ABC BOOK
1942
Object-based WWII-era American alphabet book, printed on textured paper with colored backgrounds, each letter featuring a large color illustration.
20th century
ABC BOOK
1946
Mid-century alphabet book printed in Chicago on texture paper, an object-based ABC in lovely 1940s style.
ABC IS FOR CAT
1931
Lovely basic alphabet book printed on stiff linentex paper, well printed and with no text at all apart from the large block letters of the alphabet.
ABC OF ANIMALS
1913
Pre-war American alphabet book printed on cloth, each letter represented by a different animal.
ABC: An Alphabet Book In Rhyme
1941
Great alphabet and counting book illustrated in color on every page in typical 1940s style.
CHILDREN'S ABC
1900
Turn of the century American alphabet book printed on cloth.
FARM FRIENDS ABC
1916
Large format bucolic alphabet book, with illustrations in 3 colors filling every page, each letter representing a different farm animal.
MY ABC BOOK
1921
Simple 1920s American alphabet book, with 2-3 large letters on each page, illustrated with simple objects, people, and animals.
MY ABC OF ANIMALS
1931
Basic 1930s American alphabet book with superior illustrations, printed in stiff linentex paper.
NURSERYLAND ABC
1911
Early 20th-century alphabet book in verse, with most letters representing different nursery rhyme figures.
THE OBJECT ALPHABET BOOK
1944
Clever alphabet book pairing each object with a child interacting with it: "U is for Ursula and her Umbrella"; "Y is for Yasha with his Yacht."
OBJECT LESSONS ABC
1916
WWI-era American alphabet book, including "S" for Uncle Sam.
SANTA CLAUS ABC
[circa 1915]
Christmas-themed ABC books, in which most lettered are represented by toys a child might want for Christmas, with text in rhyme
NEW CHILDREN'S ABC BOOK
1945
Simple but striking mid-century ABC, with each page containing a large colored block letter, an illustration for the letter, and four lines in verse in large, red type.
THE COUNTRY CHILD'S ALPHABET
1924
First edition of this delicate and lovely rural-themed Farjeon alphabet book.
BIBLE A B C BOOK FOR LITTLE ONES
(1931)
American alphabet themed on the Christian Bible, telling short versions of major stories in both Testaments, with relevant Bible verses.
ADVENTURE FOR BEGINNERS
(1944)
Attractive 1940s alphabet book, in which the captions for each letter tell a simple story about Alec the dog and the cow who was missing at milking time.
THE ABC BUNNY
1933
Scarce first edition of this magnificent ABC and Newbery Honor book, an unusually beautiful copy.
DOWN IN THE GARDEN ALPHABET BOOK
1997
First printing with color photo-illustrated images of babies dressed up as flowers.
NEW ALPHABET BOOK
1950
Object ABC board book, each page mounted on thick boards, with each letter represented by an illustrated object in typical 1950s style.
THE FATAL LOZENGE
(1960)
First issue of Gorey's bracing alphabet book, with a lengthy inscription by the publisher to comedian Phyllis Diller asserting he "designed this format for all this books to get him into a larger market. It worked!"
THE UNICORN ALPHABET
(1989)
Signed first printing of this creative alphabet, in which each letter tells about a different aspect of UNICORN mythology.
ABC
1943
Mid-century American alphabet book, brightly illustrated in color on every page with adorable little boys and girls in typical '40s style by Hays.
HAROLD'S ABC
1963
First printing of the seventh – and final – book in the Harold series of mid-century meta-picture books.
ALEPH-BET
1923
Scarce and beautiful Hebrew alphabet book, each page with a magnificent full-color illustration by noted Art Nouveau artist Z'ev Raban of the Bezalel school of art, founded by Boris Schatz and Ephraim Moses Lilien.
