[CHROMOS]

4. Bernard, Martial.

Les Petits Espiegles.

Paris: Bernarding-Bechet Libraire-Editeur, Paris. 10 leaves. 26 x 23 cm. Not located in OCLC. Six full page chromolithograph plates, all but one printed recto only. The author is not located in any of the standard search engines. Text in French. Nicks to corners and spine, interior contents clean and fresh. Orig. illustrated cover front and back, Very good. Stiff Wraps. $50.00

5. Bishop, James; John Gilbert; John Franklin; Samuel Williams.

The Pretty Pleasing Picture Book. Second Series: Illustrated With Several Hundred Pictures And Verses.

London: Dean And Son, 1800-1870. 32 unnumbered leaves. Folio, 34 x 26 cm. Publication dates range from years Dean and Son was located at 11 Ludgate Hill. "We have prepared a Second Series of our "pretty Scrap Book," for your amusement and instruction, with a hope that you and your young friends will be as much pleased with this as you were with the previous one." -- from Preface. There are series of multiple illustrations, some small then larger and largest per page. Publisher advertisements on back cover, inside front and back cover, verso of front flyleaf, and recto of back flyleaf. Interior contents are clean and fresh. Inside of front and back covers plus adjoining page mauve colored. OCLC: 907478391. Image of Little Red Riding Hood front cover. Moderate cover corner wear. Back cover with fade spotting. Purple spine, green background with color inserts front cover. Very good. $195.00

5A. Boston. Billings Clapp & Co.

Young Folks' Drawing Books.

Boston: Billings Clapp & Co., 1884. 18 unnumbered pages. 16 x 12 cm. Large folded advert for Nicol's Sarsaparilla with Iodode Of Lime at rear. A contemporary, perhaps scurrilous attempt to sell medicine to families via a purported children's book. Interior with blank checkerboard spaces opposite a drawing within the squares that a child can copy to the accompanying blank. Front and back covers are chromolithographs. Drawing with advertising message on grid, facing pages with plain grids. OCLC: 177708141. "The publishers manufactured Nichols' bark and iron./ Dated from one of the testimonials. Outer pages laid down inside wraps." Orig. illustrated wrappers. Near fine. $100.00

[LITHOGRAPHS]

6. Caldecott, Randolph.

Caldecott's Picture Books.

London: George Rutledge and Sons, 1883-1889. Unpaginated.23 x 20.5 & 25.5 x 24 cm. Sixteen tales in total. Voluminously illustrated with colored lithographs and black and white illustrations by the premier color printer of the 19th century, Edmund Evans. Caldecott died in St. Augustine, Florida in 1886 at the age of forty while on holiday. Inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, interior contents clean and fresh. Raised bands, spine panels in gilt arabesques, front covers carry gilt titles of interior contents. Slight nick to one backstrip and some slight fade to covers. Small leather book label lettered in gilt inside front cover of both volumes. Full dark maroon calf. Teg. Very good. 2 Vols. $395.00

7.____.

The Farmer's Boy.

London: George Rutledge and Sons, ca1879. 30 pages. 23 x 20.5 cm. Illustrated in black and white with colored engravings by the premier color printer of the 19th century, Edmund Evans. Caldecott died in St. Augustine, Florida in 1886 at the age of forty while on holiday. Interior contents clean and bright. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers very fresh and crisp. Near Fine. $75.00

8. _____.

The Queen Of Hearts.

London: George Rutledge and Sons, ca1879. 30 pages. 23 x 20.5 cm. Illustrated in black and white with colored engravings by the premier color printer of the 19th century, Edmund Evans. Caldecott died in St. Augustine, Florida in 1886 at the age of forty while on holiday. Interior contents clean and bright. Front cover a bit dusty. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Very good. $75.00

9. _____.

Ride A-Cock Horse To Banbury + & A Farmer Went Trotting Upon His Grey Mare R. Caldecott Picture Books.

London: George Rutledge and Sons, (1886). First edition. 24 pages. 20.5 x 23.5 cm. Illustrated in black and white with colored engravings by the premier color printer of the 19th century, Edmund Evans. Caldecott died in St. Augustine, Florida in 1886 at the age of forty while on holiday. Interior contents clean and bright. Front with small bookseller label of Gilbert & Fields 18 Greatchurch St. London. Backstrip nicked, front cover dusty. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Very good. $75.00

[LITHOGRAPHS]

10. _____.

