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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Kinder- und Hausmärchen. Göttingen: Dieterich, 1837. First enlarged (unabridged edition), and third edition overall. An important presentation copy, inscribed by Wilhelm Grimm, "to dear Malchen Hassenpflug from her true friend..." (Total: 2)
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45112 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $112,500.00
L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. With Pictures by W. W. Denslow. Chicago & New York: Geo. M. Hill, 1900. First edition, first state of plates and text.
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45171 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $81,250.00

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$121,875 or more
[Charles Perrault]. Histoires ou Contes du Temps Passé. Avec des Moralitez. Par le Fils de Monsieur Perreault [sic] de l'Academie François. Suivant la Copie, à Paris [Amsterdam: Jacques Desbordes], 1697. Second edition, first state, comprising an unauthorized printing published the same year as Claude Barbin's first edition.
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45014 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $71,875.00
Beatrix Potter. "Dancing to the Piper." Original ink and watercolor drawing, circa 1890s. Background unfinished, illustration not signed.
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45161 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $62,500.00
Beatrix Potter. The Tale of Peter Rabbit. [London: Strange-ways, privately printed for the Author, December, 1901]. First edition, first printing.
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45174 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $52,500.00
Hans Christian Andersen. Eventyr, Fortalte For Børn. Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzel, 1835. First printing of the first edition of Hans Christian Andersen's first "Fairy Tales Told for Children." Presentation copy, inscribed in ink on the half-title: "til den lille Peter Koch. / fra hans store Ven / H.C. Andersen" (To the small Peter Koch from his big friend H. C. Andersen).
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45110 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $42,500.00
Dr. Seuss. "The Sweetest Story Ever Told. Matilda the Compassionate Elefant Who Devotes her Days to the Hatching of Orphan Humming-Bird Eggs." Original pen and ink drawing, circa 1938.
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45213 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $37,500.00

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$56,250 or more
[Harlequinade] The Beginning, Progress and End of Man. [London]: J. Deacon, [ca. late 1680s]. Third edition. One of only a handful known colored examples.
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45232 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $32,500.00
Shel Silverstein. [Original holograph manuscript]. Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book. A Primer for Tender Young Minds. Original holograph manuscript for Silverstein's wickedly amusing ABC book, published by Simon & Schuster in 1961. This manuscript for Silverstein's first "children's" book comprises 76 pages of original drawings and text including a title page identifying the author/illustrator and giving the imprint of the soon-to-be published volume: "Simon and Schuster * New York * 1961."
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45221 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $30,000.00
Beatrix Potter. Original Holograph Manuscript draft for Wag-by-Wall with Archive Relating to the Evolution of Wag-by-Wall. [London, circa 1940s]. Containing an original holograph manuscript draft of the complete text of Wag-by-Wall, eleven autograph letters signed with her married name with one unsigned, a first UK edition, and including the first appearance in print of Wag-by-Wall in The Horn Book Magazine.
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45215 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $23,750.00
William Nicholson. An Alphabet. [London: William Heinemann, 1898]. Deluxe edition, comprising hand-colored woodblocks signed by the artist, and including two suppressed plates.
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45169 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $22,500.00

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$33,750 or more
Silver Hornbook. An elegantly incised silver specimen with its original printed lesson sheet beneath a covering of transparent horn. English or Dutch in origin, circa 1680.
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45009 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $20,625.00
Gertrude Smith. The Arabella and Araminta Stories. With an Introduction by Mary E Wilkins. Embellished with XV Illustrative designs by Ethel Reed and Explanatory Notes by the Author of the book. Boston: [printed by John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, for] The Yellow Hair Library, Copeland and Day, 1895. First edition, one of fifteen large-paper copies printed on Royal Japanese paper, signed on both the front and rear endpapers by Smith, Wilkins, and Reed, and with two small original colored drawings by Reed (one on each pastedown), additionally signed by the artist. With a copy of the trade edition. (Total: 2)
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45167 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $18,750.00

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$28,125 or more
Beatrix Potter. Original Holograph Manuscript draft for The Solitary Mouse herein containing a version of Wag-by-Wall. With Archive Relating to the Evolution of Wag-by-Wall. Circa 1940s. Including an original holograph manuscript featuring The Solitary Mouse, a first American edition, and the first appearance in print of Wag-by-Wall in The Horn Book Magazine. (Total: 3)
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45216 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $18,750.00
Charles L. Dodgson. "Let 'Universe' be 'Books.'" Original ink holograph manuscript lesson for teaching logic, conceived in diagram format, and dated "5/3/94" by Dodgson in upper right corner.
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45163 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $16,250.00
[Toy Catalogue] "Heubach Brothers Successores / Sonnenberg." [Sonnenberg, Germany, circa 1850s]. Magnificent salesman's sample book for the Gebruder Heubach firm, picturing a cornucopia of delightful toys.
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45115 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $15,625.00

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$23,438 or more
[Clement Clarke Moore]. "Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas" as published in the 1825 United States National Almanac... [edited] by David McClure. Philadelphia: R. Desilver, 1825 [likely published 1824].
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45104 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $13,125.00
The Child's New Play-thing: Being a Spelling Book. Intended to make the learning to read a diversion instead of a task. London: Hawes, Clarke & Collins, J. Dodsley, W. Nicoll, 1775. Ninth edition, forty-eight new wood cuts with accompanying verses.
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45265 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $12,500.00
[Marcellus Laroon]. The Cryes of the City of London drawne after the Life. Les cris de la ville de Londres designez apres la nature. L'Arti comuni che vanno a Londra fatte dal naturale. [London: Pierce Tempest, 1689]. First complete edition.
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45011 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $12,500.00
Kaladlit Okalluktualliait. Kalâdlisut kablunâtudlo ... Grönlandske Folkesagn, opskreve og meddeelte af Indfødte. med dansk Oversoettelse [Legends from Greenland, as recorded and told by natives]. Godthaab: Lars Møller and R[asmus] Berthelesen, 1859-1863. First edition. (Total: 4)
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45131 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $12,500.00
Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1866. First edition, second issue. Bound in contemporary, ornate, custom fine art binding by Robert Wu.
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45142 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $12,500.00
John Amos Comenius. Joh. Amos Commenii Orbis Sensualium Pictus: Hoc est, Omnium fundamentalium in Mundo Rerum, & in vita Actionum, Pictura & Nomenclatura. Joh. Amos Commenius's Visible World: or, A Picture and Nomenclature of all the chief Things that are in the World; and of Mens Employments therein. A Work newly written by the Author in Latine and High-Dutch (being one of his last Essays, and the most suitable to Childrens capacities of any that he hath hitherto made) and translated into English, by Charles Hoole, M.A. For the Use of Young Latine-scholars. London: Printed by T. R. for S. Mearne, Book-binder to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, 1672. Later English edition (the first published in 1659).
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45005 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $11,250.00
Louis Couvay. [Le Despautaire en Tables... ouvrage très utile non seulement a la jeunesse qui desire facilement, bien tost, et parfaictement aprendre le plus necessaire de la Grammaire Latine...]. Paris: chez l'Auteur au College de Beauvais, et Pierre Mariette, ruë S. Jacques a l'Esperance, circa 1672-1675.
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45006 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $11,250.00
Mirth Without Mischief. Containing The Twelve Days of Christmas; The Play of the Gaping Wide-Mouthed-Wadling Frog; Love and Hatred; The Art of Talking with the Fingers; and Nimble Ned's Alphabet and Figures. London: printed by J. Davenport, for C. Sheppard, circa 1780. First and only edition.
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45040 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $10,625.00
Lewis Carroll. The Hunting of the Snark. An Agony in Eight Fits. London: Macmillan & Co., 1876. First edition. With a presentation inscription on the half-title: "Minnie, Ella, & Emmie [Drury] from the Author. Ap. 4. 1876."
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45149 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $10,625.00
Beatrix Potter. Original Holograph Manuscript draft for Wag-by-Wall with Archive Relating to the Evolution of Wag-by-Wall. Circa 1940s. Including an original holograph manuscript draft of the complete text of Wag-by-Wall, a first American edition, and the first appearance in print of Wag-by-Wall in The Horn Book Magazine. (Total: 3)
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45217 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $10,625.00
Beatrix Potter. Manuscript answers to Horn Book Magazine printed questionnaire requesting biographical material "from Beatrix Potter Heelis for their new edition of Contemporary Illustrators of Children's Books to be entitled Illustrators of Children's Books in England and America," completed by Potter entirely in her own hand, initialed "H.B.H." [No place, but Castle Cottage, Sawrey, Ambleside, Westmoreland, England], [November 1942]. With two related autograph letters signed. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45214 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $10,312.50
[Elisha Coles]. Nolens Volens. Or, you shall make Latin whether you will or no: containing the plainest directions that have yet been given on that Subject. Together with the youth's visible Bible... London: Printed by T. D. for T. Basset and H. Brome, 1677. Second edition, corrected.
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45231 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $10,000.00
[Charles Perrault]. Histoires ou Contes du Temps Passé. Avec des Moralitez. Par le Fils de Monsieur Perreault [sic] de l'Academie François. Suivant la Copie, à Paris [Amsterdam: Jacques Desbordes], 1700. Fifth printing.
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45017 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $8,750.00
[ABCs]. "Windsor Plaything." Complete series of twenty-six Bone Alphabet Discs, each with a large alphabet letter carved and inked on one side and an image beginning with that letter delicately scrimshawed and hand-colored on the reserve (each design also captioned in black ink). English, circa 1790s.
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45061 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $8,750.00
Peter Piper's Practice Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation. With Pleasing Pretty Pictures, "Peter Piper Pick'd a Peck of Pepper," etc. London: printed [by H. Bryer] for J. Harris [1813]. First edition, watermarked 1812.
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45093 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $8,125.00
The Famous Tommy Thumb's Little Story-Book: containing his Life and surprising Adventures. To which are added, Tommy Thumb's Fables, with morals: and at the end, Pretty Stories, that may be either sung or told. London: printed for S. Crowder; and sold by B. Collins, Salisbury, [circa 1760]. First edition.
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45030 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $7,812.50
Kate Greenaway. "Susan, Mary, Emily." A superb original watercolor drawing signed by the artist with her initials in the lower-left corner. A Pre-Raphaelite image of three young women (Greenaway's depiction of "The Three Graces" perhaps) standing arm-in-arm in a flowering meadow. No date, circa 1880s.
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45152 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $7,812.50
Hans C[hristian] Andersen. Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. Første Bind. Andet Oplag. [Fairy Tales, Told for Children. First Volume. Second Printing]. Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzel, 1846. [Bound with:] Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. Første Binds andet Hefte. Andet Oplag. [Fairy Tales, Told for Children. First Volume Second Pamphlet. Second Printing]. Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzel, 1844. [And:] Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. Tredie Hefte. [Fairy Tales, Told for Children. Third Pamphlet]. Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzel, 1837.
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45121 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $7,500.00
A. A. Milne. Winnie-the-Pooh. London: Methuen [1926]. First edition in first issue dust jacket.
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45203 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $7,500.00
H[ans] Christian Andersen. Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. [Fairy Tales, Told for Children]. Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzel, 1837. [Bound with:] Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. Andet Hefte. [Fairy Tales, Told for Children. Second Pamphlet]. Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzel, 1835. [And:] Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. Tredie Hefte. [Fairy Tales, Told for Children. Third Pamphlet]. Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzel, 1837. [And:] Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. Andet Bind. [Fairy Tales, Told for Children Second Volume]. Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzel, 1842. [And:] Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. Ny Samling. Første Hefte. Andet Oplag. [Fairy Tales, Told for Children. New Collection. First Pamphlet. Second Printing]. Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzel, 1846. [And:] Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. Ny Samling. Andet Hefte. [Fairy Tales, Told for Children. New Collection. Second Pamphlet]. Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzel, 1839. [And:] Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. Ny Samling. Tredie Hefte. [Fairy Tales, Told for Children. New Collection. Third Pamphlet]. Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzel, 1842.
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45111 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $7,187.50
[Barack Obama]. Na Opio O Punahou (The Youth of Punahou). Honolulu, Hawaii, 1972. Former President Barack Obama's fifth-grade yearbook, signed by him with a contemporary inscription to a schoolmate.
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45224 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $7,187.50
Hans Christian Andersen. Eventyr, Fortalte For Børn. Ny Samling. Tredie Hefte. Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzel, 1842. First printing of the third and final pamphlet in the second series of Andersen's "Fairy Tales for Children." A presentation copy, inscribed to Peter Koch, and signed [translated] "from the writer."
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45116 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $6,875.00
[Hans Christian Andersen]. Three original paper-cuts (two captioned, signed and dated 1866 by Andersen). Together with a two-stanza manuscript poem by Andersen, signed. Framed together with a nice presentation.
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45139 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $6,875.00
The Fairing; Or, A Golden Toy for Children. London: T. Carnan, 1784.
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45278 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $6,250.00
[Chapbook Collection]. The Poetic Garland, or Library of Knowledge and Mirth. [London: John Harris, 1805-1807 [re-issued ca 1809]. Publisher's collection of eight complete titles bound in one volume, from a four-volume series of thirty-two titles in all.
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45074 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $6,250.00
Robert Cruikshank. "The Siege of Troy, or the Giant Horse of Sinon." Group of Six fine original ink and watercolor drawings for a Toy Theater production published by Orlando Hodgson. [London]: 1833. Each drawing signed by Cruikshank, and with additional notes and annotations in the hand of the artist.
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45107 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $6,250.00

