Helen & Marc Younger Pg 39 [email protected] 294. [HOFFMANN,HEINRICH]. DER & Loening, ca 1870. Oblong 4to, printed boards, spine repaired and normal wear, VG+. Printed on rectos only, each leaf has a rhyme about a different naughty KRIEGS STRUWWELPETER lustige child embellished with 2 very fine hand-colored engravings. Includes: Bertha and bilder und verse von Karl Ewald Olszewski. the Greedy Boys, Little Chinaman, Inquisitive Susan, Little Trespasser, Freddy Munchen: Holbein 1915. 4to, pict. bds, and the Fire and more. Not in Baumgartner, Ruhle 301a. Rare. $1750.00 edges and spine extrems rubbed else VG+. A marvelous Struwwelpeter parody with a militaristic / World War I theme. Printed on rectos only, each leaf has a warlike motif (Der Bombenpeter, Kaiser Wilhelm, Der Japs etc). Very scarce. $600.00 RARE AND GRUESOME McLOUGHLIN STRUWWELPETER IMITATION 295. [HOFFMANN,HEINRICH]. HEEDLESS HARRY AND OTHER NAUGHTY CHILDREN STORIES. NY: McLoughlin Bros., 1905. 4to, pict. wraps, [32]p. + covers, 299. HOFFMANN,HEINRICH. JIMMY SLIDERLEGS. NY: Sully (inscribed paper aging, some finger soil, VG+. Illustrated with color cover plus 1898). 4to, cl. backed pict. bds, sl. cover soil and very faint edge stain else numerous b&w’s on every page accompany verse about Heedless Harry, remarkably clean and tight and VG+. Illus. in color on every page to accompany Little Lie Abed, The Naughty Boy Who Destroyed His Books, The Dainty the rhymes about Cruel Paul, Tom Bogus, Dr. Wango Tango, Discontented Lucy, Boy, The Little Boy Who Would Not Be Washed and more. The last page Slovenly Betsy and others. A scarce title. $500.00 has a frightful of the Old Man That Draws the Teeth of Children Who Bite: $1200.00 UNCOMMON McLOUGHLIN TITLE RARE STRUWWELPETER PAINTING BOOK 300. [HOFFMANN,HEINRICH]. TOM TEARABOUT. NY: McLoughlin Bros. ca 296. (HOFFMANN,HEINRICH). STRUWWELPETER PICTURES FOR 1880. 5x6”, pictorial wraps, fine. “I’ll tell you about Tom Tearabout, The boy no PAINTING. [Lond.} Humphrey Milford / Oxford Univ. Press, no date ca 1930. man could tame; No less than sixteen nurseries, Did tremble at his name”. Illus. Large 12mo, (6x7”), pictorial boards, spine paper chipped, some illus. colored and with 8 half page full color lithos. Father’s Series. $200.00 some soil and wear, really VG. The text of the English Struwwelpeter is printed in HOFFMANN, HEINRICH ALSO 244 HOGAN, INEZ – 97, 570 full color on coated paper. Facing each colored illustration is the same illustration in line meant to be painted by the child (6 of 24 are neatly painted). The cover illustration is in color signed W.P. A very scarce Struwwelpeter item. $850.00 RARE BOXED VOLLAND/HOLLING TITLE RARE EARLY STRUWWLPETER IMITATION 301. HOLLING,HOLLING C. CHOO-ME- 297. (HOFFMANN,HEINRICH). AUNT ODDEMADODD’S WHISPERS ABOUT SHOO by Holling Holling. Minn.: Volland CERTAIN LITTLE PEOPLE First Series by W. Newman, Late one of the Punch - Buzza (1928 6th printing). Square 8vo, artists. Lond.: Dean & Son, no date [1857]. Small 4to, cloth backed pictorial cloth backed pictorial boards, Fine in boards, edges worn, hinges strengthened else, VG. Printed on one side of the PUBLISHER’S BOX. An Eskimo story, paper, almost every page has illustrated by Lucille Holling with bright detailed engravings showing and beautiful color illustrations. Great the result of being a naughty copy. $325.00 child (including pictorial title HORSES – 384, 438 page). The book contains the following stories: The Dainty Little Boy, The Little HOUSMAN’S FIRST BOOK Girl Who Made Faces, The 302. HOUSMAN,LAURENCE. Little Boy Who Bit His Nails, A FARM IN FAIRYLAND. The Boy Who Never Looked Lond: Kegan Paul, Trench, Where He Was Going To, Trübner 1894. 8vo, green Little Lie A-bed, Little Girl pictorial cloth stamped in green Who Would Not Go to Bed, and gold, sl. bubble to cloth on Little Boy Who Would Not rear cover, a few pages opened Be Washed and Tasting. roughly, VG. First edition of the This is a rare and early first book written by Housman. imitation of Hoffmann’s Fairy tales written by Housman Struwwelpeter. Ruhle 281m, and illustrated by him with 13 TPL p.73, not in Baumgartner beautiful full page Art Nouveau who lists the Second Series. illustrations as well as lovely Rare. $1500.00 pictorial title page and cover design. The book is noted not only for the illustrations, but for RARE EARLY NAUGHTY CHILDREN BOOK the high quality of the stories 298. [HOFFMANN,HEINRICH]. FUNNY PICTURE BOOK OR 25 FUNNY as well. (See Engen’s Artist LITTLE LESSONS: A FREE TRANSLATION FROM THE GERMAN OF DER & the Critic: Housman p. 116- KLEINE A-B-C SCHUTZ. Frankfort on the Main: Literarische Anstalt Rutten 117) $425.00 914.764.7410 Pg 40 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 88 RARE BOOK BY NATIVE STUDENTS 307. INDIANS. THE NEW TRAIL: BOOK OF CREATIVE WRITING BY INDIAN STUDENTS - 2 volumes (1941 plus the 1953 revision). Phoenix: Printed at 303. (HUMPHREY,MAUD)illus. the Phoenix School. The first edition was printed in 1941. 