1923. KIRK, Maria L. SPYRI, Johanna, transl. Elisabeth P. Stork. MAZLI: A STORY OF THE SWISS VALLEYS. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1923. Illustrated by Maria L. Kirk. 320 pp. 8vo., green cloth withgilt and black lettering and design, with color illustration paper pastedown on front cover. Gift edition. Very... More
1913. [DULAC, Edmund, illustrator]. STAWELL, Mrs. Rudolph [Maud Margaret]. MY DAYS WITH THE FAIRIES. A new and enlarged edition of "Fairies I Have Met." Illustrated in colour by Edmund Dulac. New York, London: Hodder and Stoughton, [n.d., circa 1913]. First edition thus. Eight color plates mounted on tan paper, with... More
1924. WYETH, N. C. STEVENSON, Robert Louis. DAVID BALFOUR: BEING MEMOIRS OF THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF DAVID BALFOUR AT HOME AND ABROAD. Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. xv + 356 pp. 8vo., black buckram with gilt spine lettering and color illustrated pastedown on front... More
1914. STEWART, Jane L. THE CAMP FIRE GIRLS IN THE MOUNTAINS OR BESSIE KING'S STRANGE ADVENTURE. Camp Fire Girls Series, Vol. IV. Chicago: Saalfield Publishing Co. (1914). 168 pp. 8vo., pale polka-dotted illustrated boards. Light shelfwear and rubbing to boards. Interior fine but for age toning to paper. Number IV... More
1914. STEWART, Jane L. THE CAMP FIRE GIRLS IN THE WOODS OR BESSIE KING'S FIRST COUNCIL FIRE. Camp Fire Girls Series, Vol. I. Chicago: Saalfield Publishing Co. (1914). 168 pp. 8vo., pale polka-dotted illustrated boards. Light shelfwear and rubbing to boards. Front hinge cracked. Interior fine but for age toning... More
1856. SUNDAY SCHOOL ADVOCATE VOLUME XIII NUMBER 14, WHOLE NO. 292 (APRIL 8, 1854) - VOLUME XV NUMBER 12, WHOLE NUMBER 339 (MARCH 22, 1856) PP. 105-200, 1-192 & 1-96, complete. 4to, 3/4 leather with marbled paper covered boards. Spine joints cracked, one inch chip to heel, tiny chips to... More
1916. TARKINGTON, Booth. PENROD AND SAM. New York: Grosset & Dunlop, (1916). Photoplay edition, illustrated with stills and drawings. 8vo., green cloth. Book is lightly over-opened at frontispiece and very lightly shaken; in dust jacket with sun and very small chips to extremes. Very good plus. More
1944. TEMPEST, Margaret. PINKIE MOUSE & THE BALLOONS. London: Collins, (1944). First edition. 31 pp. 4 1/2 x 4." Bright illustrations by the author accompany her own text, which is printed in vivid blue. Pink cloth back, paper covered boards, illustration to upper board, decorated pink endpapers. Contemporary gift inscription... More
1944. TEMPEST, Margaret. PINKIE MOUSE & THE ELVES. London: Collins, (1944). First edition. 31 pp. 4 1/2 x 4." Bright illustrations by the author accompany her own text, which is printed in vivid blue. Pink cloth back, paper covered boards, illustration to upper board, decorated pink endpapers. A charming, contemporary... More
1946. TEMPEST, Margaret. PINKIE MOUSE & THE RAINBOW. London: Collins, (1946). First edition. 31 pp. 4 1/2 x 4." Bright illustrations by the author accompany her own text, which is printed in blue. Pink cloth back, paper covered boards, illustration to upper board, decorated pink endpapers. Light soiling to boards... More
1857. THAYER, William M. THE POOR BOY AND MERCHANT PRINCE; OR, ELEMENTS OF SUCCESS DRAWN FROM THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF THE LATE AMOS LAWRENCE; A BOOK FOR YOUTH. Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1857. With the bookplate of Augustus Lowell (related by marriage to Lawrence). 349 pp. 12mo., ribbed brown... More
1954. TOLKIEN, J. R. R. THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING: BEING THE FIRST PART OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, [and] The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1954. First American edition, Hammond & Anderson A5b.i, one of 1,500 copies bound in the United States with first edition sheets... More
1954. TOLKIEN, J. R. R. THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING: BEING THE FIRST PART OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, [and] The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1954. First American edition, Hammond & Anderson A5b.i, one of 1,500 copies bound in the United States with first edition sheets... More
