24 vintage Story Books (no publisher or publication date but seller says they’re Samuel Lowe from 1941, which dovetails with Todd’s description of the Samuel Lowe libraries):
Five vintage Children’s Story Books (no publisher or publication date, but antique (possibly Samuel Lowe fro early 1940s)). Sizes: 2” x 2.75
A is for Aunt and Animals Too
Bowsey Meets a Dunce Cap
Cinderella
Ding, Dong Bell / Pussy’s in the Well
Friendly Little Playmate
Goody Two Shoes
Hansel and Gretel
Little Friendly Animals
Little Stories of Little Birds
M is For Mouse and also For Moon
Old King Cole
Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater
Pinky Kittens Party
Puppy Dogs! Puppy Dogs!
Puppy Dog Stories
Puss n Boots
Pussy Cat and Puppy Dog
Teddy Bear Goes to School
Teddy Bear Tales
The Ducks Say Quack
The Little Pirate
The Old Woman And Her Pig
The Roly Poly Children
Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories
This Little Pig Went to Market
The Three Little Pigs
The Story of Peter Rabbit
Little Red Riding Hood
Puppy Dog Pays a Visit
Bookmites for Children (in original though damaged box, Stoll & Edwards, 1925). Size: 2.25” x 2.75
CINDERELLA
THE LITTLE SMALL RED HEN
THE THREE LITTLE KITTENS
PETER RABBIT
LITTLE BLACK SAMBO
THE THREE LITTLE PIGS
THE THREE BEARS
MOTHER GOOSE [ missing one]
Mini Bear Story Books (plus 3 mini bears, Merrimack Publishing, N.Y., 1979. No. 90117). Sizes: 1.5” x 3”
The Three Bears
The Teddy Bears in a Smashup
The Teddy Bears Come to Life
The Teddy Bears in Hot Water
The Teddy Bears on a Lark
Brown’s Best Bread Series—story booklets packed with each loaf of bread. A Dec. 11, 1926 drawing held for giving an automobile to the child holding the largest number of these booklets. Sizes: 2.25” x 3.25”
Mrs. Tabby’s Noisy Children
The Bear Family at Home
In Fairy Land
All About Buster and Mowie
PUPPY DOGS! PUPPY DOGS! By no named author (no named publisher, no named publisher, but thought to be Samuel Lowe’s from the 1940s). Size: 2-1/8” x 2-5/8”
History of Domestic Animals (wonky sewn binding, Kiggins & Kellog, New York, circa 1850). Size: 2” x 3.25”
A GIFT For A Little Child (Rufus Merrill, Concord, NH, 1843). Size: 2.25” x 3.25”
The Flying Trunk by Hans Christian Andersen (Nordic Paper Industry, Viby J, Denmark, nd but vintage). Size: 2-1/8” x 3-1/8”
THUMBELINA by Hans Christian Andersen designed and made by Terrie Wertz (LittleTHINGSinterest, Marshallville, OH, __). Size: 7/8" x 11/16"
Thumbelina and Other Stories by Hans Christian Andersen (Running Press, 1989). Size: 2.75” x 3.25”
Beauty and the Beast (Insight Editions, San Rafael, CA, 2019). Size: 1.5" x 2"
Peter Rabbit Learns from Striped Chipmunk by Thornton W. Burgess (John H. Eggers, New York, 1917). Size: 2-1/8" x 2.75"
Cinderella (Insight Editions, San Rafael, CA, 2019). Size: 1.5" x 2"
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle (BijouMiniBooks, 2020). Size: 1.5” x 1”
Mad Hatter Tea Party (from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland) by Lewis Carroll and Edited by Zachary Liebman Blair, illus. by John Tenniel (with tea tray, cups, pitcher and sugar and creamer, Running Press Miniature Edition, Philadelphia, 2014). Size: 2.5” x 3”
The World of Gumby & Pokey by Joe Clokey (w/ figurines, Running Press, Philadelphia, 2007). Size: 2.5” x 3”
8 Stories in a Box by John H. Eggers (Box 510 or 610 from Rust Craft, Boston, 1917 (according to seller; there is gift inscription on back of box dated Fall 1939)
ALI BABA
Child’s Garden of Verse
East of the Sun and West of the Moon
Nursery Rhymes
Old Mother Hubbard
The Chocolate Man
The Gorgon’s Head
The PIED PIPER
Bush Babies by May Gibbs (Angus & Robertson /HarperCollins, Australia, 1992). Size: 2.75” x 3.25”
Joker (Insight Editions, San Rafael, CA, 2019). Size: 1.5" x 2"
Wags and Kisses by Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel, Kansas City, 2001). Size: 3” x 3.75”
The Christmas Dream of Little Charles (Kiggins & Kellog’s Second Series of of Four Series of 12 Books Each, antique). Size: 2.25” x 3.75”
Poor Frightened Mr. Pig
The Naughty Little Guest
The Easter Bunny
Happy Valentine
Roger Mouse's Wish
Uncle Quack
Mrs. Sheep's Little Lamb
The Cowboy Kitten
Little Squirrel's Santa Claus
The Two Snowbulls
April Fool!
Tiny Animal Series by Dorothy Kunhardt with pictures by Garth Williams (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1948). Size: 2” x 3”.
The Baby Camel and His Naughty Father
The Two Stuck-in-the-Mud Rhinoceros
Look Out, Baby Bears. Here He Comes!
Hop, Hop Llittle Kangaroo
“Meow,” Said The Fierce Baby Lion
Why The Little Elephant Got Spanked
The Tiger Kitten’s Poor, Poor Tail
The Little Leopard And His Fat Stomach
The Baby Hippopotamus’s Adventure
The Little Giraffe Wants To Play
The Brave Father Gorilla
Shame On You, Baby Whale!
