CHILDREN’S BOOKS & ILLUSTRATED BOOKS ALEPH-BET BOOKS, INC. 85 OLD MILL RIVER RD. POUND RIDGE, NY 10576 (914) 764 - 7410 CATALOGUE 98 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 - #466 - Arthur Rackham original art for Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods #288 - 1st American Struwwelpeter Imitation- 1853 #221 - Rare Satire of the Suffragettes #132 - 1864 Prang Panorama - Night Before Christmas #238 - Rare Harold Gaze Fairy Title #344 - McLoughlin Circus Panorama Pg 3 Helen & Marc Younger [email protected] FRENCH ADVERTISING ALPHABET MacKINSTRY’S ARTHURIAN ABC 1. ABC. (ADVERTISING) ALPHABET DE LA PHOSPHATINE FALIERES. 5. ABC. (ARTHURIAN) THE FAIRY ALPHABET:AS USED BY MERLIN by Paris: Devamber, no date, circa Elizabeth Mackinstry. NY: 1890. Oblong 6 x 4 1/8”, Viking 1933 (1933). 4to (7 pictorial wraps, except x 9 3/4”), cloth, pictorial for some cover soil, VG+ paste-on, Fine in VG dust condition. Inside both wrapper with small piece off covers is a story about a top edge. First edition. One baby who is ill and will not of Mackinstry’s most lovely eat. The cure for this and books, each page is printed other ailments is to take on one side only and features Phosphatine Falieres which a large and intricate black is also featured in 4 of and white drawing - one the pictures for letters for each letter of a fairy D, F, and X. Each page ABC. Features Merlin, has 2 letters with a well Ariel, Caliban, Puck, Undine executed color illustration and others. Verse written and words beginning with by MacKinstry as well. that letter. “L” shows a (Five Years of Childrens Magic Lantern, “R” is for Books p.24 &33). Great Raquette and shows children copy. $375.00 playing badminton. Quite charming. $375.00 RARE TEDDY BEAR ALPHABET 2. ABC. (ANGEL,MARIE) A NEW 6. ABC. (BEARS) JOLLY BEARS ABC. NY: Charles Graham BESTIARY. Cambridge, MA: Harvard ca 1907. Sq. 4to (10 x 10 3/4”), College 1963. 4 x 4”, pictorial wraps, flexible card wraps, sl. creasing of corners, VG+. Each letter of the Fine. 1st edition. Printed on one side of alphabet features a Teddy Bear the page, each letter has a beautifully with a different name and dressed in character. “A” is Auto Bear detailed illustration by Angel with the Andy, “R” is Rough Rider Teddy, animals shown interacting with the “Q” is Quaker Bear who is quiet and lives on a very plain diet. Illustrated letters. $95.00 in full color on every page. Rare. $750.00 3. ABC. (ANIMALS) LITTLE TOT’S ABC. Chicago: Madison Book Co., no date, circa 1903. 4to (7 1/4 x 9 1/2”), cloth, pictorial paste-on, some finger soil, VG+. This is an ABC of HAND-COLORED animals with really nice BIRD ALPHABET black and white engravings 7. ABC. (BIRDS) to accompany text in rhyme. ALPHABET OF BIRDS. Each letter is printed in a London: Dean & Son (1855). large black font and text 4to (6 1/2 x 9 5/8”), is also in a large font. For pictorial wraps, owner name each animal there is also a on cover else VG+. Printed page of information. The on one side of the paper front endpaper has an and illustrated with 23 fine illustrated version of the hand-colored engravings of Ten Little Nigger Boys. various birds. The text is An attractive alphabet in rhyme. A lovely mid 19th book. $275.00 century alphabet. $800.00 STUNNING ABC INSCRIBED 4. ABC. (ART DECO) TODAY’S ABC BOOK by Elizabeth King. NY: Robert M. McBride (1929 second printing). Oblong 4to (11 x 9 1/4”), cloth backed pictorial CHARMING TUCK boards, light cover soil, several inconspicuous margin mends else VG+. Each page BIRD ABC of text printed in red faces an amazing, striking full page color illustration of 8. ABC. (BIRDS) DICKY a different motorized machines on land, sea and air from the 1920’s. Z is for BIRDS ABC. London: Zeppelin This copy is INSCRIBED BY KING who has also written a variation Raphael Tuck, no date of her description of a Roadster with references to the owner of the book. A circa 1890. 8vo (6 1/8 x stunning book, rare. $750.00 8 1/8”), pictorial wraps, pages mounted on linen, VG-Fine. Illustrated with color covers, 4 full page chromolithographed pages and brown line illustrations on other pages. The text is in verse. $300.00 9. ABC. (BROWN,MARCIA) PETER PIPER’S ALPHABET. NY: Scribner (1959 A). Oblong 4to (10 1/4 x 8 1/4”), two-tone cloth, child’s name on endpaper else Fine in chipped dust wrapper. 