The "Pop-Up" Mother Goose
Bedford, MA: Applewood Books, 1994. Hardcover. A handsome reproduction from the original with 3 pop-ups. As new.
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Aesop's Fables Told to the Children
London: T.E.C. Jack, n.d. Praeger,S.R. Hardcover. 16mo, full blue cloth with gilt art nouveau titling and color cover plate and 24pp of color plates, two pictures per plate. Lightly cocked, mild edgewear, near fine.
Art of the Hunchback of Notre Dame
New York: Hyperion, 1996. 1st ed. Hardcover. 1st ptg., folio, full purple cloth, fine in fine, uncliped dj, no prebious owner's marks.
Bill et Bob en voyage de vances a travers la Suisse/Bill and Bob Spend a Holiday in Switzerland
Papyria, n.d. Softcover. Olng 8vo pop-up, stiff cards, a bilingual (French and English) edition with 8 colorful pop-up spreads of two little boys in 50-s era clothing as they explore Zurich, the Matterhorn and other points of interest. All pop-ups in excellent working condition, covers lightly foxes and card edges.....
Carl Larsson
Stockholm: Nationalmuseum, 1992. Larsson, Carl. Hardcover. 4to, pixtorial hardcover, some 350pp of the artist's painting and drawings with text in Swedish. Very good, no previous owner's marks.
The Complete Works of Doctor Francois Rabelais
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1933. Frank Pape. reprint. Hardcover. dj of vol 1 has several closed tears. Both volumes have foxing to page edges and both are heavily foxed on first few interior pages. Unopened. 499/730pp. 11/13 photogravure plates accompany this collection of ribald tales. (The word 'rabelaisian'.....
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.....
Dracula A Symphony in Moonlight & Nightmares (deluxe)
New York: NBM, 1992. Muth, Jon J. Limited edition. Hardcover. #665 of 750 signed and numbered copies, small folio, full red leatherette, signed by Jon J Muth on the limitation page with color paintings on every spread and selected text from the novel. Fine in fine, unclipped dj, no previous.....
The Ewoks Save the Day
New York: Random House, 1983. Woodend, JamesCarroll, Kay. 1st. Hardcover. 1st ptg., 12mo pop-up book, pictorial boards with 6 pop-up spreads byJames Woodend. Fine, no previousowner's marks.
The Fantastic Fairy Tale Pop-up Book
New York: Random House, 1992. 1st ed. 1st ptg. Narrow 4to pop-up, including Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel, and Little Red Riding Hood and accompanying miniature storybooks for each pop-up display. AS new.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone pop-up
New York: Scholastic, 2001. 1st ed. Hardcover. 1st ptg., small 4to, illustrated boards, with six pop-up scenes from the first book, full color illustrations by Jill Daniels. Fine in original shrinkwrap.
J. Segrelles y Su Casa Museo
Valencia: Casa Museo Jose Segrelles, 2003. Segrelles, Jose. Softcover. 4to softcover, a collection of the artist's work, text in Spanish. Fine wraps.
Jose Segrelles Albert 1885-1969
Valencia: Excm. Ayntamiento de Albaida, 1985. Segrelles, Jose. 1st ed. Hardcover. 4to, full navy cloth, issued on the artist's centenary, 188 pp of Spanish text and lavish color images of his paintings. Fine in near fine dj with slip cutr from original belly band listing the contributors laid in.
Michael Parkes (signed catalog)
The Netherlands: Steltmen Editions, 1986. 2nd ed. Softcover. Inscribed by Parks "To Jim and Karen, Best Wishes, M. Parkes" on the title page. Jim being Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. the well-known comics and art expert, and my former partner in Bud Plant Illustrated Books. This was acquired and signed at an.....
Narnia Chronology from the Archives of the Last King
New York: HarperCollins, 2008. 1st ed. Hardcover. 1st ptg., square 4to, paper covered illustrated boards, lift the flap spreads for each of the seven books in the series in chronological order, with other moving parts and many of Pauline Bayne's illustration now in color. Fine, no dj as issued.
Our Darling's Book of Dolls
New York: Hurst & Co., 1912. Edition not noted. Hardcover. Small 4to, gray boards with oval color plate onlaid. Stories, poems and patterns for doll clothes and doll houses furniture, with three chromolithographic plates and numerous black and white drawings and plates. Bottom corners bumped, light wear to head and.....
The Pop-Up Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Bedford: Applewood, 1993. 1st ed. Square 8vo boards, in shrinkwrap.
Quarto-Millenary - 250 Publications of the Limited Editions Club 1929-1954
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1959. Limited edition. Hardcover. #1199 of 2,250. 4to, 1/4 black leather over red beveled cloth with black leather inset cover medallion. the first 250 volumes of the Limited Editions Club are described with numerous examples of the handsomely designed title pages, txt pages, text pages.....
Sleeping Beauty
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1949. Sauvage, Sylvain. Limited edition. Hardcover. #1925 of 2500, part of a 3 volume boxed set of the Evergreen stories illustrated by a variety of LEC artists, this one by Sylvain Sauvage. There were 5 boxed sets in all. Fine, no previous owner's marks, issued.....
The Star Wars Album Official Collector's Edition
New York: Ballantine Books, 1977. 1st ed. Softcover. 1st ptg., 4to softcover, "The esclusive, behind-the-scenes story of the making of Star Wars..." Over 100 photos, special effects secrets, and interviews with Lucas, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill. Hint of wear to top edge else fine without pevious owner's.....
The Star Wars Storybook
New York: Random House, 1978. 1st ed. Hardcover. 1st ptg. 4to pictorial boards, story adapted by Geraldine Richelson, illustrated with full color photographs from the first Star Wars movie, before it was retitled A New Hope. Faint scuff marks visible in certain lights, else fine, no dj or previous owner's.....
Szyk Haggadah
New York: Abrams, 2011. Szyk, Arthur. 1st ed. Hardcover. 1st ptg., folio, picotiral paper covered boards, richly illustrated in color throughout by Arthur Szyk, as new in fine, unclipped dj.
Walt Disney's Sketchbook of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Old Saybrook: Applewood, 1993. 1st edition thus. 1st ptg., large 4to, full white cloth with black titling, fine in fine, unclipped dj, no previous owner's marks.
Ji-Nongo-Nongo Means Riddles
New York: Four Winds Press, 1978. Pinkney, Jerry. 1st ed. Hardcover. 1st ptg. tall 8vo picture book, full brown cloth stamped in copper. A collection of 40 traditional riddles from eleven of the great tribes of Africa, illustrated in sepia tones by Jerry Pinkney. A fine, bright copy in fine.....
Rabbit Makes a Monkey of Lion
New York: Dial, 1989. Pinkney, Jerry. 1st ed. Hardcover. 1st ptg., 4to picture book, glossy pictorial boards, illustrated in rich color throughout by Jerry Pinkney. Fine in fine, unclipped dj, no previous owner's marks.