New York: Street & Smith, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. 187 pages, [5] pages publishers advertising. 16 cm. Written in "child" dialect. Illustrated throughout. Spine lightly rubbed, interior crisp and clean. More about The Real Diary of a Real Girl
Oakland, CA: The Smithsonian Company, 1912. Hardcover. 175 pages. 24 x 17 cm. An adventurous book within a book. Young Mary Frances is enchanted by her friends, the Kitchen People, who explain the mysterious secrets of the kitchen. Lovely anthropomorphic kitchen utensils bring the reader along for this charming adventure... More about The Mary Frances Cook Book; Or Adventures Among The Kitchen People
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1968. First American Edition. Hardcover. 13.5 x 18.5 cm. Without words, artist John S. Goodall delights us with detailed drawings and the tale of young Paddy Pork. Interior and boards clean, dust wrapper rubbed and lightly chipped at folds with 1/2 cm. loss at corner. More about The Adventures of Paddy Pork
Los Angeles: Price/Stern/Sloan, 1970. Hardcover. 93 pages. 19.5 x 14.5 cm. Illustrated by Donald Hendricks. "What are curds and whey, anyway? This book is written for and dedicated to every child who has ever asked the question, and to demonstrate it by cooking." A delightfully illustrated cookbook/historical-gastronomic adventure. Boards lightly... More about The Mother Goose Cookbook
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1933. Hardcover. 230 pages. 21.5 x 18 cm. The second book in the cherished Little House series. A year, through seasons, in the life of a young boy on a farm. Based on the story of Wilder's husband, Almanzo's, who grew up in the... More about Farmer Boy; Illustrated by Helen Sewell