Pg 47 Helen & Marc Younger [email protected] 296. GRUELLE,JOHNNY.RAGGEDY ANN IN THE MAGIC BOOK. NY: GREENAWAY CLOTH BOOK Johnny Gruelle Co. (1939). 8vo, cloth backed pictorial boards, fine in frayed dust wrapper. 1st edition. Stories written by Johnny Gruelle and wonderfully 292. (GREENAWAY,KATE)illus. illustrated in full color by his son WORTH GRUELLE carrying on his father’s GREENAWAY’S CHILDREN. tradition. A nice copy. (SEE ILLUS BOTTOM PRIOR COLUMN) $250.00 Akron: Saalfield 1907. 12mo, COMPLETE IN ORIGINAL BOX cloth, a few pencil marks and 297. GRUELLE,JOHNNY.RAGGEDY ANN PICTURE PUZZLES. Springfield: Milton Bradley, 1944. Three colorful jigsaw puzzles, complete and AS NEW in some soil, VG. Illustrated in color original box (box shows some wear). Puzzles depict Raggedy Ann and friends in on every page after Greenaway. various activities. Rare. $325.00 Scarce. Not in DPL, Schuster 514-1e. $200.00 SCHOLZ DEUTSCH BILDERBUCH #11 293. GRIMM BROTHERS. BRUDERCHEN UND SCHWESTERCHEN [LITTLE BROTHER AND LITTLE SISTER]. Mainz: Jos. Scholz, no date, circa 1910. Oblong 4to, cloth backed pictorial boards, some rubbing, VG. Illustrated by FRANZ MULLER-MUNSTER with 8 very beautiful full page, art nouveau color illustrations plus other line illustrations. Number 11 in Scholz’s series of Grimm’s stories. See Bilderwelt im Kinderbuch # 564. $200.00 SCARCE GRUELLE BOOK 298. GRUELLE,JOHNNY. RAGGEDY ANN’S SUNNY SONGS. NY: Miller HELEN SEWELL AND MADELEINE GEKIERE (1930). Folio, pictorial boards, 36p., small chip at base of spine else VG+ in 294. GRIMM BROTHERS.GRIMM’S TALES retold by Helen Sewell and tattered dust wrapper. Sixteen Raggedy Ann fanciful songs with verses feature Madeleine Gekiere. NY: Oxford University Press 1954 (1954). 8vo, cloth, 144p., all of the favorite characters and are Wonderfully illustrated in color on every Fine in dust wrapper. 1st edition. Illustrated in color by both Sewell and Gekiere page by Gruelle. Music is by Will Woodin. A scarce Gruelle item. $225.00 whose styles are dissimilar yet compatible. Some of the FINE 1ST EDITION IN BOX drawings are delicate and 299. (GRUELLE,JOHNNY)illus. SUNNY BUNNY by Nina Wilcox Putnam. others are bold and broad. Chicago: Volland (1918 no add. printings). 8vo, pictorial boards, FINE IN The immediate impression PUBLISHER’S BOX (very sl. wear to box). 1st edition. This is a great copy of of the book is that it was this SUNNY BOOK with wonderful color illustrations throughout by Gruelle (plus illustrated by modern artists. nice pictorial endpapers). $450.00 Very unusual and atypical of the 50’s. See AIGA Best Books 1953-4 # 46 and Bader p.86 who notes that this is a book “that deserves to be somewhere singled out for discussion.” This copy is from the library of Bertha Mahoney Miller with her bookplate. $250.00 GRIMM BROTHERS ALSO 419 295. GRUELLE,JOHNNY.BELOVED BELINDY. Joliet: Volland (1926 21st ed). 8vo, pictorial boards, slight rubbing to spine and corners else VG+. A Raggedy Ann story featuring Belindy, the Black “mammy” doll and wonderfully illustrated in color by Gruelle. Nice copy of the original Volland edition. $300.00 #296 GRUELLE, JOHNNY ALSO 56 GUERTIK, HELENE - 450 PETER PARLEY TO PENROD FIRST EDITION 300. [HABBERTON,JOHN].HELEN’S BABIES by Their Latest Victim. Boston: Loring (1876). 12mo, wraps, 206p. + ads, slightest of edge fraying and soil on fragile paper covers else FINE. 1st edition, mixed state ( Blanck says that the first edition was issued in wrappers only. This copy matches first state with perfect type page 13 and rear cover listing 5 titles with this title last, but has damaged type on page 18, is on wove paper and has ad for “Pique” inside front cover). Very rare in such nice condition. Paper bound children’s books of this type have rarely survived. Peter Parley To Penrod p. 45-6. $400.00 914.764.7410 Pg 48 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 105 RARE HADER MOTHER GOOSE IN DUST WRAPPER PUBLISHER’S PROOF COPY 301. HADER,BERTA AND ELMER. BERTA AND ELMER HADER’S PICTURE 304. HALE,KATHLEEN. ORLANDO THE MARMALADE CAT BECOMES A BOOK OF MOTHER GOOSE. NY: Coward McCann (1930). 