Books of Yesterday

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ANTIQUE, COLLECTIBLE CHILDREN’S BOOKS

Atkins, Elizabeth. THE POT OF GOLD. Frederick A. Stokes 1930. Hardcover. Color and b/w ill. by St. Clair La Dow. Orange cloth over boards with ill. paste-down on cover. Very Good with one corner worn at bottom of spine. $15.

Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin. TOPS AND WHISTLES, True Stories of Early American Toys Paull accompany fascinating true stories. Ill. endpapers. 188 pp. Cover soil; interior Very Good, clean. Viking 1937 FE. Hardcover. Out-of-print. Charming lithographs by Grace. $6.

Coatsworth, Elizabeth. DOOR TO THE NORTH, A Saga of Fourteenth Century America. John C. Winston 1950, 1958. Hardcover with dust jacket. Land of the Free Series. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $6.50.

Dobbs, Rose. ONCE UPON A TIME, Twenty Cheerful Tales to Read and Tell. Random House 1950. Selected, edited and sometimes retold by Rose Dobbs. Ill. by Flavia Gagg. 116 pp. Very Good. $4.50.

Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. GRIMM’S FAIRY TALES. Garden City, no date but circa 1929. Hardcover. Eight exquisite color plates by Noel Pocock. Burgundy cloth over boards with cover paste-down illustration also by Pocock. Illustrated endpapers. Book is in Very Good condition with the exception of the previous owner’s name in black on closed pages and on front endpaper. Cover and interior show very little wear. $7.50.

Lamb, Charles & Mary. LAMB’S TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE. Garden City Publishing 1939. Hardcover with dust jacket. Full-page color plates by Fritz Kredel. Red cloth over boards with full-page, paste-down illustrations on front cover. Illustrated endpapers. Book Very Good, dust jacket Good. $16.

Lange, D. THE SHAWNEE’S WARNING, A Story of the Oregon Trail. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard 1919 first edition. Hardcover. Ill. Rufus Harrington. Cover embossed pictorial cloth over boards. Book bright and clean, showing very little wear. Binding pulling a little at center but still very sound. Out-of-print. Set in 1843, with scenes laid among the Indian tribes and adventurous bands of independent trappers of the plains and the mountains. Written for young boys by a former Minnesota school principal. Very Good. $20.

Lowe, Viola Ruth. THE BEAUTIFUL STORY OF JOAN OF ARC, The Martyr Maid of France. Grosset & Dunlap 1933. Pictorial hardcover. Full-page color ill. by O. D. V. Guillonnet. Folio. 60 pp. Some interior fingerprints, wear to edges of cover. Good. Rare title. $7.

Self, Margaret Cabell. CHITTER CHAT STORIES. E. P. Dutton 1946, stated first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Virginia Grilley. Perfectly delightful group of four stories of the village of Chitter Chat, full of humor with a gracious, early nineteenth century charm. For 6-10 year-olds. Beautifully preserved in someone’s book collection! Book and dust jacket Near-Fine. $8.

Shute, Henry A. THE REAL DIARY OF A REAL BOY. Richard B. Smith 1967, originally published in 1917. Hardcover with dustjacket. Ill. with delightful full-page black/white illustrations by Tasha Tudor. Comical and informative chronicle of an 11-year-old boy’s life over a century ago, written as his personal diary, with his personal imperfections in spelling and grammar. Book is red cloth over boards in perfect condition; dust jacket also Fine. $12.

Walton, Mrs. O.F. SAVED AT SEA, A Lighthouse Story. Religious Tract Society, no date, but ca. 1910. Hardcover. Beautiful old embossed decorative cover and spine with gilt lettering. Cover shows no wear. Solid binding. Illustrated. $12.