Zurich, Switzerland: The Graphis Press, (1975).. (1975).. Fine. - Quarto [12 inches high by 9-3/8 inches wide], color pictorial boards. There is some minor soiling to the rear board. The head of the spine & the bottom corner of the front board are slightly chipped. [iv] & 136 pages. Profusely illustrated in color & black & white. Near fine.
An expanded, hardcover edition of a special issue of the magazine "Graphis" [No. 177] devoted to the illustration of children's books and published in July 1975. The text is in English, German and French. View More...
NY: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975.. 1975.. Very good. - Quarto, pictorial wraps. Corners lightly creased; spine slight faded with the head chipped. xxx & 263 pp. Very good.
225 books are described. The book includes a 4-page bibliography. View More...
(New York: Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Company), (1942).. (1942).. Good. - Small quarto [approximately 8-1/4 inches high by 7-1/4 inches wide, softcover bound in pictorial color wrappers. The wraps are very lightly bumped with their edges slightly darkened & the lower section of each wrap is detached. [10] full-page color illustrations, including inside wraps, with minimal text in verse on each page. Very good.
No. 492. "Glen Ridge Savings and Loan Association" is printed on the rear wrap. View More...
(New York: Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Company), [1940].. [1940].. Good. - Small quarto [approximately 8-1/4 inches high by 7-1/4 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial color wrappers. The wraps are lightly rubbed with some light creasing to the front wrap & minor soiling to the rear wrap. [10] full-page color illustrations, including inside wraps, with printed headings & minimal text in verse on each page. There are occasional small, light stains. Good.
No. 445. "Bloomfield Savings Bank" is printed on the rear cover. View More...
- Large 8vo, brown paper covered boards titled in gilt with a circular vignette in brown & gilt on the front cover. The binding is lightly bumped & rubbed.The spine is faded with a tiny piece out of its head.) 63 & [1] pp. The edges of the half-title & of the last page are darkened. Illustrated with color pictorial endpapers, a color title & full-page & textual illustrations in blue & black & white by R. H. Sauter. The title is slightly dampstained with small stains to its verso. Good.
First American edition. First Edition. View More...
NY: Walter Schatzki, [1941].. [1941].. Good. - Octavo, printed wraps decorated with woodcuts. The wraps are chipped with short tears. 46 pp. 8 leaves [16 glossy pages] of illustrations bound in. There is some foxing to the first plate. Overall, a good copy of a very fragile catalogue.
The scarce original edition of a classic children's catalogue that has since been reprinted. View More...
NY: Justin G. Schiller, Ltd., (1981).. (1981).. Very good. - Octavo, light tan & brown pictorial wraps. Very lightly soiled; bottom corners of wraps very lightly creased. Unnumbered pages, including listings of 894 items with prices. B&W illustrations. Very good. View More...
Mainz: Verlag Jos. Scholz, n.d. [c. 1940s].. n.d. [c. 1940s].. Fair. - Small 4to, red cloth backed white & orange boards (bumped with small piece out of bottom corner of front board; soiled; extremities darkened; spine faded; stain to front cover & spine) with color illustration on front board. 16 pp. (page edges darkened; 1 bottom page corner creased). Cover illustration, 8 full-page color illustrations & B&W decorative title, vignettes & pictorial borders by Brunhild Schlotter. A fair example. From the library of bibliophile and pressman Fridolf Johnson with his bookplate on the front pasted... View More...
INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AMY HEST - Quarto [10-1/4 inches high by 8-1/4 inches wide], bound in color pictorial boards with an illustration of Gabby skating on the front cover, in a matching dust wrapper. There is some very minor foxing to the rear cover & its top corner is lightly creased. Unnumbered pages including profuse full-page & textual color illustrations by Amy Schwartz. Very good First edition. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page: To --------- / Keep skating / Love / Amy Hest. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
(Family Circle), (1973).. (1973).. Good. - Octavo, softcover, pictorial self-wraps. 16 pages. Cover illustration & 14 half-page illustrations by Maurice Sendak in black on a tan ground. The pages are darkened with some very light creasing & with their bottom corners lightly bumped. The edges of the title page are lightly chipped & there is a tiny gray mark to the last page. The illustrations are clean & bright. Good.
This sixteen-page booklet was an insert in the August 1973 issue of "Family Circle". It precedes the publication of the book. View More...
