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.
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.
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 BENJAMIN BUNNY. BY BEATRIX POTTER. New York: Frederick Warne & Co./36 E.22nd Street, (1904). 12mo. Original tan boards with pictorial label on front cover. Title vignette and 27 color illustrations. With correct endpapers for Linder 2&3 indicating the first American edition and Schlueter imprint on p. 86. The Linder 3 endpapers now show a brown cat facing left (replacing the white cat) as well as the addition of "The Amiable Guinea Pig". Has the incorrect spelling o ...click for details
SECRETS. BY JESSIE ORTON JONES. PICTURES BY ELIZABETH ORTON JONES. New York: The Viking Press, 1945. 8vo. Original cloth in pictorial dust jacket. Full color illustrations. Some wear to dust jacket otherwise a very good copy. FIRST EDITION.
THE LAIRD OF COCKPEN. BY SORCHE NIC LEODHAS. ILLUSTRATED BY ADRIENNE ADAMS. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, (1969). Square 8vo. Cloth-backed boards in original pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in full color. Please note - my lighting has made the pages look pink - they are actually white. Price clipped from the flap of the dust jacket otherwise a MINT COPY.
THE LUCK OF THE BEAN-ROWS. A FAIRY TALE TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF CHARLES NODIER. ILLUSTRATED BY CLAUD LOVAT FRASER. London: Daniel O'Connor, (1921). 8vo. Patterned boards, cloth spine. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Millard 196. There were four issues of this title but this, the first issue is most uncommon. It has patterned endpapers (later issues were plain). It is printed by the WESTMINSTER PRESS (later issues were printed by The Curwen Press). The title page illustration is placed ben ...click for details
