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"Bo-Peep's World and Other Stories." Scarce Victorian/Edwardian oversized antique illustrated fairy tales children's book. Boston: D Lothrop Company, 1893. Stories by Mrs. M. F. Butts, Margaret Sidney, Henrietta K. Eliot, L. F. Mead, Frances A. Humphrey, and others. Illustrations by E. S. Tucker, Margaret Johnson, and other popular artists. Quarto, quarter blue cloth hardcover with chromolithograph pastdown cover boards, unpaginated. Color chromolithograph frontispiece (framable), black and white plates and illustrations throughout. Wear to covers, separation of frontispiece, cracked hinges, toning.
~25 x 22 x 3.5cm; 2lb 6oz
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A sweet collection of four vintage (1960s) Little Star children's books, including Name my Things (#17), Name my Toys (#18), Transportation (#6), and Animal Alphabet (#11). Sweetly and brightly illustrated kinder board books in perfect vintage condition. Made in Japan.
~18.5 x 12.5 x 1.5cm; 10.3oz
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A sweet set of five mid-century vintage children's books, perfect for waxing nostalgic about the 1950s / 1960s childhood, a stand-out baby shower gift, or unique decor for baby room or nursery bookshelf or child's photo shoot. Titles include A Moth is Born, Let's Read About Rocks, All Around the City, Let's Find Koala Bears, and Time for a Rhyme. Bright and beautiful illustrations in these learning-based books deemed "educationally sound" by Rand McNally Good Start Elf books. Remarkable condition!
6.5 x 5 x 1in, 9.8oz
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Lovely set of four vintage children's books by Rand McNally Junior Elf. Titles include Once Upon a Time, Mumpsy Goes to Kindergarten, Rock-A-Bye Baby and other Nursery Rhymes, and The Animals' Train Ride. Bright and beautiful illustrations. Remarkable condition. Sweet baby room or nursery bookshelf decor or photography pops, stand-out baby gift, or nostalgic remembrance from the 1950s / 1960s childhood.
6.5 x 5 x 1in, 8oz
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Ernest Nister No. 4682 "Off for the Holidays" rare antique book.
Verses by Sheila Braine, and signed illustrations by G.H. Thompson. Printed in England, E.P. Dutton & Co., New York. Oblong/landscape, 36 pages, eight full-page full-color illustration plates, nine full-page illustrations in black, nine in-text illustrations, plus pictorial title page, and green pictorial pastedowns, frontispiece, and endpaper.
This scarce volume is a lovely showcase of Nister's bright and detailed chromolithography, G.H. Thompson's nuanced depictions of character emotions, and Sheila Braine's lively, rhyming verse and Victorian humor. It is a tale of the many nuisances of vacation travel, including the train getting stuck in the snow! It charmingly references the possibility of spotting a "flapper" woman, jokes about the time zone clocks at the train station, and includes familiar travel misadventure motifs such as bulky luggage, weather, family expectations, and adventurous pets and children. Uniquely, it refers to the… Read More

Eight beautifully illustrated vintage kinder books. Titles include Two Stories About Chap and Chirpy, A Prickly Tale, How Big is a Baby?, A Bedtime Book, Mother Goose, The Magic Clothes Basket, The More the Merrier, and The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse. In very good vintage condition, with some signs of use including a discrete owner's signature. A rare collection of midcentury childhood nostalgia and sweet bookshelf decor.
~16 x 14 x 5cm; 1lb 6.5oz
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