN HOOD. ROBIN HOOD:HIS BOOK by Eva M. SONG OF THE ENGLISH by Rudyard Tappan. Bost Little Brown Kipling. NY: Doubleday (Nov. 1909). Large 1903 (1903). 8vo, pict. cloth, elaborate cover, VG+. 4to, red gilt cloth, slight soil, near Fine. Illustrated by Charlotte 1st U.S. ed., identical to 1st UK except for Harding (Brandywine color of cloth and title page. Featuring illustrator) with 6 beautiful color plates plus black 30 beautiful tipped-in color plates with and whites and decorative illustrated and lettered guards and with 59 initials. THIS COPY HAS A NICE INSCRIPTION FROM line illustrations in-text. Some beautiful HARDING! A special copy of work by Robinson and a great copy. an uncommon edition of Robin Hood. ROBIN HOOD see $425.00 also 459 $200.00

475. (ROBINSON,CHARLES)illus. THE AWFUL AIRSHIP by Walter Copeland. LIMITED EDITION IN SLIP CASE Lond.: Blackie [1906]. Obl. 32mo (6 x 3”), cloth, VG+. A Blackie Miniature Picture 479. ROSENBACH,A.S.W. EARLY AMERICAN CHILDREN’S BOOKS. Book, wonderfully illustrated by Robinson in bold colors on every other page Portland: Southworth Press (frenchfold), with text by Copeland facing the pictures. (Pictorial endpapers as 1933. Large 4to, (7 3/4 x well). The story in verse tells the trials and tribulations of a man trying to fly 10 1/2”), leather backed and control his airship. Similar in format to the Stump Books and a very scarce pictorial boards, 354p., Robinson title. $975.00 Fine in slip case (case solid but shows signs or wear, overall VG). LIMITED #475 TO ONLY 585 COPIES SIGNED BY ROSENBACH. Detailed bibliography of Rosenbach’s personal collection that is now at the Free Library of Philadelphia, with several illustrations hand-colored after the originals. Beautiful copy and an essential reference book for collectors of earlier children’s books. $650.00 RARE ROBINSON TITLE 476. (ROBINSON,CHARLES)illus. ROSS,M.T. (PENNY) – 566 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA – 295 GOLDFISH BOWL by Phyllis Austin. ROYALTY – 412, 477 London: Hutchinson & Co. [1922]. 8vo (6” wide x 8), red cloth pictorially stamped in gold, 254p., few spots on edges only else FINE IN DUST WRAPPER (wrapper frayed). An original fairy/fantasy selected by the STUNNING, STYLIZED publisher as the winner of competition they held for original work. Illustrated ILLUSTRATIONS by Robinson with 4 marvelous color plates 480. RUBAIYAT. RUBAIYAT OF plus numerous line illustrations throughout the text, and pictorial endpapers. The OMAR KHAYYAM. Lond: Leopold Hill dust wrapper has preserved the pictorial nd ca 1920. Large 4to, gilt cloth, light binding such that the gold really glitters. cover soil, VG+. Illustrated by DORIS A rare Robinson title and a great copy. $750.00 PALMER with 12 truly magnificent tipped- in color plates (bold detailed designs) ROBINSON, CHARLES see also 535 and with orange art-nouveau pictorial border on every page of text. One of REMARKABLE SET 477. (ROBINSON,W.HEATH)illus. MONARCHS OF MERRY ENGLAND by the most wonderful versions of this Roland Carse. Leeds: Alf Cook, no date [1907]. 2 large 4to volumes, (9x 11 1/2”), classic. $400.00 red cloth spines and pictorial boards, except for a small amount of wear to tips and spine ends, this is a fine, bright set. 1st edition. A humorous look at British royalty, illustrated with 20 fantastic color plates, numerous b&w’s throughout the text and pictorial endpapers. This is a beautiful set which is normally found PUZZLES worn with frayed or missing plates. See Beare 51a. Very scarce. $1250.00 481. RUSSIAN. 3 PUZZLES - 3 GOLOVOLOMKI text by G.M. Neiman. 1939. Oblong 6 3/4” wide x 4”, string bound, fine. Illustrated in color by M.V. Sabashnikov. $300.00 914.764.7410 Pg 66 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89 482. RUSSIAN. Arts p.92-3). Narbut was a student of Bilibin and Bakst, but he developed a BRATESHKI [LITTLE style unique to him. Golynets notes: “ Such outstanding artists as Narbut... BROTHERS] by A. Barto. passed through Bilibin’s hands. When Narbut saw Bilibin’s works, he fell in love Moscow: Ogiz 1935. 4to with them and left the Ukraine...to make his dream of studying under Bilibin (7 1/2 x 8 1/2”), pictorial come true.” (See Golynets p.186-7, 192-3, Bilderwelt 2758, Leveque: Dictionnaire wraps, Fine. Not 1st. p.188-9). Very scarce. (SEE ILLUS BOTTOM PRIOR COLUMN) $1500.00 Children of every color are illustrated with wonderful, 487. RUSSIAN. NEFT [OIL] by E. Hazin. Moscow: Ogiz 1931. 4to, (8 1/2 bright color lithos by Georgi x 11 3/8”), pictorial wraps, fine. A pictorial explanation of the process of Echeistov. See Leveque: extracting and shipping oil. Dictionnaire p.56, Rosenfeld: This is illustrated by Nisson Russian Graphic Arts Abramovitch Chifrine Illus. p.174. $850.00 with great color lithos. Chifrine was a noted theatre designed and with his wife, 483. RUSSIAN. KARTAUS he joined Alexandra Exter’s NAROONIE PESNI [FOLK studio. THIS COPY HAS SONGS] by I. Meksin. A POSTER TYPE INSERT Moscow: Ogiz 1928. 4to (7 printed on one side of the 3/4 x 9”), pictorial wraps, paper, brightly illustrated fine. Illustrated with in color, that appears to be striking rich color lithos an ad for the book. See depicting the Asian citizens Leveque: Dictionnaire p.26-9 of Russia done by Konstantin for others, Kuznecov #139 Kouznetsov. See Leveque: p. 109. $900.00 Dictionnaire p. 132-5 for similar. $900.00 AVIATION WITH BLIMPS 488. RUSSIAN. OBLAKAKH [IN THE SKY]. (Moscow): REVOLUTION AND LENIN Giz 1931 [1930]. 4to, (7 1/2 x 9 1/4”), pictorial 484. RUSSIAN. KOMSOMOLSKOE wraps, near fine. Second PLEMYA [KOMSOMOL BROTHERHOOD]. ed.. A book on various Moscow: Ogiz 1931. 4to (7 1 2 x 8 34”), aviation machines including blimps, war planes and more. pictorial wraps, near fine. A celebration Strikingly illustrated in of the Revolution showing fighting in the color by noted Russian artist streets, speeches by Lenin and finally A. DEINEKA. Each page shows a different use for a victory of the huge army. Illustrated different air machine from with great color lithos by C. Boim and farming to war. See Leveque B. Sukhanov. See Musee Imaginaire Dictionnaire p.38., Bilderwelt #23. $1000.00 2800. $700.00 489. RUSSIAN. OT KAUCHUKA DO KALOSHI [FROM RUBBER PLANTS TO MITROKHIN / KNEBEL PICTURE BOOK RUBBERS] by Olga Deineko and Nikolai Troshin. Moscow: Ogiz 1931. 4to, (7 3/4 485. RUSSIAN. (MITROKHIN) ZIMENOI GLOBUS [MY FATHER’S GLOBE] x 9”), pictorial wraps, cover soil, faint margin stain, VG. The process of making by R. Gustavsen. Moscow: Knebel (1912). 4to, stiff pictorial wraps, spine rough, rubber boots is shown from its African origins in the trees, through the factory some light shelf wear, VG. process to the final product. Illus. in color in typical 30’s style by Deineko This is a stunning fairy and Troshin who were the tale illustrated by DMITRI husband and wife team who MITROKHIN with full page also collaborated on “USSR and in-text, stylized color in Construction” (he was the illustrations. Mitrokhin, artistic director throughout along with Narbut and its run, she designed Bilibin, were the leading the magazine’s first and illustrators of the era in recurring cover graphic). Russia. Mitrokhin studied Their contributions to in Russia under Vasnetsov the scientific movement and in Paris under Eugene in Russian children’s Grasset and Theophile- books is important. See Alexandre Steinlen. See Leveque: Dictionnaire Bilderwelt 2771, Defining p. 294. $1000.00 Russian Graphic Arts by RUSSIAN MAGAZINE FOR CHILDREN Rosenfeld p.94-5. Quite RUSSIAN. PROTALINKA - CHILDREN’S MAGAZINE scarce. $1500.00 490. edited by A.P. Pechkovski. Offered here is a bound volume of the full year of issues for 1914. 4to (7 1/2 x 8 1/2”), 1/2 leather and marbled boards, 820p., slight NARBUT ILLUSTRATIONS (STUDENT OF BILIBIN) edge wear else Fine. Each issue is full of poems, stories and songs with music 486. RUSSIAN. (NARBUT) PLYCHI MATVEI, NE ZHALEI LAPTEI [DANCE by well known authors of the era including S. Esenin, K. Balmont, N. Aseyev, AND DON’T BE AFRAID A. Serafimovich, L. Avilova and others. It is profusely illustrated inpre- TO RUIN YOUR SHOES]. revolutionary style with full page and smaller pen and inks by Yakovlev and Moscow: Knebel 1910. others, with photos and with half-tone reproductions. $1200.00 4to, (8 1/2 x 11 3/4”), stiff pictorial wraps. neat spine repair else VG-Fine. One of Knebel’s acclaimed gift books, illustrated by GEORGY NARBUT with beautiful chromolithographs of humanized toys, based upon Narbut’s own collection of peasant toys (Rosenfeld: Defining Russian Graphic Helen & Marc Younger Pg 67 [email protected] CATS - LEBEDEV SIGNED BY SCHULZ 491. RUSSIAN. USATII 495. SCHULZ,CHARLES. GOOD GRIEF: the story of Charles M. Schulz by Rheta POLOSATII [WHISKERS Grimsley Johnson. NY: Pharos Books (1989). 8vo, 1/4 cloth, 256p., Fine in fine dw. AND STRIPES] by C. 1st ed. (number code). The authorized story of Schulz’s life - his private battles Marshak. Leningrad: Giz with depression and the development of Charlie Brown and his other characters. 1930. 4to (8 1/2 x 11”). THIS COPY INSCRIBED : “Best Wishes Charles M. Schulz.” $300.00 pictorial wraps, bookplate removed from inside cover with some rubbing else near fine. The story of a little girl and her cat that likes to sleep in her bed and doesn’t like to be washed. Illustrated with beautiful color stone lithographs that really are works of art. See Leveque: Dictionnaire p.163 (different cover). $1200.00

