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New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1955. CHARMATZ. Cloth. CHARMATZ, illustrator. Small 4to; xiii [i], 322pp; quarter-bound in tan cloth over brown ribbed boards, lettering in brown on spine; color frontispiece; pictorial title page; color illustrations throughout; light fore edge staining first few pages; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, scuffing and..... More
No place listed: No publisher listed, No date [c. 1950s]. Ephemera no binding. [HOLIDAY] [CHRISTMAS CARD]. 6 ½” x 3 7/8”; [4]pp; embossed die-cut card in shape of a Teddy bear, red cloth ribbon at fold; gift inscription on verso front; b&w illustrations; a few rubs; near fine. An undated..... More
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1984. Maurice SENDAK. First Edition. Cloth. [HOLIDAY: CHRISTMAS]. SIGNED and INSCRIBED with a drawing on the half-title. First edition. Small 4to; xiv [iv], 102pp; grey cloth over board, blind stamped frame around the silver-stamped title on the front, silver stamped lettering on spine; color pictorial..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. First Edition. Cloth. [SIGNED]. First edition, second printing. 8vo oblong (9 3/8" x 11"); [28]pp; navy cloth over board, gilt-stamped lettering and leaf design on front; orange endpapers, author inscribed and signed on ffep "For all the Langs 1987" with a small drawing of a dog..... More
London: Hulton Press, 1953. Olive COOK. Boards. [SOUVENIR] [MOVABLE BOOK]. Olive COOK, illustrator. Small 8vo square (8” x 7 3/8”); 32pp including assembly directions; stiff color pictorial tri-fold wrappers that serve as part of the peep-show assemblage; gift inscription on inside rear wrapper; 13 leaves with illustration and/or assembly instructions;..... More
No date [c. 1905]. Wraps. [PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM]. Twenty-six untitled photos in a limp leather album, pyrography flowers, and the title “Photos” on the front. Photos measure 3 5/8” x 4 ¼” and are pasted to grey construction paper-style leaves. The scenery of frozen rivers and falls gives way to a...... More
![Item #1654 Happy Jack Squirrel's Thrift Club, W.S.S. [War-Savings Stamps]. Thornton W. BURGESS](/pictures/thumb/1654-1.jpg?v=1673716682)
[Massachusetts]: The Massachusetts War Savings Committee, 1918. Harrison CADY. Wraps. [WWI] [JUVENILE]. Harrison CADY, illustrator. Along with a Happy Jack’s Thrift Club, Pat. 1-13-17, printed lapel pin. Cover title: Happy Jack’s Thrift Club W.S.S. War-Savings Stamps 12mo (7 ½” x 5”); [22]pp; tan stiff wrapper, border and title on front..... More
Boston: Published for M.M.O.P. Co., 1879. Wraps. [OPERA]. [Murphy’s Miniature Opera Pinafore]. 12mo; 31pp; pale green wrapper, rear wrapper advertises M.M.O.P.; opera text; creasing to wrapper corners, close tear to upper left corner front wrapper, age-toning of paper; very good minus. Playbill for Murphy’s Miniature Opera Pinafore [M.M.O.P.], The Children’s..... More
[ADVERTISING PREMIUM] [JUVENILE] [RACIST STEREOTYPE ILLUSTRATIONS]. 8vo (9 5/8” x 7 5/8”); [16]pp; pale yellow wrapper, red border, title and decorative ornaments on front with a vignette of a sail boat on front, rear wrapper features illustrations and testimonials for Kingsford’s Starch; inner wrappers are product ads for Kingsford Starch..... More
Munich and New York: Obpacher Brothers Pubishers, No date [c.1900]. Wraps. [EPHEMERA] [GIFT BOOK]. 16mo (6 5/8” x 4 ¾”); [16]pp; cream-colored stiff wrappers, chromolithograph of a man bowling in the mountains on the front, small vignette of two owls at night on rear wrapper; publisher’s gold string binding; rounded..... More
[Portland, Maine]: No publisher noted, [1897]. Staplebound. [ADVERTISING PREMIUM] [COOKERY] [CALENDAR]. 6 ¼” x 2 15/16”; color printed recto only; calendar complete and stapled to front; unused, near fine. A calendar advertising premium for Glenwood Ranges, whose motto was “Make Cooking Easy.” The Weir Stove Co. of Taunton, Mass. made..... More
Berlin: W. Leipzigerstr. 25, [1902]. Boards. [ADVERTISING PREMIUM]. 64mo (3 1/8“ x 2“); pale blue boards, chromolithographed onlay of a woman holding a length of fabric; edges stained red; calendar to front pastedown; note pad with perforated left edge; pencil in sleeve on fore-edge; light scuffing to boards; very good..... More
