Children's Literature from B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA

[s.l.]: Marvel Comics, [April 12, 1977]., 1977 Publisher’s pictorial wrappers, with colorful illustration of heroes in front of Darth Vader and the Death Star by Howard Chaykin and Tom Palmer to front panel, Spalding advertisement to rear panel. With CGC grade of 9.8. Fine, with the CGC’s only note being “off-white to white pages.” Overall, a bright and beautiful copy… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1971 Illustrated by Dr. Seuss. First edition, first printing. Publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards with an illustration of the Lorax standing on a stump to front board. Very good or better book, with some toning to boards and spine, light wear to edges, tiny dent to top edge of rear board, and a tiny spot of soiling… Read more about this item

[Burbank, CA]: [Walt Disney Studios], [1951]., 1951 9" x 9", within a 15" x 15" frame. Gouache on celluloid drawing of the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland, holding a flamingo mallet, colored in green, yellow, black, red, and white, with a gray background, in a glossy black frame. Fine. Overall, a bright and exemplary cel from the classic… Read more about this item

New York City: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1929 Illustrated with 48 full-page drawings and pictorial flyleaves by Katharine Beverley and Elizabeth Ellender. First edition. Publisher's red cloth, front board and spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Good, with light fading to spine, some staining and soiling to cloth, moderate to heavy dimming to front board and spine, very light… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan and Co., 1894 Illustrated by John Lockwood Kipling, William Henry Drake, and Paul Frenzeny. First edition, first printing. Publisher's blue boards, spines lettered in gilt, pictorial jungle images based on artwork by the author's father John Lockwood Kipling stamped to the front boards in gilt, all edges gilt, green coated endpapers. Near fine, with a touch of toning… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952 First edition, first printing. Illustrated by Garth Williams. Original publisher's light tan cloth, lettered in blue and black, pictorial blue endpapers with a cobweb illustration in white; in the original pictorial dust jacket, with Garth's illustration of Fern holding Wilbur and looking at Charlotte to the front panel, lettered in black, blue, red and… Read more about this item

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1899 Illustrated with black and white photographs and drawings. First edition, first printing. Publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt, with Gryphon and White Rabbit to front board in gilt. Near fine, with light toning to spine, light rubbing to spine ends, a couple of gentle bumps to board edges, mild offsetting to endpapers, a bit of… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964 Illustrated by Joseph Schindelman. First edition, second state, with five-line colophon. Publisher's red cloth, with the title in blind to the front board, spine lettered in gilt, black topstain; in the original first issue dust jacket designed by Schindelman, lacking the ISBN number to the rear panel, with illustration of a chocolate candy bar,… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan and Co., 1922 London: Macmillan and Co., 1922 [originally published in 1872]. With fifty illustrations by John Tenniel. Later printing ("Sixty-Seventh Thousand"). Publisher's red cloth, borders of front and rear boards triple-ruled in gilt, boards illustrated with the Queens in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, and all edges gilt. Near fine, with light toning to spine and right… Read more about this item

Boston: Ticknor Reed & Fields, 1853 Illustrated by Hammatt Billings, with a frontispiece and six plates. First edition, first printing, without the Geo. C. Rand imprint on the copyright page, without the publisher's advertisements. Presentation copy, inscribed by Hawthorne to his close friend Henry Bright on front free endpaper: "Mr. H. A. Bright. / With the author's regards." Publisher's bright… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber, 1939 First edition, first printing. Publisher's yellow cloth, with an illustration of two men in roller skates to the front board in red, spine lettered in red; in the original yellow pictorial dust jacket, with an illustration of a man and a line of dancing cats climbing up a ladder to the front panel, illustration of… Read more about this item

New York: Heinemann, 1922 Illustrations by William Nicholson (seven color illustrations, three of which are double-paged). First edition, first printing, American issue. Publisher's yellow paper-covered boards, printed in brown with toy rabbit illustration to front board; in its original off-white pictorial dust jacket, with toy rabbit illustration to front panel and lit candle to rear panel. Near fine book, with… Read more about this item

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867 Illustrated. First edition, first printing. One of 2508 copies. Presentation copy, inscribed by Stowe on front flyleaf: "Mrs. Lily Fisk (?) / A New Year's Present from / H. B. Stowe." Publisher's green cloth, board margins ruled in blind, front board and spine stamped in gilt, and brown coated endpapers. Very good book, with mild… Read more about this item

New York: Congdon & Weed, Inc., 1982 Illustrated by Edward Gorey. First edition, first printing. Signed by Gorey to the title page. Publisher's black paper-covered boards with white and pale-green water flower illustration to front and rear, titles in black to spine; in its original dust jacket with identical layout. Near fine book, with a hint of toning to foot… Read more about this item

1988 1988. 18" x 23.5" poster in a 20" x 25" frame. Illustrated by Sendak. Signed by Sendak on lower right of poster. Color illustration of a Wild Thing in New York, reading a book and leaning between Book Row establishments (Argosy, George's Abbey, Greg's Circulating Library, and others) with a "Tenth Anniversary" ribbon in his mouth, designed by Cynthia… Read more about this item

1998 1998. 18.5 x 27.5 poster in a 20.25 x 29.25 frame. Illustrated by Sendak. Signed by Sendak on lower right of poster. Color illustration of a Wild Thing seated in New York and preparing to carve into a stack of books with a fork and knife, with a 20th anniversary ribbon in background pulled by In the Night Kitchen… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1980 Illustrated by Quentin Blake. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Dahl on front free endpaper: "To / Amanda / Love / Roald Dahl / 1980 / [flourish]". Publisher's original red cloth with titles in gilt to spine; original cream-colored dust jacket with Blake illustrations to front and rear panels, lettered in red and black. Two… Read more about this item

London: Methuen & Co., 1927 Decorations by Ernest Howard Shepard. First edition, first printing. Limited issue, large paper edition; one of 200 copies on handmade paper, signed by Milne and Shepard, this being number 7. 4to. Publisher's tan buckram spine with salmon boards, paper title label to front board, and additional title label to rear pastedown; in the original pale… Read more about this item

Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1909 Illustrated by John R. Neill. First edition, mixed state on different colored stock with most of the first state points present, but with the typographical damage to words "Toto on" on p. 34 and page number on p. 121 (not found in true first state); in Binding A with publisher's name on spine… Read more about this item

London: Methuen & Co., 1927 Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. First edition, first printing. Publisher's red cloth with an illustration of Christopher Robin to the front board in gilt, gilt border to front board, illustration of Pooh and Piglet to the rear board in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, pictorial pale pink endpapers with illustrations of Christopher… Read more about this item