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LIST TWO
FINE CHILDREN’S BOOKS
1.
[BARROW, Sarah L.]. The Sock Stories by “Aunt Fanny’s” Daughter: Red, White, and Blue Socks, Part First,
Being the First Part of the Series; Part Second Being the Second Book of the Series; German Socks Being the Third
Part of the Series; Funny Little Socks, Being the Fourth Part of the Series; Funny Big Socks, Being the Fifth Part
of the Series; Neighbor Nelly Socks, Being the Sixth and Last Part of the Series. New York: Leavitt & Allen, 1863.
Six volumes, complete, twelvemos. Frontispieces, with tissue guards, and plates. Original green blind-embossed
decorated cloth. Tops slightly dusty and bookplates in each, else a nearly fine set.
Sarah L. Barrow was the daughter of Frances Barrow, who wrote the “Nightcaps”, “Mittens” and other popular
series under the name “Aunt Fanny.” (205913)
$450
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2.
CALDECOTT, Randolph. A Complete Set of the Picture Books: The House that
Jack Built; The Diverting History of John Gilpin; An Elegy on the Death of a Mad
Dog; The Babes in the Wood; The Three Jovial Huntsmen; Sing a Song for Sixpence;
The Queen of Hearts; The Farmer’s Boy; Hey Diddle Diddle and Baby Bunting; A
Frog He Would a-Wooing Go; The Milkmaid (Where are you going, my pretty maid);
Fox Jumps over the Parson’s Gate; Come Lasses and Lads; Ride A Cock Horse to
Banbury Cross and A Farmer Went Trotting Upon His Grey Mare; Mrs. Mary Blaize;
[and] The Great Panjandrum Himself. London: George Routledge & Sons, 1878-85.
Original printed chromoxylographic wrappers; in two folding cloth boxes. Several a
little worn at the extremities else a very good set.
Four of the issues are present in two states. (42218)
$2,000
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3.
VANDEGRIFT, Margaret. The Dead Doll and Other Verses. Boston:
Ticknor and Company, 1889. Quarto. Frontispiece, plates, and illustrations
in text. Original green pictorial cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine.
Some spotting to a few leaves and lightest wear at extremities, but generally
clean and fresh.
FIRST EDITION. The ‘American Annual Catalogue 1886-1900’ (New York,
1889) described the book: “The young readers of ‘St. Nicholas’, ‘Harper’s
Young People’, ‘The Youth’s Companion’, and ‘Wide Awake’ already know
and love many of these wise and witty verses. They will find new ones
quite as pretty as ‘The dead doll’ and ‘The fate of the face-maker,’ which
Miss Vandegrift sends out to the public for the first time in this volume. The
volume is full of pictures and uniform with ‘Davy and the goblin’.” A fine,
clean copy. (63930)
$100
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4.
CLEMENS, Samuel L. (“Mark Twain”).
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Charles
L. Webster & Co, 1891. Octavo. Frontispiece and
illustrations in text. Original decorated tan cloth. A
tight copy, small inking on rear joint, lightly rubbed,
but generally fresh and clean.
Early reprint of Clemens’ classic novel, first published
in 1884. (400333)
$110
5.
RHYS, Grace, introduction / Illustrated by R.
Anning BELL. Sleeping Beauty and Dick Whittington
and His Cat. London: J. M. Dent, 1894. Twelvemo. 60
pages. Original gilt-decorated cloth, top edges gilt. Ties
perished else a very good copy.
Robert Anning Bell (1863-1933) designed, with George
Frampton, the altarpiece exhibited at the Arts and Crafts
Exhibition Society. He was later appointed chief of the
design section at the Glasgow School of Art, and from
1918 to 1924 he was professor of design at the Royal
College of Art. Bell worked from 1922 on mosaics for
the Palace of Westminster. (206640)
$125
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6.
UPTON, Bertha / Illustrated by Florence K. UPTON. The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a “Golliwogg”.
London & New York: Longman’s Green & Co., [1895]. Oblong quarto. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Pp.
