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, [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
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
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
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
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Paris: Librairie Gründ, 1950. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 165 of 700, folio size, 237 pp., illustrated, text in French. Le Noble Jeu de L'Oie...("The Noble Game of the Goose") can be traced back to at least 1480, when it was mentioned in an Advent sermon - warning churchgoers... More about Le Noble Jeu de L'Oie ["The Noble Game of the Goose"] en France, de 1640 à 1950; La...
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...
New York: Random House [1962]. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, quarto size, 56 pp. Dr. Seuss, pen name for Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904-1991) was an acclaimed writer known mostly for his children's books. His honors include two Academy awards, two Emmy awards, a Peabody award, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal... More about Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book
London, New York, Toronto: Hodder & Stoughton, [1916]. Dulac, Edmund. First Edition. Hardcover. First English trade edition, quarto size, 180 pp., fifteen colour plates. This book received a lot of attention in New York with the illustrations forming the centrepiece of Edmund Dulac's (1882-1953) first American exhibition. The tales in... More about Edmund Dulac's Fairy Book; Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations
London; New York: William Heinemann; Doubleday, Page & Co., 1912. Rackham, Arthur. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Limited deluxe edition, number 66 of 1450 copies, quarto size, [248] pp., signed by Arthur Rackham. This is the first edition of the new translation by V.S. Vernon Jones of those ancient Fables credited to... More about Aesop's Fables
New York: Mason Brothers, 1857. Coffin, Fred[erick] M. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5" - 6" tall. 292 p. Early reprint of a children's book by Fannie Fern, the pen name of Sara Willis (1811-1872) who struggled as a young widow to provide for her children by writing, eventually becoming the... More about The Play-Day Book: New Stories for Little Folks
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. First trade edition (published simultaneously with the limited), Sixmo size, 121 pp., signed by author in the month of publication. Eugene Field (1850-1895) was a popular humorist and newspaperman who was often called the "Poet of Childhood". Field claimed two birthdates... More about Love-Songs of Childhood (SIGNED BY AUTHOR