4to (8 3/4 x 9 DOCTOR. London: Country Life (1944). Folio (10 1/4 x 14 1/4”), pictorial wraps, 1/4”), pictorial cloth, FINE IN DUST WRAPPER! (dw spine faded, some fraying some rubbing and marks to covers, VG+. First edition. (First published in wraps and small tears, really VG+ condition.) First edition of this superlative Mother in 1944, then in conventional hardcover in 1949). Orlando becomes a doctor and Goose about which Arbuthnot (p. 42) notes the “rich colors, many pictures and revolutionizes the hospital! Illustrated with beautiful color lithographs by Hale. music”. There is a decorative border on each page of text and a multitude of This is the publisher’s proof copy of the first edition used to mark changes for rich full page color illustrations and detailed black and white illustrations- done the second edition. Clipped inside the front cover is a typed page with the text in a style that is unlike any of their other work. Virtually every page is busily to be used on the dust wrapper flap of the 2nd edition and also a piece of paper illustrated. This is a fantastic picture book - scarce in any condition, extremely marked “PROOF COPY”. There are a few handwritten notes with reprint details rare in the dust wrapper. $1500.00 on the copyright page and the rear cover text is marked for exclusion. This is a unique copy of this very collectible book. Quite scarce. $350.00 HUMANIZED PERSIAN RUG 305. HALE,KATHLEEN. ORLANDO’S MAGIC CARPET. London: John Murray 1958. Small oblong 4to (9 x 7 1/2”), pictorial boards, some light cover soil else VG condition (no dw). 1st edition. Orlando and the family travel to Persia on Fatima, their humanized magic carpet. Illustrated in color and black and white. A scarce title in the Orlando series of books. $300.00 MACMILLAN HAPPY HOUR EARLY HALE BOOK 306. (HALE,KATHLEEN)illus. I DON’T MIX MUCH WITH FAIRIES by Molly 302. (HADER,BERTA & ELMER)illus. Harrower. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode 1928. 8vo (5 3/4 x 7 3/4”), blue cloth, THE UGLY DUCKLING by Hans Andersen. 73p., owner bookplate, Fine condition in lightly worn pictorial dust wrapper. First edition. The text contains NY: Macmillan 1927 (Aug. 1927). Square poems for a young child in 12mo (6x6”), pictorial boards, Fine in VG+ the style of Milne. With one poem per page, each dust wrapper with light soil. 1st edition of poem faces a wonderful full page pen and ink illustration the Happy Hour Book featuring wonderful, by Hale. Done in typical bold, Art Deco style color illustrations 1920’s style, this was Hale’s second book done before throughout by the Haders. See Bader her more famous Orlando p.29. $275.00 the Marmalade Cat books. The author dedicates her poems to Christopher Robin crediting Milne with pioneering work. Quite HAGUE LIMITED EDITION scarce and a nice copy in the 303. (HAGUE,MICHAEL)illus.THE RELUCTANT DRAGON by Kenneth Grahame. dust wrapper. $400.00 NY: Holt Rinehart Winston (1983). 4to, cloth NEW IN SLIP CASE AND ORIGINAL MAILER. LIMITED TO 350 COPIES SIGNED BY HAGUE WITH HAND-COLORED SEE 6, 8, 9, 38, 126, 191-3, 215-16, 218-219, 222-5, 258-262, A REPRODUCTION OF A SPECIALLY COMMISSIONED DRAWING FOR 287-8, 309-10, 342, 437, 449 THIS EDITION. Illustrated with full page and partial page fabulously color illustrations.Michael Hague see also 64. $425.00 CIRCUS HANKIES 307. HANKY BOOK.CIRCUS IS IN HANKY TOWN. No place, Hermann Hdf. Co., no date, circa 1948. 7 x 9 1/4”, pictorial card covers with string ties. Covers slightly sunned else Fine. 6 pages are brightly illustrated in color showing various circus acts and performers. Each page has a cut-out containing a color embroidered handkerchief measuring 9” square when opened. The picture on the hanky is the same as the circus act on the page. $600.00 HANKYS ALSO 46, 89, 413 Pg 49 Helen & Marc Younger [email protected] IN THE STYLE AND FORMAT OF AINSLEE 308. HARDY,FLORENCE.NURSE JANE! London: Castell Bros., no date, circa 1910. 12mo. stiff pictorial wraps, silk ties, some cover soil else VG+. The story of a wicked nanny as seen through the eyes of a little boy. Each page of text faces a full page color illustration showing the dysfunctional relationship. Done in the same style and format as Ainslee’s Amelia Jane books. Very scarce. $225.00 RARE UNRECORDED 1791 HARLEQUINADE 309. HARLEQUINADE.THE FAIRY FAVOUR. London: E. Tringham, Henry Wass, J. Merry and L. Tomlinson, May 13th 1791. 4 panels 3 x 7 1/2” when folded, slight browning and slight edge splitting at folds with archival reinforcement else near fine condition in custom morocco backed folding box. Consisting of 4 large sections, each folded over at the top and bottom, divided in the middle. Each section has 4 fine hand-colored engraved illustrations, and by lifting the flaps the reader reveals the continuation of the story and a new illustration below. The story tells how Columbine, a fair maiden, is united and lives happily ever after with her love Harlequin with the help of the Fairy King and Queen (despite the objections of her father). Harlequinades represent the earliest form of action book and became an immediate success with children. See Gumuchian 2944 and NBL 821, Haining p. 10-11, Whitton p. 56-7 for others. Rare. $15,500.00 RARE HARLEQUINADE 310.