The Little Chick That Would Not Go to Bed by Deihl, Edna Groff - 1924

NY: Beginnner. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Boards rubbed, gift inscription on front . free endpaper, jacket lightly soiled and rubbed.. 1960. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Pictorial glazed boards. Dr. Seuss' classic easy reader. Contains all the first printing points as per Younger/Hirsch 64. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 62 pages .

NY: Viking. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket toned, price-clipped and . moderately worn.. 1939. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated with color frontispiece and numerous other black and white illustrations by the author. A Newbery honor book. Signed by Seredy on the half-title. Gray illustrated cloth. Illustrated endpapers. The sequel to the author's The Good Master, continuing the story about two Hungarian children between the World Wars. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 247 pages .

Paris: Hachette. Very Good with no dust jacket; Pages toned, boards lightly soiled and . worn, hole at tail of spine, spine cracked.. 1928. Hardcover. Yellow cloth spine, color illustrated paper-covered boards. Text in French. 31 color plates plus cover illustration by R. De la Neziere, a widely published French illustrator. Unpaginated. Engaging stories of animals and birds, mostly from the farmyard, but some exotics like lions, polar bears, and crocodiles. Thirty-one one page stories each face a full-color plate. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

NY: McLoughlin Brothers. Very Good; Some light foxing to center leaves.. N.D.. Softcover. Circa 1860s. Pink sewn stiff wrappers printed in red and black. Measures 6.5 x 4.5 inches. [8]pp. Vibrant color printed engravings by Cogger on each page of text. Wrappers and illustrations are remarkably bright and fresh. A title in the Peter Prim's series. Contains two cautionary tales in verse for young children. The first, Truant Peter, tells of a book who skips school to go fishing, only to be pulled into the ocean by a big fish, where he is subsequently rescued by fishermen. The second story relates the story of Idle Frank, an odious boy who pulls his sister's hair, ties a stick to his dog's tail, and grows up to be a homeless beggar. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. Good with no dust jacket; Usual library stamps and markings, pages toned and finger soiling throughout, spine cocked.. 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library copy rebound in orange patterned reinforced cloth. xii, 333pp. Black and white plates and many other smaller elegant illustrations by Alexander Popini. A collection of 41 fairy tales from Grimm and Andersen, as well as traditional fairy tales from Greece, Norway, Roumania, Ireland, India, Turkey, China, and some other countries. Johnson notes in his introduction that he has edited the stories to remove "savagery, distressing details and excessive pathos", and removed references to cruel fathers and wicked stepmothers. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY and Boston: H. M. Caldwell Company. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, bookseller's ticket on front . pastedown endpaper, owner name on front flyleaf, front hinge cracked, a . few pages smudged, shaken.. 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Brown cloth binding with color illustration of young boy in nightshirt with lit candle on front and rear boards. Decorative endpapers. 44 full-page illustrations in red and black. An antique children's picture book about a group of five Kewts: bald little people (not quite as cute as Palmer Cox's Brownies, but similar) who take a tour, written in verse, of the 48 United States with their tour guide Sammy, a short, bald version of Uncle Sam. There's Kewt Pat (Irish) , Kewt Sandy (Scottish) , Kewt Ah San (Chinese) , Kewt Hans (Dutch) and Kewt Sambo (a fez-wearing African). Sambo suffers the most from stereotypical writing and illustrations and Native Americans of Oklahoma are also slammed. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 94 pages .

NY: Beginnner. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Boards rubbed, gift inscription on front . free endpaper, jacket lightly soiled and rubbed.. 1960. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Pictorial glazed boards. Dr. Seuss' classic easy reader. Contains all the first printing points as per Younger/Hirsch 64. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 62 pages .

NY: Crown Publishers. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Head of spine bumped.. 1984. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0517555948 . Signed by the author-illustrator team and embellished with two drawings on half title page. Glossy illustrated boards. A sophisticated children's picture book by the Caldecott medalists about the differences between urban and rural living. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

NY: Atheneum. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly toned.. 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. 0590757849 . Signed by the late Caldecott medalists with a maple leaf drawing on title page. The husband and wife author/illustrator team describe seasonal chores and the animals at their real-life upstate New York farm. Tan cloth binding. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

NY: McGraw-Hill. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Gift inscription on half-title, jacket lightly worn and toned at spine.. 1972. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. 0070024006 . An early title by the prolific children's author and illustrator best known for his Moonbear picture books, like Milk and Cookies and Mooncake. Intricate black and white illustrations throughout. Illustrated boards. A story about a lion who lives on an island with various human and animal friends. After they criticize him, he sails away and meets a penguin at the South Pole and falls in love. ; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall .