Nursery Books
juvenile] [Christian literature
London: The Religious Tract Society. 16 pp. Illustrated printed paper cover, each story has illustration at start, book number 16, mid to late 1800's. Titles include: Remember. -- What a child ought to be. -- What a child ought not to be. -- What a good little boy is. --.....
Price: $25.00
poetry, Anne Anderson, juvenile
Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., ca. 1920. unpaginated. Cloth cover with printed title and applied illustration,frontispiece, illustrations through out signed Anne Anderson. A collection of popular verses and poetry with illustrations and color plates. Some titles include, Little Jack Horner, Buttercups and Daisies, Lady Moon, and How Doth the Little.....
Price: $85.00
children's book, picture book, nursery rhymes, poetry
New York: McLoughlin Bros. 8 leaves, one-sided; white paper wrapper with illustrations and decorative elements on the front cover, printed in green, brown and gilt. Includes four stories: The Little Man and His Gun -- The Selfish Old Woman -- A Capital Cure For Rats -- How Lady Butterfly Spent.....
Price: $75.00
Christmas, Illustrated Children's Books
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pomeroy's Department Store, 1930s. A sweet illustrated children's edition of "The Night Before Christmas" published by Pomeroy's Department Store, "The Home of Santa Claus", in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Each page has a half-page illustration, with some printed in red and black. 12mo (7.25" by 5"), pp. 16, stapled in.....
Price: $150.00
Susie Sunshine's Series, poetry, poem, verse, nursery rhyme
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, c1900. 8 plates, litho on linen covers, with linen interior pages. Tells the classic story of Simple Simon. In verse with charming color illustrations on each page. A part of the Susie Sunshine's Series. Measures 7 1/2" x 5" Cover wear, particularly on the back strip.....
Price: $85.00
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
nursery rhymes, primer
Akron: Saalfield Publishing Co., 1941. Unpaginated hardcover book with applied pictorial litho. Stories include The Three Little Kittens, The Three Bears and The Three Pigs. Profusely illustrated in full color and black and white illustrations throughout. Of special note/interest in this book a budding artist took the opportunity to draw.....
Price: $25.00
Juvenile Verse, Cats, Etiquette
New York: McLoughlin Bros. 8 unnumbered pp. Printed paper cover, 8 text pages with 4 full color plates. A collection of verses including Table Rules For Little Folks, The Dunce of a Kitten, The Noah's Ark, and Idle Ben. Lovely color plates that coordinate with verse. 10 1/2" x 7".....
Price: $55.00
Children's poetry, nursery rhymes, picture book, animals, birds
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, c1870. 20 pp (including wrappers), blue cover with printed litho design depicting one of the stories found within, 'The Pet Hen.' Other stories included in this book are: 'The Star', 'The Cow', 'Dolly's Tea Party', 'The Little Girl Who Was Unkind to her Sister', 'Mary's Little.....
Price: $65.00
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 books, holiday, christmas, santa claus
Rochester, NY: Stecher Litho. Co, 1919. 8 pp unnumbered. Litho on tan, heavy stock wrap. Illustrations throughout by Margaret Evans Price. Part three color, part full color. 7" x 13 3/4". OCLC- 0 (Oct, 2018).
Price: $95.00
nursery rhyme, verse, poem, picture book, dog
London: Frederick Warne and Co, c1870. 18 pp (including wrappers), blue covers with printed blue and red illustration of a dog holding a bouquet. Tells the classic story of 'Old Mother Hubbard and her Dog". The book is printed on paper pasted over linen. Measures 9 1/2" x 7 1/4".....
Price: $85.00
music, musical score, sheet music, lullaby, children's songs, german
Berlin: Deutscher Arbeitersängerbund [German Workers' Singing Association], 1926. 24 pp, Kinder Lieder: Erstes Heft, zwei- und mehrstimmige lieder und Kanons für kleine und große kinder, which roughly translates to: First Edition, two- and three-part songs and canons for young and old children. The front cover is printed in two colors.....
Price: $38.00
nursery rhymes
Augener, 1912. Unpaginated. (65p.) Stamped Illustrated Hard Cover. An illustrated collection of traditional nursery rhymes with accompanying music. Full page relevant illustration verso with muscia and verse recto. Measures 11 1/2" x 8 3/4"
Price: $100.00
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
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, Peter Rabbit books
New York: Frederick Warne & Co, 1903. 85pp. Green paper on board with applied litho label. Color frontispiece of dancing couple in period costumes). 26 colored illustrations. The classic Beatrix Potter story about a nice tailor and thread wielding mice who repay his kindness. It was one of Potter's personal.....
Price: $1,600.00
Beatrix Potter, Peter Rabbit, Anthropomorphism
New York: Frederick Warne & Co. 36 East 22d Street, 1908. 85 pp. Green paper on board with applied stamp of dressed goose. 27 color illustrations. Color pictorial endpapersThis classic, first American edition, tale by Beatrix Potter is a charming story, with just that hint of mortal danger, exactly as.....
Price: $850.00
Beatrix Potter, Peter Rabbit, Anthropomorphism
New York: Frederick Warne & Co, 1905. 85 pp. 27 color illustrations. Original brown-green paper boards with applied stamp. Illustrated end papers. Some fading on covers. The story of a hedgehog washerwomen is another classic from the world of Beatrix Potter. The character is largely inspired by an actual washerwomen.....
Price: $400.00
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
Cinderella, fairy tales
New York, NY: McLoughlin Brothers, c1875. 8 pp, tells the classic story of Cinderella with a large beautifully colored picture on each page. The back cover lists several other books by the McLoughlin Brothers includinng: "Big Picture Series", "Uncle Ned's Picture Books" and "Ancient Nursery Rhymes." This book has moderate.....
Price: $40.00
music, opera, animals, nursery rhymes, anthropomorphic
Providence, RI: J. A. & A. Reid, 1880. A burletta (brief comic opera) based on the nursery tale and song 'A Frog He Would A Wooing Go'. The opera consists of three acts: Banks of the Danube, The Gypsy Camp, and The Old Mill, with fifteen (15) anthropomorphic characters along.....
Price: $175.00
picture book, nursery book, Greenaway like, children's poetry, victorian children
London: Dean & Son, 1870. Soft pictorial cover picture book with rhyming verse. Mounted on linen. Six (6) leaves. Dean's "Pinafore" Toy Books Series. Imagery in the style of Kate Greenaway Strong color and imagery. Chromolithograph. Last page and back inside cover include advertisements. Although book was originally printed 1870.....
Price: $85.00