23/4 and pp 55/56 have duplicate page numbers. P. 21 with marginal tear just crossing text, inscription on front free
endpaper, a little shaken.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING of the book that started the best-selling “Golliwogg” sensation. Inspired by a
minstrel doll she had as a child, Upton illustrated 13 golliwog stories that were published between 1895 and 1909,
set to verse written by her mother, Bertha. (121658)
$125
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7.
HARRIS, Joel Chandler / Illustrated by Oliver HERFORD. The Story of Aaron (So Named), The Son of Ben Ali
Told by His Friends and Acquaintances. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1896. Octavo. Frontispiece and
plates by Oliver Herford. Original decorated cloth, the front cover with full-panel block executed in black, green
and gilt, black-lettered on spine. Spine with slightest toning and minor wear at foot.
FIRST EDITION. Though best known for his Uncle Remus stories, Harris wrote six books for children, including
this story of an African American slave in Georgia who communicates with animals. A fresh, bright copy.
(100355)
$250
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8.
NEWELL, Peter. Topsys & Turvys. New York: The Century Co., 1902. Oblong quarto. Color illustrations. Original
glazed pictorial boards. Contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper, some wear with light loss at
extremities.
Each page offers a metapicture, framed by a couple — the first line appears below the image and right-side up,
the second line above and upside-down. One turns the book 180 degrees to complete the rhyme, and perspective
completely alters the picture’s meaning (see ‘Keywords for Children’s Literature, ed. Philip Nel and Lisa Paul,
New York: NYU Press, 2011, p.182). First published in 1893, with a second series in 1894, this edition was used —
presumably due to the greater clarity of reproductions of Newell’s illustrations — for the Dover reprint in 1964. The
book has been celebrated in modern times as an exemplar of metafiction. (121657)
$100
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9.
HUDSON, W. H. / Illustrated by A. D. M’CORMICK. A Little Boy Lost. London: Duckworth & Co, 1905.
Octavo. Frontispiece, plates, and illustrations in text by A.D. M’Cormick. Original decorated cloth, the front cover
with a block of a ship executed in black and gilt, gilt-lettered on spine, top edges gilt. Some minor intermittent pale
spotting, slightest toning to cloth. Provenance: Charles MacA. Willcox (bookplate), Denver banker and bookman.
FIRST EDITION, WITH A TWO-PAGE AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by Hudson tipped to the front free
endpaper, 16 November [1912?], to “Dear Curle,” thanking him for sending a George Meredith book, arranging
a meeting, and telling him he may keep the copy of English Reviews that was loaned. This is presumably Richard
Curle (1883-1963), Scottish author, traveler, and bibliophile who wrote the earliest critical and biographical work
on Joseph Conrad. A Little Boy Lost is a mystical story about the thrills of nature as seen by a little boy who
wanders through the plains, the high Sierras and along the seashore. Animals and mirages take human shape and the
spirits of the Rockies and the ocean lure him on. (104032)
$750
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10.
MOTHER GOOSE — HALE, Edward Everett,
introduction. The Only True Mother Goose
Melodies. Boston: Lothrop, Lee, and Shephard,
1905. Twelvemo. Illustrated throughout with line
drawings. Publisher’s original cloth-backed pictorial
boards; original printed dust jacket. Jacket with some
light wear at ends of spine and edges, but generally
fresh and bright.
FIRST EDITION of Hale’s edition of Mother Goose,
a late work for the Unitarian minister remembered
as the author of “The Man Without a Country.” Very
scarce in a jacket. (44429)
$250
11.
BAUM, L. Frank, introduction. Animal A.B.C. and
A Child’s Visit to the Zoo. Chicago IL: Reilly and
Britton Co, Christmas Stocking Series, 1905. 103 x
75 mm. 124 pages. Color plates by John R. Neill and
E. S. Hardy. Original cloth, pictorial mounted cover.
Front joint cracked, front free endpaper loose, some
wear at extremities and a few occasional pale stains.
FIRST EDITION, part of the miniature Christmas
Stocking Series: collections of fairy tales, each of
which includes an identical introduction written by
Baum. (205702)
$325
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12.
