Children's Books

Children’s Books

Browning, Robert, The Pied Piper of Hamelin (London/New York: Frederick Warne & Co., 1888, reprinted c. 1970s. ISBN 0-7232-0586-8. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway (1846-1901). Former school library copy; good condition. Hardcover, no dust jacket, printed cover illustration. Quarto, 48 pp. HBB price: $20.

Chapin, Anna Alice, The Everyday Fairy Book (Dodd, Mead, 1st ed., 1915). Hardcover, no dust jacket. Quarto, 160 pp., six of even color illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith included (frontispiece missing). Fair condition. Chapin who co-wrote the libretto to Babes in Toyland at 24, published her first book at 17, and died at untimely age of 39 in 1920. HBB price: $25.

Coy, John, Night Driving (Henry Holt, 1996, 1st ed. 3rd printing). ISBN 0-8050-2931-1. A small boy recalls an overnight drive with his dad for a camping trip in the mountains, circa 1950. Magical illustrations by Peter McCarty. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition, autographed. HBB price: $25.

Hamilton, Virginia, The People Could Fly (Knopf, 1st ed., 11th printing, 1993). ISBN 0-394-86925-7. Newberry Medal and Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Hamilton brings 24 classic African-American folk tales to life, aided by forty illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon, Caldecott Medal winners. A remarkable, delightful work. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket with a few small nicks; very good condition. HBB price: $59.

George MacDonald, The Golden Key (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1967; 2d ed., 1996; illustrations by Maurice Sendak, afterword by W. H. Auden. 85 pp. hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, Library of Congress catalog card number 67-10391. Small octavo, very good condition). Your price: US $75.

Dr. Seuss, Horton Hatches the Egg (Random House, 1940, unstated printing, but likely 5th or later, c. 1957).  Hardcover, cream boards with white end papers, no dust jacket. Very good condition. Owner signature on front endpaper. No internal marks. HBB price: $50.

Irwin, Inez Haynes, Maida’s Little Shop (Grosset & Dunlap, Reprint, c. 1940). First of a 15-book series for kids by the suffragette, World War I foreign correspondent and author Inez Haynes Irwin (1873-1970). Published in 1909 by a small publishing house, it was picked up by G&D, which published all but one of the next fourteen novels  through 1955. Hardcover, no dust jacket, good condition. Six pages of publisher’s ads in the back. HBB price: $20.

Mauzey, Merritt, Cotton-Farm Boy (Henry Schuman, 1st. ed., 1953). LOC 53-10940. Largely self-taught, Mauzey (1898-1973) became a celebrated mid-century lithographer and children’s books author after he saw his first works exhibited at the Texas Centennial Exposition of 1936. This book is in virtually as-new condition, with an unmarred, unclipped dust jacket covered in mylar. A bookseller tag attached to the bottom of the front end papers identified Battery Park Book Exchange in Asheville, NC. A rare find in such excellent condition. HBB price: $75.

Piper, Watty, The Gateway to Storyland (Platt & Munk, New Revised Ed. 1954). Quarto-sized collection of brightly-illustrated classic children’s tales. This much-loved copy has wear at the corners, and some pre-school crayon scribbles in a couple of sports. A fine example of post-war kids’ book illustration. HBB price: $25.

Rushmore, Helen, and Wolf Robe Hunt, The Dancing Horses of Acoma And Other Indian Stories (World Publishing, stated 1st ed., 1963). LOC #63-14775. Wolf robe Hunt (1905-77) was a noted Acoma artist, writer and folklorist in Oklahoma. The stories in this collection are of Acoma life in New Mexico’s deserts, as told by Wolf Robe Hunt to Rushmore; Wolf Robe Hunt also illustrated the book’s color drawings. Dustjacket is unclipped but has clear tape repairs around edges. Book is in good condition; one two-page illustration is detached from spine but in place in the book. Inscribed by Wolf Robe Hunt “all great friends of mine- Leigh, Cindy, Susan and Jan” on the title page in 1964. HBB price: $25.

Winget, Susan, The Night Before Christmas (Lang Books, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1999). ISBN 0-7412-0285-9. The North Carolina illustrator’s recreation of Clement Clay Moore’s celebrated holiday poem. Hardcover, green cloth boards with embossed titling; unclipped dust jacket. Attractive slipcase. Very good condition. Presentation page inscribed, to Joshua Silard, from Grandma Silard, December 1999. Rare with the slipcase. HBB price: $49.95.