Barnyard Babies
Chicago: Merrill: 1936. Large (9.5X13) folio children's picture book of 12 pages with illustrations by Milo Winter. Illustrator and piblisher's names appear on lower left of cover. Wear, small tape on right lower of cover. Wrinkles. No tears or marks. Spine rubbed. The Branyard babies Series was a big seller for Merrill and came out in several versions with a number of illustrators. This particular copy by Milo Winter is extremely rare. VG/na. ISBN: Bookseller Inventory #6077 Price: US$ 75.00
Tanglewood Tales from the Windermere Series
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Rand McNally, Chicago, 1913. Hardcover Cloth. First Edition 8vo - over 7 inches tall. Blue covers stamped in gold with paste-on illustration. Illustrated endpapers. 283 pages with 8 beautiful glossy full page illustrations. Wear to spine ends, bumpint to corners. No internal markings. Very minor soiling to a very few pages. Inventory # 7558 Price $75.00
TA Wonder Book from the Windermere Series
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Rand McNally, Chicago, 1913. Hardcover Cloth. First Edition 8vo - over 7 inches tall. Blue covers stamped in gold with paste-on illustration. Illustrated endpapers. 254 pages. Nearly imperceptible wear to spine and covers. A few pages of text appear to have been wrinkled inthe print process and on a few others printer's ink has bled through. 8 beautiful glossy full page illustrations, one becoming detached about an inch at the botom. Inventory # 7574 Price $90.00
The Farmer in The Dell
Racine: Whitman Publishing: 1939. Large (9.5X13) folio children's picture book of 16 pages with illustrations by Milo Winter. A "LINEN-LIKE" book numbered 886 on right bottom of cover. Spine separated botom 6 inches. Some scraping to back. Interior fine. Extremely rare. Bookseller Inventory #7668 Price: US$ 65.00
Illustrated by Caroline Ruth Eger Milo Winter Uldine Trippe and others
Large quarto: 12 inches high. Green cloth with paste on. 135 pages. Decorative end-papers. A compendium of the picture books published by Rand McNally in the 20s including Rimskittle's Book, The Peter Patter Book, Once Upon a Time, The Real Mother Goose and On The Road to Make Believe. All the major illustrators of the time are present, including Milo Winter, Uldine Trippe and Ruth Eger. A full page illustration on every other page.Extremely rare in any condition.
COPY 1: This is a serious collector's book.! Aside from some rubbing to the spine ends and corners, in beautiful shape. Inventory 7470 Price $400.00
COPY 2: Slight rubbing to the cover illustration. 6 page tears near gutter all repaired with invisible tape. Bump to spine bottom. Browning of page edges. No markings. A Very Good copy.Inventory # 7654 $250.00
COPY 3: Corner bumping and edge wear. There is some board showing, mainly bottom corners. Some rubbing of boards. Text binding is tight, illustrations remain sharp. 16 pages have been professionally repaired with invisible tape (closed tears) Pg.27 has chip on bottom of the page. Pg. 81 tape repaired less professionally. Typical soiling by enchanted but nonethe less grubby fingers. Fore-edge dampstaining 1/4 inch. Some shadowing of hinges. A good copy and yet quite rare. Inventory # 7576 Price $150