Juvenile Poetry
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Juvenile Poetry Books & Ephemera
Betty Blue, and Other Mother Goose Rhymes (Bye-lo Series)
by Mother Goose
Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1924 Pictorial boards, corners worn through, cracking along spine, one page with mended tear, gift inscription. Mother Goose rhymes with artwork taken from The Real Mother Goose by Blanche Fisher Wright.. Early Edition. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Blanche Fisher Wright. 12mo.
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£20.29
Pied Piper of Hamlin
by Browning, Robert
Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1937 Blue cloth with color pastedown, bottom corners and edge worn through, 2 small holes in upper cover, bookplate to endpaper, gift inscription on fly leaf, occasional light soil. The familiar tale told in verse. The text is surrounded by decorative borders and partial page illustrations in color and b&w plus 9 full page color plates. . Later Printing. Pictorial Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Hope Dunlap. Small 4to.
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£28.41
Life and Death of Jenny Wren; with The Frog Who Would A-Wooing Go
by Early American
New York: Elton & Co, Publishers, 18 Division Street, 1851 Pictorial yellow paper wraps, overall wear, light soil and foxing, uncolored. The familiar and sad verse about Jenny Wren with 8 engravings after Harrison Weir followed by 4 pages of the text of The Frog Who Would A-Wooing Go. This copy makes no mention of John McLoughlin and the publisher was located at 18 Division St in 1851 only. Scarce.. Original Wraps. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Harrison Weir . 16mo.
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£263.77
Walt Disney Presents The Mickey Mouse Mother Goose
by Disney. Mother Goose
Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing, 1937 140 pgs. Pictorial boards with mild external edge wear, inner front hinge strengthened, pages age-toned as usual, last three pages with edge tears and creases not affecting text; dust jacket frayed with small losses. Mother Goose rhymes, some original and some with Disney characters worked into the verses. Fun Disney artwork in color and line throughout. The book was produced with inexpensive materials, so few copies survived in collectible condition.. First...
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£284.06
Der Struwwelpeter in Feiner Ersten Gestalt, Insel Bucherei Nr. 66
by Hoffmann, Heinrich Dr
Leipzig: Im Insel Verlag No date, no printing statement. Pictorial boards with cover soil and wear and chipping along spine folds. A smaller-sized Struwwelpeter but with the same cautionary verses and frightening artwork in color. Institutional copies list dates anywhere from 1933 through the early 1960s, but also note printing statements. Ads at the end of this volume, list up to No. 441 in the series.. Pictorial Boards. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. Illus. by Heinrich Hoffman. 12mo.
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£28.41
Summertime Song (Inscribed By Author)
by Haas, Irene
New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 1997 Pictorial boards in matching dust jacket with light chipping at top of spine and top rear corner. Verse with lovely full page color artwork. Inscribed by Haas on verso of FFEP in the year of publication.. Inscribed By Author. First Printing. Fine/Near Fine. Large Square 4to.
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£52.75
Wasserlein Fliesst So Fort, Immer Von Ort Zu Ort
by Fischer, Hans (Illus); Hugelshofer, Alice (Ed.)
Zurich: Kantonaler Lehrmittelverlag, 1958 Decorated upper cover with cloth spine, soil to cloth and boards, edge and corner wear, internally clean. One of three volumes published for the use in schools for third year readers, this being volume 2. A collection of poetry and prose including fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen and one verse by Dr. Heinrich Hoffman. Color artwork throughout by Hans Fischer. There were no English language editions published. . Stated First...
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£32.46
Mother Goose, Numbers on the Loose
by Mother Goose. Selected and Illustrated By Leo and Diane Dillon
New York: Harcourt, Inc, 2007 Pictorial boards in dust jacket. A selection of counting Mother Goose rhymes with playful color artwork. Received starred reviews from PW and Horn Book.. First Printing. Fine/Fine. Oblong 4to.
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£20.29
Sweet as a Pickle and Clean as a Pig
by McCullers, Carson
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964 Orange cloth stamped in green, previous owner's name on endpaper, indent from child's name on title page else clean; dust jacket with light wear and minuscule edge tears, price-clipped! A collection of poems for children, most with a philosophical bent. Illustrated by Rolf Gerard. McCullers' only book for children. Scarce. First Edition. Cloth Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Rolf Gerard. 8vo.
