{"title":"Children's \u0026 Illustrated","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"to-2026-123","title":"Reynard the Fox","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMORA, J. J. (illustrator).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReynard the Fox.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION.\u003c\/strong\u003e Boston: Dana Estes \u0026amp; Company, 1901.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOctavo. xi, 186 pp. Illustrated throughout by Jo Mora: twenty-four full-page drawings in monotone (including the frontispiece), with black-and-white in-text vignettes and head- and tailpieces. Publisher's yellow-tan cloth, the spine and front board decorated with an orange fox and lettered in black, an orange fox cub stamped to the rear board. Grandeau \u0026amp; Shorts A2. A very good copy, with darkening to the boards, light wear to the extremities, two previous-owner names, small tape residue inside the covers, and the front hinge lightly cracked.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn early book of the illustrator Jo Mora, much later celebrated for his Monterey Peninsula work and his pictorial maps of California and the West. \u003cem\u003eReynard the Fox\u003c\/em\u003e is among the earliest substantial book commissions he carried — his second for Dana Estes, following \u003cem\u003eThe Animals of Aesop\u003c\/em\u003e the year before — and already shows the lively animal draftsmanship the California work would build on. The text retells the old beast-fable of Reynard, the sly fox who outwits lion, wolf, and bear alike — a trickster tradition that ran through medieval French, Dutch, and German versions for centuries. An attractive early-Mora book with genuine appeal for the illustration collector.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-123\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mora, Jo","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459955216545,"sku":"TO-2026-123","price":285.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-123_01.jpg?v=1783399973"},{"product_id":"to-2026-124","title":"Under Scott in Mexico","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBONEHILL, Captain Ralph [Edward Stratemeyer].\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUnder Scott in Mexico.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION.\u003c\/strong\u003e Boston: Dana Estes \u0026amp; Company, 1902.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOctavo. 287 pp. Eight full-page illustrations by Jo J. Mora, including a frontispiece with tissue guard. Publisher's gray cloth, lettered in black, with a black-and-blue pictorial design of two soldiers on the front cover and a pictorial spine. Copyright Dana Estes \u0026amp; Company; electrotyped and printed by the Colonial Press, Boston. Fading to the spine; light wear to the extremities, more so at the spine ends and lower boards; else a very good copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Captain Ralph Bonehill\" was one of Edward Stratemeyer's principal personal pseudonyms, used in the years before he founded the Stratemeyer Syndicate in 1905. \u003cem\u003eUnder Scott in Mexico\u003c\/em\u003e is the third and final volume of his Mexican War trilogy, issued by Dana Estes between 1900 and 1902 and set during General Winfield Scott's 1847 campaign in the Mexican–American War, though it stands as a complete story in itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe illustrations are early work by Jo J. Mora (1876–1947), then in his mid-twenties and working in the East as a young illustrator before the Western and California work for which he is now best known. A scarce title, uncommon with the Mora illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-124\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bonehill, Captain Ralph","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459955249313,"sku":"TO-2026-124","price":135.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-124_01.jpg?v=1783398947"},{"product_id":"to-2026-127","title":"Treasure Island (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTEVENSON, Robert Louis;\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eSTEADMAN, Ralph (illustrator).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTreasure Island.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION\u003c\/strong\u003e — the first Steadman-illustrated edition. London: Harrap Limited, 1985.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoldly signed and dated by Steadman in gold pen across the endpapers, the signature laid over his printed skull-and-crossbones endpaper design. This is the trade hardback in the publisher's dust jacket — not the separate Harrap limited edition of 250 copies in leather slipcase, but the standard first issue, signed by the artist after publication. Small quarto. 216 pp. Twenty-four full-color paintings by Steadman throughout. Black cloth with gilt lettering to the front board and spine, in the original publisher's illustrated dust jacket. Fine; in a near fine dust jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRalph Steadman's edition of \u003cem\u003eTreasure Island\u003c\/em\u003e, a striking modern reading of Stevenson's 1883 pirate novel by the Welsh artist best known for his decades-long collaboration with Hunter S. Thompson. The twenty-four full-color paintings, often spread across two pages, give Stevenson's buccaneers and buried gold the unmistakable Steadman treatment — splattered ink, distorted faces, an atmosphere of moral menace — matched by an introduction that reads the novel as a story with no heroes, every character smitten by a festering greed for gold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-127\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stevenson, Robert Louis","offers":[{"title":"Near Fine","offer_id":46459955347617,"sku":"TO-2026-127","price":475.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-127_01.jpg?v=1783744310"},{"product_id":"to-2026-129","title":"Dennis the Menace: Household Hurricane (INSCRIBED)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKETCHAM, Hank. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDennis the Menace: Household Hurricane.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-129\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION.\u003c\/strong\u003e New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1957.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInscribed by the author on the front free endpaper \"To Dot \u0026amp; Bill,\" with an original ink drawing in Ketcham's hand — Dennis with a sailboat, asking \"Okay, I'm ready — where's that ol' yacht club?\" — captioned \"...and his poor ol' pooped pop\" and signed \"Hank.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKetcham (1920–2001) conceived Dennis the Menace in October 1950, drawing on his own four-year-old son; the strip launched in March 1951 and quickly spread from its syndicated newspaper panels into a run of cartoon books for Henry Holt — \u003cem\u003eDennis the Menace Rides Again\u003c\/em\u003e (1955), \u003cem\u003eWanted: Dennis the Menace\u003c\/em\u003e (1956), and \u003cem\u003eHousehold Hurricane\u003c\/em\u003e (1957), the newest at the time of this inscription. Most surviving Ketcham-signed copies carry a signature only; a copy inscribed and finished with an original Dennis drawing — here a sailboat scene complete with speech balloon and caption — is uncommon, and a genuine piece of original cartoon art on the page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOctavo. Unpaginated. Black-and-white cartoons throughout. Pictorial glossy illustrated boards. 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[63] pp. Stiff color illustrated softcover. A fine copy, with a faint spot to the front cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost surviving Ketcham-signed copies carry a signature alone; copies with an original Dennis drawing are uncommon, and a copy inscribed by both Hank and Rolande and finished with a drawing is genuinely scarce, with additional regional interest for collectors of California and Monterey Peninsula material.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-130\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ketcham, Hank","offers":[{"title":"Fine","offer_id":46459955413153,"sku":"TO-2026-130","price":300.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-130_01.jpg?v=1783399721"},{"product_id":"to-2026-138","title":"The Master Key: An Electrical Fairy Tale","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBAUM, L. 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Near fine: light wear to extremities, corners just starting to show through, front hinge cracked; color label intact with mild surface wear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eL. Frank Baum's children's novel of 1901, published the year after \u003cem\u003eThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz\u003c\/em\u003e and widely classified as one of the earliest American science-fiction novels for children. Its protagonist, Rob Joslyn — generally thought to be modeled on Baum's second son, Robert Stanton Baum (born 1886, about fifteen at publication), to whom the book is dedicated — is a boy electrical experimenter whose tinkering accidentally summons the Daemon of Electricity, who grants him a succession of marvelous \"gifts.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-138\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Baum, L. 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