This catalog grew out of my interest (and customer interest) in Volland books and other books illustrated with a decided art deco influence.  It's a mixed bag, featuring the most interesting and pretty books I found on the shelves.  Enjoy.
 

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Ainslie, Kathleen.  At Great-Aunt Martha's: A Story About Wooden Dolls.  Merrimack Pub., n.d. (circa 1950). 6" x 9" oblong, approx. 30 pages.  "Replica of antique original." Pictorial boards, no printed copyright page, handwritten text, featuring interesting illustrations of flat wooden dolls.  Dust jacket has closed tear and minor stain.  VG/G+.  $40 Bergengren, Ralph.  David the Dreamer.  Illustrations by Tom Freud.  The Atlantic Monthly Press, Boston, 1922, first American Edition.   This is a scarce and influential book, with illustrations in an innovative art-deco style.  VG.  $600 Field, Eugene.  Fiddle-Dee-Dee and Other Verses.  Illustrated by Helene Nyce and Shawn O'Rosson.  Akron: Saalfield Publishing Company, 1929.  5.25" x 8.5", 93 pages.  Black and white drawings on every page, 6 full-color plates.  Yellow cloth with pictorial paste-on, corners bumped and spine faded.  A nice familiar collection of verse with nice illustrations throughout.  VG-.  $58 Gordon, Elizabeth.  Loraine and the Little People of Spring.  Illustrated by Ella Dolbear Lee.  Chicago: Rand McNally, 1918.  6" x 7.75", 64 pages.  7 full color plates, and many black and white illustrations throughout.  Corners bumped and one scuff mark on edge of front cover.  Endpapers slightly soiled, interior pages clean and binding tight.  VG-.  $35 Hyde, E.A. Watson.  Little Brothers to the Scouts.  Illustrated by Blanche Fisher Wright.  Chicago: Rand McNally, 1917.  6" x 7.5", 72 pages.  10 fabulous color plates, coated paper throughout.  A couple pages have soiling or thumbmarks, and binding is missing 1/2" to top of spine, but overall this is a nice, clean and tight copy.  VG-.  $40 Judson, Clara Ingram.  Garden Adventures of Tommy Tittlemouse.  Illustrated by Frances Beem.  Chicago: Rand McNally, 1922.  6" x 7.75", 64 pages.  8 full color plates, and many black and white illustrations throughout.  Corners very worn, other edgewear and spine wear as well.  Darling illustrations.  G+.  $48 Justus, May.  Fiddle Away.  Illustrated by Erick Berry.  Grosset & Dunlap, 1936, 1942.  A Story Parade Picture Book.  8" x 8.5" square, approx. 24 pages.  A charming children's book with color illustrations on every-other page.  Decorated endpapers and a page of music notation.  Slight edgewear, otherwise VG+.  $20 McNeil, Marion L.  Round the Mulberry Bush. Illustrated by Fern Bisel Peat.  Akron: Saalfield, 1933.  Quarto picture book, 9.75" x 12", approx. 30 matte pages.  8 stunning full color pages.  In beautiful condition, with only minor wear at corners and spine of dust jacket.  F/VG.  <SOLD> Merryman, Mildred Plew.  Mister Wubble's Bubbles.  Illustrated by Elizabeth Cadie.  Akron: Saalfield Publishing Company, 1936.  6.25" x 6.75" square, 42 pages, with a red spiral binding and dust jacket (really).  A fabulous illustrated book, showing great innovation in layout design (notice how midle illustration above continues imaginatively behind the text).  Dust jacket is frayed and tattered, but nicely preserved in mylar cover.  Spiral binding is intact, but pages are tight within it.  Illustrations on almost every other page.  Charming.  VG/G-.  <SOLD> Smith, Gertrude.  The Wonderful Stories of Jane and John.  Illustrated by Alice Woods.  Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1899.  Tall 8vo, 74 pages.  Interesting 10 period lithographs with black, green and red color-block printing style.  Looks art deco, but is much earlier!  Quality woven printed pages, and coated stock for full-page plates.  Red cloth cover, cover marked with corners bumped and spine faded.  Interior pages clean and bright, deckled edges.  G+.  $55 Wall, Dorothy.  The Tale of Bridget and the Bees.  Illustrated by Dorothy Wall.  London: Methuen & Co., 1934.  6.75" x 8.5", 56 pages.  Super glossy pages, with many full-color and sepia-toned plates.  The scans above don't capture the delicacy and beauty of these illustrations.  Front cover is warped, spine worn and frayed, interior is clean and bright.  Scarce.  G-.  <SOLD>