London: Macmillan & Co., 1892. Half Bound Leather. [EXPLORATION] [NON-FICTION]. Maps: Stanford’s Geography Established. A Sketch Map of Mr. Warburton Pike’s Journeys to the Barren Ground of Northern Canada, London: Macmillan & Co., 10 ½” x 8 ½” paper, 9 ½” x 6 7/16” within the neat line; green coloring;..... More
London: Methuen & Co., Ltd, 36 Essex Street, 1928. Ernest H. SHEPARD. Cloth. Ernest H. SHEPARD, illustrator. First edition. 12mo; 178pp; pink cloth over board, gilt-stamped boy in a raincoat and hat and Pooh with Piglet, gilt lettering on spine; black silhouettes on peach endpapers; fp and 6 full-page b&w..... More
New York: James G. Gregory, 540 Broadway, 1864. Cloth. [VICTORIANA]. C.A. Alvord, Stereotyped & Printer, New York. 12mo (7 1/8” x 5 ¼”); 95pp + [1] publisher’s ads; green cloth over board, blind stamped borders and floral design, gilt-stamped title and vignette of a girl and dog on front; peach-colored..... More
Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1944. Boards. [HOLIDAY] [WOMAN AUTHOR and ILLUSTRATOR]. First edition. 16mo (6 5/8” x 5 1/8”); [39]pp; peach colored decorated boards, portrait vignette of a woman and child on front, black lettering; color pictorial endpapers; vignette of a turkey on title page; decorative letters and small vignette..... More
Boston: Published by Charles Fox, 1847. Cloth. [WOMAN AUTHOR] [STIMATIZING LANGUAGE]. Stereotyped at the Boston Type and Stereotype Foundry. Spine title: Stories for the Young. 16mo; 131pp + [1]pp William Ulman Book Binder advertisement; glaze ribbed brown cloth over board, blind stamped panel inset with vining corner ornaments and “Ulman..... More
Philadelphia: E.H. Butler & Co., 1865. S. Augustus MITCHELL. [ATLAS]. First edition. 4to; [45]plates of maps + 7pp of geographical tables following; half-bound leather with gilt-stamped brown cloth over board, 5 banded spine, gilt-stamped title; marbled endpapers and edges; 56 hand-colored maps; rubbing of boards and some flaking of leather..... More
Tours: Maison Alfred Mame & Fils, No date [c. 1919]. "JOB" Jacques Marie Gaston Onfroy de Breville. Boards. [ABECEDARIAN]. First edition. 4to (11 ¾” x 9 7/8” ); 54pp; color pictorial boards, red cloth shelf back, letters ABC with animals, 2 children and a fairy on the front, anthropomorphic animals parading..... More
New York: Hurd and Houghton. F.O.C. DARLEY. Leather bound. [HOLIDAY] [ILLUSTRATED]. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1868. F.O.C. DARLEY, illustrator. 8vo;[i-v], vi, [iv], [1] 2-198pp; triple gilt-rules on brown morocco, gilt-stamped decorative cartouche featuring a collection of holiday symbolism front and rear; 5 raised spine bands, gilt-ruled compartments and gilt-stamped lettering on..... More
New York: The Platt & Munk Co., Inc., Publishers, 1930. Lois L. LENSKI. Cloth. Lois L. LENSKI, illustrator. Second issue. 8vo; [22]pp; red cloth over board, color pictorial onlay featuring a train on a track and black lettering; “Never Grow Old Series” list before half-title includes nine titles ending with..... More
London and New York: Ernest Nister and E.P. Dutton, No date [c. 1908]. Boards. [MOVABLE BOOK] [JUVENILE] [HOLIDAYS] [RHYMING VERSE] [WOMAN AUTHOR]. London: Ernest Nister and New York: E. P. Dutton, No date [c. 1908]. Printed in Bavaria. Cover title: Up and Down. A Book of Changing Pictures. 8vo (8..... More
London, New York & Bombay: Longmans, Green and Co., 1901. Florence K. UPTON. Boards. [STIGMATIZING ILLUSTRATIONS] [RHYMING VERSE] [WOMAN AUTHOR] [WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR]. 8vo oblong (8 5/8” x 11”); 66pp; color pictorial boards, a Golliwog and two Dutch dolls in a go-cart on front; quarter-bound green cloth; color patterned endpapers with..... More
New York and London: E.P. Dutton & Co. and Griffith and Farran, 1882. Louise CLARKSON. Boards. [POETRY] [WOMAN AUTHOR and ILLUSTRATOR]. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 39, West Twenty-Third Street and London: Griffith and Farran, Corner of St. Paul’s Churchyard. Louise CLARKSON, illustrator. Small 4to; [30] leaves printed recto..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. Nancy Ekholm BURKERT. Cloth. [WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR]. Nancy Ekholm BURKERT, illustrator. First edition, Second state. SBN 394-81282-4 on rear dust jacket panel, "The Book Press" imprint on colophon page. 4to; 118, [2]pp; red cloth over board, blind-stamped wreath around a portrait of a boy on..... More
