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Children's Encyclopedia: Earth's Crust, Celestial Bodies - Vintage Book, 1J152
Located in Bordeaux, FR
captivating vintage treasure, "Children's Encyclopedia: Earth's Crust, Celestial Bodies." This remarkable
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Vintage 1950s Books

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Paper

Numbers and Figures, Matter and Energy: Vintage Children's Encyclopedia, 1J150
Located in Bordeaux, FR
vintage books, an educator seeking to engage young minds, or simply an individual with a passion for
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Vintage 1950s Books

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Paper

Discovering the Mystery: Vintage Children's Book from USSR, circa 1990, 1J148
Located in Bordeaux, FR
your child or a collector of vintage books, this colorful volume offers a glimpse into the imagination
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1990s Books

Materials

Paper

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 1945 Vintage Hardcover Book
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Circa 1945 - Rare Vintage Edition. Vintage Book
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Mid-20th Century American Expressionist Books

Materials

Paper

Maurice Feild Two Original Vintage Sketchbooks with Than 240 Sketches, 1970s
Located in Jersey, GB
themes and include portraits of children and landscape studies. The quality is high throughout. Feild
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Vintage 1980s Books

Materials

Paper

At Home with Dogs and Their Designers Sharing a Stylish Life
By Rizzoli International Publications
Located in New York, NY
vintage rugs, antiques are sometimes mistaken for chew toys, and more than one pair of ruined designer
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21st Century and Contemporary North American Books

Materials

Paper

Branches Everywhere, Blue, Ivory, Yellow Children, Trees, Circular Encaustic
By Cecile Chong
Located in Kent, CT
vintage children's books or found objects such as circuit board parts, her work refers to interculturalism
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Encaustic, Oil, Panel, Rice Paper

Open Seating, Encaustic Landscape, Figures, Mother and Child, Blue, Yellow
By Cecile Chong
Located in Kent, CT
including vintage children's books or found objects such as circuit board parts, her work refers to
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Encaustic, Panel

Original Vintage Poster Army Of Book Lovers Children Reading Knowledge Education
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet education poster - Reading is the best teaching! - featuring advice by the
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Vintage 1980s Russian Posters

Materials

Paper

Original "Children's Year" vintage poster. The health of the child is the power
Located in Spokane, WA
Original "Children's Year" Health of the Child is Power of the Nation vintage poster. Archival
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1910s American Modern Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

1940s Tin with Dogs and Children, Belgium
Located in Antwerp, BE
Vintage tin with dogs and children from the late 1940s. This beautiful tin box was designed by
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Mid-20th Century Belgian Art Deco Decorative Boxes

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Metal

Original Graphic Hungarian Illustration Art Emma Heinzelmann Children's Book Art
Located in Surfside, FL
worked on illustrations for children’s books, since her style fits their themes. Her posters show the
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Mid-20th Century Folk Art Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

Original Graphic Hungarian Illustration Art Emma Heinzelmann Children's Book Art
Located in Surfside, FL
gouache paint. She often worked on illustrations for children’s books, since her style fits their themes
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Mid-20th Century Folk Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache

1950's Marwal Group Figural Plaster Statue W./ Maiden and 2 Girls with Books
By Marwal Ind. Inc.
Located in Germantown, MD
books. An inspirational piece for children and mothers. Very clean vintage condition in antique white
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Plaster

Vintage Abstracted Forest Landscape
By Virginia J Hughins
Located in Soquel, CA
an avid freelance writer and illustrator for children's books. Lifetime member of Romance Writers
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1970s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Vintage Still Life -- Woodstove & Bouquet
By Virginia J Hughins
Located in Soquel, CA
writer and illustrator for children's books. Lifetime member of Romance Writers Association and Pen
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1970s American Impressionist Interior Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Vintage Ben Abril Original Gouache Painting c1960s California
Located in Oakland, CA
also illustrated three children's books about railroads by David Robert Burleigh, How Engines Talk
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Vintage 1960s American Modern Paintings

