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List of Scarce and Rare Children's Books
Last Updated December 28, 2009
1. Biggers, Earl Derr. INSPECTOR
CHARLIE CHAN SOLVES A NEW MYSTERY. Racine, WI,
Whitman Publishing Co.: 1940. 424 pages. Some shelf wear to binding and rubbing
to spine and corners. Corners slightly bumped. Corners are slightly bumped.
$115.00
2. Brill, George Reiter. RHYMES
OF THE GOLDEN AGE. Illustrated by George Reiter Brill. Philadelphia,
Edward Stern & Company: 1908. . 123 pages. Shelf wear and rubbing to spine
edges and corners. A clean and tight copy. Original verse and beautiful color
illustrations throughout by noted illustrator George Reiter Brill. Very scarce
title. $100.00
3. Brown, Abbie Farwell. SONGS
OF SIXPENCE. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin: 1914. .
Shelf wear, else near VG in dust jacket with small chips to edges. D.j. also has
soiling and a small round chip missing on the front panel. Scarce dust jacket.
$55.00
4. Byington, Eloise. MOTHER
GOOSE FUN. MORE STORIES IN RHYME. Illustrated by Kathllen Stowell Frantz. Chicago,
Albert Whitman & Company: 1931. 128 pages. Shelf wear to binding and rubbing
to spine and corners. Some soiling to edges of covers. Pictorial color
illustration on the front cover. Nicely illustrated in color throughout. A
scarce Mother Goose title. $45.00
5. Cardell, William S. THE
BOY OF PRINCIPLE, THE MAN OF HONOR: OR, THE STORY OF JACK HALYARD. Philadelphia,
Uriah Hunt & Son: 1854. Shelf wear to spine & edges, with small chips
& tears at spine. Some fading to spine. Corners slightly bumped. Former
Sunday School label inside front cover. Small label remnant on spine. $40.00
6. David McKay Company. ROBIN
HOOD. Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth. Philadelphia,
David Mckay: 1917. 362 pages. Title page states 1917 at the bottom. In rare dust
jacket. Book has shelf wear to spine edges. Slight fading to the gold on the
spine title. The dust jacket has tears to the edges and chips missing from the
top of the spine and the back panel. D.j. is also soiled on the white portions
of the panels and spine. Nice d..j illustration Robin Hood and his merry men in
Sherwood Forest. $250.00
7. Deming, Edwin Willard & Therese O.
Deming. LITTLE INDIAN FOLK. New
York, Frederick A. Stokes: 1899. . Oblong illustrated paper-over-boards on front
and back covers.. Red cloth spine. Shelf wear to spine edges, corners and edges
of boards. Some rubbing to covers. A few small soiled spots to cover. Binding is
tight, hinges are sound and pages are clean and free from tears or marks. A very
nice copy of a scarce book. With 9 full-page color illustrations and numerous
other smaller black-and white illustrations by noted Native American artist E.W.
Deming. $150.00
8. Disney, Walt. MICKEY
MOUSE, RUNS HIS OWN NEWSPAPER. Racine, WI, Whitman
Publishing: 1937. 292 pages. Shelf wear to binding and rubbing to spine and
corners. Slight soiling to the covers. Binding is a bit cocked. Hinges and text
block are clean and tight. A solid copy of a scarce Big Little book. $75.00
9. Foote, Mary Hallcock. THE
LITTLE FIG-TREE STORIES. New York, Houghton,
Mifflin: 1899. . Wear to spine and extremities. Some fading to binding. Corners
rubbed through. Some soiling to covers. Binding tight. $14.00
10. Hare, Anne. THE
WOLLOPORS' FIELD DAY. Illustrated by Harry L. Miller. Chicago,
Saalfield: 1910. Some wear and rubbing to spine and corners. Small tear to paper
near bottom of spine. Some soiling to covers. Scarce title. $30.00
11. Hathaway, Cynthia. THE
PRETEND PUPPY. Illustrated by Romney Gay. New
York, Garden City Publishing: 1940. . Spine and edges shelf-worn, with some
fraying to edges. Some soiling to binding. Pictorial paper over boards
binding. $9.00
12. Hofland, Mrs. THE
AFFECTIONATE BROTHERS. A TALE. Boston, Munroe and
Francis: 1831. Red leather spine with marbled paper over board covers. Wear and
rubbing to board edges and spine extremities. Slight darkening and a few scuffs
to leather. A tight, clean copy. The authoress was a prolific English writer,
mostly of didactic children's stories. This particular title is quite didactic
and children were sure to get the point quickly. $55.00
13. Hornibrook, Isabel. GIRLS
OF THE MORNING-GLORY CAMP FIRE. Boston, Lothrop,
Lee & Shepard: 1916. . Some shelf wear. Corners slightly bumped. Scarce.
A nice pictorial cover. $45.00
14. Jay, B.F. UNCLE
BEN JAY'S JUMBLE-JUNGLE: OVER 300,000 COMPOSITE ANIMALS AND JUMBLED JINGLES. New
York, B.F. Jay: 1942. This copy has been tape repaired with clear strapping tape
on the inner hinges front and back. The spiral wire was broken in one place and
it has been glued and taped into position. Tape marks and scars across the edges
of the boards near the spine. Shelf wear to the board edges and the corners.