1952. SHEPARD, Mary. TRAVERS, P. L. MARY POPPINS IN THE PARK. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952. First American Edition. 235 pp. 8vo., blue cloth. Fine in very good dust jacket with light soil, several small closed tears and nicks, 1/4 inch chip to top of spine. Cheerful b/w... More
1888. TROWBRIDGE, J. T. A START IN LIFE: A History of the Genesee Country. Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1888. Later printing. (1904). Bound in red cloth with two color illustration to boards. Jacket has tear along one hinge but is otherwise fine. Binding is tight. Bears ownership inscription to... More
1893. [UNNAMED ARTIST] SAM'S PICTURE BOOK 1893 [HANDPAINTED CLOTH PICTURE BOOK]. 4to. Handsewn cloth-covered boards, with handpainted covers, and twelve cloth pages with two full-page paintings sewn back-to-back to make each leaf. Blue polka dot and pink floral cloth wallpaper serves as endpapers. The pages have some thumbing, and a.... More
1984. VAN ALLSBURG, Chris. THE MYSTERIES OF HARRIS BURDICK. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984. First edition. [32] pp. 4to., terra cotta cloth, title gilt-stamped to spine and upper board. Fourteen evocative drawings suggest, but do not explain, the mysteries of Harris Burdick. Clean and crisp, in a like dust wrapper... More
1927. WYETH, N. C. VERNE, Jules. MICHAEL STROGOFF, a Courier of the Czar. Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1927). First edition thus, with Wyeth's illustrations: a color-illustrated title-page, nine color plates, and color-illustrated endpapers. (viii), 397 pp. Octavo, black cloth with a large color-illustrated label... More
VON OLFERS, Sibylle. WINDCHEN. Esslingen und Munchen: J. F. Schreiber [n.d. ca. 1920s] Ninth edition. [16 pp.] Oblong 4to., half cloth with color pictorial paper covered boards. Good, slight tanning and rubbing to front cover, edge tanning and crayon marks to rear cover. Endpapers and interior pages tanned at edges... More
1904. WAIN, Louis. WAIN, Louis. IN ANIMAL LAND WITH LOUIS WAIN. London: S. W. Partridge & Co. [1904]. [52] pp. + 4 pp. advertisements. 4to., red and green paper covered boards, front board with color illustration by Wain. Very good, spine with moderate tiny chipping, slightly affecting title. Corners slightly... More
1931. WALT DISNEY STUDIO STAFF. MICKEY MOUSE STORY BOOK. Philadelphia: David McKay Company (1931). Story and Illustrations by the Staff of Walt Disney Studio. 62 pp. 8vo., blue cloth spine over flexible color pictorial cardboard covers. Near fine. A small crease/paper repair to top corner of front cover and first... More
1949. WALT DISNEY STUDIOS. WALT DISNEY'S BAMBI. New York: Simon and Schuster [1949]. 32 pp. 4to., color pictorial boards with a fuzzy texture to Bambi's coat. 12 pages within have this special attribute. Fully illustrated in color. Near fine, minor corner wear, clean and bright. In near fine color illustrated... More
1940. WALT DISNEY STUDIOS. WALT DISNEY'S FIGARO AND CLEO. New York: Random House, 1940. unpag. 8vo., yellow cloth spine, yellow/color pictorial boards. Near fine, touch of wear to corners, boards and spine clean and bright. In very good plus dust jacket, minor chips and a few tiny edgetears, slightly rubbed... More
[WARNE, Frederick, PUBLISHER]. OUR ANIMAL PICTURE BOOK. London and New York: Frederick Warne [n.d. ca. 1880]. 14 pp. Oblong 4to, paper wrappers and pages mounted on linen. Bright colors. Spine split, front cover nearly detached. Some rubbed spots and small chips to edges of covers,slightly affecting publishing details text. Few... More
1946. ROJANKOVSKY, Feodor. WEAVER, Elsa Jane. THE GOLDEN BIBLE: From the King James Version of the Old Testament. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946. A Giant Golden Book de luxe edition. First printing. 4to., 1/4 cloth, tan spine with color pictorial paper covered boards. Illustrated in color and b/w. Near... More
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