Beautifully intact set, scarce complete with original case and rice paper sleeves, with vivid color illustrations on fresh, crinkling crepe paper.
First printing of the ninth Little Golden Book, in the rare dust jacket.
Signed first printing of this Caldecott Honor Book, a sort of inverse Thumbelina, the story of a giant girl who saves her Tennessee town from a ferocious bear named Thundering Tarnation, signed by both Zelinsky and Isaacs.
Four original fairy tales about pigs from the great turn-of-the-century children's publisher Nister: a charming book.
Turn-of-the-century Christmas Stocking Series book, featuring original fairy tales starring a boy-monkey named Snug that lives in Way-Over-There.
Signed early printing of Young's only Caldecott Medal winner, a richly illustrated adaptation of a Chinese fairy tale similar to Little Red Riding Hood.
First printing of this retelling of an Inuit legend of a young shaman who sets out to find a missing caribou herd, illustrated in a style reminiscent of the Dillons.
First US edition of this retelling of the Australian Aboriginal tale of the mystical protector of the flying foxes.
First edition thus, featuring two Mother Goose rhymes interpreted by Sendak and updated to reflect the 1990s.
First edition of Wodehouse's comic children's retelling of the William Tell legend, written "rapidly for cash rather than art" (Phelps) to accompany Dadd's existing illustrations, with verse accompaniments by John W. Houghton.
First edition of this charming insect adaptation of the 1001 Nights, in which Fuz-Buz the fly buys himself time after being caught in Mother Grabem's web.
Striking first trade edition of this tiny book featuring Hockney's intricate etchings for the Grimm stories The Little Sea Hare, Fundevogel, Rapunzel, The Boy Who Left Home to Learn Fear, Old Rinkrank, and Rumpelstilzchen.
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A gorgeously illustrated handmade production from the Golden Age of children's illustration, by an unknown or pseudonymous artist-author credited only as "Roland."
Enchanting mid-century version of this classic retold by Shirley Goulden.
First printing of this collection of Mexican regional stories — largely with animal main characters — with charming color illustrations.
First printing of this adaptation of the Yuit folktale of a brave hare who is able to bring an end to winter even when his more fearsome fellow animals cannot.
First printing of this retelling of an Iriquois creation story, with luminous illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker.
First edition of the final Roosevelt Bears book — the series that popularized the teddy bear — in which they are solve nursery rhyme mysteries.
First US edition of these retold Canadian fairy tales with French and English origins, beautifully illustrated by Canadian artist Gál.
Signed first printing of this delightfully chaotic counting book based on the beloved nursery rhyme (with the notable addition of baby velociraptors), with original drawing of a dog and inscribed postcard.
First edition of this illustrated dictionary of nursery rhymes, ingeniously alphabetized by each rhyme's most prominent word, inscribed by both Opies on the day of publication.
Signed first US trade edition of this book of traditional nursery rhymes, newly illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
First edition of this compilation of old English children's rhymes about cats, chosen by Lenore Blegvad and charmingly illustrated by Erik Blegvad.
Signed first Hague-illustrated edition of the classic tragic fairytale.
First edition one of the earliest collections of Andersen's fairy tales to be translated into English.
