CHILDREN’S BOOKS & ILLUSTRATED BOOKS ALEPH-BET BOOKS, INC. 85 OLD MILL RIVER RD. POUND RIDGE, NY 10576 (914) 764 - 7410 CATALOGUE 112 ALEPH - BET BOOKS - TERMS OF SALE Helen and Marc Younger 85 Old Mill River Rd. Pound Ridge, NY 10576 phone 914-764-7410 fax 914-764-1356 www.alephbet.com Email - [email protected] POSTAGE: UNITED STATES. 1st book $8.00, $2.00 for each additional book. OVERSEAS shipped by air at cost. PAYMENTS: Due with order. Libraries and those known to us will be billed. PHONE orders 9am to 10pm e.s.t. Phone Machine orders are secure. CREDIT CARDS: VISA, Mastercard, American Express. Please provide billing address. RETURNS - Returnable for any reason within 1 week of receipt for refund less shipping costs provided prior notice is received and items are shipped fastest method insured VISITS welcome by appointment. We are 1 hour north of New York City near New Canaan, CT. Our full stock of 8000 collectible and rare books is on view and available. Not all of our stock is on our web site COVER ILLUSTRATION - #207 - from a rare picture book by Tom Seidmann Freud, Berlin 1922 PLEASE email us ([email protected]) as we will now be issuing short lists via email. In the past, many of you enjoyed these lists that were printed and mailed. Today it is much more efficient to do this via email. So, PLEASE let us know you are interested by sending us an email. Thanks - Helen & Marc We are now on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram. Please go to our website, www.alephbet.com for links to these sites. #222 - 3 of 12 original watercolors by Kate Greenaway (see pg. 39) #292 - Complete set of first editions in dust wrapper of the Narnia books by C. S. Lewis Helen & Marc Younger Pg 3 [email protected] MacKINSTRY’S ARTHURIAN ABC STUNNING PETER THOMSON 1. ABC. (ARTHURIAN) THE FAIRY ALPHABET:AS USED BY MERLIN by MOTHER GOOSE ALPHABET Elizabeth Mackinstry. NY: 6. ABC. (MOTHER GOOSE) THE GOLDEN MOTHER GOOSE ABC. Viking 1933 (1933). 4to (7 Cincinnati: Peter G. Thomson, 1885. 4to (10 x 10 7/”8), flexible card wraps, neat x 9 3/4”), cloth, pictorial spine strengthening, near Fine. Featuring 8 superb color lithographs highlighted paste-on, Fine in VG dust in gold by Walter Stranders plus great color covers. The letters represent wrapper with small piece various Mother Goose rhymes with a separate pictorial section for the text of off top edge. First edition. the rhyme on each page. There are also 6 printed pages of other Mother Goose One of Mackinstry’s most Rhymes. This is a fabulous, well printed toy book, quite scarce. $475.00 lovely books, each page is printed on one side only #6 and features a large and intricate black and white drawing - one for each letter of a fairy ABC. Features Merlin, Ariel, Caliban, Puck, Undine and others. Verse written by MacKinstry as well. (Five Years of Childrens Books p.24 &33). Great copy. $375.00 2. ABC. (BIANCO) BEGINNING WITH A by Pamela Bianco. NY: Oxford University Press 1947 (1947). 4to (7 1/4 x 10”), cloth, Fine in dust wrapper OUTSTANDING ABC BY NEILSON frayed at spine ends and 7. ABC. (NEILSON) AN ANIMAL ABC. NY & Boston: H.M. Caldwell, no date, lightly rubbed. First edition circa 1910. 8 x 10 3/8”, cloth backed boards, pictorial paste-on, edge stain of this charming alphabet on cover, some cover soil, of children’s names that edges and tips show wear, has a rhyme and a full page overall tight, clean inside and illustration for each letter. VG. Illustrated by HARRY $200.00 NEILSON with fantastic full page color illustrations to accompany poems about the letters. Following below DEAN RAG BOOK each poem is a list of words GREAT ABC beginning with the particular 3. ABC. (CLOTH) letter. Surrounding the text NURSERY ABC. London: is a pictorial border with Dean, 1905. 8 x 8 1/2”, slight fine, detailed drawings of cover soil and slight fraying, the animals on the word list. VG+. This is a wonderful X stands for Xiphia. A super alphabet with typical turn of book. $200.00 the last century art nouveau illustrations in bright colors by Jessie Aitcheson Walker. NEWBERY HONOR “U” Stands for Underclothes, 8. ABC. (PARRISH) THE STORY OF APPLEBY CAPPLE by Anne Parrish. NY: “I” Stands for Invalid. Cope Harper & Bros. (1950). 4to 34. $275.00 (9 x 12”), yellow cloth, 184p., VG+ in dust wrapper (dw MICKEY MOUSE ALPHABET BOOK - FINE COPY with some soil and chipping). 4. ABC (DISNEY) MICKEY MOUSE ABC STORY. Racine: Whitman (1936). 