London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1876. George Cruikshank. New Edition. Hardcover. 6 5/8" X 4 1/4". xii, 252pp. Green cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Heavy edgewear and scattered rubbing to binding, with corners bumped and rubbed to boards. Head and tail of spine worn down, no losses..... More
Somerville, Massachusetts: Candlewick Press, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. 10 5/8" X 7". 127pp, plus postscript, author's note, and illustrator's note. Signed by M. T. Anderson at title page. "Signed by the Author" label to front panel of dust jacket. Mild edgewear to unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Black cloth over boards..... More
New York: Walker and Company, 1975. Second Printing. Paperback. 8 7/8" X 5 1/2". 96pp. Moderate wear to pictorial wraps, with spots of scuffing and light soiling and mild edgewear. Binding is firm, tight, and sound. Humorous gift inscription to front pastedown. Pages are unmarked. A very nicely preserved 1975..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1921. Hardcover. 8 1/4" X 5 1/2". 276pp. Ex-First Church Sabbath School Library of New Britain, with label to front pastedown and card and envelope to rear free endpaper. Green cloth over boards, with upper board lettered in gilt. Spine sunned and gilt rubbed..... More
London: Privately Printed, circa 1920. Leather bound. 8 1/4" X 5 3/4". viii, 468pp. This privately printed edition is undated, published circa 1920. Halfbound in crimson morocco, lined in gilt, with red linen over boards. Spine lettered in gilt with floral gilt compartment and gilt fleur-de-lis. Toning to endpapers. Binding..... More
New York: Greenberg, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/8". 140pp. Lacking dust jacket. Purple cloth over boards with Bernstein illustration stamped in yellow to upper board and spine lettered in yellow. Rather heavy wear to binding, with corners bumped and rubbed to boards, fraying and small tears..... More
New York: Newmarket Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed to previous owner by Harry Blackstone, Jr. to front free endpaper. Stated first edition, with full number line indicating first printing. 11" X 8 3/8". viii, [ii], 230pp. Moderate wear to pictorial dust jacket, with small tears to edges..... More
Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1937. Hardcover. 6 3/4" X 5 3/8". 64pp. Pictorial paper over boards. Mild wear to binding, with hard bumping to extremities, mild dust soiling, and faint pencilled marks to rear. Binding is firm, sound, and tight. Tear to top corners of leaf containing pages 15..... More
London: The Folio Society, 2012. Hardcover. 9" X 6 1/2". xlvii, 255pp. Mild shelf wear to slip case with bump to one corner. Covers, corners, and edges of decorative green cloth over boards in near fine condition. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is tight and sound. A highly presentable..... More
London: The Folio Society, 2007. Eleventh Printing. Hardcover. 9" X 5 3/4". 421pp. Patterned paper over boards, featuring a design by Simon Brett, with spine backed in dark blue cloth and lettered in gilt. Mild shelfwear to binding and slight lean to spine. Mild shelfwear to publisher's matching blue paper..... More
New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 1/4" X 7 1/4". Unpaginated. Signed by Mahogany L. Browne at dedication page. A touch of shelfwear to dust jacket and binding, else fine. A very nice signed first printing of Mahogany L. Browne's powerful poem, with striking artwork by..... More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 3/4" X 5 1/4". vi, [ii], 367pp, plus two leaves of ads. First printing, February 1910. Publisher's binding designed by Rome K. Richardson. Blue cloth over boards, with upper board and spine stamepd in gilt and burgundy. Moderate wear to..... More
Chicago: The John C. Winston Company, 1933. Hardcover. This lovely 1933 edition of John Bunyan's timeless allegory of the Christian journey is illustrated in over fifty illustrations including four full-color plates by Frederick Barnard. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". xii, 338pp. Bound in full blue cloth with large full-color pictorial label..... More
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Utica, New York: Foster Bros. MFG. Co., 1913. Hardcover. 10" X 7 7/8". Unpaginated, 28 leaves, printed rectos only. Enclosed in original box as issued. Baby blue cloth over boards, with pictorial title label to upper board. Mild wear to binding, with a touch of light soiling and shelfwear to..... More
Ottawa, Ohio: Marguerite Calvin, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 232pp. Inscribed as "David" by illustrator to front free endpaper, with woodcut self-portrait. Stain to front panel of dust jacket, with open tear to bottom corner of front panel and small closed tear to bottom edge, along..... More
London: The Folio Society, 2013. Hardcover. 9" X 5 7/8". xviii, 107pp. Dark gray cloth over boards, featuring Holly Golightly reclining against the New York City skyline stamped in blue and silver to upper boards and spine lettered in kind. Light scuffing to silvery gray paper-bound publisher's slipcase. Binding is..... More
London: Macmillan & Co., 1872. Twenty-Sixth Thousand. Leather bound. This stunning 1872 printing of Lewis Carroll's classic companion to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is here finely bound by the world-class Riviere & Son Bindery in full red morocco, with original cloth covers included at rear. Illustrated in tissue-guarded frontispiece and..... More
Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, 1883. Hardcover. This charming introduction to astronomy through fact and fantasy was published in 1883 and is a stunning sidereal exploration from cover to cover. Employing classical myth, fantastical allegories, and imaginative journeys through the heavens, In the Sky-Garden follows its young heroine Joy as..... More
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1979. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6". 274pp. Red faux-leather cloth over boards with decorative gilt to spine and front and rear covers. Light rubbing to covers and edges. All edge gilt to edges of text block. Bookplate laid in. Pages bright, clean, and unmarked..... More
Norwalk: The Easton Press, 1977. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 7". xxii, 152pp. Bound in genuine leather, with spine and covers stamped in gilt. Raised bands to spine. Very mild shelfwear to covers and edges. All edge gilt. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. Unused Easton Press bookplate..... More
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Norwalk: The Easton Press, 1977. Leather_bound. Part of the "100 Greatest Books Ever Written" Collector's Edition. 9 1/2" X 7". xxii152pp. Bound in decorative genuine leather. Spots of white paint to bottom edges of covers. All edge gilt. Very light dust spotting to vertical side of text block. Rose-colored silk..... More
London: Bickers and Son, 1880. Hardcover. This creative imagining of the girlhoods of fifteen Shakespearean heroines is the work of Mary Cowden Clarke (1809–1898), author of The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare and Shakespeare Proverbs, among others, and friend to Charles Dickens, Leigh Hunt, and Charles and Mary Lamb. In setting..... More
New York: Bramhall House, 1965. Hardcover. 11" X8 1/4". 200pp. Scattered rubbing and toning to covers of unclipped dust jacket. Creasing and chipping to edges of dust jacket. Blue cloth over boards with spine and front cover stamped in black. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS..... More
Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company, 1896. Hardcover. "Nearly all children are poetic. They live near to the heart of things in the early spring-tide of life when 'birds and buds and they are happy peers...'" That belief lies at the heart of Frances Bell Coursen's fantastical introduction to poetry for children..... More
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Seattle: The Miracle Factory, 2002. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Edition limited to 100, this being number 25 and signed by Stuart Cramer, Todd Karr, and Katlyn Breene to hand-lettered limited edition statement featuring a hand-painted rose by Isabelle and Daniel Hug, pasted in to front free endpaper. Laid in is..... More
