Lot of 10 antiquarian and vintage children's books

Description: Greetings! Old Saratoga Books is pleased to offer a selection of antiquarian and vintage children's books for your consideration. The titles are: 1) A Present from Rosita, by Celeste Edell, NY: Julian Messner, 1952, first edition. Very Good in Good jacket. Gift inscriptions on front free endpaper and front flyleaf, boards, jacket lightly tattered. Brown cloth binding. Author photo on rear jacket panel. Rosita grows up in Puerto Rico, but her family relocates to New York after a devastating hurricane. A young adult novel. 179 pages. 2) The Way of the Condor, by Nathan Kravetz, NY: Crown Publishers, 1970. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket has several small tears and light soiling. The story of a young rural Peruvian boy who gets the chance for a job as a priest's helper in the big city of Lima. Orange cloth binding.142 pages. 3) Gay-Neck: the Story of a Pigeon, by Dhan Gopal Mukerji, NY: E. P. Dutton, 1928, later printing. Good. Ex-library copy. Boards sunned and soiled, corners and spine worn, library stamp on title page, pocket scar on rear endpapers, several pages inexpertly cut with resultant chipping at margins. The 1927 Newbery Award winner. Red decorative cloth binding. Wonderful Art Moderne illustrations in black and white, in the style of Indian paper cutting designs. 197 pages. 4) Air Service Boys Flying for Victory: Or Bombing the Last German Stronghold, by Charles Amory Beach, Cleveland, OH: The World Syndicate Publishing Co., 1920, reprint. 218 pages. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. Front hinge cracked, owner name on front free endpaper, several pages smudged, jacket soiled and tattered and missing several chips at edges. Red cloth binding. A World War I aviation novel for young readers. Great color jacket art of vintage propeller airplane. 5) Ronnie's Wish, by Jeanette Perkins Brown, NY: Friendship Press, 1954. Ex-library copy Good. Boards worn, library markings on front . endpapers, many pages well-thumbed and lightly soiled, two pages missing small piece of lower corners. Rebound in pictorial brown cloth reinforced binding. Colorful pencil illustrations by Jean Martinez. A positive story featuring a young African-American boy who wants to be bigger, but then decides he likes being a kid after a happy day at the zoo. 32 pages. 6) The Cunning Little Vixen, by Rudolf Tesnohlidek, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985, first edition. 186 pages. Very Good in Very Good jacket. Jacket lightly tattered. English language edition of this Czech classic, later turned into an opera featuring the music of Leos Janacek. Illustrations by the late Caldecott medalist Maurice Sendak. Translated by Tatiana Firkusny, Maritza Morgan and Robert T. Jones. Afterword by Robert T. Jones. Green cloth binding. Illustrated endpapers. Hanrahan A123. 7) Stories Children Love, edited by Watty Piper, NY: Platt and Munk Company, 1933, later printing. 4to. Good. Boards worn, some of the black and white illustrations are colored in by previous owner. Green cloth binding with color illustration mounted to front boards. Platt and Munk No. 100 D. Many color and black and white illustrations by Eulalie. Contains nine versions of traditional stories, including Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood, Peter Pan, Dick Whittington and his Cat, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Three Bears, Puss in Boots, and Tom Thumb. 8) In the Night Kitchen, by Maurice Sendak, NY: Harper and Row, 1970, later edition. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Jacket lightly worn. Later edition of this 1970 Caldecott Honor book with illustrated boards. No price on front jacket flap. 4to. 9) Joan of Arc: The Life Story of the Maid of Orleans, by Mabel Dodge Holmes, Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company, 1930. Illustrations by Edwin John Prittie, including three color plates and one illustration surrounded by elaborate gold and silver border on front boards. Introduction by Edward P. Cheyney. Red cloth binding. Decorative endpapers. 300 pages. Good/Fair. Boards and endpapers dampstained, corners bumped, jacket waterstained and tattered. 10) Eloise, by Kay Thompson, illustrated by Hilary Knight, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1955, 11th printing. 4to. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Jacket lightly soiled. A classic children's book about the precocious and bossy little girl who lives at New York City's Plaza Hotel. Hilarious illustrations by Hilary Knight, including a fold-out view of Eloise in the hotel elevator. 65 pages. Thank you for visiting our auctions. Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. We had an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville and now sell books exclusively online. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA).

Price: 45 USD

Location: Selkirk, New York

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