(New-York: McLoughlin Bro's), circa [1875].. [1875].. Fair. - Small quarto [7-1/8 inches high by 5-7/8 inches wide], softcover bound in color pictorial wrappers. The wraps are bumped & chipped with the front wrap nearly detached from the rear wrap. There is a piece out of the tail of the spine & the adjacent corners of the wraps. 10 pages. Illustrated with 6 full-page chromolithographs. The text block is detached from the wraps. The first & last leaves are detached & the remaining leaves are partially detached. There are scattered small stains, mainly to the margins of the pages. There are a f... View More...
- Octavo, 7-3/4 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. Softcover, bound in peach colored stapled wraps, titled on the front cover within black, peach & white decorations framing an illustration of a child with a cat and with a full-page illustration of a young girl with a hoop on the rear cover. The covers are slightly stained, creased and chipped along the edges and corners and the wrappers detached. [12] unnumbered pages, including the covers. This little alphabet book is illustrated with 26 tinted and black & white illustrations, one for each letter of the alphabet, plus those illustrating the c... View More...
New York: Abrams Books for Young Readers, (2006).. (2006).. Very good. SIGNED BY LAURA NUMEROFF - Quarto [11 inches high by 9-1/4 inches wide], pictorial paper covered boards in a matching dust wrapper with raised images of sleeping sheep on its panels. The binding is very lightly bumped. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed with its top edge slightly creased & with a publisher's sticker on the front panel. [24] pages. Profusely illustrated in color by David McPhail. Very good. First edition.Signed by Laura Numeroff on the title page.How to get to sleep by counting sheep if the sheep are already ... View More...
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1895.. 1895.. Good. - Small octavo, 6-3/4 inches high by 4-1/2 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in pictorial tan cloth, titled in gilt and elaborately illustrated and decorated in black & red on the front cover & the spine. The covers are bumped, rubbed and soiled and the spine darkened. The book is cocked. xii, 265 & [6] pages, illustrated with a pictorial red & black title page, 19 full-page illustrations and profuse textual illustrations by H.W. McVickar. A previous owner's name is penned on the verso of the frontispiece. The front edges of the first few pages are ... View More...
Paris: Fernand Nathan, (1950).. (1950).. Good. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY JAN VAN DER ELST - Quarto [approximately 12 inches high by 9-1/4 inches wide], cream paper covered boards with a vignette in green on the front cover in a dust wrapper. The binding is bumped. The dust jacket is rubbed & chipped with some creasing to the edges. There is foxing to the edges of the rear fold. 122 & [3] pages plus colophon. Illustrated with 7 color plates reproducing famous Flemish paintings by Hans Memling, Jean van Eyck & others. There is some foxing to the edges of the book. Good. First edition.Inscribed by ... View More...
- Octavo, light tan cloth titled in orange in a dust wrapper. The binding is slightly bumped with light soiling to the joints. The dust wrapper is chipped with a crease & tear to the top edge of the rear panel, & its spine & extremities are darkened. Half-title, title, [3] leaves & 214 pages. 8 black-and white plates, including a frontispiece, & black-and-white textual illustrations by Decie Merwin. The pages are somewhat toned. Very good in a good dust wrapper. First edition. Scarce in the dust wrapper.Laid in is a Newark Public Library newsletter about the book. Dust jacket present. First Ed... View More...
Boston/Toronto: Little Brown and Company, (1973).. (1973).. Very good. - Octavo, cloth backed pictorial boards, in a dust wrapper. The dust wrapper is lightly soiled with a short tear to the top edge of the rear panel. 93 pages. The endpapers are somewhat faded. Black-and-white illustrations by Charles Mikolaycak. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper.
First edition.
The story of the twelfth birthday of Joan of Arc, when she hears her voices for the first time. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
- Quarto, 10-1/2 inches high by 9 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in pictorial turquoise cloth with a drawing of Scrappy on the front cover and titled in black on the spine, in a pictorial pink & black unclipped dust wrapper. The spine has an angled lean that is typical with this title. There is some minor rubbing with a tiny chip along the top edge of the dust jacket's rear panel. [28] pages, with pink, black and white illustrations by Jane Miller, many full page. Near fine. First edition, having no additional printings stated. SIGNED BY THE POET JOHN CIARDI. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Willa Perlman Books/HarperCollins Publishers, (1992).. (1992).. Very good. - Small oblong quarto [8 inches high by 9-3/8 inches wide], softcover. Stapled page proofs for the book laid into the original pictorial dust wrapper by Barry Moser. The outer pages are slightly bumped with some very light creasing. There is a light vertical crease to the rear panel of the dust jacket. Unpaginated. The minimal text is printed in green & yellow over full- and double-page color illustrations by Barry Moser. Very good. Original page proofs.Moser's paintings were executed in ink and transparent watercolor o... View More...
