Search Results: Authors starting with H from RARE KIDS BOOKS

BARELY KNOWN SERIES -- even to ardent Collector's is the ORIGINAL "TOYLAND" SERIES, FIRST EDITION by the ORIGINAL AUTHOR, Mary Herrick Bird, Published by EDWARD STERN & Co, 1908. There were 3 Titles in this Absolutely Charming Series, All portraying Children's Dolls in Great Adventures -- all illustrated by the incomparable JOSEPH C. CLAGHORN, each containing no less than 36 of these true color gems -Plus those Great Illustrated end papers!! While there is precious little information about these originals, the fact that Edward Stern Co. went out of business by 1909 (patents taken over by Edward Barse - Same thing happened to the Roosevelt Bears Books) helps explain their scarcity....probably never reprinted by Stern & Co. However, unlike the Roosevelt Bears books (which Barse started publishing under their name right away), these were not re-printed for 20 YEARS by Barse ...And even then not as Originally published!! --- So, Collector's, if it looks hauntingly familiar, check 1928, under a new… Read More

16 FULL PAGE COLOR PLATES, OVER 50 COLOR IN ALL! If you Collect TOY, TEDDY BEAR, FAIRY or CIRCUS Color Illustrated Children's books, this is the ULTIMATE -- The Impossible to Find JOHN A. HOPWOOD ALL COLOR FOLIO, ONLY PRINTING -- FABULOUS Full Color Illustrations throughout the nearly 60 pages, including 15 FULL PAGE PLATES & Full Color title page, with a Two-Page Circus Parade CENTER FOLD in the ANTIQUE CHROMO Style to die for! FULL COLOR Illustrated Hard Cover, front & Rear, with Full cloth Green Spine, with Very Little wear and light dusting! Interior Complete, with No Names or Marks. Hinges are solid, Binder tight. NO DAMAGE, NAMES or MARKING! Four Beautiful Fairies come down to Animate the Toys & brings them together in a Circus Convention!It is the Juxtaposition of the Fanciful Toy & Doll Illustrations with the Artistically styled Fairyland Plates that make this so Unusual!!FIRST EDITION. ONLY PRINTING . 9 1/2" x 12" . Only other copy found is cut up poor book on Amazon...… Read More

RARE 1916 FIRST EDITION / FIRST YEAR PRINTING (Twelfth) of a WONDERFULLY COLOR ILLUSTRATED JOHNNY GRUELLE ILLUSTRATED VOLLAND TITLE, STORY By Rose Strong Hubbell! SCARCE SCHOENHUT CLOWN BOOK -- Led To WOODEN TOYS MODELED AFTER THE Characters !! ORIGINAL FIRST & ONLY EDITION of One of the most Rare & Sought After of Johnny Gruelle's Earliest Illustrated works! And why not? It's 75 Pages of Great Full Color Illustrations, with Color silhouette end papers and great illustrated Boards. All are Animated Toys, with Great Children characters!! It is actually 6 separate tales written by Rose Strong Hubbell, done in conjunction with the SCHOENHUT WOODEN TOYS of the Same Characters: Stories are Quacky Doodles and her Frolicsome Friends, Quacky Doodles Meets Danny Daddles, Quacky Doodles, Danny Daddles and Old Teddy Bear, ...and Cleety the Clown, ... and the Fifty lead soldiers, & ...and the Big Lion. Book is Complete, in NEAR FINE CONDITION, with the spine intact (usually totally missing), with LITTLE TO NO… Read More