Little Miss Muffett (Sesame Street / Flying Frog Publishing, Lutherville, MD, 2014). Size: 4” x 4”
20 Children's Fairy Tales illustrated by Mister Burns (Mt. Hawley Publishing Co., Peoria, IL, 1960. In cardboard but wood-looking chest). Size: 2" x 2"
The Three Pigs[lacking cover], Billy Goats Gruff, Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, Jack and the Beanstalk, Mother Goose, Nitty Ditties, Peter Rabbit, Puss in Boots, Red Riding Hood, Rumpelstilskin, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, The Brave Little Tailor, The Elves and the Shoemaker, The Gingerbread Man, The Little Tin Solder, The 3 Bears, Three Wishes, Tom Thumb
Box of 5 Fairy Tales: Rumpelstilskin (2 copies), Cinderella (2 copies), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Little Red Riding Hood and Jack and the Beanstalk (Mighty Midget Books, Vintage WWII). Size: 1.5" x 2"
Pooh’s Pot of Honey series by A.A. Milne with illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard (in box, Dutton, New York, 1968). Size: 2-5/8” x 3-7/8”. Jackets on all except for Pooh Hears A Buzzing Noise):
Pooh Goes Visiting
Eeyore Loses A Tail
Pooh and Piglet Go Hunting
Pooh Hears A Buzzing Noise
Pooh and Piglet Go Hunting by A.A. Milne with illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard (Dutton, New York, 1968). Size: 2-5/8” x 3-7/8”
Ring Around the Rose. Size: 3.25” x 3.25
The Miniature Mother Goose (Running Press, 1992). Size: 2.75” x 3.25”
MOTHER GOOSE RHYMES IN THE OLD WOMAN’S SHOE (Blaze International Productions, Inc. (Taiwan, 1995). Size: 2.5” x 2.5”
Baa Baa Black Sheep
Humpty Dumpty
Little Miss Muffet
The Cat and The Fiddle
Mary Had A Little Lamb
Pat-a-Cake, Pat-a-Cake
NURSERY RHYMES (The Piso Co., Warren, PA, ~1901). Size: 2" x 3"
The Original Peter Rabbit Miniature Collection 1, 2, and 3 (Frederick Warne & Co., First published 1903, Miniature Edition 1988; this impression 1990). Size: 2-3/8" x 3"
1.
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
The Tale of Benjamin Bunny
The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle
The Tale of Ginger and Pickles
2.
The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle
The Tale of Ginger and Pickles
2.
The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies
The Tale of Gloucester
The Tale of Tom Kitten
The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck
The Tale of Gloucester
The Tale of Tom Kitten
The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck
3.
The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
The Tale of Two Bad Mice
The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher
The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse
The World of Peter Rabbit, Miniature Collection 1-12 by Beatrix Potter (F. Warne & Co., 2012). Boxed set with each book 2-3/8" x 3.25"
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
The Tale of Gloucester
The Tale of Benjamin Bunny
The Tale of Two Bad Mice
The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle
The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher
The Tale of Tom Kitten
The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck
The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies
The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse
The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes
Tales of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter, illus. by Charles Santore (Running Press, Philadelphia, 1991). Size: 2.75” x 3.25”
The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle by Beatrix Potter (Frederick Warne & Co., 1998). Size: 3.25” x 3.75”
The Tale of Jemma Puddle-Duck by Beatrix Potter (Frederick Warne & Co., 1998). Size: 3.25” x 3.75”
Mishka and the Magic Picture by Suzanne Smith Pruchnicki (signed, Bronte Press, 1984. 37/200). Size: 3” x 2.25”
NUTSHELL LIBRARY by Maurice Sendak (in box, Harper Collins, 1962). Size: 2-5/8” x 3-5/8”. Four books:
ALLIGATORS ALL AROUND
PIERRE
ONE WAS JOHNNY
CHICKEN SOUP WITH RICE
The Tale of Kitty In Boots by Beatrix Potter (Dateman Books, U.K., 2019). Size 1" x 1"
RUMPELSTILTSKIN Retold by Olive Jones & Illustrated by Francesca Crespi (Dial, New York, 1983). Size: 3.25” x 4”
The Wonderful World of Smurfs (Random House, 1982). Size: 2.25”x 2.25”
This Little Piggy. Size: 3.25” x 3.25”
Tom Thumb’s Picture Alphabet in Rhyme (Kiggins & Kellog, New York, antique). Size: 2” x 3.25”
TRANSFORMERS (w/ a transformer toy, Running Press, Philadelphia/London, with Hasbro, 2014). Size: 2.5” x 3”
The Nutcracker by Daniel Walden, adapted from the ballet by Lev Ivanov and Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky (Running Press, Philadelphia and London, 1992). Size: 2.75” x 3.25”
Homemade tiny schoolbooks from the early 1900s by Josephine E. Watt and 2 printed Alphabet books:
The Little Red Schoolhouse by probably Josephine E. Watt (Homemade; author is not identified but most likely is same author of Number Book and Test Book). Size: 2" x 2.75"
Number Book by Josephine E Watt (Homemade). Size: 2" x 2.25"
Test Book by Josephine E. Watt (Homemade). Size: 4" x 2.25"
Two Alphabet Books (printed in the USA, publisher unknown). Size: 2-1/8" x 2.5"
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams illustrated by Michael Green (Running Press, Philadelphia, 1989). Size: 2.75” x 3.25”
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams (in box with plush toy VR, Running Press, Philadelphia & London, 2014). Size: 2.5” x 3”
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See Also
Harry Potter
Little Little Golden Books
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Library also contains
The Life & Work of Beatrix Potter by Shawn Hartley Hancock (Ariel Books / Andrews & McMeel, Kansas City, 1996). Size: 2" x 2"
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