East Aurora, N.Y. The Roycrofters, 1920. Half Bound Leather. [LANGUAGE]. 16mo (6 7/16” x 4 15/16”); 125 [1]pp; half-bound green leather over green board, cover lettering in black, publisher’s device in orange held by a stylized seahorse, gilt-stamped spine lettering, 4 blind-stamped faux-bands; copper-gilt upper edge, fore-edge and bottom untrimmed;..... More
Brattleboro, Vermont: The Stephen Greene Press, 1974. Boards. 8vo square (8 3/16” x 8 ¼”); [82]pp; white parchment-style boards, gilt-lettering on spine; blue endpapers; 20 color plates; blue presentation box with color onlay to top, sunning to titled edge, light crease to front bottom corner else fine, in a very..... More
New York: Windmill Books, 1971. George Kraus. First Printing. Boards. [GIFT BOOK] [ILLUSTRATED] [RELIGION]. First Printing. 32mo oblong (4 ¼: x 5 ¼”); [28]pp; lime green textured boards, lettering in black on front and spine; gift inscription in red ink on ffep; color vignette on title page; 12 full page..... More
New York: Hurd and Houghton, and Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1871. Paul Konewka. 8vo; 20pp; tan boards, border, lettering and silhouette vignette in black on front, maroon cloth shelf back; pale yellow end papers, calligraphic and illustrated gift inscription on ffep, banner with name and roses; silhouette vignette of a beggar..... More
Chicago: Rubank, Inc., 1947. Wraps. [EPHEMERA] [HOLIDAY: CHRISTMAS]. 8vo (8 ¾” x 5 ¾”); 80pp; stiff color pictorial wrapper, title on front and rear wrapper; 3 staple binding; ownership in neat ink on title page; songs and musical scores printed in green; light shelf wear, two creases on rear wrapper..... More
New York: The Platt & Munk Co., Inc., 1955. Boards. [ACTIVITY BOOK]. 12mo square; [86]pp; textured orange boards, black stamped boy and girl under a puzzle tree, black lettering on spine; pictorial title page; numbered puzzles, solutions in rear; unused; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, publisher’s ad on rear, some..... More
New York: Random House, 1971, February. Alicia Bay Laurel. First edition thus. Wraps. [LIFE STYLE]. First edition thus. 4to; 173pp + [16]index and appendix, + [1] “magical books” + [2] constellation illustration + [2] moon; stiff tan pictorial wrapper; owner’s bookplate on verso front wrapper; pictorial title page; line drawing..... More
New York: Crown Publishers Inc., 1984. Maurice SENDAK. Limited Edition. Cloth. [HOLIDAY: CHRISTMAS]. Maurice SENDAK, illustrator. SIGNED and numbered LIMITED EDITION 197/250 copies. First edition. Small 4to; xiv [iv], 102pp; grey cloth over board, blind stamped frame around the silver-stamped title on the front, silver stamped lettering on spine; color..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1944, September. Robert LAWSON. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 8vo; 127, [1]pp; printed pale green cloth over board, vignette of a rabbit on a background pattern of lilies and leaves in dark green both front and rear, lettering on spine; pictorial endpapers; fp and pictorial..... More
[New York]: Harper & Roy Publishers, 1963. Hilary KNIGHT. Cloth. [HOLIDAY: CHISTMAS]. 48mo (3 11/16” x 2 9/16”); 4 small books with dust jackets; pink buckram over board, lettering in black on spine, vignette of a candy cane with holly to the front; color illustration in red & green throughout..... More
[Boston]: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1937. Marjorie FLACK. [WOMAN AUTHOR / ILLUSTRATOR]. 12mo oblong (7 1/8” x 10 1/8’); [46]pp; bright green cloth over board, black-stamped lettering and vignette of a flying bird on front; color pictorial endpapers of birds in trees; price tag from “Marston’s San..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. Paul BROWN. Cloth. EDITORIAL COPY. 8vo; 170pp; blue glazed buckram over board; gilt-stamped lettering on front and spine; owner’s bookplate on front pastedown; 39 full page b&w illustrations; unclipped green pictorial dust jacket, “Editorial Copy” slip laid onto rear panel, light age toning of..... More
Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Publishers, 1939. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 8vo; 315pp; green glazed cloth, lettering and decoration silver gilt; pale green endpapers, bookseller ticket on ffep; b&w vignette on half-title; top edge stained yellow, untrimmed fore-edge; small b&w illustrations in text; unclipped color pictorial dust..... More