- Octavo, 9-1/4 inches high by 6-1/4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in blue boards titled in gilt on the spine, in a pictorial dust wrapper with an illustration by Norman Eyolfson. [6] & 137 pages, illustrated in black & white by Norman Eyolfson. There is minor light blue staining to the bottom of the front endpaper. Near fine. First edition, first printing with a full number line. INSCRIBED ON THE FRONT ENDPAPER BY THE AUTHOR: "To Barry / Mordecai Richler" "Jacob Two-Two is back, in his third exciting adventure, one that seeks deliverance from injustices at school and leads him into the fascin... View More...
- Small quarto, 7-5/8 inches high by 7-5/8 inches wide. Gray pictorial cloth titled in red & black with a colored illustration on the front cover. The covers are rubbed bumped & soiled with light stains. There is wear to the corners and to the head and tail of the darkened spine. 28 & [1] pages, with pages 5 through 29 printed on one side only. Profusely illustrated with stencil hand-colored pictorial title, vignettes & illustrations surrounding the text on each leaf. The front endpaper is detached with a contemporary owner's inscription on the verso. There is a very light ink notation along t... View More...
[New York]: Harlan Quist, (1966).. (1966).. Very good. - Octavo, blue paper covered boards backed with blue cloth with a vignette in black on both covers, in a dust wrapper. The dust jacket is soiled with the head of its spine lightly chipped. Unpaginated. Profusely illustrated in color by Lorraine Fox. Near fine in a good dust wrapper.
First edition, first printing. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
- Quarto [12-1/4 inches high by 9-5/8 inches wide], light tan buckram, in a dust wrapper. There are small areas of minor staining to the tail of the spine & the top corner of the rear cover. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed with the top & bottom edges chipped & with 2 tears to the bottom edge of each panel. Half-title, title & pages 819-1021. There is light offsetting to the front endpaper. 1 bottom page corner is creased. Profuse color illustrations with sections of the text printed on color panels. Very good in a good dust wrapper.
The text is in Italian. Dust jacket present. View More...
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company / Cambridge, MA: The Riverside Press, 1910.. 1910.. Very good. - Small octavo, bluish gray paper covered boards titled in dark blue with a vignette in dark blue on the front board. The binding is rubbed & darkened. 53 & [1] pages plus 1-page publisher's catalog. Illustrated in black & white with a frontispiece, 6 plates & 2 full-page illustrations by Wallace Goldsmith. There is some very light soiling & foxing, else the contents are very good.
- Octavo, 8-3/4 inches high by 6-1/4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in yellow cloth titled in black on the spine in a pictorial dust wrapper illustrated by Edward Gorey. The top corner of the jacket's front flap bearing the library edition's price is clipped. However, the regular first edition price of $3.95 is present at the bottom of the flap. The top edge of the dust jacket is very lightly creased with a tiny tear to the top of the jacket's rear flap. 62 & [1] pages, superbly illustrated throughout with full page and textual line drawings by Edward Gorey. Near fine in a very good dust wrapp... View More...
- Oblong duodecimo (12 mo), 5-1/2 inches high by 6-1/2 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in pictorial glossy boards illustrated by Edward Gorey on the front and back covers, titled in black on the spine. The book is laid into a matching dust wrapper. Unpaginated, with a full page black & white illustration by Edward Gorey on the recto of each page. Near fine. First printing of the Abrams reprint with a full number line. This edition includes a new afterword by Peter F. Neumeyer, "How It All Began". The book was first published in 1969. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
- Oblong octavo, 5-1/2 inches high by 6-1/2 inches wide. Hardcover, pictorial boards by Gorey titled in white on the spine, in a matching pictorial dust wrapper. Unpaginated, with black & white full-page illustrations by Edward Gorey on the rectos of each page. Fine. First Abrams edition of a book first published in 1970, with the full number line. With a new Afterword by Peter Neumeyer, "The Saga of Donald Continues". Dust jacket present. View More...
NY: Random House, 1936.. 1936.. Very good. - Octavo, gray cloth titled in blue on spine & front cover, in dw. The spine is somewhat faded. The dw is lightly chipped & soiled with the spine darkened. 262 & [1] pp. Blue & white pictorial endpapers [boat designs], B&W frontispiece, 5 B&W plates & B&W textual illustrations by Gordon Grant. There is an owner's ink name along the top edge of the title. Very good. First edition.The adventures of two boys who sail from port to port trying to sell their father's newly built yacht to save the family home from foreclosure. Dust jacket present. First Edit... View More...
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1925.. 1925.. Good. - Octavo, black cloth with a color pictorial label mounted on the front cover, in a dust wrapper. The covers are lightly bumped with a light stain & 2 small scotch tape marks to the rear cover & a small area of light spotting to the top corner of the front cover & label. The spine is slightly faded with the tail lightly chipped. The dust jacket is rubbed & lightly chipped with light staining to the front panel. 2 pieces of black tape have been mounted on the jacket spine internally, which have caused staining to the the head & ... View More...
