New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1993. Illustrated by the author. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Thin folio. Unpaginated (32pp.) Glossy pictorial boards. A fine copy in a fine, unclipped dustwrapper. Signed by the late artist on the half title. A biography in verse about Harriet Tubman..... More
New York: Margaret K. McElderry, 2013. Jacket design by Julie Dillon. Hardcover. First printing of this reissue, with a new "Note from the Author" and with a new jacket illustration by Julie Dillon. A fine copy in a fine jacket. Inscribed on the title page by the author "For Wendy"..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1882. With Forty-Two Illustrations by John Tenniel. Early Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Red cloth blocked in gilt on the boards and spine; black endpapers. All edges gilt. Seventieth thousand on the title page. Nicely and nearly invisibly rebacked with the original spine laid on. Some soil and..... More
New York: Frederick Warne & Co., n.d. (1910). Early US Edition. Hardcover. 1910. 85pp. 4 by 5-3/4 inches. Wine maroon boards with hexagonal colored paste-on on front board. Lettered in white. First American edition variant: the address for Warne is given as 36 East 22d St. Earlier than Quinby's 18A..... More
Cleveland: The Arthur Westbrook Co, 1899. Stapled wraps. Volume V No. 53 of the Deadwood Dick Library. Denver Doll story No. 2. 7-5/8' by 5-1/4'. Color pictorial wrappers, stapled. Series advertisement on rear listing the entire 64 numbers of the series. 30, (2)pp. Last 2 pp. blank. Light soil on..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Thin folio. Unpaginated. Pictorial boards and endpapers. Illustrated throughout in color. A fine copy. The dustwrapper has a short closed marginal tear on the upper panel, just above the "K" in "King", a trace of sunning to the spine, else it..... More
NY: Atheneum, 1977. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. First edition (so stated). Original printed cloth. Trace of sunning along top edge else a fine copy in a fine dustwrapper, not price-clipped. Signed by Susan Cooper on the title page. Fifth and final volume of the Dark is Rising sequence..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1966). First edition, first printing. Fine. 8vo. Publisher's blue paper over boards printed in deep green. Dark blue endpapers. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is price-clipped; it is lightly soiled else very good. Stated first edition on the copyright page as needed for a...... More
London(?): Nelson & Sons(?), n.d., ca. 1874. Hardcover. Four linen-backed chromolithographed alphabet books sometime bound in rust-colored cloth, without title page. The alphabets are illustrated by animals, birds, people and biblical characters, accompanied by a verse describing each character. Slight wear to binding; alphabets near fine, bright and delightful. Scarce..... More
Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1859. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. State A, but bound in blue cloth instead of black. The boards blind-stamped with a floral border enclosing an arabesque floral design. The spine is stamped in gilt and blind. At the top is an angel holding the Grail, followed..... More
Moscow: Uchpediz, 1957. Hardcover. Thin 4to. Cloth spine, printed paper over boards in color. Alphabet endpapers with illustrations next to each letter. Printed in full color throughout. Light wear and rubbing to the binding. Annotated throughout by a former student in pencil, so a good copy only but scarce. This..... More
Houston: Christian Anti-Communbism Crusade, (1961). First edition. Stapled wraps. 7 by 10 inches, printed in full color on newsprint, two staples. A tiny abrasion at the foot of the first page, a contemporary book store imprint on the front page else this is in near fine condition. Scarce comic from..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1971. Illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Oblong folio. Unpaginated (36pp.). Orange cloth spine, glossy illustrated boards. Illustrated endpapers and, indeed, illustrated throughout in full color. A fine copy with only a trace of wear along the bottom..... More