RUSSIAN see also 307, 402, 413, 453

492. SALINGER,J.D. CATCHER IN THE RYE. Boston: Little Brown 1951. Black cloth, bookplate removed from endpaper else fine in dust wrapper with some expert restoration at base of spine and at folds. Stated 1st ed. of this landmark coming of age novel, 1st issue dust wrapper with Salinger’s photo on #496 rear panel. His first book and a nice copy. $9,500.00

496. SCIENCE FICTION. MISSING MEN OF SATURN by Philip Latham. Phil.: John C. Winston (1953). 8vo (6” wide x 8 3/4), brick colored cloth, 215p., fine in 1st issue dw that lists 20 titles on back cover. Wrapper not price clipped, has some rubbing and sl. fraying but overall VG. Stated 1st ed. The crew of the Albatross goes to forbidding Saturn. Illustrated with pictorial endpapers and dw by Alex Schomberg. $150.00

GREAT 1950’S SCIENCE FICTION 497. SCIENCE FICTION. ZIP-ZIP GOES TO VENUS by John M. Schealer. NY: Dutton 1958 (1958). 8vo (6 1/2 x 8 1/8”), yellow cloth, 125p., fine in dw with a few small chips. Stated 1st ed. The story relates the adventures of Zip-Zip, a Martian, who takes the Riddle children to Venus to search for his lost father. Illus. in b&w by Hans Helweg. This is a sequel to Zip-Zip and His Flying Saucer. $150.00 MOVEABLE WITH MAGIC GLASSES IN ORIGINAL BOX 493. SARG,TONY. TONY SARG’S MAGIC MOVIE BOOK. NY:B.F. Jay (1943) 4to, pict. bds, AS NEW IN ORIGINAL PICTORIAL BOX and COMPLETE WITH 2 PAIRS OF MAGIC LENSES. A very rare Sarg book, the text contains 6 fairy tales and other stories including: Cinderella, Rumpelstiltskin, 3 Bears, Sleeping BOXED VOLLAND Beauty, Chicken Little, Animal Fair etc. Each page is illustrated in color by Sarg. 498. SCOTT,JANET LAURA. In addition, each story has a moveable, revolving picture (tab operated) whose ROUND THE WORLD WE SAIL. illustrations appear to move when the reader wears his magic glasses. Quite Minneapolis: Gordon VOLLAND / scarce, especially in box. $425.00 BUZZA nd ca 1930. Obl. 4to, cl. backed thick boards, AS NEW WITH ORIGINAL DRAWING BY SARG IN ORIGINAL BOX (box flaps 494. (SARG,TONY)illus. TONY SARG’S ALPHABET with verse by Anne neatly repaired). Each page is Stoddard. NY: Greenberg, no date, circa 1920. Small 4to, (7 x 9 1/4”), pictorial mounted on thick boards and boards, small chip repaired at head of spine, else VG+ in dust wrapper (some features stunning, full bold color chipping and mends). 1st ed. Printed on rectos only and illustrated by Sarg in bold illustrations on every page in Scott’s colors on every page including fabulous pictorial endpapers. “A IS FOR ALICE ART DECO STYLE. Rare in the IN WONDERLAND” with appropriate portrayal; P IS FOR PUNCH AND JUDY; box. $500.00 R IS FOR RED RIDING HOOD etc. This copy comes with a CHARMING INK DRAWING OF ALADDIN AND A GENIE (4 1/2 x 5 1/2”), SIGNED by SARG. The genii’s head is emerging from the top of a large urn and the body of the urn is a puzzle. The drawing was apparently used by ART DECO the Chicago Evening Post 499. (SCOTT,JANET LAURA)illus. newspaper for an Ali Baba Crossword Puzzle feature ONE HAPPY DAY: a picture story book and a clipping from a by Marceline Dauzet. Akron: Saalfield, newspaper with the printed 1939. 4to, (9 1/2 x 10 1/2”), pictorial puzzle is also included. (The ownership page and verso of boards, slightest of edge wear else endpaper are repaired where near fine in sl. frayed dust wrapper. the art was removed from Illustrated with 15 large art deco the glued used to mount it.) This is a special copy of illustrations, 8 in bright colors, depicting the very hard to find first one day in the life of 2 children. Scarce edition. (Sarg re-issued his title. $175.00 alphabet in the 1940’s). $875.00 914.764.7410 Pg 68 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89 500. SCOTT,WILLIAM R. - PUBLISHER. WHAT’S IN A LINE: A FIRST BOOK OF GRAPHIC EXPRESSION by Leonard Kessler. NY: William R. Scott 1951. 4to (8 #504 1/8 x 10”), pictorial boards, some toning on boards else VG+ in lightly soiled and worn but VG dust wrapper. The author explains the connection between an abstract line and a finished drawing with minimal text (a feat in itself). Illustrated with charming and simple and graphically pleasing 3-color illustrations on every page. See Bader p.358, 397-8 who comments that “flexible, active typography is part of the picture.” Scarce. $250.00 ‘

501. SCOTT,WILLIAM R. - PUBLISHER. WHILE SUSIE SLEEPS by Nina 505. (SENDAK,MAURICE)illus. OPEN Schneider. NY: William. R. HOUSE FOR BUTTERFLIES by Ruth Scott (1948). 4to, (8 x Krauss. NY: Harp. Bros. (1960). 12mo, 9 3/4”), pictorial boards, cl. backed pict. bds, Fine in sl. worn dw. slight edge rubbing else 1st ed. A companion in format to A Hole near fine in dust wrapper Is To Dig, this is equally as wonderful with edge chipping and small but considerably more scarce. Nice pieces off spine ends. A copy. $500.00 story for young children about what goes on while CALDECOTT HONOR they are sleeping. Artfully 506. (SEREDY,KATE)illus. CHRISTMAS illustrated in color on black ANNA ANGEL by Ruth Sawyer. NY: Viking backgrounds by Dagmar 1944 (1944). Sm. 4to, cloth, 48p., Fine in sl. Wilson. A striking picture worn dw. 1st ed. CALDECOTT HONOR. A book in the same vein as Dark true story set in Hungary and illus. by Seredy is Dark. Wilson’s first book. with magnificent, rich color lithographs. See Bader p. 231. Extremely $200.00 scarce. $250.00

