London: The Cayme Press, 1930. Austen, John. Limited edition. #141 of 500 copies , signed by the author and by the illustrator, John Austen, on the limitation page. 8vo fullgreen cloth, beveled boards, color pictorial title label, top edge gilt, other pages untrimmed. Spine faintly sunned else a fine bright.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, [1950]. Dulac, Edmund. Limited edition. Hardcover. Folio, #1226 of 1500 signed and numbered copies, retold with a foreword and color illustrations by Edmund Dulac and signed by Dulac on the colophon page. Printed at the Fanfare Press, London. Full red Russian buckram with the title.....
London: Blackie, n.d. Appleton, Honor C. Edition not noted. Hardcover. 4to full cream cloth and color cover plate plus color and line drawings by Honor C. Appleton. 1945 gift inscription to front free endpaper. LIght soiling to cloth, yoning to pages, very good plus.
New York: Hodder & Stoughton, (1909). Dulac, Edmund. 1st US edition. Hardcover. Second printing of the US trade edition circa 1912. 20 tipped in color plates by Edmund Dulac with letterpress tissue guards, full cream cloth stamped in gilt, Hughey 21d. A lovely bright copy in soiled and rubbed original.....
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1945. Keeler, Katherine. Hardcover. Square 8vo picture book, illustrated boards, color and grayscale pictures by Katherine Keeler. A Story Parade Picture Book. If you can sell lemonade at a lemonade stand, well, then...? Corners bumped, some pencil erasures, and ink inscription on front endpapers, but.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1944. Thorne, Diana. Edition not noted. Hardcover. 8vo full green cloth, illustrated in gray and green by diana Thorne. A mischievous kitten eventually learns his lesson. Near fine in lightly edgeworn, price-clipped dj, no previous owner's marks.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1953. Nichols, Marie C. Hardcover. 8vo full gray cloth, 32 pp., illustrated with grayscale drawings of the cats, highlighted with shades of blue and green. A fluffy persian kitten thinks of himself as a "tough guy" but a tiger striped alley cat disagrees. Ink gift inscription to.....
New York: Equinox Cooperative Press, 1935. Ward, Lynd. 1st ed. Hardcover. 1st ptg., small 4to, color blocked red and black cloth illustrated with Lynd Ward lithographs. Near fine in lightly edgeworn, unclipped dj with early acetate reinforcement inside the dj, no previous owner's marks.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1929. Wyeth, N.C. Hardcover. Early ptg. 4to full black cloth with onliad color plate by N.C. Wyeth. This translation is done as a plain narrative rather than verse. 16 color plates by N.C. Wyeth plus illustrated endpapers. Wyeth was best known for his widely circulated ---- and.....
New York: Random House, 1986. Dr. Seuss. 1st ed. Hardcover. 1st ptg., 4to, full red cloth, a catalog of the retrospective exhibition put on by the San Diego Museum of Art. Fine in fine, unclipped dj, no previous owner's marks.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1945. Caniff, Milton. 1st ed. Hardcover. 1st ptg. Oblong 4to pictorial boards, 112 of the GI comic strips featuring the war activities of Miss Lace. Text block partly loose in binding,else very good.
Windsor, VT: Cornish Colony Museum, 2007. Craft, Kinuko. 1st ed. Softcover. 4to wraps, one of 340 signed copies. A handsome exhibit catalog for an event running from December 2006 to March 2007. Introduction by the museum founder and director Alma Gilbert Smith, lavishly illustrated in color.Signed by Craft. Fine, no.....
New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1996. Vallejo, Boris. 1st US edition. Hardcover. Small folio, full black cloth, unpaginated. With black and white and full color photographs. Vallejo renders the object of his (admitted) obsession with elegance and eroticism and returns to the heart of his inspiration - his love for.....
New York: Xavier Moreau Inc., 1982. Newton, Helmut. 1st ed. Hardcover. 1st ptg., small folio, full black cloth, unpaginated. Introduction by fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld. A collection of black and white photos of stylishly posed nudes. Published in in four editions: in Paris, New York, Munich and London. Fine in.....
New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1998. Vallejo, Boris. 1st US edition. Hardcover. Small folio, full black cloth. 128 pp of 100 black and white photographs. Vallejo brings to this work the same classic composition and eye for the artistic potential of the body that enliven his paintings. Light rubbing to.....
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1937. reprint. Hardcover. 8vo full cream cloth with red titling to cover and spine. 18 original fairy tales illustrated by the author and engraved by his sister Clemence Housman. Light soiling to cream cloth else a very nice copy of the American edition, no previous ownership.....
New York: Sign of the Peacock, 1928. Denton, Donald. Privately Printed. Hardcover. Small 4to, full black cloth with organte gilt spine titling and decorative paper overlay. With 8 illustrations in two states, full color and also black and white, by Donald Denton. "Jeanne" written in elaborate script on the front.....
Chadds Ford: Brandywine River Museum, 1998, 1998. Pyle, Howard. Softcover. 2nd ptg., 4to softcover catalog of the Brandywine Museum exhibit. 136pp. Fine, no previous owner's marks.
London: Constable, 1958. Marlin, Brigid. 1st UK edition. Hardcover. 1st ptg., nasrrow 4to full red cloth, illustrated with line drawings scttered throughout by Brigid Marlin. A fairy foundling child is left on the doorstep of three bad-tempered dwarf brothers. Slight ripple to pages else very good in edgeworn, price-clipped dj.....
Insight Editions, 2008. 1st ed. Hardcover. 1st ptg. Narrow 4to pop-up,with 9 elaborate pop-up spreads, pull-tabs, interior mini-booklets, a deluxe production. Fine, a crisp bright copy with all moveables in excellent working order.
Leiceister: Brown Watson, 1983. Kubasta, V. Hardcover. Oblong 4to pop-up, pictorial boards, with 6 handsome pop-up spreads and a couple of "Action Triggers" to reveal the wolf in hiding. Fine, with all pop-ups in good working order, no previous owner's marks.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, nd. Brickdale, Eleanor F. 1st trade edition. Hardcover. 1st ptg. 4to full blue cloth with a pattern of crowns and hearts in gilt on the spine and cover, the same design blind-stamped on the back cover. 21 color plates tipped in on pages with a gold.....
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1916. Smith, Jessie Wilcox. Edition not noted. Hardcover. Presumed 1st ptg. Dodd Mead did not note first editions or printings prior to 1976. 4to full green cloth with gilt titling and round color cover plate inset and 12 full color plates by Jessie Wilcox Smith plus.....
New York: Doubleday, 1926. Rackham, Arthur. 1st ed. Hardcover. 1st ptg., 4to full black cloth with dimmed gilt titling to cover and spine. Illustrated with 20 lovely tipped-in color plates by Arthur Rackham, mostly of the fairy hosts. Light wear to tips, base of spine crunched at back, else very.....
Ashcroft, BC: Ash-Tree Press, 1997. 1st ed. Hardcover. One of 500 unnumbered copies, 8vo, full black cloth, cover art by Rob Suggs. Editor Richard Dalby has selected 18 tales of the supernatural by the author of The Beetle, which rivaled Dracula in popularity when it was published in 1897. Fine.....