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Peter and Wendy
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. Single volume, measuring 8 x 5.5 inches: x, 267, [1]. Original olive pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, original black pictorial dust jacket printed in gilt, priced at $1.50. Frontispiece, pictorial title page, and eleven halftone plates throughout text. Small stain to lower edge of.....
Price: $7,500.00
Madeline
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939. Single volume, measuring 12 x 9 inches: [48]. Original color pictorial paper boards, color pictorial endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket priced at $2.00. Color illustrations throughout text. Occasional stray smudge to text; offsetting from binder’s glue to endpapers; expert restoration to dust.....
Price: $3,250.00
The Little House
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942. Single volume, measuring 9 x 9.5 inches: [4], 40. Original pictorial blue-green cloth stamped in white, pictorial endpapers printed in red and black, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Light soiling and edgewear to jacket, with closed tears and chip to.....
Price: $5,500.00
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, (1939). Single volume, measuring 8.5 x 9.5 inches: [48]. Original beige pictorial cloth stamped in black and red, color pictorial endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Inscribed on half-title: “To Iris with love from Jinnee –Virginia Lee Burton.” Tiny ink stamp.....
Price: $6,000.00
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
New York and Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, (1969). Oblong volume, measuring 8.25 x 11.25 inches: [24]. Original glossy color pictorial boards, color-patterned endpapers, original color pictorial dust jacket clipped at upper corner of front flap, priced at $3.91 at lower corner. Color illustrations and pictorial cut-outs throughout text. Inscribed.....
Price: $12,500.00
Picture Posters to Color: Fruits and Vegetables
Chicago: Beckley-Cardy Company, 1951. Complete set of twelve black and white posters, measuring 10.5 x 8.5 inches. Housed in publisher’s pictorial envelope printed in black and red. Light wear and smudging to envelope, posters fine.
Price: $95.00
Jazz on a Saturday Night; with: signed publisher’s poster
New York: The Blue Sky Press / Scholastic, (2007). Single volume, measuring 11 x 8.5 inches: [34]. Original glossy color pictorial boards, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, color pictorial endpapers. Color illustrations on every page. Compact disc recording in rear pocket, as issued. Signed by the Dillons on title.....
Price: $175.00
Northern Lullaby; with: signed publisher’s poster
New York: Philomel Books, (1992). Single volume, measuring 11 x 10 inches: [26]. Original black cloth spine lettered in silver, purple pictorial boards stamped in blind, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, color pictorial endpapers. Color illustrations on every page. Inscribed “For Daniel,” signed, and dated 1993 by Dillons on.....
Price: $200.00
Heroes and Heroines
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., [1933]. Single volume, measuring 9.25 x 7 inches: [4], 5-79, [1]. Original color pictorial paper boards, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Gift inscription and child’s bookplate to front pastedown. Light wear to jacket, with one short closed tear and.....
Price: $125.00
Miss Hoare (mezzotint portrait)
London: Printed for Robert Sayer No. 53 in Fleet Street, circa 1770. Mezzotint engraving measuring 13.75 x 10 inches, on a sheet measuring 15 x 11 inches. Laid paper evenly toned.
Price: $500.00
MOTIVO (wooden puzzle)
Zeiningen, Switzerland: Kurt Naef, circa 1978. Eight wooden cubes, screenprinted in four colors, each measuring 1.25 x 1.25 x 1.25 inches. “Naef / Swiss made” printed at base of leaf image. Lacking original box.
Price: $200.00
The Colt from Moon Mountain
New York: Macmillan, 1941. Single volume, measuring 8.5 x 7 inches: [62]. Original orange pictorial cloth stamped in white, pictorial endpapers, original color pictorial dust jacket with $1.75 price, front flap clipped at lower corner. Frontispiece, nine full-page illustrations, and four smaller illustrations in text. Inscribed on verso of front.....
Price: $850.00
Original signed drawing of two children from Fair Play
No place: circa 1940. Black Conté crayon on paper, measuring 22.5 x 18.5 inches, sheet size. Signed in red crayon to bottom right margin. Line of dampstaining along bottom margin, hidden by archival mat.
