HINAUS IN DIE FERNE!
German oblong board book of children traveling and engaging in vacation activities.
German oblong board book of children traveling and engaging in vacation activities.
Delightful early 20th-century German shape book following a little artist with a pet crow.
First edition of a stunning large picture book chronicling a festival and concert put on by Grandville-style humanized animals.
German picture book edition of the classic tale, illustrated by a student of Ernst Hildebrand, disbound without its original binding but with all full-page color illustrations intact.
Attractive German picture book with simple rhymes for children, exhibiting the pervasiveness of pre-WWI nationalist rhetoric.
First printing of this attractive post-war large-format fantasy story populated by whimsical gnomes and fairies.
First American edition of the famous first book of Hauptmann, EIN TAG IM LEBEN DER DOROTHEA WUTZ – a story told without text, using die-cuts to created a moveable illustration effect.
First English edition of the 1979 original EBERHARD WUTZ IST WIEDER DA!, featuring a die-cut storyline that reveals new images with each turned page.
Third edition of this patriotic German board book, featuring children's activities from getting dressed in the morning to viewing a parade of pickelhaube-wearing soldiers.
Midcentury edition, featuring images of gnomes and winter fairies. Very beautiful.
Charming make-your-own-scene book featuring humanized bugs and frogs and a host of their fairy and gnome friends, issued as loose figures to be fit into the color plates.
First printing of this fanciful trio of fairy tales in German, with modernist lithographs by Fritz Hans Eggers.
Rare and fantastic German hand-colored picture book, featuring several characters similar to those in Meggendorfer's famous moveable books.
Scarce title with marvelous hand-colored illustrations by Meggendorfer.
First printing of this book of simple poetry published during WWII, presenting idyllic images of German childhood.
Early edition of this charming German shape book about a teddy bear who is bored staying at home and decides to go out and experience the world, with hilarious consequences.
Scarce first edition of this avant-garde German picture book, incorporating new concepts in child psychology which Seidmann learned in part from her uncle, Sigmund Freud.
Rare first US edition of the modern picture book from the niece of Sigmund Freud – with new English text written by Dalgliesh after sharing Seidmann-Freud's images with a group of children.
First printing of this Sendak-illustrated publication of a newly discovered Grimm fairy tale, with beautiful full-page illustrated reminiscent of OUTSIDE OVER THERE.
Signed first printing of this Sendak-illustrated publication of a newly discovered Grimm fairy tale, with beautiful full-page illustrations reminiscent of OUTSIDE OVER THERE.
First German edition of Sendak's SOME SWELL PUP, signed by Sendak along with a charming original pen drawing of the kid's mentor dog.
Signed first US edition of this fable of three brothers who set out to hunt a magical unicorn, with lush illustrations by Gennady Spirin.
First edition of this delightful German color-learning board book, guided by an articulated paper doll — a rare survival.
First edition of this charming German storybook about a group of gnomes and their king, one for each month of the year – with lovely illustrations by Paul Lothar Müller.