Graphic Pictures, More Graphic Pictures, Gleanings From The Graphic & Last Graphic Pictures.

London: George Rutledge and Sons, 1883-1889. Unpaginated. 25.5 x 37 cm. The complete set of four volumes. Voluminously illustrated with colored lithographs and black and white illustrations by the premier color printer of the 19th century, Edmund Evans. Caldecott died in St. Augustine, Florida in 1886 at the age of forty while on holiday. All spines lettered in gilt -- three in brown cloth and one in navy. All pictorial front covers with interior contents fresh and clean, very slight rubbing to backstrips head and foot. Orig. boards in a multitude of colors, both front and back. Spines lettered in gilt. Very good. 4 Vols. $290.00

11. Crane, Walter (Illustrator).

Don Quixote of The Mancha Retold by Judge Parry.

London & Mancheseter: Blackie & Son Limited & Sherratt & Hughes, 1900. First edition. 245 pages. 23 x 17 cm. Eleven full-page illustrations in color and nineteen black and white illustrations in the text. SPENCER, p.204. Bright copy with front cover, spine and back cover designs in maroon, yellow, black, brown, white and gray. Two pages of adverts at rear. Orig. illustrated cloth. Near fine. $175.00

[ENGRAVINGS]

12.______. (Illustrator).

Eight Illustrations To Shakespeare's Tempest Engraved & Printed By Duncan C. Dallas Dallastype Press No5.

London: J.M. Dent & Co: Aldine House, 1893. Folio, 36 x 28 cm. Limited edition, copy 294 of 600 signed by Duncan C. Dallas and Walter Crane. All plates with lettered tissue guards: black and white plates mounted and matted on board stock. Title page printed in red. Book label of Harvey Frost interior of solander box. Repair to interior joint of solander box. Interior contents and plates clean and fresh. Loose as issued in publisher gilt stamped red and green cloth solander box. Very good. $525.00

13. _____.

Princess Belle Etoile.

London & New York: John Lane, 1895. 6 pages of text. 27 x 23 cm. printed by Edmund Evans. Five full-page color wood engraved plates printed by Edmund Evans. Walter Crane's Picture Books, Large Series. SPENCER, p.39, notes, "Walter Crane's reputation as a children's book illustrator is founded on colour work for sixpenny and shilling picture books printed by Edmund Evans and published by Routledge between 1865 and 1875." Minor wear at lower spine. Orig. stiff wrappers, front cover in decorated frame illustrated in red and black against a delft blue background. Near fine. $190.00

[ENGRAVINGS]

14. _____.

Shakespeare's Comedy Of The Merry Wives Of Windsor Presented In Eight Pen Designs Engraved & Printed By Duncan C. Dallas.

London: George Allen Ruskin House, 1894. Folio, 36 x 29 cm. Limited edition, copy 118 of 650 signed by Duncan C. Dallas and Walter Crane. Title leaf, colophon, and eight engravings by Walter Crane engraved by Duncan C. Dallas on India tissue. First few and last leaves toned at margins, with same slight fault at image margins not affecting latter. Images sharp and clean. Orig. green cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Teg. Near fine. $395.00

15. _____.

Pan-Pipes A Book of Old Songs Newly Arranged & With Accompaniments by Theo: Marzials.

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1883. First edition. 52 pages. 22 x 31 cm. Crane explained the book was given its landscape format so that it could be propped up on a piano. Illustrated throughout by Walter Crane, printed from wood blocks by Edmund Evans. illustrations fresh and bright, interior contents almost as new. SPENCER p.203. Orig. maroon cloth spine and illustrated boards decorated endpapers and beveled edges. Fine in very good dust wrapper nicked at head, and recreates front cover design of the book in tan.$295.00

16. _____.

The Wonder Book For Girls And Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1893. 210 pages 22.5 x 16 cm. Sixty designs including nineteen color lithograph plates by Walter Crane. Bound by Leonard Mounteney at The Monastery Hill Bindery. Spencer [WALTER CRANE pp. 138], notes, "He also continued to work on more specific colour commissions in several publications for older children. The earliest and best of these was Hawthorne's WONDER BOOK, whose designs he completed while in Florida in the early summer of 1892....The lithographs were admirably printed by Houghton Mifflin at the Riverside Press." Raised bands, spine panels richly decorated in gilt leaf motifs. Scattered minor text toning. Three quarter polished rust levant, covers and endpapers in diaper pattern floral motif. Aeg. Fine. $1,100.00

[LITHOGRAPHS]

17. Crane, Walter.

Columbia's Courtship: A Picture History: Of The United States In Twelve Emblematic Designs In Color With Accompanying Verses By Walter Crane.

Boston: L. Prang, 1893. Unpaginated. 29 x 23 cm. Twelve full page color lithographed plates after designs by Crane printed recto only on high gloss stock with Prang's sterling color processing in a multitude of colors. Slight blemish front cover at foot. Orig. white boards, front cover lettered and decorated in blue and gilt. Very good. $250.00

18. _____

A Collection Twenty One Picture Books: Large Series and Re-Issue Series.

London & New York & Chicago: John Lane The Bodley Head & Stone & Kimball, Late 19th early 20th century. 26.3 x 22 cm. All are color plates engraved on wood by Edmund Evans, and printed verso or recto with blank backing, all original covers bound-in. Titles include many of the classic children's tales: The Absurd ABC. (Re-Issue) 8 plates. The Baby's Own Alphabet. (Re-Issue) 8 plates. Aladdin And The Wonderful Lamp. (Re-Issue, Large Series) 6 plates. Beauty And The Beast. (Re-Issue, Large Series) 6 plates. Blue Beard. (Re-Issue) 6 plates. Cinderella. (Re-Issue) 6 plates. The Fairy Ship. (Re-Issue) 6 plates. The Forty Thieves. (Re-Issue) 6 plates. The Frog Prince. (Re-Issue, Large Series) 6 plates. Goody Two Shoes. (Re-Issue, Large Series) 6 plates. The Hind In The Wood. (Re-Issue, Large Series) 6 plates. Jack And The Bean Stalk. (Re-Issue, Large Series) 8 plates. King Luckie Boy's Party. (Re-Issue) 8 plates. This Little Pig Went To Market. (Re-Issue) 6 plates. Little Red Riding Hood. (Re-Issue) 6 plates. Mother Hubbard. (Re-Issue) 8 plates. Puss In Boots. (Re-Issue) 8 plates. The Sleeping Beauty. (Re-Issue) 8 plates. The Three Bears. (Re-Issue, Large Series) 8 plates. Valentine And Orson. (Re-Issue) 8 plates. The Yellow Dwarf. (Re-Issue, Large Series) 6 plates. Interior and covers are pristine, a few cover images slightly shaved at margins. Half navy blue calf slightly rubbed and matching cloth, raised bands marbled endpapers. Aeg. Very good. $3,350.00

[ENGRAVED PLATES]

19. _____.

The First Of May, A Fairy Masque.

London: Henry Sotheran, 1881.

First edition. Unpaginated. Folio, 48 x 39 cm. Limited edition, copy 161 of 300 signed by Crane. 57 engraved plates including half-title, title, dedication, frontispiece, colophon and 52 engraved plates mounted on India proof paper containing illustrations and calligraphy by Crane. The 52 pencil designs were reproduced by Goupil and Company using photogravure, a process Crane found highly satisfactory. Loose as issued in original brown cloth portfolio gilt, printed pictorial label on upper cover This work was dedicated to Charles Darwin. SPENCER p.83-83. a delightful inventory of imaginative design: little studies of animals and birds, grotesques, frogs, flowers and elves.more decorous, pretty and Kate Greenaway like than ever before.Burne-Jones greatly admired this gift book. Scattered foxing mostly marginal. Renewed endpapers, rebacked in a very solid binding. Orig. brown cloth front cover paper label faded. Very good. $600.00

20. _____.

Walter Crane's Picture Books -- Bluebeard, The Fairy Ship, The Hind In The Wood, This Little Pig, King Luckyboy's Party, Puss In Boots, Sleeping Beauty, The Three Bears, The Yellow Dwarf.

