Search Results: Childrens from Dale Cournoyer Books

New York: Dodge Publishing, 1907. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Bessie Pease Gutmann. 164 pgs. 10 colour plates including frontis.(3 are loose with short edge tears) 8 b/w full page illustrs. Illustrated endpapers. Cloth covers are lightly rubbed with fading titles along the spine. Names to second blank page. Very good overall.

Cleveland: World Publishing Co., 1957. First Edition . Cloth. Vg/Vg. Heavy 8vo. 503 pgs.Folding frontis.12 b/w plates.Twenty-four contributing authors, edited by Targ. A bookman's treasury of collectors' lore on old and rare childrens books.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927. Hardcover. Vg/No Jacket. Frank Dobias. Unpaginated. 38 pgs. Colour illustrs. covers & endpapers, by Frank Dobias. Covers showing a litlle wear around the edges, with a torn segment at the top of the spine (see photos) A scarce item with gift inscription to verso of title page and last page. Several pages a little finger grubby but mostly clean text. Other photos available if required. Inquiries welcome.

Jefferson,NC: McFarland, 1983. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo. 206 pgs. An exhaustive study rich with folklore that includes chapters on holiday rhymes, tongue twisters and join-in rhythms.

London: Oxford University Press, 1979. 4th Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo. 371 pgs.b/w photos and diagrams.Frontis sketch map.Very light eraser shadow to ffep.The result of 10 years research and contributions from 10,000 British children - an exhaustive study!

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1980. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 243 pgs. Bibliography. Dust jacket with minor top edge creasing and lightly faded spine. A compendium of children's speech play rhymes in english, alphabetized with cross referencing.

London: William Heinemann, 1904. New & Cheap Edition . Decorative Cloth. Vg/No Jacket. 4to. Cecil Aldin. 58 pgs. with 28 full page Aldin illustrations. This is the larger format edition, 11 x 8.5 inches. No names or marks in text. Pages are a little age toned. General light wear and smudging to covers with the paper along the spine chipped & cracked. (see photos) Remains a respectable copy.

London: Faber & Faber, 1954. First Edition . Hardcover. Vg/Vg. Small 8vo. Edward Ardizzone. Unpaginated. (22 pgs) Colour illustrations by Ardizzone. A gently used copy. No names or marks. Clipped dust jacket with two very small tears. Excellent overall.

United Kingdom: Hodder and Stoughton for Boots Pure Drug Co.. Later Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. W. Heath Robinson. 320 pgs. 16 tipped in colour plates and multiple in text b/w drawings. Gently used copy, circa 1930's. No names or marks in text.

Paris: Librairie Garnier Freres, 1926. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to. French language text. 64 pgs. with two pages of publishers ads front and back. 29 colour woodcut drawings by the author. Expect some light age toning within the text. Edges are rubbed with typical paper loss. (see photos) An excellent example.

Paris: L'école des Loisirs, 1999. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Oblong. 37 pgs. French language text. Some gentle bumping to spine with one tiny split to paper at the bottom. Beautiful colour illustrs. by the author/artist Chen Jiang Hong. Signed & illustrated by the author on the front endpapers; "For Andrew" with a flying dragon kite drawn in. (see photos) "Chen Jiang Hong was born in the Chinese port city Tianjin in 1963 and grew up during the Cultural Revolution. He studied painting from 1979 to 1982 in Tianjin and completed his studies in Beijing in 1987 at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts. He has lived in Paris since then, where he works as a freelance painter and illustrator of books which have been translated into many languages".

London: Raphael Tuck & Sons. First Edition . Soft cover. Vg/No Jacket. 8vo. Unpaginated. (12 pages) 4 colour plates. Several b/w illustrs. A gently used copy (circa 1890's) with covers lightly scuffed and smudged. No names or marks in text.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1973. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Oblong 8vo. 32 pgs. Colour illustrations by the author. An excellent copy, gently used. No names or marks. Also published by Clarke, Irwin & Company, Toronto, with their review copy notice attached to front free endpaper. A charming adaptation of an East Indian legend of the quest for a husband worthy of a beautiful rat princess. An elusive title.

Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Co., 1922. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Wharton H. Esherick. 124 pgs. Wonderful woodcut illustrations throughout. Illustrated end papers. Gently used. No names or marks. Light scuffs to cloth. A handsome copy.

Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1965. 2nd Printing . Hardcover. Vg/Good. 8vo. 140 pgs. b/w photo illustrs. Wear to cloth around the edges and at spine ends.Chipped dust jacket without loss to titles.Inked name to ffep. A collection of games played by children in Edinburgh and,in various forms,all over Britain,since the early 1900's

New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1965. First U.S.Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 16mo. Edward Ardizzone. 44 pgs. b/w illustrs.by Ardizzone. Gently used copy. No names or marks in text. Clipped dust jacket in perfect order.

Paris: L'école des Loisirs, 1995. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Oblong. Chen Jiang Hong. 37 pgs. French language text. Some gentle bumping to spine ends, else fine. Beautiful colour illustrs. by artist Chen Jiang Hong. Signed & illustrated by him on the front endpapers; "For Ian" with a cycling winged boy and hand held flower drawn in. (see photos) "Chen Jiang Hong was born in the Chinese port city Tianjin in 1963 and grew up during the Cultural Revolution. He studied painting from 1979 to 1982 in Tianjin and completed his studies in Beijing in 1987 at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts. He has lived in Paris since then, where he works as a freelance painter and illustrator of books which have been translated into many languages".

London: Frederick Warne & Co.Ltd., 1950. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo. B. Butler. 95 pgs. 4 colour plates and numerous b/w illustrations in text by B. Butler. Illustrated endpapers. No marks in text but has light wear at the top and the bottom of spine. Front cover with minor paper scar. An excellent copy.

London: Collins' Clear-Type Press. Hardcover. Vg+/No Jacket. 192 pgs. No date. Circa 1930's. 6 colour plates and b/w illustrs. in the text by the author. No names or marks in text. An excellent copy.Toytown was a BBC radio series for children, first broadcast in 1929 for the Children's Hour on the Home Service.There were 31 plays in all and this volume has 6 of the earlier stories.