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Wood

Butterflies Cut From Vintage Comic Book Pages / Charles Patrick
By Charles Patrick
Located in Greenwich, CT
from vintage comic books, children’s books, currency, maps, and other obsolete ephemera. This stands
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21st Century and Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, Plexiglass, Wood, Acrylic, Pins

Original Vintage Advertising Poster by Swiss Artist Piatti 'Basler Rabattmarke'
By Celestino Piatti
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
illustrator of children's books and achieved international success as a designer for Deutscher Taschenbuch
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Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Prints

Materials

Other

Vintage Original Paul Melia 1989 Expressionist Watercolor Portrait
Located in Dayton, OH
"Vintage 1989 expressionist watercolor portrait of Robert Shiffler by Paul Melia. / BIO: Paul Melia
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Vintage 1980s Expressionist Paintings

Materials

Paint

Vintage Coastal Maine Landscape "Island Inn, Monhegan Island"
By Richmond Irwin Kelsey
Located in Soquel, CA
series of Golden Books. He also wrote and illustrated a popular children's book, Good Enough Gismo. He
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1970s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

New York Night, Vintage Large Modernist Pop Art Sllkscreen
By Tom Slaughter
Located in Surfside, FL
twelve children’s books, including “Boat Works,” “Do You Know Which Ones will Grow? ” – a 2011 Notable
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1990s Pop Art Figurative Prints

Materials

Screen

Original Vintage French Poster, 'Foire Internationale De Lyon' 1959 by Piatti
By Celestino Piatti
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Swiss graphic artist, painter and book designer. He was a popular illustrator of children's books and
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Vintage 1950s French International Style Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Canadian Film Festival Movie Poster by Vittorio Fiorucci
By Vittorio Fiorucci
Located in San Diego, CA
film magazine Take One), children's books, animation, and was an established photographer who was
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Posters

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Metal

Vintage 1980 Judaica Chassidic Poster Simchas Torah Hakafos Chabad Artist
By Zalman Kleinman
Located in Surfside, FL
Vintage framed plate signed poster. Zalman Kleiman, Born in Leningrad, Russia in 1933 into a
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1970s Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Offset

American of Martinsville Vintage Mid Century Modern Highboy Dresser c. 1960s
By American of Martinsville
Located in Denville, NJ
new inventory. Our Vintage Restoration Process is included at no additional cost with every furniture
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Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Dressers

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Walnut

Vintage Americana Oil Painting, "Paper Box" Robert Sarsony, ACA Gallery
By Robert Sarsony
Located in Surfside, FL
important historical events to reproductions taken from period children's books. His works often feature a
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1970s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Gesso, Oil, Board

Marilyn Monroe: An Appreciation, original vintage Leo Castelli Gallery poster
By Eve Arnold
Located in New York, NY
photojournalist but also wrote books and produced a film on the harems of Arabia, Behind the Veil. At the start of
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1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints

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Offset

1963 Vintage Lithograph Poster Antonio Frasconi Terry Dintenfass Gallery NYC
Located in Surfside, FL
the U.S. children's librarians, which annually honors the illustrator of the best American picture
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1960s American Modern Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

1966 Vintage Lithograph Poster Antonio Frasconi Terry Dintenfass Gallery NYC
Located in Surfside, FL
the U.S. children's librarians, which annually honors the illustrator of the best American picture
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1960s American Modern Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Large Ralph Massey California Pop Art Painting Vintage Americana, Toys Old Cars
Located in Surfside, FL
can of pop corn and other vintage, nostalgic, Americana. Born in 1938, Ralph Allen Massey is a
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Wood Panel, Laid Paper

Vintage Distressed White Iron & Brass 5 Piece Daybed Crib Doll-bed Wood Casters
Located in Miami, FL
, Children's Books, Toys, Teddy or Linen Display. All sides can be taken easily apart and be stored in small
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Vintage 1940s American Mid-Century Modern Beds and Bed Frames

