Children's Books from Classic Books and Ephemera

Philadelphia: Ig. Kohler, 1880. Hardcover. Fair +. 428, [2], 31, [1] p.: many plates included in pagination; 20 cm. Dark brown cloth with black spine and cover titles. Publisher's catalog on 32 pages following text. No date of publication. Ignatius Kohler is shown at 911 Arch St. in this imprint; he was at that… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1859. Hardcover. Good -. 180 p., frontispiece and 2 leaves of plates: illustrations; 15 cm. Black leather spine with marbled paper over boards. Five spine compartments between gilt rules with gilt-tooled spine title in second compartment. All page edges speckled black. Publisher's advertisements on endpapers. Note on p. 7… Read more about this item

London: Hutchinson House, 1951. Hardcover. Near Fine/good +. 224 p.; 19 cm. Red cover with black spine and cover titles. Illustrated endpaper. Publisher's advertisement for its Girls' Adventure Series on back section of dust jacket. "Girls' Adventure Series" on title page. No date of publication; this title was first published in 1951. … Read more about this item

London: Hutchinson & Co, 1954. Hardcover. Near Fine/good +. 192 p., frontispiece; 19 cm. Red cover with yellow spine and cover titles. Illustrated dust jacket. Publisher's advertisement for its boys' adventure series on back section. Gift inscription on front free endpaper dated July 1956. No date of publication, although this title was first… Read more about this item

Cleveland, Ohio: Jax Publishing, 1958. Paperback. Good +. 39, [1] p.: illustrations; 21 cm. Light blue illustrated card covers printed in red and black; stapled. Price stamped on front cover. Fletcher A. Reynolds was the director of the Cleveland Zoo from 1942 until his death in 1957. This publication contains short descriptions of 12… Read more about this item

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good -. Copyright 1929 by Doubleday, Doran & Co. No date of publication by Grosset & Dunlap. x, [2], 321 p.: illustrations; 22 cm. Green cloth with dark green stamped spine and cover titles. Green endpapers. Top page edges green. Illustrated dust jacket… Read more about this item

Leipzig: Otto Spamer, 1872. Hardcover. Very Good. Dritte Auflage. viii, 163, [1] p., color frontispiece and 4 leaves of illustration: many in-text illustrations; 20 cm. Black cloth spine with printed paper spine label; color illustrated paper over boards. Publisher's advertisement on endpapers and back board. Illustrated title page. Part of the series Das… Read more about this item

Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1970. Paperback. Very Good. [16] p.: color illustrations; 28 cm. Stapled; color illustration on paper cover. Drawings by Fyodor Lemkul; translated from the Russian by Fainna Glagoleva. No date of publication; 1970 is from WorldCat records. The publisher was established in 1931 and still exists. A charming story told in… Read more about this item

Akron, OH: Saalfield Publishing Co, 1924. Paperback. Very Good -. [64] p.: illustrations; 20 x 28 cm. Stapled; color illustration on front and back of girls and boys racing soap box derby-type cars. This was published 10 years before the All-American Soap Box Derby was established in Akron. "For Boys and Girls" on front cover.… Read more about this item

London: Charles Fox, 1883. Hardcover. Fair. [448 p.]: illustrations; 30 cm. Contemporary half calf with red cloth boards. Dark brown endpapers. Includes serial stories: Jack Rag -- Dick Whittington, Thrice Lord Mayor of London -- Lionel the Bold -- The Cruise of the Alabama by Lt. Leslie Gordon -- King Harry the Fifth -- Our… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Macrae-Smith Co, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good +/fair +. 264 p.: illustrations; 21 cm. Blue cloth with dark blue spine and cover titles, and spine decoration. Top page edges red. Illustrated dust jacket printed in blue and red; in mylar cover. Publisher's advertisements on back flap and back section. Elizabeth Headley was one… Read more about this item

Wissembourg; Paris: Fr. Wentzel, 1869. Near Fine -. "Lithographie et typographie de Ch. Wentzel." [2], 10 p., 6 leaves of hand-colored lithographed plates; 27 cm. Title page and each page of text within decorative border. "Contes Illustrés pour Enfants" -- at head of title page. Frédéric Charles Wentzel (1839-1877) and Charles Frédéric Wentzel (1833-1911)… Read more about this item

London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co, 1897. Hardcover. Good. 48 p. (includes frontispiece and 7 leaves of chromolithographed plates): illustrations; 27 cm. Red cloth spine; white boards with chromolithographed title and illustration on front board. No date of publication; advertised for sale in 1897. Endpapers decorated with publisher's emblem. Former owner's name… Read more about this item

London; New York: Ernest Nister; E. P. Dutton & Co, 1895. Hardcover. Good -. "Printed in Bavaria." [20] p.: in-text line drawings and 8 full-page chromolithographed dissolving pictures; 33 cm. Red cloth spine; light green paper over boards with chromolithographed title and illustrations on front board. Floral endpapers. A wonderful example of an Ernest Nister… Read more about this item

Riga, Latvia: Latvijas Valsts Izdevnieciba, 1958. Hardcover. Very Good -. 161, [1] p.: illustrations; 30 cm. Blue cloth spine with dark blue spine title; illustrated blue, yellow, and red paper over boards. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations include 8 full-page color illustrations and many in-text drawings. Gift inscription on blank page following front endpaper. Includes a… Read more about this item

New York: McLoughlin Bros, 1896. Paperback. Good. [14] p.: black-and-white and chromolithographed illustrations; 31 cm. Sewn card covers with cover title in red and gilt and chromolithographed front cover illustration of three children riding donkeys on a beach; back cover has smaller chromolithographed illustration of a boy holding a bouquet, within an ornate gilt frame. … Read more about this item

Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1938. Paperback. Very Good +/good. Sauvage, Sylvain. 31, [1] p.: color illustrations (including 1 double-page illustration); 32 cm. Black card covers with white title and color illustration on both front and back. Dust jacket repeating title and illustration from cover. Inside of card covers are white stars on a yellow background. A… Read more about this item

Chicago: Merrill Company Publishers, 1950. Paperback. Very Good. [48] p.: illustrations; 38 cm. Stapled card covers with color illustration and die-cut upper edges. "1515-15" -- upper edge of front cover. After a brief overview of American history ("Indians were the first Americans. Then the white men came."), the illustrations depict aspects of the lives… Read more about this item

London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1895. Paperback. Fair. [12] p.: illustrations, including 4 full-page chromolithographed illustrations; 37 cm. Card covers with chromolithographed illustration of a dog on the front; die-cut edges. The letters of the alphabet are illustrated with dogs, from airedale terrier to "Jap dogs" (pugs?) to wolfhound, with X, Y, and Z being toys… Read more about this item

Chicago: Merrill Publishing Co, 1937. Paperback. Good. Trimmer, George. [12] p.: color illustrations; 33 cm. Stapled; color illustrated covers. "3427" -- on cover. Selections from Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses are exuberantly illustrated by George Trimmer. Contents: Time to Rise -- Whole Duty of Children -- At the Seaside -- Singing… Read more about this item