Category: Art - Book Illustration/Illustrators

ANNUAL '94. ILLUSTRATORS OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS / ILLUSTRATORI DI LIBRI PER RAGAZZI. BOLOGNA.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Italy, North-South Books : 1994

Seller ID: 12781

ISBN-13: 9780887083112

Condition: Very Good+

175 pp, 11" H. Soft cover with self-flaps. Profusely illustrated with wonderful colour and b&w artwork. "(T)he official catalog of (the 1994 Bologna International Children's Book Fair) Exhibition, once again presenting to a widening audience many of the finest children's book artists from around the world. Along with beautifully reproduced examples of the artist's recent work, essential biographical information about each person is listed, making the Annual an ideal reference for illustrators, graphic designers, editors, art directors, children's librarians, and all who appreciate ageless cre...
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ANNUAL '95: FICTION. BOLOGNA. ILLUSTRATORS OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS. ILLUSTRATORI DI LIBRI PER RAGAZZI.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Italy, North South Books : 1995

Seller ID: 12738

ISBN-13: 9783851953633

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+

190 pp, 11" H. Soft cover with self-flaps. Profusely illustrated in colour. "This is the official catalog of the 1995 Fiction Exhibition (of the Bologna International Children's Book Fair), showcasing recent work by some of the finest illustrators of children's fiction from around the world. The pictures were chosen for their originality, their artistic and technical merit, and their child appeal. Along with the beautifully reproduced artwork, essential biographical information about each artist is listed, making this catalog an ideal reference for all who delight in contemporary children's bo...
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PAJARO-CU-CU: ANIMAL RHYMES FROM MANY LANDS.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Atheneum : 1967

Seller ID: 30877

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

Unpaginated, oblong (9 1/4" H x 11 3/8" D). Colourful lithographic illustrations. "The verses in this book have been chosen from nursery rhymes and familiar animal poems of many countries (Mexico, Germany, France, Hungary, Italy, China, England, Russia, Spain, Czechoslovakia, Latvia & Japan). The authors have long since been forgotten, but the verses have lived because they are warm and lively and appeal to the imaginations of children. The illustrations, printed in seven colors, were done in a lithographic technique on film by two German artists. In each picture they capture the gaity and ch...
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MONTY WOODPIG'S CARAVAN.

By: 'BB'. (Denys Watkins-Pitchford.)

Price: $395.00 USD

Publisher: London, Edmund Ward : 1957

Seller ID: 29602

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

64 pp, 7 1/2" H. Yellow cloth with dark green lettering on spine, dark green silhouette on front board. Four colour plates (including frontispiece) and two b&w drawings on each page of text. Monty Woodpig (a hedgehog) has a lovely caravan but is lonely until he meets Millie Gonbysi (a dormouse). The two marry and set out on a honeymoon trek to the seaside. They have several adventures that lead them to the conclusion that home in Foxglove Spinney is best. Gift inscription in ink on front free endpaper, browning to edges of text block, spine is very slightly twisted, light browning to spin...
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CAJUN NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS.

By: 'Trosclair" (J.B. Kling, Jr.). Edited by Howard Jacobs.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Gretna, Louisiana, Pelican : 1975

Seller ID: 30965

ISBN-13: 9780882890029

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

Unpaginated, 11 1/4" H. Charmingly illustrated throughout in color and b&w. A riff on the classic 19th century Christmas poem. "Take the classic story of jolly old St. Nicholas, place it in a Louisiana bayou setting, dress Santa Claus in muskrat 'from his head to his toes', pile his skiff high with toys, and hitch it to eight friendly alligators. The result is this delightful new version of an old and familiar tale. It is Christmas on the bayou." Very light wear at the top/bottom of the spine and at the corners of the boards. Dust jacket has several small edge tears archivally taped, light...
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DAYS WITH SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY.