SOMERVILLE, Ralph / Illustrated by Edmund SMITH. The Good Girls’ and Bad Boy’s Alphabet. New York:
Frederick A. Stokes Co, circa 1906. Twelvemo. 26 color illustrations. Original red decorated cloth. Front joint
cracked, spine and board edges somewhat faded, pencil inscription on flyleaf, stain near gutter to several leaves at
center of text block.
“For each letter, there is a poem about [a] pair of children whose behavior illustrates the admirable and the
despicable. The boys, who are always bad, are, of course, the more entertaining of the two” (Cotsen Collection).
Advertisement for the series on p. [2] and specimen pages from other titles in the series on pp. 112-121. (63462)
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13.
DONAHEY, Mary Dickerson / Illustrated with color plates by J. R. CLAY and illustrations in the text by
Ruth Elliott NEWTON. The Castle of the Grumpy Grouch: A Fairy Story. Philadelphia: Barse & Hopkins, 1909.
Quarto. 8 color plates. Original pictorial cloth. Slight toning to cloth, generally very good.
FIRST EDITION, second printing. Mary Augusta Dickerson (or Donahey), a native New Yorker, began writing for
newspapers and magazines in 1896. She met William Donahey while both worked as writers for The Plain Dealer,
and she encouraged him to become a comic strip writer and illustrator. Their summer home in Grand Marias,
Michigan, known as the Pickle Barrel House, is now a tourist attraction. (62271)
$125
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14.
VISSER-DÜKER, Mien / Illustrated by Leo
VISSER / With music by Maria van Ebbenhorst
TENGBERGEN. Baron van Hippelepip: Een
Verhaaltje voor Kinderen met Plaatjes en Musiek.
Amsterdam: Zalt-Bommel, 1917. Quarto. Color
plates on coated stock. Original cloth-backed
pictorial boards. Some wear at extremities, some
browning to endleaves and light soiling.
FIRST EDITION of this charming Dutch picture
book by the author Mien Visser-Düker and her
husband, the illustrator Leo Visser. Leo Visser
(Amsterdam, September 7, 1880 - Hilversum,
February 17, 1950) was an illustrator, glass painter,
wall painter, lithographer, illustrator, industrial
artist, cartoonist, bookbinding designer, and graphic
artist. He worked in Amsterdam from 1909 to 1940
and after that in Blaricum. (43826)
$250
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15.
ANDERSON, Anne. The Patsy Book. London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1919. Quarto. Color frontispiece and
twelve color pates. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards with illustration by Alan Wright. Some wear to the
extremities, endpapers browned, front cover with a few spots, else a presentable copy of a scarce book.
FIRST EDITION. Scottish-born Anderson’s fluid and delicate style exemplifies the Art Nouveau movement.
(40636)
$250
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16.
MOTHER GOOSE — SMITH, E. Boyd.
The Boyd Smith Mother Goose. New York: G. P.
Putnam’s Sons, 1919. Quarto. 20 color plates on
coated paper. Original gilt-lettered red cloth. Spine
slightly toned, rear cover somewhat sunned, owner’s
name on flyleaf, otherwise fresh and bright.
FIRST EDITION of Boyd Smith’s Mother Goose.
The forward by Lawrence Elmendorf briefly
outlines a history of Mother Goose and is followed
by Mother Goose melodies collected for The Percy
Society by James O’Halliwell, London in 1842. Part
Two is the Original Mother Goose Melody as issued
by John Newbery of London circa 1760 and Isaiah
Thomas of Worcester, Massachusetts circa 1785.
Part Three is ‘The Pleasant History of Little Jack
Horner,’ and Part four is the ‘Famous History of Tom
Thumb’. (48554)
$250
17.
COOPER, Frederic Tabor / Illustrations by Paul
BRANSOM. An Argosy of Fables: A Representative
Selection from the Fable Literature of Every Land
and Age with Twenty-Four Illustrations in Color.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co, 1921. Quarto. 24
color illustrations, mounted, by Bransom. Original
cloth-backed pictorial boards gilt, top edges gilt.