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$9,375 or more
Friedrich Froebel. Mutter - Und Kose-Lieder. Dichtung und Bilder zur edlen Pflege des Kindheitlebens. Ein Familienbuch. Blankenburg bei Rudolfstadt: Die Anstalt zur Pflege des Beschäftigungstriebes der Kindheit und Jugend, [1844]. First edition of one of the landmark books in the History of Education, intended to be as much a book for mothers as for teachers, showing the significance of the kindergarten and its claim for being the cornerstone upon which all primary child rearing should rest.
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45118 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $5,750.00
Christmas Stocking Library. Boston: L. Prang & Co., [1865]. Complete set of six Christmas juvenile books housed in the delicate original publisher's box. Titles include A Visit from St. Nicholas, The Story of Hans the Swapper, Dame Duck's Lecture, Who Stole the Bird's Nest, In the Forest, and A Farm Yard Story.
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45138 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $5,750.00
Beatrix Potter. The Tale of Peter Rabbit. London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., [1902]. Deluxe issue of the first trade edition, with "wept big tears" on page 51 (changed to "shed big tears" in the fourth printing); deluxe issue bound in cloth (rather than paper-covered boards): this copy bound in yellow cloth, and as such unrecorded (i.e., not in Quinby, Linder or V & A catalogue). Linder notes that 2,000 copies of the first edition were specially bound in green, light green, or olive-green cloth.
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45175 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $5,500.00

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$8,250 or more
André Helle. "L'Arche de Noé" (Noah's Ark). [Paris: Grands magasins du Printemps, 1911]. Hand-painted wooden ark and twenty-three figures.
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45192 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $5,500.00

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$10,500 or more
Beatrix Potter. The Fairy Caravan. Philadelphia: David McKay Company, [1929]. First edition, presentation copy inscribed "To Bessie Hadfield from Beatrix Potter, with love from the English fairies to the New Zealand fairies - a tale first written for Kitty and Hilda, Nov 28. [19]29."
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45205 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $5,500.00
The Royal Primer; or, An Easy and Pleasant Guide to the Art of Reading. Adorn'd with Cuts. London: Printed for T. Carnan at No. 65, St. Paul's Church-yard, and B. C. Collins at Salisbury, [circa 1780].
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45039 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $5,250.00

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