- 12mo [5-1/2 inches high by 4-1/4 inches wide], orange cloth. The binding is lightly rubbed & bumped with the spine slightly darkened. There is a light stain & some light soiling to the front cover & the cloth of the front cover is slightly bubbled. [viii] & 349 pages & 8-page publisher's catalog with blank spaces for notes. The top & bottom page edges are slightly rippled, probably from humidity. Some bottom page corners are creased. Good.
- sc A superb 10 inch high by 8-3/4 inch wide chromolithograph from Little Charley's Visit: What He Saw in Central Park, depicting the young boy Charley seated next to a young girl in a red carriage drawn by goats. A handsomely attired black man, in top hat and long black coat stands next to the goats near the head of the carriage, with a whip loosely held in his hands. The childrens' mother stands at the left of the image, her white gloved hand raised as if addressing the children. A small tear and stab marks along the right margin do not affect the image. This lovely print is handsomely mou... View More...
New York: Viking Press, 1949.. 1949.. Good. - Octavo, tan cloth titled in maroon on the spine with a vignette stamped in maroon on the front cover, in a dust wrapper. The binding is lightly rubbed with light staining to the tail of the spine. The spine & extremities of the dust jacket are darkened & there is a stain to the tail of the spine & the adjacent corner of the rear panel. 160 pages. Color pictorial dust jacket & full-page & textual black-and-white illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Very good.
First American edition. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
NY: Dodd, Mead and Company, (1952).. (1952).. Very good. - Octavo, red cloth titled in gilt, in dw. There is an area of dampstaining to the rear cover. The dw is lightly soiled & chipped with red staining to the rear panel internally. xiii, [ii] & 204 pp. Illustrated with full-page & textual B&W drawings by Edward Price. 4 leaves have been roughly opened with very small chips at the edges, else the contents are very good.
A book about Jane Austen and her times for young people and others. Dust jacket present. View More...
- Sextodecimo (16mo), 5-3/4 inches high by 3-3/4 inches wide. Softcover, bound in yellow wraps illustrated with 11 vignettes framing the title on the front cover, including one depicting boys playing baseball (or possibly cricket). The covers are soiled with a few minor stains. The lower edge of the spine is split with a small tear extending into the front cover and a tiny chip along the rear cover. 24 pages, illustrated with a title page vignette, and 6 wood engravings on 3 pages. There is foxing throughout with a stain to the front edge of the title page. Good. "Babcock's Moral, Instructive ... View More...
- 32mo. chapbook [3-5/8 inches high by 2-1/8 inches wide] softcover bound in printed blue wraps sewn with tan cord with a vignette & a decorative border on the front wrap and an ad for Babcock's Toy Books on the rear cover. The binding is lightly bumped & soiled with 2 stains to the front wrap & a chip to its inner edge. 16 pages. Illustrated with a woodcut title vignette, a decorative border at the top of the first text page & 6 full-page woodcuts in the text. There is a stain to the inside front wrap, partially obscuring an owner's faded name. The text pages are unevenly darkened. Good. View More...
NY: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1969.. 1969.. Very good. - 4to, color pictorial cloth titled in black on spine & front cover, in color pictorial dw (lightly chipped & creased; tear to rear panel). [30] pp. (front endpaper slightly creased with short tear). Profusely illustrated in B&W & color by Carol Barker. Very good in good dw. New Zealand writer Margaret Mahy's tale of a young boy who enters a tiny, mysterious shop where you can only buy one thing and where you must buy it before sundown because then the shop goes away. The illustrations are from detailed, highly decorative drawings by British a... View More...
NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1938).. (1938).. Good. - Square octavo, green cloth titled in black with vignettes in black on spine & front cover. The covers are lightly bumped with 2 small, light stains to the front cover. The spine is slightly faded with a small, light stain. x & 305 pp. Illustrated with B&W plates & vignettes by Richard Bennett. Short tears to the bottom edge of 1 plate & the bottom edges of pp. 123-132 have been repaired with brown scotch tape. Good.
With an introduction by Hugh Walpole. View More...
- Quarto, 11-1/4 inches high by 8-3/4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in reddish brown cloth titled in blue. The covers are bumped & rubbed and the spine and extremities of the covers are faded. There are small stains to the front cover. x & 131 pages, illustrated with profuse monochrome plates from drawings by Abner Dean. The edges of the pages are darkened with occasional light soiling. There is a small stain to the second half-title. Good. First edition. From the library of Leonard Bernstein with his ownership stamp on the half-title. First Edition. View More...