Contents complete. Still a very nice item with all movable page sections. A
delightful book. Sold as is. $95.00
15. Johnson, Burges. PLEASANT
TRAGEDIES OF CHILDHOOD. Illustrated by F.Y. Cory. New
York, Harper & Brothers: 1905. . Some shelf wear. Corners bumped. Some
soiling to binding. Scarce. A whimsical children's book. $25.00
16. Knapp, George L.. THE
QUEST OF THE GOLDEN CITIES. New York, Dodd, Mead:
1924. Signed by the author. Slight shelf wear and a couple of faded spots to
front covers. The dust jacket has some soiling and chips and tears around the
edges. $25.00
17. Leydenfrost, Robert. THE
SNAKE THAT SNEEZED. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons:
1970. . Ex-library binding with library stamps and pockets inside covers. Some
wear and slight fraying to spine edges. Corners are bumped. Binding is tight and
pages are clean. Very scarce title. $95.00
18. McCloskey, Robert. TIME
OF WONDER. Illustrated by the author. Signed by the author. New
York, Viking: 1957. This copy is signed by the author on the title page. Shelf
wear and some discoloration to the edges of the binding. The top right front
corner is bumped. The dust jacket has some older Scotch tape repairs along the
top and bottom panels, and some on the spine. There are a few chips missing from
the jacket edges, and a skinny length of jacket missing (about 5" long by
1/2" to 1" wide) and a few closed tears. Jacket is also worn at the
folds. The Caldecott medal is on the front cover. Rare signed first edition. A
wonderful children's book. $450.00
19. McLoughlin Brothers. LIFE
AND DEATH OF RICH MRS. DUCK. Dame Dingle Series #51. New
York, Mcloughlin Brothers: ca. 1910's. Softbound covers. Some soiling to covers.
Archival clear tape repair to a few tears to paper and inside front hinge.
Some fingerprint smudges to page edges here and there. A few pencil notations on
back cover. This is #51 in the publisher's Dame Dingle Series. $25.00
20. Preston, Chloe. FIVE
BAD CHUNKIES. Springfield, Mass, Mcloughlin
Brothers: 1929. . Shelf wear to binding and rubbing to spine and corners. Some
soiling to covers. The paper spine is about half-way gone. Contents are
complete. Front hinge about half-way torn, corners rubbed. Illustrated nicely.
Scarce. $65.00
21. Price, Christine. TALKING
DRUMS OF AFRICA. Illustrated by the author. New
York, Atheneum: 1973. . 48 pages. First edition in dust jacket. The book and
jacket have slight shelf wear to the edges. There are a couple of small chips to
the edge of the dust jacket. Overall a beautiful copy of this important
children's book. $125.00
22. Rae, John. WHY.
REFLECTIONS FOR CHILDREN. Verse and pictures by John Rae. New
York, Dodd, Mead: 1910. . Binding shows wear to spine & corners. Some
scuffing to covers. Complete with original mirror in front pocket inside
front cover. A delightful and quite rare children's book. The text is written in
the form of a question on one page and the answer written in mirror-image on the
opposite page. The mirror is then held up to the backwards print and the answer
can be deciphered. This book is complete. A few pages have fingerprint smudges
and some soiling. The instructions on the back of the mirror state "The
reversed pages in this book can be read by reflecting them in the mirror which
can be removed by pressing the finger through the question mark in the front of
the cover. $250.00
23. Randolph, Althea. A
BOUQUET OF RHYMES FOR CHILDREN: VERSES BY RANDOLPH. Illustrated by Isabel
Whitney. New York, Bonnell Silver & Company:
1909. . Large pictorial binding. Wear to spine and board edges. Some soiling
to binding and discoloration. Binding is tight and contents complete. With
beautiful full-page illustrations in color. A wonderful children's book. $75.00
24. Rue, Flora C. THE
COCOA DANCER. Illustrated by Gladys Rourke Blackwood. Chicago,
Albert Whitman & Co. : 1945. Spine and edges shelf-worn, with some fraying
to edges. Corners rubbed. Some scuffing to binding. One page has quite a bit of
tape repair with Scotch tape.. Crayon scribbles to back endpages, but not
affecting the text. Scarce children's book. $55.00
25. Schwarz, Sylvia W. A
WINDOW BOX OF VERSE. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. New
York, Samuel Gabriel & Company: 1930. . Some wear to spine and corners, else
near VG. Slight soiling to covers. $35.00
26. Segar, E. C. POPEYE'S
ARK. ADAPTED FROM THE FAMOUS NEWSPAPER COMIC SERIES. New
York, Saalfield: 1936. Shelf wear to binding and rubbing to spine and corners.
Spine is missing. Covers are loosening a bit, but still firmly attached. Some
soiled spots. A very scarce book. Written with a utopian theme using Popeye as a
Biblical Noah character. Rare, condition noted. $100.00
27. Skinner, Eleanor L, and Ada M.
Skinner. CHILDREN'S PLAYS. New
York, D. Appleton: 1918. Some shelf wear. Corners bumped. Front hinge
cracked. Back hinge is starting to crack. Binding is tight. $35.00
28. Swett, John-et al. BANCROFT'S
THIRD READER. San Francisco, A. L. Bancroft: 1883.
Heavy shelf wear to spine and covers, with fraying & chipping. Cover
soiled. Some smudged fingerprints and stains inside to pages. Binding sound. $75.00
29. Zechlin, Ruth. BED-TIME FUN FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. New York, Loring & Mussey: 1934. Wear and rubbing to spine and corners, else Good+. Dust jacket has chipping and wear to edges, with several large chips missing. $15.00