CHILDREN'S BOOKS from Champ & Mabel Collectibles

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., 1950. Cloth. Very good/fair. 80p. Tattered jacket with large creased tears and chips to edges. Music and lyrics for more than 40 simple traditional folk songs about animals. B&w illustrations by Barbara Cooney. (11-1/4"x8-1/4")

New York: Viking Press, 1962. Cloth. Very good/very good. 33p. Signed and hanko stamped by author with color illustration on verso of front endpaper. Small tear at front gutter with front and back pastedown wrinkled from a manufacturing error, jacket neatly covered with clear plastic covering (which probably explains the preservation of the jacket). Story of a young boy overcoming… Read more about this item

Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing, 1943. Pictorial boards. Good +/No Jacket. Maloy, Lois. Unpaginated (approx. 51p.) Gift note on front endpaper, cover rubbed, top back edge scraped and corners worn. B&w and color illustrations by Lois Maloy. (6-5/8"x4-7/8")

Chicago: Rand McNally, 1937. Pictorial boards. Good/No Jacket. Unpaginated (approx. 60p.) Name on front endpaper, page edges toned with cover corners worn and edges scraped and spine sunned. A rag doll relates her daily life with her new owner. B&w photographs. (6-3/4"x5-3/4")

New York: Algonquin Publishing, 1928. Pictorial hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Cranson, Fletcher. 38p. 1 page ads. Name on half title page, first page of text torn on fore edge, cover corners worn and paper on spine chipped and torn. Color illustrations by Fletcher Cranson. (7-3/8"x5-3/4")

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1939. First Edition, Stated. Pictorial boards. Good/No Jacket. Greenwalt, Mary. 124p. Endpapers toned, cover edges scraped and worn with spine cloth sunned. B&w illustrations by Mary Greenwalt. (9-1/2"x7-5/8")

New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1980. Pictorial boards. Very good/very good. Unpaginated (approx. 48p.) 9th printing. From LOC cataloging: "A retelling of a mother's account of what happened to her family during the Flash that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945." Color illustrations. (8-7/8"x9-3/4")

Sydney: William Collins, 1987. Pictorial hardcover. Very good. Unpaginated (approx. 29p.) 1988 printing. A few scrapes on front. Morimoto's reminiscences of her childhood in Hiroshima before the nuclear attack and its aftermath and devastation. B&w photographs and color illustrations and photographs. (10-1/4"x9-5/8")

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1970. Pictorial hardcover. Very good/No Jacket. [125p.] 1977 printing. Signed by illustrator in 1978 on verso of front endpaper. Cover corners lightly worn. "An illustrated anthology of well-known fairy tales and Aesop's fables." [WorldCat] During the 1960s and beyond, Fujikawa's groundbreaking illustrations for children's books depicted diverse groups of children together. Despite objections… Read more about this item

New York: Viking, 1990. First American Edition. Pictorial hardcover. Very good. Unpaginated (approx. 29p.) 1st printing. Morimoto's reminiscences of her childhood in Hiroshima before the nuclear attack and its aftermath and devastation. B&w photographs and color illustrations and photographs. (10-3/8"x9-3/4")

Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1979. (1st Edition). Cloth. Very good/very good. Unpaginated (approx. 28p.) 1st printing. Book plate on verso of front endpaper, fade spots on cover, jacket corners lightly worn. "A Russian retelling of the Greek myth of Persephone." [From verso of title page] Color illustrations. (8-3/4"x6-1/4")

New York: Blue Heron Press, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/fair. Vigoda, William. 64p. 1st printing. Damp stain on bottom cover edge, jacket brittle with large chips and tears to edges and folds detached. A story of time travel by Tony, a boy in 1920s New York who can step through a tenement door into the past when… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1944. First Edition, Stated. Cloth. Good +/No Jacket. 104p. Brown spots on page edges and on some inside pages, cover corners bumped and spine sunned. B&w illustrations and 2 color plates by Florian. (8"x5-1/2")

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. First Edition, Stated. Cloth. Very good/No Jacket. [86p.] Cover rubbed with stain on front. "A collection of short, easy-to-read stories." [WorldCat] B&w illustrations. (9-1/4"x6-1/4")

Chicago: Polychrome Publishing, 1993. First Edition, Stated. Pictorial hardcover. Very good/very good. Kikuchi, Isao. Unpaginated (approx. 38p.) 1st printing. While living in a relocation camp during World War II, a young Japanese American boy receives a message of hope from his grandfather. Color illustrations by Isao Kikuchi. (8-5/8"x10-1/4")

Santa Monica, California: Angel City Press, 2008. Pictorial hardcover. Very good/very good. Kleven, Elisa. [48p.] Signed by Jaskol and Kleven on verso of front endpaper. Surveys the history, historic sites, ethnic neighborhoods, festivals, and culture of the Los Angeles, California area visiting twenty sites of interest with a full page color illustration accompanied by informative text. [WorldCat] Originally… Read more about this item

Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1898. Cloth. Good +/No Jacket. 91p. Cover back has fade spots and spots on front with edges sunned. Scarce in trade. B&w plates. (7-1/2"x5-1/4")

Prague: Státni Nakladatelství D tské Knihy, 1961. Board book. Good +. (12p.) Front scraped, front and back panel toned with light foxing. Children's board book bound in accordion (or Leporello) style with cloth joints. Color illustrations. (9-3/8"x6-5/8")

New York: Atheneum, 1978. First Edition, Stated. Cloth. Very good/good +. [59p.] Cover corners lightly worn, jacket has a small tear on top front edge. B&w illustrations by Mark Lefkowitz. (6-1/2"x9-1/4")

Big Pine Tree, Florida: Likoty Publishing, 1969. Hardcover. Very good/fair. 110p., [xiv] Signed by author on half title page. Cover corners worn, jacket has chips to edges and especially on the spine. A shipwrecked boy is rescued off the west coast of the Florida Keys and cared for by bottle-nosed dolphins. B&w illustrations. (9"x5-3/4")