NY: George Rutlledge, 1878. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Squarish, cloth-backed illustrated paper boards, decorated and illustrated by Crane in great detail and color, 56 pages. Undated, no other edition statement, hence 1878, first edition. A very well used copy, covers soiled, edges heavily worn and string-tied binding loosening, so sold as-is..... More
NY: Doubleday Doran, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Uncommon title from the author of The Velventeen Rabbit in uncommon pictorial dustjacket by artist Ludovic Rodo who illustrtaed the book. Yellow and sivewr patterned covers, balck cloth spine - near fine, no names inscriptions or bookplates. In dustjacket moderately soiled, mostly at..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fourth printing (1929) of the illustrated edition, first published 1922. Near fine cot, brown titles stamped on light brown covers, lacking dustjacket. Very early, one of the first books, illustrated by the Petershams, whose career as a couple started in the..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Solid copy in soiled dustjacket with browned spine missing an inch at top of spine. Laid-in is ANS by Mary R Walsh, of Houghton Mifflin, apparently an editor there, to author and bibliofile Anne Haight, who founded the Junior Book League, promoting the..... More
NY: Viking, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in better than very good dustjacket. A collectible copy. More
NY: Frederick A Stokes. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. nd, circa 1930. Blue cloth with pictorial pastedown in dustjacket with same pastedown. Dustjacket soiled and with some loss at edge, corners and ends. Internals quite nice. A solid copy. More
NY: Farrar & Rinehart, 1934. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Memoir of American man-of-letters Canby whererin he describes growing up in the All-American way of life in Wilmington DE in the 1890s. Inscribed by him on the ffe to author and bibiophile Anne Lyon Haight. Laid-in is an inscribed card a b&w..... More
NY: E. P. Dutton, 1941. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Scarce first book of six children's books by Clara Deane Marshall (1901-1994). A native of Louisville, Ky., she spent most of her adult life in Granby CT where she was the children's librarian at the town's library. She was a graduate of..... More
NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1935. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Solid book - no names, inscriptions or bookplates - in worn dustjacket missing bottom third of spine. Internals near fine. AVIATION. More
NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1894. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Two volume set, cream cloth with elaborate pictorial stamped in blue and gilt, gte, beveled edges, ribbon markers, decorated endnpaers. Cloth covers spotted a bock and the spine and rear panel with a modest stain, not affecting texts, which remain..... More
NY: The Hroswitha Club, 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Authored by well-known biblophile and one of the founding members of the Hroswitha Club, dedicated to the study of women in the book arts. Unused copy, as new. Red cloth, issued without dustjacket. More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1932. Hardcover. Scarce juvenile title retelling tale of David and Esther. Orange cloth stamped in black in pictorial dustjacket chipped about edges, spine browned. Review copy, with slip laid-in. More
NY: Coward-McCann, 1955. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. White colonist Pilgrim kids overcome fear of native Americans. (As Hammerstein wrote in South Pacific, "you've got to be carefully taught".) Near fine in nicely preserved dustjacket. More
NY: Robert M McBride & Company, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Two titles by the same authors on aviation for the juvenile reader. In uncommon dustjackets. GROW UP (1930, first edition) dustjacket is printed in stark red, white and black, rendering a primitive but bold Art-Deco style. Solid book. Dustjacket is..... More
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth, oval pictorial pastedown, titles in gilt. Narrow stain running along bottom edge of leaves first grouping of pages not affecting text. Solid copy. With 100 drawings by author Seton, More
Budapest: Dr. George Vajna and Company, 1934. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Covers a little soiled and leaves a little toned. Solid copy. More
NY: Cadmus Book Shop, 1919. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. 250 copies. Inscribed by the author as both Will Woodward and Fred E. Pond on the ffe. Tales of the Adirondacks, the Civil War and Buffalo Bill. Covers soiled a bit, minor loss foot of spine, internals near fine, solid binding..... More
NY: E. P. Dutton, 1927. 1st US Edition. Hardcover. First US edition, orange cloth stamped in gilt, pictorial endpapers, ix, 103p. Covers a wee soiled, spine tips moderately worn. Solidly bound, internals quite nice. More
NY: E. P. Dutton, 1927. 1st US Edition. Hardcover. First US edition, orange cloth stamped in gilt, pictorial endpapers, ix, 103p. Covers a wee soiled, traces of tape residue (presumably from a homemade dustjacket on endpapers as well as a children's bookplate on pastedown. Solidly bound, internals quite nice... More
Phildalephia: J. B. Lippincott, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Uncommon autobiography of the famous Parisian designer who knew all the swells! Very good copy (no names inscription or bookplates), black cloth, stamped in gilt. Illustrated with b&w photographs. Fabulous Art-Deco dustjacket designed by Samuel Bernard Schaeffer, worn and chipped about the..... More
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. First edition with Wyeth illustrations as part of the Scribner's Illustrated Classics series. Better than very good, slight wear to pictorial pastedown on cover. No names, inscriptions or bookplates. Solid binding, Nice, giftable copy. More
St Louis MO: A.S. Aloe Company, 1946. Soft cover. Large medical supplies catalog, 588p, typographically typical of commercial catalogs of the period, filled with loads of illustrtations, which when it gets to the surgical detail is kind of fascinating in a creepy kind of way. Cover edges just a tad..... More
Canoga Park CA: Viceroy Books, 1969. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Unused copy, toned as expected, but apparently unread. More
NY: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1946. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Uncommon first edition, with colorful Weisgard illustrations. Green cloth covers stamped in black are stained/ discolored. UNclipped dustjacket has some chips and closed tears. Still, presentable. More