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£243.48
High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire 1571
by Ingelow, Jean
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1883 AEG. 41 pgs. Green cloth over beveled boards, pictorially stamped and titled in gilt, silver and black, rubbing to extremities and foxing to prelims and occasionally other pages, gift inscription dated 1883, but overall clean and bright. A long poem relating the tragic high tide that surged up the river Lindis, breaking the sea wall and flooding the town of Boston (England) and the surrounding countryside. Illustrated with engravings after the artwork of Frederick Stuart...
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£101.45
Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes
by Dahl, Roald
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1983 Pictorial boards, upper cover very slightly bowed, faint spotting along lower edge, remainder mark to top edge, text clean and bright; matching dust jacket with tears and creasing, small losses, and foxing, original price intact ($9.95). Fairy Tales humorously retold in verse with updated, surprise endings by Dahl. Amusing artwork by Quentin Blake throughout. Scarce.. First American Edition. Pictorial Boards. Very Good/Good Minus. Illus. by Quentin Blake. 4to.
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£68.99
Song of Hiawatha With an Introduction By Nathan Haskell Dole
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1899 297 pgs. Dark green cloth with elaborate decoration in gilt blue and gold, gift inscription, minor signs of use, pages mostly unopened. A lovely edition of this classic, illustrated with four full-page color plates by Frank T. Merrill. Uncommon edition.. Pictorial Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Frank T. Merrill. 8vo.
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£121.74
When the Sky is Like Lace
by Cooney, Barbara (Illus); Horwitz, Elinor Lander (Auth)
Philadelphia: J B Lippincott Co, 1975 Violet cloth with blindstamped design of 3 otters, foxing to rear endpaper; color pictorial dust jacket with wear to folds, foxing and stain to verso, original price intact ($6.95). "Describes the strange and splendid things that can happen on a bimulous night when the sky is like lace." Told in verse and illustrated in full color with magical artwork by Barbara Cooney. Surprisingly scarce in the first edition.. Stated First Edition. Cloth Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very...
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£52.75
Cantilever Rainbow
by Krauss, Ruth
New York: Pantheon Books, 1965 Yellow cloth with blind-stamped sun design, slight spine lean, else fine; color pictorial dust jacket with sunned spine and mild edge wear, original price intact ($2.95). A collection of Krauss' poetry culled from various periodicals. Illustrated with woodcuts by Frasconi. . First Edition. Cloth Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Antonio Frasconi. 8vo.
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£52.75
Rhymes for the Nursery
by Early American
Concord, NH: Rufus Merrill, 1843 Grey paper wraps printed in black ink, light soil and marks inside and out, later spine stitching. There is a one-page alphabet on the verso of title page, followed by the verses: The Bee, The Cow, The Force of Example, Stop! Stop, Pretty Water!, The Sheep, a prayer and Going to Bed at Night. Illustrated with small engravings throughout. . Pictorial Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Engravings. 48mo.
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£28.41
Blue So Blue
by Dumont, Jean-Francois
New York: Sterling, 2005 Pictorial boards in matching dust jacket. A poem about a little boy who wants to be an artist and dreams of a certain shade of blue every night so goes on a journey to find it. Stunning color artwork. Prix Saint-Exupery 2004.. First American Edition. Fine/Fine. Square 4to.
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£20.29
Trees Stand Shining, Poetry of the North American Indians
by Native American. Jones, Hettie (Poems Selected by)
New York: Dial Press, 1971 Brown cloth hard cover, faint spotting to boards, foxing to endpaper; color illustrated dust jacket with light wear, foxing to verso, original price intact ($4.95). A selection of Native American verse. Full-page color artwork opposite each page of verse by the celebrated painter, Robert Andrew Parker.. Stated First Printing. Cloth Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Robert Andrew Parker. Oblong 4to.
