Search Results: Anthropormorphism from E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA

Chicago: Merrill Publishing, 1939 Color printed cover, spine wear, bottom corner slightly dogeared, abrasion to first two pages. A brightly colored and nicely printed abc book featuring humanized animals and red-cheeked children.. Very Good. 4to.

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1946 Pictorial boards, with some shelf wear, discoloration of cloth near edge of pastedown else clean and beautiful; illustrated dust jacket with light wear and tiny losses, original price intact ($.85). 8 full page color plates.. Later Printing. Pictorial Boards. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Harrison Cady. Square 8vo..

New York: R H Russell, 1902 49 numbered pages not including illustrations. Pictorial board with cloth spine, cover soil and moderate edge wear, a few cracks in the binding. An undersea fantasy featuring humanized creatures and articulated Dutch dolls. 48 full page b&w drawings. 4 copies located in institutions on OCLC.. First Edition. Very Good -/No Jacket. Illus. by Willard Bertram Price. Square 8vo.

Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1916 [1924] based on publisher's code. Blue cloth with pictorial pastedown, light shelf wear; illustrated dust jacket with large pieces missing, nearly split at spine folds. Stories about a little bear with adorable color plates by Warner Carr throughout. . Early Printing. Near Fine/Fair. Illus. by Warner Carr. 8vo.

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1946 Pictorial boards with cloth spine, light wear to corners else fine; matching dust jacket with light wear, original price intact ($.85). The story of Johnny the woodchuck. Illustrated with 8 color plates by Harrison Cady. . Early Printing. Pictorial Boards. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Harrison Cady. Square 8vo..

Meriden, CT: International Silver Co, 1939 42 pgs. Illustrated wraps with barely-mentionable wear and dust soil. A sort of parody of Alice's trial from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The end goal is to teach the reader the proper placesetting for silverware. Illustrated with line art printed in red ink. Uncommon.. Illustrated Wraps. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Louis Farrar. 8vo.

New York: Macmillan, 1931 Mustard cloth pictorial stamped in red, cloth worn through at extremities, A selection of familiar American tunes for children grouped by region. Illustrated with partial-page, b&w artwork by Harrison Cady. An uncommon book, made extra-special by an original color drawing and inscription by Harrison Cady. . Signed by Illustrator. First Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Near Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Harrison Cady. Oblong 4to.

New York: J F Taylor, 1902 Yellow cloth pictorially stamped in red & black, cover soil and extremity wear, gift inscription, a few corner bends and slightly shaken binding, occasional finger soil. Overall, a nice copy of a scarce fantasy about a little boy whose rag doll confidant comes to life and whisks him away to a land where all the toys are sentient beings. Illustrated with fanciful b&w artwork throughout. Not in Baumgarten.. First Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Louis M Glackens. 8vo.

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1984 Pictorial boards, very mild bumping to spine ends and bottom corner; matching dust jacket with light wear and original price intact ($6.95). The follow-up to Angelina Ballerina. . First American Edition. Pictorial Boards. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Helen Craig. Oblong 4to.

New York: McLoughlin Bros, 1910 Circa 1910. Color-printed, die-cut card wraps, edge & spine wear, loss to base of spine and at the edges of a few pages, pages brittle, will need to be handled with care. Illustrated with 6 pages printed in color, the balance in line. Fables and humorous verses about animals. The cover is a pirated version of Louis Wain's Dandy Lion, some of the b&w artwork is by George Henry Thompson. . Early Printing. Original Wraps. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Louis Wain (cover, piracy), George Henry Thompson. Folio.

New York: Saml Gabriel Sons No date, Circa 1930. Eight linen-textured booklets with light wear, "Puppies" with 3" spine split, no writing or foxing. Eight booklets with simple rhymes and printed in color, most featuring humanized animals. The titles are: Pussies, Puppies, Chickies, Teddies, Piggies, Duckies, Pups & Pussies, and Bunnies. While no author or illustrator is credited, Mary LaFetra Russell did a lot of animal-themed books for Sam'l Gabriel at the time and these books are almost undoubtedly by her hand or an extremely good imitator. The books come housed in the original box which is well-worn with some losses, tears and crude repair.. Original Wraps. Very Good to Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Illus. by Mary LaFetra Russell (Attrib). Square 8vo.

