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First book edition in English of BILLEDBOG UDEN BILLEDER, Andersen's collection of tales in which the moon recounts stories to a lonely artist.
First book edition in English of BILLEDBOG UDEN BILLEDER, Andersen's collection of tales in which the moon recounts stories to a lonely artist.
First edition of one of the earliest collections of Andersen's fairy tales translated into English.
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 edition of PINOCCHIO in English.
Inscribed first edition, with a purple-ink inscription by Carroll in the year of publication to the wife of the playwright who tried to take ALICE to the theater.
First edition of this delightful German color-learning board book, guided by an articulated paper doll — a rare survival.
Delightful late Victorian collection of six mini books for little readers, in the original publisher's box, each illustrated with four full-page chromolithographs.
Rare book of Christmas poems lavishly illustrated with chromolithography and retaining the pre-1900 original dust jacket featuring Santa Claus.
Early edition of the book that made the Rollo series big, intended to instruct the novice American reader by combining a mature vocabulary with a lively series of animal metamorphoses and moral lessons.
First edition of the first extensive printed record of the tales of Brer Rabbit and other oral traditions kept by enslaved African Americans before emancipation, this copy with an owner's Christmas gift inscription dated 1880.
First edition, publisher's presentation copy, of this enduring collection of children's verse.
First edition of this Gilded Age gift book, a humorous tale of families looking for a short escape from city life, only to find that country living comes with its own difficulties.
Winter and Christmas-themed picture book from the McLoughlin Brothers, featuring rhymes for young children illustrated with chromolothographs with little children at play.
Delightful and bizarre anthology of stories presented in broadsides in a comic-like format, including a cameo by STRUWWELPETER.
First edition of the third volume in Alcott's series of short stories for children, told from her nickname "Aunt Jo" that also refers to her beloved heroine in LITTLE WOMEN.
First edition thus, in which the evocative Macedonian leader from antiquity receives a late Victorian update in this children's telling, beautifully illustrated by Mason with a consciously antiquarian flair.
Modern facsimile edition of this collection of the 36 little promotional titles published by the Kansas City-based Faultless Starch Company, first published in 1889, an example of popular literacy tools in early Oklahoma and Texas.
Four original fairy tales about pigs from the great turn-of-the-century children's publisher Nister: a charming book.
First edition of this collection of bedtime poems for children, beautifully illustrated in Art Nouveau style.
Charming McLoughlin ABC with carefree illustrations of children at play, accompanying rhymes about the letters of the alphabet.
First edition of these Irish verses about fairies, with beautiful Art Nouveau designs by Housman carrying distinct notes of Beardsley's style.
Scarce Regency-era history of ancient Greece, "now part of Turkey," adapted from Herodotus for young readers in England.
First edition of the second volume in Alcott's series of short stories for children, told from her nickname "Aunt Jo" that also refers to her beloved heroine in LITTLE WOMEN.
Wonderful large-format shape book full of classic nursery rhymes and vibrant chromolithographs.
First appearance, in ST. NICHOLAS MAGAZINE, of Alcott's story about a less common holiday seen in literature, and later incorporated into AUNT JO'S SCRAP BAG.