Moscow (Моксва): M. Zlatopolsky/ Omanut/ Omonus (Омонус), 1917. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 63pp. [3]. Rebound in blue buckram over grey marbled paper boards. Gilt lettering on the spine. Original illustrated wrappers in yellow and green bound in (all other images in b/w). The 6-7th (double) issue of the scarce illustrated..... More
![Item #41901 Der glückliche Prinz [SIGNED]. Oscar Wilde, Rudolf Stuckert, Guido Moriell, etchings](/pictures/thumb/41901.jpg?v=1484260763)
Berlin: Guido Moriell, 1991. Limited edition. Hardcover. Signed by the artist on each etching and colophon. A15/50. Small Folio. 55 (1)pp. Original hand bound blue Morocco with geometric cover design by bookbinder Guido Moriell and black-stamped lettering on spine, housed in blue cloth clamshell box with gilt lettering on spine..... More
Boston: Munroe and Francis/ Munroe & Francis/ Joseph H. Francis, [ca. 1851]. Hardcover. Square 16mo. Period cloth spine with gilt lettering and tooling. This collection from prolific Boston publisher Munroe and Francis, consists of five of their previously published children's literary and educational works, bound together in an extremely scarce..... More
Nürnberg: Stürmer Verlag, 1936. Fifth edition, 61.-70. Thousand. Hardcover. Oblong Octavo. Unpaginated (44pp). Half tan cloth over paper-covered boards, illustrated in color. Red edges. Among the first Anti-Semitic children's book by Julius Streicher's Stürmer Verlag was "Trau keinem Fuchs auf grüner Heid und keinem Jud bei seinem Eid!" (Do not..... More
London: J. and E. Wallis (J. Wallis Marine Library, Sidmouth), ca. [1818]. First edition. Softcover. 16mo (144 x 115 mm): [1, hand-colored engraved frontispiece], [2]pp., 15 hand-colored plates, [1, poem]; publisher's priced list verso rear wrapper. Plates and poem bound in facing pairs. Original publisher's stab-stitched printed title wrappers (a..... More
Страсбург (Strasbourg): Зильбермана (Zilberman), 1870. First edition. Softcover. Folio. 38 (9)pp. Original illustrated gray wraps with red lettering on cover. Three illustrated title pages. Lullabies and nursery rhymes, augmented by 8 pages with original scores, dedicated to the Russian children. Rare illustrated children's book with outstanding b/w illustrations and beautiful..... More
New York: Harper Collins, 1999-2006. First edition. Hardcover. Complete set as follow: "The Bad Beginning"; "The Reptile Room"; "The Wide Window"; "The Miserable Mill"; "The Austere Academy"; "The Ersatz Elevator"; "The Vile Village"; "The Hostile Hospital"; "The Carnivorous Carnival and the Slippery Slope", "Grim Grotto", "The Penultimate Peril" and "The..... More
Stuttgart: Loewes Verlag Ferdinand Carl, [1915]. First edition. Hardcover. Folio (12 x 9"). 23 leaves. Original illustrated paper covered boards with black lettering on cover, protected by modern mylar. Green paper on inside covers. Illustrated with numerous color illustrations, "Hurrah!" tells the story of a young German boy's dream in..... More
Warsaw: Kultur-Lige, 1921. First Yiddish edition. Softcover. Square octavo. 27pp. [1]. Illustrated tan wrappers with dark purple lettering. This is a Yiddish translation of Anatole France's children's book "Flowers" (Fleurs). The cover features an illustration in green and purple by Haim Goldberg (1888-1943, aka Haggai) and charming b/w illustrations throughout..... More
Moscow: Ministerstvo Narodnogo Prosveschenia [The Ministry of Public Enlightenment], 1867. Fourth edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 192pp. Half-leather over decorative paper-covered boards. A geometry textbook created for use in gymnasiums, by Feodor Ivanovich Busse, a leading figure in the development of state educational curriculum in the Russian Empire during the 19th century..... More
Tel Aviv: Devir (Dvir), n.d. (1927?). First Hebrew Edition. Hardcover. Small Folio. Unpaginated (17)pp. White buckram spine over brown boards. Gold leaf debossed lettering on lithographic illustrated plate on front cover. The beautifully produced children's book is the Hebrew language translation of "Der Vogel Wandelbar" by German poet Richard Dehmel..... More
Buenos Aires: G. Kaplanski/ Libreria G. Kaplansky, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 123 (4)pp. Original green quarter cloth over paper-covered, red and white 3d stereoscopic illustrated boards with black lettering. 3D red and green glasses supplied. Decorative and geometric end pieces. Collection of more than 100 fables with lively b/w..... More
![Item #48749 Loshadka (Лошадка) [HORSE]. Leib Kvitko, Vladimir Konashevich, trans Samuil...](/pictures/thumb/48749.jpg?v=1641422168)
Moscow: Detizdat TSK VLKSM (Детиздат Цк Влксм), 1938. First edition. Softcover. 64mo. 3 x 2 1/4". Unpaginated. 10 pages. Staple-bound illustrated yellow and blue wrappers with black lettering on the front cover. A delightful miniature children's book written in verse, by acclaimed Yiddish-language poet Leib Kvitko (1890-1952). This edition has..... More
Leningrad: OGIZ, 1934. Sixth edition. Softcover. Octavo. Unpaginated, 20pp. Original illustrated stapled wraps with red lettering on cover. Illustrated title page. The Marshak-Lebedev collaborations produced close to 50 publications, many of them popular and republished in many editions. This unusual children's story by Marshak features the tumultuous relationship between an..... More
London: H.G. Clarke & Co., 1863. First edition. Softcover. 16mo. 6x4.5". Yellow woodcut illustrated wrappers, with black lettering on the front and back covers. The publication contains a group of 6 illustrated stereoscopic illusions for children, and a do-it-yourself kit for making a stereoscope to view the images. The softcover..... More
![Item #25177 Humoristisches ABC. [RARE]. Von Trost-Regnard](/pictures/thumb/25177.jpg?v=1434441627)
Leipzig: Kinderbücher-Verlag Wernigerode, [1921]. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. [28]pp. Original quarter cloth over illustrated paper covered boards. Title-page in red and black lettering. Scarce German ABC book beautifully illustrated with 26 color drawings, each one of them being a rhyming introduction to a specific letter of the alphabet. Some of..... More
Moscow: Minist'erstrvo Narodnovo Prosves'cheniya, 1908. First printing. Softcover. Ex-Library. Large 8vo. 175pp., with some b&w in-text illustrations. Beige paper wrappers with black text on front. An inventory catalogue put out by the factory "Sotrudnik Shkol A. K. Zall'skoy" (Colleague of Schools, of A. K. Zall'skaya), that produces "globes, school furniture..... More
Moscow: Detgiz, 1935. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 16pp. Original color illustrated stapled wraps with red, white and black lettering on covers. Beautifully illustrated children's story featuring a bear being careless with his oral hygiene, suffering the consequences. A tale of caution for children. The illustrations are by Konstantin Rotov, the..... More
NP: NP, No date. Softcover. Folio (13 x 8 1/8"). Unpaginated (12pp.) Original Chromolithograph color-illustrated stiff wraps with decorative back cover, protected by modern mylar. Coloring book with six pages of colored examples depicting everyday life objects and activities on five pages with one page featuring festivities, military and architectural..... More
Krakow: Juliusza Wildta, ND (ca 1865). First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 31, [1]pp. (Text), [7]pp. (Plates). Original half cloth over cover illustrated paste-down on paper covered boards. Exquisite 19th-century Polish children book magnificently illustrated with 7 colored lithographic plates depicting animals in their surroundings. Text in Polish. Spine sunned. Moderate rubbing..... More
NP: NP, No date. Softcover. Small Folio. Unpaginated (12pp.) Original color-illustrated stiff wraps with red and black lettering on cover, protected by modern mylar. "Today I want to go to the zoo with my child, right at the beginning apes of all kinds are to be seen" is the caption..... More
Potsdam: Williams & Co. Verlag, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong Quarto. 38pp. Original green quarter-cloth over color illustrated tan boards with black lettering on cover, protected in modern mylar. Illustrated half-title and title page printed in red an black, both with printed red frames. Children's book about a group of boys..... More
Esslingen und München: J. F. Schreiber, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 9 unpaginated leaves, (1) 16pp. Book cut in the shape of a toy stuffed bear, including color illustrated cover boards, protected by modern mylar. Illustrated title page with ID Nr. 217. Beautifully illustrated children's book in color, brown on..... More
![Item #42069 Shakespeare's Comedy of the Tempest [WITH ITS ORIGINAL DUST-JACKET]. William...](/pictures/thumb/42069.jpg?v=1484703319)
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1908]. First trade edition. Hardcover. Large quarto (11 1/4 x 9"). XXIV, 143, [1]pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over gilt-stamped blue cloth, with gold lettering to spine and front cover. Illustrated half-title. Tissue-guarded tipped-in frontispiece. Red- and black-lettered title page within decorative frame. This splendid illustrated edition..... More
Leipzig: Gut Heil-Verlag, ca. 1911. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 24pp. Original red quarter cloth over color illustrated boards with red and black lettering on cover, protected by modern mylar. Decorative endpapers. Title page printed in red and black with decorative border. Rare and only edition of 'A seemingly classical gymnastics..... More