Children's Books
The Pied Piper of Hamelin: A Child's Story
Rand McNally Co. Publishers, 1937. Hope Dunlap. Later printing. Hardcover. 56pp. Quarto [26 cm] Light blue cloth covered boards with an illustrated paper label on the front board. Illustrated endsheets. Good. The covers are rubbed and scratched, and have numerous small stains. The underlying boards are exposed occasionally along the..... More
Little Belles and Beaux
London and New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1896. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto [28 cm] Blue cloth spine with pictorial paper over boards. Six full-color plates. Very good. The extremities are mildly rubbed and bumped, and the underlying boards are exposed sporadically along the edges. There is a very small..... More
Little Men and Maids
London and New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, Publishers, 1896. First edition. Hardcover. Slim quarto [28 cm] Pale blue cloth spine with illustrated paper over boards. With six color plates. Very good. The spine and covers are mildly bumped, rubbed and soiled, and the underlying boards are exposed sporadically along..... More
Marge's Little Lulu and Her Magic Tricks (A Little Golden Book)
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Slim octavo [20.5 cm] Illustrated paper covered boards with a box of Kleenex mounted to the front cover (the Kleenex pack has been perforated). Very good plus condition. The edges of the covers show minimal wear. When Little Lulu's trip to..... More
Bird Boy
New York: Borzoi, 2021. Shahrzad Maydani. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Quarto [28.5cm]. Illustrated paper over boards. "Nico was new, and nervous about going to school. Everyone knew what to do and where to go, but Nico felt a little lost. So, he did what he loved to do: Watched the..... More
Bowser the Hound
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1920. Harrison Cady. Reprint. Hardcover. 206pp. Octavo [19.5 cm] Blue paper covered boards with dark blue ink stamped titles. Illustrated endsheets. Good. The covers are bowed, and the spine is slightly rolled back. There are numerous barely perceptible discolored spots on the rear board. The..... More
Little Lord Fauntleroy
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. First edition, early state. Hardcover. 209; [16]pp. Gray cloth with gilt, red and black decorative pictorial stamping and titles. Brown endpapers. With sixteen pages of publisher advertisements at the rear. Good. The extremities are darkened and rubbed, and the cloth at the spine ends..... More
Cave Boys
New York: Association Press, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. 200pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Black cloth over boards pictorially stamped in orange. Ex-library, with markings to the preliminary pages. Weak hinges. From the collection of Berkeley book collector and letterpress printer, John Ruyle. Tales about the Cave Boys of the Old Stone..... More
Tarzan the Fearless (The Big Little Book)
Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Company, 1934. Big Little Book. Hardcover. 234pp. Twenty-fourmo [11.5 cm] Illustrated paper over boards. Rubbing to the extremities; rolled spine; light soiling on the rear board. Number 769. With illustrations from the motion picture starring Buster Crabbe. More
The Farmer's Boy
London: George Routledge & Sons, [1881]. First edition. Paperback. 30pp. Octavo [23 cm] in wraps. Moderate wear and a few short tears to wraps, wraps separated and reattached with clear tape, some abrasions to rear wrap; light foxing to interior. B&W and color illustrations. Randolph Caldecott, namesake of the children's..... More
Felix Ever After
New York: HarperCollins, 2020. Later printing. Hardcover. 353pp. Octavo [21.5cm]. Yellow boards, with title stamped in fuschia on spine. "From Stonewall and Lambda Award–winning author Kacen Callender comes a revelatory YA novel about a transgender teen grappling with identity and self-discovery while falling in love for the first time." More
Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators in the Myster of the Singing Serpent
New York: Random House, 1972. Vebell, Ed. Hardcover. 182pp. Octavo. Illustrated paper over boards. Textblock is separated on page 43. More
Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators In The Mystery of the Death Trap Mine
New York: Random House, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. 152 pp. Octavo. [21.5 cm]. Glossy illustrated paper over boards. Front hinge is cracked and page block is separated from the bottom portion of the spine, but still attached. Edges of pages are sunned. Head and tail of spine are rubbed and..... More
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There Together With Alice and Wonderland (Pair)
New York: Ariel Books / Alfred Knopf, 1986; 1987. First edition; Second printing. Hardcover. 127 pp; 143 pp. Quartos. [26 cm]. Blue cloth over boards and maroon cloth over boards. Both books in Near Fine condition. 1 in red line in marker to top edge on "Though the Looking Glass..... More
Alice In Wonderland
London: Welbeck, 2019. Tenniel, Sir John. First edition. Hardcover. 94pp. Octavo. Illustrated paper over boards. Retold by Selina Wood. More
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass Adapted for Little Folks From the Original Story
London: Bracken Books, 1987. First Bracken Books edition. Hardcover. 59pp. Thin quarto [28 cm] Pictorial paper over boards. Illustrated endpapers. The boards are heavily scratched, and the preliminary leaves are just beginning to detach at the base. With Illustrations in Full Colors from the Original Designs by John Tenniel. More
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1962. John Tenniel. 1962 Reprint of The Children's Edition. Hardcover. 205pp. Duodecimo [21 cm] Green, red, and black pictorially stamped cloth over boards. Colorful pictorial endpapers. The covers are cocked. In the illustrated dust jacket, with light foxing, subtle darkening to the spine, and a...... More
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
New York: Sterling Publishing Co, 2004. Michael Foreman. First Sterling edition with illustrations by Foreman, published in New York. Hardcover. SIGNED. 176pp. Quarto [27 cm] Hardcover in a matching dust jacket. Profuse color illustrations by Michael Foreman. Spine ends just a touch bumped; minor indentation along the bottom edge of..... More
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
New York: Artisan, 1996. Angel Dominguez. First printing. Hardcover. 150pp. Quarto [31 cm] Bright yellow paper over boards with the title and decorative borders in red ink on the spine, and a blind stamped title within single ruled borders on the front cover. Orange and white illustrated endpapers. Light rubbing..... More
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
London and Glasgow: The Children's Press, No date (circa 1930). Harry Rountree. Children's Press edition illustrated by Harry Rountree. Hardcover. 134pp. Quarto [28 cm] Blue cloth backstrip with pictorial paper over boards. Extremities moderately bumped and rubbed. Free endpapers faded. Text block cracked at p. 71 (book still sturdy). Rountree's..... More
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
New York: Sterling Publishing Co, 2004. Michael Foreman. First Sterling edition with illustrations by Foreman, published in New York. Hardcover. SIGNED (bookplate). 176pp. Quarto [27 cm] Hardcover in a matching dust jacket. Profuse color illustrations by Michael Foreman. With a bookplate signed by Michael Foreman tucked in. The top fore-edge..... More
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Company, 1945. Linda Card. Hardcover. 234pp. Octavo [21 cm] Decoratively patterned paper over boards. The text block edges have the publisher's bright red stain. The front hinge is just a little tender. In the dust jacket with periodic shallow closed and open edge tears. Whitman 2140..... More
The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits
Toronto, Ontario; Plattsburgh, New York: Tundra Books, 2012. Oleg Lipchencko. First Tundra Books edition. Hardcover. Slim quarto [30 cm] Illustrated paper over boards. Pictorial endpapers. With a slant to the spine. In a dust jacket, with light surface and edge wear. Wonderfully illustrated by Oleg Lipchencko, a member of the..... More
Jabberwocky
Disney Press, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto [21 cm x 26 cm] Glossy illustrated hardcover boards. Very good condition. The covers are rubbed. The rear cover has sticker remains from an old price sticker. With illustrations from The Disney Archive. More