Hakodate, Japan: The Hakodate Kyodo Bunkakai, 1953. Limited edition. Stiff card wraps. 2 volumes, 8vo. 174;102pp. Purple stiff paper wraps bound Japanese style with string ties. Double fold pages, printed paper titles, Japanese on volume 1 and English on volume 2, Volume 1 is a facsimile manuscript of Kojima's original... More
London: Bancroft, (1961). First edition in English. Hardcover. Cloth spine, pictorial boards. Spine faded and bent at one end; upper board bent at both sides. SLiging image in upper board is fine, as all of the interior pages. Eight delightful, double-page, full color popups; four with moveable tabs, plus a.... More
London: Bancroft, (1961). First edition in English. Hardcover. Cloth spine, pictorial boards. Spine a little dusty, corners and one edge bumped, else this is a near fine copy. Eight delightful, double-page, full color popups, some with moveable tabs, plus a moveable slide in the front board. All of the popups... More
London: Bancroft, (1961). First edition in English. Hardcover. Cloth spine, pictorial boards. Spine a little dusty else this is a near fine copy. Eight delightful, double-page, full color popups, some with moveable tabs, plus a moveable slide in the front board. All of the popups are in fine condition and unrepaired. More
London: Bancroft and Co. (Artia), (1961). First edition in English. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. Cloth-backed pictorial boards. Eight double page popups by Kubasta tell the story of Cinderella; 5 of the popups also have moving parts. The cloth spine is a bit aged and the corners are bumped, but this... More
New York: The Century Company, 1905. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 4to. (8),303pp. Light green cloth block in black and red. Illustrated throughout by Frederick Richardson. This is the first state with the illustrations on pp. 169-236 in terra cotta and black. (The later state contained illustrations in turquoise and... More
Boston: The American Humane Education Society, (1900). First US edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Buff colored boards printed in black. A fine copy with only a trace of wear. Housed in a custom morocco clamshell case with Beauty outlines in relief on the upper cover and the title tooled in blind. The... More
London: George Allen, 1903. Limited edition. Hardcover. Small folio. (x), 136(-142)pp. Illustrated from watercolors by Robert Engels throughout. Translated by Hilaire Belloc from the French of Joseph Bedier. Contemporary half vellum, gilt spine title, paper over boards. Original wrappers bound in. Light soil to the spine, and some rubbing... More
Cleveland: The Rowfant Club, 1988. Limited edition. Hardcover. "Letters of a Persian in England to his Friend at Ispahan, originally published in London in 1735.) Edited by Roderick Boyd Porter, with a foreword by The Viscount Cobham, and an introduction by Pat Rogers. 4to. xxviii,121,(3)pp. Quarter deep red cloth, printed... More
Friday Harbor, WA: Coppervale Press, 1998. Illustrated by the author. Limited edition. Hardcover. 4to. One volume with a portfolio and slipcase. Illustrated throughout. Introduction by Neil Gaiman. Faux blue-green leather with end papers of a matching hue. Ribbon marker. Gilt vignettes on the book and case, gilt title on the... More
Livingston, Montana: Paolini International, LLC, (2002). First edition, first printing. Wraps. 8vo. The rare privately-published first printing of author's first book, and the first in the Inheritance Cycle, later issued by Knopf in a hardbound trade edition. Wraps. A fine copy.Signed by the author on the title. Basis for the... More
London: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. 1910. With Coloured Illustrations by Maxwell Armfield. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. vi,(2),72pp. Six full page, full color plates. Beautiful bound by Sangorski & Sutcluiffe in full crimson calf, spine in six compartments, gilt; tan lettering label, gilt; boards intricately tooled in a basket... More
Chicago: P. F. Volland & Co. (1915). Illustrated by Frederick Ricardson. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. Unpainted. Blue cloth, gilt title on the upper board along with what appears to be a full color, die-cut, recessed illustration of Madame Goose and three children. The blue cloth is a tad sunned near... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2008). First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth spine printed in green; red paper over boards. Illustrated by the author. Book Two in the Imaginarium Geographica series. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is also fine with only a trace of wear along the edges... More
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1981. Limited edition. Fine. Publisher's cloth binding, black leather lettering label, gilt, on the upper board. This edition of Le Guin's short story was finely printed at the Lord John Press in an edition of 300 copies in wraps, and 50 signed deluxe copies specially... More
Burma: n.p. Early 20th cent. Hardcover. Parabaik, (accordion, or concertina-style) book. Four by six inches (closed) but 6 by 50+ inches fully opened. Heavy handmade paper pasted to form 28 panels containing 22 original paintings including 4 double page illustrations. Bound into lacquer boards with designs and reliefs of an... More
London: The Folk-Lore Society, 1888. First edition. Hardcover. Tall 8vo. xv,(1),281,(1)pp. Original brick-colored cloth, spine gilt and the boards blocked in a design in black with a gilt logo on the upper board. Chocolate-colored coated endpapers. Front inner hinge cracked but strong; a small spot on the upper board... More
London: Chapman and Hall, n.d. (ca. 1865). Stiff card wraps. (iv), 16pp. Slim 8vo. Stiff wraps. Illustration by T. E. Webster as a frontispiece, repeated in part on the upper wrap. Tissue guard protects the frontispiece. Rare edition of Gammer Gurton, which was first published in 1784 by Joseph Ritson... More
Kensington: Manning Pike; Notary Binders, n.d. (ca. 1930). Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 17,(1) pp. Cloth spine, decorated paper boards. Finely printed on laid paper with a watermark of acorns and oak leaves. Printed by Manning Pike, with the permission of the author and his publisher, Methuen. This is a suppressed... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1939. Hardcover. 8vo. Original decorated blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, top edge stained red, fore-edge untrimmed. Small illustrations in the text by the author, endpapers illustrated by Robert Lawson. Small dent and hole in spine, gilt darkened as usual, else... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1939. First US edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Original decorated blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, top edge stained red, fore-edge untrimmed. Small illustrations in the text by the author, end papers illustrated by Robert Lawson. A fine, bright copy. The dust... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. (1923). First English edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full gilt stamped red calf, t.e.g, Spine in five compartments, gilt; gilt tooling on the boards and board edges, with the title repeated in gold on the upper board. Inner dentelles tooled in gilt. Binding signed by Sangorski and... More
New York: Disney Editions, c. 2012. Hardcover. Square 8vo. Nine hardbacks and a paperback in a lidded cloth covered box, gilt. The nine hardcover flipbooks pay tribute to Disney's original animators, and feature scenes in original line-drawn figures. Here are scenes with Lady and the Tramp, Sorcerer Mickey, Thumper and... More
n.p., Hall Brothers, C. 1928. First edition. Very early rendering of Mickey Mouse on a single folded sheet. Folded, it measures 4½ by 6 inches, then opens to 6 by 9, again opening to 9 by 11, then again to 11 by 18 and finally to a grand 18 by... More
London: Macmillan and Co. 1910. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 149pp plus 2pp publisher's catalogue. Green cloth, gilt spine title. Illustrated with 13 plates from photographs. Lacks ffep, light wear to edges else this is a very good copy. Forty-one tales collected by the author over nine years from the... More
