Search Results: CHILDREN from Pellbooks

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1983, 1st American Edition. Winner of the Ferra Di Bologna Graphic Prize for Children. Story of Charles August Faversham who was born over 130 years ago in England. Quarto, lavishly illustrated in highly detailed whimsical water colors. F/F.. CHILDREN, ILLUSTRATED. Catalogs: CHILDREN.

Bern Switzerland: Alfred Scherz Verlag, 1946. fine copy of this scarce German translation of Bemelman's book. In brown illustrated paperboards with matching illustrated paper slipcover. 198 pages, profusely illustrated. signed and inscribed and dated by Bemelmans in black ink and dedicated to the American playwright Richard Reich.. Signed by Author. Erstausgabe. Slip Case. Fine as New.

Running Press, 1994 Fine/Near Fine. STATED FIRST EDITION. Extremely lush and oversized (10 X13 inches) rendition of Kipling's clssic. Retold by G.C.Barrett and illustrated by Don Daily who has illustrated a young reader' s edition of "the Wind in the Willows" and has created posters for many films, including The Lone Ranger, The Great Santini and Roots..

Sydney, 2001. Near Fine in oversized white softcover. Tiny ex-coll. ref. library discard stamp. This report describes a very sorry chapter in Australia's history: an overview of the British policy of resettling unaccompanied children to British colonies, a practice which continued up to the 1950's, with a special emphasis on the children sent to Australia.The report looked at the history of child migration in the 20th century, the involvement of individuals, institutions, agencies and governments and the roles and responsibilities of these to the children. The section of the report covering the child abuse the children received at the hands of individuals and institutions is the most disturbing. 324 pages.. Near Fine.

Oxford: Oxford, UK: Pergamon Press, 1979 Near Fine First Edition. Near fine in pictorial glossy cover, no dj as issued. 6 stories with 6 full-page stunning color illustrations by Kathy Wyatt.. First Edition. Near Fine. Illus. by Kathy Wyatt.

Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. No Edition Stated. Printed on cheap Soviet-era paper, but over quite nice copy. Some edgewear and soiling to lovely color illustrated dj.. CHILDREN, RUSIA, RUSSIAN DRAWINGS. Catalogs: CHILDREN.

London: Frederick Warne and Co. In tan cloth Harcover with pictorial boards over front and rear cover. Edition (unknown). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Square octavo (10.13 x 8.88") bound in original dark green pictorial boards backed in brown cloth, lettered in green. Illustrated with chromolithographs by Kate Greenaway. (ca. 1910). (3)-48 pp., half title on recto of frontispiece. Linen spine lettered longitudinally in dark green. Very good with wear to extremities only. Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans, the Raquet Court Press London, as satted on the colophone. First published in 1888 by George Routledge. Warne began publishing the Piper about 15 years later. An early edition of this classic illustrated by Kate Greenaway. Overall in Very Good condition with wear to the edges of the boards and two small holes on the top of the rear free endpaper. Inside clean and beatuiful.. Illus. by Kate Greenaway.

Boston: Lothrop and Company, 1882. An exceptional selection of "Carefully Selected Poems from the Works of the Best and Most Popular Writers for Children" illustrated with nearly two hundred engravings from original design by J. Wells Champney, Miss L.B. Humphrey, jessie Curtis Shepherd, Walter Shirlaw, F. H. Lungren, G.F. Barnes and other distinguished artists. Bound in sea-green silk covers with elaborate floral decoration and gilt lettering embossed on cover. Covers show wear and rubbing. All edges gilt. 241 pages. Front hinge cracked and loose. Neat previous owner's gift inscription in ink, dated Christmas 1882.. Very Good.

Boston: Ernest Dudley Chase, 1920. Small and scarce children's book with glorious color cover illustration of a tadpole reading the nespaper and sittine a leaf in the pond. Book measures 4 x 5 inches, 14 pages of text , no other illustrations that the cover ill.. Very Good. Illus. by Nana French Bickford.

Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Book and Job Dept.), 1914.. Good with some hinge weakness; Illustrated tan boards, HB. Translated from the Spanish by Aloysius Gahan, Member of the NY Bar and illustrated by Otto Busch of the Associated Press. A loving father co nveys moral messages to his daughter, Carmencita, through the medium of short stories.. FATHER AND DAUGHTER, CHILDREN, OTTO BUSCCH, NEW YORK BAR ASSOCIATION. Catalogs: CHILDREN.

New York: Dover Publications, 1976 Reprint. A lovely boxed set of 8 individual volumes in illustrated softcovers. This is an unabridged an unaltered republication of the work first printed in 1905. Includes: Peter Rabbit, Mr. Jeremy Fi sher, The Pie and the Patty-Pan, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, Two Bad mice, Squirrel Nutkin, The Tailor of Gloucester, Benjamin Bunny. Light pink paper illustrated slipcase, size is 4.5 X 6 inches..

NY, Knopf, 1969, First Edition. F/F. Uhu was an owl. He was named UHU because the day the author found him lying on the ground having fallen fromhis nest in the pine tree she learned that 'uhu' is the German name of an Eagle Owl. In this book Annette Macarthur-Onslow tells the sto ry of Uhu's brief but devastating entry into her life. 'He came and went, between May and September, like a feathr on a puff of wind..upsetting our wh ole existence, grubbying the furniture, rearranging the house, and temporarily banishing the cat' ..Full of delicate, sophisticated and warm color illustrations.. CHILDREN. Catalogs: CHILDREN.

Boston: Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1946, 1946. Fine/Very Good with many b & w illustrations plus a drop-dead gorgeous color dj with wrap-around portraits of the protagonists in NF by Anne Vaughn. An exiting juvenile yarn set in Elizabethan England. Sir Step hen Francis, clergyman of St. Saviour's in Sou th wark, was angry, but his son, Miles Francis, was even angrier. To be shut up in one's room just because of a street fight was bad enough, but to be ap prenticed to a linen-draper, as his father threatened seembed a horrible fate, for he had alwa y s been told he was to atend Oxford, like his father, when he grew to fifteen.. Fine/Very Good.

London: Macmillan, 1889. In 1/2 brown leather and dark red/brown marbled boards with 6 raised lesther spine compartments and gilt lettering. Embossed on cover is a gilt seal"HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS HORNSEA". Bound by A. Brown & Sons, Savile Street, Hull. With 100 charming intext illustrations by Linley Sambourne. 320 pages in Near Fine . marbled endpapers and matching marbled edgepainting. In Near Fine conditon with only very minor edgewear.. New Edition. Near Fine. Illus. by Sambourne, Linley.