Chicago: Albert Whitman & Co. / Junior Press Books, 1940. First Edition. Slim 12mo (18.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 48pp.; illus. throughout, some printed in color. Light soil to jacket, cloth rather spotted, else Very Good, internally fine. Forms part of the Children's Science Series, the..... More
Pittsburgh: Walter Johnston, ca. 1920s. First Edition. Quarto pictorial bifolium (29.5cm.) opening up into stiff card board game (29.5x44.5cm.); printed in green and black. Accompanied by original printed envelope. Game very slightly rubbed along extremities, envelope significantly toned and chipped. Lacking dice or player chits. Table top baseball game..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. First Thus in the beloved 1930 Scribner format. Octavo; xiv + 347pp. Nine full-color illustrations plus illustrated cover and pictorial endpapers. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering and paste-on front panel illustration. Some polite scuffing to crown and foot of spine and panel..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1943 but ca. 1960s]. Slim quarto; publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket (price. $3.75); 91pp.; illus. throughout, many in color. General toning and shelf wear to jacket extremities, including tiny chips and closed tear, price-clipped, coin-sized loss at bottom margin of rear panel..... More
New-York: Century Co., [1890]. First Edition. Quarto (26cm.); publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards; xi,[1],144pp.; illus. throughout. Extremities quite rubbed with rather extensive exposure at corners and spine, surface scratches to both boards, contemporary child's ownership signature on p. [1] with her pencil coloring to first few leaves, a number closed tears..... More