CHILDRENS BOOKS from Old New York Book Shop

New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1920. Later printing. Hardcover. Very good +/very good +. 204p, octavo. A very good + copy in a very good + jacket. Slight rubbing at spine ends and corners, previous owner's name pencilled on first free end paper. Pale yellow jacket is lightly rubbed and soiled with minor wear to edges.… Read more about this item

New York: The Viking Press, (1969). Later Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Quarto, illustrated. A very fine as new copy in like dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page

New York: Villard Books , 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. fine/fine. Lane Smith. 84p, octavo. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by author George Saunders and illustrator Lane Smith (accompanied by a little drawing) on title page.

New York: Sam'l Gabriel Sons, 1914. First Edition. wraps . Very good. Quarto, a very good copy staplebound in pictorial wraps. Illustrated. Minor wear to edges, a faint thin band of stain along bottom edge and upper right corner.

New York: Robert Sears, 1855. Hardcover. Very good. 368p, octavo. Illustrated. A very good copy in red cloth, decorative gilt on boards and spine, rubbed in spots. Wear to spine ends and corners. Foxed.

New York: Frederick Warne, 1978. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. 287p, oblong quarto. Illustrated. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Top edge of textblock faintly foxed.

New York: Viking Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. very good /very good . Don Freeman. Oblong quarto. A very good copy in like jacket. Yellow cloth boards are foxed and lightly soiled, cloth nicked on front panel. End papers are foxed. Jacket has wear along edges, creases, nicks, closed tears, and small stains along spine on verso, inner… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company. Hardcover. good. Illustrated quarto. No date printed. A good copy in tan pictorial boards. Boards are foxed and soiled, with rubbing and wear to extremities, two small pinpricked holes on front board. Pages have scattered light foxing and soiling.

New York: Parents' Magazine Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Illustrated quarto. Pictorial boards are darkened and lightly foxed. Dust jacket foxed, darkened along edges and spine. Wear to extremities, chipping, creasing, and closed tears.

New York: Viking Press, 1969. Hardcover. fine/fine. Caldecott Award winner, with gold sticker on dust jacket. Quarto, Later Printing. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by McClosky on title page.

Scott Foresman and Company, 1953. Hardcover. good/very good. 418p quarto. A good copy in a good/very good dust jacket. Inscribed by May Hill Arbuthnot on first free end paper. Text block, end papers, and scattered pages are foxed. Several pages are creased, including title page. Dust jacket is rubbed and lightly foxed, with creasing, chips and closed tears… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. Hardcover. good. 310p octavo. Second printing, September 1926. Inscribed by James on first free end paper with a lovely original drawing of Smoky. A good copy in green cloth, spotted and worn along edges, spine darkened, wear to extremities, rear inner hinge starting.

New York: Harcourt Brace and Co, 1993. First Thus. Hardcover. fine. 97p quarto. A fine copy in publisher's box. Box gently bumped in one corner. 50th anniversary edition. Translated from the French by Katherine Woods.

New York: Random House, 1978. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. fine. A fine copy in pictorial boards. Inscribed by Stan and Jan Berenstain to John Markham, a senior book rep for Random House. Additionally laid in is a 6.5x8.5" drawing by Stan and Jan in pen and colored pencil depicting Markham with the Bears at an autograph party,… Read more about this item

(New York): Viking ress, (2003). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 44p quarto, illustrated A very fine as new copy in like dust jacket Inscribed by Charles Vess the artist to Kitty. Also laid in a 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" black and white card related to the book by the artist and signed by him… Read more about this item

New York and Boston: C S Francis and Company, 1854. Hardcover. Very good. 350p duodecimo illustrated with 10 hand coloured plates. Lightly chipped at the spine geads otherwise a very good copy in the original gloth, gilt stamped.

Germany: Verlag. Pictorial boards. Poor . Oblong quarto. A fair to poor copy of Cinderella, text entirely in German. No date, but late 19th/early 20th century. Boards are rubbed, with moderate wear to extremities. Pages are browned and brittle with age, 1st page has a chip affecting illustration (chip laid in), smaller chips along foredge/lower corners of last… Read more about this item

New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1920. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very good. 368p quarto, illustrated with 13 color plates complete, Rear inner hinge repaired, a very good copy in blue cloth color illustration on front cover

(New York): (Atheneum), (1980). First American Edition . Original wraps. Fine. Octavo, illustrated in color. A fine copy in printed wraps. enclosed in publisher's original clear glassine sleeve sealed with price of $3.95

Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1892. Hardcover. Good. 287p large octavo, illustrated. Wear to the corners, chipped at the spine head and just starting at the base. Page opposite the title page detached, nicked at the foredge (an easy repair). Rear inner hinge cracking at the top edge, and cracked at the title page. … Read more about this item