Juvenile Illustrated

All About Peter Rabbit, (1914); All About the Three Bears (1914); All About the Three Little Pigs (1914), by Beatrix Potter, all “pictured” by Dick Hartley & L. Kirby-Parrish.  NY:  Cupples & Leon.  These are all reading copies, badly shaken, with pieces of spine ends missing, one with scribbled endpapers, but individual color illustrations unaffected.   Each $25 or all for $60   SOLD

Becky and Tatters: A Brownie Scout Story, by Eleanor Thomas, illustrated by Gertrude Howe.  NY:  Scribner’s, 1940.  Cover spots/no dust jacket.  $15

Beware of Children, by Verily Anderson, illustrated by Carol Doen.  NY:  William Morrow, 1958, first edition.  No dust jacket.  VG.  $35

Children’s Hour with Peter Pan, edited by Watty Piper.  NY: Platt & Munk, 1922.  Red paper over blue cloth with color illustrated cover pastedown.  Unpaginated.  Gift inscription.  Bright copy with light wear.  VG.  $30

The Chinese Children Next Door, by Pearl S. Buck, with drawings by William Arthur Smith.  NY:  John Day, 1942.  Red cloth. Reading copy: shaken; front hinge cracked; starting.  Text pages and illustrations bright.  $25

Dream Weaver, by Jane Yolen, illustrated by Michael Hague.  Collins: 1979.  80 pages.  Full-page, full-color illustrations of these highly original interpretations of classic myths and fairy tales.  VG/VG.  $40

Fairy Tales That Never Grow Old, edited by Watty Piper, with many illustrations by Eulalie.  NY:  Platt & Munk, 1927, Star Edition.  Red cloth, illustrated color pastedown.  Small page tears, with worn corners and spine ends.  Good.  $40

Forest Patrol, by Jim Kjelgaard, illustrated by Tony Palazzo.  Holiday House, 1941, sixth printing.  Ex-lib.  VG.  $20

The House in the Tree and Other Stories of Places, People and Things, by Fredrika Shumway Smith, illustrated by Salcia Bahnc.  Chicago: Falcon, 1941, second printing.  Signed on front-facing endpaper.  Blue cloth with front cover color illustrated pastedown.  Worn but good condition.  $25

Kim of Korea, by Faith Norris and Peter Lynn, illustrated by Kurt Wiese.  NY: Messner, 1955.  Dark red cloth, illustrated dust jacket.  157 pages.  Last page of book is pasted down as back endpaper.  VG/VG.  $25

Matilda, by Roald Dahl, illustrated by Quentin Blake.  NY: Viking Kestrel, 1988, first American edition.  VG/VG.  $25

The Modern Story Book, by Wallace Wadsworth, illustrated by Paul Pinson.  Chicago: Rand McNally, 1950.  Adventures of various motor vehicles with human personalities.  Red cloth; brightly illustrated endpapers.  72 pages.  Light wear/no dj.  Good+.  $30

One Hundred Picture Fables with Rhymes..  London: n.d.  Green cloth, decorative boards, with two small portrait pastedowns on front board.  111 pages of poems and drawings.  Worn but still good condition.  $40 

Raggedy Andy Stories (1960) and My Very Own Stories (1960), both by Johnny Gruelle.  Indianapolis, IN:  Bobbs-Merrill.  $30 and $40, respectively, or both together for $60  SOLD

The Secret of Madame Doll, by Frances Cavannah, illustrated by Dorothy Bayley Morse.  NY:  Vanguard, 1965.  Blue-green cloth; illustrated dust jacket.  Dj spine and top back sunned; else VG/VG.  $45   PRICE REDUCED to $25

The Three Billy Goats, illustrated by Frank Dobias.  NY: Macmillan, 1927.  Cover lightly worn, with old price in red ink (small) on front.  Tight and bright.  $35

Uncle Wiggly’s Story Book, by Howard R. Garis.  NY:  Platt & Munk, ©1939.  Red cloth, black Uncle Wiggly on front cover; illustrated endpapers and brightly illustrated dust jacket.  VG/VG.  $30   SOLD

Top

OZ Books

The Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum.  Indianapolis, IN:  Bobbs-Merrill, L. Frank Baum & W.W. Denslow; Press of Braunworth & Co., Brooklyn, NY, ©1903 (original copyright was 1899, published by Hill in 1900); illustrated by W. W. Denslow, fourth edition, ca. 1920.  Olive green cloth; color cover pastedown (Tin Man & Scarecrow), black-&-white endpapers; illustrated spine.  Cover soil & wear, with small tears to spine ends; rear hinge cracked.  Good condition.  $160

