Shape Book (31 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good+. 7th Printing. Golden Press 1975 7th Printing Good+/ 5906-2. Bright creased cover with Mickey Mouse on front and back with white background and red circle frame and yellow outside the circle., tight bright classic color illustrated pages. Fun! Published in 1975, Printed in 1980. 24 pages. 2.1 ounces. Size: 8 x 7 7/8 x 1/8 inches.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Die cut shape book, illustrated covers, stapled binding, gift inscription on cover, covers worn and detached, text block intact, pages yellowed from age, ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 48 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Akron, Ohio: The Saalfield Publishing Co., 1948. 1948 coloring book in the shape of a kitten carrying a parasol, containing unused scenes to color, including kittens, puppies, dolls, bunnies, etc., printed in black and white or orange and white. Light cover soil and a bit of edgewear, internally very clean and unmarked. . Soft Cover. Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.…

Pictorial Card. Condition: GOOD (BELOW AVERAGE). No Jacket. Puppies. A Children's Book. This is the first edition. Worn at edges. This book will be POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED (UK) ONLY . Please email for further details. OFFERED FOR SALE BY A FULL-TIME STOCKHOLDING CAREER BOOKSELLER WHO TELLS YOU WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEIR TELEPHONE AND ADDRESS CONTACT DETAILS ARE! POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED! (UK ONLY). FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND FURTHER DETAILS. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Pictorial Illustrations Throughout. (illustrator). Signed by A Previous Owner (co.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1905. Undated, ca. 1905. Verses about dolls illustrated with two full color plates and other small line drawings. Pictorial covers cut into the shape of a doll, twelve pages, stapled binding. Covers edgeworn and foxed, contents separated from covers but still well connected together, pages lightly age-toned but very clean, brief gift inscription on inside front cover. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Original Wraps. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Early Printing. Circa 1910. Color-printed, die-cut card wraps, edge & spine wear, loss to base of spine and at the edges of a few pages, pages brittle, will need to be handled with care. Illustrated with 6 pages printed in color, the balance in line. Fables and humorous verses about animals. The cover is a pirated version of Louis Wain's Dandy Lion, some of the b&w artwork is by George Henry Thompson. Size: Folio. Louis Wain (cover, piracy), George Henry Thompson (illustrator). …

First Edition. Original stiff illustrated wrappers in the shape of a young boy whistling, with two cut out eyes. Lovely copy, Near Fine with mild creases.

First Edition. Small format shape book, original illustrated boards featuring a young girl under an umbrella. Very Good plus copy, moderate spine edge wear.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Shape Book. Not dated circa 1916.[24pp]. Staple binding. Twelve pages are illustrated printed in black and red, text facing. Appears to be missing tiny pieces of the lower corners of many of the pages. Light creases and wear on cover, else a very good copy. Rare. Size 6 x 3.5 inches (15 x 9cm).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. HBDJ, Tall Pictorial Color Boards nice condition but Mended taped Chip to Hold at Top of Spine Cover, VG+/VG, AS-IS, Cover Nice Bright Colors with tiny chips Extremities, DJ some rub, wear & tiny Chip s Tears Extremities, Also approx 1 inch Chip top & smaller chip bottom spine DJ, 1 other small chips DJ, 1945. First edition. 11 x 5 inches. Full color pictorial boards; full color pictorial dust wrap per of a bright, fresh copy of the book. The tall shape makes this a fun book since it would fit in little hands but be as tall.…

Pictorial Card Covers. Condition: Near Very Good. No Jacket. Circa 1892 per gift inscription. Color printed card covers bound with a tasseled cord, embossed title, die-cut around a little girl & donkey, chip from donkey ear and same ear missing from a few pages. Mother Goose rhymes and one verse by Helen Burnside illustrated with 6 color chromolithographs, other artwork in line by W J Wiegand. Size: Oblong 12mo. W J Wiegand (illustrator).…

Condition: Good. Chromolith illustrations on 4 pages + line illus. to each page Shape Book octavo (one facsimile foot in front & both in back are facsimiles) spine split (14pp) else neat clean & bright. 1 volume. Softcover.

First Edition. Original oblong boards shaped like a train, spiral bound. Uncommon children's shape book examining the workings of a train. Very Good, corners worn, rear cover with horizontal crease.

First Edition. C. H. Lawrence illustrations and cover art. Quarto, pictorial stiff wrappers. Classic children's story, an autobiographical memoir told by a horse, illustrated in color throughout. Very Good plus with few inch split to lower spine edge.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 6 leaves + 2 covers. Fine condition. No signatures or bookplates.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. No date, Circa 1890. Card covers printed in color with gilt embossed title, die-cut in the shape of a basket of flowers, small loss to fore edge flower, spine wear, some offsetting and light foxing but clean overall. Snippets and selections of poetry from Shakespeare, Bret Harte and others illustrated with 6 pages of lovely color chromolithographs, other pages in line. Size: 24mo. Annie Simpson, T R Kennedy Etc. (illustrator).…

Condition: Good. Chromolith die cut doll + 4 pages of chromolith text illustrations+ line illustrations. Die cut quarto (36x19cm) card covers (lower outer corner creasing/spine paper chipped off but covers still attached/edges rubbed/back cover plain has damp tide-mark and loss at top for half inch/spine is chipped but intack with covers attached) [14p] Back cover plain with Tuck Logo & publishing details New York-London-Paris. Damp marking does not affect inside at all,nor the front cover One marginal tear without loss a few slight finger marks & original staples a bit rusty but all pages attached except for bottom 1" split. Two captions a bit cropped it sounds wornse than it looks,but a large popular shape book which is often in poor condition or with torn pages due to its size. Here in acceptable good condition. This is NOT a facsimile reproduction, this is the genuine Father Tuck series, Number 1756. 1 volume. Softcover.…

Pictorial Card Covers. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. No date, circa 1890. 3 x 2.5 inches. Color printed, die-cut card covers with gold cord binding, minor spine wear, else fine. Nesbit's verse, illustrated in line throughout. Scarce. Size: 48mo.

