NY: Simon & Schuster, 1950. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Thurber on the half-title: "Merry Christmas to xxx from the Thurbers 1950 James Thurber" . Cloth spine lightly stained soiled, covers moderately soiled in price clipped better dustjacket. More
NY: Harcourt Brace, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Thurber on the half-title: "Merry Christmas and Love to xxxx and xxx Jim and Helen" Cloth lightly stained at foot of spine not affecting in a price-clipped dustjacket with some wear about edges and corners. More
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Thurber on the half-title: "Happy Birthday to xx from the Thurbers" and also plainly signed " James Thurber" on the pastedown. . Cloth over soien with some loss and tends and revealed at hinges, still firmly bound in supplied unclipped..... More
NY: Harcourt Brace, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Thurber on the half-title: "Merry Christmas to xx from the Thurbers James Thurber". Cloth a bit at spine in unclipped dustjacket with some wear about edges and corners. More
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1950. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Thurber on the half-title: "Merry Christmas to xx from the Thurbers 1950 James Thurber". Book about good, lightly stained/soiled on spine and some edges moderately worn in price-clipped dustjacket chipped about edges. More
Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co, 1908. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first state. blue cloth, pictorial pastedown, 16 color plates and numerous in-text illustrations by Neill. Spine reads "The Reilly & Britton Co.". Three titles on verso of half title, 256 pp. Owner bookplate verso ffe, and same name..... More
NY: Henry Z. Walck, Inc., 1959. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo, oblong, printed in brown ink, some colored pages with yellow and green, unpaginated. Minor spotting to endpapers and covers, dustjacket moderately soiled with moderate wear at corners and spine ends. Uncommon title in the Adshead Brownie series. No names..... More
NY: Viking, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Uncommoin first edition, Wiese's fourth book. Oblong 8vo, near fien copy - no names or bookplates - in price-clipped dustjacket that has a few closed tears and slight loss spine ends. A very presentable copy. More
NY: Oxford University Press, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Uncommon first edition, near fine copy in price-clipped dustjacket that is gently toned about edges and spine, and a few short closed tears here and thee. No names or bookplates. DOGS. More
Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1880. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Paper-covered boards with an illustrative design that is an exemplar of how Japanese design influenced book decoration. With it's sever diagonals in black and white interspersed with dream-like illustrations of snow-capped mountains and the moon, the design has, presciently, a Surrealistic..... More
Boston: D. Lothrop and Company. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Presumed first edition. Chromolithographed color polished cloth, pictorials front and back, printed by Forbes Co, Boston. Undated, circa 1880. Neat pencilled inscription ffe to (presumably) a student "for punctuality 1881". Unpaginated, illustrated with steel engravings, some full page. Worldcat lists only 3..... More
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, 1852. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Likely firts edition in book form: copyright page dated 1852. Rebound late 19thc half red leather over red cloth. Spine battered, front coverholding - just. rest firmly bound. 8vo, iv (pub list) + 261 + 22 (pub list, last..... More
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, 1878. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Likely firts edition in book form: copyright page dated 1878, title page states "reprinted from 'Peterson's Magazine''. Rebound late 19thc half red leather over gray cloth, moderately worn, soiled. Firm binding. More
NY: Stepping Stone/ Random House, 2008. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Galley pages for #40 in Osborne's Merlin Mission series, with her line edits in pencil and inscribed in ink by her on the title page. Also included is a prototype for the cover (tan ice?) that was discarded in favor..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1947. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A clean, very good copy lacking dustjacket. Uncommon children's title about Renard the fox. More
NY: Doubleday, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A fine, apparentlu unused / unread copy, in glassy pictorial covers, issued without dustjacket, gift inscription on the ffe dated 1992. More
NY: Random House, 1987. 1st Edition Reissue. Hardcover. First eidtion of the 1987 reissue, the first being 1939. Near fine copy in price-clipped dustjacket with a 1987 Happy Birthday gift inscription at the top of the half-title. More