Springfield MA : The H.R. Huntting Co. Inc, Nd. 28 x 23 cm. Offered as a lot only. Interior contents are as issued, color lithographs as originally published, all Crane's images printed recto and verso only as per first editions. Replication of the first editions with colors as bright and fresh as the originals. Bound in similar fashion, blue cloth spines, blue/gray stiff wrappers, front cover lettered in black. Only fault, three lower front tips nicked with slight loss (Fairy Ship, Hind In The Wood, This Little Pig). Interior contents as new. Orig. printed stiff wrappers. Near fine. 9 Vols. $525.00

21. Daudet, Alphonse.

Father Gaucher's Elixir Translated By Geneive Robinson & Illustrated By Don Emery.

Ormond Beach, FL: "The Doldrums", 1937. 38 pages. 18.5 x 12.5 cm. Inscribed to Mr. & Mrs. Post by George A. Zabriskie as a Christmas present. Illustrated in colors. Orig. maroon pebbled red cloth front cover lettered and decorated in gilt. Fine in fine matching dust wrapper. $50.00

[PRIVATE PRESS]

23. Grant, Ron.

Ariake.

Åmherst: Swamp Press, Nd. First edition. 5 leaves. 9 x 9 cm. Ancient Japanese love lyrics on Frankkfort Cream paper, copy 43 of 50 signed by Grant. Orig. patterned boards bound Japanese style. Fine. $40.00

24. Greenaway, Kate (Illustrator).

The Language of Flowers.

London: George Routledge, (1885). First edition. 80 pages.15.2 x 12.2 cm. Forty-eight colored picture pages printed by Edmund Evans. Charles Baker in his "Bibliography of British Book Illustrators 1860-1900 notes, "It is extremely difficult to identify early issues of some of Kate Greenaway's books;" however, in this instance there is little doubt as to the issue. BAKER G66a. Interior contents very fresh and sharp. Owner inscription free front endapaper, some rubbing to front and back covers at fore-edge and back strip extremities. Orig. illustrated and laminated boards with dark olive cloth spine and cover frames. Yellow edges. Very good. $150.00

25. _____

A Day In A Child's Life Engraved & Printed by Edmund Evans.

London : George Routledge & Sons, ca 1881. First edition. 29 pages. 25 x 21 cm. Music by Myles B. Foster. Owner inscriptions front endpapers and one on half-title dated 1884. There are three leaves decorated in color prior to title page. Cover lightly soiled, nicks to front cover fore-edge and front cover foot. Orig. decorated and laminated light green boards. Very good. $150.00

26. Greenaway, Kate.

Kate Greenaway's Almanack For 1881.

London: George Routledge & Sons, (1822). First edition. Unpaginated, 10 leaves. 13 x 9 cm. Twenty-two color illustrations printed by Edmund Evans. Greenaway notes, "I do not know why I cared most to draw children in old-fashioned dresses, except that old-fashioned things were always very pleasing to me. GORDON N. RAY, p.157. Bright, clean copy. Front cover, two little ladies sitting on a fence. Rubbing to backstrip cover and spine, front cover flecking. Orig. white decorated and illustrated boards. Very good. $120.00

27. _____.

Kate Greenaway's Almanack For 1888.

London: George Routledge, (1888).

First edition. Unpaginated, 12 leaves. 10 x 7 1/2 cm. Twenty-two color illustrations printed by Edmund Evans. Greenaway notes, "I do not know why I cared most to draw children in old-fashioned dresses, except that old-fashioned things were always very pleasing to me." [see: GORDON N. RAY, p.157]. Parisian book seller label front cover paste-down. Front cover blemish. Orig. green cloth spine and illustrated pale beige boards printed in colors. Very good. $75.00

28. _____

Little Ann And Other Poems by Jane and Ann Taylor.

London : Frederick Warne And Co., Nd. 64 pages. 21 x 14.5 cm. Color printing by Edmund Evans in his three color process. Brentano's book label rear pastedown. Bright, very fresh copy, interior clean. Orig. green cloth spine and illustrated cream laminated boards. Near fine. $75.00

29. _____.

Kate Greenaway's Almanack For 1889.

