New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1870. First American Edition. Octavo (20.5x13.5x3cm); xvi + 380pp, including bibliography and index + 8pp of publisher's prospectuses, including Darwin and Spencer. Four full-page plates and 20 figures. [Sabin 42601] Red ochre publisher's percaline with blind-stamped frames and borders on both panels; gilt..... More
New York: John Martin's House, Inc., 1913. First and Sole Edition. Octavo saddle-stapled periodical issue (25x19cm); unpaginated [96pp], the center spread and final 36 pages of which are all advertisements disguised as entertainments. Card-weight covers; body of heavy, high-quality calendered paper stock, selected (presumably) for long life in children's..... More
Sheboygan: John Michael Kohler Arts Center, 1986. First Edition. Quarto (25x28x1cm); xii + 153pp, including artist biographies, orthographical and phonological appendices, and bibliography. The 281 catalogued items are accompanied by approximately the same number of photographs, most in color. Illustrated card wraps. Some slight signs of age to..... More
Zurich: Artibus Asiae Publishers, Museum Rietberg, 1999. First Edition. Quarto (30.5x24x3cm); 344pp, including appendices, bibliography, glossary, and index. Illustrated with 222 photographic images in color and B&W. Note that this is the true first edition, in hardcover, not the 2008 reprint from Paul Holberton Publishing, which bears the same ISBN..... More
Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1912. First Edition in Variant B binding with title page as first printed page and includes "A Word of Introduction." No clear priority. Large octavo. 196 pp. Black and white illustrations. Tan cloth spine with paper-covered boards and front fully illustrated. No dust jacket..... More
Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1938. First Edition in first state dust jacket with titles listed to "31 The Silver Princess of Oz." Large octavo. 255 pp in 16-page gatherings. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket with original $1.50 price present and with metallic-silver embellishments. Orange cloth stamped..... More