Several small spots to front cover, some wear at
extremities.
LIMITED EDITION, number 26 of 365 numbered
copies signed by Bransom. (58871)
$250
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18.
SPRAGUE, Besse Toulouse / Illustrations by
Bess Devine JEWELL. Pansy Eyes: A Maid
of Japan. Chicago: The Reilly and Lee Co,
Travel-Tot Tales, 1922. Quarto. Original clothbacked pictorial boards. Original pages with the
doll at front well preserved. Some light wear at
extremities and rubbing to boards.
FIRST EDITION. The Japanese doll does
not come from Japan but is imagined by an
American girl, “Sick-a-bed Betty,” and then
made for her from cloth and “olive and black
paints” by her parents. Purchasers of the book
could make Pansy Eyes for themselves, using
printed linen sheets bound in the front of the
book, to be cut out, sewn together, and stuffed.
(56990)
$250
19.
MOTHER GOOSE -- GRUELLE, Justin C.
A Mother Goose Parade. New York: P F Volland
Co., 1929. Quarto. Original cloth-backed
pictorial boards. Minor wear to the extremities,
early owner’s ink inscription on front free
endpaper, else a very good copy.
FIRST EDITION of Justin C. Gruelle’s Mother
Goose. “...The figures are not manikins; they
speak; they body emotion; they move; they
show forth that intangible but very real quality
which the artist dismisses with the single word
‘character’... We predict for Mr. Gruelle great
things in the future, for he seems to be of
that gracious company who keep the love of
childhood in their heart” (contemporary review).
Justin Gruelle never achieved the fame of his
older brother, Raggedy Ann and Andy creator
Johnny Gruelle, but his Mother Goose remains
a charming artifact from the Depression-era
United States. (52779)
$100
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20.
MILLER, Olive Beaupré. My Book House [and] My Travelship. Complete Set in Original Wooden House. [With:]
Continuation volumes, and A Picturesque Tale of Progress. Chicago: The Bookhouse for Children, 1929-33. A very
good set of the six-volume “My Book House” and three-volume “My Travelship” in the original wooden house.
Original cloth, with mounted cover illustrations, showing characteristic wear, some hinges cracked, soiling, etc.,
but overall a fine original set, preserved in the wooden case that shows a few small cracks to the wood and chips
to the paint, but has chimneys intact and gilt title-paint fresh and bright, lacking the front steps as often given the
tenuous attachment to the frame. Each volume is lavishly illustrated in color by such artists as N.C. Wyeth and
Milo Winter, and prints classic children’s stories, poems, myths, history, and tales. WITH THE CONTINUATION
OF THE SERIES: Volumes Eight through Twelve of “My Book House,” 1928-34; and the eight-volume series “A
Picturesque Tale of Progress,” 1929-33. Together 22 volumes. (400207)
$750
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21.
CREW, Helen Coale. The Shawl with the Silver Bells.
New York: Macmillan, 1932. Octavo. Original cloth;
original pictorial dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION, in a very clean and fresh dust jacket.
(108528)
$75
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22.
DE BRUNHOFF, Jean. Le voyage de Babar. Paris: Editions
du Jardin des modes, 1932. Quarto. In French. Original pictorial
boards. Cover stained at the upper left [also a bit at the rear], else
a very good copy.
FIRST EDITION, first state. This is the second Babar book,
copyright page mentions only “Histoire de Babar”. (62891)
$350
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23.
LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE — GRAY, Harold . The “Pop-Up” Little Orphan Annie and Jumbo, the Circus
Elephant. Chicago: Pleasure Books, Inc., 1935. Quarto. Original pictorial boards. Very minor wear to the heel and
crown else a nearly fine copy. The three “pop-ups” are very bright and clean.
FIRST EDITION. Annie steals the show at the circus, but as usual there are deeper themes at work. Harold Gray
brought Annie to life in 1924, and his cartoons quickly developed her from a simple, sketch-like character to a fully
realized voice, expressing Gray’s anti-FDR conservative political philosophy. (52883)
$250
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24.
