FS: Insects, all children's - 25 titles
Suzanne and Truman Price
counting story. NY: Watts, 1971/1958, 4th. Yellow cloth with ant and bee,
5x4;; 91 pp. Bee put ant to bed to get better(picture)/Soon ant got a
little bit better. Bee said he would give ant some knitting to do in bed.
Bee gave ant(picture)/1 (red ink) One/ BALL OF WOOL(picture)/ Bee said 1
(red ink) ball of wool was a lot of wool.." 12714 VG/0; some soil, ends
bumped, loosening a little, a few reading wrinkles but surprisingly flat.
$35
Baskin, Leonard et al. /LB. Leonard Baskin's Miniature Natural
History. Pantheon, (1983); boxed set with four jacketed books. Four
little books: Extinct Creatures, Insects, Domestic Animals, and Seven Fish
with Baskin's distinctive earth toned paintings. Boxed in the style of
Harper's Nutshell Library. 13433 VG/NF/G-VG; all in corner rubbed box
with two dw's with narrow half inch long chip on spine, one with 1.3" tear,
and one VG. $38
Beard, Patten. /A. G. Hull. The Bluebird's Garden. Pilgrim Press
(1914) Cloth with pasted on plate, teg. A fantasy with a typical early
20th c tone, but with insects as the subject. Two coloured plates and smoke
blue illustrations by Dummer. 9459 VG; corners bumped and worn. $20
Bolliger, Max. /Jiri Trnka. The Fireflies. Atheneum (1970), Am
reprint. Full colour pictorial boards, 9x12.5; c 38 pp. . 10588 VG/0;
inscription, extremities bumped and sl worn, board edges rubbed. $18
Bronson, Wilfrid. /WB. The Grasshopper Book. Harcourt Brace, 1943,
1st. Green cloth with fine grasshopper drawing, pale green eps covered
with grasshoppers. A beautiful grasshopper book with detailed drawings,
fantastic yet accurate, of grasshoppers and their relatives; with a section
on locust plagues. 10465 NF/G+; in dw with wear and sm chips to
extremities, two closed 2" tears. $45
C., L. S. The Fairy Glass. Philadelphia, Claxton, Remsen, and
Haffelfinger, 1872, early. Green stamped in black design with gilt child
and rabbit, same blindstamped on rear, small 8vo; 66 pp. An allegorical
tale about Patience, Charity etc and a kind little girl who reforms the
school bully. Much enlivened when Science takes the children, who have
shrunk, on a tour of an ant hill and through caverns under the ground.
9594 G; spine ends worn, corners bumped, some cover soil; half title
picture neatly coloured, foxed. $50
Clark, G. Glenwood. /L. E. Dugger and E. H. Hartke. Tiny Toilers and
Their Works. Century, 1921, 1st; 262 pp. Yellow cloth boards with
insects. Thirty three stories of insect natural history, nicely
illustrated in black and white. 9568 VG; sl bumps, cover soil, espc on
back. $25
Ditmars, Raymond. /Helene Carter. The Book of Insect Oddities.
Lippincott, 1938, 1st. Full colour cloth backed paper boards, 8.1x10.2;
pictorial endpapers; 64 pp. Splendid full-paged coloured insect picture
maps of each continent. 11940 VG/0; board edges rubbed. $24
Donahey, Mary Dickerson. /Gertrude Alice Kay. Down Spider Web Lane.
Philadelphia: Edward Stern, 1909, 1st. Green cloth with full paste on
plate, 7.7x10; 130 pp. "A Bug Mythology" of all the insects in an
abandoned garden when a boy's family moves in. 9608 Fair; cloth on boards
bleached in spots and scratched, plate edges rubbed, half in pull tear to
plate, hinge cracked, endpapers foxed, repaired loose plate with rough
edge. $30
Earle, Olive. /OE. Crickets. Morrow, 1956, 1st; 8vo, n.p. . 3541
Good/0, corners rubbed, pages very good. $8
Graham, Bob. /Bob Graham. Where is Sarah? Little, Brown, 1985, 1st.
Shiny col. pictorial boards, 5.6x6.8, 29 pp. A little book with Graham's
appealing line drawings of a brother, a sister, and a Scotty adventuring in
the tall grass. John was looking for Sarah but he forgot all about her.
Theo deserts her for some soggy chips. The insects bite her tummy. Enough!
12872 F/F. $25
Hawksworth, Hallam. The Clever Little People With Six Legs. Scribners,
1924, 1st. Brown cloth stamped; 294 pp, many illustrations, index.
