ADVENTURES OF FREDDIE FROG
Novelty 1940s children's book, combining a story and a play, complete with a script, stage, and die-cut figures.
Novelty 1940s children's book, combining a story and a play, complete with a script, stage, and die-cut figures.
Complete cloth book, in which a little boy prepares for the day with real items the reader can play with to learn each action, including button, belt buckle, zipper, hankie, and more.
Original French-language promotional poster for the 1967 New York Children's Book Week, with art by Caldecott Medal-winning artist Barbara Cooney.
First US edition of this miniature panorama themed on the months of the year – as experienced by humanized mice.
Collection of nursery rhyme themed jig-saw puzzles – The Three Little Pigs, Mary and Her Lamb, and Old King Cole – in the original pictorial box.
First edition of this in-depth exploration of Carroll's games and puzzles (mazes, anagrams, Wonderland puzzles and more).
Signed first printing of the toy theatre based upon "the sets and costumes of the Broadway production of the play designed by Edward Gorey."
First edition of Guertik's modernist coloring book on the theme of vegetables, one of the early Père Castor titles meant to encourage children's education through self-expression.
Scarce and beautiful activity book from Père Castor, featuring striking color lithographs, each facing an image in outline to be colored by the owner.
Authorized American edition of this early large format Père Castor book, featuring striking and stylized Art Deco color lithographs by Russian émigré artist Guertik with dotted lines for children to finish the designs.
First edition of the sequel to the innovative picture book EIN TAG IM LEBEN DER DOROTHEA WUTZ, featuring a die-cut storyline that reveals new images with each turned page.
First English edition of the 1979 original EBERHARD WUTZ IST WIEDER DA!, featuring a die-cut storyline that reveals new images with each turned page.
Signed limited edition of this elfish miniature book, one of only 250 numbered copies.
This book-like container holds a soap model of the world's favorite pacifist bull, FERDINAND – a charmingly quirky bit of advertising.
Fine Dean Rag Book (#231), printed with charming color illustrations on cloth.
First edition of this stylish Victorian paper doll, with four chromolithographed dresses.
Rare house-shaped promotional metal book case from the pioneering woman publisher, and containing an early miniature edition of LITTLE ENGINE.
Beautifully preserved Dean Rag Book (#115), printed with charming color illustrations on cloth.
Unused activity book with a nursery rhyme theme.
First edition Little Golden Book with a complete page of real decals that the owner can cut out, soak, and apply to furniture or walls for decoration.
Complete shadow theater book for dramatizing two Perrault fairy tales, from the acclaimed children's book series with a Modernist point of view.
Complete "very amusing & interesting game introducing the famous characters created by Miss Beatrix Potter" – with the original die and 4 lead figurines.
Rare toy version of PETER RABBIT, in which the front board opens to reveal 8 laminated pictorial cubes of scenes from the book.
Early printing in the rare original dust jacket, a fun novelty book in which half the book tells of good children, then the flipped second half tells of naughty ones.
Scarce batik-printed fabric children's book following the creation myth of the Book of Genesis, with added handwork.