London: George Routledge, (1888). First edition. Unpaginated, 12 leaves. 10 x 7 1/2 cm. Twenty-two color illustrations printed by Edmund Evans. Greenaway notes, "I do not know why I cared most to draw children in old-fashioned dresses, except that old-fashioned things were always very pleasing to me." [see: GORDON N. RAY, p.157]. Bright, very clean copy. Black paper spine, front and back covers illustrated in different formats-- front cover depicts two young ladies at a table having tea. Orig. illustrated boards printed in colors against a black background. Near fine. $175.00

30. _____.

The Greenaway's Almanack For 1890.

London: George Routledge, (1889). First edition. Unpaginated, 12 leaves. 10 x 7 1/2 cm. Twenty-two color illustrations printed by Edmund Evans. Greenaway notes, "I do not know why I cared most to draw children in old-fashioned dresses, except that old-fashioned things were always very pleasing to me." [see: GORDON N. RAY, p.157]. Bright, very clean copy. Black paper spine, front and back covers illustrated in different formats-- front cover depicts three children, child in center holding a flower basket overhead. Orig. illustrated boards printed in colors against a black background. Fine. Boards. $150.00

31. _____.

Kate Greenaway's Almanack For 1894.

London: George Routledge & Sons, (1894). First edition. Unpaginated, 12 leaves. 10 x 7 1/2 cm. Twenty-two color illustrations printed by Edmund Evans. Greenaway notes, "I do not know why I cared most to draw children in old-fashioned dresses, except that old-fashioned things were always very pleasing to me. GORDON N. RAY, p.157. Gilt front cover illustration of a child. Backstrip nicks, small front cover spot. lacks free front endpaper. Orig. decorated and illustrated cream boards. Very good. $70.00

32. _____.

Kate Greenaway's Almanack For 1925.

London: Frederick Warne, (1924). Unpaginated, 12 leaves. 8 x 10 1/2 cm. in landscape format. Twenty-two color illustrations. Greenaway notes, "I do not know why I cared most to draw children in old-fashioned dresses, except that old-fashioned things were always very pleasing to me.GORDON N. RAY, p.157. Interior bright and clean, light cover soiling. Gold paper spine, front and back covers identically illustrated -- covers depict four young ladies hand in hand strolling. Orig. illustrated white boards printed in colors. Very good. Boards. $95.00

33. Greenaway, Kate.

A Apple Pie.

London : George Routledge & Sons, 1886. First edition. 44 pages. 21.5 x 26.5 cm. Color printing by Edmund Evans in his three color process. Twenty full page color plates printed recto only. Each letter of the alphabet with explication and illustration. Navy endpapers, backstrip head worn, front cover corner wear. Orig. brown cloth spine and illustrated pale gray boards. Very good. $195.00

34. Greenaway, Kate (Illustrator).

The Royal Progress Of King Pepito by Beatrice F. Cresswell.

London : Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge, (1889). First edition. 48 pages. 27 x 16 cm. Fresh, crisp copy, engraved and printed by Edmund Evans with all plates printed recto or verso only. The author produced dozens of publications on a range of subjects over many years. Orig. pictorial tan boards spine lettered in black. Very good in near fine in half blue morocco slipcase with matching blue cloth folding case with pull tab. $225.00

35. Humphrey, Maud.

Baby's Record with twelve illstrations in Colour and thirty illustrations in black & white.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1898. First edition. 29 x 23 cm. Unpaginated. All color plates are lithographs. Old fashioned entry book for entering dates of Baby firsts. This unused copy clean with no owner entries. The author, mother of actor Humphrey Bogart was an illustrator, water colorist, and suffragette. Slight soil lower front cover at margin. generally fresh and crisp. Orig. light blue/gray cover decorated in gilt. Aeg. Very good/Near fine. $170.00

36. _____.

Maud Humphrey's Mother Goose.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1891. First edition. 29 x 23 cm. Twenty-four chromolithograph leaves printed recto only, including title. Classic children's rhymes, full page images generally clean, some modest toning to title and frontispiece, owner inscription front cover paste-down dated 1891, mild wear to corners and backstrip extremities. Orig. illustrated boards lettered and decorated in gilt. Very good. $175.00

37. Kay, Helen.

Picasso's World of Children With An Introduction By Daniel-Henry Kahnwieler.

