Philadelphia, PA: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 4.5 x 6.75 in. ix, 11-172 pp. Black & white etching illustration titlepage and facing frontispiece, as well as occasional vignettes throughout chapters. More
New York: National Temperance Society and Publication House, 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 4.5 x 6.75 in. 256 +[8] pp. Occasionally illustrated with black & white reproductions of etchings. Scarce. More
Cambridge / Boston, MA: Riverside Press / Houghton Mifflin, 1960. First American Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.5 x 8.25 in. 128 pp. Fully illustrated with black & white reproductions of artworks by Peggy Fortnum. Originally published in England in 1958, this is the first book of 28 in the..... More
New York: William R. Scott, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 5.75 x 6.75 in. Unpaginated. Fully illustrated with color full-page reproductions of lithographs by Jean Charlot. Caldecott Honor Book. Brown wrote the well-loved Goodnight Moon and Runaway Bunny. Illustrator Jean Charlot is associated with the Mexican Mural Movement, working alongside..... More
New York: G.W. Dillingham, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 8.75 x 11.25 in. Unpaginated. Fully illustrated with color reproductions of Denslow's artworks. Recognized for his collaboration with L. Frank Baum in the Oz books and for being the first artist invited to work at Roycroft Press, Denslow was largely self-trained..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 5.25 x 7.75 in. x, 339 pp. Color frontispiece and singular black & white reproduction illustration. Scarce in First Edition. Includes thirty-one stories by thirty-one authors including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Eugene Field, George Eliot and Nathaniel Hawthorne..... More
London: Bloomsbury, 2012. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 5.5 x 8 in. xvi, 192 pp. Illustrated with black & white reproductions of artworks by Chris Riddell. This limited edition is signed by both Gaiman and Riddell on the publisher's limitation page, this being Number 2048 of 2250 copies, with a...... More
New York: Summit Books, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. 7.5 x 9.75 in. 253 pp. Fully illustrated with black & white reproductions of artworks. Signed by Gardner on the title page. Very scarce signed. "The Night Before Christmas" poem written by Clement Clarke Moore in 1822 has contributed broadly..... More
New York: R.F. Fenno & Company, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Short quarto. 7 x 9.25 in. 175 pp. +[6] adverts. Illustrated with five plus a frontispiece full-page color plates by Edward Bloomfield. Charming illustrations depict Uncle Wiggily, very busy across fifty-two dynamic stories–"one for each day in the year." More
New York: The Dial Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 7.25 x 6.25 in. Unpaginated. Fully illustrated with black & white reproductions of artworks by the author. Won the Caldecott Honor Book Medal in 1977. The author grew up in Minnesota and spent time on Lake Minnetonka with her family..... More
New York: Harper and Row, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Square octavo. 7.25 x 7.25 in. Unpaginated. Fully illustrated with black & white reproductions of artworks by Goffstein. More
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, (1984). First Thus. Thin quarto. 8.25 x 10.25 in. viii + [ii], 61 + [1] pp. Fully illustrated with color artwork by Michael Hague. Signed by Michael Hague with original ink drawing of Mother Goose opposite title page. More
New York: Harper Collins, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Thin quarto. 8.25 x 10.25 in. Unpaginated. Fully illustrated with color reproductions of artworks by Garth Williams. Bedtime for Frances is first in the six-book Frances series, receiving The Notable Children's Book for 1960. In addition to the distinct line drawings of..... More
Sydney, Australia: Wm. Brooks & Co., [1889]. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 7.5 x 9.75 in. 111 pp. Illustrated with color frontispiece and and fourteen full-page plates, complete, and with additional black & white reproductions of artworks (some full page) and green pictorial endpapers by D.H. Souter. D.H. Souter was strongly..... More
Philadelphia, PA: David McKay, 1919. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Small quarto. 7.25 x 9.5 in. 342 pp. Complete with eight color plates illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith and illustrated endpapers. The Scottish minister and author George MacDonald wrote diversely from religion to fantasy, influencing future writers such as Madeline..... More
New Milford, CT: Roaring Brook Press, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 8.25 x 8.75 in. Unpaginated. Fully illustrated with color reproductions of artworks including die-cuts and flaps. Signed by Seeger on the title page. True to Seeger's style, this book remains bright, bold and imaginative. More
New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, (1931). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 200 pp. 5.75 x 8.25 in. Illustrated with numerous black & white photographic plates, and with reproductions of black & white drawings by the author and Watts Fowler; black & white photographic frontis. More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1976). First Edition. Hardcover. 117 + [5] pp. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of drawings in black & white. A Newberry Honor Book. More
New York: Franklin-Watts, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. 7.5 x 8.75 in. Unpaginated. Fully illustrated with color reproductions of artworks by Kuhn, including the endpapers. Number 11 in the "authoritative and stimulating First Book series." A charming exposition of cats from pets to story cats, wild cats to lore..... More
Philadelphia, PA: Macrae-Smith, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Small thin quarto. 7.25 x 8.5 in. Unpaginated. Fully illustrated with color reproductions of artworks by Kurt Wiese. "...Dobbin was curious; Daisy was timid. Dobbin wanted to discover what was on the other side of the great chasm...." More
New York: McGraw-Hill, (1976). First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.25 x 8.5 in. 96 pp. With black & white reproductions of drawings by Paul Galdone. Wonderfully inscribed by Eva Titus on the front free endpaper in the year of publication. More
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 7.75 x 10.25 in. 110 pp. Fully illustrated with vivid, full-page color plates by the author, including illustrated endpapers. Signed by Van Loon on the year of publication with a hat illustration stating "Westport Fair" on the half-title page. Rear..... More