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Brass, Iron

Vintage Ektacolor Color Photograph Memory Berlin Germany Photo Shimon Attie
By Shimon Attie
Located in Surfside, FL
Hebrew bookstore) (1991) and Mulackstrasse 37, Berlin (1932). (children and tower) (1991) are owned by
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1990s Conceptual Color Photography

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Color

Large Format Vintage Color 20X24 Polaroid "Radiant Child" signed and dated
By Dennis Farber
Located in Surfside, FL
photographic illustrations in children's books of the 30's. He paints Ku Klux Klan costumes on some toddlers at
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1980s Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Vintage Ektacolor Color Photograph Untitled Memory Projection Photo Shimon Attie
By Shimon Attie
Located in Surfside, FL
) and Mulackstrasse 37, Berlin (1932). (children and tower) (1991) are owned by the Museum of Modern Art
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1990s Conceptual Color Photography

Materials

Color

Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Surrealist Doll Art Photo, Jazz Photographer
Located in Surfside, FL
of old children's dolls in various states of decay. These bear the influence of Hans Bellmer, Dora
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20th Century Surrealist Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Surrealist Doll Art Photo, Jazz Photographer
Located in Surfside, FL
of old children's dolls in various states of decay. These bear the influence of Hans Bellmer, Dora
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20th Century Surrealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Surrealist Doll Art Photo, Jazz Photographer
Located in Surfside, FL
of old children's dolls in various states of decay. These bear the influence of Hans Bellmer, Dora
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20th Century Surrealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Surrealist Doll Art Photo, Jazz Photographer
Located in Surfside, FL
of old children's dolls in various states of decay. These bear the influence of Hans Bellmer, Dora
Category

20th Century Surrealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Surrealist Doll Art Photo, Jazz Photographer
Located in Surfside, FL
of old children's dolls in various states of decay. These bear the influence of Hans Bellmer, Dora
Category

20th Century Surrealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Surrealist Doll Art Photo, Jazz Photographer
Located in Surfside, FL
of old children's dolls in various states of decay. These bear the influence of Hans Bellmer, Dora
Category

20th Century Surrealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Surrealist Doll Art Photo, Jazz Photographer
Located in Surfside, FL
of old children's dolls in various states of decay. These bear the influence of Hans Bellmer, Dora
Category

20th Century Surrealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Surrealist Doll Art Photo, Jazz Photographer
Located in Surfside, FL
of old children's dolls in various states of decay. These bear the influence of Hans Bellmer, Dora
Category

20th Century Surrealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Surrealist Doll Art Photo, Jazz Photographer
Located in Surfside, FL
of old children's dolls in various states of decay. These bear the influence of Hans Bellmer, Dora
Category

20th Century Surrealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Surrealist Doll Art Photo, Jazz Photographer
Located in Surfside, FL
of old children's dolls in various states of decay. These bear the influence of Hans Bellmer, Dora
Category

20th Century Surrealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Surrealist Doll Art Photo, Jazz Photographer
Located in Surfside, FL
of old children's dolls in various states of decay. These bear the influence of Hans Bellmer, Dora
Category

20th Century Surrealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Surrealist Doll Art Photo, Jazz Photographer
Located in Surfside, FL
of old children's dolls in various states of decay. These bear the influence of Hans Bellmer, Dora
Category

