ABC. (ANIMALS) A.B.C. BOOK OF ANIMALS AT PLAY. Cleveland: World, circa 1920. Folio (9 3/4 x 14 3/4"), pictorial card covers, bottom of spine worn else VG+. Each letter stands for a different animal (V is for Vampire Bat), and the entire book is illustrated with bright full color illustrations... More
ABC. COLLINS' PLAYTIME ABC. Lond.: Collins circa 1925. Thick 4to, cloth backed pictorial boards, Fine. An ABC, Counting and story book featuring 2 stunning alphabets; the Tiny Tot's ABC and the Funny Animal ABC illustrated in bright colors. Also including counting rhymes and poems illustrated in colors and in line... More
BLACK INTEREST. (TEN LITTLE NIGGERS) DIE 10 KLEINE NEGERBUBEN. Mainz: Jos. Scholz, no date, circa 1930. Oblong 8" wide x 5 1/2" bound panorama style. Light cover soil and occasional finger soil, some minor wear to cloth in a few places, overall VG condition. This is a six panel panorama... More
BLACK INTEREST. (TEN LITTLE NIGGERS) DIE KLEINE NEGERLEIN. Reichenberg: Edmund Ullmann ca 1930. Oblong 8vo (9 1/4 x 6"), pictorial card covers, slight spine wear else near fine. Charming 3 color illustrations on every page by Grete Scheufler show the little boys doing things not normally found in this rhyme... More
NOVELTY. MY FIRST PUSH OUT AND PASTE WITHOUT PASTE BOX. Akron: Saalfield 1943. There are 3 oblong 4to books in the original pictorial box in fine condition. Each book has illustrations in line faced with color pages of pieces to be pushed out and placed in the appropriate spot. Includes... More
BLACK INTEREST. [TEN LITTLE NIGGERS] OS DEZ NEGRINHOS. (Lisboa: Papelaria da Moda / Lisbon, Portugal), no date, circa 1920?. Oblong 5 1/8 x 3 1/2"0, pictorial wraps die-cut in the shape of the characters heads, Fine. The classic counting rhyme features great cover in color and in very detailed line inside by "EM" More
BLACK INTEREST. (TEN LITTLE NIGGERS) THE STRANGE TALE OF TEN LITTLE NIGGER BOYS. Chicago: M.A. Donohue (1908). 8vo (6 1/2 x 7 3/4"), pictorial boards, Fine condition. The text is based on the London Stump Book version of this rhyme. Illustrated in color on every page by THE PILGRIMS. A.... More
BLACK INTEREST. (TEN LITTLE NIGGERS) TEN LITTLE COLORED BOYS. NY: Howell Soskins 1942. Oblong 4to, spiral backed boards, light soil and wear, VG+. Attached to the top of every page is a cardboard cut-out head in color of a little Black boy, so that as each page is turned, the... More
BLACK INTEREST. (TEN LITTLE NIGGERS) TEN LITTLE NIGGER BOYS. (London: BB Ltd.) circa 1950. 8vo, stiff pictorial wraps, fine. A jolly, non -stereotypical portrayal of this group of Black boys brightly illustrated with 4 full page color illustrations, color covers plus 6 black & whites. More
BLACK INTEREST. TEN LITTLE NIGGER BOYS TEXTILE. Printed on cloth measuring 11 3/4 x 13" are two verses from the counting rhyme of the Ten Little Niggers. Illustrated with 2 large full color scenes with text beneath each picture are the rhymes for Six Little Nigger Boys and Five Little Nigger Boys. Rare. More
BLACK INTEREST. TEN LITTLE PICKANINNIES. Kansas City, MO: Faultless Starch circa 1910. 16mo, pictorial wraps, 15p., fine. This is an advertising booklet with the counting rhyme involving little Black children and starch. ("Four pickaninnies buying Faultless starch with glee / One got another sort and then there were three"). Illustrated... More
