Swann Galleries: CHILDRENS BOOKS., 1102,

Auction Details

Auction Date: May 11, 1978 - May 11, 1978

Page Size: 522 items in 6 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
201	GREENAWAY, KATE	KATE GREENAWAY'S BIRTHDAY BOOK FOR CHILDREN.	London	1880	USD 40.00 - 60.00	80.00
202	GREENAWAY, KATE	A DAY IN A CHILD'S LIFE	London	1881	USD 35.00 - 50.00	85.00
203	GREENAWAY, KATE	MOTHER GOOSE, or the Old Nursery Rhymes.	London	1881	USD 40.00 - 60.00	130.00
204	GREENAWAY, KATE	MOTHER GOOSE, or the Old Nursery Rhymes AFTER Kate Greenaway.	New York	circa 1882	USD 40.00 - 60.00	70.00
205	GREENAWAY, KATE	ALMANACK FOR 1883 * ALMANACK FOR 1884.	London	1882-83	USD 50.00 - 75.00	45.00
206	GREENAWAY, KATE	KATE GREENAWAY'S CALENDAR FOR 1884.	London	1883	USD 50.00 - 75.00	120.00
207	GREENAWAY, KATE	KATE GREENA WAY'S CALENDAR FOR 1884 * KATE GREENA WAY'S CAROLS. Each consists of 4 cards with different designs in color, the designs for both Calendars and Carols being identical, with months inserted in the Calendars, and songs in the Carols.	London	1883	USD 100.00 - 150.00	100.00
208	GREENAWAY, KATE	LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.	London	1884	USD 40.00 - 60.00	75.00
209	GREENAWAY, KATE	KATE GREENAWAY'S ALPHABET.	London	1885	USD 60.00 - 90.00	80.00
210	GREENAWAY, KATE	A APPLE PIE.	London	1886	USD 35.00 - 50.00	80.00
211	GREENAWAY, KATE	KATE GREENAWAY'S BOOK OF GAMES.	London	nd	USD 30.00 - 40.00	35.00
212	GREENAWAY, KATE	MARIGOLD GARDEN * MOTHER GOOSE * UNDER THE WINDOW.	London	nd	USD 40.00 - 60.00	90.00
213	GREENAWAY, KATE	GROUP OF 4 FREDERICK WARNE EDITIONS, as below, all profusely illustrated in color.	London	nd	USD 40.00 - 60.00	12.00
214	GREENAWAY, KATE	GROUP OF 8 SMALL COLORED CARDS--A Garland Fair for Christmas Day; Reward of Merit; Calendar of the Seasons, 1881			USD 20.00 - 30.00	13.00
215	GREENAWAY, KATE	ALMANACK FOR 1884., SONGS FOR THE NURSERY, DRAWINGS BY KATE GREENAWAY; Verses by Laura E. Richards.	Routledge	1883, 1884, 1974	USD 50.00 - 75.00	50.00
216		THE APRIL BABY'S BOOK OF TUNES, with the Story of How They Came to be Written.	London	1900	USD 30.00 - 40.00	45.00
217		BRIGGS & co.'s PATENT TRANSFERRING PAPERS, patented for the United States of America	New York	circa 1882	USD 50.00 - 75.00	25.00
218	BROWNING, ROBERT	The Pied Piper of Hamelin	London	1888	USD 40.00 - 60.00	95.00
219	BRUNEFFILLE, G. E.	Topo: a Tale about English Children in Italy	London	1880	USD 40.00 - 60.00	25.00
220	COOLIDGE, SUSAN	A Guernsey Lily; or, How the Feud was Healed	Boston	1881	USD 50.00 - 75.00	25.00
221	CRESSWELL, BEATRICE F.	The Royal Progress of King Pepito	London	1889	USD 30.00 - 40.00	27.50
222	John Ruskin	DAME WIGGINS OF LEE, and her Seven Wonderful Cats	Sunnyside	1885	USD 60.00 - 90.00	80.00
223	John Ruskin	DAME WIGGINS OF LEE, and her Seven Wonderful Cats.	Sunnyside	1885	USD 35.00 - 50.00	40.00
224		GREENAWAY ILLUSTRATIONS.	Vp	1880's	USD 50.00 - 75.00	25.00
225	HAILE; HAILE; RICHARDS	Three Brown Boys, and other Happy Children, The Two Gray Girls and their Opposite Neighbors, Five Mice in a Mouse-Trap, by the Man in the Moon.	New York, Boston	1879-80, 1880	USD 35.00 - 50.00	15.00
