Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1966. Tasha TUDOR. Boards. Later printing (3rd printing), c. 1968. 8vo oblong; 157 [2]pp; red cloth over board decorated with design of a fir tree and branch border, front and rear; title, author and publisher gilt stamped on spine; yellow endpapers, bird..... More
[Rockland, Maine]: Red Barn Publishing, 2009. 2nd Printing. Boards. Second printing. 8vo oblong; 255pp; black and white photographic illustration laid on green cloth over board, gilt title; b&w photographic illustrations throughout text; lacking dust jacket; near fine. First published by the author in 1992, this second printing is through her..... More
New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1961. Maurice SENDAK. Boards. Later printing, after the merger of Harper Bros. with Row, Peterson & Co. in 1962. 8vo; 64pp; color pictorial boards; plain orange rear board without listing of publisher’s books; color pictorial half-title and title page; color illustrations in green and..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Inc., 1933. Boards. 8vo; [26]pp; glazed pictorial boards on a yellow background, blue back-strip; peach colored pictorial endpapers; ownership in neat pencil on ffep; color illustrated vignette to title page; illustration in black and peach on every page with text; head and tail of spine..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1965. Maurice SENDAK. First Edition. Boards. First edition. 12mo; 179 [1]pp; floral design stamped on front in silver to blue buckram over board, title on spine; cream endpapers; vignette to title page; 7 full-page illustrations; tail-piece to each chapter; light sunning to board edges; unclipped pictorial..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1945. James THURBER and Don FREEMAN. First Edition. Boards. A Wartime Book. First edition. 8vo; 115pp; white-stamped title and author name on green cloth over board; b&w illustrations in text; 4 color illustrated plates by Don Freeman inserted; age-toning of endpapers; color pictorial dust..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1980. Edward Gorey. First Edition. Boards. First edition thus, “Reissued 1980, First Printing.” 8vo square; [64pp]; b&w decoration on fuschia paper over board; b&w illustrations with text, printed recto only; bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown; light shelf-scuffing to edges; clipped illustrated dust jacket, light..... More
New Haven: S. Babcock, No date. Wraps. 48mo (3 11/16” x 2 ¼”); 16pp; stiff yellow wrapper, decorative borders and pictorial vignette titled “Lazarus raised to life.” on front, publisher’s ad for Toy Books on rear; pictorial vignette titled “The crucifixion of Christ.” on title page; 7 wood engraved illustrations;..... More
Glasgow: Printed for the Booksellers, 1851. String-tied Cloth over Board. 16mo (6 1/8” x 3 7/8”); 24pp; pictorial vignette of a young woman with a basket crossing over water to front wrapper, rear wrapper p24 of text; string binding lacking, light creasing of untrimmed fore-edge, light age toning of edges;..... More
Concord, N.H. Rufus Merrill, Opposite Gass’ American House, 1847. Wraps. 16mo (6 7/8” x 5 1/8”); 24pp; stiff pale green wrapper, front printed with title in a vignette picturing a girl reading a book, a boy with a hoop, and a globe; publisher’s ad for “School, Classical, and Miscellaneous Books”..... More
Concord, N.H. Rufus Merrill, Low’s Brick Block—up stairs. 1843. String-tied Cloth over Board. 12mo (7 ¼” x 4 ½”); 24pp; stiff yellow wrapper, front printed with decorative borders and a vignette of a teacher in a schoolroom with children, rear wrapper pictures a Bird of Paradise within a double decorative..... More
New Haven: Printed and Published by S. Babcock, No date [c. 1840]. String-tied Cloth over Board. 24mo (5 ¾” x 3 ¾”); 24pp; blue wrapper illustrated with small vignettes of children involved in various games of play and sports, rear wrapper lists publisher’s “New And Beautiful Toy and Juvenile Books;”..... More