SCARCE SCOTT TITLE 502. SCOTT,WILLIAM R. - PUBLISHER. SEUSS,DR. THE WHO BLEW THAT WHISTLE? by Leone 507. Adelson. NY: William R. Scott (1946). 4to BUTTER BATTLE BOOK. (6 1/2 x 9 1/2”), pictorial boards, Fine in VG NY: Random (1984). 4to, dust wrapper with a few closed tears. The story deals with a policeman who directs blue cloth, AS NEW IN traffic with his whistle and what happens SLIPCASE. 1st edition, when the whistle decides to take over on its own. Illustrated with charming 3-color LIMITED TO 500 drawings by Oscar Fabres. The author was NUMBERED COPIES a member of the Bank Street Writer’s Laboratory. Her reason for writing this SIGNED BY SEUSS. Bright book was to give children “a convenient full color illus. on every page expression” to the spirit of experimenting by Seuss. Quite scarce, this with the environment. Another thoroughly thought out book with a subtle message limited edition that sold-out that Scott is known for publishing. $175.00 before publication. $1250.00

SCOTT, WILLIAM R. PUB. see also 140, 166, 314 508. SEUSS,DR. THE CAT IN THE HAT BEGINNER BOOK DICTIONARY SCRIBNER CLASSICS – 598, 599 IN FRENCH. NY: Random House, (1965). 4to, glazed pict. boards, 133p., Fine in dw. The BEGINNER BOOK dictionary with more than a INSCRIBED BY SENDAK 1000 words that EVERY beginner needs to learn. Every illus. from the 503. (SENDAK,MAURICE)illus. original dictionary with its French equivalent. Scarce in this condition. GRIFFIN AND THE $850.00 MINOR CANNON by Frank Stockton. NY: Holt Rinehart Winston (1963). Sq. 4to, cl. backed bds, fine in sl. worn dw. Stated 1st ed. Illus. in color by Sendak throughout, this copy is also INSCRIBED AND DATED 1963 BY SENDAK WITH A COLOR ILLUS. GREETING CARD BY SENDAK. An uncommon Sendak title. $500.00

INSCRIBED WITH DRAWING BY SENDAK 504. (SENDAK,MAURICE)illus. A HOLE IS TO DIG by Ruth Krauss. NY: Harp. Bros. (1952). 12mo, black cloth spine, bds, slight. fine in sl. worn dw with $1.50 #509 price. 1st ed., later printing with correct price but black spine and change in second paragraph of dw front flap. THIS COPY IS INSCRIBED BY SENDAK WITH AND DRAWING AND ALSO SIGNED BY RUTH KRAUSS. (SEE ILLUS TOP NEXT COLUMN) $1200.00 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 69 [email protected] RARE SEUSS BOOK CLOTH BOOK 509. SEUSS,DR. THE FOOT BOOK. NY: Random House (1968). 8vo, glazed 514. [SEWELL,ANNA]. BLACK BEAUTY. #515 boards, sl. flecking on rear cover else fine in dust wrapper (long closed tear on Akron: Saalfield 1914. 4to, (8 x 9 3/4”), front, spine ends frayed, price clipped). 1st ed. of the first book in the Bright and printed on cloth, sl. wear, near fine. Early Book series. All 4 titles were issued simultaneously (Foot Book, Eye Book, Ear Illustrated by A.J. Schaefer in art nouveau Book and Inside Outside Upside Down). Written by Seuss and illus. by him in color. style with lovely color illustrations on every Rare. Younger/Hirsch 23. (SEE ILLUS BOTTOM PRIOR COLUMN) $1250.00 page. $175.00

510. SEUSS,DR. FOX IN SOCKS. NY: Random House 1965. 8vo, glazed pict. bds, Fine in dw with price intact. 1st ed. (based on ads for no later title and #514 not listing this title). A beginning reader book of tongue twisters with great full color illustrations. Very scarce and a nice copy. $1000.00

SEWELL, HELEN – 593 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM - 193

McLOUGHLIN JACK AND THE BEANSTALK 515. SHAPE BOOK. JACK AND THE BEANSTALK. NY: McLoughlin Bros. 1897. Narrow 4to, stiff pict. wraps, some finger soil and sl. creasing, VG. A SHAPE BOOK cut in the form of Jack holding the harp. Illustrated with 6 fine full page chromolithographs plus other smaller text illustrations and with a striking full color cover. Scarce. $225.00 511. SEUSS,DR. HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS. NY: Random Hse (1957). 4to, glazed pict. bds, Fine in sl. worn dw. First McLOUGHLIN MONKEY ed. Younger/Hirsch 33. Wonderful illustrations by Seuss. Nice copy. 516. SHAPE BOOK. MONKEY TRICKS. NY: McLoughlin Bros. 1894. 6” wide x 9 1/2” $1750.00 die-cut in the shape of a monkey, spine strengthened and covers rubbed some, VG. Illustrated with 5 chromolithographed pages and other pages illustrated in brown SIGNED BY SEUSS WITH GREAT DRAWING line to accompany poems about monkeys, cats and other animals. A scarce title. 512. SEUSS,DR. ONE FISH TWO FISH RED FISH BLUE FISH. NY: Random $275.00 House 1960. Sm. 4to, glazed pictorial boards, [63]p., fine in lightly soiled dw with #516 fraying an small chips off spine ends, not price clipped. 1st ed. (correct price and no listing of later titles). A Beginner Book, illustrated in color. THIS COPY IS #517 SIGNED BY SEUSS WITH A GREAT LARGE 2 1/2 x 5 1/2”_COLOR DRAWING OF THE CAT IN THE HAT. A great copy. $2750.00

UNUSUAL MOTHER GOOSE STAMP BOOK 517. SHAPE BOOK. MOTHER GOOSE RHYMES. NY: E.P. Dutton (1916). Oblong (7x6”) pictorial wraps, die-cut in the shape of Mother Goose on a goose-drawn wagon, some rubbing, VG. Each page features a different rhyme with a large pictorial border - 12 in all. In the center of each page is a color pictorial stamp of the main character in the rhyme (issued separately but already affixed in this copy). No illustrator is named. This is a charming and scarce Mother Goose. $300.00

SHAPED LIKE A SHOE MOTHER GOOSE 513. SEUSS,DR. SCRAMBLED EGGS 518. SHAPE BOOK. THE OLD SUPER! NY: Random House (1953). Large WOMAN WHO LIVED IN A 4to, pict. bds, near fine in dw with a few SHOE retold by F. Weatherly. Lond.: Hildesheimer & Faulkner small chips, sl. fade area and a few closed and NY: Geo. Whitney, circa edge tears and with price intact. 1st ed. 1900. 4to, (9” wide x 6”) ribbon ties, die-cut in the Peter T. Hooper decides to jazz up his shape of a shoe with the old scrambled eggs and creates scrambled- Woman and her children on the cover. Small piece of eggs-super-dee-dooper-dee booper! cover repaired and title soiled Great color illustrations and a really else VG+. Illustrated with nice copy of a rare large format Seuss full page chromos by Edith Berkeley to accompany the title. $1200.00 rhyme retold by Weatherly. Rare. $750.00 914.764.7410 Pg 70 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89 TIGER SHAPE BOOK 523. (SHEPARD,ERNEST)illus. 519. SHAPE BOOK. OUR JUNGLE FRIENDS. Akron: Saalfield 1917. 4to, pict. FUN AND FANTASY: a book wraps, some rubbing, VG+. Die cut in the shape of an owl with bee buzzing before it. Wonderfully illustrated in color on every page. $100.00 of drawings with an introduction by A.A. MILNE. London: Methuen (1927). Folio, cloth backed decorative boards, Fine. LIMITED TO ONLY 150 NUMBERED COPIES-ONLY 50 FOR AMERICA (this being #27) SIGNED BY SHEPARD. Printed on handmade paper. Illustrated with 8 lovely color plates plus a profusion of wonderful black and whites with Shepard’s characteristic eye for detail. This is a nice copy of a rarely seen Shepard item. $850.00