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£32.46
Animal Pets Bookshelf (8 Linenette Booklets in Original Box)
by Russell, Mary Lafetra (Attrib)
New York: Saml Gabriel Sons No date, Circa 1930. Eight linen-textured booklets with light wear, "Puppies" with 3" spine split, no writing or foxing. Eight booklets with simple rhymes and printed in color, most featuring humanized animals. The titles are: Pussies, Puppies, Chickies, Teddies, Piggies, Duckies, Pups & Pussies, and Bunnies. While no author or illustrator is credited, Mary LaFetra Russell did a lot of animal-themed books for Sam'l Gabriel at the time and these...
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£60.87
Mother Goose in a New Dress: Bramble Bush and Other Rhymes
by Mother Goose
New York: McLoughlin Bros, 1882 Circa 1882. 10.75 x 8.5 in. (27 x 21 cm). Color printed card covers with light soil and surface wear, 2 inch tear to rear cover. Mother Goose rhymes illustrated with four full-page chromolithographs, a dual-page sepia centerfold and in-text artwork in sepia throughout. Illustrated by Walter Satterlee (per American Antiquarian Society). Pictorial Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by W. Bruton (Attrib, cover) & Walter Satterlee . 4to.
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£182.61
Great Panjandrum Himself
by Caldecott, Randoph (Illus); [Foote, Samuel] (Auth)
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1885 8" x 9.5". 24 pgs. Paper wraps, front cover printed in color, edge wear, closed tear near base of spine, old bookseller sticker inside front cover. Published between 1886 and 1900 based on rear cover titles and size of book. This was Caldecott's last shilling picture book. The text, a nonsense verse, was written by Samuel Foote, allegedly to test the actor Macklin, who boasted that he could memorize anything with a single read-through (Osborne pg...
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£101.45
Drifter's Gold (Signed by Author)
by Blanding, Don
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1939 142 pgs. Blue cloth pictorially stamped in gilt, rubbing to extremities and spine gilt, dark mark at the edge of a few pages, previous owner's name in two places; dust jacket in pieces. Poetry inspired by Hawaii, illustrated in b&w throughout by Blanding. This copy is boldly signed by Blanding, "Aloha to you / Don Blanding.". Signed by Author. First Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Very Good/Poor. Illus. by Don Blanding. 8vo.
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£36.52
Lives of the Haunted (Inscribed By Author)
by von Gottschalck, Oscar H
New York: R H Russell, 1902 Color pictorial boards wtih cloth spine, edges and corners worn, occasional finger marks. A rather gruesome book with verses and imagery about how animals are used and eventually killed by man, meant to be humorous, but most modern day readers will not be amused. Comic illustrations in limited color throughout. This copy is inscribed by the author/artist, Oscar H Von Gottschalck. Contains stereotypical depictions of native Africans. Rare, not in Baumgarten, 1...
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£446.38
Life and Death of Jenny Wren, Pleasure Books
by Early American
New York: McLoughlin Bros, 1867 6in x 4.75 in (15cm x 12cm). Yellow wraps printed in red & black, light wear and soil, a remarkably nice copy. Ads for Charles F. Smith, Grocer & Tea Dealer, printed inside covers. The old, familiar verse about Jenny Wren with b&w engravings after Harrison Weir. Date & illustrator identity per AAS. . Pictorial Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Harrison Weir. 24mo.
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£60.87
Lullaby for Eggs
by Jones, Elizabeth Orton (Illus); Bridgman, Betty (Auth)
New York: MacMillan Company, 1955 Turquoise cloth, slight spine lean, else fine; color pictorial dust jacket with sunned spine, a few edge tears, original price intact ($2.25). Lovely simple verse beautifully pictured in color throughout by award winning artist Elizabeth Orton Jones.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Elizabeth Orton Jones. Square 8vo.
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£52.75
La Revolte Des Passemens
by Textiles. Unknown, Translated By Sommerhoff, Hazel Dunning
New York: Needle and Bobbin Club, 1935 Pictorial boards with cloth spine, light shelf wear, faint erasure marks to frontis tissue guard. A poem which first appeared in 1661 written in response to the 1660 edict by Louis XIV banning the wearing of lace adornments and decorations. Both the original French and a new English translation appear here, plus a summary and explanation. Illustrated with reproductions of artwork as well as photos of lace designs. Limited to 500 copies. . Limited Edition....
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£60.87
