WHILE THE HEART BEATS YOUNG
First edition of this collection of sentimental poems, a beautiful Brandywine production rare in the original publisher's box.
First edition of this collection of sentimental poems, a beautiful Brandywine production rare in the original publisher's box.
Signed limited first Wyeth edition, one of 1074 numbered copies signed by both Wyeth and Roberts, an excellent copy.
First edition of this compendium of short stories, plays, and poems for children, featuring magnificent color linoleum block illustrations by an important collector and admirer of William Blake.
Ephemeral color printed production of classic nursery rhymes, an uncredited piracy of excerpts from Robinson's illustrated BIG BOOK OF NURSERY RHYMES (1903).
First US edition of the first book written and illustrated by Robinson, a quixotic comedy of contraptions, printed in Great Britain and published the same year as the UK first.
Deluxe signed limited edition, one of only 380 numbered copies signed by Robinson, a fine copy.
Original weekly calendar for the year 1935, illustrated with Heath Robinson's comic drawings of useful new inventions, such as a cat-silencer and a mountain-climbing motorcar.
A gorgeously illustrated handmade production from the Golden Age of children's illustration, by an unknown or pseudonymous artist-author credited only as "Roland."
First edition of Parrish's masterwork, an unusually nice copy.
First printing, featuring 100 drawings by the author including eight half-tone plates.
Signed limited first Dulac edition, one of only 500 numbered copies signed by Dulac — a beautiful copy of a sumptuous book.
Signed limited first Rackham edition, one of 520 copies signed by Rackham, with an extra color plate not in the trade edition.
Signed limited first edition, one of only 150 numbered copies (and only 50 for America) signed by Shepard – retrospectively collecting highlights of his work for PUNCH in the 1920s after the Pooh books brought him fame.
Magnificent copy, in original publisher's box.
First edition, third issue of this gloriously Golden Age Mother Goose, one of Jessie Willcox Smith's best-loved works.
Beautiful Golden Age of Illustration-era edition of the Victorian fantasy novel, one of the best illustrated interpretations of the classic.
Early printing of the original Duffield edition (more commonly found as the Dial reprint), illustrated with Smith's gorgeous aesthetic to accompany an anthology of nearly 100 stories and poems reflecting popular children's literature of the 1920s.
Signed limited first edition, one of 50 unnumbered copies for presentation, signed by John Greenaway and additionally signed by a woman for whom Greenaway wrote a story that is collected in this book, with an original sketch by Greenaway bound in.
New edition, sixth printing of this beautiful and popular entomological work, featuring engaging writing and beautiful illustrations.
Lovely and scarce edition of Stevenson's classic poems, one of the better known works illustrated by portrait painter and children's artist Kate Olver.
Fabulous signed original watercolor by William Timlin, best known for his fairy-populated science-fiction fantasy, THE SHIP THAT SAILED TO MARS.
First edition, in the original dust jacket, of this gorgeous outlier of the Golden Age of Illustration, a fantasy of interplanetary travel by South African architect William Timlin.
First edition of this gorgeous outlier of the Golden Age of Illustration, a fully realized fantasy of interplanetary travel written and illustrated by South African architect William Timlin.
First edition of this beautifully illustrated Edwardian fantasy of an "unsophisticated little boy" who sets out to rescue a Princess on orders from a fairy.
First Wyeth-illustrated edition of this adventure novel by the French author better known for his science fiction — a Brandywine beauty with gorgeous color plates by Wyeth.