Children's Book Gallery is an antiquarian bookshop dealing in children's books from 1750 to 1950 that represent the best of the marketplace, both in rarity and condition. Our primary focus is on graphically interesting books from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries aimed at children younger than adolescents, but we include all kinds of children's books with charm and character. We also specialize in original children's book art.
D’Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar.
New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1936. Small folio, [56]pp. With pictorial endpapers, a headpiece and a full-page plate alternating color and black-and-white, throughout. Original decorated boards, black cloth backstrip, a very good copy. First edition. Edgar Parin took his mother's maiden name, d'Aulaire, when he became an artist. Edgar, who was a pupil of Henry Matisse, illustrated books in Germany from 1922 to 1926, and painted frescoes in Norway from 1926 to 1927. He met Ingri while they were attending art school in Paris, and they were married in 1925. After a vacation to the United States, the couple decided to $225.00
[Stone, Wilbur Macy]
New York: privately printed for the Tryptych, 1924. Small 4to, [56]pp, printed on one side of the page only, with woodcut text and illustrations colored by hand. Original brown boards, hand-colored illustration on each cover, cloth backstrip, fine as issued. Limited to 99 copies, this copy with the bookplate and pencil signature of William Landauer. The illustrations are of wooden toys, accompanied by simple verses. Wilbur M. Stone is best remembered for his association with children’s books, miniature books, and bookplates. The Triptych also published at least one other book together The Purple Book of Bookplates. $1,295.00
(Chapbook)
Baltimore: William Raine, [c. 1830]. 12mo. 6 ff. Illustrated with colored wood engravings throughout. Printed on one side only. Original printed wrappers have been imperceptibly repaired at backstrip, and show light creasing and wrinkling to covers. Some light spotting internally. A series of two-stanza verses highlight the rewards of good behavior and the consequences of poor behavior. This is a very rare chapbook, with no copies of this edition recorded in institutional holdings. OCLC records two Baltimore printings (possibly the same), each in one copy. Both are titled “William Raines Edition” but list Bayly and Burns as publisher. Not in $1,250.00
[Johnson, Richard]
Worcester, MA: Isaiah Thomas, 1787. 12mo, 119 pp. + [4] pp. advertisements. Uncut and unbound, first page is the title-page (lacking wrappers and inserted frontispiece). Page 53 with a traingular piece missing in bottom corner. 8 signatures tied together in original publisher’s cords. 20 woodcut illustrations in the text. A remarkable survival in original condition, albeit before binding and thus lacking the frontispiece. OCLC notes: “1st American ed. Welch notes that the vols bound thus were part of a publisher's remainder. first pub by E. Newbery, Johnson's day-book notes delivery of text 16 Oct 1780.” Evans 20440. Welch 680.1. Rosenbach $1,250.00
