Search Results: CHILDREN’S BOOKS from Peter L. Stern & Company, Inc.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1982. First Edition. Fine in a price-clipped dust jacket which is very lightly rubbed.

New York: Ariel Books, 1954. First Edition. Very good in dust jacket.

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1932. First Edition. Owner’s signature inside the front cover; very good or better in a very good dust jacket lacking the bottom inch and a half of the spine.

New York: G. Schirmer, 1910. First Edition. Publisher’s paper-covered boards; aside from the cover illustration each musical piece is headed with an a reproduce drawing in black, white and red. Covers worn and with minor staining; good to very good.

Cleveland: Goldsmith Publishing, 1929. First Edition. Quarto; publisher’s wrappers; printed on heavy stock, “Crashtex Picture Book Series.” Very good or slightly better.

Nurnberg: Theo Stroefer, n.d. [1906]. First Edition; oblong small folio; publisher’s printed boards; minor wear and cover staining; very good. The twelve full page color illustrations and various decorations exhibit modern influence; some of the decorations are similar to those of the Wiener Werkstatte.

New York: Demorest, 1866. This is the November issue. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers; color frontispiece; very good.

New York: G. W. Dillingham, 1903. First Edition with Denslow’s colorful illustrations and designs. Publisher’s wrappers; an excellent example, with only very slight rubbing.

Oldenburg, Germany: Verlag Gerhard Stalling, 1929. First Edition. In German. About fine in a very good, chipped dust jacket. The illustrations of the mouse family are beautifully accomplished and printed.

Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1934. First Edition. Publisher’s pictorial boards; very light rubbing; nearly fine.

Dresden: Verlag von O. & R. Becker, n.d. [1907]. First Edition. Quarto; publisher’s pictorial color boards; in German; many illustrations printed in color; very good.

London: Seeley and Company, 1911. First Edition. Front hinge cracked; publisher’s file copy stamp on the front free endpaper and the fore-edge; scattered pencil marks; notations on the list of illustrations, apparently concerning where the plates were printed; still a bright copy in the publisher’s illustrated cloth. In a very good dust jacket which has two tiny location labels on the spine (the jacket spine bears the imprint of Seeley Service & Co.). Included with this copy are various original illustrations used in the publication, including the following: a pen and ink and yellow wash sketch of the illustrations for the front cover and the spine; the color illustration, signed by artist John F. Campbell, appearing at page 184 in the book, depicting Queen Elizabeth knighting Francis Drake, a simpler variation of which is printed in gold on the cloth binding’s front cover; a black & white wash, signed by Campbell, that is reproduced on page 42 of “Fire-Ships;” a black & white wash… Read More

New York: Macmillan, 1938. First Edition. Very good in dust jacket.

Boston: Munroe and Francis, n.d. [ca. 1840-1850]. Probably a later edition. Wrappers; spine crudely re-sewn; spotting, soiling and wear; on the shabbier side of good.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1908. First Edition. A fine copy in the rare dust jacket; good to very good, with numerous chips and tears, archival tape mends.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1908. First Edition. Lacking the front free endpaper; good; the author’s inscription is pasted onto the front pastedown.

Akron: The Werner Company, 1899. First Edition. Publisher’s pictorial cloth; depicting an Indian motif based on the title story. The other stories concern General Grant, European travel, the Pope, etc. Very good.

New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1932. First Edition of this illustrated publication; complete with four working pop-ups; gift inscription on the half-title; a bit shaken; very good in dust jacket.

New York: John Martin’s House/ Dodd, Mead, 1931. First Edition. Aside from very slight foxing, a bright copy in a very good dust jacket with small chips and tears. Inscribed by Martin, “Always your loyal friend, John Martin.”

New York: Platt & Munk, 1942. “New Revised Edition.” Fine in a slightly worn dust jacket.