New Arrivals: March 12, 2020 Birnbaum, A. (Abe). Green Eyes (Caldecott Honor). Irvington-On- Hudson, NY: Capitol Publishing, 1953. First Edition. Square 4to. Good / Poor. Beige cloth with cat design on upper cover, spine title in brown and green ink, top corner bumped, wear to extremities, pages a bit thumbed and occasional light finger soil; dust jacket worn, missing pieces, old tape repairs, soiled, origi- nal price intact ($2.50). A year in a young cat's life, modeled after Birn- baum's own cat. This was Birn- baum's first book for children and the only one he both wrote and illus- trated. Birnbaum is best known for his work for the New Yorker, for which he did over 200 covers. Green Eyes was awarded a Caldecott Honor and was also a New York Times Best Illustrated Book. First editions are incredibly scarce in any condition. $175.00 Early British. Martin, Sarah Catherine (Ed.). Park's History of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog. ill. Archibald Alexander Park (Engraver). Finsbury, London: A. Park, 47 Leon- ard Street, Circa 1840 (publisher was at this ad- dress from 1835-1863). 12mo. Very Good / No Jacket. 7 x 4 inches (18 x 12 cm). Pictorial blue paper wraps with some wear and corner creasing, amazingly clean but with some offset- ting. 8 leaves containing an abbreviated version of the familiar, humorous verse about Mother Hubbard and her talented dog with equally amusing engravings colored by hand as issued. $250.00
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New Arrivals: March 12, 2020
Birnbaum, A. (Abe). Green Eyes (Caldecott Honor). Irvington-On-Hudson, NY: Capitol Publishing, 1953. First Edition. Square 4to. Good / Poor. Beige cloth with cat design on upper cover, spine title in brown and green ink, top corner bumped, wear to extremities, pages a bit thumbed and occasional light finger soil; dust jacket worn, missing pieces, old tape repairs, soiled, origi-nal price intact ($2.50). A year in a young cat's life, modeled after Birn-baum's own cat. This was Birn-baum's first book for children and the only one he both wrote and illus-trated. Birnbaum is best known for his work for the New Yorker, for which he did over 200 covers. Green
Eyes was awarded a Caldecott Honor and was also a New York Times Best Illustrated Book. First editions are incredibly scarce in any condition. $175.00
Early British. Martin, Sarah Catherine (Ed.). Park's History of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog. ill. Archibald Alexander Park (Engraver). Finsbury, London: A. Park, 47 Leon-ard Street, Circa 1840 (publisher was at this ad-dress from 1835-1863). 12mo. Very Good / No Jacket. 7 x 4 inches (18 x 12 cm). Pictorial blue paper wraps with some wear and corner creasing, amazingly clean but with some offset-ting. 8 leaves containing an abbreviated version of the familiar, humorous verse
about Mother Hubbard and her talented dog with equally amusing engravings colored by hand as issued. $250.00
Gorey, Edward (Subj); Ross, Clifford and Wilkin, Karen. World of Edward Gorey. New York: Harry N Abrams Inc, 1996. Oblong 8vo. Cloth Near Fine / Fine. Black cloth, a hint of shelf wear; illus-trated dust jacket. A biography of Gorey and an in-depth look at his work and style. Illustrated in color and b&w throughout, also with photographs. $35.00
Byron, May; Illustrated By G F Christie. Our Toy Zoo, A Picture-Book for Little Folk. London: Blackie & Son, 1907. 4to. Very Good Minus / No Jacket. Grey-green cloth pictorially stamped in 3 colors, extremities worn through, bottom of spine bumped, previous owner bookplate and inscription dated 1907. Stories featuring toys come-to-life, including a Golliwogg, Steiff teddy bear and all sorts of zoo ani-mals; illustrated with 24 full-page color plates by G. Fyffe Christie who is best known for illustrating The Plantation Alphabet and Round de Old Plantation. Scarce. $400.00