Condition: Very Good-. chromolith pls (4)+ a few line illustrations by A.E. Cook.Cover boy & dog leaving for school +lower cover Tuck adverts 148 x103mm maximum size SHAPED glazed paper covers (lower cover sl.faded) (8pp) *Also 6 poems.inscription dated [18]92 Some soft creases but still very neat 1 volume. Softcover.…

Condition: Very Good-. tinted lithography throughout illustrated by Florence Prince & Amy Sawyer 157 x159mm maximum size SHAPED as the head of one daisy with lower cover the back of the daisy [tips of a few petals sl.creased & rubbed with tiny tip of part of one petal lost on lower cover/hinge rubbed] Covers + (16pp) Poetry by Edith Prince-Snowden 1 volume. Softcover.…

Condition: Very Good-. chromolith illustrations (4 fullpage & 4 with illustration and text Cover in gilt,brown & blue of girl holding a bundle of wheat 120 x116mm maximum size SHAPED as a sickle with girl & title within Pink ribbon tie to spine (sl. crease to handle/tiny loss to tip of sickle) Pictorial title in sepia +(18pp) +imprint to verso of last page 1 volume. Softcover. …

Condition: Very Good-. chromolith pls (4)+ a few line illustrations by A.E. Cook.Cover Girl with kitten on her shoulder +lower cover Tuck adverts 148 x103mm maximum size SHAPED glazed paper covers (lower cover sl.faded) (8pp) *Also 7 poems.inscription dated [18]92 Some soft creases but still very neat 1 volume. Softcover.…

Valentine & Sons, London. No date, circa 1920. Small puppy shaped booklet with coloured covers. 7 illustrated pages in red and black. 8 pages of story. Covers very lightly soiled. Pages browned o/w a clean and sound copy.

Condition: Very Good. Die-cut full color printed stiff wraps, small tear at opening, faint crease. Cover art by Paul Kaloda. From the Mother and Baby Animal Books series designed by Cyril von Baumann. Die-cut in the shape of a gorilla with a slit for the baby gorilla. Story is illustrated in b&w throughout in a very cartoonish style. Original envelope included but in poor condition. Size: 4to.…

Small octavo, 180 x 120 mm, original glossy colour pictorial wrappers, 12 pp + covers, stapled at spine. Illustrated throughout in black & white & with 4 full-page plates in full colour chromolithography. A shape book, the book is shaped so that the head and fore-edge margins are curved along the image of the tree branches. Trifling rubbing, light wear along spine panel, a near fine copy of this beautiful Victorian Children's Book. Gorgeously illustrated. Uncommon, if not just plain rare. In verse, with pictures. The Title is transcribed from the upper cover. Caption title: The Tea-party. Date and publisher attribution is from a copy of "McLoughlin Bros. Confidential price-list and telegraph code, Season 1894-95" held at the American Antiquarian Society. That copy - which belonged to McLoughlin Bros. Vice President Charles E. Miller - has a handwritten note which states: "Artless. 35. Tea party [series, shape, 4 kds.] 3.50 [per gross]"-- - WorldCat lists but 3 copies held in Libraries worldwide (UBC, NYPL, AAS).…

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Unpaginated. Stiff paper covers shaped like a basket, printed in color depicting a basket full of children, small chip from top of cover else, Fine. Opens from top to bottom, 4 full page color chromolithographs and one double page color chromo, all very lovely bright and clean. Also sepia printed illustrations and verse. Illustrations are signed E.A.C. Chromolithographs (illustrator).…

Condition: Near Fine. Die-cut full color printed stiff wraps, brown mark on title page else near fine. Cover art by Paul Kaloda. From the Mother and Baby Animal Books series designed by Cyril von Baumann. Die-cut in the shape of a bear with a slit for the baby bear. Story is illustrated in b&w throughout in a very cartoonish style. Original envelope included but in poor condition. Size: 4to.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. ca. 1900. Approximately 4 1/4 in x 4 in. 8 color and 6 b/w illustrations by F. Valters, etc. (including covers). Unusual shape in the form of a grazing milk cow. Very good, fresh. No signatures or bookplates. F. Valters, etc (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. SAMLL FOLIO; 16 PAGES VERY GOOD.

Condition: Fair. chromolith pages (4) + sepia text illustrations Die Cut narrow folio chromolith card covers plain glazed rear cover (spine over sewn/ edges rubbed or sl.chipped/ lower cover with horizontal crease / lower outer corner of rear unillustrated cover lost not affecting logo or imprint information) (14pp) One text illustrations partly colored by a previous owner some other signs of use but nothing significant. Three Edge tears without paper loss. No tape repairs, no scribbles, no foxing and though Oversewn hinge is unfortunate the book opens safely and a more permanent repair could be done. Total size is 37cm x19.5cm [14+ inches] 1 volume. Hardcover.…