Foxy Grandpa Flip-Flaps
by BUNNY [Carl "Bunny" SCHULTZE]
Chicago: M.A. Donohue, 1905. First Edition thus. Stiff wraps. Very good. BUNNY [Carl "Bunny" SCHULTZE]. 8vo oblong (9 1/2" x 15 3/4"); [48pp]; color illustrated stiff wrapper with reinforced black cloth spine; printed recto only; ink colors bright; introductory page with chipping to edges and light soiling; light soiling to wrappers, age-toned paper; very good. Overstreet 386. Only 6 listings found in WorldCat libraries. Part of the "Platinum Age" of comics (1883-1938), this colored, newspaper-sized comic is one... Read More
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![Kleistert mit Methodische Anleitung fur Werkarbeiten aus Papier und Pappe. [Detailed instruction for Paper and cardboard crafting]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/824/226/1264226824.0.l.jpg)
Kleistert mit Methodische Anleitung fur Werkarbeiten aus Papier und Pappe. [Detailed instruction for Paper and cardboard crafting]
by SCHUMANN, Gerta, editor
Leipzig: Rudolf Arnold Verlag, 1950. 1/4 cloth. Near fine. Hans GRESCHEK. 8vo; 32pp; quarter bound cloth with color illustrated board; illustrations in color and blue line drawing; light scuffing to cover edges; near fine. Wonderful German book on paper crafting for children. Line drawn illustrations probably sufficient for those without a working knowledge of German.
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The Happy Day Begins
by SCOTT, Janet Laura
Akron, Ohio: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1931. Staplebound. Very good. Large square 4to (10 1/2" x 12 1/2"); unpaginated [14pp]; heavy board wrappers; all pages board; chromolithographed illustrations every page; 2 1/2'' split of spine to first staple, pages holding tight, colors bright, light edge rubbing; very good.
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Pinkie, The Piggy Who Never Hurried
by SCOTT, Lydia
Springfield, Massachusetts: McLoughlin Bros., Inc, 1945. Boards. Near fine/very good. Pru HERRIC. 8vo; [42pp]; color pictorial glazed boards with title "Pinkie", rear board "Westfield Classics"; b&w pictorial endpapers; black illustrated board to each page; color and b&w illustrations throughout text; light shelf wear; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket with price of 50 cents, crease to rear, chipping to edges; near fine in very good dj. Only one located in WorldCat libraries. Scarce.
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The Lady of the Lake, A Poem, The Eighth Edition
by SCOTT, Walter
Edinburgh: John Ballantyne and Co. and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown and W. Miller, London, 1910. Leather bound. Good. 8vo; [viii] [1-3] 4-433pp; gilt stamped border on smooth brown calf, gilt stamped spine with title; ownership in ink on title page; rubbing to cover, sunning to spine, wear to head and tail of spine, glue burn to endpapers, 3" top half title separated from binding, binding tight but top 2 stitches appear to have pulled through half... Read More
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Little Rhymes for Little Readers
by SEEGMILLER, Wilhelmina
Chicago: Rand, McNally and Company, 1903. Cloth. Very good. Ruth Mary HALLOCK. Ruth Mary HALLOCK, illustrator. First Edition. 4to; 80 [2]pp; tan cloth over board with stamped color pictorial in of a boy and girl carrying this book facing each other, and the title; pictorial endpapers printed in dark green, bookplate to front pastedown; pictorial title page; many of the poems printed within a pictorial border; half-tone illustrations almost every page; light soiling and rubbing to cover, some... Read More
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The Seventh Cross
by SEGHERS, Anna, James A. GALSTON, translator from the German
Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1942. Book Club Edition. Cloth. Near fine/Very good. Book Club edition. 8vo: 338pp; bright red cloth over board, title in gilt to spine; ownership in ink to ffep; upper edge black stained; publisher's colophon to title page; fading of gilt on spine, slight glue burn to eps; brown unclipped dust jacket without price, title and author in black border of barbed wire, sunning and chipping to spine, rubbing to edges; near fine in... Read More
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Oscar Lobster's Fair Exchange
by SELDEN, George
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1966. First Thus. Cloth. Very good +/very good. Peter LIPPMAN. First thus. 8vo; 172 [3]pp; illustrated green and blue cloth over board with title, author and illustrated to front board; ownership book plate to front pastedown; b&w illustrations; unclipped illustrated dust jacket; light shelf scuffing to cover top and bottom edges; dust jacket has creasing, chipping to edges, loss 1" section tail of spine, bottom flap clipped but price remains, scuffing; very... Read More
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Hector Protector and As I Went Over the Water, Two Nursery Rhymes with Pictures
by SENDAK, Maurice
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1965. Boards. Fine/near fine. Maurice SENDAK. [JUVENILE] [POETRY]. Later printing, Harper & Row existed from 1962-1990. 12mo oblong; color pictorial boards, green cloth shelf back; floral endpapers; color illustrations throughout with text; clipped color pictorial dust jacket, small stain on rear where a sticker was removed; fine in a near fine dj. Two old Mother Goose rhymes interpreted and illustrated by Sendak.