4to, pict. wraps, 158p., BABES OF THE NATIONS first signature strengthened and paper aging with some chipping on edges else VG. by Edith Thomas. NY: Stokes Edited by Ann Nolan Clark. Conceived and printed as the yearbook by students 1889. Small 4to, cl. backed of the Phoenix Indian School with the intention of depicting contemporary Indian pict. bds, edges and corners life in the southwest. The text is comprised of poems, songs, games, legends rubbed else clean and fresh. and essays on native life of by students. The essays describe pottery making, Illustrated by Humphrey basketry etc. of the Papago, Pima, Maricopa, Apache, Hopi and other southwest with 12 magnificent full tribes. One essay describes and depicts childbirth. Some of the pages are page chromolithographs printed on colored papers meant to indicate tribal relationships (desert tribes are of little children dressed on “warm” yellow paper, “virile” Apaches are on green paper). Illustrated by the in the national costumes students in b&w and in full color including 8 removable double-pages illustrations of various nations from which appear to be original colored woodblocks. This 1941 edition is inscribed Russia to Africa. Printed by Martha Refsland, Supervisor of Elementary Education. The preface to the on heavy stock, the colors revised edition indicates that only a limited number of copies were printed and of are beautiful. One page of these, there is little doubt that very few copies of this book would have survived. verse for each illus. (with line illustrations). $950.00 It is sold together with the 1953 revised edition in fine condition (one cancelled blind embossed library stamp). This edition is longer with 182 pages which includes a section on the Navajo Indians that is not in the first edition. The HUGHES, LANGSTON - 98 papers colors have been changed as well. The first edition has a colored map of the Hopi Reservation and a wonderful double-page color illus. of Katchina Corn Grinders, neither of which are in the revised edition. There are numerous other RARE HUMPHREY TITLE curious changes, for instance one double-paged print in the first edition was 304. (HUMPHREY,MAUD)illus. BOOK captioned Apache Sunrise Dance and the same illustration has been renamed the Apache Wedding Ceremony. The fact that the revised edition is printed OF PETS by Elizabeth Tucker. NY: on better paper serves to highlight the charm of the original in comparison. A Stokes 1893. 4to, cloth backed pictorial special and rare American Indian offering. $1200.00 boards, edges and corners rubbed else tight VG-Fine. Featuring 12 fine full page chromolithographs of little children with their pets. These are inter-leaved poems about the pets embellished with full page color chromos also by Tucker. Printed on one side of the paper, there are a total of 24 full page illustrations including title. A very scarce Humphrey title. $1000.00 305. HUMPTY DUMPTY BOOK. THE EGGS-TRAORDINARY ADVENTURES OF THE HUMPTY DUMPTY FAMILY. Lond: Treherne nd ca 1905. Sq. 16mo (3x3”). Pict. cloth, some shelf wear, VG. A marvelous continuation of the Humpty Dumpty rhyme INDIANS SEE ALSO 170 INSECTS – 165, 175, 407, 564-5 featuring the entire Dumpty family. Printed on heavy paper on one side of the page, each IRISH – 566 IRVING, WASHINGTON – 462, 573 page of text faces a charming full page color illustration signed E.E.M. In the style of a Stump book, only square instead of oblong. Very. $750.00 RARE CREPE PAPER CALENDAR 308. JAPANESE INTEREST. CALENDAR HUNGARY – 415, 431 1906. (Tokyo: Hasegawa) 1906. 12mo, LOVELY CHRISTMAS ART crepe paper bound frenchfold with silk 306. HYMAN,TRINA SCHART. ORIGINAL ART FROM CHRISTMAS POEMS a book of poems selected by Myra Cohn Livingston and published by Holiday House ties, fine. Similar to the Japanese fairy in 1984. The piece offered here is a charming double-page spread appearing on tale series published by Hasegawa, this is pages 24 and 25 of the book. The image measures 16” wide x 9” high and is nicely matted. The scene is viewed through a window from the inside, executed in pen a calendar for 1906. Every page has very and ink with a wash. A fanciful gingerbread house sits on a snowy mountain. A beautiful color woodblock illustrations. teddy bear peers over the hill. In front of the house are 5 little children playing with a cleverly drawn acorn-man. This is a lovely, detailed piece. $2000.00 This is a rare title in crepe paper series. $225.00 PANORAMA 309. JAPANESE INTEREST. JAPANESE CHILDREN, THE TOYODO. Tokyo: Torishinkokuycho no date, owner inscription 1908. 4to (7 x 9 1/2”), pictorial cloth, fine. There are 10 wonderful double-page color prints depicting Japanese children enjoying various activities.