![Item #3585 [MANUSCRIPT]. [JAPANESE FOLKTALE]. "Momotaro" (Cover title). "Nippon Mukashi-banashi"...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3585.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1637016679)
S.l. (Britain?): 1920s (ca.). Slim 8vo. 43 unnumbered pages + one full-page drawing. Handmade notebook tied with string, covers of gilt sprinkled card-stock (some surface scratching and wear to extremities; some unobjectionable foxing and staining). Curious homemade manuscript of what appears to be an unpublished English translation of the beloved..... More
![Item #3681 [FRENCH CHILDREN'S BOOK WITH HAND-COLORED PLATES]. Historiettes et Contes a ma Petite...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3681.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1643061907)
Paris and Lille: Delarue / Castiaux, n.d. (ca. 1820). 12mo. 1 f. ("garde"), 1 f. (colored frontispiece), 1 f. (title-page), [5]-178 pp., 1 f. ("garde"). With 8 color woodcut plates, all depicting two scenes identified in cursive lettering. Modern sturdy half morocco over comb-marbled boards. Portion of text torn away..... More
![Item #2897 [PRINTED ON LINEN]. [CHILDREN'S BOOK]. Pussy Picture Book. Children's Book - Printed...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2897.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1571435645)
Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Co., ca. 1915? Square 4to., stapled as issued. COMPLETE: 6 leaves (12 pp.) including front cover and back cover, all printed on soft linen. Front and back cover plus 4 other pages printed in color, the rest monochrome (printed in blue/green) allowing for hand-coloring. Very worn..... More
![Item #3277 [CHILDREN'S CHAPBOOK / BOOKSELLING]. The Shipwreck; or, Humanity Rewarded. New Haven -...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3277.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1673876896)
New-Haven, CT: Sidney's Press for J. Babcock & Son, 1820. 32mo. (103 x 60 mm). Woocut frontispiece, title-page, alphabet on verso with uppercase roman and italic type, pp. [5]-30 + 1 p. ads for J. Babcock & Son. Contemporary (original?) American "Dutch" gilt floral wrappers, stitched (overcase stitching at a...... More
![Item #3801 [JAPANESE CHILDREN'S BOOK PUBLISHED IN DOOMED WWII JAPAN - 1945]. Dobutsu no okasan /...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3801.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1673876583)
Tokyo: Children's Book Publishers [Jidō Tosho Shuppansha / 児童図書出版社], 1945 (July 10). First Edition. Large 4to. 12 unnumbered pages (including color-printed stiff wrappers). Minor toning (as is almost always the case with Japanese paper produced at the end of WWII), some evidence of use (no doubt by tiny hands). Overall..... More
![Item #3614 [CHILDREN'S BOOK]. Little Slam Bang (i.e. Slambang the Elephant). Helen . Ransom...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3614.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1637016942)
Chicago: P.F. Volland Co., 1928. First Edition. Square 8vo. 39 pp. (small tears in lower margins of pp. 29-32). Original illustrated boards (insignificant smudging on back cover), green cloth spine. NEAR FINE CONDITION. Original illustrated box, reproducing front cover of the book (slight soiling on top and botton, edges a...... More
