Category: Children

"Premium Number" Sunshine for Little Children; with original illustrations on wood by eminent artists

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Sunshine Publishing Company: Philadelphia : 1888

Seller ID: 62776

Condition: Good

Folio, 13 1/3? tall, [2] 48 + 2 ads pages black and white illustration throughout, red spine cloth over color illustrated boards. A good minus only, covers loose from the interior binding, shelf wear and rubbing at all edges, free endpaper loose, interior generally clean, binding solid, paper moderatelyly yellowed. without dust jacketif issued. Please note: this is a larger and heavier volume and will require some additional postage depending on destination.
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'Spermy'; a story for little children

By: Lois B. Chesebrough

Price: $19.00

Publisher: Mystic, Connecticut, Marine Historical Association/ Mystic Seaport : 1950

Seller ID: 40914

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Octavo, 9" tall, [v] 15 pages, wire saddle stitch black titles on stiff blue wraps; intertextual illustrations throughout. A very good (minus), clean soft cover overall with minor exterior shelf wear, light exterior soiling, binding solid, slight yellowing to the paper stock,
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A Cape!

By: Kelley, Marty; Kelley, Marty [Illustrator]

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press : 2021-04-15

Seller ID: 59466

ISBN-13: 9781534111110

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Signed by the author on the title page and inscribed to a prevous owner. Small quarto, 10 1/4" tall,approx 32 pages (unpaginated) pages with intertextual color illustration, illustrated boards. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover with little shelf wear, binding tight, paper white. In a near fine, lightly worn dust jacket.
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A Child's Book of Planes (Maxton Books for Young People #13)

By: Tom Sinnickson

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, New York, Maxton Publishers : 1951

Seller ID: 46916

Binding: Hardcover--illustrated boards

Condition: Very good

Small quarto 10 1/4" tall, unpaginated (approx. 26 pages), color illustarted boards. A very good, clean, neat, hard cover copy, illustration bright with minor shelf wear but rubbing rubbing at the corners, hinges and binding solid, paper lightly yellowed.
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A Child's Primer of Natural History

By: Oliver Herford (author and illustrator)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: NY : 1899

Seller ID: 58862

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Oblong quarto, 8 1/8" tall, unpaginated (approx 104 pages), black and white illustration throughout, beige quarter cloth over illustrated gray green boards. A good, generally clean, neat hard cover with moderate shelf wear, significant rubbing at all corners, spine cloth darkened and frayed at top and bottom edges, fore-corner tips through to boards, internal binding solid, pages clean and lightly yellowed. Without dust jacket.
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A Coach's Letter to His Son

By: Mel Allen; paintings by John Thompson

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Mankato, MN, Creative Editions : 2006

Seller ID: 41505

ISBN-13: 9781568461342

Binding: Decorative Boards

Condition: Near Fine / Near Fine

Quarto, 11 1/4" tall, 32 pages, intertextually illustrated in color, brown quarter cloth. A near fine, clean, neat hardcover with minor shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a near fine, slightly edgeworn dust jacket with the original price.
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A Farm Through Time: The History of a Farm from Medieval Times to the Present Day

By: Wilkes, Angela; Thomas, Eric [Illustrator]

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Limited : 2001

Seller ID: 62170

ISBN-13: 9780789479020

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Oblong folio, 10 3/4" x 13 1/2 wide, 32 pages with intertextual color illustrations throughout, orange endpapers, color illustrated boards. A near fine, clean, neat, neat hard cover first edition with little shelf wear, gently read, binding tight, paper bright. In a near fine, lightly worn dust jacket with the original price present. Note: this is a larger volume and will require additional postage.
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A Guide to Caper

By: Thomas Bodkin; pictures by Denis Eden

Price: $9.50

Publisher: New Rochelle, New York, George H. Doran : 1924

Seller ID: 8663

Binding: Hardcover--quarter cloth, paper over boards

Condition: Good

Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 89 pages; black quarter cloth with decorative paper and paper labels on front panel and spine. 21 b&w illustrations (plates) by Denis Eden. A good, clean sturdy hardcover overall with moderate shelf wear, decorated paper covered boards are worn through at the fore corners, hinges solid, paper clean and lightly yellowed.
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A Snowman on Sycamore Street

By: C. B. Christiansen; illustrated by Melissa Sweet

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, New York, Atheneum : 1996

Seller ID: 39592

ISBN-13: 9780689319273

Binding: Hardcover--illustrated boards

Condition: Fine / Near Fine

Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 40 pages, color illustrations throughout. A fine, clean, hardcover first edition with minor shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a near fine, lightly rubbed dust jacket, with original price.
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Airplanes At Work

By: Gertrude Whipple

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, New York, Macmillan & Co. : 1946

Seller ID: 4308

Binding: Hardcover--illustrated boards.

