NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1905. First US Edition Thus. Hardcover. First US edition with Arthur Rackham's wonderful illustrations. Green cloth covers show light wear at corners, narrow cloth loss at spine ends, some surface wear and light abrasions here and there, and small ink spor rear cover. Internals quite..... More
London: Macmillan, 1882. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Illustrations by George Cruikshank, nephew of the famous one. Glazed pictorial covers, cloth backed, soiled, edges worn, hinge revealed. Internal plates quite nice. More
NY: World Publishing Company, 1960. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition. Oblong 8vo, yellow cloth covers spotted. Price-clipped dustjacket with some chips and closed tears and apparently (coffee) stained a bit front panel. Internals of book, quite nice. 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: 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: 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: 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
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
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
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1959. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The third ELOISE title after ELOISE and ELOISE IN PARIS. Solid copy, the book better than very good - no names, inscriptions or bookplates. UNcliipped dustjacket is tanned, more so along toip edge, and chipped along at edges and corners. Still, overall..... More
NY: The Macmillan Company, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Uncommon children's story about residential architecture and building in Sweden by famous American landscape architect Marjorie Sewell Cautley (1891 - 1954) and illustrated by her sister Helen Sewell (1896 -1957). The book apparently emerged from the travels of the young architect in..... More
Philadelphia: Appleton, 1845. First or Early Edition. Soft cover. Printed paper covers, 8 leavews including covers. Hand-painted illustrations. Intersting alphebet book that tells the story of the prominent (A is for) Alderman and a lavish party (E is for Entertainment) etc concluding with Z is for Zachary the carriageman who..... More
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1911. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Beautifully preserved copy, blue cloth with pictorial pastedown, titles stamped in black. Trace wear spine tip, internals as nice as we might see. With printed brown dustjacket, with chunks missing along spine, re-pieced together. Whimsical, charming illustrations by Broughton, in a...... More
NY: Junior Literary Guild, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Story of boy facing the harshness of nature and becoming a man, by German children's author (and noted pro-Nazi, ant-Semite) Waldemar. Translated for American publication by Whittaker Chambers who at the time, ironically was a Commie and Soviet spy before he spilled..... More
NY: Coward-McCann, 1930. Hardcover. Brown pictorial cloth in scarce dustjacket, with pictorial by Cheney, who did pictorial endpapers and text drawings. Book near fine, dustajcket moderately worn at edges, soiled/ chipped at spine, . Juvenile adventure set in French colonization of Canada; young man seeks missing father in Canadian wilderness..... More
NY: The Macmillan Company, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth stamped titles in black in pictorial dustjacket which is tanned/ soiled around edges and spine. An appaerently unread/unused book. More
NY: The Macmillan Company, 1923. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Beautifully preserved copy in worn and used dustjacket. Lovely illustrations, including dustjacekt pictorial and pictorial endpapers by Walker Bluie cloth stamped in yellow white and balck pictorial in soiled dustjacket (especially at spine) with obvious chips and loss to edges and spine..... More
NY: The Macmillan Company, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1928 printing after the first of 1925. An unusually well preserved copy in worn dustjacket. Exuberant cover design, decorations and pictures by Russian-born Artzybasheff ingeniously partnered with Irishman Colum in this retelling of Medieval fable. Internals almost as new, Dustjacket soiled, especially..... More
NY: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1955. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An apparently unused copy, internals as new. Yellow cloth a bit spotted. Unclipped dustjacket modest wear along folds and spine tips. A collectibel copy. A seafaring childrens/ juvenile title. More
NY: McBride, Robert M., 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Uncommon juvenile with Spanish medieval history as theme, with distinctive woodcuts by Skinner. Review copy with slip tucked in a half title with attendant offsetting. Solid copy. More