[Enfantina] - A collection of 12 children's books. - Lot 8

[Enfantina] - A collection of 12 children's books. 1/ - Marty, A.-E. - Callisto, Diana's Little Nymph. Text and illustrations by Marty. Paris, Édition de l'Office Central de l'Imagerie, 1943. Quarto, stapled, softcover with illustrated cover—31 pp., [1 p.], vignettes in the text. First edition. A beautiful poem, a gift from the writer Francis Éon (1879–1949), on the upper inside front cover. A fine copy. 2/ - Galland, Gabriel - La Nézière, R. de. - The King of Animal Detectives. A Four-Legged Sherlock Holmes. Paris, Jules Tallandier, 1908. Large quarto, publisher’s cardboard binding, cloth-covered spine—rounded corners, rubbed edges, scattered foxing—64 pp., 5 full-page illustrations, color and monochrome vignettes in the text. 3/ - Faguet, Émile - Job. - The Comic Heroes. King Dagobert, Malbrough, Cadet Rouselle. Paris, Henri Laurens, n.d. Large quarto, publisher’s cardboard binding, orange cloth spine, illustrated front cover, corners slightly rounded—66 pp., [3 ff.], 24 full-page illustrations, color and monochrome vignettes in the text by Job. Interior in very fresh condition. 4/ - Hellé, André. - La Croisière des enfants. Paris, Berger-Levrault, 1933. Quarto, illustrated publisher's cardboard binding, cloth spine—corners worn, edges rubbed, wear on the spine—47 pp., [1 p.], vignettes in the text by André Hellé in soft shades of pink, blue, and light green. 5/ - Fuller, Alfred J. - *Little People’s Animal Book*. London: Ernest Nister; New York: E.P. Dutton, n.d. [ca. 1900]. Large 4to, publisher’s illustrated cardboard binding, cloth-bound spine—corners worn, edges rubbed—[34 ff.], color and black-and-white illustrations in the text. 6/ - Busch Bilderbogen. Munich, Verlag von Braun und Schneider, n.d. [ca. 1900]. Large 8vo, publisher’s illustrated cardboard binding, cloth spine—corners rubbed, spine faded with small tears, stains on the covers—50 double leaves mounted on tabs and illustrated by Wilhelm Busch. This is a series of loose-leaf sheets published between 1848 and 1898. Fifty of them, accompanied by a text by Wilhelm Busch and numbered 242 through 626, have been compiled into a volume. The title on the front cover serves as the title page. 7/ - Busch, Wilhelm. - Mar und Moritz: A Boy’s Story in Seven Strips. Munich, Von Braun und Schneider, [c. 1900]. Color-illustrated in-8 cardboard binding—56 color pp. 8/ - Meggendorfer, Lothar. - *Die Affen und die Zipfelmützen...* Munich, Braun & Schneider, [c. 1900]. Small in4, paperback with color cover - 24 pp., in color. 9/ - Arnaud. - A Baby’s Day. Paris, A. Quantin, [c. 1885]. Small in-4 publisher’s hardcover, illustrated in color by F. Bouisset and engraved by Guillaume—31 pp. 10/ - Perrault, Charles. - Once Upon a Time... Tales by Charles Perrault, illustrated by J. A. Mercier. Menier Chocolate Album (1953). Only 2 images are missing to be pasted in (115 and 119). 11/ - Alexandre, Arsène. - *The Chimpanzee*. A one-act comedy with four characters (three boys and one girl). Paris, Hachette & Cie, 1906. In-8, cardboard binding with some wear; preserved illustrated color covers by Henry Morin—12 pp. Illustrated with 4 color drawings and 5 black-and-white drawings by Job. 12/ - Giraudoux, Jean. - A propos de la rentrée des classes. Paris, Fr. Renouard, 1939. In-4, paperback with a reinforced illustrated softcover - 12 ff. 15 full-page color illustrations by Maurice Taquoy