Very scarce heavily illustrated Victorian children’s picture book issued for the Christmas holiday trade. A three-quarter-page engraving illustrates each page, beneath which is a poetical..... Read More
C.1955 Children’s cook book with easy, child-friendly recipes issued by the Carnation Company, cheerfully illustrated. While the company’s evaporated milk is not featured in every..... Read More
![[Young Pennsylvania German Girl’s c.1938–1940 Cartoon Drawing and Story Book with Text and Dialog in Pennsylfawnish Dialect]. Catherine M. Weaver.](/pictures/thumb/3727775.jpg?v=1542302133)
Pennsylvania German girl’s cartoon drawing book capturing daily life and humorous childhood foibles in and around Ephrata, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The folk art manuscript was..... Read More
![Westward Ho. [Autograph Edition]. Charles Kingsley.](/pictures/thumb/3727297_1.jpg?v=1536172149)
A lavishly-illustrated edition of Kinglsey’s Westward Ho. American artist Thornton Oakley (1881–1953) was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was familiar with its railroad factories and..... Read More
![Doctor for the Zoo. [Inscribed Copy]. Charlotte Mason Dickson.](/pictures/thumb/3728246_1.jpg?v=1547075612)
Unrecorded children’s book proposing all of the medical treatments each animal in the zoo would receive should they have a particular ailment. Interestingly, this immediate..... Read More
Bimbo, a cartoon dog, made his screen debut in 1930 as the animated star of Fleischer Studios’ Hot Dog. The career of a hot dog... Read More
Inscribed and signed by the author, thus: “For Kenneth who shared my desire for another kind of history.” (Kenneth M. Kolb’s bookplate neatly affixed inside..... Read More
Lovely copy of this charming little book of poetry by this African American author and noted African American illustratror Lois Mailou Jones. Washington, D.C.: Associated..... Read More
Children’s book about the adventures of 5-year-old twins Roggie and Reggie who leave their home in California to go to Washington, D.C. with their father..... Read More
![Bronzeville Boys and Girls. [Inscribed Copy]. Gwendolyn Brooks.](/pictures/thumb/3728245_1.jpg?v=1546963432)
Children’s book by this Pulitzer-Prize winning author. This copy inscribed and signed in 1985 by Gwendolyn Brooks. A collection of poems about children who live..... Read More
Juvenile book or annual—Chatterbox for 1913—seen here in a brightly gilt American publisher’s trade cloth binding with color onlay and binder’s cancel on upper cover..... Read More
![Abraham Lincoln. [Inscribed by the Author]. James Daugherty, 1889–1974, James Harry Daugherty.](/pictures/thumb/3728011_1.jpg?v=1545068127)
Juvenile biography of Abraham Lincoln written and illustrated by Newbery Medalist and Caldecott Honoree, James Daugherty (1889–1974). Numerous full page illustrations. Warm inscription by Daugherty... Read More
An Egyptian boy must solve the mystery of who stole the Pharaoh’s treasure or his brother, who stands falsely accused of the crime, must die..... Read More
![Pioneers of Long Ago. [Lois Mailou Jones, Illustrator]. Jessie Hailstalk Roy, Geneva Calcier Turner.](/pictures/thumb/3728182_1.jpg?v=1545174819)
With compelling illustrations by Lois Mailou Jones, an American history book for African American youth, written by two African American women from Washington, D.C. Each..... Read More
![[1901 Autograph Letter Signed by Julia Magruder, Author, Writing to Editor William Clemens about Short Stories for Children]. Julia Magruder, 1854–1907.](/pictures/thumb/3726054_1.jpg?v=1534362328)
Letter from American novelist and writer Julia Magruder (1854–1907) here writing to an editor, one “Mr. Clemens,” concerning short stories for children. It appears that..... Read More
A little mouse named Suzie who lives with her parents “in an old wooden box in a corner of the garden,” with toadstool “trees” outside..... Read More
“To Adorn the Nursery” This amusing portfolio of 9 color prints offers a humorous look at childhood. Intended as decorations for the nursery, the prints..... Read More
A collection of African folk tales for a children’s audience brought about from the author’s expertise in Africana, especially the cultures of Sudan, Angola and..... Read More
