Heavy is a Hippopotamus (NYTBIB)
Pictorial boards with mild shelf wear, otherwise clean and tidy; matching dust jacket with light wear to extremities, original price intact ($1.75). An introduction to weight as a form of measurement with playful artwork that reinforces the concept. A New York Times Best Illustrated Book. Size: Square 8vo.Pan Pipes, A Book of Old Songs, Newly Arranged.
52 pgs. Glazed pictorial boards with cloth spine, upper and lower cover pastedowns completely rubbed away along beveled edge, corners worn, occasional soil, 1/3 of one page darkened, one marginal edge tear, minor corner bend. A selection of songs and poems set to music with color & sepia borders and illustrations in color by Walter Crane, engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. Masse pg. 34. Size: Large Oblong 4toLittle Songs of Long Ago
Mother Goose et al; Illustrated By H. Willebeek Le Mair Wheat color cloth with gilt titles and full color oval pastedown, mild wear to pastedown, eps darkened, gift inscription dated 1935, faintly musty. A collection of nursery songs, harmonized by Alfred Moffat and illustrated with beautiful full-color plates by Le Mair. Size: Oblong 4toBairn’s Coronation Book
Robinson, Charles (Illus); Bridgman, Clare (Auth) [1902] per de Freitas. 120 pgs. Beige cloth pictorially stamped in red, black and green, light soil and wear to cloth, but an unusually nice copy overall. All about what happens during the coronation of a King or a Queen. Wonderful color artwork throughout by Charles Robinson. Size: 16moBirthdays are for Everyone
Steiner, Charlotte Cloth hard cover pictorially stamped in gilt, a touch of shelf wear, previous owner's name; color pictorial dust jacket with an edge tear and light edge wear, price-clipped. A book about what birthdays are, who has them, what to expect on your birthday and how to treat others on theirs. Charmingly illustrated in color throughout. Size: Square 12mo- $60
- $60
Historien om Fire Born En Missekat Og En Kvanki-vanki
Lear, Edward (Translated By Jorgen Nash) Pictorial boards with cloth spine, corners worn, lower board darkened. The story of four children and their cat on a voyage where they encounter a creature called a Kvanki-vanki. Imaginative full-page, color artwork by Arne Ungerman Size: 4to- $125
- $125
Sparks from Live Wires and Something About the Derivation of Nursery Rhymes
Mother Goose. Advertising. Miller, William C (Foreword & Notes) Color pictorial card cover with cloth spine, minor wear, clean. Each page contains a nursery rhyme, accompanied by a small color illustration by Ray Snow, a paragraph about the rhyme (it's history and/or meaning) followed by text which incorporates a local (Harrisburg) business. Scarce. Another edition was published featuring businesses from Mechanicsburg. Size: 8vo- $150
- $150