Search Results: Children's from Kate Mitas, Bookseller

[Seattle, Washington], 1924-1929. Good to Very Good condition overall. Sizes vary, from 9 x 7 inches to 11-1/2 x 16 inches. Paginations vary, many about 20-30pp, one 81pp. Most stab-bound paper wrappers; two bound in heavy cardboard covers and string ties. Includes many original illustrations; text in holograph script or typescript. Occasional light wear; one volume, "My Trip to South America", has become unbound. A collection of handmade books by [Winfield] Scott Spirk from 1924-1929, on subjects as varied as the history of paper, WWI, and a trip to South America. Spirk (1914-2009) was a student at McDonald Elementary School, John Marshall School, and Roosevelt High School, all in Seattle Washington, during this period. He later served in the U.S. Navy during WWII and was employed by Boeing as an aeronautical engineer.The volumes included here are: Europe, about an imaginary visit to 27 European countries; Paper, a history of paper; My Book, possibly the earliest creation of Spirk's, with six… Read More

Tokyo and Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Co., (1953). Good. 36.5 x 26 cm. [26]pp + inside covers. Stapled green wrappers printed in black and white. B&w illustrations throughout. Text in English and Japanese. Light wear, with corner crease to rear wrapper; center bifolium detached; one illustration colored in; "paid" stamp to front cover. Children's instructional coloring book of names of different kinds of meals, utensils, and a few snack foods.OCLC locates only one holding of this edition, at Stanford, and one holding of a later edition, at the International Research Center of Japanese Studies in Japan.

Santa Clara, California: Mollie K. Simons and Sarah Estelle Hammond, 1875. Good. 8-3/4 x 6-1/4 inches. [2],182-200, [2, ads]pp. Pale green wrappers printed in black. B&w frontispiece. Text block detached from wrappers; light soiling and staining; light biopredation to spine head and corner of one leaf. A scarce issue of this short-lived publication, which appears to have run for only 10 issues, through September 1875. The text features a compilation of instructional and/or moralistic stories, poems, and advice for children, many seemingly sent in by contributors (rather than copied from published texts by famous authors). Editor Sarah Estelle Hammond, later Greathead, was a teacher in Santa Clara.OCLC locates five holdings.