LUCIE ATTWELL'S FAIRY TALES KIDDIES' HANDKIES
Scarce set of eight cotton handkerchiefs printed with charming and bright illustrations to classic fairy tales by the beloved children's artist.
Scarce set of eight cotton handkerchiefs printed with charming and bright illustrations to classic fairy tales by the beloved children's artist.
Signed limited edition, one of only 500 numbered copies signed by one of the greatest Golden-Age illustrators, Kay Nielsen.
First edition of this beautiful book of rhymes and simple stories for very young children, vividly illustrated in Attwell's characteristic style.
Lovely illustrated collection of fairy tales for reading aloud, from the classics to more unusual tales, including "Epaminondas And His Auntie."
First edition of the parallel stories of Peter the fox terrier, raised as a hunting dog, and White-Ear the fox, with illustrations by Cecil Aldin.
First edition of this scarce and terrific picture book about a rivalry between puppies and kittens.
Beautiful portfolio collection of the second series of prints by this pair of Golden Age artists, vibrant and complete.
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.
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.
Revised edition of Hudson's important reference, richly illustrated with tipped-in color plates and reissued with an updated checklist of Rackham's works.
A gorgeously illustrated handmade production from the Golden Age of children's illustration, by an unknown or pseudonymous artist-author credited only as "Roland."
Fabulous signed original watercolor by William Timlin, best known for his fairy-populated science-fiction fantasy, THE SHIP THAT SAILED TO MARS.
Signed limited edition, one of only 460 copies signed by Rackham, of this popular play based on a Norwegian fairy tale — accompanied by the original drawing that appears on page 78 of the text.
First edition of this reference guide to illustrators of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century from Aldin to Wyeth, with essays including Lynd Ward's "Contemporary Book Illustration," Esther Averill's "Avant-Gardes and Traditions in France," and Jacqueline Overton's "The Fairies Come Into Their Own."
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.
First MacKinstry edition, a gorgeous Jazz-Age vision of Ibsen's classic.
Original WWI-era calendar for the modern business man with an original Parrish cover, featuring motivational aphorisms like "Be Ambitious: To rest content with results achieved is the first sign of business decay."
Original Jazz Age calendar with a vivid original Parrish cover, featuring inspirational quotes from Emerson, Longfellow, Ruskin, Samuel Johnson, Dickens, and more.
First edition of this attractive collection of three humorous rhymes about hunting and fishing, with vibrant illustrations by Frank Adams.
First edition, third issue of this gloriously Golden Age Mother Goose, one of Jessie Willcox Smith's best-loved works.
First edition of this French large-format picture book history of the contested Alsace region, then under German occupation – published at a time when even speaking French in the region was against the law.
First US edition of this lovely illustrated alphabet adapted (uncredited) from Barrie, with a brief synopsis of the full story followed by 26 related alphabet verses.
Beautiful copy of this deluxe edition of the Rubaiyat, introduced by Laurence Housman and spectacularly illustrated by Charles Robinson.
Deluxe large format portfolio edition of one of Dulac's most desired books, a quirky ABC.
Lovely US edition of these verses on the hardships of a dog's life, much scarcer than the UK edition.