Children And Juveniles from AARDWOLF Fine Books

The Fireside Game Company, Cincinnati, OH, 1899; Stated First Edition; 8vo (4 58" x 7 1/8"), 36 pgs; illustrated; card wraps. Delightful booklet containing complete instructions in how to play thirty-one different parlor and party games for children to engage in at home with the family. Published to encourage the wholesome play of children, which forms an important… Read more about this item

Boys Scouts Of America, New York, 1945; First Printing; 8vo, 687 pages; color illustrated boards; illustrated. Senior Scout Handbook for 1945, highly valuable for its instruction in camp craft, wood lore, and path finding, as well as for fostering honesty, cheerfulness, responsibility, and self-reliance. Especially useful for its illustrated instructional chapters on how to build one’s own camping… Read more about this item

Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1972; First Edition; 8vo, 164 pages; Illustrated. Further adventures in the madcap world of Charlie Bucket, which take him, his family, and Willie Wonka into the outer reaches of space. Profusely illustrated in b&w by Joseph Schindelman. Very Good, in a Very Good unfaded dust jacket that has a single tiny (1/4") closed… Read more about this item

Cupples & Leon, NY, 1934; no printed publication date; copyright 1926; 8vo, 204 pages; illustrated yellow cloth boards; black titles. Entry #3 in the "Bomba" adventure series, adapted for the motion picture screen by Monogram in 1949 starring popular child actor Johnny Sheffield, who previously starred as "Boy" in the MGM Tarzan movies with Johnny Weismuller. Frontispiece illustration… Read more about this item

Librairie Hachette et Cie., Paris, 1905; Nouvelle Edition; Large 8vo, 311 pages; illustrated; decorated red cloth boards. "Off To The Land Of Mystery," exciting juvenile adventure novel by Pierre Mael, collective pseudonym for Charles Causse and Charles Vincent, prolific late 19th century French authors who together wrote over 90 popular stories of romance and adventure for boys… Read more about this item

David C. Cook Publishing Company, Elgin, Illinois, 1899; First Edition; large 8vo, 96 pages; orange cloth; gilt titles; illustrated. Inspirational Victorian children’s story of a young boy with the unlikely name of Ruby, whose earnestness and genuine care for others serves often as a model for the adults around him. Beautifully illustrated by H. K. Beck. Very Goos… Read more about this item

Viking Press, NY, 1950; First Edition; 8vo, 192 pages; illustrated. Western novel for juveniles by California cowboy/ writer/ rancher Chuck Martin, who was much beloved for teaching young people how to ride, rope, shoot, and care for horses and dogs at his "Boot Hill Ranch" near Oceanside. Illustrated by Jay Hyde Barnum. Nicely inscribed and signed… Read more about this item

Dover Publications, Inc., NY, 1966; First Dover Edition; 8vo, 144 pages; illustrated. Dover Publications’ unabridged, unaltered facsimile of the 1890 Palmer Cox "Brownie" classic, including all the original illustrations. Quality printed on acid-free paper and bound with sewn-in signatures to insure the spine will not crack or split. Fine, in illustrated heavy wraps.

The Stonehill Publishing Co., NY, 1983; First Edition; large 8vo, 184 pages; illustrated. A selection of the best work produced for children during the Victorian period, featuring stories and artwork by Randolph Caldecott, Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway, Richard Doyle, Andrews Lang, R.M. Ballentine, et al., with lengthy opening commentary by Maurice Sendak. Includes the complete texts of Caldecott’s… Read more about this item

Libraire Hachette et Cie., Paris, 1902; Second Edition; large 8vo, 317 pages; illustrated. Exciting juvenile adventure novel taking place on an exotic island, authored by Pierre Mael, collective pseudonym for Charles Causse and Charles Vincent, popular French authors who together wrote over 90 adventure stories for boys and girls. Beautifully illustrated with fifty-two engravings by Alfred Paris, over… Read more about this item

Franklin Watts, Inc., NY, 1962; First Edition; 8vo, 172 pages; illustrated. Charming story of a horse named Pilot and a kind veterinarian who helps a young girl train him to be a hunter. Illustrated by Keith Money. Very Good Plus in a Very Good Plus dust jacket. A bright and sharp copy.

Spring Books, London, (1960); large 8vo, 78 pages; illustrated color boards; illustrated. Classic children’s tale by Susan Coolidge (Sarah Chauncey Woolsey) of twelve-year-old Katy Carr, headstrong tomboy who becomes paralyzed from the waist down after falling from a swing in the family’s front yard but soon becomes the neighborhood’s most popular and lovable resident despite her handicap. First… Read more about this item

Scholastic Book Services, New York, 1970; First Edition; 8vo, 96 pages; photo-illustrated. Isaac Asimov’s dictionary for children, beginning with "A for Apollo" and continuing through "Z for Zond," Profusely illustrated with photos from the early years of the U.S. Space Program. Very Good, previous owner neat printed name on inside front wrap.

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego, 1985; First American Edition; 8vo, 206 pages; illustrated. Best of the fabulous Boxen stories, written by C.S. Lewis circa 1906 to 1913. Lengthy background essay by Walter Hooper, former Lewis secretary and literary advisor to the Lewis estate. Profusely illustrated with Lewis’s original drawings. Very Good Plus, in a Very Good dust jacket… Read more about this item

Libraire Hachette, Paris, 1929; 1st Hachette edition; large 8vo, 252 pages; illustrated. Swiss pastor Johann David Wyss’s beloved adventure tale "The Swiss Family Robinson," for which the original manuscript was reportedly unpublishable until completed and edited by his son Johann Rudolf in 1912. Marvelously illustrated with seventy-five b&w engravings of exotic creatures and places, the majority full-page. Bound… Read more about this item