Charles Buckles (C.B.) Falls (1874-1960) was a prolific illustrator during the 20s-1960, doing lots of posters and advertisement work, but he is probably best-known today for his ABC Book (1923), written to help his daughter learn the alphabet. It's the only book of his (that we know of) still in print (Dover Publications), and its colorful woodcut style illustrations are quite engaging.
In the books of his that we've seen, color is rare. The Rainbow Classics editions of Alcott's Eight Cousins and Stevenson's Treasure Island (1946) and Kidnapped (1947) have several full-color plates, but most other illustrations are in b/w. And in those, while his normal pen and ink illustrations are good, it's really in his maps and drawings which require more precision that he truly shines.
Most of his work is in books pertaining to history. We first encountered his work in the Signature biography The Story of Davy Crocket. He illustrated Vast Horizons by Mary Seymour Lucas (1943), which describes primarily eastern trade and exploration from the crusades to modern times. It's a fascinating book and would be an excellent one to add context to the period of exploration so often westward focused. He was also the illustrator of two Newbery Honor Books: New Found World (1945, by Katherine Shippen) and Americans Before Columbus (1951, by Elizabeth Chesley Baity), and both of these have companion books—Great Heritage and America Before Man. Falls actually illustrated AND wrote his last book: The First 3000 Years, which is a gorgeous survey of early world history (1960).
Other titles we're currently aware of are Mother Goose (1924); a book about anthropology by Gene Lisitzky called The Four Ways of Being Human; a Modern ABC Book (1930); the original edition of Anne Weil's Red Sails to Capri (1952); illustrations for Esther Singleton's Wild Flower Fairy Book and for Jessie B. White's play Snow White and the Seven Dwarves; and a hand-lettered book called The Story of Christmas (or, The Story of the Birth of Jesus Christ According to the Gospels of Saint Matthew and Saint Luke).
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