1880réf. 0009132Philadelphia: Sunshine Publishing Co. 1880-95. Sewn wrappers. Good. Quarto 18 pages lithographed stone wrappers rear cover detached Volume containing miscellaneous uncredited poems and brief stories with corresponding unsigned illustrations on facing pages. Includes a six-page illustrated version of "The Three Little Pigs". The covers include spaces for the names of commercial enterprises generally department stores or the like to whom the book was supplied for use as a promotional gift. The cover and inside pages contain advertisements various Aurora Illinois businesses such as Wilcox & Gilbert dress goods at River Street and Downer Place. With full-page ad for T. Kingsford & Son's "Oswego NY " starches. Records indicate that the title "Our picture book" was used by Sunshine Publishing Co. for volumes of varying content and number of pages. NOTE: the rear cover shows Kate Greenaway-esque children at play on a swing. Sunshine Publishing Co. unknown

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AESOPBiblio.com

The Fables of Aesop

réf. 0006526New York and Boston: Hurd And Houghton / E. P. Dutton 1865. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Henry Walker Herrick. 12mo xii 311 pages red bevelled publisher's cloth rebacked with original spine laid down original floral endpapers all edges gilt. Variant with gilt fox in a circle on covers. This is Samuel Croxall text unattributed with a lengthy "Application" at the end of each of the 110 fables here. For example "The Hunted Beaver" draws comparisons to the Inquisition and persecution of the Jews - with advice I do not comprehend. Illustrated by watercolorist Henry Walker Herrick Hurd And Houghton / E. P. Dutton hardcover

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DOYLE, Roddy With drawings by Brian AjharBiblio.com

The Giggler Treatment.

2000réf. 16873New York: Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic Press 2000. First U.S. edition / First printing. Purple cloth spine blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. The author's first book for children. Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic Press, hardcover

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LIVELY, Penelope With illustrations by Terry MilneBiblio.com

The Cat the Crow and the Banyan Tree.

1994réf. 16944Cambridge MA: Candlewick Press 1994. Signed by the author. First U.S. edition / First printing. Pictorial laminated boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Penelope Lively won the 1973 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. She won the 1976 Whitbread Children's Book Award. She won the 1987 Booker Award. Candlewick Press, hardcover

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Ursu, AnneBiblio.com

The Shadow Thieves

2006réf. 10025722006. Boldly SIGNED By the Author on the Title Page. Unread. In thus young adult fantasy something extraordinary is about to happen to Charlotte Mielswetzski and its not only the arrival of her cousin but the cat that foillows her home.and their quest into the underworld to find out why all her friends are getting sick.Light bumping to spine ends a tocuh of wear to head of dj spine. First American Edition First Printing. As New/As New. unknown