London: W. Swan Sonnenschein. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Plays for children adapted by Freiligrath-Kroeker, and first edition thus. Blue cloth, publisher's decorated binding in black and gilt front, blind ruled w/ pub deice on rear. Spine slightly soiled, illustrated, tissue guard to forntispiece detached. viii + 202pp. Undated, c. 1870s. More about Alice thro' the Looking Glass, and other Fairy Plays for Children
Lawremce, Berkshire: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1924. Gibbings, Robert (wood engravigs by). First Edition Limited. Hardcover. Limited edition, #141 of 50 copies. Slight spotting to vellum spine, interals clean. More about WHERE I LIVED & WHAT I LIVED FOR
NY: Morrow Junior Books, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, second printig. INSCIBED WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWIG BY FEIFFER. On the title page " "To Nathanial - You draw real good!'" the siigned uderneath title. On verso, Feiffer has sketched what appears to be a self portait, bearded self in... More about I LOST MY BEAR
NY: Derrydale Press, 1928. First Edition Limited. Hardcover. #116 of 350 copies. Mustard-colored paperbacked boards, with title label, over quarter vellum. Some fading top part of front and rear boards. Vellum toned a tad. Internals fine. More about HELL FOR LEATHER! The Epwell Hunt The Melton Hunt Howell Wood
NY: Viking Press, 1957. Grahame-Johnstone, Janet & Anne (illustrtaed by). 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, basis for the 1960s Disney animated feature then decades later a live-action version with Glen Close as the infamous Cruela de Ville. Dustjacket has a half-faded spine, closed tear upper rear panel and flaps very... More about THE HUNDRED AND ONE DALMATIONS
NY: Harper& Row, 1898. First Edition Limited. Hardcover. Large paper limited edition, this 226 of 250 copies. Stout 8vo, light green linen over quarter vellum, gilt spine titles, gte, sides untrimmed. Frontispiece portrait from a photograph by Barrauds, 22 illustrations, 6 with facsimiles of pencil studies. vii + 476p. Some... More about THE MARTIAN
Paris: Harrison, 1931. First Edition Limited. Hardcover. Seventh publication of Harrison of Pais, printed i Germany. Limited to 25 copies. 12 mo, vellum paper coes, aeg, 26 pp housed in black cardboard box with printed titles, as issued. Near fie copy, neat owner name on free front endpaper. More about THE DEATH OF MADAME
NY: Ray Long & Richard Smith, 1934. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Scarce mixology title. Binder with mauve colored boards with titles stamped in orange, internal spine of metal with two-ring holder, numerous tabs for all manner of cocktails. xxvi + 299 pages. Title page and pastedown stained (looks like a perfect... More about THE OFFICIAL MIXER'S MANUAL
NY: Macmillan, 1918. First Edition Limited. Hardcover. 750 copies, this 541 and signed b John Masefield on the limitation page. A near fine copy in ucommon dustjacket, which is missing a small piece at head and in the middle of the spine, which has caused the exposed portions of the... More about ROSAS
Boston: Little, Brown, 1899. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. First illustrated edition. Strikingly colored pictorial in yellow, black and purple, stamped on white cloth. Remarkably well preserved by dint of scarce dustjacket in with same pictorial but printed in duotone. Presumed original ower signature on pastedown, otherwise an internally clean and... More about THE HUNTER CATS OF CONNOROLA
NY: Harper& Brothers, 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book. Solid, clean copy - no names, inscriptions or bookplates - boards a tad dusty in original dustjacket, toned/soiled mostlly to spine with minor loss at corners and spine head. More about SERVE IT FORTH
NY: Dutton, 1935. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, a collection of whimsical pieces, rather in the Dorothy Parker mode, but more benign, many of which first appeared in The New Yorker, Some incidental spotting to boards and endpapers, and residue from paper clip ffe in about very good dustjacket. More about I TAKE IT BACK
NY: Viking, 1936. Lawson, Robert (drawings by). 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition of the beloved childrens' classic in almost near fine condition i original dustjacket, with prirce-clipped front flap and $1.00 price on upper left corner rear flap. Dustjacket spine is faded (but black titles still shap) with some exposure... More about THE STORY OF FERDINAND