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Outside Over There
by SENDAK, Maurice
[New York]: An Ursala Nordstrom Book, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1981. Maurice SENDAK. [JUVENILE] [ILLUSTRATED]. Maurice SENDAK, illustrator. Jeanyee WONG, calligraphy. First edition. Small 4to square; [36]pp; red cloth over board, gilt stamped title on front and gilt lettering on spine; cream endpapers; color pictorial title and dedication page; full page illustrations; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket; fine in fine dj. Trade ISBN: 0-06-025523-4. (Hanrahan A110). A 1982 Caldecott Honor book winner. The story of how Ida rescued her... Read More
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We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy, Two Nursery Rhymes with Pictures
by SENDAK, Maurice
[New York]: Michael Di Capua Books, Harper Collins Publishers, 1993. First Edition. Boards. Fine/Fine. Maurice SENDAK, illustrator; Jeanyee WONG, hand lettering. First edition. 8vo oblong; [52pp]; smooth tan paper over board, title in brown to spine; tan textured endpapers, ownership in neat marker to front pastedown dated "Christmas 1995"; color illustrated half-title and title page; color illustrations every page with text; heavy paper stock; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket; fine in fine dj. Hanrahan 138. ISBN: 0-06-205014-1. Front... Read More
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Hints to Servants; Being a Political and Modernised Version of Dean Swift's Celebrated "Directions to Servants," in Which Something is Added to the Original Text, but Those Passages are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Kitchen
by BY AN UPPER SERVANT
London: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, 1843. Leather bound. Very good +. Kenny MEADOWS. 12mo; 76pp; gilt stamped contemporary calf, 5 banded spine, red leather label, gutters and spine professionally restored; dark teal endpapers; inside dentelles; original cloth front wrapper bound in after text; light scattered foxing to verso free endpapers and fly leaves, small scratch to front board leather; very good plus. A humorous and satirical poetical work about the life of servants referring back to Jonathan's Swift's... Read More
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Rhymes of a Red Cross Man
by SERVICE, Robert W.
New York: Barse & Hopkins, Publishers, 1916. Cloth. Near fine. 12mo; 192pp; gilt-stamped title on green ribbed cloth over board; ownership on ffep; light shelf wear to edges; near fine. Dedication To the Memory of My Brother, Lieutenant Albert Service, Canadian Infantry, Killed in Action, France, August, 1916. Collection of poetry written during WWI by Robert Service (1874-1958), a British-Canadian writer, nicknamed the "Bard of the Yukon." He wrote this volume in Paris while recuperating from WWI, in... Read More
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The Biography of a Grizzly and 75 Drawings
by SETON-THOMPSON, Ernest
New York: The Century Co, 1900. First Edition. [JUVENILE]. First edition. 12mo; rust-colored buckram over board, stamped leaf design and portrait of a bear under the title and author on front and rear boards; rust-colored eps; pictorial title page; 12 plates and small line drawings in margins and text; light wear, lightly shaken; very good minus. Charming drawings of bears accompany the story of the lives of grizzlies.
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The Maine Reader
by SHAIN, Charles and Samuella
Boston: A Richard Todd Book, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Near fine/near fine. Later printing. 8vo; xx, 524pp; quarter-bound in navy cloth with white paper, spine stamped in white; b&w photographic illustrations; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket; near fine in near fine dj. A book about Maine culture and its charms.
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Nursery Songs from the Appalachian Mountains, (First Series), Arranged with Pianoforte Accompaniment by Cecil J. Sharp. Illustrated in Silhouette by Esther B. Mackinnon
by SHARP, Cecil
London: Novello & Company, Ltd. [JUVENILE] [MUSIC]. Novello & Company, Ltd. 160 Wardour St., W.1, 1921. Esther B. MACKINNON, illustrator. 4to (12 ½" x 9 ¾"); [32]pp; pictorial boards decorated with black silhouettes of mountains and a child playing the piano, dark tan cloth shelf back; rubbing of edges and corners, a few light pencil notes, 2 pp have rust from an old small paperclip; very good. Charming silhouettes accompany the children's songs. Musical notation and verses for... Read More
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Untrodden English Ways, With Four Full-Page Plates in Colour, and Illustrations from Drawings by H.C. Colby and from Photographs by the Author
by SHELLEY, Henry C.