- Quarto, 11-1/4 inches high by 8-3/4 inches wide. Cream boards backed with a black cloth spine, titled in red on the spine, in a color pictorial dust wrapper. [40] pages, with full-page color illustrations by Barry Moser. Near fine. First edition, first printing with the full number line. Signed by the author Nancy Willard on the title page. "Biddy Early was known and loved throughout Ireland in the nineteenth century as the Wise Woman of Clare. Though this simple peasant woman died over a hundred years ago, stories of her cures and prophesies are still whispered around the hearth on blustery... View More...
Traverse City, MI: Hidden Bay Publishing, (1993).. (1993).. Very good. INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY THE TEENAGE AUTHOR - Small oblong quarto [8-3/4 inches high by 11-1/4 inches wide], maroon cloth titled in silver on the spine with a vignette of the man in the moon on the front cover, in a pictorial dust wrapper. There is an area of dampstaining to the bottom edge of each cover with a small stain to the bottom edge of the dust jacket rear panel internally. Unpaginated. Profuse full-page color illustrations after watercolors by Charles R. Murphy. The contents & dust wrapper are near fine. Very good. F... View More...
NY: The New York Public Library, 1985.. 1985.. Very good. - Octavo, stapled printed white wraps with a color vignette on each wrap. Very lightly soiled with a stain to the front wrap. Title, [ii] & 60 pp. 1 full-page B&W illustration & B&W vignettes. Very good.
SIGNED BY LAUREN MILLS AND DENNIS NOLAN - Quarto [approximately 11-1/4 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide], color pictorial boards in a matching dust wrapper. There is a light score mark with some light rubbing to the rear panel of the dust jacket. Unpaginated. Profuse full-page color illustrations & vignettes in brown by Lauren Mills and Dennis Nolan. Near fine. First edition. Signed by Lauren Mills and Dennis Nolan on a label on the front endpaper. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Co., (1918).. (1918).. Fair. - Octavo, mottled blue cloth titled in gilt on spine in a color pictorial dust wrapper. The covers are soiled and the dust jacket is chipped & torn with pieces out from the edges. 223 & [1] pages. Pictorial endpapers & half-title & 2 full-page illustrations in blue, black & white & B&W vignettes by Neil O'Keeffe. Lacking the front fly-leaf, there is also some staining to the first 2 leaves and the pages are darkened. Good.
First edition. Scarce in dustwrapper. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
NY: Irving Caesar, (1937).. (1937).. Good. - Quarto, orange pictorial wraps. The wraps are creased & lightly soiled with tears to the upper half of the spine & pieces out of the top edges of the wraps. 71 pp. The top half inch of the contents is disbound & the top page corners are lightly creased. Full-page B&W illustrations & B&W vignettes by Rose O'Neill. Good.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, Inc., (1971).. (1971).. Good. - Octavo, cloth, in a dust wrapper. The edges of the covers are slightly faded. The dust jacket is rubbed with the head & tail of its spine chipped & with a price-sticker on the front flap. 314 & [3] pages. There is an owner's book label on the front endpaper. There is a stain to the top edge. Full-page black-and-white illustrations by Susan Obrant. Good.
First American edition.
Signed by the author on the half-title. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
- Small octavo [6-3/8 inches high by 4-1/4 inches wide], light brown cloth titled in gilt between gilt rules on the spine & with a vignette in gilt on the front cover & in blind on the rear cover. The binding is lightly rubbed & bumped with slight fraying to the corners. The head & tail of the spine are lightly chipped & frayed. vi & 192 pages. Illustrated with more than 40 wood-engravings in the text, some signed N. Orr', Howland and C. B. Cogswell. There is an owner's pencil name dated 1854 on the front endpaper. A very good, attractive copy. Among the contents of the twelve issues of this m... View More...
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1971).. (1971).. Very good. - Small quarto [8-1/2 inches high by 7 inches wide], color pictorial cloth. [30] pages. Profuse color illustrations by Peter Parnall. There is a small stain to the front pastedown & a small area of the surface of the front endpaper is rubbed away. There is very light soiling to the verso of the frontispiece. Very good.
Library edition of this illustrated poem about poetry. View More...
NY: The Viking Press, 1934.. 1934.. Very good. - Octavo, decorative blue & white cloth titled in red on spine with vignette stamped in red within white rectangle on front cover, in pictorial dw. The dw is lightly rubbed & chipped. 142 & [1] pp. B&W pictorial endpapers & title vignette & B&W full-page & textual illustrations by Grace Paull. Very good. First edition.When the farmer has to go into hospital, Mary and her grandmother have to hold together the farm and their animal friends--the Jersey cow, the two old horses, the sick hound, the cat and her kittens and the little brown goat. Dust j... View More...
- 16mo [4-5/8 inches high by 3-7/8 inches wide], dark blue cloth decorated in blind and titled in gilt with profuse decorations in gilt on the spine. The binding is lightly rubbed & the corners of the covers are bumped & chipped. The head & tail of the spine are chipped. 95 pages. Illustrated with a title vignette & with a woodcut illustration at the head of each of the 46 titles. There is scattered light foxing & soiling. Good. Aesop's fables are retold for young people in prose and verse. View More...
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