Leeds & London: Alf Cooke, Ltd., n.d., ca. 1907. W. Heath Robinson. First edition. Hardcover. Four volumes. Small folio. Each volume with red cloth spine, printed paper over boards, and with a full color paste on by Robinson to the upper board. Each volume has ten full color plates by..... More
London: G. G. Harrap & Co., n.d. (1913). Illustrated by Williy Pogany. Limited edition. Hardcover. 4to. Illustrated throughout in both black and white and color by Pogany. This copy bound in the somewhat scarce publisher's brown leather, spine intricately gilt and with the title and illustration on the upper..... More
Portland: The Southworth Press, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 354pp. Illustrated. Leather spine, gilt titles. Illustrated paper boards. Top edge gilt. One of 585 numbered copies, this copy unnumbered and marked 'Review Copy'; signed by Rosenbach. Foreword by A. Edward Newton. Light trace of wear else a fine copy in..... More
Springfield, MA: McLoughlin Bros., Inc., (1940). Pru Herric and Mildred Wetmore. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Pru Herric and Mildred Wetmore. First edition. Pictorial boards; red cloth spine. Illustrations on every page. A fine copy in scarce dustwrapper. The dustwrapper has light rubbing and chipping along the edges..... More
New York: Harper & Row, (1967) but later. Hardcover. Early edition. Square 8vo. 69pp. Light brown cloth, gilt spine title, color paste-on to the upper board. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped and shows the first-state price of $4.95 and the '1067' code, but the last book listed on the..... More
New York: Harper & Row, (1970). Hardcover. Thin folio. Unpaginated (42pp.) Cream-colored cloth with full color paste-on to the upper board. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is fine with the first state code of 1070 and the first state list of seven books on the rear flap, but with a...... More
New York: Harper & Row, (1965). Hardcover. Folio. 78pp. Printed in color throughout. Dark blue cloth, gilt title on spine and upper board. Beige endpapers. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped and is fine as well. Later state, with $15.00 on the dustwrapper. Inscribed by Sendak on..... More
n.p. n.p., n.d. (1970). Black print on paper, approximately 10 by 24 inches. The print depicts a man in Arab dress astride a white camel and bundled against what T. E. Lawrence called the 'sand blizzard' in his Seven Pillars of Wisdom; this is clearly Lawrence of Arabia. Behind him..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1967). Pictures by Margot Zemach. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. Publisher's deep rose colored cloth with the upper board embossed in a design by the illustrator in darker rose and the spine with titles in gilt. Illustrated in color throughout. A fine..... More
ca. 1912. Large single sheet printed in full color showing Jack and the Bean Stalk originally published in 'A Child's Book of Stories', 1911. This captioned: 'Fifth in the Series of Favorite Fairy-Tale Pictures'. Sometime cropped and mounted on black paper. The reverse is printed also and seems to be..... More
Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company, (1919). Hardcover. De Luxe Edition. 4to. (319)pp. Printed in black and yellow throughout, and with 14 mounted illustrations buy Maria L. Kirk. Beige cloth spine, gilt; blue cloth boards with a gilt title and vignette on the upper board; top edge gilt; ribbon..... More
NY: McLoughlin Brothers, 1870s? Wraps. 4½ by 6½ inches. 10pp, including the pictorial wraps. Spine stitched with thread (early repair). A cumulative rhyme, written in imitation of "This is the house that Jack built." This is not the nursery rhyme that begins "Who killed Cock Robin?" Chromolithographed illustrations. Pages seem..... More
London: Edward Moxon and Co., 1867. Illustrated by Gustave Doré. Very good. Folio. Steel engraved frontispiece and eight steel-engraved plates with tissue guards. Pleasantly bound in full scarlet morocco, the spine in seven compartments, gilt, with raised bands. The boards with gilt borders, titles, and an inner gilt rectangle with..... More
London & New York: Hoddder & Stoughton, n.d. (1911). Illustrated by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale. First Brickdale edition. Hardcover. 8vo. viii,(2),216pp. Brown cloth blocked on the spine and upper boards with titles in gilt and designs in dark brown. Illustrated endpapers. Twelve full color full page plates by Brickdale. A fine..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. (1911). Illustrated by Eleanor F. Brickdale. 4to. First Brickdale illustrated edition. Blue cloth blocked in a design in gilt on the spine and upper board, and in blind on the lower board. 21 exquisite mounted plates by Brickdale in her best style. A near fine..... More
London: Edward Moxon and Co., 1867. Illustrated by Gustave Doré. Very good. Folio. Steel engraved frontispiece and eight steel-engraved plates with tissue guards. Cobalt blue publisher's cloth over beveled boards, the upper board elaborately decorated in gilt and black. The illustrations were reprinted in 1869 as part of the Idylls..... More
New York: Random House, (1942). Ruth Gannett. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Large folio. Unpaginated (40pp). Red cloth spine, pictorial boards. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated throughout with many pages in full color. Stated first printing. A near fine copy. The dustwrapper is price-clipped, is rubbed at the folds and has a...... More
New York: Frederick A. STokes & Brother, 1888. Illustrations in Colors and Monotint by Maude HUmphrey. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. (48)pp printed on one side only: twelve are verses by Thomas, including the title page, and twelve are full page fully chromolithographed plates by Humphrey, including the frontispiece, depicting one..... More
Chicago: Children's Press, Inc., (1948). Lillian Owens. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. Publisher's printed paper boards. Illustrated throughout in full color. Trace of soil else a very good copy. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped but if a bit rough at the edges and folds and also has a...... More
New Uork: Oxford University Press, 1954 (but 1957). Tasha Tudor. Hardcover. Second printing, 1957. Oblong 8vo. Unpaginated (56pp.) Publisher's apple-green cloth, gilt spine title, and gilt title on the upper bard.Decrated endpapers in a design by Tudor of flowers. A trace of wea and sunning to the cloth else this..... More
London: Longmans, Green & Co., n.d. (19051. Florence K. Upton. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. 66pp. Green cloth spine, pictorial boards. Decorated endpapers. 32 full page color plates (including the title page), and numerous illustrations on the text. Boards somewhat rubbed, upper inner hinge neatly repaired, some fingerling smudges on..... More
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1907. Florence K. Upton. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. 66pp. Cloth spine, pictorial boards. Decorated endpapers. 32 full page color plates (including the title page), numerous illustrations in text. Boards somewhat rubbed, soiled and edgeworn; some fingerling smudges on the pages,else a very good copy..... More
London: Longmans, Green & Co., (1903). Florence K. Upton. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. 66pp. Cloth spine, pictorial boards. Decorated endpapers. 32 full page color plates (including the title page), numerous illustrations in text. Boards somewhat rubbed, soiled and edgeworn; some fingerling smudges on the pages, else a very good..... More
London: Longmans, Green & Co., n.d., ca. 1906. Florence K. Upton. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. 66pp. Cloth spine, pictorial boards. Decorated endpapers. 32 full page color plates (including the title page), numerous illustrations in text. Boards somewhat rubbed, soiled and edgeworn; some fingerling smudges on the pages, else a very good..... More
London: Longmans, Green & Co., n.d. (1905). Florence K. Upton. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. 66pp. Brown cloth spine, pictorial boards. Decorated endpapers. 32 full page color plates (including the title page), and numerous illustrations on the text. Boards somewhat rubbed, some fingerling smudges on the pages, but a very..... More