1st edition The famous 19th century rhyme was adapted for the 20th century by Brown and illustrated by her in color on every page. $150.00 Pg 4 914.764.7410 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 98 10. ABC. (CHRISTMAS) MAGNIFICENT ABC INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ELIZABETH MORROW CHRISTMAS A.B.C.. 14. ABC. (D’HARNONCOURT,RENE) BEAST, BIRD AND FISH by Elizabeth Boston: De Wolfe Fiske, no Morrow. NY: Alfred A. Knopf 1933 (1933). 4to (8 1/4 x 13 3/4”), pictorial date, circa 1890. Oblong cloth, some cover soil else VG+. Stated 1st edition. This is an animal alphabet 4to (10 1/2 x 8 1/4”), cloth book with text offered in backed pictorial boards, verse and including musical cover edges worn, no free notation. Every letter has endpapers, a few margin a very beautiful full page mends, Good condition. color illustration by RENE Every page has a fabulous D’HARNONCOURT in his full page chromolithograph distinctive folk-peasant with letters representing style and with his use of flat Christmas items. There colors. A perfect alphabet are 3 or 4 letters per page book by the collaborators of with text in verse on the the Painted Pig (Morrow was illustrated pages and there Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s are other poems on text pages mother and wife of the that are illustrated in brown American ambassador to line. $85.00 Mexico). THIS COPY IS INSCRIBED BY ELIZABETH 11. ABC. (CLOTH) DOLLY’A ABC. NY: Charles E. Graham & Co., no date, circa MORROW. Bader p.71. Very 1915. 12mo (6 x 8 1/8”), scarce. $400.00 printed on cloth, VG-Fine. Illustrated with 6 charming HAND COLORED full page color illustrations 15. ABC. (EARLY ENGLISH) ALPHABET OF HISTORY. London: Cowan & depicting children engaged Standring, no date, circa 1845. 4to (7 1/8 x 9 3/8”), pictorial wraps, neat in various activities. Also spine repair and covers dusty, VG. Illustrated with pictorial cover plus 4 very illustrated with 6 full page fine full page hand-colored pages each divided into 6 sections. Each section pen and ink drawings in has a captioned illustration of an important historical event or British monarch brown that present the appropriate for the letter of the alphabet. The 4 pages of text have the alphabet alphabet in a different in verse surrounded by a decorative border. “ I and J together put, and J is bad manner than usual. The King John / K for Katherine the Queen, called Kate of Aragon.” Printed on one child plays Hide and Seek side of the paper the illustrations are original designs by Barfoot. $875.00 with the Little Letters and is challenged to find a letter within a word of the text in verse. “There’s an m in the motors we see in town, / And an n in the omnibus big and brown. $250.00 TYPICAL 1960’S GRAPHICS 12. ABC. (COCKNEY) COCKNEY ALPHABET by Rufus Segar. London: Max Parrish 1965 (1965). 5 1/8” square, pictorial boards, fine in slightly worn dust wrapper. 1st edition. The alphabet is really a play- on- words word game with directions found at the back of the book, Illustrated in color by Segar with typical 1960’s graphics. This is a clever, complicated book that reads best if you’re from the U.K. $100.00 TUCK MOTHER GOOSE & FAIRY TALE ABC 16. ABC. (FAIRY TALES) NURSERY LAND ABC. London: Raphael Tuck no date, CRAWHALL circa 1910. 4to (8 1/2 x 11”), ALPHABET BOOK flexible card covers. a few LEADENHALL PRESS small margin mends and stain 13. ABC. (CRAWHALL) OLD AUNT on top edge of pages else ELSPA’S ABC. London: Field & Tuer tight and really G-VG. This (1884). Oblong 4to (9 1/4 x 8”), 21p. + ABC book uses classic fairy [3]p. ads, pictorial wraps. Margin repair tale characters and nursery of paper on 2 leaves, VG. Printed by the rhymes for the letters. Leadenhalle Presse. Each page features Featuring 4 striking color a wonderful WOODCUT by Crawhall, the plates on black backgrounds, whole book presented the manner of early color covers and lovely 2- chapbooks with old English lettering.