Garden City: Garden City Books / Artists and Writers Guild, 1951 Pictorial boards with some rubbing to spine ends and corners, one page with a vertical crease. A selection of stories and poems which originally appeared in Story Parade Magazine. A few stories were published as separate books, but most only appeared in the magazine and here. The book was meant to be a gift to magazine subscribers and was inexpensively produced, for this reason not many collectible copies have survived. The stories & poems included: Boy Who Owned and Elephant, Tracks in the Sand, Fairy Kittens, Stowaway the Squirrel, Tails, Long Half Mile, Oscar Takes a Job, Enchanted Rabbit, Invaders, Twin Fauns, Rabbit Reasons, Jimmy Had a Heifer, Mice Poems, Donkey Business, & Fox and the Pig. Included with the book is a shipping box from Weekly Reader which the previous owner had stored the book in, which also contains an ad for Weekly Reader and other educational publications--none of which originally belonged to the… Read More

London & New York: Hildesheimer & Faulkner / Geo. C. Whitney, 1890 16 pgs including covers (unpaginated. Color printed card covers with string binding, light edge wear, faint owner's name on cover, a few finger marks, but clean overall. Contains the verses Kittens' Lesson and Apes and Scrapes. I believe the cover and one illustration of kittens is by H H Couldery and the rest are by H R Miller (possibly early work by H R Millar) The artwork for both verses is amusing, featuring humanized animals, all in color. Not in Necker. One copy located on Worldcat, at Princeton University. . Card Covers. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by H H Couldery (Henry Horatio) & H R Miller (Harold Robert Millar?). Oblong 16mo..

New York: Pied Piper Books, 1946 Pictorial boards with some shelf wear, previous owner's name on copyright page; matching dust jacket with light soil, edge tears and wear, price-clipped. Aunt Mathilda loses a big piece of cheese meant for her nieces & nephews. Where could it have gone? Cute artwork in color and b&w throughout.. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. Very Good/Very Good Minus. Illus. by Doris Stolberg. Small 4to.

New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1935 Pictorial boards with light green cloth spine, minor shelf wear and slight darkening at board edges, previous owner's name on endpaper. A bright and beautiful copy of the third Babar book. Babar and Celeste build a city for the elephants. Imaginative and rich color artwork throughout with hand-lettered text. . First American Edition. Pictorial Boards. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Jean De Brunhoff. Folio.

New York: Harper & Row, 1964 Pictorial boards with cloth spine, light soil and foxing to boards and endpapers, bookplate removed from front endpaper and offsetting to FFEP; matching dust jacket with minor wear and two small edge tears, price clipped. The follow-up to Bedtime for Frances. Frances feels left out because of the new addition to the family, so he decides to run away. A perennial favorite. The jacket price is necessary to determine the first edition as jackets with $2.50 & $2.95 prices are identical in every other way.. Probable First Edition. Pictorial Boards. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Lillian Hoban. 4to.

New York: Laura Geringer / HarperCollins, 1992 Quarter-cloth hard cover, faint bend (not a crease) in all pages else fine in color illustrated dust jacket with light soil, original price intact ($15.00). A shy, singing frog is left in charge of a very special egg that changes his life. Illustrated in color throughout. . First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by William Joyce. Oblong 4to.

Chicago: P F Volland & Co, 1919 Pictorial boards, gift inscription, some offsetting and faint stains in a few gutters. Billy Bunny strikes out on his own to find his fortune. Wouldn't you know it? He didn't have to go far to find it. Full and partial-page color artwork throughout. Scarce Volland title.. 33rd Printing. Pictorial Boards. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Maginel Wright Enright. Square 8vo.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1954 Illustrated boards, 3 mark to front board else fine; matching dust jacket worn with small losses to extremities, base of spine archivally reinforced on verse, original price intact ($3.00). Lisette's animals throw a part for her 76th birthday. A wonderful picture book, the text is accentuated by Fischer's artwork, executed with exubertant lines and just enough color. A 1955 AIGA 50 Best Books.. Early Printing. Illustrated Boards. Near Fine/Very Good Minus. Illus. by Hans Fischer. Oblong 4to.

New York: Saml Gabriel Sons, 1942 Color printed wraps with a linen-like texture, light surface wear. 10 pages (plus covers) nicely printed in color depicting humanized bunnies.. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Uncredited. Square 8vo.