LIMITED EDITION OWL SHAPE BOOK SIGNED BY SHEPARD 520. SHAPE BOOK. OWL AND THE BEE. Akron: Saalfield 1917. 4to, pict. 524. (SHEPARD,ERNEST)illus. wraps, some rubbing, VG+. Die cut in the shape of an owl with bee buzzing before PLAYTIME AND COMPANY it. Wonderfully illustrated in color on every page. $125.00 by E.V. Lucas. Lond: Methuen (1925). 4to, cloth TEDDY BEAR backed boards, fine in faded 521. SHAPE BOOK. TEDDY BEAR. Cleveland: dw. LIMITED TO ONLY Goldsmith Pub. 1922. Folio (7 1/4” wide x 12 100 COPIES PRINTED 1/2), stiff pictorial card covers, some edge ON HANDMADE PAPER wear, VG+. A day in the life of a teddy bear AND SIGNED BY BOTH and his friends told in verse, illustrated SHEPARD AND LUCAS! by an unknown hand with full page color Charming verse by Lucas, illustrations and in Black and white on text illustrated by Shepard pages. $150.00 with cover, pictorial ep’s plus a profusion of NOVELTY wonderful b&w’s throughout. 522. SHAPE BOOK. WIR GEHEN IN EIN Scarce in this limited BAUERNHAUS von Hanna Schachenmeier und edition. $1200.00 Emma Hubner. Berlin: Atlantis Verlag 1938. Large 4to, (10 1/2 x 12”), die-cut in the shape of a house, stiff pictorial wraps, slightest of SHEPARD, ERNEST see also 271, 359-61 SHIPS - 440 soil, near Fine. The book opens in the center with 5 pages on each side and a backdrop page at the end (similar to McLoughlin theatre CALDECOTT AWARD - books). Every page shows a different activity SIGNED around a typical home inside the kitchen, 525. (SIDJAKOV,NICO in the barn, etc. Each flap is illustrated on LAS)illus. BABOUSHKA both sides with the colors covering the pages. AND THE THREE KINGS Fine German printing and charming vignettes by Ruth Robbins. Berkeley: illustrated by Emma Hubner. Short text in Parnassus Press (1960). verse is by Hanna Schachenmeier. A beautiful Obl. 8vo, pict. cloth, Fine copy. $400.00 in dw. 1st ed. (correct dw price). A Russian story beautifully illustrated in primitive style with color lithographs by Sidjakov. CALDECOTT AWARD. THIS COPY IS SIGNED BY SIDJAKOV AND ROBBINS! Rare. $850.00

PETER PARLEY TO PENROD 526. SIDNEY,MARGARET. FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS AND HOW THEY GREW. Bost.: D. Lothrop and Co. (1880). 8vo, pict. cloth, 410p. + [4]p. ads, some cover soil and scattered foxing, light shelf wear, a VG+ copy. 1st ed., first issue of this children’s classic - all points Peter Parley to Penrod p.54. This is a nice copy, quite scarce. $750.00 SHAPE BOOKS see also 60, 173, 175, 178, 180, 182, 259 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 71 [email protected] SIGNED / LIMITED – 14, 35, 42, 49, 54, 68, THE RAREST SMITH BOOK 73, 75-6, 81-2, 121, 138-9, 143, 531. (SMITH,JESSIE WILLCOX)illus. WHEN CHRISTMAS COMES AROUND 157-8, 167, 189-90, 200, 204-5, 213, 228, 247-9, 260, 263-4, 271, by Priscilla Underwood. NY: Duffield 1915 (1915). Sq. 4to, cl. backed pict. 285-6, 297, 316, 319, 320, 324, 333, bds, tips el. worn and sl. cover scratching else near fine. 1st ed. of this large 339, 342-3, 346, 359-60, picture book, similar in size and format to the Bedtime Book and Rhymes of Real 362-3, 383, 385, 388, 393, 423, 428, Children. Illustrated by Smith with pictorial endpapers, 6 beautiful large color 456, 465-6, 468, 471-4, 479, plates plus smaller illustrations in orange all throughout the text. A beautiful 494-5, 503-4, 507, 512, 523-5, 535, copy of the rarest of all of her titles. $2000.00 538, 546-7, 551, 557-9, 563, 600

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527. SINGER,ISAAC BASHEVIS. YENTL THE YESHIVA BOY. NY:FSG (1983). 4to, cloth, Fine in dw. Stated 1st ed. One of Singer’s best known stories is fabulously illustrated by ANTONIO FRASCONI with striking color woodcuts. $125.00

528. SMITH,E.BOYD. THE SEASHORE BOOK. Bost: Houghton Mifflin 1912 (Sept. 1912). Oblong 4to, cloth, pict. paste-on, slight edge rubbing and fading of covers, near fine. 1st ed. Illustrated by Smith with pictorial endpapers, SMITH, JESSIE WILLCOX see also 66 lovely color plates opposite each page of text, plus many IN THE STYLE OF LE MAIR black and whites in text. 532. (SOWERBY,MILLICENT)illus. CHILDHOOD Story is by Smith as well. A nice copy, rare in the first verses by Githa Sowerby. NY & Lond.: Duffield edition. $325.00 & Chatto and Windus 1907 (1907). 4to, cloth, pict. paste-on, 46p., some cover soil, VG. Simple poems for the young child, illus. by Sowerby with SMITH AND OAKLEY 12 lovely color plates (including plate on cover 529. (SMITH,JESSIE WILLCOX)illus. EVANGELINE by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Boston: which is not in text) in the style of Le Mair and Houghton Mifflin 1897. with gold line illustrations throughout the text. 8vo, (6 x 8 3/4”), green gilt cloth, top edge gilt, $200.00 spine ever so slightly dull else Fine. First ed., 1st issue. Illustrated with 10 A ROSE IS A ROSE lovely chromolithographs 533. STEIN,GERTRUDE. THE WORLD IS ROUND. NY: William Scott by both JESSIE WILLCOX (1939). 4to, cloth backed pict. bds, Fine in sl. worn frayed dw. Stated 1st SMITH AND VIOLET ed. Printed on rose colored paper “at Stein’s insistence” (Bader p.223), OAKLEY (5 each). Howard Rose Is A Rose. Stein’s first children’s book, written at the suggestion of Pyle arranged for the two Margaret Wise Brown. A book meant to be enjoyed by children with wonderful women, who were then his illustrations by CLEMENT HURD. A nice copy of an increasingly scarce classic. students, to illustrate this $850.00 classic, and he also wrote the preface to the book. A super Brandywine item in great cond. Nudelman A3. $300.00

530. (SMITH,JESSIE WILLCOX)illus. WATER BABIES by . Lond: Hodder & Stoughton nd [1919]. Large thick 4to, blue gilt cloth, near fine. First English ed. Illus. by Smith with 12 beautiful tipped-in color plates plus many lovely green line illustrations throughout the text. A beautiful copy of one of Smith’s 534. (STEPHENS,H.L)illus. THE TRUANT CHICKEN by Charles D. Shanley. most famous and lovely NY: Hurd & Houghton (1866). 4to, stiff pict. wraps, VG+. A story rendered in books. $450.00 verse and featuring marvelously detailed and finely executed lithographs on every page by Stephens (lith’d by J. Bein, printed by Franklin) and with gilt decorative initials. Stephens was originally a Philadelphian who came to N.Y. in 1859 and became well known for his caricatures (Hamilton p.208). Nice! $300.00 914.764.7410 Pg 72 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89 FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION by the publisher to re-illustrate this edition which includes 117 new pictures: LIMITED EDITION ASSOCIATION COPY 45 chapter heads, 45 tailpieces, 27 illustrations in text plus decorative initials. Stowe was inspired to write Uncle Tom’s Cabin by the passage of the Fugitive 535. STEVENSON,ROBERT LOUIS. A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES. Slave Law in 1850 and it was an immediate sensation. BAL 19527. $1200.00 Lond. & NY: John Lane Bodley Head & Scribner, 1896. 8vo,(6 1/4” wide x 8 3/4”), original red cloth, paper label on spine, top edge gilt, pictorial covers bound in as issued, VERY FINE condition. LIMITED TO ONLY 150 LARGE PAPER COPIES PRINTED ON JAPAN VELLUM, this is the 1st illustrated edition of these poems, illustrated by Charles Robinson.