Strange Adventures in Nature's Wonderlands: romping through Lilliputland as
a way to teach a great deal of real information about insects. 6274
Good/0; ex-lib, missing ffep, pocket traces rear. $15
Hook, Stella Louise. /Dan Beard and Harry Beard. Little People.
Scribner's 1888, 1st; 228 pp + 11 pp ads. "And their homes in meadows,
woods and waters." Although this book is built around the metaphor of Queen
Nature, the fairies, and the Little People, it is actually quite an
interesting and detailed natural history of insects. 9596 G; spine faded,
corners and spine ends somewhat bumped and worn, narrow margin chips and
half inch margin tear, pp 61-73 $45
Kirkup, James. /Naoko Matsubara. Insect Summer. Knopf, 1971, 1st; 175
pp. "The story starts in summer. It was the strange, hot summer peculiar
to Japan. Ghostly and wild, a season of spirits and celebrations." Many
atmospheric woodcuts of the remote island of Hajinoshima composed directly
on the block. 12028 VG/0; ex-lib, some marks, reading wrinkles and spine
fading and worn off top. $10
Krauss, Ruth. /Maurice Sendak. Open House for Butterflies. Harper,
(1960) earlier printing. Charming little Sendak figures dance with
butterflies. NY Times Best Illustrated. 6711 Good/0; soil on gold cover,
corners and edges of paper boards very worn. $20
Lewis, Naomi. /Fulvio Testa. The Butterfly Collector. Prentice-Hall,
1979/1978, 1st Am. Shiny full colour pictorial boards, 10.2x8.25; 26 pp.
A funny man with a scrub brush mustache peers around Testa vegetation in
his quest of butterflies, until he learns that they are more fun to watch
flying free. 13156 VG/0; occasional reading wrinkles. $14
Liyi, He. /Pan Aiqing. The Spring of Butterflies. Lothrop, Lee &
Shepard, 1986, 1st Am;114 pp. "... and other Chinese Folk Tales." Well
retold stories, with historical notes in the rear, illustrated with
magnificent full page colour paintings. 4482 F/NF; one closed 1/2" tear.
$24
McGreal, William. /Nora S. Unwin. Andy The Musical Ant. Aladdin,
1949, 1st. Cloth backed coloured pictorial boards, 7x8.7; 42 pp. On the
cover, Andy sits on a waving dandelion and plays the accordian. Needless to
say, his fellow ants do not approve, but in the end Andy saves the day.
Fine drawings by Unwin in umber, turquoise and orange. 11519 VG/G-; in
faded dw with 4x2" chip on back, 1x2" chip to top of spine and other chips.
$38
Phillips, Mary Geisler. /Ellen Edmonson. Honey-Bees and Fairy-Dust.
Macrae Smith, 1926, 1st; 213 pp. 26 b/w drawings/diagrams of bee fairies
and the hive. The Bee Fairy Mellifica transforms two children into drones
so they can see how bee hives function. Didactic in intent, yet the
transformations("the dizziness and blankness of the change") are well
written; one of quite a few 1920's insect fantasies. 9889 VG/0;
extremities lightly bumped and worn; completely erased crayon writing on
rear endpaper. $120
Piers, Helen. /Pauline Baynes. Grasshopper and Butterfly. McGraw
Hill, 1975,1st. 7.5x8.7; c 39 pp. . 7624 G/VG; book is splayed, in dw
with light wear to spine ends. $15
Piers, Helen. /Pauline Baynes. Grasshopper and Butterfly.
McGraw-Hill, 1975,1st Am. Full colour pictorial boards,7.5x8.7; c 39 pp.
A nature story of a butterfly who emerged from her chrysallis too late and
needs help from Grasshopper finding a place to winter over, illustrated
with delicate, realistic woodland paintings. 10488 F/F $32
Yolen, Jane. /Jane Breskin Zalben. An Invitation to the Butterfly
Ball. Parents' (c. 1976). Violet illus. paper boards, 8.2x10.25; c 26 pp.
A counting rhyme in which little animals are all in a tizzy preparing for
the butterfly ball, gracefully illustrated. 8796 F/VG; in dw rubbed at
extremities. $28
Yolen, Jane. /Jane Breskin Zalben. An Invitation to the Butterfly
Ball. Parents (c. 1976). Violet illus. paper boards, 8.2x10.25; c 26 pp.
11702 VG/0; clean, some reading wrinkles. $12
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