THE POP-UP PINOCCHIO by Collodi, Carlo (Harold Lentz, Illustrator) - 1932

Paris: Maison de la Bonne Presse 1895. (Hardcover) 324, 324pp. Very good. Volumes 1 and 2 (consisting of the first 40 issues) bound together in red half leather. The covers of each volume are bound-in. Illustrated throughout (many of which are tinted in various pastel colors) including numerous full-page illustrations. A dampstain on the outer edge of the front cover. Histoires, voyages, sciences, vies des saints, geographie, beaux-arts, jeux, rebus. Text in French Language. (Juvenile).

Harper & Brothers,, 1906. HBDJ, 1906. 1st Edition, Early Printing, Beautiful brown Tweed with Black red white Illustrated Cloth Hardcover of Boy in Hat with White Horse pulling Carriage. Book Condition: Very Good. Shelf wear DJ , GOOD+ Condtion, AS-IS, , Cover light Rub, Wear, Interior nice tight Clean light FOX, Wear, 147 Pgs, NO ADS in Back, Fading to DJ & tiny Chips Tears pieces Extremities, Spine ends DJ small Chips Tears, Back DJ lists thru Sandmans Stories of Snowed-In Hut Fox Wear . Snowball is pet Pony & Wee Winkles & Her Brother Learn How to Care For Him, How to Harness & Drive Him & Many other Interesting Things About Animals, Kindness to pets is Keynote of Book. First Edition. Hard Cover.

Norwalk: Easton Press 1985. (4to) 122pp. Near fine, no dust jacket. Blue leather with gilt lettering and decoration on the spine and cover. All edges gilt, ribbon bookmark, color illustrations. Very slight sun damage along the spine and on the front cover, and a previous owner's book plate on the front free endpaper. Illustrations by Michael Hague. (Juvenile).

London: Oxford University Press, [1949]. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good-. 4to. Unpaged. Bound in illustrated boards, in matching dust jacket, Full-color and black and white illustrations by Ardizzone throughout. 'First published in 1949'' stated on copyright page, "8/6 net / Ages 5-7" printed on lower corner of front flap of dust jacket, ads for the first three books in the Tim series on the rear flap of dust jacket. This is the first post-war book in the 'Tim' series and the first to be designed in the smaller 4to format. Additionally, at the request of Oxford University Press's US department, Ardizzone changed the character of the ship's cook from a black man to a white man (Alderson p. 72). Very Good, previous owner's inscription in blue ink to front free endpaper, age-toning to pages, some soiling to margins of a few pages, bumping and rubbing to binding, in Very Good dust jacket with heavy foxing showing through from verso, chips missing from head and tail of spine as well as… Read More

GIBSON, Eva Katharine. Zauberlinda The Wise Witch. Chicago: Robert Smith Printing Co [1901]. 8vo, 258pp. Blue cloth pictorially stamped in yellow and orange. Pictorial endpapers with fixed sheets printed with an orange background; illustrations in one-color on every page with text in black. Light rubbing to spine ends and lower corners, covers slightly so, spine lightly sunned, a few pages slightly soiled in margins, else an unusually clean, tight copy.
First edition. A very early Oz imitation, being released just a year after the publication of Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (which had been the best-selling children's book of 1900). The book features a style imitating the format of the first Oz novel, with line drawings printed in a variety of colors appearing over and around the text of the novel, just as in The Wizard. Gibson's tale is also very reminiscent of Baum's, telling of an isolated little girl on the prairie who is transported into a realm of magic and danger, only to have to find her… Read More

London: Ernest Nister, 1885 ND, circa 1885. Brown cloth-backed illustrated boards, light corner wear, some shelf wear to rear board, 2 gift inscriptions. Hand-lettered verse tells the story of a city mouse visiting her country cousin, unfortunately, the tale does not end well for the city mouse. Illustrated by 12 striking chromolithographs. All pages are stiff board. An exceptional copy of a scarce book. . Illustrated Boards. Very Good +/No Jacket. Illus. by Madeline Hall. Square 8vo.

London: Latimer, 1950 Book. Illus. by Louis Ward. VG+/Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Lovely unmarked royal blue cloth with black lettering to spine, b/w frontispiece by Louis Ward (who also designed the dustwrapper), VG+/Fine copy in VG complete unclipped dustwrapper, just a few closed tears and rubs at corners, a little crushed/rubbed at spine ends - a delightful unfaded copy of a very scarce title, especially in its nice original dustjacket.

HBDJ, 1950. Stated First Edition; First Printing, VG+/VG. AS-IS, Dates match ,  Green Tweed Cloth Hardcover cvr Lite wear Titled in Blue on Spine with Illustration on front of boy in Snowshoes .   DJ. Minor wear to extremities. Jacket is in a fresh mylar cover. ; 8vo.Interior Nice tight clean Light wear Fox, Jacket shows slight edgewear, light wear to back DJ and some TINY CHIPS ENDS DJ SPINE;   DJ Protected Clear Mylar cvr, 5 x 8.  , 182 PGS, Half Title pg Former Owner pencil Inscription dated  1951, who have spent many summers in Deep Hollow, persuade their Parents to allow them to spend their Winter Holiday there with the Joosts, the Postmaster, His wife & their Son, chuck  !  It is perfect weather for winter Sports.they go Skiing, & Sleigh Riding, Play Hockey, Skate, Fish thru the Ice, & Practically Fly Across Miles of ice in Chuck’s New Ice Boat. Strange things start Happening that build Up Suspense. & Smsons become Amateur Detectives,    ages 7 to 10.

De Wolfe & Fiske Company. Good+ with no dust jacket. N.D.. No Edition Stated. Pictorial Hardcover. No publication date found; corners of covers lightly bumped w/small tears, rear cover has moisture mark, shelfwear, pages lightly toning, owner's inscription (dated 1907) in pencil on FFEP, little bit of light soiling; illustrated with b/w pictures and 4 color plates .

London: Chapman and Hall, 1882. First printing. Volumes 1 and 2 only of the three-volume set. Tan cloth with brown floral decoration and gilt spine lettering. Moderate shelfwear with frayed spine ends. The spines are a bit darkened. Previous owner's name, dated 1882, is written on both front free endpapers, along with that of a later owner. Vol 1 has a gutter crack at pg. 273. Both volumes have short tears in the cloth at the rear joints.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.