THIS IS A SPECIAL PUBLISHER’S PRESENTATION COPY, SIGNED BY JOHN LANE with additional items of interest laid in: (a) LAID-IN IS THE CALLING CARD OF with the addresses of the Athenaeum Club in London and Vailima, Samoa. (b) ALSO LAID-IN IS A LETTER FROM MARY WARD (the author Mrs. Humphrey Ward), thanking Mr. Lane for the “extremely pretty book” he has sent her, adding that the illustrations to a Child’s Garden “shew remarkable fancy & promise & ought to have a great success with the Christmas folk. (C) There is a tongue-in-cheek poem on the endpaper by R.K. Munkittrick with the signature of James L. Ford at the end. The poem reads:

Austin, Austin, Austin Dobby, Dobby, Dobby, Although making verses Seems to be your hobby; Stevenson can take you With Gosse and Andy Lang CHARMING SILK SCREENS - LIMITED EDITION - LAKESIDE PRESS And knock your heads together With a bang, bang, bang 538. STUDENT AUTHOR. GERDA AND PETER AND MR. BOO by Georgette Roux. Chicago: Privately Printed 1943. 4to, (6 3/4 x 8 1/2”), cloth, pictorial Munkittrick, the author of this poem was a regular contributor to the American paste-on, Fine. This is the story of 2 children who discover a distraught mouse magazine Puck, as was Austin Dobson the British poet, who is the “Austin” “Dobby” named Mr. Boo. He is upset because the family that lived in the old doll house with mentioned in the poem. “Gosse” refers to Edmund Gosse, a literary critic and him is missing. The children close personal friend of Stevenson and Andy Lang of course refers to Andrew realize he is referring to Lang. This is an incredible copy, the illustrations are reproduced with much clarity their cast-off dolls so they due to the quality of the Japan vellum paper used in this edition. $4250.00 repair them and everyone is happy. Illustrated by the author with 6 charming full page hand-colored silk screens plus hand- colored endpapers and title page. LIMITED TO 50 NUMBERED COPIES. The colophon explains that this book was hand-set, printed and bound while the author was a student of the training department of the Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley. This is an accomplished children’s book - a charming story with wonderful illustrations. $300.00

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TARRANT BIRTHDAY BOOK 539. (TARRANT, MARGARET)illus. PICTURE BIRTHDAY BOOK FOR BOYS AND GIRLS by Frank UNCOMMON EDITION Cole. London: Harrap, no 536. STEVENSON,ROBERT date, circa 1922. 3 3/4”x4 LOUIS. A CHILD’S x 5 1/2”, cloth, fine and GARDEN OF VERSES. UNUSED. Each month of the Chicago: Whitman year has pages to write names (1923). 12mo (5 1/4 x of those who have birthdays. 7 1/4”), cloth, 127p., Illus. with 12 beautiful color pictorial paste-on, near plates plus decorations in- fine. A “Just Right” text. A scarce Tarrant book, illustrated by SUE tile. $275.00 SEELEY with many full page and in-text color illustrations - an uncommon edition of these classic TENGGREN’S MOTHER GOOSE poems. $200.00 540. (TENGGREN,GUSTAF)illus. MOTHER GOOSE. Bost: Little Brown 1940 (Nov. 1940). 4to, pict. cloth, (136)p., FINE in STEVENSON,R.L. see also 598, 599 sl. frayed dw. 1st ed. A wide selection of

537. STOWE,HARRIET BEECHER. UNCLE TOM’S CABIN, or Life among the poems and music, accompanied by Tenggren’s Lowly. Boston & Cleveland: John P. Jewett & Jewett, Proctor and Worthington wonderful full page and partial page color 1853. Large 8vo, 560p., full red leather stamped in gold, all edges gilt, some illustrations all throughout the text. (Cover signatures sprung and engraved title foxed else VG. 2 volumes in 1. An early printing in one volume. Illustrated with designs by Billings. Uncle Tom’s Cabin was and pictorial ep’s also by him). A super Mother first introduced to the public in serial format but it was published in book form by Goose. $250.00 Jewett in 2 volumes in 1852 before the final two installments came out serially. Billings illustrated the first edition with 6 engraved plates. He was commissioned THAXTER, CELIA - 296 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 73 [email protected] GREAT 19TH CENTURY TOY WONDERFUL RUTH PLUMLY THOMPSON LETTER & MAP OF OZ THEATRE 546. THOMPSON,RUTH PLUMLY. LETTER. This is a full one page typed letter signed by Thompson, dated April 28 1962. 541. THEATRE. TOY SHADOW It is done on pictorial Royal Historian of THEATRE. Offered here is a wonderful Oz stationary that has 3 Oz illustrations Dutch toy theatre. There is a hand painted on the front and printed with a list of 36 proscenium and a wooden box which is also printed Oz titles on the back (with some ink used as the stage for the theatre. The corrections in Thompson’s hand). The text box has a sliding wooden cover. Inside of the letter deals with the Oz books and there are 4 scenes stretched on wooden reveals what a nice person she was - taking frames, a rare 16 page book of plays the time to respond to a young fan. She and a number of articulated shadows writes in part: “I never did meet Frank figures in sticks. The proscenium is in Baum, though I read all of his books when very good condition, there are some I was a little girl so that writing the new old repairs on the stretched panels as adventures seemed just like visiting the well as some repairs using reversible merry old country. I may write another archival tape. The theatre when put book or two, so many boys and girls have together is approximately 16 1/4” x 11” written begging me to return to Oz.” The x 16” tall. The book was published in letter is even in the original Reilly & Lee Amsterdam by George W. v. Biene and is envelope! Sold with the map of Oz 10 x titled” Klughtspelen Woor De Chineesche 15” printed on both sides (repaired at Schimmen Geschikt Voor Kindern. This folds). $500.00 is a wonderful child’s theatre. $1850.00 a few of the puppets - hinged 547. THOMPSON, RUTH PLUMLY. LETTERS FROM RUTH PLUMLY THOMPSON TO NEILL’S WIFE MOY AND RESPONSES. Offered here are 2 handwritten and 2 typed. letters. All 4 letters. $1000.00

a. First is a 2 page handwritten letter from Neill’s wife “Moy” to Thompson reading in part: “ John and I were sorry we didn’t see you when you were in town last February. I have thought of you many times since our meeting at the Oz Tea.... It seems to me that radio is a great field, and you and John ought to get together with your clever and fanciful ideas and cash in.”

b. Thompson’s letter to Moy is typed and reads in part: “Too bad Oz in the hands of a company so limited and lacking in imagination and I suspect money, they do not keep the Oz books in print....Imagine that you heard that of Oz Club is publishing my 20th story “Yankee in Oz” and let’s hope it will start a new trend and that Johnny’s book may find a taker also.”

c. A second typed letter from Thom[son to Mrs. Neill reads in part: “ It was a treat to meet you after these many years. Think the Merry enjoyed themselves out at Malvern. I know I did... No one could or ever will be able to depict the Oz characters as perfectly as Johnny did. Half the fun and zest left the books when other artists took over.”

d. Mrs. Neill’s second handwritten letter reads in part “It is nice to know that there are so many Oz fans and the number seems to be growing.”

542. THOMPSON,KAY. ELOISE AT CHRISTMAS- TIME. NY: Random House(1958). 4to, red glazed pict. bds, owner inscription else fine in dw. Stated 1st ed. Illus. in color on each page by HILARY KNIGHT. $600.00

543. THOMPSON,KAY. ELOISE IN MOSCOW. NY:S&S, 1959, 4to, bds, inscription on endpaper erased else VG in very sl. soiled and worn dw. Charmingly illus. in color by HILARY KNIGHT. Stated first edition. $650.00

544. THOMPSON,KAY. ELOISE IN PARIS. NY: Simon & Schuster 1957 (1957) 4to, bds, Fine in dw. Stated 1st printing. Wonderfully illustrated in color on every page by HILARY KNIGHT. $650.00

545. THOMPSON,KAY. ELOISE. NY:S&S 1955 (1955). 4to, white cloth, sl. residue on front paste- down else near Fine in VG+ dw with light soil and a few edge small chips. Stated first printing of the of the first Eloise book, illustrated by HILARY KNIGHT with pict. ep’s, plus color illustrations on every page including one fold-out illus. Great copy, increasingly scarce. $2500.00 914.764.7410 Pg 74 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89

GREAT MCLOUGHLIN BOXED TOY TOWN #551 #552 548. TOYS. (PAPER) PRETTY VILLAGE. NY: McLoughlin Bros. 1897. Housed in a pictorial box measuring 20” wide x 15 high is a paper toy town that is can be assembled to create a model community. The box has flaps repaired otherwise it is in excellent condition. This is the largest of 3 sized towns that McLoughlin had available. There are 16 folding buildings plus figures of men, women, animals, trees, fences etc. with little stands to support the figures upright. It comes with a color printed ground plan to help the child place the buildings in a logical order and delineating roads, paths, grass areas etc.. Many of the buildings are labeled for various trades: Boat Club, Nursery, Photo Artist, Rip Van Winkle House, Wheelwright and Blacksmith, Public School. The cover of the box has a chromolithographed plate on the cover, and the entire item is in fine condition. See Whitton p.181-2 who notes that “the little cardboard houses were often set up as decoration under Christmas trees.” See Whitton illustration #’s 238-9. $1500.00

DEAN RAG BOOK 552. TOYS. TOY TOWN. London: Dean, circa 1905. Narrow 4to, (4 1/2 x 9 1/2”), cloth, fine. Each page has rich color illustrations of a variety toys including dolls house, Easter egg and more. Dean Rag Book 132. $200.00

TOYS see also 57, 190, 423 TRADES – 58-9, 590

TRAIN PAPER TOY BOOK 553. TRAINS. BOOK OF TRAINS. Racine: Whitman ca 1932. Giant folio (12 1/2 x 19 12/”), pictorial wraps, fine and UNUSED! This is a fabulous paper toy book of die-cut pieces to construct a locomotive, three Pullman cars, tender, dining car, complete railway station, baggage trucks, waiting booth, block house, two semaphores and two crossing signals. Rare. $750.00

TEDDY BEARS AND MORE 549. TOYS. REVEL OF THE TOYS by Helen Anabel Ingalls. Boston: Ball Pub. Co. 1910 (1910). 4to, cloth, pictorial paste-on, cover plate chipped else VG. 1st edition of this wonderful fantasy. When little boys are good, their toys are permitted to play at night when everyone is sleeping. They all come alive and party. Teddy Bears are featured in nearly all of the illustrations. Illustrated by John Goss with 26 full page color illustrations (including 1 double-page) plus a pictorial border on text pages and pictorial initials. Printed WITH RAILWAY ABC on thick coated paper. A 554. TRAINS. RAILWAY BOOK. NY: Sam. Gabriel 1913. Folio (10 x 12”), flexible charming book from an pictorial wraps, VG-Fine. Inside both covers is a railway alphabet. Inside are obscure publisher. $250.00 great full page color lithos of trains and train travel (12 in all). $200.00

TOY SOLDIER PAPER DOLL PANORAMA TRAINS see also 26, 60-1, 423 550. TOYS. (SOLDIERS) THE TOY ARMY. Lond: Tuck nd ca 1900. 16mo, (3x4 TRANSPORTATION – 6-8, 26, 60-1, 73, 114, 180, 263, 265, 309, 423, 475, 488, 1/2”) glazed stiff pict. wraps, Fine. Consisting of 1 page of instructions and 4 553-4 pages of story, after which are attached 5 chromolithographed panels of PAPER DOLLS FIGURES folded accordion style and opening to 15”! Also included is 1 RARE TRIER PICTURE BOOK page of die-cut stands that the reader uses to mount the soldier figures on after 555. (TRIER,WALTER)illus. FRIDOLINS SIEBENMEILENPFRED bucher mit cutting them out. A charming Victorian piece in really nice condition. $475.00 versen von MY [Wilhelm Meyer]. Berlin: Fridolin (1926). Obl. folio, (13” wide x 10 3/4”), 29p., cloth backed pictorial bds, covers soiled and paper slightly toned else VG. A VERY RARE and early Trier book, preceding Emil and the Detective, this features fabulous, fanciful full page color illustrations. The arresting images depict people of various nationalities that that the little children encountered while adventuring around the world. Rare. $800.00

SIGNED BY AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR 551. TOYS. TOPS AND WHISTLES by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey. NY: Viking 1937 (1937). 8vo, (6 1/4 x 9”), pictorial. cloth, 193p., Fine in dust wrapper. 1st ed. True stories about early American toys and dolls and their young owners (Jenny Lind paper doll, Letitia Penn doll, etc.) illustrated with lovely lithographs by GRACE PAULL. THIS COPY IS SIGNED BY BAILEY AND PAULL! (SEE ILLUS TOP NEXT COLUMN) $150.00 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 75 [email protected] ANTI-SLAVERY CIVIL WAR BOOK FOR BEAUTIFUL TUDOR WATERCOLOR CHILDREN 559. TUDOR,TASHA. ORIGINAL ART: FROG PRINCE. Offered here is a 556. TROWBRIDGE,J.T. CUDJO’S CAVE beautiful watercolor signed by Tudor that appears as a full page illustration in by John Townsend Trowbridge. Boston: J.E. Tasha Tudor’s Bedtime Book published by Platt & Munk in 1977. It accompanies Tilton 1864 (1863). Thick small 8vo (5 x 7 the fairy tale of the Frog Prince. The image measures 8” wide x 10”, attractively 1/4”), green pebbled cloth blind stamped, matted to 14 x 17”. Done with a muted blue palette, for a night time scene, there author’s name omitted from spine, 504p., is a beautiful princess with flowing long blonde hair talking to a frog sitting on a occasional spot and light cover soil, really VG+. stone wall (frog wears a crown). A large tree and flowers are in the background. 1st edition. earliest issue (p.3 lists 22 chapters, This is a lovely image, sold with a copy of the book. $5000.00 p.4 lists Envoy at p. 503). The novel is an anti- slavery tale, named for Cudjo, an escaped slave from Tennessee who hid in a cave with a Quaker teacher. There is a real Cudjo’s cave in Tennessee that was used for shelter and mined for gunpowder during the war. This is a nice copy of a scarce Peter Parley to Penrod title (p.20). $350.00

TUCK PUBLISHER – 6, 27, 60, 62, 164, 172, 182, 246, 392, 550, 589-90

WONDERFUL WATERCOLOR FOR WIND IN THE WILLOWS 557. (TUDOR,TASHA)illus. ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR: WIND IN THE WILLOWS. Offered here is a wonderful watercolor by Tudor that appears as a full page color illustration on p. 207 of her version of Kenneth Grahame’s Wind In the Willows published in 1966. The image measures 5 1/4” wide x 7 1/4”, signed, matted to 12 x 16”. The penciled caption at the bottom reads “Toad found himself flying through the air.” A wonderful piece. (SEE ALSO FRONT COVER) $7500.00

560. TUDOR,TASHA. THE DOLL’S CHRISTMAS. NY:OUP 1950 (1950). Sq. 12mo, red cloth, Very Fine in sl. soiled and frayed dw. First ed. Illustrated with full page color illustrations throughout by Tudor. The story of the Christmas party of two very old dolls. An especially nice copy. $450.00

#558

WONDERFUL DRAWING FOR WIND IN THE WILLOWS 558. (TUDOR,TASHA)illus. ORIGINAL DRAWING: WIND IN THE WILLOWS. Offered here is a wonderful pencil drawing by Tudor that appears on p. 233 of her version of Kenneth Grahame’s Wind In the Willows published in 1966. The image measures 5” wide x 3”, signed, matted to 11 1/2 x 9”. It is a great image with Mole, Rat, Badger and Toad seated around the breakfast table and talking - a wonderful piece. $2250.00 (SEE ILLUS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT ------>>>>>>>) 914.764.7410 Pg 76 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89 561. TWAIN,MARK [CLEMENS,SAMUEL]. THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER: BOXED VOLLAND A TALE FOR PEOPLE OF ALL AGES by Mark Twain. Boston: James R. Osgood 566. VOLLAND. BIRD CHILDREN: the little playmates of the flower 1882 (1882). 4to, (7 x 8 1/2”), 411p., green cloth stamped in gold and black, neat children by Elizabeth Gordon. Chic: Volland (1912, rev. ed. 1930). 4to, cloth repair to base of spine, covers rubbed from normal use, front hinge repaired backed blue pict. bds., Fine IN PICTORIAL BOX (box worn on edges). Illus. neatly and unobtrusively, owner bookplate removed from verso of free endpaper, by M.T. PENNY ROSS with pict. ep’s plus more that 80 wonderful color a few small margin mends, really a nice, clean tight copy of the FIRST ISSUE IN illustrations of her humanized birds. Printed on coated paper, this is a great FIRST STATE BINDING. copy with fine sharp reproductions. $300.00 (top rosette on spine 1/8” below fillet, Franklin imprint on copyright page, p.124 line 1 “estate” instead of “state”, p. 263 9 lines up “do not” instead of “do” and p.362 three lines up “reigned” instead of “reined”). The classic children’s tale about a prince and a pauper who switch roles and learn that the grass isn’t necessarily greener on the other side. Illustrated with 192 engravings. Peter Parley To Penrod p.65, BAL 3402. $775.00