226	HARTE, BRET	The Queen of the Pirate Isle.	London	1886	USD 60.00 - 90.00	60.00
227	HILL, MIRANDA	The Fairy Spinner and "Out of Date or Not?"	London	1888	USD 35.00 - 50.00	20.00
228		KATE GREENAWAY'S MIGNONETTES		1897	USD 30.00 - 40.00	17.00
229		LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN FROM THE PAGES OF KATE GREENAWAY	New York	1946	USD 30.00 - 40.00	50.00
230	LOCKER, FREDERICK	GREENAWAY ILLUSTRATIONS.	London	1881	USD 60.00 - 90.00	45.00
231	LOFTIE, s. j., Editor	Orient Line Guide: Chapters for Travellers by Sea and by Land	London	1888	USD 40.00 - 60.00	19.00
232	MAVOR, WILLIAM	The English Spelling-Book	London	1885	USD 35.00 - 50.00	25.00
233	POLLOCK, WALTER H. & LADY	Amateur Theatricals.	London	1879	USD 30.00 - 40.00	17.00
234	POTTER, F. SCARLETT	Melcomb Manor: a Family Chronicle	London	1875	USD 150.00 - 200.00	42.50
235		THE STORY OF BLUEBEARD	New York	circa 1875	USD 35.00 - 50.00	14.00
236		GREENAWAY ILLUSTRATIONS., THE QUIVER OF LOVE: a Collection of Valentines Ancient and Modern.	London	1876	USD 150.00 - 200.00	75.00
237	B. M. Ranking and T. K. Tully	GREENAWAY ILLUSTRATIONS., THE QUIVER OF LOVE: a Collection of Valentines, Ancient & Modern.	London	1880	USD 50.00 - 75.00	40.00
238	TAYLOR, JANE AND ANN	GREENAWAY ILLUSTRATIONS., Little Anne, and Other Poems.	London	1883	USD 40.00 - 60.00	20.00
239	WEATHERLY, F. E.	GREENAWAY ILLUSTRATIONS.	London	nd	USD 30.00 - 40.00	14.00
240	YONGE, CHARLOTTE M.	GREENAWAY ILLUSTRATIONS.	London	1889	USD 30.00 - 40.00	12.00
241	ZIMMERN, HELEN	GREENAWAY ILLUSTRATIONS.	London	1882	USD 35.00 - 50.00	12.00
242	SPIELMANN, M. H.; & LAYARD, G. s. Kate Greenaway	GREENAWAY ILLUSTRATIONS.	New York & London	1905	USD 50.00 - 75.00	25.00
243	MOORE, A. c.; Newcomb, Covelle	GREENAWAY ILLUSTRATIONS., The Secret Door: the Story of Kate Greenaway * two copies of the Chicago Sunday Tribune book section for March 17, 1946, celebrating the Greenaway centennial.		1946	USD 30.00 - 40.00	17.00
244	GREENE, GRAHAM	The Little Train * The Little Fire Engine * The Little Steamroller.	London	1951-53	USD 40.00 - 60.00	35.00
245	GREENWOOD, JAMES	The London Vocabulary, English and Latin, put into a New Method ... for the Use of Schools.	London	1791	USD 100.00 - 150.00	25.00
246	GREENWOOD, JAMES	The Philadelphia Vocabulary, English and Latin ... proper to acquaint the Learner with Things as well as Pure Latin Words.	Philadelphia	1806	USD 70.00 - 100.00	35.00
247	GREENWOOD, JAMES	The Purgatory of Peter the Cruel.	London & New York	1868	USD 100.00 - 150.00	70.00
248		GUY OF WARWICK.	London	1759	USD 40.00 - 60.00	30.00
249	HACK, MARIA	Winter Evenings; or, Tales of Travellers.	London	1818	USD 70.00 - 100.00	19.00
250	HAMMER, BONAVENTURA, O.S.F.	Columbus: Schauspiel in fuenf aufzuegen, fuer Deutsch-Amerikanische Jugendbuehnen.	Chicago	circa 1890	USD 30.00 - 40.00	14.00
251		HARLEQUINADE TRANSFORMATION.	Paris	1793	USD 40.00 - 60.00	30.00
