New York: Ernest Nister / E. P. Dutton & Co., ca. 1900. Boards. Miniature book, [12] pp. This charming little book tells the story of two sisters living at flour mill and their adventures with the inhabitants of the mill, including the animals that live among them. The book has... More about Kittie
New York: McLoughlin Bros. n.d. Comstock, Frances Bassett. Hardcover. Quarto size, 176 pp. Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was a feminist and writer best known for her children's novel "Little Women", which was published to great acclaim and led to two more sequels featuring the same characters. "Flower Fables" is a.... More about Flower Fables
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, (1904). Kennedy, J.W. Ferguson [Mrs.]. Hardcover. Duodecimo size, 48 pp., with scarce original dust jacket. Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), author of the classic and much-loved "Little Women" books, abolitionist and feminist, grew up surrounded by many of the 19th-century literary lights of New England, including... More about Morning Glories and Queen Aster
New York: Brentano's, [1916]. Clarke, Harry. First Edition. Hardcover. First American edition, quarto size, 320 pp. Hans Christian Andersen's (1805-1875) "Fairy Tales" have been beloved by both children and adults ever since they were first published, with some tales appearing as early as 1835. Often containing a moral story clothed... More about Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1924]. Nielsen, Kay. First Edition. Hardcover. First trade edition, quarto size, 197 pp., in original dust jacket. The fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) have been beloved by both children and adults ever since they were first published, with some tales appearing as early as... More about Fairy Tales
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. First publication of the play, duodecimo size, 194 pp. Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) wrote numerous novels and plays for both children and adults, but he is best known for "Peter Pan", a hugely successful play set in the magical world... More about Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1906. Rackham, Arthur. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. First edition with Arthur Rackham illustrations, no. 128 of 500 copies, quarto size, 236 pp., inscribed by J. M. Barrie to the real "Peter Pan", Pauline Chase and signed by Arthur Rackham. A superb and utterly unique association... More about Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, [1929]. Rackham, Arthur. Hardcover. Octavo size, 123 pp. With Ex-Libris of J.M. Barrie which apparently is not unique, there being one other copy online as of this writing with the same plate. The ink looks genuine but the signatures are the same; interestingly, the library... More about J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens; Retold by May Bryon for Little People with the...
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1911. Goble, Warwick. Limited Edition. Vellum. One of 150 copies, the Editino de Luxe, quarto size, 304 pp. The text of this book is based on John Edward Taylor's translation from 1847. Giambattista Basile (1566-1632) was an Italian poet, courtier, and fairy tale collector. The... More about Stories from the Pentamerone
Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., (1953). Ulrey, Dale. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto size, [39] pp. While L. Frank Baum's (1856-1919) stories of the land of Oz are his most popular and successful works, Baum wrote a number of animal stories in 1905, which he called "animal fairy stories", going... More about Jaglon and the Tiger Fairies
London: Eveleigh Nash, [1907]. B. T. B. [Lord Basil Temple Blackwood]. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 80 pp. This collection of verses, intended as a parody of cautionary tales written for children, was written by Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), a prolific writer and poet as well as an avid... More about Cautionary Tales for Children; Designed for the Admonition of Children between the ages of eight...
London: Duckworth, 1930. Bentley, Nicolas. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 79 pp., inscribed by Hilaire Belloc. Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), a prolific writer and poet as well as an avid sailor; he composed many poems of both comic and serious nature, and he would often collaborate with the noted... More about New Cautionary Tales
Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press, (ca. 1918). Day, Maurice E.; Hapgood, T. B. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto size, 64 pp., with original glassine wrapper and publisher's box. Ralph Bergengren (1871-1947) was an American humourist and children's poet, who wrote charming poems for children with light-hearted rhyme and metre; this book... More about Jane, Joseph & John; Their Book of Verses
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968. Pène du Bois, William. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition in book form and with Pène du Bois illustrations, duodecimo size, 32 pp. A charming story of a family and its tiger (who simply won't get out of the teapot), this children's story is..... More about The Tiger in the Teapot
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892. Birch, Reginald B. First Edition. Hardcover. First US edition, octavo size, 224 pp. The work of Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) captured the imaginations of readers, with her enduring novels such as "The Secret Garden" and "Sara Crewe"; this collection of stories for children demonstrates... More about Giovanni and the Other Children Who Have Made Stories
San Francisco: Carnahan Publishing, 1902. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 174 pp. Second edition (stated) of "probably the first novel set in the Fresno area." Likely the first story set in Fresno, although with much of the action being set in Yosemite where the family goes on several trips. The... More about Polly's Lion; A California Story for Children
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Company, ca. 1907. Hardcover. Oblong folio size, [40] pp. Utilising music to teach lessons to children, "Improving Songs" is a collaboration between married couple John Alden Carpenter (1876-1951) and Rue Winterbotham Carpenter (1876-1931). An American composer, John Carpenter created numerous modern and jazz-inspired compositions, and... More about Improving Songs for Anxious Children
San Francisco: Paul Elder & Company / The Tomoye Press, 1905. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo size, 28 pp., in scarce dust jacket. A charming book on manners for children, told in verse with humorous word-play, accompanied by line drawings that bring the verses to life - complete with walking flowers... More about A Child's Book of Abridged Wisdom
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1982. Zelinsky, Paul O. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 160 pp., signed by Beverly Cleary. Renowned children's book author Beverly Cleary (b. 1916) presents a delightful story of a talking mouse, Ralph S. Mouse, who had also appeared in two of her... More about Ralph S. Mouse
Springfield, MA: McLoughlin Bros., Inc., 1939. Clyne, Geraldine. Hardcover. Quarto size (oblong), [7] pp. "The Jolly Jump-Ups" is a pop-up book by Geraldine Clyne featuring the Jump-Up family and their escapades as they move to a new house. Showcasing charming illustrations by Clyne, each page contains a full-colour pop-up scene... More about The Jolly Jump-Ups and Their New House
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New York: Talk Miramax Books, Hyperion Books for Children, 2001 - 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Five volumes, octavo size, [approx. 1,400] total pp., all five volumes signed by the author. The first five books of the "Artemis Fowl" series, a highly successful children's book, first published in 2001. Volume four... More about Artemis Fowl [with] The Arctic Incident; The Eternity Code; The Artemis Fowl Files; The Opal...
London: Hatchard & Co., 1939. Dulac, Edmund. First Edition. Hardcover. First trade edition, quarto size, 198 pp. Written, as the author sets forth in the Foreword, to address the issue that, "Readers of fairy tales and other romantic fiction will have noticed before this that the Mothers of the heroines... More about The Daughters of the Stars
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1970). Chaffin, Donald. First Edition. Hardcover. First U.S. edition, octavo size, 72 pp. Roald Dahl (1916-1990) has written stories to delight children generation after generation, and his heartwarming tales such as "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "James and the Giant Peach" are avidly read... More about Fantastic Mr. Fox
San Francisco: Sunset Press, 1939. Kraemer, Xavier. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 85 pp., signed by Xavier Kraemer. A delightful fairy story told in poem form, of a dream wherein dolls come alive and dance and celebrate - until the dawn when the "dream" ends - the dream that the... More about Midnight Revels
New York: The Century Co., 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size , 582 pp. This volume includes six months of the wonderful St. Nicholas children's magazine, with the July issue containing the first published appearance of the short story "The Cruise of the Dazzler" (pp. 784-812). ___DESCRIPTION: Decorated red cloth... More about St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine For Young Folks. Volume XXIX Part II, May 1902 To October...