New York: Doubleday, 1965. First edition. 240 pages. 32 x 25 cm. Signed presentation copy in black ink "et pour mon ami, Carol -- a friend for fifty years with love Helen Kay." 190 illustrations, twenty eight in color. List of Reproductions by Chapters. A few faint toning marks at fore-edges. Orig. cream cloth. Fine in in slightly nicked dust wrapper. $115.00

[ART NOUVEAU]

38. King, Jessie M.

The Little Town Of Never Weary

Photographed By J. Bruce Cameron of Messrs T & R Annan.

London: George G. Harrap And Company, 1917. First edition. 155 pages. 25,5 x 19.5 cm. Photographs. black and white illustrations and full color tipped-in plates. Text clean and bright, total of 23 pictures. The author is known for her Art Nouveau style (Glascow School) drawings but she also designed jewelry, greeting cards, fabric, ceramics and batik textiles. Despite the influence of Art Nouveau, she was inspired to create unique designs where she did not literally translate the real world. Small book label of George Fleming, owner inscription free front endpaper. Bookseller label: H.V. Day Dorchester. Orig. taupe illustrated cloth, front cover and spine, backstrip lettered in gilt. Very good. $350.00

[PRIVATE PRESS]

39. Lyles, Peggy Willis.

Still at the Edge.

Åmherst: Swamp Press, 1980. First edition. 95 leaves. 9.5 x 13 cm. Colored etching and basingwerk. One of 100 hard copies. Orig. yellow illustrated and lettered boards. Fine. $50.00

40. Mare, Walter de la.

The Three Mulla-Mulgars.

London: Duckworth & Co, 1910. First edition. 312 pages. 19 x 13 cm. De la Mare's first children's book. 16 pages of adverts at rear. Bookplate. Crisp, almost as new copy. Trio of monkey brothers Thimble, Thumble, and Nod receive a magical amulet from their mother, that instructs them to search of their father. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. Orig. illustrated green cloth. Fine in very good slightly nicked dust wrapper. $95.00

[RUSSIAN TRANSLATION]

40A. Marshak, Samuil Yakovlevich.

Dom kotoryi postroil Dzhek [The House That Jack Built] Illustrated by Vladimir Mikhailovich Konashevich.

Petersburg & Moscow: Giz, 1924. First edition. 30 pages. 26 x 17.5 cm. The first Russian translation of popular English nursery rhymes that Marshak discovered in London. Apparently he was also familiar with Randolph Caldencott's The Three Jovial Huntsmen that he included in the collection as "3 zverolovy." The art, content and treatment remains more Russian than British. This copy has a good deal of edge repair at extremities with archival tape supporting several corners and margins. Hand soiling, and nicks. Bonhams sold a similar repaired copy in 2013 for $2500.00 [American Book Prices Current]. Orig. illustrated wrappers worn. Good.    $650.00

41. Milne, Alan Alexander.

Winnie-The-Pooh Decorations By Ernest H. Shepard.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1926. First American edition. 158 pages. 19.5 x 13 cm. Clean, bright and fresh copy. Illustrated endpapers. Only fault, two thin creases at front cover. Orig. green cloth front cover decorated and illustrated in gilt. Near fine.$895.00

[BIBLIOGRAPHY]

42. Paris. Gumuchian & Cie.

Les Livres de l'enfance du XVe au XIX siecle Preface de Paul Gavault.

Paris: Gumuchian & Cie, 1930. First edition. [XXIV] 446, 336 pages. 28 x 22.5 cm. Copy one of 100 on Hollande, from an edition limited to 1100. A long honored and standard reference for Children's Literature. Text in French. Vol. I, text Vol. with 6251 entries and Vol. II. with 335 plates in black and white and color. Both volumes unopened. Colored lithoghraph plates by Saude. Covers of both volumes are color lithographs, interior contents clean and fresh. Some nicks to spines. Orig. pictorial wrappers. Near fine in fine brown chemises housed in matching, solid, worn slipcases. 2 Vols.    $325.00

[PRIVATE PRESS]

43. Paul, Lewis.

The Man Who Left Home.