Gorey, Edward. Glorious Nosebleed. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., First Trade. Square 8vo. Very Good / Good Minus. Tole-dano A59c. (1974). Illustrated boards, extremities rubbed, two pages with faint marks; matching dust jacket chipped along spine folds, edge tears and light soil, price-clipped. A strange and quirky alphabet with Gorey's signature dark humor. $35.00
Ipcar, Dahlov. Hard Scrabble Harvest (Signed). Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1976. 2nd Printing. 4to. Very Good / Good Mi-nus. Pictorial boards with wear to extremities, clean text and images; dust jacket worn with losses at spine ends and corners, edge tears and wear. The story of a season on a farm, told in verse, ending with Thanksgiving. Graphically interesting color artwork on every page. This copy is signed by Ipcar on the half-title page. $65.00
McCrady, Elizabeth . Children of Foreign Lands Library, 8 Colorful Books in This Box (No. 3400). ill. Ninon MacKnight. USA: Platt & Munk, 1936. Square 8vo. Fine / No Jacket. 8 booklets with color printed wraps, each in Fine condition in a box with wear, creasing and small losses. The books are: Chula of Siam; Manuel of Mexico; Olga of Norway; Maria and Carlos of Spain; Kala of Hawaii; Ching Ling and Ting Ling; Wilhelmina of Holland and Abdul of Arabia. Wonderful color artwork in line and full-color. Stories represent a dated world view. $75.00
Mother Goose. Early American. Entertain-ing History of Little Jack Horner, Wil-liam Raine's Edition. Baltimore: Wm Raine, 74 Baltimore Street, Circa 1840 based on the publisher's address. 12mo. Very Good / No Jacket. 7.25 x 4.25 inches (18.5 x 10.5 cm). Pictorial yellow paper wraps with some wear and creasing, light soil inside and out but overall clean, but some offsetting. The familiar verse and ac-companying hand-colored engravings on 8 leaves. $250.00
Nelson, Kadir (Illus); Alexan-der, Kwame (Auth). Unde-feated, The (Caldecott Med-al, Newbery Honor). Boston: Versify / Houghton Mifflin Har-court, 2019. First Printing. Square 4to. Near Fine / Near Fine. Pictorial boards, top of spine slightly bumped in matching dust jacket with some creasing at top of spine, original price intact ($17.99). Kwame Alexander's bold and powerful poem paired with equally arresting color artwork against stark white back-grounds. Caldecott Award Winner and a Newbery Honor. $85.00
Pham, LeUyen (Illus); Morris, Richard T. (Auth). Bear Came Along (Caldecott Honor). New York: Little Brown and Com-pany, 2019. First Printing. 4to. Fine / Fine. Pictorial boards in matching dust jack-et with original price intact ($17.99). As bear journey down the river on a log, other animals hop on, and each plays its part in making the journey exciting. Rollicking and engaging color art-work throughout. Caldecott Honor. $75.00
Scott, Janet Laura (Illus); Gordon, Elizabeth (Auth). Turned-Intos, Jane Elizabeth Discovers the Gar-den Folk (In Original Box). Chicago: P F Volland & Co, 1920. First Edition. 8vo. Very Good / No Jacket As Is-sued. Pictorial boards with light wear to extremities, bookstore sticker affixed to endpaper, occasional light finger soil, but overall clean, one crack in the binding; housed in original box with light wear and slightly faded. Beautiful color artwork throughout appearing as full and partial page. A beautiful copy of a scarce Volland title. $325.00
Sarg, Tony (Adversiting Shredded Wheat). Tony Sarg's Animal Circus: Picture Story Album (Unused!) . No Place: Nabisco, 1937. Near Fine / No Jacket As Issued. 7.5 x 4 inches. Cover card is scuffed, else a Fine set. A full set of Shredded Wheat prizes illustrated by Tony Sarg. Each card features an animal engaged in a human activity and descriptive text; as can be expected from Sarg, they are quite humorous. There are 36 cards in all (including the cover card), each is un-colored and un-punched. A child was meant to collect all of the cards, color them and then punch holes where indicated to make his / her own book. Complete sets are rare, unused, rarer still. $450.00
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