Heywood Broun as He Seemed to Us
New York: The Newspaper guild of New York, 1940. First Edition. Cloth. Chunks of jacket missing. Gentle toning throughout text. More
New York: The Newspaper guild of New York, 1940. First Edition. Cloth. Chunks of jacket missing. Gentle toning throughout text. More
NY: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Uncommon juvenile music songbook, edited by Untermeyer and charmingly illustrated by Peggy Bacon who became best known for her cartoons in The New Yorker. Large 4to, publisher's ribbed blue cloth, titles pressed in green in pictorial dustjacket in yellow, green and..... More
origiinal 0. No Binding. Orson Byron Lowell (1871-1956) was an American artist and illustrator, best known for covers and interiors for magazines. Lowell studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and moved to New York City, settling in New Rochelle, NY, a fashionable artists community in the early 20thC. A...... More
London: Wells Gardner Darton & Co. Ltd, 1905. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Uncommon pair of Lucas' companion volumes of stories of old: OLD FASHIONED TALES (1905) and its follow-up FORGOTTEN TALES OF LONG AGO (1906), both uniform in design and format with elaborate decorated covers by F.D. Bedford, who also illustrated..... More
NY: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. An apparently unused book in near fine dw w/ short closed tear head of spine. More
NY: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1973. Later Printing. Hardcover. An apparently unused book in near fine dw. Later printing. More
London: Macmillan, 1898. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. First edition with MacDougall's bold Arts & Crafts decorations. Elaborately gilt-decorated green cloth, 4to, unpaginated, title page in red and black, the rest in black. Green cloth faded, covers worn and stained at upper corners with 2" loss over lower spine, internals fine..... More
Toronto, ON, Canada: Harcourt, 1995. First Edition. Cloth. small tear front panel dj. More
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1931. O. Sogolov. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A tidy collection of the first five books of American poet/ humorist Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971), famous of The New Yorker, all published by Simon & Schuster. HARD LINES, 1931, 1st edition, in worn, scarce dustjacket. FREE WHEEWLING (1931)..... More
Bostoin: John W. Luce and Company, 1905. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A satirical almanac produced by the staff of the John W. Luce publishing company. The staff takes a kitchen sink approach: zodiac readings, gardening hints, bios of the rich and famous like Heddy Green and Teddy Roosevelt. Sophisticated illustrations. Cover..... More
NY: R.H. Russell, 1900. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Pictorial pastedown front cove. Classic Maxfield Parrish, Arts & Crafts period, illustrated verson. Covers soiled with some edge loss to paper over boards, corners worn. Internals quite nice. No names, inscriptions or bookplates. An honest, presentable copy. More
Manuel Quesada Brfandi, 1964. 1st Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Facsimile of 1848 edition, folio, full tan leather gilt-ruled and titles stamped in brown front cover and spine. #306 of 1000 copies. The original edition published in 1848 by E. Atchley, Library of Fine Arts, London. 26 plates each with polished tissue..... More
NY: Harper & Row, 1976. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First US edition, and first edition with the McNully illustrations, the Broitish edition illustyrate dby Quentin Black. Near fine copy - NO NAMES, NOTES or BOOKPLATES in better than very good dustjacket showing a wee bit iof wear at corners. A collectible..... More
Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Subtitle: A COMPENDIUM OF A HALF CENTURY OF PRINCETON WIT AND HUMOR, IF ANY, IN PROSE, PICTURE AND POETRY. Limited to 1000 copies, 4to, black tight-weave linen, gilt titles in scarce pictorial dustjacket, which is moderately worn, book and internals almost..... More
NY: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1911. 1st US Edition. Hardcover. Issued with Heinemann in London, printed in England. Quarter cloth, gilt pictorial and titles pressed to floral patterned cream color covers. All 30 tipped-in plates present. Solid copy, little sign of use, lightly foxed endpapers, prelims/rears. Internals fine. More
Boston: David R. Godine, 1977. Lansdowne, J. Fenwick. Limited First Edition. Half Red Leather, Beige Cloth. #108 of 400 copies. Signed, numbered print laid-in. Handsome, red, half-leather over cloth. In publisher's cloth slipcase. Fine. More
New York: Three Sirens Press, 1931. Carbe, Nino. First Edition. Cloth. art deco illustrated version of the classic, bound in green cloth with faded gilt lettering spine, clean with no previous owner markings. More
London: Secker & Warburg, 1945. 1st Edition, limited. Hardcover. Limited edition, 850 copies, this No "6 USA". with six full pagge illustrations by Henry Moore. Dustjacket has a chip in the middle of the spine, which is faded. Internals of book near fine, gte, sides untrimmed. A handsome production. More
Esslingen: J. F. Schreiber, 1880. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 30 double-sheet chromolithographs, richly colored. 16 pp of text in rear, the signature of which is a tad loose. Pictorial printed cover, soiled, brown cloth spine. Internals better than usually seen. More
East Aurora: The Roycrofters, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Wide 8vo, suede spine, leather label. Initials, borders and ornaments designed by Saint Gerome, printining supervised by Andrew Andrews, "Honest Roycorfter". Suede spine over gray paper boards. Small abrasions above label and tiny tear to suede (1/4') parallel to top edge rear..... More
Philadelphia: Rosenbach Foundation, 1970. 1st Edition. Soft cover. The true first edition - not the new 2024 edition in a larger format published posthumously by Harper Collins - printed in 1970 as a 32 page pamphlet, measuring 3.5 x 2.5 inches. for a Sendak exhibition at the Philip H. and..... More
NY: Pantheon, 1963. Shahn, Ben. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. First edition. Oblong 8vo. Near fine in price-clipped dw that has a small chip along top panel and modestky edgewron elsewhere. INSCRIBED BY TYPOGRAPHER JOSEPH BLUMENTHAL, publisher of The Spiral Press, who designed the typography for this book, on the colophon..... More
NY: Harper & Row, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Later children's title illustrated by artist Marc Simont (1915 - 2013), whose long career brought him two Caldecott honors and one Caldecott medal. (Simont also illustrated books for James Thurber, another author/artist, when Thurber's sight failed in later life.) Inscribed to close..... More
NY: Wilfred Funk, Inc, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Later printing with a sketch of a covered bridge in blue ink in Sloane's signature style, signed by him and dated 1964. Tan cloth covers curiously bleached here and there (publishing quirk?) Solidly bound. More
NY: Funk & Wagnalls, 1967. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, fifth printing. Plainly signed by Sloane on the half title. No other names, inscriptions, bookplates, etc. Near fine in better than very good unclipped (price inked out) dustjacket. More