BLACK INTEREST. Z'AH CHYLNI NEEGERLI [TEN LITTLE COLORED BOYS]. Zurich: Neue Bucher A.G. Verlagsbuchhandlung, no date, circa 1945. Oblong 4to (9 x 8"), pictorial boards, near Fine. The text of this version is in Swiss-German, a dialect of German spoken in the northern parts of Switzerland that border Germany. Attached... More
GOLDEN BOOK. THIS LITTLE PIGGY and other counting rhymes selected by Phyllis Fraser. NY: S & S (1942, 6th printing Jan. 1945). 8vo, boards, fine in dw. Early printing of one of the first 12 Little Golden Books (all 12 published simultaneously). Beautifully illustrated in color by Roberta Paflin. Beautiful copy, rare in dw. More
COUNTING BOOK. PIGS FROM 1 TO 10 by Arthur Geisert. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1992 (1992 1-10 code). 4to (9 1/4 x 12 1/4"), cloth, Fine condition in dust wrapper (dw faded along top edge else near fine). 1st edition, 1st printing. 10 piglets set out on a quest for a.... More
COUNTING BOOK. ROMAN NUMERALS I TO MM by Arthur Geisert. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1996 (1996 1-10 code). Oblong 4to (10 1/4 x 8 1/4"), glazed pictorial boards, As new condition in as new dust wrapper. 1st edition, 1st printing. Introduces Roman numerals by counting pigs in each picture. Every page... More
COUNTING BOOK. STEPEHN CARTWRIGHT 1 2 3 by Philip Hawthorn. London: Usborne (1992)/ 4to (8 3/4 x 11"), glazed pictorial boards, As new condition. 1st edition. A counting book with rhymes about Wiggy Pig and his animals friends. Great color illustrations by Stephen Cartwright fill every page. More
NIGHTINGALE,SANDY. ONE PINK PIG: A COUNTING BOOK. London: Anderson Press (1992 1-10 code). 4to (8 3/4 x 10 3/4"), glazed pictorial boards, as new condition. 1st edition, 1st printing. A pig counting book illustrated by the author with a fantastic full page color illustration opposite each page of minimal text... More
JAPANESE INTEREST. EIGHT LITTLE JAPS by Ernest Pinkney. Chicago: Reilly and Britton 1911. Oblong narrow folio (14 1/2 x 8 1/4"), cloth backed stiff pictorial card covers, some wear to edges and corners and repair to 2 hinges, VG+. The text in verse is a variation of the Ten Little... More
RAYNER,MARY. ONE BY ONE: GARTH PIG'S RAIN SONG. London: Macmillan (1994). Oblong 9 x 7", glazed pictorial boards, As new condition. 1st edition. Garth Pig leads his 9 siblings on a march. The text begins with the number 1: Piglets are marching one by one, and builds to number 10... More
RAYNER,MARY. TEN PINK PIGLETS: GARTH PIG'S WALL SONG. London: Macmillan (1994). Oblong 9 x 7", glazed pictorial boards, As new condition. 1st edition. Garth Pig and his 9 siblings are sitting on a wall and one by one a pig falls off. Illustrated in color by Rayner. A charming counting... More
SENDAK,MAURICE. TEN LITTLE RABBITS: a counting book with Mino the Magician. Philadelphia: Rosenbach Foundation (1970). 16mo, 2 1/2x 3 1/2", blue decorative wraps, pictorial paste on, Fine. 1st edition in the less common blue wraps, published for an exhibition of Sendak's art at the Rosenbach. A charming counting book illustrated... More
ABC. A B C AND 1 2 3 by Mrs. Herbert Strang. Lond.: Oxford Univ. Press (1942). 4to, pictorial cloth, Fine. Containing 8 different alphabets and 7 counting rhymes plus a few short stories. Illustrated in pen and ink in the style of Anne Anderson. A nice ABC / Counting book. More
WILDSMITH,BRIAN. BRIAN WILDSMITH'S 1,2,3'S. NY: Franklin Watts 1965. 4to, cloth, Fine in dw. 1st U.S. ed. Great splashes of color on every page with minimal text. This copy is SIGNED BY WILDSMITH. More