NY: Minton, Balch & Company, n.d. [c. 1920s].. n.d. [c. 1920s].. Very good. - Square octavo, black cloth titled in golden yellow on spine with color pictorial label mounted on front cover. The covers are bumped & the spine is somewhat faded. vi, [i] & 408 pp. Cover illustration & color title vignette by Donald Teague & 12 color plates by Arnold Hall. Very good. View More...
- 32mo, 4-1/4 inches high by 3-1/2 inches wide. Brown cloth titled in gilt on the spine. The covers are rubbed and slightly stained with wear to the head & tail of the spine. 32 pages, illustrated with a pictorial title page and 8 full-page and textual illustrations. An early owner's name dated "January 1st, 1872" is penciled on the front endpaper. Very good. A charming little book which was advertised in the listing of "New Books published by Henry A. Young & Co." in "The Weekly Trade Circular" of 1872. RARE. View More...
- 12mo [approximately 4-1/4 inches high by 3-3/8 inches wide], brown cloth. The binding is rubbed & bumped and the spine is faded. Series title & 28 pages. Illustrated in black & white with a pictorial title & 6 full-page illustrations. A previous owner's name & address are penned on the front endpaper. The book is cracked at the verso of the series title and there is scattered foxing & staining throughout. Fair The publisher Henry A Young & Co. was at 24 Cornhill St., Boston between 1868 and 1874. A title in the series The Little Folks' Tiny Library. The contents consist of six pieces of pro... View More...
NY: Parents's Press Magazine, (1969).. (1969).. Very good. - Small oblong 4to, color pictorial cloth (light staining to front cover along top edge & spine) titled in B&W. [42] pp. Color pictorial endpapers & profuse color full-page & textual illustrations by Friso Henstra. Very good.
A king who believes he is the wisest man in his kingdom will only let the princess marry a man who is wiser than himself. A boy named Kit teaches the king to be silly and wins the princess for his bride. View More...
NY: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1903.. 1903.. Good. - Octavo, blue cloth titled in white with B&W illustration mounted on front cover. The book is somewhat cocked. The binding is soiled with light staining to the spine. Title, 2 leaves & 277 & [2] pp. There is an owner's ink inscription on the front endpaper & the rear hinge is cracked. B&W frontispiece & full-page & textual B&W illustrations by Charles Louis Hinton. Good.
London and Glasgow: Collins Clear-Type Press, circa [1935].. [1935].. Good. - Quarto, 10-1/4 inches high by 8-1/8 inches wide, bound in color pictorial boards backed with a red cloth spine. The boards are slightly rubbed along the extremities. 144 pages, with numerous black & white illustrations throughout, including several full-page, and 8 charming color plates by Holmes. Several of the black & white illustrations have been colored in by a child. Otherwise good. View More...
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company / Cambridge, MA: The Riverside Press, 1929.. 1929.. Good. - Large octavo, orange cloth titled in black on the front cover & spine. The covers are bumped with slight fraying to the corners. There is some light staining to the front cover. The spine is faded & soiled with 2 small black stains & with the head & tail chipped & slightly frayed. Title, [1] leaf & 347 pages. 4 color plates, including a frontispiece, by Lacy Hussar. There is an owner's green ink inscription on the verso of the frontispiece. 1 leaf is detached with the front edge slightly r... View More...
- Oblong octavo, 6-3/4 inches high by 7 inches wide. Softcover, bound in pictorial creamy white wraps, titled with an illustration in green, white and olive on the front cover. There are short slits along the head and tail of the spine. Once apparently mounted into an album with remnants of paper glued to the rear cover obscuring any text or illustration. [8] pages with illustrations and decorations by Ludvig Sandoe Ipsen on each page. Very good. RARE. The Danish-American artist & illustrator Ludvig Sandoe Ipsen (1840-1920) served in the Danish Army engineer corps after training as an architec... View More...
- Small quarto [approximately 8 inches high by 7 inches wide], softcover bound in color pictorial stiff paper wrappers. The spine & extremities are rubbed. Title, 20 & [1] pages. Profusely illustrated in color by Elisabeth Ivanovsky. Very good. First edition. Marcelle Verite [MarcelleGerschel] [1904-1994] was a French children's author whose books met with great success and were published in many editions and translated into many languages. She had a longtime collaboration with illustrator Elisabeth Ivanovsky and also with Romain Simon. She named as her inspirations observation of nature, chi... View More...
- Small octavo, 7-3/4 inches high by 4-7/8 inches wide. Bound into modern plain cream paper wraps. [1] leaf, including the color pictorial title, and pages 3-15, each with a colored illustration within a black & white floral decorated frame above the verses. There is a tiny tear to the bottom edge of the title leaf and to the front edge of the last page. A few page corners are creased with some minor spots of foxing to the last few pages. Very good. This John S. Cotton & Co. reprint is identical to the chapbook published by J. Keller in 1853, with the same coloring. View More...
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