Happy All Day Through. Janet Scott. Volland.
Traditional Collectibles: Books: Bindings: Children Pre 1920: item #87867
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Doris Frohnsdorff
301-869-1256
$165.00
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Happy All Day Through. Verses By John G. Bowman. Illustrations by Janet Laura Scott. Joliet: The P.F. Volland Company, (1917). Oblong 4to. Color pictorial boards, cloth spine. 24 full-page color illustrations plus smaller illustrations on the cover, title-page, dedication page, and contents page. Cover corners and edges are worn. This book contains wonderful 'period' illustrations beautifully printed in color by Volland. First edition.
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Mabel Lucie Attwell Framed Print, 1942.
Traditional Collectibles: Books: Bindings: Children Pre 1950: item #86617
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Doris Frohnsdorff
301-869-1256
$125.00
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A delightful framed nursery print by Mabel Lucie Attwell, captioned: "What's the use of a PERFECT DAY if you can't have a PERFECT NIGHT!". Measures 12 3/4 inches wide by 9 7/8 inches high. Framed under glass with a white painted wooden frame. The print depicts two wee tots frightened by a small mouse sitting on their bedcovers. Printed in soft, delicate colors. Note: in John Henty's book - "The Collectable World of Mabel Lucie Attwell" - he states that, from the first World War, MLA prints were ... Click for details
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The Story Of A Bad Boy.Pres.Copy.
Traditional Collectibles: Books: Bindings: Children Pre 1900: item #85591
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Doris Frohnsdorff
301-869-1256
$150.00
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The Story of a Bad Boy. (By) Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1875. 8vo. Original green cloth with spine and front cover stamped in gilt; the rear cover stamped in blind. Beveled edges. Black and white illustrations. A 24pp publisher's catalogue is bound in at the rear. A later edition of a Peter Parley to Penrod title but a special copy having the author's presentation inscription "Mr. I. H. Ammon,/ With the regards of/ T.B. Aldrich./ Jan'y 26" 1875." A fine copy.
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A Trip To ABC Land. Violet Harford.
Traditional Collectibles: Books: Bindings: Children Pre 1930: item #85578
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Doris Frohnsdorff
301-869-1256
$185.00
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A Trip To ABC Land. From A To Z 26 S'miles. Illustrated and Told by Violet Harford. Dundee & London: Valentine & Sons Ltd., no date (circa 1929). Large 4to. Pictorial covers. The illustrations are printed in full color on stiff pages and feature children very much in the style of Mabel Lucie Attwell. A wonderful alphabet book with illustrations also featuring dolls and golliwogs. A very good copy.
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Fix The Toys. Moveable Book.
Traditional Collectibles: Books: Bindings: Children Pre 1960: item #85541
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Doris Frohnsdorff
301-869-1256
$150.00
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Fix The Toys. By Dorothy N. King. N.P.: N.P., 1950. Oblong 8vo. Spiral bound pictorial boards. Full color illustrations by the author. A delightful story about a toy store owner who receives a shipment of dolls each with no attached head. They include a sailor doll, teddy bear, Chinese doll, clown, bunny, wooden soldier, girl doll, and an Indian doll. He discovers their heads, which are made of stiff cardboard, enclosed in a toy chest and the reader is asked to find and place the correct head on... Click for details
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CHILDREN'S BOOK. GRANNY GOOSE.BY RAE.IN BOX.VOLLAND
Traditional Collectibles: Books: Bindings: Children Pre 1930: item #84935
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Doris Frohnsdorff
301-869-1256
$485.00
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Granny Goose. Verses And Pictures for Your Children By John Rae. P.F. Volland, (1926). Large 4to. Pictorial boards illustrated in full-color. Stunning pictorial endpapers and colored illustrations throughout by John Rae.
An inscription on front free endpaper and a 1 1/2 inch marginal tear to one leaf otherwise a very fine copy and unusual to have its original pictorial box. (See enlargement picture 2). First edition.
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BOOK.Kate Greenaway Pictures. First Edition.DUST JACKET
Traditional Collectibles: Books: Bindings: Children Pre 1930: item #84920
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Doris Frohnsdorff
301-869-1256
$350.00
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Kate Greenaway Pictures from Originals Presented by her to John Ruskin and Other Personal Friends (hitherto unpublished). With An Appreciation by H.M. Cundall, I.S.O; F.S.A. London & New York, 1921. Large 4to. Original gilt-stamped olive green cloth with beige cloth spine. Portrait frontispiece and 20 mounted full-color illustrations. In original dust jacket (see enlargement 2). A very fine copy in worn dust jacket. First edition with these illustrations, some of Greenaway's finest. Schuster 229... Click for details
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