252		HARRISON'S JUVENILE INSTRUCTOR; or First Book for Children.	Devizes	circa 1825	USD 30.00 - 40.00	25.00
253	HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL	Peter Parley's Universal History on the Basis of Geography.	New York	1837	USD 40.00 - 60.00	14.00
254	HENTY, G. A. St.	Bartholomew's Eve: a Tale of the Huguenot Wars.	London	1894	USD 30.00 - 40.00	45.00
255	HENTY, G. A.	Group of 10 volumes, as below, all illustrated; the first three being London editions, the rest with New York imprints.	Vp		USD 40.00 - 60.00	60.00
256	HEY, WILHELM	The Child's Picture and Verse Book, commonly called Otto Spekter's Fable Book, with the Original German and with French.	London	1844	USD 40.00 - 60.00	70.00
257		HIEROGLYPHIC BIBLE.	Vp		USD 30.00 - 40.00	55.00
258	HOFFLAND sic, MRS	Theodore, or the Crusaders: a Tale for Youth.	London	circa 1820	USD 40.00 - 60.00	75.00
259	HOFLAND, MRS	The Stolen Boy, or Little Manuel's Adventures among the Indians * The Son of a Genius.	Paris	1835, 1829	USD 50.00 - 75.00	25.00
260	HOOD, THOMAS	The Loves of Tom Tucker and Little Bo-Peep: a Rhyming Rigma role.	London	1863	USD 40.00 - 60.00	60.00
261	HOOLE, CHARLES	A New Discovery of the Old Art of Teaching School.	Syracuse	1912	USD 30.00 - 40.00	14.00
262	HOPE, ANTHONY	The Prisoner of Zenda * Rupert of Hentzau.	Bristol	1894, 1898	USD 30.00 - 40.00	13.00
263	HOPKINS, TIGHE	The Man in the Iron Mask.	London	1901	USD 20.00 - 30.00	13.00
264		Early example of this rare type of instruction, comprising an alphabet in capital letters on parchment under a protective sheet of thin horn, and enclosed in stiff leather frame with cruciform handle.	English	very early 18th century	USD 300.00 - 400.00	425.00
265		HORNBOOK.		1826	USD 50.00 - 75.00	45.00
266		HUMPTY DUMPTY.	London	1843	USD 100.00 - 150.00	100.00
267		ILLUSTRATED DITTIES OF THE OLDEN TIME.	London	circa 1855	USD 40.00 - 60.00	14.00
268		INSCRIBED COPIES.	Vp		USD 30.00 - 40.00	13.00
269		IRISH TALES, etc. The Entertaining Medley: True Histories and Anecdotes calcu lated for the Cottager's Fire-Side * The Ancient Irish Tales ... Stories told by the Peasantry in the Winter Evenings * Travels in England & Wales.	Dublin	1826-26-25	USD 50.00 - 75.00	35.00
270	JAMES, G. P. R.	The Last of the Fairies. Text wood-engravings by Vizetelly after John Gilbert; vari-colored ornamental text borders throughout.	London	1848	USD 30.00 - 40.00	14.00
271	Dickins, F.	JAPANESE TALE.	London	1888	USD 30.00 - 40.00	70.00
272	Aguilar, Grace	JEWISH FOLK TALES.	London & Philadelphia	1902	USD 30.00 - 40.00	18.00
273	JOHNSON, G. T.	True Stories in Easy Verse, for the Use of Young Persons.	London	1830	USD 30.00 - 40.00	30.00
274	JOHNSON, OWEN	The Tennessee Shad.	New York	1911	USD 30.00 - 40.00	14.00
275	JOHNSON, RICHARD	The History of North America ... from the earliest Period to the Time of their becoming United, free and independent States.	London	1789	USD 70.00 - 100.00	25.00
276	JOHNSON, RICHARD	Choice Scraps, Historical and Biographical, consisting of Pleasing Stories and Diverting Anecdotes ... for Young Minds.	London	circa 1790	USD 50.00 - 75.00	17.00