Boston: Litte, Brown, and Company, 1908. Cloth. Near fine. H.C. COLBY. H.C. COLBY, illustrator. Colonial Press, Boston. Electrotyped and Printed by C.H. Simonds & Co. 8vo; [xiii], ix-xv, [i] [2], 341pp; gilt stamped pictorial on blue cloth over board, gilt lettering on spine; top edge gilt; fore-edge and bottom untrimmed; owner's bookplate on front pastedown; tri-chromatic half-tone photographic illustration frontispiece with tissue guard plus 3 additional color plates; b&w vignette on title page; 32 b&w photographic illustrated plates;... Read More
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Yours; Quièreme Mucho
by SHERR, Jack, English lyrics. RODRIGUEZ, Agustin, Spanish lyrics
New York: Edward B. Marks Music Co, 1932. Ephemera no binding. Very good. Gonzalo ROIG, music.. 11 3/4" x 9 1/8"; 5, [1]pp; color pictorial front wrapper; ad for Radio's 4 Big Hits on rear wrapper; 5/8" split at top of fold; very good. Featured by Les Brown and His Orchestra.
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Social Tales for the Young
by SHERWOOD, Mrs. [Mary Martha]
London: William Darton and Son, 1835. First Edition. Leather bound. Near fine. [ILLUSTRATED]. Stewart and Co., Old Bailey, printers. First edition. 16mo; 230pp; green goat, embossed design within panels, gilt lettering on spine; all edges gilt; pale yellow endpapers; engraved frontispiece printed in oil colors by George Baxter; some light foxing; near fine. OCLC locates 8 copies for this publisher and year. The frontispiece "carries Baxter's King Square address which he left during 1835, making this probably the... Read More
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The New Way Busy Fingers Drawing Primer. The Easy Book for Junior Artists
by SHINN, Uncle Cobb
Chicago: Albert Whitman Company, Publisher, 1923. cloth. Fine. [JUVENILE] [ART] [STIGMATIZING LANGUAGE and ILLUSTRATIONS]. Just Right Books. First edition. 12mo; 125pp + [3] publisher's ads; orange buckram over board, color pictorial onlay to front featuring a young girl in Japanese clothing making lanterns; brown and cream pictorial eps; fp and color pictorial title page; illustrations with instructions throughout; fine. OCLC locates 2 copies at Princeton and the Winterthur. Wonderful step-by-step instructional book for children on drawing objects, animals,... Read More
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Brite and Fair, A Sequel to the Real Diary of a Real Boy
by SHUTE, Henry A.
Peterborough, New Hampshire: Noone House, 1968. Tasha TUDOR. [JUVENILE]. Tasha TUDOR, illustrator. 12mo; xii [ii,], 286pp; pale blue buckram over board, lettering on spine, front board reads "Diry" for the word "Diary" as a young boy might write it; illustrated eps; fop + 11 additional full page black line drawings; light sunning of spine; clipped mustard colored pictorial dust jacket, close tear to head of front, light shelf soiling; near fine in very good plus dj. This is a... Read More
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U.S. Flagship "Chicago," Matted and Framed print
by Not signed
None identified: None identified, 1885. No binding, ephemera. Near fine. [PRINT]. Matted and Framed print of the U.S. Flagship "Chicago", No maker, place, or date [c. 1885]. 10 ¼" x 22 ¼" mat opening; 16 ¾" x 27 ¼" frame size; chromolithograph on board, matted as found, new archival backing, in a period frame as found; near fine. Unknown printer and date, but the U.S.S. Chicago was made by the Delaware River Iron Ship Building and Engine Works... Read More
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Vodník Ivánek
by SÍLOVÁ, Bohumila
Praze [Prague]: Nakladatelství Jos. R. Vilímek, 1930. Boards. Very good. Artuš SCHEINER. [JUVENILE] [WOMAN AUTHOR] [CZECH LANGUAGE]. Artuš SCHEINER, illustrator. English: Aquarius Ivan, Prague: Jos. R. Vilimek, Publisher 4to, 76, [1] pp; color pictorial front board depicting a dancing boy waving an American flag, watched by a man and woman sitting on a couch; red cloth shelf-back; blue and cream pictorial endpapers; title page in red and black ink, vignette of Ivanek in red; thick paper stock; tinted... Read More
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Old Not-Too-Bright and Lilywhite
by SIMPSON, Harold
New York: The Platt & Peck Co, 1915. Boards. Very good +. G.E. SHEPHEARD. [HUMOR] [POETRY/RHYME]. G.E. SHEPHEARD, illustrator. Printed in Great Britain. First edition thus. Part of The Little Wonder Books series. 24mo (5 ½" x 4 3/8"); 85pp; light brown boards, embossed borders and lettering, color pictorial onlay of a man and horse at a window; color pictorial endpapers, ownership in neat ink on front pastedown, bookseller's ticket on ffep; color illustrated frontispiece and 26 additional... Read More
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Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories
by SINGER, Isaac Bashevis
[New York]: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1966. Maurice SENDAK. [JUVENILE] [ILLUSTRATED]. Maurice SENDAK, illustrator. Translated from the Yiddish by the Author and Elizabeth Shub. Later printing. 8vo; [1-4], 5-90pp; white cloth over board, blind-stamped gilt decoration to front, gilt lettering on spine; brown-stained upper edge; brown endpapers; 17 b&w illustrated plates; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket with a price of $10.00, light chipping to upper edge, short closed tear to front upper edge, closed tear with old tape... Read More
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