By enhancing everyday situations with irresistible imaginary characters and telling the tales with cleverly rhymed, easily recognizable words, Seuss gave control of learning to read back to children, while providing wit, charm, comic verse, and a surprise on every page. The Cat in the Hat was so successful that Random House, publisher of all the Dr. Seuss books since 1937, created a special division, Beginner Books, with the Cat in the Hat as the logo and Dr. Seuss as president of the division" (Dr. Seuss from Then to Now, 45). "This extraordinary writer has done more to foster literacy in children than most because he manages to combine lunacy with sanity, fun with learning, and quality with exuberant readability" (Joseph Connolly). Offered at $3,500-$16,100 on Albitris and Addall Rare Books for first edition first state and $900 - $1800 for third state.
Offered here is a vintage children's pop-up picture book, "The Action Fun Pop-Up Book of Sounds - 1970's??", nice book. Hint of 'dings' at corners. This book is undated but 1970's would be my guess.
Offered here is an old vintage children's cowboy picture book, "The Book Of Cowboys", by Holling C. Holling, illustrated by H. C. and Lucille Holling, Platt & Munk, Publ., 1936 Great full Color Plate frontis and 5 others tipped in (Just Wonderful!!!)! Red cloth boards with black illustration of bucking bronco and black titles on cover. Corners, spine heel, and bottom cover edges cloth rubbed through - moisture stain back top cover. Endpages illustrated with maps. Wonderful tiny illustrations in brown on margins throughout the book. Great book for kids on cowboys!
Offered here is a vintage children's Dr. Seuss Picture Book, "The Cat In The Hat", 1957 - Book Club Edition. Not sure about this but I have scanned the page with pertinent info. You be the judge. I think it is from 1957 based on all of the other books I am listing that was with it!!! Corner end cover edge 'dings' (see scan) - else really a nice copy!! The first endpage has an old address sticke on it with NO ZIP CODE ( thus - pre-1965).
Offered here is a vintage children's picture book, "The Circus Book", No. 3800D 1943 - Platt & Munk Co., Publishers. Nice book with minor stain at the staples.
Offered here is a rare vintage picture book: "The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes", As Told To Jenifer, by DuBose Heyward, pictures by Marjorie Flack, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1939, likely first edition, about 8" X 10". Pictorial light tweed tan cloth boards (In light Pink). It has very minor bumps at the extremities and pink endpages. Pages are nice and white with beautiful illustrations in color. A couple have very small smudge marks (Someone had dirty fingers). The Country Bunny trains each of her twenty-one children to take pride in helping with the family home. Even though the gentlemen bunnies scoff, and even though the way is hard, she is still able to achieve the job of Easter Bunny. A rare book!
Offered here is a vintage children's picture book, "The Egg Tree", story and pictures by Katherine Milhous, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, Publisher, 1950. Blue cloth covered boards, black titles and decoration on cover. Very minor rubs at extremities. Great dust jacket with a wodnerful illustration of a chicken on the cover - chips at the corners small tear top of spine. First blank endpage has a darkened area where large paper may have been taped - small piece of tape residu near top won the 1951 Caldecot Medal for her Tempra paintings in this book. A story of Easter tradition in a Pennsylvania Dutch family. Stylized full and double page illustrations, with Penna. Dutch decorations to each text page. This is a wonderful Book!!!
Offered here is a great old children's picture story book; "The First Book of Cowboys", 1950 later (9th) printing, by Benjamin Brewster, pictures by William Moyers, Franklin watts, Inc, Publ. Bright red cloth boards with black titles and illustration of a cowboy on a bucking bronco. This is a smaller size than the very large edition we have listed seperately. It is about 7 1/2" X 8 3/4" in size. Bright red illustrated endpages with various brands (used by ranched). Numerous B & W line-drawn illustrations - some colored with three bright colors.
Offered here is a vintage children's fiction story book, "The Hole In The Tree", by story and pictures by Jean George, E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., Weekly Reader Children's Book Club, 1961 edition, w/ Dust Jacket - a couple of tiny top edge tears on jacket and stressing at spine heel. Nice book - seems likely to be unread - very tight spine - some tanning around the page edges - light dirtiness/discoloration along the gutters. Found in an old country farm house attic/crawlspace - thus light musty attic smell.
Offered here is a GREAT Vintage Children's Book; The Old Man And The Turnip, by Sheena Morey, illustrated by Dorothea Mathieu, copyright 1948 by James and Jonathan Company, Kenosha, WI, Published by John Martin's House, Kenosha, 1948. Pictorial hardcover, 10 1/4" X 13 1/2", folio. Book is virtually near mint - seems unread - illustrated endpages and title page. Minor surface paper rub/chips at bottom right corner and bottom right cover edges, extremely tiny age hole at the bottom front gutter! Rare in original Dust Jacket which repeats the cover illustration - tiny tear/scuff at spine head and heel of DJ- 3/8" tear on bottom back jacket cover edge - some edge rubs on top of jacket. You will not find a nicer book!!
Offered here is a great old vintage children's animal book; "The Pet Pony and Other Stories - True Story Series" by Clara B. Baker and Edna D. Baker, illustrated by Vera Stone Norman, 1923, Bobbs-Merrill Co. Publ. Wonderful brilliant red cloth boards with black titles and pasted on illustration which repeats the one onthe Dust Jacket. Very fine - Dust jacket very good with chips at the folds
Offered here is a vintage picture book based on a classic children's story: "The Pied Piper of Hamelin - A Child's Story", by Robert Browing, 19 full page illustrated with B & W illustrations by Frances Brundage, Saalfield Publishing Co., 1926. First Printing - over 7 3/4 " - 9 3/4 " tall. Unpaged. Colored pictorial hardcover illustrated by Jo. Du Bois with cloth spine. The cover has surface paper chipped at the right corners and near the bottom left spine area.
Offered here is a vintage children's fiction story book, "The Puppy Who Wanted A Boy", by Jane Thayer, pictures by Seymour Fleishman, William Morrow & Company, Inc., Weekly Reader Children's Book Club, 1958 edition, w/ Dust Jacket - a couple of tiny tears at the flap top and bottom edges and at the spine heel. Nice book - seems likely to be unread - very tight spine - some very light tanning around the page edges. Found in an old country farm house attic/crawlspace - thus light musty attic smell.
Offered here is a wondeful over sized children's science and atronomy picture boo, "The Stars A New Way To See Them", H. A. Rey, 1962 edition of the (1952) book. Wonderful 'full-skuy triple Horizon charts 30 pages, plus much more. Some yellow stain lines on the back cover - else Very NICE Condition with extremely minor bumps at extremities.
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