McKENNA, Helen. Strange Animal Stories: Picture in Third Dimension. Chicago: Dickery, 1936. Quarto. 13
pages. Six three-dimensional photos. “Ortho-Scope” glasses present in the pocket in the front. Original printed
wrappers. Front cover with minor soiling, otherwise a very good copy with only minor wear at extremities.
FIRST EDITION of this unusual production — the reader can view the pictures through the “Ortho-Scope” glasses
to see the three-dimensional images rise from the page. (109219)
$150
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25.
THOMPSON, Kay / lllustrated by Hilary KNIGHT. Kay Thompson’s Eloise: A Book for Precocious Grown
Ups. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955. Quarto. The pullout (pages 13-16) is present but detached (bright with
no tears). Original decorated cloth; original dust jacket. Cloth with some light wear at ends of spine, slight toning, a
few old tape adhesions; jacket spine panel lacking, some chipping, inner flaps detached but present.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of the original Eloise — a work initially meant for adults (its re-release in 1969
was aimed at children). This book spawned three further tales of the girl who lives on “the tippy-top floor” of the
Plaza hotel (and one posthumous book). Thompson’s goddaughter, Liza Minelli, has been cited as a possible model
for Eloise, as has Thompson herself. Laid in is a slip correcting text on p. 50 — “Lily Dache” to “Coco Chanel.”
(12329)
$1,250
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26.
CLARK, Ann Nolan / Illustrated by Lynd WARD.
Santiago. New York: The Viking Press, 1955. Octavo.
Frontispiece and illustrations by Lynd Ward. Original
tan decorated cloth; original pictorial dust jacket. Cloth
with tiny split to front joint, jacket with some very light
edgewear.
FIRST EDITION. Ann Nolan Clark worked for forty
years in the US Bureau of Indian Affairs, and created
lyrical novels for and about Native American children.
Santiago is her best known book, along with Secret
of the Andes (1952) which beat Charlotte’s Web to
the Newbery Medal. Lynd Ward illustrated over one
hundred books for others, this being a notable example
as he drew upon his experiences from a year spent in
Mexico. (31012)
$50
27.
MINAREK, Else Holmelund / Illustrated by Maurice
SENDAK. Little Bear. New York: Harper & Brothers,
1957. Octavo. Original pictorial boards; original
unlaminated pictorial dust jacket with original price of
$2.50, rear panel of jacket and boards have blue vine
design [not glossy covers]. Dust jacket a little worn at
extremities, with chip at foot of spine, small stain on
front panel.
FIRST EDITION, THE SCARCE FIRST ISSUE, of
the first book in Harper & Row’s “I Can Read” series.
This book spawned a series of books, a television series
and specials, and a direct-to-video movie. The New
York Times wrote: Critics praised the Little Bear books
not only for Ms. Minarik’s prose, which combined
crystalline accessibility with evocative warmth, but also
for their tender, Victorian-inflected illustrations by a
young artist named Maurice Sendak.” In all, a very good
copy of the scarce first issue. Hanrahan A26. (42197)
$700
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28.
SENDAK, Maurice, illustrator -- KRAUSS, Ruth. Somebody Else’s Nut Tree [two issues]. New York: Harpers,
1958. “Reinforced Library Edition”, and “Harpercrest Edition”. Quartos. Original cloth; original pictorial dust
jackets. Each very good, with light rubbing to jackets.
FIRST EDITIONS, variants. The first is price clipped and repriced at $2.99 and states “Reinforced Library Edition”
on the front of the jacket. The second is price clipped and priced at net $2.19 and states “Harpercrest edition” on
the front of the jacket. The first is in a gray-brown cloth stamped in black and the second is in an orangish cloth
stamped in black and red. (107613)
$125
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29.
SILVERSTEIN, Shel / Foreword by Jean SHEPHERD. “Now, Here’s My Plan:” A Book of Futilities. New York:
Simon and Schuster, 1960. Quarto. Original printed wrappers. Pages darkened as usual, otherwise a near fine copy,
only minor wear at edges, corners clean, spine straight and tight.
