MINNA AND PIPPIN. STORY AND PICTURES BY HARRIET PINCUS, New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, (1972). Oblong 12mo. Cloth bound with pictorial dust jacket. Full color illustrations. An excellent copy. FIRST EDITION.
SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDY. AS YOU LIKE IT. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY HUGH THOMSON. London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date (1909). 4to. Bound in full vellum with pictorial gilt stamping on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt. FORTY mounted color plates each with tissue-guards having a small vignette and caption printed in blue. Lacking silk ties on covers. The DELUXE EDITION of which 500 copies were printed each numbered and signed by HUGH THOMSON (see enlargement 7). Spielmann & Jerrold 48. The ...click for details
THE TALE OF PETER RABBIT. Cleveland: The Harter Publishing Company, 1931. Folio (measures 12 3/4" by 9 1/8"). Pictorial stiff wrappers. FIRST EDITION WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY FERN BISEL PEAT. Cover and 8 full page color illustrations plus black and white drawings in the text. Good copy only of this scarce first edition with the Harter imprint (later editions include the American Crayon Co. imprint). Water stain on last leaf. PLEASE SEE MY OTHER LISTINGS FOR FERN BISEL PEAT ORIGINALS.
SNOW-WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS. A TALE FROM THE BROTHERS GRIMM TRANSLATED BY RANDALL JARRELL. PICTURES BY NANCY EKHOLM BURKERT. New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, (1972). 4to. Embossed cloth in original pictorial dust jacket. Patterned endpapers. Beautiful double-page color illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. Very light sunning of the dust jacket's spine otherwise a MINT COPY. FIRST EDITION.
SWEENY'S ADVENTURE. AS TOLD BY JOHN KIERAN IN THE FILM "SWEENY STEPS OUT". WRITTEN BY JOSEPH KRUMGOLD. ILLUSTRATED BY TIBOR GERGELY. New York: Random House, (1942). FIRST EDITION. 4to. Pictorial boards. Illustrated endpapers (see enlargement 2). Full color and black and white illustrations by Tibor Gergely. Corners and spine ends worn otherwise a very good copy. Krumgold is a two-time Newbery award-winner.
LION. WILLIAM PENE DU BOIS. New York: The Viking Press, 1956. 4to. Bound in two-color cloth and stamped in orange on both covers with a design of three lions passant. IN ORIGINAL PICTORIAL DUST JACKET. Full color and black and white illustrations by the author. This book was a CALDECOTT HONOR AWARD WINNER. In excellent conditon with dust jacket. PLEASE SEE MY OTHER LISTING FOR THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET ART.
THE PEDDLER'S CLOCK. By Mabel Leigh Hunt. Illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones. A STORY PARADE PICTURE BOOK. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1943. Square 8vo. Pictorial boards in ORIGINAL PICTORIAL DUST JACKET. Patterned endpapers. Full color and black and white ilustration. Ink inscription dated Christmas 1943 verso front free endpaper otherwise an excellent copy.
A TALE OF SIX LITTLE TRAVELLERS. WRITTEN AND PICTURED BY MRS. ARTHUR GASKIN. London: H.R.Allenson, no date (circa 1909). Printed by Edmund Evans. 12mo. Original boards with pictorial paste-label on front cover. Full color illustrations by Gaskin engraved by Edmund Evans. Mrs. Arthur Gaskin (Georgina Evelyn Cave Gaskin - 1866-1934) was, along with her husband, one of the original members of the Birmingham Group involved in the ARTS & CRAFTS movement. She and her husband were both fine illustr ...click for details
THE TALE OF PIGLING BLAND. BY BEATRIX POTTER. New York: Frederick Warne &Co., (1913). 12mo., original paper boards, upper cover with pictorial label, color pictorial endpapers. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION with correct endpapers and with the text on the endpaper design in this copy including "second series-" on Notice
Board and follows "TIMMY TIPTOES...". THESE ENDPAPER DESIGNS NOT REPRODUCED OR NOTED IN LINDER (please see enlargements 4&5). Quinby 22A (maroon boards). Li ...click for details
GINGER & PICKLES. BY BEATRIX POTTER. New York: Frederick Warne & Co./36 E. 22nd Street, (1909). Small 4to, original paper covered boards, upper cover with color pictorial label. Title vignette and 10 color illustrations and numerous text illustrations. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION with correct address on title-page, correct endpapers, "UNEEDA" on biscuit tin on p. 10 instead of "CARR & CO.", and "TOILET/SOAP" instead of "SUNLIGHT/SOAP" on box in ill ...click for details