562. VAN ALLSBURG,CHRIS. JUMANJI. Bost: Houghton Mifflin 1981 (1981). Oblong 4to, cloth, Fine in dw. 1st ed. CALDECOTT AWARD WINNER. 567. VOLLAND. BUDDY JIM by Elizabeth Gordon. Chic: Volland (1922, 21st Hauntingly and magnificently illustrated in Van Allsburg’s unique, detailed style ed.) 8vo, pict. bds, Fine in PICTORIAL BOX (flap repaired and penciling on to accompany a story written by him as well. $850.00 bottom cover). A VOLLAND NATURE CHILDREN BOOK beautifully illustrated in color throughout by JOHN RAE. $200.00

563. VAN ALLSBURG,CHRIS. POLAR EXPRESS. Bost: HM 1985 (1985). Obl. 4to, cloth, AS NEW IN DW. 1st ed. Magnificent color illustrations on each page, CALDECOTT AWARD WINNER. This copy is INSCRIBED BY VAN ALLSBURG DATED 1985. $1500.00

SCARCE LARGE FORMAT VOLLAND BOOK STRIKING ART DECO 568. VOLLAND. THE EMPTY ELEPHANT by Dixie Willson. Chic: Volland (1923). 564. (VASSOS,JOHN)illus. Large Sq. 4to, pict. bds, some light cover soil else VG+. A very rare Volland title, KUBLA KAHN by Samuel this is beautifully illustrated in color by ERICK BERRY in the style of Gertrude Coleridge. NY: Dutton 1933 Kay. A Volland Hug-Me Toy Book. $400.00 (1933). 4to, 1/2 cloth, sl. cover soil else VG+. Stated 1st ed. of a very scarce Vassos title, illustrated RARE VOLLAND TITLE in true Art Deco style 569. VOLLAND. HAPPY HOME CHILDREN with 13 stunning plates and with an interesting by Elizabeth Gordon. Chic: Volland (1924 11th forward by Vassos as well. $325.00 ed). 8vo, pict boards, FINE IN BOX (box sl. scuffed). A VOLLAND SUNNY BOOK with LEIGHTON BROTHERS great art deco illustrations. in bright colors PRINTING 565. VICTORIAN by MARION FOSTER. Nice copy of a rare COLORPLATE. SCHNICK title. $300.00 SCHNACK; trifles for the little ones. Lond.: Routledge [1867]. 8vo, green cloth with extensive gilt pictorial LARGE FORMAT VOLLAND cover, near fine. Poems 570. VOLLAND. JOLLY for very young children JUNGLE JINGLES by Ottlile illustrated by Oscar Pletsch Amend. Chic: Volland (1929). with 32 fine full color plates Large oblong 4to, cloth backed (including title) printed pict. bds, some edge rubbing and by the Leighton Brothers. sl. soil, VG++. One of Volland’s Osborne p.77. (sold scarce large format books, this is together with a rebound beautifully and boldly illustrated copy lacking title page and 3 in full color on every page by plates). $250.00 ELEANORE BARTE. Really nice. $300.00 VICTORIAN see also 6, 27, 63, 172, 182, 246, 305-6, 377, 591 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 77 [email protected] 571. VOLLAND. BOXED VOLLAND KATHERINE THE 576. VOLLAND. LITTLE RED BALLOON by Caroline Hofman. Chic: Volland KOMICAL KOW by June (1918). Sq. 8vo, pict. bds, sl. soil, VG+ in box with flaps repaired. Later Norris. Chic: Volland printing. A VOLLAND SUNNY BOOK. Charmingly illus. in full color by RACHEL (1926, early edition ed). ROBINSON ELMER. A beautiful copy of a very scarce Volland title. (SEE 8vo, pictorial boards, VERY ILLUS BOTTOM PRIOR COLUMN) $250.00 FINE IN ORIGINAL BOX. A Sunny Book. Wonderfully VOLLAND MOTHER GOOSE - JUSTIN GRUELLE illustrated in bold colors by 577. VOLLAND. MOTHER GOOSE PARADE. Joliet: Volland (1929). 4to, cl. LEW TOWER, many words in backed pict. bds, some edge rubbing else VG+. A rare large format VOLLAND the text have been replaced PICTURE BOOK (same format as in Granny Goose) with text and color illustrations with pictures. A rare Volland on every page by Justin Gruelle. $475.00 title. $300.00

572. VOLLAND. KATRINA AND JAN by Alice Cooper Bailey. Chic: Volland (1923, no add. printings). 8vo, pict. bds, near fine. 1st ed. A Volland Happy Children Book with wonderful color illus. by HERMAN ROSSE. The story of Dutch children. $225.00

#573

BOXED VOLLAND TITLE 578. VOLLAND. MYSELF AND I by Helen Van Valkenburgh. Chic.: Volland (1918). 8vo, pict. boards, fine in original box (flaps repaired). 1st edition of this Volland Sunny book, beautifully illustrated in color by Maginel Wright Enright (’s sister). Rare. $350.00

RICHARDSON ILLUSTRATED FAIRY TALES #573 579. VOLLAND. OLD OLD TALES RETOLD: the best loved folk stories for RARE VOLLAND TITLE AND FORMAT children. Chic: Volland (1923). 573. VOLLAND. KIDDYLAND STORY BALLOONS Oblong 4to, (51)p., gilt cloth, by Tom Lamb. Chic: Volland (1924). Obl. folio (12” wide pict. paste-on, a few spots x 9 1/2”), linen wraps, some cover and margin soil else on rear of cover and very VG. A Volland Cloth Art Book. A circus-clown fantasy, occasional fox spot else tight fancifully illustrated in bright colors by Tom Lamb. and VG+. Including: Little Rare. $400.00 Red Hen; Three Little Pigs; Chicken Licken; Old Woman RARE TITLE & Her Pig; Little Tuppens 574. VOLLAND. A LITTLE BOOK OF HAPPY and more. Wondrously THOUGHTS compiled by Jennie Day Haines. Chic.: illustrated by FREDERICK Volland nd circa 1910. Narrow folio (5 1.2 x 11’), RICHARDSON with pictorial sheets tied at top with silk cord, Mint In Box ep’s and title plus 51 full (box with light wear). Illustrated with art deco page color illustrations and color cover and with decorative border on all text b&w’s in-text. Beautifully pages. The author believed that the best way to printed on coated paper be happy was to think happy thoughts. There are and a nice copy of a rare thoughts for every day of the year from famous title. $450.00 people of all eras. Incredible copy of a rare title. $200.00 RARE BOXED SUNNY BOOK 580. VOLLAND. BRIDGE by Louise Marshall Haynes. Chic: Volland (1920, no add. printings). 12mo, pict. bds, Fine in BOXED JAPANESE FAIRY TALES Box (box flaps repaired). A VOLLAND SUNNY BOOK with great color 575. VOLLAND. LITTLE PEACHLING by Georgene Faulkner. Chic: Volland illus. by CARMEN BROWNE. A beautiful copy of a rare Volland in box. (1928 no add. printings). 8vo, pictorial boards, FINE IN ORIGINAL BOX (box sl. $400.00 soiled). Prob. 1st ed. of this VOLLAND FAIRY CHILDREN BOOK. Eleven tales from old Japan, beautifully illustrated by Frederick Richardson with many rich full page color illustrations plus many partial page as well. Nice copy. $300.00

581. VOLLAND. PINKY PUP by Dixie Willson. Chic: Volland (1922). Large Sq. 4to, cloth backed pict. bds, sl. dusty, VG+. A very rare Volland title, part of a #576 new series issued with actual toys, called the Hug-Me Toy Book series. This is beautifully illustrated in color by ERICK BERRY. $400.00 914.764.7410 Pg 78 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 89 582. VOLLAND. PRINCESS FINDS A PLAYMATE by Caroline Hofman. Chic: VOLLAND IN BOX Volland (1918, no add. printings). 8vo, pictorial boards, FINE IN PUBLISHER’S 587. VOLLAND. US KIDS AT THE CIRCUS. Minneapolis: Gordon Volland (1927 BOX (flap repaired), with Volland flyer laid-in. 1st ed. of a very uncommon 3rd printing). 8vo, pict. bds, Fine in ORIGINAL PICTORIAL BOX (box sl. worn). Volland Sunny Book illustrated with wonderful color illustrations throughout by Adventures with the circus, written by Brandywine artist GERTURDE KAY and RACHAEL ELMER. $250.00 illus. by her in color throughout. A beautiful copy of a scarce title. $325.00