4to, First edition. Apple’s (7 x 9 1/4”), pictorial boards, Fine condition. Each page features a fabulous color search for the rare Zebra illustration done in orange, light orange, black and white by the Disney Studios - 1 butterfly also presents letter per page with all of the Disney characters plus an ABC song at the end. An a nonsense ABC book in early Disney book and an outstanding copy. $475.00 26 chapters, each with a character to represent a letter. Illustrated with color endpapers and more than 50 black & whites with each letter in a humanized form. An imaginative book. NEWBERY HONOR AWARD. $250.00 ABC ALSO 58, 118, 308, 375, 421, 445, 503 #5 McLOUGHLIN FAIRY TALE ALPHABET BOOK 5. ABC. (FAIRY TALES) FAIRY ABC. NY: McLoughlin Bros. no date, circa 1870. 8vo (6 7/8 x 7 1/4”), pictorial wraps, inconspicuous small cover and spine mend else VG+. Each letter is beautifully presented with a large color pictorial letter matching a different fairy tale or nursery rhyme (A=Aladdin, N=Nutcracker, U=Ugly Duck etc). The text is in verse. This is an excellent copy of a very scarce McLoughlin title and a really wonderful alphabet book. $450.00 (SEE ILLUS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT ------->>>>>>>) Pg 4 914.764.7410 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 112 HUNTING AND FISHING 13. AINSLIE,KATHLEEN. 9. (ADAMS,FRANK)illus. JOLLY OLD SPORTS. London: Blackie no date CATHARINE SUSAN’S circa 1915. Folio (10 x CALENDAR 1909. London & NY: Castell Bros. and Fred. Stokes. 13 ½”), cloth backed 12mo (4 ½ x 5 3/8”), pictorial boards, pictorial paste- card covers. owner inscription on, corners rubbed and dated 1908, a Fine copy with light cover soil, VG+. tassel. This is a calendar of the Containing the rhymes year 1909 featuring a stick doll named Catharine Susan, with of the Three Jolly her friends. Illustrated with Huntsmen; The Little 12 full page chromolithographs Man and His Gun; and (one opposite each month’s Three Jolly Fisherman calendar) plus a double page and featuring 36 center spread and color wrap around cover. June’s illustration fabulous color plates shows the dolls flying a bizarre by Adams in his bold, looking flying machine. The distinctive style. Nice colors are vibrant and there is copy. $400.00 much attention to detail. Great copy. $275.00 14. AINSLIE,KATHLEEN. CATHARINE SUSAN’S CALENDAR 1910. London 10. (ADAMS,FRANK)illus. THE SCHOLAR GYPSY by Matthew Arnold. London: & NY: Castell Bros. and Fred. Stokes. 12mo (4 ½ x 5 3/8”), pictorial card Ivor Nicholson 1933. 9 x 11 1/4”, gilt cloth, spine toned else Fine condition covers. tiny tips of 2 corners nipped, a tiny mark on rear cover, near Fine with in original slip case lacking tassels. This is a calendar of the year 1910. Each month features a full page the back strip and chipped, chromolithograph with captions opposite the calendar plus there is a double with color plate mounted page center spread and color wrap around covers. The center spread has a on the front. Introduction wonderful view of the dolls sitting on rocks and watching the ocean. The colors by Edmund Blunden. are vibrant and there is much attention to detail. Very nice copy. $225.00 Illustrated by British artist Frank Adams with pictorial endpapers, 10 beautiful tipped-in water color plates, 10 full page illustrations in shades of brown plus pictorial borders and initials and detailed pen and inks throughout. A nice copy of lovely book (See Peppin: Book Illus. 20th Cent.) $200.00 ADULT (KNOWN FOR ADULT BOOKS) - 285 ADVERTISING - 336 AESOP - 195, 406, 425 AFRICA - 327 CROQUET 11. AINSLIE,KATHLEEN. CATHARINE SUSAN’S CALENDAR 1906. London & NY: Castell Bros. and Fred. Stokes. 12mo (4 5/8 x 5 3/8”), pictorial card 15. AINSLIE,KATHLEEN. CATHARINE SUSAN’S CALENDAR 1911. London covers. general light cover & NY: Castell Bros. and Fred. Stokes. 12mo (5 x 6”), pictorial card covers. soil, near Fine with tassels. general light cover soil, near Fine without tassels. This is a calendar of the year This is a calendar of the 1911 starring a stick doll named Catharine Susan and her friends. Each month year 1906 starring a stick features a full page chromolithograph with captions opposite the calendar plus doll named Catharine Susan, there is a double page center spread and color wrap around covers. The colors and her friends. Each are vibrant and there is much attention to detail. Very nice copy. $225.00 month features a full page chromolithograph facing ALADDIN - 301, 375 the calendar plus there is a double page center spread and color wrap around FABULOUS ALDIN PICTURE BOOK covers. The center spread 16. ALDIN,CECIL. BUNNYBOROUGH. has a wonderful view of a croquet game. The colors London: Humphrey Milford [1919]. Large are vibrant and there is much 4to, cloth backed pictorial boards, rear attention to detail. Very nice cover faded else VG+. This is a most copy.