By: (Addison, Joseph.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Macmillan : 1886

Seller ID: 30668

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

82 pp, 8 3/8" H. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, gilt lettering and illustration on front board. All edges gilt. Dark brown endpaper, many charming b&w illustration, including tissue-covered frontispiece - all present. The first appearance in book form - previously published in The Spectator. Contents: Sir Roger's Family; Mr. William Wimble; The Picture Gallery; The Widow; The Chase; The County Assizes; The Spectator's Return to Town. The fictional early 18th century Worcestershire baronet, Sir Roger de Coverley, is the centre of this collection of stories of English country l...
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THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS.

By: (Clement Clarke Moore.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Shenandoah, Iowa, Living History, Inc.

Seller ID: 30963

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

Unpaginated (16 pages, including covers) - 12 1/4" H, stapled in wraps. "An Exact Reprint Of An Early Edition", illustrated throughout in full color and black/white/brownish orange (see photos). An undated copy of the classic Christmas poem. Bump at the top of the spine and at the top corner of the book, some rusting on the staples, light edge wear - mostly on the spine and at the corners, some light soiling and several areas of water staining on the rear cover.
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A KENTUCKY CARDINAL and AFTERMATH. NEW EDITION REVISED WITH A NEW PREFACE.

By: Allen, James Lane.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Macmillan : 1900

Seller ID: 30587

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

276 pp + (4 pp) publisher's advertisements, 8 1/4" H. Green cloth with elaborate gilt decoration and lettering on spine and front board, top edge gilt. B&w illustrations (all present). Set in 1850s Kentucky, this is a tale of romance and tragedy, following the wooing, engagement, wedding and family life of nature lover, Adam Moss, and his society-loving neighbor, Georgianna. A slight separation between several page gatherings but still holding firmly in binding, paper is split on inside rear hinge - holding firmly, slight toning in margins of pages, light to moderate browning to fore-edge and...
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THE MILITARY ADVENTURES OF JOHNNY NEWCOME. WITH AN ACCOUNT OF HIS CAMPAIGNS ON THE PENINSULA AND IN PALL MALL AND NOTES.

By: An Officer. (David Roberts.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Methuen : 1904

Seller ID: 30848

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

247 pp, 6 7/8" H, red cloth with paper label on spine, top edge gilt. 15 colour plates by Rowlandson - all present, clean & bright. The fictional adventures, told in humorous verse, of a grocer's son who covets military glory and coerces his parents into buying him a commision. Scattered light foxing marks throughout the pages, light browning to the pages and to the endpapers, previous owner's small name stamp on the front pastedown, a few places where there is a slight seperation between page gatherings but pages are still held firmly, large corner crease on page 25, scattered liquid marks o...
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TIM AND CHARLOTTE.

By: Ardizzone, Edward.

Price: $16.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard : 2000

Seller ID: 12937

ISBN-13: 9780688176808

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Unpaginated, small 4to (10 1/2" H). Profusely illustrated with wonderful colour and b&w drawings by Edward Ardizzone. "One dark and stormy day, Tim and Ginger found a little girl, Charlotte, washed up on the beach. Who was she? Where had she come from? They didn't know - and neither did she!" One of the classic Little Tim stories, loved by generations of children. Very minor rubbing to dust jacket. A clean, bright copy.
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THE SAD SACK.

By: Baker, George, Sergeant. Introduction by Sgt. Marion Hargrove.

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster : 1944

Seller ID: 30860

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

Unpaginated, 7 1/2" H. Maroon cloth with black lettering on spine, small black illustration on front board. Price of $2.00 on bottom of dust jacket front flap. 115 b&w cartoons by George Baker who, prior to being inducted into the army in 1941, had worked for Walt Disney. "The Sack is the perfect personification of the Army's little man, the hopeless underdog who has no stripes, no glory, no friends in the orderly room, no escape from the dread terrors of red tape and higher ranks. He is the military cycle caught in a cartoon." A previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown, a 1944 Chri...
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HONORE DE BALZAC: EPIGRAMS ON MEN, WOMEN, AND LOVE.

