COUSIN GRACE'S PRETTY STORY BOOKS NO. 4: NURSERY RHYMES
First edition of this scarce little collection of illustrated nursery rhymes, including classics like Little Miss Muffet and Bah Bah Black Sheep.
First edition of this scarce little collection of illustrated nursery rhymes, including classics like Little Miss Muffet and Bah Bah Black Sheep.
Gilded Age McLoughlin Brothers publication of the traditional rhyme "This Little Pig Went to Market" from Aunt Mary's Little Series.
First edition of this tragic tale of a hare who finds out her animal friends are of the fair weather sort when she is being chased by hunters.
First edition thus of this rare chapbook version of the classic accumulative rhyme, with charming woodcuts.
First edition of this chapbook collection of stories about the diminutive Tom Thumb, including his time in King Arthur's court and being eaten by a fish (twice).
First edition of this illustrated moralistic chapbook about virtuous Tommy and his naughty brother Harry.
Charming Edwardian edition of the classic nursery rhyme.
Beautiful complete fairy-tale panorama by Tuck, with all 16 accompanying chromolithograph figures that can be placed into slots in each scene.
First edition of this beautiful shape book, detailing the seasonal activities of the Santa Claus-like KING WINTER and his assistant Jack frost – in notably sharp condition.
Die-cut Mother Goose rhymes, in the shape of a little girl carrying a pig.
Early 20th-century alphabet book in verse, with most letters representing different nursery rhyme figures.
First edition thus of this scarce chapbook in two parts, containing the giant-slaying exploits of a farmer's son in Arthurian England.
First edition thus of a McLoughlin collection of classic ROBIN HOOD stories, in a die-cut book in the shape of the man himself.
Vibrant, complete copy of this activity book that encourages children to match pictorial stamps to the corresponding fairy tale.
Complete copy of this activity book that encourages children to match pictorial stamps to the corresponding fairy tale.
Very scarce antebellum US chapbook of the classic tale, with charming wood engravings.
Handsome, richly colored, and fully intact copy of this early movable book from Saalfield, a rare unused book of these classic fairy-tale-themed stand-ups.
First edition of a combination of two shorter nursery rhymes about TOM, with a humorous reference to the Napoleonic Wars to tie them together.
Second American edition of the popular English nursery rhyme about bird-based crime and justice.
First printing of this adaptation of an Swahili folktale about animal escapades in pursuit of honey, with lush illustrations by award-winning artist Jerry Pinkney
First edition of this evocatively illustrated MOTHER GOOSE book, a scarce and highly sought version in particularly nice condition.
First edition of one of the earliest collections of Andersen's fairy tales translated into English.
First edition of this early collection in English of Andersen's new fairy tales, including six appearing in English for the first time.
First edition in English of this collection of some of Andersen's most recently published popular tales, with gorgeous historiated initials and vignettes after drawings by Johann Baptist Zwecker.
First book edition in English of BILLEDBOG UDEN BILLEDER, Andersen's collection of tales in which the moon recounts stories to a lonely artist.