Price: $1,000.00
The Story of Ferdinand
New York: Viking Press, 1936. Single volume, measuring 8 x 7 inches: [72]. Original tan cloth spine lettered in red, red pictorial paper boards, yellow pictorial endpapers, original unclipped red pictorial dust jacket. Black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Inscribed on title page: “To Aunt June / with much affection at Christmas.....
Price: $6,500.00
The Three Little Kittens
No place: 1986. Watercolor, graphite, and ink on paper, grid of four illustrations measuring 11 x 17 inches, image, on sheet measuring 13.25 x 20 inches. Pencil rules, printing notations, and faint spotting in margins. Archivally matted and framed to 19.5 x 25 inches.
Price: $2,800.00
Make Way for Ducklings; with: signed bookplate commemorating the 1987 Mallard Family Sculpture
New York: The Viking Press, 1941. Single volume, measuring 12 x 8.75 inches: [68]. Original tan pictorial cloth boards stamped in green, pictorial endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Lithographed illustrations printed in sepia throughout text. Ink gift inscription to front free endpaper: “To Sandy, Christmas 1941 / from.....
Price: $9,500.00
A & The or William T.C. Baumgarten Comes to Town
New York: Atheneum, 1970. Single volume, measuring 9.25 x 7.25 inches: [32]. Original orange pictorial cloth stamped and lettered in blue; original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Inscribed and signed by Raskin with ink drawing to front free endpaper. Foot of spine bumped, light toning and.....
Price: $600.00
Very Far Away
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1957). Single volume, measuring 8 x 6 inches: 52, [4]. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in black, pale green endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrations printed in black, pink, and grey throughout text. Harper & Brothers review slip laid in. Lightest sunning to.....
Price: $1,000.00
Families Reading Together
The Children’s Book Council, 1989. Color poster, measuring 19 x 13 inches.
Price: $200.00
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (poster coloring book)
San Anselmo, California: Blushing Rose Publishing, 2000. Perfect-bound volume, measuring 14 x 11 inches: title page and 26 removable posters. Original color pictorial boards titled “Alice in Wonderland Coloring Book,” red cloth spine. Posters printed in black and white, recto only.
Price: $100.00
Stuart Little
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945. Single volume, measuring 8 x 5.25 inches: [8], 131, [1]. Original pale grey pictorial cloth stamped in green and orange, green pictorial endpapers, original clipped color pictorial dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout text. Tiny chips to jacket folds and head of spine.....
Price: $1,500.00
Working Cotton
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1992). Oblong volume, measuring 9 x 11 inches: [32]. Original glossy color pictorial boards, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, orange endpapers. Color illustrations on every page. Inscribed by Carole Byard on title page: “Dear Tom, / Thank you for being here. You have always.....
Price: $100.00
Crow Boy
New York: The Viking Press, (1956). Single volume, measuring 12 x 9 inches: [2], 37, [1]. Original pink cloth stamped in maroon, color pictorial endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color lithographic illustrations throughout text. Original painting of bird and nest facing title page, with author’s stamp and ink.....
Price: $250.00
Fifteen original illustrations for The Big Book of Real Trains
No place: circa 1949. Fourteen opaque watercolors and one ink drawing, images measuring approximately 10 x 19 inches on boards measuring 14 x 21 inches, signed “Zaffo” in lower images. All images horizontal except cover image, measuring 15 x 10.75 inches on board measuring 21.5 x 12.5 inches. Scattered notes.....
Price: $7,500.00
Fourteen original illustrations for The Big Book of Real Boats and Ships
No place: circa 1951. Fourteen opaque watercolors, images measuring approximately 10 x 19 inches on boards measuring 14.5 x 20 inches, signed “Zaffo” in lower images. All images horizontal except cover image, measuring 16 x 11 inches. Dampstain to upper corner of submarine illustration; scattered notes, captions, and registration tape.....
Price: $9,500.00