Condition: Very Good

An Aviation Reader Publication with b&w photographs. Octavo, 7 1/2" tall, 248 pages. Excellent 'how to read' stories with glossary, questions. This book is in very good (minus) condition with moderate shelf wear, cloth worn through to board at corners, hinges and binding tight, paper clean and lightly yellowed, with some light soiling to the endpapers and fore-edges.
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Alphabet: pour les tout petits

By: Marcelle Verite; Illustrated by Josette Boland

Price: $15.20

Publisher: Paris, France, Desclee de Brouwer : 1954

Seller ID: 36079

Binding: Decorative Boards

Condition: Good +

French text. Quarto, 8 3/4" tall, unpaginated, approx. 32 pages, color illustration throughout; four color boards. 24 illustrations by boland. Exterior very good, clean, sturdy, with minor shelf wear and light soiling, BUT the top 1/2" on spine corner is chipped, interior very good, clean; binding sturdy, paper white.
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An Inventory of the Habits of Children from Two to Five Years of Age [previously issued as ' Two to four Years of Age']

By: Ruth Andrus

Price: $16.50

Publisher: New York, New York, Columbia University Press--Teache's College, : 1928

Seller ID: 45720

Binding: Pamphlet

Condition: Very good -

Octavo, pamplet, 9" tall, vi + 51 pages; wire saddle stitch, stiff blue printed wraps. A very good minus, clean, soft cover publication with exterior soiling and moderate shelf wear, with a cover edge tear; binding tight, paper clean and lightkly yellowed.
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Anno's Medieval World (adapted from the translation by Ursula Synge)

By: Mitsumasa Anno

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, New York, Philomel Books : 1980

Seller ID: 41005

ISBN-13: 9780399207426

Binding: Decorative Boards

Condition: Near Fine/Near Fine

Quarto, 10" tall, unpaginated (approx. 48 pages) with color illustrations throughout, illustrated endpapers, color illustrated boards; previous owner's gift inscription on the front endpaper. A near fine, clean hardcover first American edition, with light shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper clean. In a near fine lightly edgeworn dust jacket, with price clipped.
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At the foot of windy low

By: May Justus; illustrated by Carrie Dudley

Price: $25.00

Publisher: P. F. Volland: Chicago : 1930

Seller ID: 62597

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good minus

Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, color frontispiece + 80 pages + 10 color plates, color illustrated endpapers green titles on green cloth. A good, generally clean, original hard cover edition with moderate shelf wear and rubbing at the corners, cloth lightly foxed and slightly hand-soiled; binding solid, paper lightly yellowed with a penciled gift inscription at the half-title page. Without dust jacket.
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Aunt Friendly's Coloured Picture Books: TOM THUMB.

By: Brooke, Leslie, illustrator

Price: $6.00

Publisher: London, England, F. Warne & Co.

Seller ID: 8048

Binding: Flexible cloth

Condition: Fair

Duodecimo, 7" tall, 10 pages, saddle-stitch, pink paper covered cloth wraps. A fair copy, flexible cover lightly soiled, edges worn, top of cover edge by spine chipped one inch across, pages and illustrations lightly foxed though illustrations are remarkably bright, binding fragile
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Azor

By: Maude Crowley; Helen Sewell (illustrator)

Price: $19.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: NY : 1948

Seller ID: 61065

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very good minus

The actual first edition of this title was probably published the same year by Henry Z. Walck: NY. We do not understand why it was issued by two NY publishers at the same time. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 54 pages, beige boards. A very good minus, generally clean, hard cover edition with minor shelf wear but with some exterior surface soiling on the front cover, and spine color faded from lack of dust jacket; gently read, binding solid but some cracking between signatures, paper lightly yellowed with a hint of foxing and a previous owner's name penciled on the front endpaper. Without dust jacket.
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Barney's Joy [signed]

By: Ellen Waterston; illustrated by Molly Pearce

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Bend Oregon, Waterston Productions : 1990

Seller ID: 14781

ISBN-13: 9780962812903

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Fine / Near Fine

Signed by the author on verso of front endpaper and with date 1990. Oblong octavo, 7 1/2" tall, unpaginated (approximately 32 pages). A fine, clean hardcover first edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a near fine, slightly edgeworn dust jacket, with original price.
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Beacon Hill Children, or, Chronicles of the Cory Family as told by Dee

