Saturday 24 August 2024

Endpapers from 1950's Children's Books

 


Above: Nu Dang and His Kite, written and illustrated by Jacqueline Ayer, 1959


Above:'Willie Whitetail' by R. W. Eschmeyer, illustrated and designed by Roy K. Wills, 1953.


Above: Josef Lada illustration Czech 1953. 


Above: Charlotte’s Web by EB White, illustrated by Garth Williams, 1952.


Above: The Iliad and the Odyssey, illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen, 1956.


Above:"Little Golden Books" endpapers (1950) illustrator unknown.


Below: Alice & Martin Provensen for R L Stevenson's "A Child's Garden of Verses" (1951)




Above: Hikkerde Pikkerde Paardeboom (1959)Ted Schaap

Above: Pienchen (1954) by Gerhard Oberländer



Above: Fishes of The World by Edouard Le Danois, endpapers illustrated by Jean Norbert, 1957.

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Above: Flowers on a windowsill endpapers from 'Do Kola' (1956) Adolf Zábransky.


Above: "All About the Insect World" by Ferdinand C. Lane, 1954.


Above: 'Zoo Parade' written by Marlin Perkins, illustrated by Paul Bransom, 1954


Above: Petunia by Roger Duvoisin 1950.


Above: The Golden Circus (A Fuzzy Golden Book) written by Kathryn Jackson, illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen, 1950.


Above: 'Toby Tyler' by James Otis, Leonard Weisgard, and Nelson Doubleday  1958 


Above: The Brave Little Steam Shovel', written by Alf Evers, illustrated by Dick Stone 1951.


Above: 'Once upon a time stories' published by the children's press London and Glasgow (no date)


Above: 'Bedtime stories' illustrated by Justin Michman, no publication date.

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