NY: Williiam Morrow, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED on the title page in red ink to MGM musical actress Jane Powell and her husband Dick Moore: "for my dear oness Jane and Dick - always love. Roddy" then SIGNED in full by McDowall under his printed name and dated 1993... More about DOUBLE EXPOSURE: TAKE FOUR
NY: Williiam Morrow, 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover. PRESENTATION COPY from photographer McDowall to MGM musical star Jane Powell who is one of the portraits photographed by McDowall in the book and her husband Dick Moore. INSCRIBED on the title page in red ink: "for my dears Jane and Dick with... More about DOUBLE EXPOSURE: TAKE THREE
Boston: Cornhill Company, 1918. 1st Edition (Limited). Hardcover. Scarce, privately published collection of poems and other letters and musings from 1894 to 1918 by Mary M. Bergholz (1839 -1926) of Waterbury Center VT about her life and foreign travels to visit her son Leo on his assignments as US consul... More about RHYMES FROM DIFFERENT CLIMES
NY: R. H. Russell, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Scarce title from publisher R. H. Russell, a tale of a "harmless but demented" Irish country vagrant huntsman adapted from "Tipperary Joe" a verse song introduced by Irish novelist Charles Lever in his 1843 novel JACK HINTOM GUARDSMAN. Lever (1806 - 1872)... More about SONG OF A VAGABOND HUNSTMAN
NY: Scribners, 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A set of three of F. A. Stewarts books that are a collection of his drawings and prints of famous hunts. Uniform 4to (the HARK volume slightly larger) in dustjackets. The first two volumes 1937, HARK 1938. Hard to find dustjackets, variously, have chips... More about HUNTING COUNTRIES (and) 'CROSS COUNTRY WITH HOUNDS (and) HARK TO HOUNDS (3 volumes
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition. A 1941 satire, using canine species to represent nations during WWI: Oliver, an airedale, realizes what Der Pootsch (Hitler) really meant in his book "My Dogfight" and how the Caninian (Americans) needed to come to their senses and assist the... More about THE ORDEAL OF OLIVER AIREDALE or TO THE DOGS AND BACK: A SATIRE WITH TEETH IN IT
Rhinebeck, NY: Four Directions Press, 2017. 1st Edition. Soft cover. A heartwarming novella from the celebrated artist, inspired by locales in Queens where the artist grew up. SHINE is the story of an almost 12 year-old shoe-shine boy living with his crippled father in Corona, an impoverished, mostly Italian, outlying... More about SHINE
Cincinnati: Morgan and Sanxay, 1835. Hardcover. 1835 edition, original covers, printed over leather spine, oblong 8vo, 199pp + 40, with general index. "Stereotyped edition" Text block solidly bound, leaves somewhat browned. Front cover holding but barely. Covers heavily soiled and a creased fold heightwise down the middle of the front... More about THE MISSOURI HARMONY; or a Cllection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, and Anthems, from Eminent Authors;...
NY: Harper& Row, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, Newberry Medal winner. Inscribed "To Julie, proudly, Jean Craighead George" on ffe. Newberry gold sticker on front panel of dustjacket, the front flap of which is clipped at the bottom, still showing 1172 there and a $4.95 price at top. Some... More about JULIE OF THE WOLVES
NY: Duffield, 1906. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition of the first stage adaptation of Austen's famous novel. Green cloth, pictorial pastedown, stamped titles. Covers soiled, especially at spine. Still, a solid copy, with contemporar ownership and address on ffe. Some penciled edits and annotations, obviously from a dramaturge or director... More about PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: A PLAY
NY: Random House, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition. Near fine copy, lacking dustjacket with a PON and address on the front pastedwon. More about THE PAJAMA GAME
NY: Stanley Bradlet Publishing, 1890. Forbes, Waud, Taylor, Hillen, Becker, Lovie, Schell, Crane (illustrations from sketches by). Edition de Grand de Luxe, 100 copies, this #98. Full leather- half brown pebbled to spine with gilt, rest red pebbled with gilt stamped as follows: "Presented to Owen H. Knight Post 58... More about THE SOLDIER IN OUR CIVIL WAR A Pictorial History of the Conflict, 1861-1865, Illustrating the...