A Midsummer Night's Dream
London: Heinemann, [1908]. Rackham, Arthur. 1st. Hardcover. 40 tissue guarded plates, rebound in 3/4 blue gilt tooled leather over blue buckram.
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The Songs of Bilitis (signed)
New York: Macy-Masius, 1930. Pogany, Willy. Limited edition. Hardcover. #632/2000 signed by illustrator Willy Pogany. Privately printed for subscribers, never reprinted in this format. 8vo, full black cloth with titles in a lavender box, lavender spine titles. Double-page endpaper illustration on lavender paper, top edge lavender. Frontis, pictorial title, four.....
Songs of Innocence
London: Medici Society, 1927. Parsons, Jacynth. 1st ed. Hardcover. Small 4to, full blue cloth. Illustrated with 12 charming tissue-guarded color plates and numerous line drawings by the 16-year-old Jacynth Parsons with a prefatory letter by William Butler Yeats extolling her artwork. The year this book was published the Medici Society.....
The Conquest of Mexico
New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1922. Hwenderson, Keith. Hardcover. 2 volumes, small 4to, full black cloth, illustrated in black and white by Keith henderson.
Hamlet
London: Selwyn & Blount, nd. Austen, John. Hardcover.
Le Morte d'Arthur
London: Philip Lee Warner, 1910. Flint, W. Russell. Limited edition. Hardcover. #280 of 500 numbered copies from an edition of 512. 4 quarto volumes, full limp vellum . With 48 mounted color plates by W. Russell Flint with captioned tissue guards.
The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children
Boston: Medici Society, 1912. Flint, W. Russell. Limited edition. Hardcover. # 421 of 500 copies in limp vellum, gilt titling to spine and cover, top edge gilt with green ribbon ties and bound in ribbon bookmark, 12 tissue-guarded color plates by Sir William Russell Flint. Without previous ownership markings...
Faust
Boston: Dana Estes, [1908]. Pogany, Willy. 1st. Hardcover. 1st ptg. 4to. Professionally rebound in coarse red cloth, with the image printed in red from the original cover now inset into the cover, and a gilt title plate inset on the spine. New endpapers. 30 color plates with printed tissue.....
A Song of the English
London: Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. Robinson, W.H. Limited edition. vellum. Limited edition. Full vellum pictorial cover and spine in gilt, green and red. 30 color tipped-in plates on cream-colored boards with printed borders. Printed tissue guards. 60 illustrations in line, some full page. Printed on hand-made paper. This was a......
Memory Was a Bitter Tree...
Black Bart Books, 2008. Frazetta. Limited edition. Leather. Full black leather stamped in gilt. Very handsome cloth clamshell box with a magnetic opening, stamped in gilt with color cover plate by Brom and a color frontis by Frank Frazetta. Full color endpapers map of The Hyborian Age, colored specially for.....
The Complete Works of Doctor Francois Rabelais
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1933. Frank Pape. Limited edition. Hardcover. #201/4300, 499/730pp. 11/13 photogravure plates accompany this collection of ribald tales. (The word 'rabelaisian' has come to mean "marked by gross robust humor, extravagance of caricature, or bold naturalism".) Pape goes overboard on all fronts and adds close to.....
The Tiger in the Well
New York: Knopf, 1990. 1st edition US. Hardcover. 1st ptg. 8vo, brown cloth-backed boards, the conclusion of the Sally Lockhart trilogy, fine in fine, unclipped dj.
Castle in the Air
New York: Greenwillow, 1990. 1st edition US. Hardcover. 1st ptg., 8vo cloth-backed boards, a sequel to Howl's Moving Castle.Fine in fine, unclipped dj, no previous owner's marks.
The Stray
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979. Wyeth, Jamie. 1st ed. Hardcover. 1st ptg., square 8v0, full red cloth, illustrated with line drawings throughout by Jamie Wyeth, an anthropomorphic animal adventure. Black dot to bottom of page block else fine in near fine dj.
Batman - Bride of the Demon
New York: DC Comics, 1990. Grindberg, Tom. 1st ed. Hardcover. 1st ptg. 4to, illustrated boards. Very fine in fine plus, unclipped dj, no previous owner's marks.
Millions of Cats
New York: Coward-McCann, 1928. Ga'g, Wanda. 1st ed. Hardcover. 1st ptg. with the Jersey City Printing Co. notation to copyright page. Child's gift inscription in crayon to verso of front free endpaper dated 1929. neatly colored on the first two pages, short tear to bottom of title page at gutter.....
The Art of the Brothers Hildebrandt
New York: Ballantine, 1979. Hildebrandt, Greg and Tim. 1st. Hardcover. 1st , full maroon cloth, oblong 4to. A collection of their work through 1979. Fine in fine, unclipped dj, no previous owner's marks.
The Art of Maurice Sendak - 1980 to the Present
New York: Abrams, 2003. Sendak, Maurice. 1st ed. Hardcover. 1st ptg., square 4to, full black cloth, an update to the classic text, with text by Kushner, fine in very good, unclipped dj with sunned spine.
Elephant House or, the Home of Edward Gorey
San Francisco: Pomegranate, 2003. Gorey, Edward, photos. 1st. Hardcover. 1st ptg., oblong 8vo, full charcoal cloth, photos and text by McDermott, intro by John Updike, drawings by Gorey. Fine in fine, unclipped dj, no previous owner's marks.
Federico the Flying Squirrel
New York: Viking Press, 1951. Palazzo, Tony. 1st ed. Hardcover. 1st ptg., 4to picture book, tan cloth over illustrated paper-covered boards. Illustrated in brown and black throughout by the author with a cutout page to assemble your own flying squirrel intact. Light wear to tips and board edges, near fine.....
The Illustrated Winespeak
New York: Harper & Row, 1983. Searle, Ronald. 1st edition US. Hardcover. Stated First US ed. n8vo, pictorial glossy boards, Ronald Searle's wicked world of winetasting. Fine, no dj as issued, no previous owner's marks.
Disney Alice in Wonderland a Visual Companion
New York: Disney Editions, 2010. 1st ed. Hardcover. 1st ptg., oblong 4to, matte pictorial boards. Foreword by Tim Burton, a lavishly illustrated overview of the making of the movie, its special effects and behind the scenes images. Fine in fine, unclipped dj.
The Other Alice
Stockholm: R&S Books, 1993. Eriksson, Inga-Karin. 1st ed. Hardcover. stated 1st ed., translated from Swedish by Joan Sandin, beautifully illustrated in color by Inga-Karin Eriksson. Japanese advertisement for the English-language book laid in. Fine in fine, unclipped dj, no previous owner's marks.
A Year Is Round
New York: Harcourt Brace & World, 1966. Anglund, Joan Walsh. 1st ed. Hardcover. 1st ptg. Narrow 16mo, full pink cloth. A book of poems illustrated in color and line by the author. Fine in fine, unclipped dj.
Christmas Is a Time of Giving
London: Wm. Collins & Son, 1963. Anglund, Joan Walsh. Hardcover. 2nd ptg., full red cloth, illustratedin red, black and green by the author. Finein lifghtly rubbed, unclipped dj.