Chicago: Black Cat Press, 1938. First edition. 21 pages. 24.5 x 16.5 cm. The volume designed by Norman W. Forgue and Douglas Rader has been composed in Linotype Medieval on hand made paper. One of 100 copies. Slight edge rubbing. Quarter black cloth lettered in gilt and green decorated boards. Very good. $50.00

[PRIVATE PRESS]

44. Rae, Gilbert.

In Country Places A Christmas Story.

Herrin, Illinois: Trovillion Private Press, 1940. Second edition. X, 15 pages. Copy 106 of 211 signed by Violet Trovillion. Foreword by Violet & Hal W. Trovillion explicating this Scottish Christmas tale. Decorated pink boards, front cover paper label, spine lettered in black. Fine. $50.00

45. Saalfield, Akron, OH.

Let's Play Store.

Akron: Saalfied, 1933. First edition. 6 unnumbered leaves. 26 x 35 cm. Illustrated. Contains 206 pieces scored and ready to put together to make a complete grocery store. OCLC: 48399758. A brilliant as new copy with no flaws and all scored pieces intact. Orig. illustrated stiff wraps. Fine. $195.00

46. Sherwood, Mary Martha.

Master Henry's Lesson; The Visitors; And Hay Making.

Troy: Merriam & Moore, 1850-1857?. 24 pages. 14.5 x 9 cm. Illustrated with engraved wood-cuts. Back cover advert for The Milner Toys, published by Merriam & Moore. OCLC: 4175595. "Part of the abridged version of Mrs. Sherwood's History of Henry Milner./ Approximate dates established from Cutt, cited below./ Woodcuts: title vignette, illustrations./ First sentence: "It was the intention of Mr. Dalben to bring up little Henry, the Lord permitting, to study, and he resolved to make him first acquainted with the parts of speech and other such matters in the English language."/ Includes 8 woodcuts." Clean, bright copy. Orig. illustrated yellow wrappers. Near fine. $75.00

[CROMOLITHOGRAPHS]

47. Stahl P.J.

Le Moulin A Paroles Chromolithograph illustrations by Lorenz Froelich.

Paris: Bibliotheque Du Magazin D'Education Et De Recreation, ca 1870. First edition. 8 pages. 27.5 x 22 cm. Chromolithograph full page illustrations printed recto or verso only to assure no bleed through on blank verso or recto. Images very fresh, clean and bright. Text in French. Half title and title with slight stains. Images are not affected. The Danish illustrator was especially known for his children's books which were more important than his paintings. Orig. maroon cloth backstrip with illustrated and decorated front cover, Very good.   $95.00

48. Upton, Florence K.

The Golliwogg's Air-Ship Verses By Bertha Upton.

New York, London & Bombay: Longmans, Green & Co., 1902. First edition. 64 pages. 22 x 28 cm. Clean, fresh copy with full color plates and small line drawings printed in brown on the text pages. Sarah Jane, Meg, Peg & Midget, are 4 wooden dolls who begin an exciting adventure when they build an Airship and take flight. Upton's book and its many sequels were extremely successful in England, largely because of the popularity of the Golliwogg. Wear to corners and spine head and foot, decorated endpapers. Some light cover smudges. Orig. illustrated boards, beige cloth spine. Very good. $195.00.

[PRIVATE PRESS]

49. Zabriske, George W.

Christmas Its Observance And Ancient Customs Culled From Original Manuscripts Preserved In The Library Of The New York Historical Society But Never Published.

Alpine on the Hudson: Cliffdale, 1931. First edition. 6 leaves. 24 x 16 cm. Presented to Mr. Post by the author, and laid-in a canceled check to Zabriske from Mr. Post for $500.00. Original crimson cloth, front cover and spine decorated in gilt. Fine. $50.00

[PRIVATE PRESS]

50. _____.

Old Christmas From The Sketch Book of Washington Irving Illustrated By R. Caldecott.

Madison, NJ: Golden Hind Press, (1932). First edition. 29 pages. 24.5 x 16 cm. Sent to Mr. Post by Zabriske. Wide text margins illustrated by Caldecott, some full-paged. Set by hand in Weiss Antique type. Laid-in Colby Library Quarterly notice announcing is death at his Florida home in 1954. Orig. pale yellow cloth front cover and spine decorated and lettered in red. Fine. $95.00