- Octavo, cloth with a pictorial label mounted on the front cover in a matching dust wrapper. The binding is rubbed & bumped with the head & tail of the spine faded & with the rear cover unevenly faded. The dust jacket is rubbed, soiled & chipped with pieces out of the top edge & the tail of the spine. [v] & 114 pages plus 8-page publisher's catalog. 4 color plates by Reginald Birch, including a frontispiece. The front hinge is starting & the book is lightly cracked at page 90. There is some offsetting to the endpapers with a contemporary gift inscription on the front endpaper. There is a smal... View More...
NY: William Morrow & Co., (1932).. (1932).. Very good. - Small quarto, 8-3/4 inches high by 6-1/4 inches wide. Bound in red cloth (bumped & soiled; spine faded) titled in black on spine with color pictorial label (lightly soiled) mounted on front cover. 64 pp. (occasional light soiling). Pictorial endpapers in red, black & white, color frontispiece & 3 color plates, & full-page & textual illustrations in red, black & white & B&W by Ilse Bischoff. Very good internally. First edition.Grandpa Schultz mends watches, clocks and music boxes, but only young Tilda knows about the bird in the ivory snu... View More...
- Octavo, tan cloth in a pictorial dust wrapper. The binding is unevenly stained or faded. The top edge of the front cover and the head & tail of the spine are chipped & frayed. The dust jacket is rubbed & chipped with tears & pieces out. 158 pages. Full-page illustrations and head- & tail-pieces in black & white by Jim Bolin. Good in a fair dust wrapper. First edition. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Boston & NY/Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company/The Riverside Press, (1924).. (1924).. Very good. - (The Riverside Bookshelf). Octavo, black cloth titled in black on spine with color pictorial label mounted on front cover. The covers are bumped & the rear cover rubbed. There are tiny white stains to the spine & the gilt titling & decorations are faded. 219 pp. Color frontispiece, 2 color plates & B&W pictorial initials & vignettes by Harold M. Brett. Very good internally. View More...
Boston & Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company/The Riverside Press, (1924).. (1924).. Good. - (Riverside Bookshelf). Octavo, black cloth with color pictorial label mounted on front cover. The covers are bumped & rubbed with light staining to the rear cover & light soiling to the label. The titling & decorations on the spine are completely faded & the head & tail of the spine are chipped with slight fraying to the head. 219 pp. The book is cracked at the title. The endpapers are darkened & an owner's bookplate with an ink name crossed out is mounted on the front endpaper. There is foxing & st... View More...
- Small octavo, tan cloth with a vignette in black on the front cover. The binding is soiled with the spine slightly faded. The bottom corners of the covers are lightly creased. xvii & 174 pages. Illustrated by Emma L. Brock with a color frontispiece and with full-page illustrations & head-pieces in black & white. The contents are very good. Good.
First edition which included the Emma Brock illustrations.
With an introduction by Clara Whitehill Hunt. First Edition. View More...
NY: Macmillan Company, 1931.. 1931.. Very good. - Octavo, grayish blue cloth titled in dark blue on spine & front cover. The covers are very lightly bumped with a small stain to the front cover. The spine is faded with a small tear to the tail. ix & 144 pp. Color frontispiece & B&W head- & tail-pieces by H. M. Brock. Very good internally.
First American edition.
A collection of original fairy tales. First Edition. View More...
London/NY: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge/E. & J. B Young & Co., [1885].. [1885].. Good. - Small quarto, gray paper-covered boards (bumped, soiled & darkened; pieces out of backstrip) titled in black (lacks parts of title on spine) with B&W illustration on front board & publisher's ad on rear board. 82 pages (half-title & last page of text offset). B&W title vignette, head- pieces & 5 full-page illustrations by Gordon Browne. Good. View More...
NY/Boston: H. M. Caldwell Company, [c. 1914].. [c. 1914].. Good. - 8vo, pictorial blue cloth (bumped & lightly rubbed; very light scoremark to rear cover) titled in gilt with vignette of woman's head & shoulders on spine & graceful portrayal of a seated woman in tan, gray & black on front cover. vi & 387 pp. (front hinge starting; darkening; ink name on front endpaper; soiling to rear blank; small stains to fore-edge). Illustrated with B&W frontispiece & 7 B&W plates by Gordon Browne. Good. Dust jacket present. View More...
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