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, (1957).. (1957).. Very good. - Squarish octavo, color pictorial paper covered boards. The boards are very lightly bumped with 2 tiny stains to the front board. 63 pages. There is a very light vertical crease to each page of the prelims & the first page of the text. Profuse color illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Very good.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1985).. (1985).. Fine. - Quarto, dark green buckram titled in gilt on the spine, in a price- clipped dust wrapper. The rear panel of the dust jacket is lightly soiled with a small stain & there is a small, light stain to the tail of the jacket spine. Double-page pictorial title, 185 & [2] pages. Full-page & textual illustrations in color by Maurice Sendak. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper. First edition.Translated by Tatiana Firkusny, Maritza Morgan & Robert T. Jones. Afterword by Robert T. Jones.This Czech novel about the little fox, Vixen Sharp-Ears, ... View More...
HarperCollins Publishers, (1995).. (1995).. Very good. - Quarto [10-1/4 inches square], pictorial paper covered boards, in a matching dust wrapper. There is a short tear to the bottom edge of the dust jacket rear panel. Unpaginated. Profusely illustrated in color by Maurice Sendak. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper.
First edition. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
[New York]: Harper & Row, Publishers, (1977).. (1977).. Very good. - Small oblong quarto [6-3/4 inches high by 7-3/4 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. There are some small score marks & some tiny, light stains to the front wrap. [32] pages. Profuse full-page color illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Very good.
First Trophy edition. A Harper Trophy Book. View More...
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1971).. (1971).. Very good. - Quarto [9 inches high by 7-1/2 inches wide], softcover bound in color pictorial wrappers. The binding is bumped with the extremities rubbed & there are a few small stains to the rear wrap. The bottom corner of the front cover is creased. 44 & [4] pages. Illustrated in color with 1 double- page illustration & with full-page & textual illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Very good.
First edition in this format. A Holt Owlet book. First Edition. View More...
NY: The Macmillan Co., 1929.. 1929.. Very good. - Octavo, olive green & black decorative cloth titled in black on spine with printed label mounted on front cover . The spine is faded & the covers are lightly bumped with the extremities slightly faded. xv, [iii] & 190 pp. Color frontispiece, 6 B&W plates & B&W textual illustrations by Helen Sewell. Very good internally. First edition.A fairy tale involving two apparently innocent little girls, a Malicious Fairy, and her fiance, the young giant Mr. Hermit Crab, writtten by a fourteen-year-old English girl who could read at the age of two and ha... View More...
Philadelphia & NY: J. B. Lippincott Company, (1949).. (1949).. Good. - Small quarto, gray cloth titled in red on spine with vignette of Bertie the pig stamped in red on front cover, in dw. The covers are lightly rubbed, soiled & bumped with slight fraying to the top corner of the rear cover. The spine is somewhat faded. The dw is lightly chipped & soiled & has been repaired & reinforced internally with cloth tape & scotch tape. There is a small handwritten label on the tail of the dw spine. Half- title, title, 1 leaf & 41 & [1] pp. There is an owner's ink name on the front endpaper. Full-page ... View More...
- Octavo, pictorial cloth, in a price-clipped dust wrapper. The binding is lightly bumped with a small, light stain to the head of the spine. The spine of the dust jacket is darkened with a large piece out of the head. There is a small piece out of the bottom edge of the front panel. Title, [2] leaves & 163 pages. Black-and-white illustrations & vignettes by Ernest H. Shepard. Very good in a good dust wrapper.
"New Uniform Edition". Dust jacket present. View More...
- Octavo, 8-1/4 inches high by 5-3/4 inches wide. Reddish brown cloth titled in black on the spine with an illustration in black on the front cover. The corners are lightly bumped and the head of the spine is slightly chipped. [viii], 290 & [1] pages, illustrated with pictorial endpapers, an illustrated title page, 30 full-page plates and textual illustrations by Louis Slobodkin. Very good. Third printing. Laid in is autograph letter signed by the author Eleanor Estes addressed to Mrs. Helen Zagat. Zagat established a studio for music, dance and child development methods. In 1947, she was orda... View More...
FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR - Oblong quarto, 8-3/8 inches high by 10-1/4 inches wide. Color pictorial boards illustrated on the front & back covers by Meilo So. [38] pages, profusely illustrated in color by Meilo So. Fine. First edition. Signed by the author Mary Ann Hoberman on the title page. First Edition. View More...
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