By: Elizabeth Rhodes Jackson

Price: $45.00

Publisher: L. C. Page; Boston : 1947

Seller ID: 62411

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good minus

A scarce title, but only in good reading copy condition. Octavo, 7 3/4" tall, 218 + 6 sepia-toned plates + 8 ads pages, decorative blue titles on red cloth. A very good minus, generally clean, neat original hard cover first edition with minor shelf wear but exterior foxing resulting in color lose to the cloth at the backstrip and cover fore-edges; binding solid, paper lightly yellowed with light foxing to the fore-edges and endpapers. In a good, edge-worn dust jacket with chipping at all edges and flap folds, silverfish damage to the interior flap folds..
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Beloved Belindy: a Raggedy Ann Book

By: Johnny Gruelle; written and illustrated

Price: $19.00

Publisher: M. A. Donohue Company : 1926

Seller ID: 56983

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good minus

Octavo, 9" tall, unpaginated (approximately 96 pages) with intertextual four color illustration throughout, illustrated endpapers, illustrated boards, black quarter-cloth. A generally clean, sturdy hard cover overall with moderate exterior shelf wear, fore-corner tips rubbed through, but binding solid, paper light to moderately yellowed, minor foxing at the endpapers and a previous owner's name penned on the blank reverse of the half-title page. In a good, edge worn dust jacket with chipping at the top and bottom edges of the back strip and flap folds. Still a bright looking copy.
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Boat Children of Canton

By: Marion B. Ward; illustrated by Helen Sewell

Price: $19.00

Publisher: David McKay: Philadelphia : 1944

Seller ID: 62809

Condition: Very Good minus

Quarto, 10" tall, 92 pages with color and black and white intertextual illustrated plates (includes frontispiece) + illustrated two color title page + illustrated endpapers, with tipped on color illustration on beige cloth. A very good minus, generally clean, original hard cover first edition with minor shelf wear, but several surface dampstains to the cloth at the margins and spine margins and a small 1/4" brown stain on the back cover; binding solid, paper light to moderately yellowed with foxing to the endpaper gutters. In a good, edgeworn and lightly soiled dust jacket, chips missing at ba...
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CARMEN OF THE GOLDEN COAST : The Children of America Stories / THE LITTLE SWISS WOOD CARVER : The Children Of All Lands Stories/ Little Anne of Canada (two original volumes sold together)

By: Madeline Brandeis

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, New York, Grosset & Dunlap : 1935 / 1929

Seller ID: 37041

Binding: Quarter-cloth--pictorial paper over boards

Condition: Very Good / Good and Good / Fai

2 individual volumes. Large type. 1. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall; 160 pages, illustrated boards. A very good, clean, neat hard cover first edition with minor shelf wear, cover illustration very clean, bright; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white; endpapers lightly yellowing. In a good price clipped edgeworn dust jacket with light soiling; small chips at spine ends and corners. / 2. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall; 159 pages. A good clean hard cover first edition with hinges and binding tight, paper lightly yellowed, but shelf wear to the bottom edges exposing boards at the corner tips and a half inch tear...
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Cat's Pilgrimage

By: James Anthony Froude; illustrated by Jane Blackburn

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Scotland, Edmonston and Douglas : 1870

Seller ID: 1115

Binding: Pictorial Cover

Condition: Fair

Quarto, 11 1/4" tall, 21 pages plus 6 full-page b&w illustrations by Jane Blackburn, plus the illustrated title page. This is a fair copy overall with the original bevelled pictorial boards quite soiled, scratched, and worn through at all edges; binding broken with back strip missing. The internal condition is good, generally clean, with some light sporadic finger soiling, paper light to moderately yellowed, with signatures still holding to binding. Illustrations in very good condition, lightly yellowed, with occasional finger marks primarily at outer margins. Previous owner's signature with d...
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CHATTERBOX 1928; including Odds and Ends (Billinghurst); Price on their Heads (Cobb); Romance of Invention (Claxton); Royal Handicap (Cowen); Ships and Ship Construction (Baker) /

By: Clarke, J. Erskine (ed.); Percy J. Billinghurst, G. Belton Cobb, W.J. Claxton, Frances Cowen, P.M. Baker /

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, England, Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. : 1928