The Land of Oz, by L. Frank Baum.  Chicago:  Reilly & Lee, ©1904, POPULAR EDITION (stated on front cover), 1925; illustrated by John R. Neill.  Red cloth; color cover pastedown (Scarecrow & Tin Man shaking hands, each seated on large emerald); color frontispiece; black-&-white illustrations; illustrated endpapers and spine.  Cover soil & wear, some crayon (minimal) & dog-eared pages; badly cracked hinges.  Fair to G-.  $80

The Patchwork Girl of Oz, by L. Frank Baum.  Chicago:  Reilly & Lee, ©1913; illustrated by John R. Neill, later printing.  Red cloth; color cover pastedown (child in ruffed color and cone hat sitting with patchwork rag doll; predominant colors peach and teal blue); black-&-white illustrations; illustrated endpapers; no illustrations on spine.  Front hinge weak; no dj. $40

The Magic of Oz, by L. Frank Baum.  Chicago: Reilly & Lee, ©1919, later printing (post-1935); illustrated by John R. Neill.  Blue-grey cloth; color cover pastedown (Monkey King, rose-colored, in bowl on tripod, with Wizard and Dorothy attending); matching illustrated dj; black-&-white illustrations; illustrated endpapers; illustrated spine.  Cover is especially bright.  VG/VG.  $60

Glinda of Oz, by L. Frank Baum. Chicago: Reilly & Lee, ©1920; later printing (post-1935); illustrated by John R. Neill.  Peach cloth; color cover pastedown (Glinda and two small girls with crowns, Tin Man and Scarecrow behind and to sides against black background with colored spheres above); black-&-white illustrations; blank endpapers; illustrated spine.  Minor shelfwear; bumped corners and spine ends; no dj.  VG.  $60

Pirates in Oz, by Ruth Plumly Thompson. Chicago: Reilly & Lee, ©1931; illustrated by John R. Neill.  Red cloth, color cover pastedown (boy in short pants on rigging, gun through belt, unopened spyglass in hand, with pirate behind looking through open spyglass against background of ocean waves and green sky); black-&-white illustrations; illustrated endpapers; illustrated spine.  Minor cover soil/no dj.  $60   SOLD

The Purple Prince of Oz, by Ruth Plumly Thompson, COPY 1. Chicago: Reilly & Lee,, ©1932, first edition, illustrated by John R. Neill.  Purple cloth; color cover pastedown (castle in upper-left background, prince doffing cone hat, riding head of elephant wearing glasses; baskets of grapes carried by elephant, also); color frontispiece & plates, black-&-white illustrations, illustrated endpapers and spine.  Cracked hinges; some cover wear; no dj.  $200  SOLD

The Purple Prince of Oz, by Ruth Plumly Thompson, COPY 2. Chicago: Reilly & Lee,, ©1932, later printing (post-1935); illustrated by John R. Neill.  Beige cloth; color cover pastedown (same as above); matching illustrated dj; black-&-white illustrations; blank endpapers; illustrated spine.  VG in chipped dj.  $120

The Wishing Horse of Oz, by Ruth Plumly Thompson. Chicago: Reilly & Lee,, ©1935, first edition., illustrated by John R. Neill.  (This is the only Reilly & Lee Oz book without illustrated endpapers on the first edition; it is also the last to have color plates.)  Light blue cloth; color cover pastedown (rearing caparisoned horse ridden by fat man wearing crown, emerald necklaces & cape bearing large red letter S); color frontispiece & plates; black-&-white illustrations; blank endpapers; illustrated spine.  Edges spotted (not foxed); two corners chewed; no dj.  $80

The Silver Princess in Oz, by Ruth Plumly Thompson.  Chicago: Reilly & Lee, ©1938, later printing (no Handy Mandy on spine); illustrated by John R. Neill.  Light blue cloth; color cover pastedown (Princess and companion riding red-maned black horse); matching illustrated dj; black-&-white illustrations; illustrated endpapers and spine (letter Z inside letter O).  Very bright cover; dj lightly chipped.  VG/VG-.  $100

Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz, by Ruth Plumly Thompson. Chicago: Reilly & Lee, ©1939, first edition; illustrated by John R. Neill.  Beige cloth; color cover pastedown (Wizard, Tin Man & Scarecrow with left hands raised against teal blue background, with red, gold, green backgrounds beneath author/illustrator information); matching illustrated dj; black-&-white illustrations; illustrated endpapers and spine.  Light shelfwear/lightly chipped dj.  VG/VG.  $160

(Discount on two or more Oz books purchased together.)

Top