New York: Weathervane Books, 1977. Octavo. 147 pp. Bound in original maroon leather. Gilt spine and front board. Housed in original illustrated dust jacket. Jacket shows light shelfwear. Minor toning to rear panel. Unmarked. Tight binding. A very well-preserved copy.A beautiful facsimile of the classic 1915 edition featuring the iconic.....
Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, 1900. Octavo. Olive-green cloth featuring a decorative pictorial cover design of a child riding a fish, stamped in gold leaf, white, and pink; spine titled in dulled gold. Notable splitting and loss to head of spine; light rubbing to corners and extremities. Spine slightly cocked. Uniform.....
Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1924. Octavo. 138 pp. Original maroon cloth. Large color pictorial onlay to front board. Black stamped titles. Spine ends and corners worn. Light fraying to cloth at extremities. Minor surface loss to front board image. Internal pages show moderate foxing and toning. Color frontispiece by.....
![Item #999 Dragon Rider [uncorrected proof]. Cornelia Funke](https://columbusrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/999.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1787608307)
New York: The Chicken House / Scholastic Inc., 2004. Octavo. 528 pp. Original pictorial stiff card wrappers with metallic bronze and gold foil lettering to front cover and spine. Advance reader's edition. A well-preserved copy. Spine uncreased. Text block clean. Faint rubbing to corner tips. Minor surface shelfwear to rear.....
![Item #68 Mike Mars At Cape Canaveral [Signed]. Donald A. Wollheim](https://columbusrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/68.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1748553543)
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961. Albert Orbaan. hardcover. This is a vintage, adventure space age book for young children, signed by the author. Book is in very good condition. 186 pages. Inventory: 68.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1894. J. Wells Champney. First Edition. 294 pp. 8vo. Original sage-green cloth with gilt titles and pictorial silver and black stamping to front board and spine. Spine darkened with rubbing to gilt and wear at ends. Corners blunted. Interior clean with firm binding; pages.....
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1956. First Edition. Crown Octavo. 159 [4] pp. Hardcover bound in publisher's original quarter-cloth over paper boards. Binding tight, minor wear to spine head and tail. Dust jacket unclipped. Includes No. 7042A on front flap. Large tear across the upper back panel. Tear to.....
![Item #96 Panuck: Eskimo Sled Dog [Signed]. Frederick Machetanz](https://columbusrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/96.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1749500053)
New York - London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939. Frederick Machetanz. Hardcover. This is a near very good quality, signed, copy of "Panuck - Eskimo Sled Dog" by Frederick Machetanz. It is a children's story of Alaska, with illustrations by the author. The book appears to be a first edition from.....
New York: Harper & Row, 1976. Hardcover. 32 pp. Hardcover, illustrated boards, with original dust jacket clipped. Book clean and sound with no fading or underlining; dust jacket with moderate wear and light staining to front and rear panels.First published in 1976, this classic and poignant children’s picture book reflects.....
New York: A. L. Burt, 1900. H. W. Rainey. Good. 255 [3] pp. Olive-green cloth, pictorial black-stamped boards and spine; publisher imprint at foot of spine; illustrated throughout with black-and-white plates. Moderate shelfwear and rubbing, edge wear and scattered surface soiling; spine ends and corners worn; binding sound, with exception.....
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1905. Large Octavo. Unpaginated. Original maroon cloth, elaborately stamped in gilt and cream. Notable damp-staining to front board. Spine ends and corners rubbed and bumped. Top edge gilt. Previous owner's manuscript inscription to flyleaf. Internal pages show light toning and foxing. Tissue-guarded color frontispiece and numerous.....
New York: Delacorte Press, 1981. First US Edition. 12 pp. Glossy pictorial boards featuring metallic and circuit-board motif. Light edgewear, mild surface rubbing to boards typical of high-gloss finishes; interior pop-ups bright, crisp, and fully functional with all major mechanical elements present. Hinges sound.Issued at the height of Pieńkowski’s acclaim.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. Maxfield Parrish. Royal octavo. 339 pp. Dark brown cloth over boards with a pictorial color paste-down to the front cover; gilt spine lettering. Illustrated endpapers, title page vignette, and 12 full-color plates. Bookplate to front pastedown. Rubbing and edge wear to the front cover.....
