Fairy Tale & Fantasy
Adventure Stories,Children's Books
New York, New York: McLoughlin Bros. c.1876. A winsome children's story by McLoughlin charting the adventures of Little Flora and Jack, who become miniaturized and live in a pumpkin and a shoe before flying back to the real world in a hot air balloon. Includes seven (7) bright full-page chromolithographed.....
Price: $175.00
Snow White, fairy tales, morality, german
Germany: 1930s. A retelling of the classic fairy tale of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. There are color, full page illustrations, beside each page of the story. The drawings are whimsical and charming. Some tape repair. In German. Softcover, 12 pgs. Measures 9" x 7 1/2" Moderate cover wear.....
Price: $45.00
Nursery Rhymes, Anthropomorphism
Chicago: Merrill Publishing Company, 1943. An unnumbered 16 page illustrated linen paper story book (including covers). The book was published by Merrill, and has #4804 printed on the cover. Each page of the book is full of colorful, whimsical illustrations of nursery rhymes. For example, "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", and.....
Price: $16.00
Three bears, Goldi Locks
Kenosha: John Martin's House, Inc, 1946. Kenosha: John Martin's House, Inc, 1946. Very Good. Charles Thorson. 32 pp. with both color and B&W illustrations top half of page and in-text. There is some slight wear on the edges of the dust jacket. Thick card covers with colored illustration that shows.....
Price: $24.00
Shadow Theater, Victor Hugo, French Art and Culture, Bastille Day, Cross-Cultural
Paris: Mauclair Dacier, c1903. An ornate, and rather stunning, turn-of-the-century French shadow theater set, housed in a large chromolithographed box (15.5" by 19.75" by 3") depicting the Revue du 14 Juillet … Paris, as well as two smaller scenes of the 1893 Fˆtes Franco-Russes. Underneath the lid, a printed label.....
Price: $4,000.00
children, elves, juvenile fiction
Ohio: Saalfield, 1921. 10 unnumbered pp, color illustrated paper cover, "Linentex". Illustrated in both color and black and white. The story of twins encountering elves in wood and shrinking to small size Measures 9" x 7 1/2" stapled binding, some wear on spine.
Price: $45.00
Cinderella series, Juvenile poetry, children's poetry, Country life, poetry, verse
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, c1879. This book beautifully illustrates the classic and popular British nursery rhyme and cumulative tale, "The House that Jack Built." This is apart of the Cinderella Series, printed by the McLoughlin Brothers. The cover is printed on yellow wrappers, and the front cover depicts a boy.....
Price: $95.00
Playbook, Paper Dolls, Fairy Tales, Anthropomorphism, uncut
Racine: Whitman Publishing, 1964. 16 pages (including covers), uncut, of activities and punch out pieces that together tell the classic story of The Three Bears. Each page has a little bit of the story on it, and at least one activity. Most of the pages are "Self Framing Pictures to.....
Price: $25.00
Fairy Tales & Fantasy, Tom Thumb, Anthropomorphism
New York: McLoughin, c1866. 8pp. litho wraps. Electroyped by Vincent Dill. Oft told tale of a tiny boy and his adventures while catching rides on mice, birds and butterflies. Reverse promotes various McLoughlin Bros. Series. Measures 9 3/4" x 6 1/8" Heavy wear with cover repair and sewed repair back.....
Price: $50.00
Children's Stationery, Childhood Ephemera, Early Learning
[1940s]. Housed in an applied litho on pressed board box with fairies floating about as a young girl reads. The content includes 24 illustrated single-fold note sheets. There are six each for Little Red Riding Hood, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, Cinderella and her Coach and Four, and Jack and.....
Price: $100.00
Children's fiction, duck shooting, fairy tales
Boston: Mayhew & Baker, c. 1860. 31 pp. Printed paper hand sewn cover, watercolor illustrations, song with music sheet. The story of "Little Man Christy" who goes in search of a duck he shot. Illustrated by "Morte" with rhymes and at the end the lyrics and music for associated song.....
Price: $65.00
Anthropomorphism, Fiction and Fantasy, German Language, Birds
Munchen: Braun & Schneider, 1903. 40 pp. Illustrated wraps. Printed in German. Four lines rhyming text verso. Full page illustrations recto. Includes two separate stories. The first story is humanized starlings and sparrows coexisting. The second story features various humanized animals and the rites of spring. A one page appearance.....