VOLLAND see also 147, 280-1, 304, 498

588. (WAIN,LOUIS)illus. CAT’S CRADLE by May Byron. Lond.: Blackie [1908]. #583 4to, cl. backed pictorial boards, some rubbing to covers, margin mends to title and some finger soil, VG+. An incredible picture book illustrated by Wain in color on every page including 6 full page and nearly 50 large partial page richly colored 3 VOLLAND BOOKS IN BOX illustrations. Very scarce. $1000.00 583. VOLLAND. PUNKY DUNK’S PLAYMATES. Chic: Volland, (1913). Offered here are three books featuring Punky Dunk the cat’s friends, written by Charlotte Herr and illustrated in color by Frances Beem: Wise Mamma Goose, Unselfish Pig RARE WAIN CAT PAINTING BOOK and The Bee Who Would Not Work. All are fine in sl. soiled but very nice box 589. (WAIN,LOUIS)illus. THREE with small repairs to flaps. The color illustrations are charming. Very scarce, especially in box. $600.00 LITTLE KITTENS PAINTING BOOK. Lond.: Tuck ca 1910. 4to, pict. wraps, VOLLAND. SKATING GANDER 584. by Alice Cooper Bailey. Joliet: Volland one illus. already expertly done else fine! (1927. 8vo, pictorial boards, sl. cover wear else VG+. Stated first edition of this Volland Nature Children Book. A story set in Holland and illustrated by MARIE There are 4 different illustrations in HONRE MYERS in typical, bold Volland style with beautiful color endpapers and brown line, designed to be colored by the many full page color illustrations throughout. $225.00 owner. Each leaf of line illustration is faced with a glorious full page full color drawing of the cats - to be used as a guide. Rare. $975.00

SCARCE WAIN BOOK OF TRADES 590. (WAIN,LOUIS)illus. TINKER, TAILOR by Edric Vredenburg. Lond: Tuck [1914]. 4to, cl. backed pict. bds, pict. paste-on, [144]p. incl. ads, tips rubbed else near fine. A variety of trades are integrated into a story featuring humanized cats. Illus. by Wain with 12 fabulous color plates VOLLAND TITLE IN BOX plus hundred’s of b&w’s and 585. VOLLAND. THE TALE OF BINGO by Tom Lamb. Chic: Gordon Volland (1927, pictorial endpapers. Very fourth print.). 8vo, cloth backed pict. bds, 120p., near Fine IN PUBLISHER’S scarce and some great Wain BOX. A strange fantasy tale of the adventures of Bingo - a humanized monkey work. $1875.00 with a big swastika affixed to his bowtie. Written and illustrated in color and b&w by Lamb, this is one of the scarcer Volland titles, especially in box. $300.00 WAIN, LOUIS see also 163

CHARMING WAUGH CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS 586. VOLLAND. TREASURE THINGS 591. (WAUGH,IDA)illus. by Annette Wynne. Chic: Volland (1922, BONNY BAIRNS by Amy 10th ed). 8vo, pictorial boards, Fine in Blanchard. NY: Worthington 1888. 4to, (8 1/4 x 10 ORIGINAL PICTORIAL BOX. A Volland 1/”), cloth backed pictorial Sunny Book illustrated by EDNA MERRITT boards, 48p., edges sl. rubbed else VG+. Featuring with bold color illustrations throughout, numerous full and partial very similar in style to Janet Laura Scott. page chromolithographs by Waugh, depicting cherubic A rare Volland title in excellent condition children and babies and idyllic . $250.00 Victorian life in the style of Maud Humphrey. Well printed. IDA WAUGH see also 63. $400.00 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 79 [email protected]

WORLD WAR I – 46, 290 #596

592. WEBSTER,JEAN. DADDY - LONG WORLD WAR II – 311, 355, 454 - LEGS. NY: Century Company 1912 (1912). 12mo, (4 3/4 x 7”), blue pictorial cloth, slightest of cover wear, Fine. 1st ed. of this classic that was twice made into a movie. Illustrated by the author. Peter Parley To Penrod p.130. A beautiful copy. $200.00

WEST INDIES – 121, 122

WIESE, KURT – 138, 139

1st ED. OF FIRST “LITTLE HOUSE” BOOK PHOTO ILLUSTRATED 593. WILDER,LAURA 597. WRIGHT,DARE. DATE WITH INGALLS. LITTLE HOUSE LONDON. NY: Random House (1961). Folio, (9 IN THE BIG WOODS. 1/2 x 13”). cloth spine, glazed photo illustrated board covers, near fine in sl. frayed dust wrapper. Stated 1st edition. NY: Harper Brothers 1932 A tour of London taken by American Brooke with her British cousin Donald in two (1932). Small 4to, (7 1/4” weeks - touching on all of the must-see’s. The narrative text gives just enough wide x 8 1/2), pictorial information to make it interesting for a youngster. Profusely illustrated with cloth, 176p., covers slightly artistic b&w photos. A Random House Book for Boys and Girls. $100.00 soiled and sl. puckered BLACK ARROW IN DUST WRAPPER on edge else clean, tight 598. (WYETH,N.C.)illus. THE BLACK ARROW by Robert Louis Stevenson. NY: and VG+ (no dw). Stated Scribner 1916 (Oct. 1916) 4to, black cloth, pict. paste-on, top edge gilt. FINE 1st edition of the FIRST IN ORIGINAL DUST TITLE IN THIS BELOVED WRAPPER (dw only very SERIES, illustrated by sl. worn at spine ends). First ed. of this Scribner HELEN SEWELL with color Classic, illustrated by frontis plus many b&w’s. Wyeth with cover plate, Rare. $1200.00 pictorial endpapers and title page plus 14 SANTA PANORAMA color plates. This is an 594. (WILKIN,ELOISE)illus. SANTA’S WORKSHOP by designed by Plowitz. incredible copy of one NY: Capitol Pub. (1949). Folio, pictorial boards folded panorama format with of the scarcest Wyeth the top die-cut in the shape of Santa, VG. A double sided panorama featuring first editions, rare in Santa, the elves and the toys, illus. in color by Wilkin. Complete with the little the fragile white paper bell in the window of the cover. $275.00 wrapper in such nice condition. $2000.00

599. (WYETH,N.C.)illus. DAVID BALFOUR by Robert Louis Stevenson. NY: Scribner 1924 (1924) 4to, black cloth, pict. paste-on, FINE IN ORIGINAL WRAPPER WITH MOUNTED COLOR PLATE that matches cover of book (dw has piece off top of spine, small chips off edges and corners). First ed. with Wyeth illustrations, a Scribner Classic. Illustrated with cover plate, pict. endpapers and title page plus 9 color plates. This is an unusually bright and fine copy, very scarce in the wrapper. $1000.00

RARE CALDECOTT HONOR 595. WILL AND NICOLAS. THE TWO REDS. NY: Harcourt Brace (1950). 4to, cloth, Fine in sl. worn dw. Stated 1st ed. CALDECOTT HONOR. Written by Will Lipkind and illus. by Nicolas Mordvinoff when the two were roommates in N.Y.C. A perfectly designed children’s book which “reaches out and pulls yours eyes right to the page” (AIGA jury Bader p.337). See Bader p. 333-7). Rare. $600.00

CALDECOTT WINNER SIGNED 596. (WILLIAMS,GARTH)illus. THE TALL BOOK OF MAKE-BELIEVE selected 600. ZELINSKY,PAUL. RAPUNZEL by the Brothers Grimm. NY: Dutton by Jane Werner. NY & Lond: Harper Bros. (1950). Tall, narrow 4to, pictorial (1997). 4to, pict. bds. fine in dw. Stated 1st ed. (1-10 code). Magnificent color bds, near Fine in worn dw. Done in the same format as Rojan’s Tall Book of illustrations by Zelinsky. CALDECOTT AWARD WINNER. THIS COPY IS Mother Goose, this is an anthology of 35 popular poems and stories, illustrated SIGNED BY ZELINSKY. $250.00 throughout by Williams with more than 50 beautiful color illustrations plus 61 b&w’s. Scarce. (SEE ILLUS TOP NEXT COLUMN) $325.00 ZOLOTOW, CHARLOTTE – 319, 320 #91 - Fine 1st Edition - Wonderful Wizard of Oz #359 - Signed Limited Edition - When We Were Very Young #360 - Signed Limited Edition - Winnie the Pooh

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