Glasgow: Printed for the Booksellers, No date [c. 1840]. String-tied Cloth over Board. 16mo (6” x 3 7/8”); 24pp; front wrapper imprinted with a decorative border and small vignette of a girl holding a birdcage high above a sitting cat, rear wrapper is pp24; lacking publisher’s string binding, 3” split..... More
London: Frederick Warne and Co., No date [c.1860s]. String-tied Cloth over Board. 8vo; [6] leaves; stiff lavender pictorial wrapper printed in blue and red, a horse with harness reins featured on the front; the rear wrapper contains publisher’s ads for Warne’s Nursery Literature; string binding; 8 color plates with titles..... More
New York: McLoughlin Bros. & Co, Publishers, No date [c. 1881]. String-tied Cloth over Board. 12mo; 8pp; yellow pictorial wrapper printed in red, green, and black; publisher’s ads for “Beautiful Picture Books for the Young” including “Half Hours with the Bible, Mrs. Hale’s Library. And Pleasure Books.” on rear wrapper;..... More
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, No. 146 Chestnut Street, 1839. Cloth. 32mo (4 ½” x 3 ¼”); 64pp; brown ribbed cloth over board, blind stamped borders and ornaments, gilt stamped cherub with a titled banner, decorated front and rear; tan endpapers; ink ownership with inscription on front flyleaf dated 1841; engraved..... More
New York: Fred Rullman, Inc., No date [c. 19--]. Wraps. 8vo; 37pp + [3]pp musical score; stiff grey pictorial wrapper; 2 staple binding; rear wrapper advertisement for Knabe pianos with pictorial portraits of opera artists; musical score follows text; light age-toning of wrapper; very good. English translation and text of..... More
New York: Fred Rullman, Inc., No date [c. 19--]. Wraps. 8vo; 40pp; stiff grey pictorial wrapper; 2 staple binding; rear wrapper advertisement for Knabe pianos with pictorial portraits of opera artists; pp. 37-40 musical score; age-toning of wrapper; very good. English translation and text of the opera Tristan und Isolde..... More
New York: Fred. Rullman, Inc., No date [c. 19--]. Wraps. 8vo; [17]pp + 6pp musical score; stiff grey pictorial wrapper; one staple binding; rear wrapper advertisement for Knabe pianos with pictorial portraits of opera artists; musical score follows text; light age-toning of wrapper, one leaf with creases from printer; very..... More
New York: Fred Rullman, Inc., No date [c. 19--]. Wraps. 8vo; 45pp + [3]pp musical score for Cavatina of Elsa and Preghiera; stiff grey pictorial wrapper; 2 staple binding; rear wrapper advertisement for Knabe pianos with pictorial portraits of opera artists; musical score for Chorus on second page; light age-toning..... More
New York: Fred Rullman, Inc., No date [c. 19--]. Wraps. 8vo; 59pp; stiff grey pictorial wrapper; 2 staple binding; price tag reading “Price 50 cents” affixed to front wrapper; rear wrapper advertisement for Knabe pianos with pictorial portraits of opera artists; age-toning of wrapper; very good. English translation and text..... More
New York: Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., 1912. Wraps. 8vo; 134 [3]pp + [1] publisher’s ads; stiff grey pictorial wrapper; rear wrapper advertisement for Knabe pianos with pictorial portraits of opera artists; light glue burns to spine and front wrapper, light chipping of head and tail of spine; very good plus..... More
New York: G. Ricordi & Co., 12 West 45th Street, 1907. wraps. 8vo; 64pp; stiff grey pictorial wrapper; 2 staple binding; rear wrapper advertisement for Knabe pianos with pictorial portraits of opera artists; light age-toning; near fine. English translation and text of the opera Madama Butterfly. More
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode Limited, 1927. Cecil Alden. First Edition. cloth. First edition. 4to; vii [iii] 116 [1]pp followed by the printer’s device on recto; gilt stamped light brown cloth over board with a dog portrait laid-in a frame, spine gilt stamped; tan endpapers; bookplate to front pastedown; 2 inserted..... More
New York: The Aldine Book Company, 1903. First Edition. cloth. First edition, 1903, July. 8vo; xv, 369pp; gilt-stamped title and vignettes on red cloth over board; b&w photographic illustrations and portraits; light shelf wear to boards; very good. A volume written in praise of the steel business, its history and..... More