Price: $65.00
Anthropomorphism, Fiction and Fantasy, German Language, Animals
Munchen: Braun & Schneider, 1903. 48 pp. Illustrated wraps. Printed in German. Written in rhyming text verso. Full page illustrations recto. Includes two separate stories. The first are to wise rain makers who each maker their own distilled products and their antics. The second story beginning on pg. 27 is.....
Price: $65.00
Original Art, Made by Hand, Poetry and Verse, Anthropomorphism
[1930s]. Ten (10) original hand penned verses, each with charming relevant drawings. All are on a single 12" x 9" art board except for the tale of A Mouse and a Beetle and a sweet baby Sausage who lived together. This particular tale, written in five verses has a sad.....
Price: $1,750.00
lambs, fantasy
New York: Merry-Day House, Inc, 1946. unpaginated. Printed color illustrated board over cloth spine, color illustrated end papers, color and two-tone (red and black) illustrations by Judy Varga. Little Bobby could not find his sheep. He was sad because his family was poor and would not be able to eat.....
Price: $30.00
fairy tales, short stories
New York: Grosset & Dunlap. 339 pp. Tan cloth cover with stamped yellow type, color printed dust jacket, illustrated end papers, frontispiece, illustrations by H.J. Ford, reverse of dust jacket has listing of Books for Boys and Girls. A collection of tales from around the world. Titles include, The Six.....
Price: $90.00
elves, fantasy, fairy tales
Mainz: Mainzer Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei. unpaginated. Printed color applied cover over cloth spine, entirely in German, black and white and color illustrations throughout by Fritz Baumgarten. Brownies (elves) took care of all the chores in the town of Cologne while everyone was asleep. 8" x 9 1/2" written in German.....
Price: $35.00
movable book, Wizard of Oz. Frank Baum,
Akron, OH: Saalfield, 1944. 12 pp. paper covered board spiral comb bone book. Excerpt from the original story by L. Frank Baum. Created and Produced by the Duenewald Printing Corp., New York. Sole Agent for Wehr Animation. Includes six (6) movable pages--when tab is slid to and fro, three-animations move.....
Price: $110.00
Katharine Sturges, Beatrix Potter, Bluebeard
Philadelphia: David McKay Co., 1932, First. In a darker story for Beatrix Potter, she retells the classic folk tale of Bluebeard. It is told from the perspective of Anne, the sister to the eighth wife of Bluebeard. 154 pages. 12 full page illustrations done by Katharine Sturges. First edition, first.....
Price: $500.00
Beatrix Potter, Anthropomorphism
New York: Frederick Warne & Co, 1913. 94 pp. First American edition. Brown paper boards with applied anthropomorphic stamp and color pictorial endpapers. It has 15 color illustration and numerous black and white text illustrations in order to accompany the story of a pig that is looking for freedom. Potter.....
Price: $450.00
Beatrix Potter, Peter Rabbit books
New York: Frederick Warne & Co, 1904. 85 pp. First American edition with original pale blue boards with applied stamp. Color pictorial endpapers. 27 wonderful color illustrations that depict the destructive mischief the two mice wrought on a doll house.It is the classic tale of two naughty mice by Beatrix.....
Price: $300.00
Whimsy, Fantasy, Adventure
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1927. Second impression. Unpaginated. Illustrated paper litho on board. Twenty (20) full page color illustration. Rhyming text verso facing illustration. The adventures of Mr. Tootleoo and Mrs Cockyollybird on land, sea and in the air. Measures 7 3/4" x 10 1/2"...
Price: $150.00
clown, circus
New York: Rand, McNally & Co, 1934. New York: Rand, McNally & Co, 1934. Second printing. Good. Esther Friend. 59 pp. with illustrations in either black or red, or a combination of the two. 1934 edition, copyright is from 1932. Cover shows some wear and soiling. There is an owner.....
Price: $35.00
dolls, costume
Oklahoma: The Crosby House, 1946. 32 pp. Blue hard cover, color and black and white illustrations, black and white illustrated end papers, each page has decorative borders, illustrations by Edith E. Buhler, part of the Idabell and Wakefield Adventures. Each section has a color illustration of a doll in a......
Price: $35.00