277	JOHNSTON, ANNIE FELLOWES	The Little Colonel.	Boston	1896	USD 30.00 - 40.00	14.00
278		JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN.	London	circa 1820	USD 60.00 - 90.00	90.00
279	JOSEPHUS	Destruction of Jerusalem, abridged from the History of the Jewish Wars, by Josephus.	Philadelphia	1828	USD 35.00 - 50.00	19.00
280		JUVENILE DRAMA.	English	early 19th century	USD 60.00 - 90.00	85.00
281	Elder George Q. Cannon, Editor	JUVENILE INSTRUCTOR ...	Salt Lake City	1870	USD 60.00 - 90.00	90.00
282		JUVENILE PLUTARCH, containing Accounts of the Lives of Celebrated Children ...	London	1812	USD 40.00 - 60.00	14.00
283	KEACH, BENJAMIN	War with the Devil, or the Young Man's Conflict with the Powers of Darkness.	London	1709	USD 80.00 - 120.00	18.00
284		KEEPSAKE, THE: or, Poems and Pictures for Childhood and Youth	London	1818, 1819	USD 50.00 - 75.00	17.00
285	KELLOGG, ELIJAH	Lion Ben of Elm Island.	Boston	1869	USD 40.00 - 60.00	20.00
286	KENDAL, E. A.	Parental Education, or Domestic Lessons: a Miscellany, intended for Youth.	London	1803	USD 40.00 - 60.00	12.00
287	KILNER, DOROTHY	First Going to School; or, the Story of Tom Brown and his Sisters.	London	1806	USD 35.00 - 50.00	30.00
288	KILNER, MARY JANE	Memoirs of a Peg-Top, by S. S.	London	circa 1820	USD 35.00 - 50.00	40.00
289	KING, SOLOMON	The Tame Pheasant, or Benevolence Rewarded * Cinderella, and her Glass Slippers.	New-York	nd	USD 35.00 - 50.00	45.00
290		KING CHRISTMAS: after Caldecott, Kate Greenaway, Miss Cassella & others.	New York	1881	USD 30.00 - 40.00	16.00
291	KINGSLEY, CHARLES	The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children.	London	1912	USD 70.00 - 100.00	35.00
292	KIPLING, RUDYARD	The Jungle Book * The Second Jungle Book.	London	1894, 1895	USD 80.00 - 120.00	100.00
293	KIPLING, RUDYARD	The Jungle Book * The Second Jungle Book.	London	1895	USD 40.00 - 60.00	15.00
294		KLEINE ERZAEHLUNGEN ueber ein Buch mit Kupfern, oder leichte Geschichte fuer Kinder.	Philadelphia	1809	USD 40.00 - 60.00	27.50
295		KLEINE PRINT-BYBEL, waar in door verscheide af Beeidingen een mennigte van Bybelsche Spreuken verklaart werden.	Amsteldam	1754	USD 80.00 - 120.00	130.00
296	KNATCHBULL-HUGESSEN, E. H.	Stories for My Children * Moonshine: Fairy Stories * Tales at Tea-Time: Fairy Stories * Queer Folk: Seven Stories.	London	1869-71-72-74	USD 30.00 - 40.00	12.00
297	LA FONTAINE, JEAN DE	Fables Choisies, mises en Vers, et par lui revues, corrigees & augmentees de nouveau.	Amsterdam	1728	USD 60.00 - 90.00	110.00
298	LA FONTAINE, JEAN DE	Contes et Nouvelles en Vers.	Londres	circa 1770	USD 60.00 - 90.00	65.00
299	LA FONTAINE, JEAN DE	Group of 3 illustrated editions of selected fables, as below.	Bernardin-Bechet et fils	circa 1890	USD 30.00 - 40.00	35.00
300	LAMB, CHARLES	Tales from Shakespear, designed for the Use of Young Persons.	London	1807	USD 300.00 - 400.00	190.00

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December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

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