New York: George H. Doran Company, (1925). Arthur Rackham. First US edition. Hardcover. 8vo. First American trade edition. Blue cloth, gilt. Seven color plates by Arthur Rackham. Pictorial endpapers. Slight wear to cloth and gilt, erasure on front free endpaper, else a very good copy. Latimore & Haskell, p. 59. More
(Racine): (Whitman Publishing Company), n.d. (1937). Stapled wraps. Folio. Stapled stiff wraps. 12 stiff pages with the 'Linen-like Finish', printed in full color. 11 stories in verse fully illustrated. Donald still has his long beak. Horace Horsecollar and Clarabelle Cow (both scarce characters) make an appearance e, along with Gideon... More
New-York: Printed and Sold by S. Wood at the Juvenile Book-store, 1812. First edition. Wraps. 16mo. (2½ x 4 inches.) 26,(2)pp. The final 2pp are publisher's advertisements. Printed wraps, string binding. Illustrated with woodcuts. Four alphabets printed inside front cover: Roman capitals and lower case; Italic capitals and lower case... More
Philadelphia: Pub. by James P. Parke, 1809. Hardcover. 12mo. Original half leather, gilt spine title and rules, marbled paper boards. 26 engraved plates (of 36) with descriptive text. This was first written in 1801 by William Darton, who also drew and engraved the copper plates. In 1806 it was revised... More
n.p. n.p., n.d. (1940's?). Black ink on beige ground, on an art board, depicting seven beavers listening to an eighth read from a paper, while two more fell a tree in the background. Signed "Slade" in the lower right corner. Image size is approximately 10 by 16 inches. The image..... More
Dublin: Bentham and Hardy, 1826. Early Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 180pp. Frontispiece and 4 full-page woodcuts. Contemporary fill sheep. The head and tail of the spine and the hinges have been neatly mended, Occasional light foxing else a very good copy. The travels of James Leech and Mr. Gorodek and the... More
Philadelphia: Lutheran Board of Publication; Lindsay & Blakison, 1856. First edition. Stiff card wraps. Square 8vo. 32pp. Stiff printed wraps, the upper cover with a decorative title and the lower cover with a list of publications. Illustrated with six full page woodcut plates. Light soil, and some wear to the... 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