New York: McLoughlin Bros. 1899. Wraps. [ABECEDARIAN] [RHYMING VERSE]. 4to (10 ½” x 8 3/8”); [12]pp; glazed stiff wrapper; chromolithograph of a boy in a sailor suit holding a U.S. flag on the front, three children dressed in red, white, and blue with a U.S. flag on the rear; color..... More
London: Frederick Warne & Co., No date [c. 1866]. Wraps. [ILLUSTATED] [WOMAN AUTHOR]. Kronheim & Co., London, printer. Small 4to (10 3/8” x 9 1/8”); [12] leaves printed one side only; stiff glazed pink wrapper, brightly colored decorative border surrounding lettering on front, rear wrapper is publisher’s advertisement for “Warne’s..... More
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1931. Arthur RACKHAM. Leather bound. [SPORT: FISHING]. Arthur RACKHAM, illustrator. First trade edition of Rackham. 4to (9 ¾” x 7 ½”); 223 [1]pp; paneled green calf over board, double gilt fillets on front and rear; gilt ornaments to spine, gilt lettering on 2..... More
London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1943. Tasha TUDOR. Cloth. [WOMAN AUTHOR and ILLUSTRATOR]. Tasha TUDOR, illustrator. Hilda SCOTT, calligraphy. First edition. 16mo square (6 5/8” x 6 1/8”); [26]pp; pale gray cloth over board, pastedown label on front board with blue lettering and witch hazel branches; animal vignettes..... More
Brooklyn, New York: The Bardkan System Street Directory Co., Inc., 1933. Wraps. [TRAVEL] [MAP]. 16mo (6 ¼” x 3 ¼”); 160pp; orange stiff wrapper, lettering in black, vignette of a man walking a city on the front; 2 staple binding; folded map in rear; light creasing to wrapper rear corners;..... More
No place listed [France]: No publisher listed, No date [c. 1850]. Boards. [EPHEMERA] [FASHION]. 12mo; reinforced red cloth shelf-back; blind stamped red-pebbled board; gilt-stamped ornamental frame around the title; partial bookseller’s ticket to front; navy and gilt bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown; 25 leporello panels; hand-colored aquatint illustrations with gum..... More
Finland: 1940. Ephemera no binding. [ORIGINAL CARTOON POSTCARDS]. Signed, 1940. Eight original pen and ink unused postcards picturing Finnish military personnel. Drawn during the Winter War, also known as the First Soviet-Finnish War, due to the invasion of Finland by the Soviets on November 30, 1939. The cards are signed..... More
Vichy, France: Société des Cartes Folkloriques de France, No date [c. 1950s]. R. MARGOTTON. Wraps. [FRENCH LANGUAGE] [POSTCARDS] [FASHION / TRADITIONAL DRESS]. R. MARGOTTON, illustrator. 6 1/8” x 4 1/8” ; 84 cards, numbered; half-bound tweed cloth folder with ties, marbled paper over board, color paper label to front folder; 3..... More
[Buffalo, N.Y.]: The Holiday Publication Company, 1906. Francis BRUNDAGE and Evelyn LANCE. Boards. [HOLIDAY: CHRISTMAS] [ANTHOLOGY]. Two of The Holiday Publication Company’s [Buffalo, N.Y.] Holiday Series books. These "gift-books" would have delighted the children to whom they were presented. Frances Brundage was a well-known illustrator in the late 19th and..... More
New York: Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Company, 1913. Wraps. [PICTURE BOOK]. First edition. 4to; [14]pp; glazed stiff color printed wrapper, “Linenette”, train and railway worker on the front, train on a turn-table on rear wrapper; stiff color illustrated glazed paper; chipping and scuffing of wrapper edges, bumping to corners with..... More
Paris: No date [c. 1850-60s]. Wraps. [FRENCH LANGUAGE] [FASHION]. Folio; 38 hand-colored engraved plates, signed by the artist and engraver, folded once horizontally as issued, 3 double page black and white engraved plates; black and white marbled stiff wrappers with green tape spine; tissue guard to front, lacking after last..... More
New York: Spertus Publishing Company, Inc., 1963. Wraps. [JUVENILE] [PAPER DOLLS] [ADVERTISING] [TRAVEL]. Cover title: Singer World’s Fair Dress-Up Book, A Paper Doll Book. The Official 1964-1954 New York World’s Fair Paper-Doll Book 4to (13 7/8” x 10”); [7] leaves printed one-side only; stiff glazed yellow pictorial wrapper, color illustrations..... More