FIRST EDITION, AN OUTSTANDING ASSOCIATION COPY, WITH A LENGTHY INSCRIPTION BY
SILVERSTEIN in blue ink to Harper & Row Sales Executive Frank Scioscia on the inner front wrapper: “Dear
Frank — Thank you for telling me that S+S [Simon & Schuster] was about to reprint this book so that I could offer
my assistance to Johnathan who could ask me to do more drawings so that the book could become so large that S+S
would refuse to do it so that I could bring it to Harpers so that Wynn would want it so that I could spend this last
year working on it so that it could become a masterpiece so that its disgustingly obscene content could cost us all
our lives and livelihood. Love and thanks for all the help — for so many book[s] for so long — Shel.” (62300)
$2,500
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30.
UNGERER Tomi / Introduction by Art BUCHWALD.
Horrible: An Account of the Sad Achievements of
Progress. New York: Atheneum, 1960. Folio. Original
cloth; original pictorial jacket. Slightly cocked else very
good with slightly worn jacket.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, INSCRIBED WITH
A DRAWING on the front free endpaper to Lou Gless.
(63877)
$250
31.
RHINEHART, Susan / Illustrated by Arnold LOBEL.
Something Old, Something New. New York: Harper and
Bros, 1961. Octavo. Original cloth; original pictorial dust
jacket. Fine, save a single short tear to jacket, otherwise
clean and fresh.
FIRST EDITION of one of Arnold Lobel’s earliest works.
His first published set of illustrations was for Tamar
Grand’s ‘Happy Times with Holiday Rhymes’ (1958);
his first self-written book was not published until 1962.
(107534)
$150
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32.
SENDAK, Maurice, illustrator -- UDRY, Janice May.
Let’s Be Enemies. New York: Harper and Bros, 1961.
Square small quarto. Original pictorial boards; original
printed dust jacket priced $1.95. Child’s bookplate of front
free endpaper, some chips/tears to jacket at edges.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, published in Sendak’s
first major year as a budding artist: the year he received
the remarkable letter of encouragement from his editor,
Ursula Nordstrom, and the year he created his superb
illustrations to Tolstoy. Let’s Be Enemies is a classic
reverse-psychology exercise, similar to Ruth Krauss’s I’ll
Be You and You Be Me which Sendak had illustrated six
years earlier. Hanrahan A46 (54116)
$250
33.
SILVERSTEIN, Shel. Uncle Shelby’s Story of Lafcadio,
The Lion Who Shot Back. New York: Harper and Row,
1963. Quarto. Original pictorial cloth; original printed
dust jacket. End of spine lightly bumped, jacket somewhat
cockled and with some light wear at extremities.
FIRST EDITION OF SHEL SILVERSTEIN’S FIRST
CHILDREN’S BOOK. Lafcadio first appeared in the
November 1963 issue of Playboy, and was subsequently
developed into this novel-length, illustrated book.
Lafcadio had rave reviews from the New York Times, Time
magazine, and Publishers Weekly, as well as a starred
review from Kirkus. Somewhat scarce in the first edition
with jacket. (54198)
$250
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34.
GOFFSTEIN, M. B. Sleepy People. New York:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1966. Small square
quarto (4 3/4 x 5 inches). Original blue cloth;
original pictorial dust jacket. Jacket a little
sunfaded at edges.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING of
this charming book. Kirkus reviewed it with
understatement: “The title gives the small show
away. It’s a slow and pleasant piece of propaganda
to use with reluctant nappers or at bedtime. The
sleepy people shown have the same shapes (nearly
formless, very simple wash and line) of The Gats
(1965) a Herald Trib honor award book we failed
to appreciate much at Kirkus. They are shown as
a family unit preparing for bed with their eyes
tightly closed and the combination of text and
pictures urges imitation. The Sleepys go through a
routine for bedding down that includes stretching,
yawning, singing quietly and snoring. Effective.”
