Offered here is an antique children's book, "A Summer At Aunt Helen's", Dodd, Mead and Co., New York, 1880; Color Illustrated paper boards, clothbinding, HC. 1st. Edition, 46 pages, illustrated with B&W lithography. Rounding and bumps at the extremities - light flocking. Over 4" X 6 1/2". A very scarce book!!!
Offered here is a vintage children's hardcover poetry and story book, "Chatterbox Child", by Kate Cox Goddard, Platt & Munk Co, Inc., New York, 1937, First Edition, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall, very good or better condition. Blue illustrated cloth cover with corner bumps and very slight wear. Same at spine top and bottoms. Name written on first blank page. A collection of appealing poems which children love to read and will please grown-ups as well. There is at least one verse for daily activities performed by kids. Charming b&w drawings throughout by an unidentified artist. Dust Jacket is yellow with Multicolored illustrtaion of two children, decorative spine edge of jacket. Chips and tears at flap bends and at spine top edge. Over-all light dirtiness on yellow jacket.
Offered here is a vintage children's hardcover: "Child's History of Animals; A Natural History for the Young ", "Profusely Illustrated - With 100 Beautiful Color Plates, Full-page Half-tone Engravings and Other Instructive Illustrations", by Frederick Lonnkvist, PhD. John C. Winston, CO. Publ., 1901, about 7 1/4" X 9 3/4", 240pp, 8 full-color plates. Blue cloth bound with white stamped titles and black decorations - pasted illustration of lions on front cover center medallion, bumps and light rubs at extremities - spine head and heel beginning to fray. A name and address written on the third blank endpage. A wonderful book !!
Offered here is a vintage children's book, "Horses, Bats, and Christmas Trees", 1965 - Dust Jacket.Lime green cloth board with red and black illustration of bats and horse -red and black titles. Wonderful illustrated dust jacket! Wonderful B & W illustrations inside, by Joh A. Hurst and Judith J. Tom, Illustrated by Herb Ruud, Mid-American Publoishing Company. Nice book!!!!!!
Offered here is a vintage children's Mother Goose book: "Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes", First Edition, 11 wonderful Illustrations (including the frontis) by Edna Cooke- also numerous B & W illustrations, Cupples & Leon, N.Y., 1930, 384 pp. Illustrated dark navy cloth boards with a hint of rub at the extremities - red, white, navy and gilt-gilt stamped titles - illustrated endpages, message and name on first blank endpage. Rear hing just beginning to loosen. This is a nice book.
Offered here is a wonderful antique children's book: "Mrs. Wiggs of The Cabbage Patch", by Alice Caldwell Hegan, Century Co., 1902. Author's first book, a classic children's story. Dark olive green cloth boards with red and white illustrated cover (reddish stain at bottom left corner of cover - dioes not extend anywhere else on or in book), beautiful white uncut pages, name written lightly on first blank endpages. Bumps at corners, cloth at spine ends bent. A Wonderful book except for the small cover stain.
Offered here is a wonderful antique children's book: "The Birds' Christmas Carol", the title on the front cover and spine is given as The Birds' Xmas Carol but the title page uses "The Birds' Christmas Carol", 69 pages with 13 b+w illustrations, gift message is on front free endpaper Christmas 1921, a poem by Phillips Brooks is written on the second blank endpage and the poem "The Magi" is pasted on the first blank page after the title page, tight and clean copyright 1886 by Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1888 by Houghton Mifflin, and 1914 , 1916 by Kate Douglas Riggs, six hundred and forty-first thousand on copyright page, with this copy 1916, Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin And Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge. Blue cloth boards with black illustrated cover and titles, light sunning at extremities. An early re-print of this very popular 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 hee is a vintage children's Uncle Wiggily book, "Uncle Wiggily on Roller Skates", by Howard Garis, pictures by Lang Campbell, Whitman Publishing Co., Racine, Wisconsin. Hard Cover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1940, Hardcover, subtitled "What happened when the Skillery Scallery Alligator gave chase and Uncle Wiggily is snowballed by the Fox and Wolf also Uncle Wiggily Plays a Joke On the Fox". Illustrated boards, yellow title bright color drawing of Uncle Wiggily on Roller Skates falling head over heels as Girl Bunny, also on skates, watches in alarm . Blue faded spine, back cover green, with Pig in circle in center. Number 533 printed in upper left corner fornt cover. 33 pages, decorated endpapers.
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