London and Edinburgh: T. Nelson and Sons, 1865. Hardcover. We are pleased to offer this quite rare and interesting children's book. It provides twenty short stories, with pretty pictures, designed to appeal to beginning readers: "Easy readings are not alays readings in very short words....people used to think that a-b.....
New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1898. E.W. Kemble, T.S. Sullivant, Henry Mayer, Harry B. Neilson, F.T. Richards, George R. Davis, W.P. Bodfish, Charles Howard Johnson, A.D. Blashfield, Dan Beard, "Chip", A.B. Shultze, E.G. Lutz, W.H. Walker, Max Bachmann. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Oblong, with humorous and satirical animal cartoons by.....
Chicago: The Rielly & Lee Company. Neill, John R. Hardcover. A later printing in a bright, attractive jacket and illustrated boards. Undated; the rear flap of the jacket lists thirty two books ending with 1939's 'Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz'. Wear and small losses to the clipped jacket, as.....
Scholastic Press, 1999. Hardcover. SIGNED copy of 'Through My Eyes', Ruby Bridges' account of her year of first grade, escorted by federal marshals to a classroom where she was the only student, supplemented with additional interviews and extracts from contemporary accounts. Laid in inscription dated 5/19/01. Clipped jacket with two.....
Applewood Books, 2000. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 2,500 copies of which this is 533. Certificate of Authenticity included. Minor shelf wear to slipcase, tiny blemish to front cover (see photos). Otherwise clean and unmarked. From the introduction: 'When audiences watch Toy Story and Toy Story 2, they are seeing.....
New York: Random House, 1957. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Younger & Hirsch 33. 250/250 price; 14 titles "up to now" on rear flap; 13 titles at end of book. Creasing and smudges to jacket, slight wear to head of spine. Childish scribbles in pen on endpapers and five other pages: first.....
![Item #2026-S45 Beloved Belindy [With Box, Volland Happy Children Book]. Johnny Gruelle](https://bstreetbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2026-S45.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1774920738)
Joliet: The P.F. Volland Company, 1926. Gruelle, Johnny. Hardcover. Stated "fourteenth edition", in original box. Damage to edges of box, with tears to right side panel and loss to the right side of the lower tray. Slight fading to paper-covered spine. Pages bright. Unpaginated. Introduced as "the Mammy of Raggedy.....
Horace B. Liveright, 1925. Hardcover. A charming and whimsically illustrated children's story: "Being a true account of the strange things which sometimes happen in a part of the world which does not exist. . Written and drawn for the fun of it by Hendrik Willem van Loon" (title page). 10.25".....
New York: A.L. Burt, 1916. Louis Wisa. Hardcover. A favorite book by one of the most prolific children's authors of the 20th century, "intended for reading aloud to the little folks each night". Contains 8 colored illustrations and 31 stories, for each day of the month. 8.25" x 6.5". Light.....
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merill Company, 1945. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition in an unclipped jacket. The American edition of Idriess' account of Horrie, the terrier mascot of an Australian machine gun battalion in Egypt. The red cloth covers are bright, with slight fading to the head and tail of the spine.....
Springfield, Mass. McLoughlin Brothers, 1920. Hardcover. Chromolithograph illustrations by Sarah Noble Ives. Printed title page, 36 illustrated pages, alternating between facing page spreads of full page illustrations and text with images. Cloth spine, wear to edges and corners of paper covered boards. 12.25 x 10". An undated later printing: the.....
![Item #2025-R158 Brave Cowboy Bill [Little Golden Book 93, With Puzzle]. Kathryn and Byron Jackson](https://bstreetbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2025-R158.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1753745716)
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1950. Scarry, Richard. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A charming Little Golden Book, illustrated by Richard Scarry, with a jigsaw puzzle included in the rear cover. A later "B" printing. Puzzle complete and untouched, slight wear to corners, pages bright and unmarked. Small tear just beginning at.....
Abrams, 1998. Hardcover. 1984 Abrams edition, inscribed on the title page, "For liel [?] - hi! Maurice Sendak, Dec. 84". Clipped jacket with slight wear to edges and corners, fading to lower edge of cloth boards, foxing to upper edge. 3 folding plates, 278pp. 11 x 12". As a large.....
New York: F.A. Stokes Co., 1935. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Unclipped jacket, with loss to head and tail and stain to head of spine. Blue and gilt boards, with slight fading to edges. Pink starred endpapers. Illustrated title page and pages for each month. Unpaginated. 6.5 x 5". An appropriate inscription.....
New York: The Viking Press, 1963. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Presumed first edition, with no further printings noted. Slightest wear to extremities of green cloth boards, faint blemish in upper margin of half title page, McCloskey's illustrations are wonderfully bright. 64pp. 11.5 x 9.25"
![Item #2025-R161 The Gentle Giraffe [Complete with "Slottie Toys"]. Russell McCracken, Susanne Suba](https://bstreetbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2025-R161.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1753745716)
Rand McNally & Company; Concora, 1945. Suba, Susanne. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated first printing, with page of heavy scored board for assembly into slottie toys of Ginny and Gentleman Gerald present and unused. Wear to illustrated covers, with noticeable darkening of the spine. Slight toning to pages throughout. 32pp. 10.25.....
Easton Press. Hardcover. Easton Press edition, as new in publisher's shrink wrap. 8.75 x 5.75"
Bloomsbury, 2003. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing of the British edition of the fifth Harry Potter book. Slight wear to edges of unclipped jacket, fading to spine. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper, long division on rear fixed endpaper. Illustrated boards bright. Sligtest toning with age to.....
![Item #2025-R116 Demon Thief [Book 2: The Demonata]. Darren Shan](https://bstreetbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2025-R116.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1744680261)
Harper Collins, 2005. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed limited edition in slipcase. Slight wear to corners of slipcase, otherwise unmarked. 9 x 6 x1.25"
Atheneum, 1997. Spirin, Gennady. 1st Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED and dated by the author Aaron Shepard on the title page. Stated first edition, first printing. Slight wear to edges and corners of jacket; slight bumping to corners of illustrated boards. Interior is bright and unmarked. 12.25 x 9.5"
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1939. Davenport, W.R. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated punning verse from Alfred Sutro (under the pen name Adam Smart), lawyer, book collector, and long-time president of the Book Club of California. One of five hundred copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. The book is dedicated "To his.....
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1986. Smith, Jessie Wilcox. Hardcover. Easton Press edition of the children's classic, illustrated by Jessie Smith Wilcox. Illustrated red leather covers, all edges gilt, silk endpapers and ribbon marker. Slightest scuffs to gilt edges. 349, [3]pp. 9.5 x 7.5"
New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 1976. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition of this beloved Caldecott Award winning children's book. Condition: Dust Jacket spine has slight rubbing with minor bending to the top. Front cover of the dust jacket has a small tear on the top left corner.....
William Morrow and Company, 1941. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Wolo's first book, starring a charming polka dot snake. Jacket with $2.00 price, faded spine, slight wear to corners. Cloth boards, illustrated endpapers, bright pages. 10.5 x 8". "Wolo" was employed by the San Francisco Chronicle as a caricaturist in the 1930's.....
William Morrow and Company, 1946. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Wolo's fifth and final children's book. Clipped jacket with bright colors, with matching paper boards. Map endpapers, bright pages. 10.5 x 8". A contemporary review noted "This story has its own bit of social significance, dedicated as it is to the amity.....