BABES OF THE NATIONS
First edition of this very scarce Humphrey book, magnificently illustrated of little children dressed in the national costumes of various nations from Russia to Scotland, and with one child representing Africa.
First edition of this very scarce Humphrey book, magnificently illustrated of little children dressed in the national costumes of various nations from Russia to Scotland, and with one child representing Africa.
First edition of this collection of sentimental poems, a beautiful Brandywine production rare in the original publisher's box.
First printing of the Wyeth edition, an incredible copy in the scarce original dust jacket.
Signed limited first edition, one of 500 numbered copies signed by Pogany.
First edition, second issue, with fabulous color plates by Denslow facing text hand-lettered by the influential typographer Goudy.
Beautiful first edition of a collection of short stories and poems about the lives of Victorian children, with chromolithographs based on the sweet watercolors of Maud Humphrey.
Ephemeral color printed production of classic nursery rhymes, an uncredited piracy of excerpts from Robinson's illustrated BIG BOOK OF NURSERY RHYMES (1903).
First edition of this collection of stories and little verses, illustrated in a style strongly influenced by Maud Humphrey.
Signed and dated watercolor on board for a Gilded-Age children's book featuring cherubic kids dressed as real American heroes and heroines.
Signed original watercolor for a line of greeting cards by Louis Prang, "The Father of the American Christmas Card."
Signed limited edition illustrated by Arthur Rackham, one of only 105 numbered copies signed by Bianco.
Scarce Tenggren edition, first published in book form in 1887.
A later edition illustrated with cover plate and four beautiful color plates by Parrish.
First edition of this illustrated book of humor and wit, in the scarce original dust jacket.
First printing, featuring 100 drawings by the author including eight half-tone plates.
Early printing of the original Duffield edition (more commonly found as the Dial reprint), illustrated with Smith's gorgeous aesthetic to accompany an anthology of nearly 100 stories and poems reflecting popular children's literature of the 1920s.
Scarce first printing of Denslow's illustrated edition, published soon after his break with L. Frank Baum over royalties for his artistic contributions to THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ.
Signed Scribner Classic edition of Wyeth's iillustrated version of the Pulitzer prize-winning classic.
First edition of this early Kewpie book – with the rare boxed set of 3 Kewpie handkerchiefs.
First edition of Parrish's masterwork, an unusually nice copy.
First edition of a very early Parrish work, with plates full of detail and imagination that are a perfect partner to Irving's clever parody – extremely difficult to find in first edition.
Signed limited edition, one of 1150 numbered copies (this one of 150 for the US market) signed by Rackham, of the first volume in Rackham's version of Wagner's Ring Cycle.
Magnificent copy, in original publisher's box.
Signed limited first Wyeth edition, one of 1074 numbered copies signed by both Wyeth and Roberts, an excellent copy.
Signed limited first edition, one of only 50 numbered copies signed by Johnson and Dowd, this copy with a previously unpublished mounted illustration of a pirate by Pyle made available by Frank Schoonover for this edition.