By: Balzac, Honore de. Selected and translated by Jacques le Clercq.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Mount Vernon, New York, Peter Pauper Press : 1959

Seller ID: 19909

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

62 pp (including colophon), 12mo (7 3/8" H). Illustrated with yellow and black woodcuts. A collection of the sayings of Balzac, on the themes of love, marriage, religion, relationships, medicine, etc. Very light edgewear, minor soiling, a few soiling marks on fore-edge of textblock, minor browning to spine, previous owner's chop (stamp) on free front endpaper. Dust jacket has minor edgewear - mainly at top of spine, minor soiling, very light browning to spine - now protected in removable mylar sleeve.
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SPRING SONGS WITH MUSIC FROM "FLOWER FAIRIES OF THE SPRING".

By: Barker, Cicely Mary. Music by Olive Linnell.

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: London, Blackie & Son

Seller ID: 30066

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good -

Unpaginated (approx. 52 pp.), 9 3/4" H. No publication date present, but inscription on front free endpaper is dated Xmas 1926, so probably the first edition. Blue cloth spine, gray paper-covered boards with dark blue lettering and pasted on "Speedwell Fairy" illustration on front board. 12 delightful, colour plates tipped in (including frontispiece) - all in very good condition. B&w drawings by C.M.B. on title and final page. Music notation for voice and piano. Includes: The Song of the Primrose Fairy; The Song of the Windflower Fairy; The Song of the Groundsel Fairy; The Song of the Lor...
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THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH GIFT BOOK. IN AID OF THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH OF YORK HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN.

By: Barrie, J.M.; Kipling, Rudyard; Young, Francis Brett; Chesterton, G.K.; Uncle Dick (B.J. Lamb); Blackwood, Algernon; Struther, Jan; Tourtel, Mary; Bagnold, Enid; Davies, W.H; Hilton, James; Mackenzie, Compton; Asquith, Herbert; de la Mare, Walter; et al.

Price: $65.00 USD

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton : 1935

Seller ID: 30972

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

224 pp, 10" H. No date, but c1935. White cloth with blue lettering/decoration on spine and front board. Endpaper and title page decorations by Rex Whistler. B&w double page spread of some of the authors/artists as children, colour plates including 2 double spreads of Mickey Mouse and gang, frontispiece of Princess Elizabeth, and illustrations by Sylvia Salisbury (2), A.H. Watson, Herbert Foxwell, Frank Salisbury and H.M. Talintyre. B&w illustrations by Paul Bloomfield, Mary Tourtel, Bip Pares, A.B. Payne (cartoons), Herbert Foxwell, H.M. Talintyre, Laurian Jones and R.L. Brightwell. All pla...
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THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH GIFT BOOK. IN AID OF THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH OF YORK HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN.

By: Barrie, J.M.; Kipling, Rudyard; Young, Francis Brett; Chesterton, G.K.; Uncle Dick (B.J. Lamb); Blackwood, Algernon; Struther, Jan; Tourtel, Mary; Bagnold, Enid; Davies, W.H; Hilton, James; Mackenzie, Compton; Asquith, Herbert; de la Mare, Walter; et al.

Price: $55.00 USD

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton : 1935

Seller ID: 31038

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

224 pp, 10" H. No date, but c1935. White cloth with blue lettering/decoration on spine and front board. Endpaper and title page decorations by Rex Whistler. B&w double page spread of some of the authors/artists as children, colour plates including 2 double spreads of Mickey Mouse and gang, frontispiece of Princess Elizabeth, and illustrations by Sylvia Salisbury (2), A.H. Watson, Herbert Foxwell, Frank Salisbury and H.M. Talintyre. B&w illustrations by Paul Bloomfield, Mary Tourtel, Bip Pares, A.B. Payne (cartoons), Herbert Foxwell, H.M. Talintyre, Laurian Jones and R.L. Brightwell. All pla...
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PRICE GUIDE AND BIBLIOGRAPHIC CHECKLIST FOR CHILDREN'S & ILLUSTRATED BOOKS FOR THE YEARS 1880-1960.