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1926. Nancy Barnhart. 351 pp. No DJ. Blue boards bound in cloth. Gold gilt lettering on the cover and spine, along with black illustration on the cover. Deckled edges. Slight fraying on the bottom of the spine. Missing the frontispiece. Pale green illustrated endpapers. Grahame’s.....
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1922. Gwynedd M. Hudson. 181 [1] pp. Red cloth black blocked illustration and gold gilt lettering along cover and spine. Twelve full-color plates and numerous black-and-white illustrations by Gwynedd M. Hudson. Illustrated endpapers. Spine slightly loose, light toning to text block, moderate foxing to endpapers, minor.....
![Item #201 South and North, East and West: The Oxfam Book of Children's Stories [Signed]....](https://columbusrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/201.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1759289223)
Massachusetts: Candlewick Press, 1992. various. 96 pp. Tight binding, clean boards, an unclipped dust jacket showing little to no shelf wear. DJ in excellent condition. Signed by Whoopi Goldberg on dark grey endpapers.A multicultural anthology of children’s stories, edited by poet and activist Michael Rosen. With an introduction by Whoopi.....
![Item #885 My Bookhouse [6 Volume Set]. Olive Beaupré Miller, Ed](https://columbusrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/885.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1785890946)
Chicago: The Bookhouse for Children, 1925. Octavo. Blue cloth boards with gilt-stamped spines. Color illustration pastedowns to front boards heavily scuffed and rubbed with notable loss to images. Fraying to spine ends and corners. Binding sound. Pages toned.Early 20th-century anthology of children's literature. Miller’s "Bookhouse" system was designed to grow.....
![Item #624 The Fox, the Dog, and the Griffin [signed]. Poul Anderson](https://columbusrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/624.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1775678588)
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1966. Laszlo Kubinyi. Second printing. 64 [1] pp. Illustrated hardcover in unclipped dust jacket, with bright green endpapers. Jacket shows moderate edgewear and some soiling along the spine, creasing, with old clear covering/tape remnants from the protective mylar; book itself remains clean and presentable, with.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. First edition, first printing. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. Illustrated by Joseph Schindelman.True first printing, identified by the six-line colophon on the final page, including the statement “Paper manufactured by S. D. Warren Co.”Original red cloth boards with blind-stamped title to front board.....
Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Co., 1916. Octavo. Publisher's olive-tan cloth stamped in black and coral red on upper board, spine lettered in black. Illustrated throughout with Art Nouveau-style line drawings, decorative headings, and vignettes by Myrtle Sheldon. Minor wear to spine ends and corners. Small spot to head of.....
New York: Random House, 1949. Octavo. 208 pp. First Printing. Original black cloth with gold-stamped horse and red horizon. Red topstain. Dust jacket unclipped. Jacket worn with small chips at corners and spine ends. Spine lightly toned. Internally clean; binding tight.A first edition of the fifth installment of the Black.....
![Item #99 Now We Are Six [Signed 1st Edition]. A A. Milne](https://columbusrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/99.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1757043717)
London: Methuen & Co, 1927. E.H. Shepard. 1st. A first edition, first printing of Now We Are Six (Methuen & Co., London, 1927), signed “A.A. Milne” on the title page without inscription. This beloved volume—the third in the Winnie-the-Pooh series—features thirty-five poems brought to life by the whimsical illustrations of E.H. Shepard.....
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. First edition, early printing. 91 pp. Brown cloth boards with dark brown ink illustration of the Little Prince and stars. Spine stamped in brown with title, author, and publisher. Light toning to pages; binding tight; no dust jacket. Written and illustrated by.....
![Item #123 For Freedom [Rare unique cover]. Arthur Huff Fauset](https://columbusrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/123.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1750354416)
Philadelphia: Franklin Publishing and Supply Co., 1934. Mabel Betsy Hill. Cover illustrator: Aaron Douglas. Hardcover. This is a near very good condition copy of the youth, African American History classic, "For Freedom" by Arthur Huff Fauset. This book details several important figures of history in their driving towards freedom and.....
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1969. Pauline Baynes. Tenth Impression. 173 pp. Dark cloth boards with white spine lettering. Light shelf wear; binding firm; pages clean. Some chipping to the top of the dust jacket spine, and tearing along the bottom. Some foxing and toning throughout. This tenth impression retains the original Geoffrey.....