(Kirkus Reviews, 1 September 1966). (202560)
$90
35.
SENDAK, Maurice, illustrator — SINGER,
Isaac Beshevis. Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories
Translated from the Yiddish by the Author and
Elizabeth Shub. New York: Harper & Row, 1966.
Octavo. With tipped-in plates and meant to be
signed by Singer and Sendak. Original linen, front
cover with inset image mounted. Some pale foxing
to front cover.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE of the limited
issue. When the books were shipped to Sendak,
he was unhappy with the production (the tipped
in plates were trimmed too much, and the corner
registration marks showing where the plates were
to be inserted were still visible after the plates
were tipped in). Sendak removed the limitation
page from each copy and returned the rejected
run to the publisher, with the instruction that the
edition was to be redone. Few copies survive of
this, the aborted first attempt of the limited issue.
(64015)
SOLD
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36.
BROWN, Margaret Wise / Illustrated
by Garth WILLIAMS. Little Fur
Family. New York: Harper and Row,
[1968]. 3 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches. AS NEW IN
THE ORIGINAL PRINTED BOX AND
UNOPENED: in the original plastic seal
and with retail price sticker of $3.95. A
fine copy in the original printed box.
Originally published in 1946, this
miniature version is covered in real fur.
Later editions were issued with artificial
fur (or no fur at all). (107242)
$450
37.
SENDAK, Maurice, illustrator — MINARIK,
Else Holmelund. A Kiss For Little Bear. New
York: Harper and Row, An I Can Read Book,
1968. Octavo. The uncorrected proof of the
reissue, in plain black wrappers. A fine, bright
copy.
SIGNED on the title-page by Sendak. (62848)
$250
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38.
BENCHLEY, Nathaniel / Illustrated by Hilary KNIGHT. Feldman Fieldmouse: A Fable. New York: Harper &
Row, 1971. Octavo. Original pictorial boards; original pictorial dust jacket. Some pale foxing on rear panel, tiniest
wear at extremities.
FIRST EDITION. “’There’s nothing wild about talking to mice,’” Lonny tells his parents. “’The real trick is to
get them to talk to you.’” Called “An engaging fanciful tale, spiced with brisk and sophisticated dialogue, about a
mouse who aspires to one glorious night of beauty” (The Best in Children’s Books, ed. Zena Sutherland, University
of Chicago Press, 1973). (14282)
$150
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39.
LOBEL, Arnold. Frog and Toad Together. New York: Harper
and Row, An I Can Read Book, 1972. COMPLETE SET of
uncut long galley sheets, 24 x 9 inches. Some light age-toning,
otherwise fine.
GALLEY PROOFS of the second Frog & Toad book. It was a
Newbery Honor Book, and runner-up for the American Library
Association Newbery Medal. Kirkus Reviews: “Five more wise
and wonderful stories to reaffirm the happy truth that Frog and
Toad Are Friends.” (48095)
$325
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40.
CARLE, Eric. The Mixed-Up Chameleon. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1975. Folio. Dye-cut pages, with color
illustrations. Original glazed pictorial boards.
FIRST EDITION of Eric Carle’s classic dye-cut tale of the confused chameleon. (109063)
$60
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41.
SILVERSTEIN, Shel. The Missing Piece. Harper and Row, 1975.
Four long sheets of the text only. 24 x 9 inches. Dated 11-13-75. Old
paperclip mark and crease to lower corner, else a very good set folded
into thirds [slightly misfolded].
The long uncut galley sheets issued in advance of the finished book.
Perhaps the only set to survive. (61492)
$750
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42.
PATERSON, Katherine. Jacob Have I Loved.
New York: Crowell, 1980. Octavo. Original cloth;
original pictorial dust jacket. A fine, bright jacket,
with Newbery seal.
FIRST EDITION of this Newbery Medal Awardwinning novel set on the Maryland shore.