Seller ID: 8704

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good minus

Quarto, 10" tall, 316 pages, b&w illustrations throughout plus 8 color plates; red quarter-cloth, color lithographic boards. A good, generally clean hard cover over all, boards worn through at the fore-corner tips, cover rubbed, hinges cracked but secure, internal binding solid, paper only lightly yellowed.
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CHATTERBOX 1930; The Story of the Netherlands (Cobb); Electrical Engineering (Baker); Here and There; Romance of Invention (Claxton); Strange Adventure of the Grey House (Cowen); Twisted Chimneys (Pares)

By: Clarke, J. Erskine (ed.); Ruth Cobb, P.M. Baker, Percy J. Billinghurst, Frances Cowen, W.J. Claxton, Winifred Pares

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. : 1930

Seller ID: 62537

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good minus

Quarto, 10" tall, 316 pages, b&w illustrations throughout plus 7 color plates; brown quarter-cloth , color lithographic boards. A good, generally clean hard cover over all, boards worn through at the fore-corner tips, covers image moderately rubbed, hinges shaken but secure, internal binding solid, paper moderately yellowed.
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Child's Garden of Verses

By: Robert Louis Stevenson; illustration by Frances Bassett Comstock and Enos B. Comstock

Price: $19.00

Publisher: McLoughlin Bros., New York : 1909

Seller ID: 52007

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good -

Small quarto, 9 1/4" tall, x + 116 pages, black titles on blue-green illustrated cloth. A good, generally clean, sturdy original hardcover cover with moderate shelf wear, but corners worn, spine cloth frayed at top and bottom edges, fore-corners bumped, hinges cracked but secure, front free-endpaper loose, internal binding solid, paper light to moderately yellowed with foxing to the fore-edges.
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Child's Garden of Verses

By: Robert Louis Stevenson; illustration by Frances Bassett Comstock and Enos B. Comstock

Price: $19.00

Publisher: McLoughlin Bros., New York : 1909

Seller ID: 62589

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good -

A good original reading copy of this edition onlySmall quarto, 9 1/4" tall, x + 116 pages, black titles on blue-green illustrated cloth. A good, generally clean, sturdy original hardcover cover with moderate shelf wear, but corners worn, spine cloth frayed at top and bottom edges, fore-corners bumped, hinges cracked but secure, front free-endpaper loose, internal binding solid, paper light to moderately yellowed with a previous owners gift inscription on the front flyleaf, andfoxing to the fore-edges.
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Children's Book Review Index: A Master Cumulation 1969 Thru 1981. Volume 1: A-F; Volume 2: G-M; Volume 3: N-Z; Volume 4; Title Index (Four Volumes).

By: Tarbert, Gary C.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Detroit, Michigan, Gale Research : 1982

Seller ID: 11342

ISBN-13: 9780810320451

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

4 Vols., Quarto, 9 1/4" tall, 516, 554, 567and 362 pages. Near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white.
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Christmas at Thunder Gap

By: Katharine O. Wright; illustrations by June Kirkpatrick.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, New York, Arrowhead Books : 1954

Seller ID: 10951

Binding: Illustrated paper over boards

Condition: Very Good/Very Good

Octavo, 6 3/4" tall. Unpaginated, approx. 30 pages; illustrated end papers; b&w illustrations throughout. A very good, clean, hardcover first edition with minor shelf wear, spine slightly canted, hinges and binding tight, pages cream white. In a very good, lightly soiled dust jacket with a one inch tear at bottom fold, with original price.
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Crazy in Love

By: Kennedy, Richard; Marcia Sewall (illustrations)

Price: $9.50

Publisher: E. P. Dutton: NY : 1980-10-24

Seller ID: 61237

ISBN-13: 9780525283645

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very good

Small quarto, 8 1/2" tall, 58 pages, light blue cloth. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a good edge worn dust jacket with several short edge tears, and a 1" x 3" piece missing from the back cover edge, with the original price present.
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Dinosaur Bob and his adventures with the family Lazardo

By: Joyce, William

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Harper & Row : 1988-01-01

Seller ID: 59326

ISBN-13: 9780060230470

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Note: stock cover depicted is not correct and please beware the 'BUT' in the discription below. . Oblong quarto, 8 1/4" tall x 10 1/8, 32 pages with color illustration throughout, silver titles on white quarter-cloth over boards. An otherwise near fine, clean. neat hard cover with little shelf wear, binding tight, paper Bright BUT visible foxing to the first and last pages. In a near fine, lightly worn dust jacket with price clipped.
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Category: Children