20th Century Surrealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

1986 Seymour Chwast 'Charters & Caldicott' Vintage Black & White, Brown USA Litho
By Seymour Chwast
Located in Brooklyn, NY
to comic expressionism. His work for magazines, posters, advertisements, and children"s books
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1980s Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Iconics by Fabrizio La Torre - Set # 1 - New York - 1956 - Vintage Photographs
Located in Brussels, BE
capture daily life so well in the 1950s and 60s. In Europe and Asia, exhibitions and books have made it
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1950s Photorealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Iconics by Fabrizio La Torre - Set # 1 - New York - 1956 - Vintage Photographs
Located in Brussels, BE
capture daily life so well in the 1950s and 60s. In Europe and Asia, exhibitions and books have made it
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1950s Photorealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Iconics by Fabrizio La Torre - Set # 1 - New York - 1956 - Vintage Photographs
Located in Brussels, BE
capture daily life so well in the 1950s and 60s. In Europe and Asia, exhibitions and books have made it
Category

1950s Photorealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Iconics by Fabrizio La Torre - Set # 1 - New York - 1956 - Vintage Photographs
Located in Brussels, BE
capture daily life so well in the 1950s and 60s. In Europe and Asia, exhibitions and books have made it
Category

1950s Photorealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Iconics by Fabrizio La Torre - Set # 1 - New York - 1956 - Vintage Photographs
Located in Brussels, BE
capture daily life so well in the 1950s and 60s. In Europe and Asia, exhibitions and books have made it
Category

1950s Photorealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Boy To Man: The Young Speaker (Vintage collage with Fedora & Boots Silhouette)
Located in Hudson, NY
chalk on vintage, collaged paper artwork measures 31 x 36 inches Floated in Natural Wood Frame
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Chalk

Vintage Silver Gelatin Street Photograph London Street John Benton Harris Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
: Café Royal, 2019. Edition of 250 copies. Children of the Troubles: Northern Ireland. Southport: Café
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20th Century Modern Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Rare 1872 Edition of the Pilgrim's Progress and Other Works of John Bunyan
By John Bunyan Bristol
Located in GB
prints and are very fine and highly detailed, I wouldn’t be surprised if a number of these books were
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Antique Late 19th Century English Victorian Picture Frames

Materials

Paper

"Yippee-Ki-Yay" by Charles Patrick with Mixed Media Butterflies
By Charles Patrick
Located in Greenwich, CT
feelings of nostalgia for the tactility of paper, created from vintage comic books, children’s books
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, Plexiglass, Wood, Paint, Paper, Acrylic, Pins

"You Are Stronger Than You Think" by Charles Patrick w/ Mixed Media Butterflies
By Charles Patrick
Located in Greenwich, CT
feelings of nostalgia for the tactility of paper, created from vintage comic books, children’s books
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, Plexiglass, Wood, Paint, Paper, Acrylic, Pins

"Find Yours" Happy Place, Rainbow Butterflies Mixed Media
By Charles Patrick
Located in Greenwich, CT
nostalgia for the tactility of paper, created from vintage comic books, children’s books, currency, maps
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, Plexiglass, Wood, Paint, Paper, Acrylic, Pins

"SO DOPE" Butterflies Cut From Metallic Paper & Pinned with Entomology Pins
By Charles Patrick
Located in Greenwich, CT
, created from vintage comic books, children’s books, currency, maps, and other obsolete ephemera. This
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, Plexiglass, Wood, Paint, Paper, Acrylic, Pins

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Find a variety of vintage childrens books available on 1stDibs. Today, if you’re looking for Impressionist editions of these works and are unable to find the perfect match for your home, our selection also includes modern. There are many variations of these items available, from those made as long ago as the 20th Century to those made as recently as the 21st Century. Vintage childrens books available on 1stDibs span a range of colors that includes beige, gray, brown, blue and more. Many versions of these artworks are appealing in their rich colors and composition, but Charles Patrick, Lucien Clergue, Cecile Chong, James Henderson and John Rattenbury Skeaping produced especially popular works that are worth a look. Frequently made by artists working in paint, paper and canvas, all of these available pieces are unique and have attracted attention over the years.

How Much are Vintage Childrens Books?

Prices for pieces in our collection of vintage childrens books start at $35 and top out at $70,000 with the average selling for $1,650.