(100906)
$50
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LOBEL, Arnold. Fables. New York: Harper and
Row, 1980. Small folio. Original cloth; original
pictorial dust jacket. Slightest rubbing to rear panel,
generally fresh and bright in dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING of the 1981
Caldecott Winner for illustration. Publisher’s
Weekly called it “the most remarkable of the authorillustrator’s 60-plus, bestselling award winners.”
Lobel provides twenty fables, each allocated a page
of text facing a full-page illustration. (107378)
$75
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GACKENBACH, Dick. Little Bug. New York:
Houghton Mifflin / Clarion Books, 1981. Square
quarto. Original pictorial boards; original dust
jacket. Slightest age-darkening at edges of jacket.
FIRST EDITION. Gackenbach worked for many
years as an Art Director at J.C. Penney, and began
writing children’s books after his retirement in 1972.
Born on a farm in Pennsylvania, he later attributed
his love of children’s books to the fact that, due to
his family’s poverty, he had no books of his own as
a child. (53654)
$250
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LOBEL, Arnold. Uncle Elephant. New York:
Harper and Row, An I Can Read Book, 1981.
Quarto. Original glazed pictorial boards; pictorial
dust jacket (price-clipped).
FIRST EDITION, THE DEDICATION COPY TO
CHARLOTTE ZOLOTOW, INSCRIBED WITH
A DRAWING by Arnold Lobel on the verso of the
front free endpaper: “Loud trumpets of love for
Charlotte from Arnold [drawing of an elephant]
Dec, 1981.” The printed dedication is on the verso
of the title-page: “For Charlotte Zolotow.” A superb
association, celebrating Lobel’s close relationship
with Charlotte Zolotow (1915-2013), prolific author
of more than 70 children’s books. She was also an
editor at Lobel’s publisher, Harper & Row, and they
had collaborated on two books in the 1960s: The
Quarelling Book (1963) and Someday (1965). In
very fine condition. (54205)
$400
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PROVENSEN, Alice, with Martin PROVENSEN.
The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis
Bleriot July 25, 1909. New York: Viking, 1983.
Oblong quarto. Original pictorial boards; original
pictorial dust jacket, with Caldecott sticker. Jacket
with two short tears, price sticker on front panel.
FIRST EDITION, the Caldecott winner for
illustration in 1984. A biography of the man whose
fascination with flying machines produced the
Bleriot XI, which in 1909 became the first heavierthan-air machine to fly the English Channel.
(108331)
$90
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DEPAOLA, Tomie. Tomie dePaola’s Favorite
Nursery Tales. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons,
1986. Quarto. Original pictorial glazed boards;
original pictorial dust jacket. Jacket with some light
chipping at edges.
FIRST EDITION, later issue. INSCRIBED BY
DEPAOLA on the half-title “For Sophie & Michael
/ Tomie [with a heart] ‘92/97.” dePaola created a
richly illustrated book of nursery tales, taken from
fairy and folk tales, and the fables he most loved as
a boy. (400310)
$50
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VAN ALLSBURG, Chris. Just a Dream. New
York: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. Oblong quarto.
Original cloth; original pictorial dust jacket. Fine
save a soft crease to the front free endpaper, the
jacket fresh and bright.
FIRST EDITION, heralded by Publisher’s Weekly
upon publication: “Two-time Caldecott Medalist
Van Allsburg reaches a new pinnacle of excellence
in both illustration and storytelling in his latest
work.” (107996)
$50
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McCULLY, Emily Arnold. Mirette on the High
Wire. New York: Putnam, 1992. Quarto. Original
glazed pictorial boards; original pictorial dust
jacket. Fine, without the Caldecott sticker.
FIRST EDITION, the 1993 Caldecott Medal
winner for illustration. Mirette is a French girl
who learns to walk on a tightrope. Tom Jones and
Harvey Schmidt (creators of The Fantasticks)
created a musical version in 1996. (19433)
$250
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SILVERSTEIN, Shel. Makin’ Love and Babies.
np, circa 1992. Twenty-seven 8-1/2” x 11” Xeroxed
sheets.
An unpublished book, submitted to Harpers and
never released. Contains (in the copy) editorial
corrections and comments. (63065)
$275
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