By: Baumgarten, E. Lee, compiler.

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Martinsburg, WV, E.Lee baumgarten Books : 1996

Seller ID: 30272

ISBN-13: 9780964728509

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

8 pp "Introduction", followed by three separately paged sections - 145 pp "Author-Sorted Index / 145 pp "Illustrator- Sorted Index" / 63 pp "Title Cross-Reference". Teal cloth with gilt lettering on spine, gilt lettering and borders on front cover, 11 1/4" H. "The data file for the 1996 edition contains exactly 10,405 records, indexed 3 ways to provide you with an easy method for locating any given book." Although the price guide aspect is out-of-date, the bibligraphical information remains very useful for collectors/booksellers. Light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, 1/2" dia ghost stick...
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LOUIS WAIN'S CATS.

By: Beetles, Chris. With contributions from Rodney Dale and David Wootton.

Price: $55.00 USD

Publisher: Cambridge / London, Worth Press / Chris Beetles : 2011

Seller ID: 31007

ISBN-13: 9781849310260

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

256 pp, square (10 1/4" H x 10 1/4" D). Profusely illustrated with colour and b&w reproductions of Wain's art. "During their heyday, in the time before the First World War, Louis Wain's cats, dressed as humans, portrayed (the) stylish Edwardian world having fun; at restaurants and tea parties, going to the Races and the Seaside, celebrating Christmas and Birthdays, and disporting themselves with exuberant games of tennis, bowls, cricket and football. This is a titillating world of cats at play, uninhibited and slightly dangerous, with most group activities likely to turn into mishap, mayhem a...
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THE GARDENER'S ALMANACK.

By: Betts, Kay.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Mount Vernon, New York, Peter Pauper Press : 1958

Seller ID: 19901

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

62 pp (including colophon), 12mo (7 3/8" H). A collection of hints for the American gardener, arranged by month. The text for each month is preceded by a drawing in red, green & black, with the name of the month. Very light edgewear, very light browning and tiny speck on top of textblock. Dust jacket is price clipped, has light edgewear, light browning, minor soiling - now protected in removable mylar sleeve.
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THE RANDOLPH CALDECOTT TREASURY.

By: Billington, Elizabeth T., selected and edited by. Appreciation by Maurice Sendak.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Frederick Warne : 1978

Seller ID: 29935

ISBN-13: 9780723261391

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

288 pp, oblong (9 5/8" H x 10 1/2" D). Profusely illustrated in sepiatone and colour. Contents: Production Notes; Preface; Wood-Engraved Picture of Randolph Caldecott; Randolph Caldecott: An Appreciation, by Maurice Sendak; A Quest For Caldecott; The Caldecott Medal; Randolph Caldecott and Edmund Evans: A Partnership of Equals, by Michael Hutchins; Selections from the Work of Randolph Caldecott (Early Sketches / European Sketches / American Sketches / Baron Bruno / Old Christmas at Bracebridge Hall / Selections from Other Books / Selections from Aesop's Fables); Selections from Magazine Art...
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IRISHMEN ALL.

By: Birmingham, George A. (pseudonym of James Owen Hannay, 1865-1950.)

Price: $85.00 USD

Publisher: Edinburgh, T.N. Foulis : 1914

Seller ID: 23392

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

225 pp + publisher's advertisements, 8vo (8 1/2" H) - dark green cloth with gold lettering on spine and front board. Top edge gilt. Fore edges of textblock untrimmed. 12 colour plates from oil paintings by Jack B. Yeats, tipped on to gray stock and tissue-covered (collated). Chapter headings: The Higher Official; The Minor Official; The Policeman; The Squireen; The Politician; The Country Gentleman; The Farmer; The Publican; The Exile from Erin; The Parish Priest; The "Minister"; The Young Lady and Gentleman in Business. Previous owner's name/date on front pastedown, faint pencil erasure mar...
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Category: Art - Book Illustration/Illustrators