New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1971). Leo Politi. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Thin 4to. Pictorial boards showing Emmet on the upper board and the street where he lives on the rear board. A fine copy, and with the correct first printing code A.2-71 (RZ)beneath the copyright date. The dustjacket..... More about Emmet
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1960). Hardcover. Thin folio. Illustrated throughout in Politi's unmistakable style. Tan cloth printed in red on the spine and with a vignette of Moy Moy on the upper board. Colorfully inscribed by Politi "to dear Kathy..." and with images of lanterns, dated 1963. Light wear... More about Moy Moy
Melbourne: J. M. Dent, (1987). Limited edition. Hardcover. First edition. 4to. 175pp. Green cloth, gilt spine title. Illustrated throughout in black and white and color. Housed in publisher's matching green cloth slipcase with a color pictorial paste-on. A fine copy. First edition, deluxe issue, limited to 100 numbered copies signed... More about Dromkeen: A Journey Into Children's Literature
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903-1910. First editions, first printings. Hardcover. Four 4to volumes, all in original mustard-color cloth with spines and upper boards blocked in black, red and gilt., With black and white illustrations by Howard Pyle. This is essentially a near fine set. These titles have traditionally... More about Arthurian Tetrology: The Story of King Arthur; The Story of The Champions; The Story of Sir...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. Illustrated by the author. Hardcover. 8vo. xviii, 340pp. Written and Illustrated by Howard Pyle. Contemporary binding of brown leaher, spine in six compart,ents, gilt, cloth sides and endpapers. Top edge gilt. Leather sunned and rubbed, upper hinge partially cracked but strong, corners worn... More about The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1915. Illustrated by the author. Hardcover. 8vo. xviii, 340pp. Written and Illustrated by Howard Pyle. Contemporary binding of purple morocco, spine in six compartments, gilt, cloth sides. Top edge gilt. A very good copy with only traces of wear and aging. See Howey, A-2064... More about The Story of the Champions of the Round Table
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. xviii, (329),(i)pp. Written and Illustrated by Howard Pyle. Original yellow-brown cloth blocked in red, black and gilt. Cloth soiled and lightly worn at edges, rear inner hinge neatly mended, else a very good copy. Tipped onto the front... More about The Story of the Champions of the Round Table (Signed
Little Neck, NY: Ramborn Corporation, ca.1945. Ana MAe Seagren. First edition. Hardcover. Elephant folio: 14 by 19 inches. Cloth spine, color pictorial boards. 18pp, alternating colorful decorated text page with full color illustrations of fairies at play by Ana Mae Seagren. A near fine copy with only a trace of... More about A Day in Fairy Land
Rome: Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, n.d., ca. 1670. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong folio of engravings. The first work has 43 numbered plates beginning with a dedication: "Eminentissimo ac reuerendissimo Principi Camillo Maximo S.R.E. Cardinali amplissimo." The 43 plates were engraved by Pietro Santo Bartoli and are complete. Bound with: "D. Nicolao..... More about Three Works of Engravings after Raphael: Parerga, Atque Ornamenta...; Picturae Omniumq(ue)...
New York: The Dial Press, 1960. Limited edition. Hardcover. 4to. 254pp. Full brown leather, spine title in gilt, upper board blocked with Remington's signature in gilt and a vignette of a cow skull in blind. Top edge gilt. Illustrated throughout in black and white and with a full color frontispiece/... More about Frederic Remington's Own West
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1912). Illustrated by Gustave Baumann. Hardcover. Thin 4to. Unpaginated; (10) plus twelve full page illustrations in colors, cut on wood by Gustave Baumann on rectos with Riley's poems on the opposing pages. Publisher's blue cloth blocked in gold on the upper board. A fine, bright copy. The dustwrapper... More about All the Year Round
Chicago: Rand McNally and Company, (1928). Pictures by Harrison Cady. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 98pp. Green cloth, full color pictorial paste-on to the upper board. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated throughout in black and white and color. Neat gift inscription on the front free endpaper else a fine, bright copy. In the... More about The Raggedy Animal Book
London: Werner Shaw, 1983. Limited edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. 156pp. Illustrated in black and white and color. Green morocco spine, gilt spine title; green cloth boards; top edge green. Dark green endpapers. A fine copy housed in custom cloth slipcase matching the boards. 255 bibliographic entries covering 1896-1979, preceded by... More about The Illustrations of W. Heath Robinson (Signed
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 about The Monarchs of Merry England (Complete
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 about The Tale of Lohengrin, Knight of the Swan
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 about Early American Children's Books, with Bibliographical Descriptions of the Books in His Collection
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 about The Story Book of Whitie and Pinkie
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 about Higglety Pigglety Pop! Or, There Must be More to Life (Signed
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 about In the Night Kitchen (Signed
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 about Lullabies and Night Songs
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 about Signed print Inspired by Lawrence of Arabia and his servants Daud and Farraj
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 about Mazel and Shlimazel Or the Milk of a Lioness (Signed
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 about Jack and the Bean Stalk
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 about Heidi
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 about Sad Fate of Poor Robin
