Tschantre E Jr (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Unpaginated. Red pictorial boards, linen spine. Wear to corners and extremities, missing rear endpaper and crayon scribbling on rear paste down. All contents of book intact. 13 poems, each on an individual page. Accompanied by color lithographs. Follows the Tin Tans, kitchen utensils that come alive and have adventures and are wonderfully, unusually illustrated. A worn copy of an uncommon title. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover Quarto. illustrated boards, unpaginated covers loose and worn on the edges, spine chipped at both ends owner's name and datew written on the title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. First edition. Quarto. Pictorial papercovered boards with cloth spine. Title page with large chip on bottom corner while loose and laid in, owner's name penned on front pastedown, some pages have crayon, spine and edges are worn and frayed, thus a fair to good only copy. An amusing children's rhyme with inanimate objects coming to life. Scarce, *OCLC* locates only 8 copies.…

Hard Cover. First edition. Quarto, 13 unpaginated board leaves including title-page with photographic portrait roundels of the Authors in childhood; the remaining leaves printed with colour lithographs and verses to both sides. Original red quarter cloth with pictorial paper-covered boards. Spine and boards showing wear to edges and corners, and lightly surface scuffed. A couple of faint marks to inner front cover, and scattered light foxing and fingermarking. No annotation or inscriptions. A very good copy with bright illustrations throughout. The adventures of the Tin Tans, kitchen implements which come alive in the absence of human company. Characters include tea cups that go swimming, the Wicked Flatirons, Saucy Saucepans and Peter the Eggbeater, all charmingly and imaginatively illustrated, with a few cautionary tales of Tin Tans frozen in the ice chest, and caught in mousetraps! Scarce.…

Condition: Very good plus. First Edition. First edition of this charmingly odd book of poetry about humanized kitchen implements as they engage in various activities, illustrated with chromolithographs. This title sees the TIN TANS venture beyond the kitchen into "Mr. Joseph Brown's strawberry patch" for a game of lawn tennis between an English cup and an American spoon, in addition to getting into a variety of cooking-based mischief. TIN TANS AT PLAY is the second and final title in the rather surreal TIN TAN series, written and illustrated by husband and wife team E. Tschantré Jr. and Gracia Kasson. 11'' x 8.75''. Original red cloth-backed pictorial boards. Title page featuring photographic illustrations of the author and illustrator as children, with chromolithograph illustrations to every page. CW: slur on pp. 18-19. [25] leaves, printed recto only. Boards with a few spots of rubbing, some edgewear; spine ends bumped. Leaves mildly toned. Illustrations sharp and bright.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. 4to. (11.2 x 9.2 inches). An unusual book featuring 26 pp of verse, printed on one side of thick paper, each illustrated with full colour chromolithographs of anthropomorphised knives, pots and pans, tea kettles, clothes pegs, teaspoons, etc, in fact pretty much anything that you might find in an early twentieth century kitchen. Original thick card boards with full colour illustrations and lettering to the front panel, the rear plain red. Red cloth spine. There is some rubbing to the edges of the boards but overall this is a lovely, near fine copy of this scarce edition. J & F. Hunt- Peeps into Nisterland. A guide to the Children's books of Ernest Nister; page 284. …