New York: The Macaulay Company Publishers, 1927. First Trade Edition. Quarto. 268 pp. 7 color plates, complete; black and white in-text illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue board stamped in black and gilt; top edge gilt; illustrated endpapers. Price-clipped dust jacket chipped and creased along edges with a touch of..... More
New York: Time, 1934. First Edition. 12mo; 44pp. Illustrations throughout. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Boards lightly shelfworn and a touch faded along edges. Spine a bit darkened and dulled. Prior owner's small bookplate at top corner of front pastedown. Binding is sound and pages unmarked... More
New York: Alcoa Steamship Company, Inc., 1949. First Edition. Folded folio sheet (14 1/2" x 13") with four color illustrations laid in. 4 color plates representing Venezuela, Trinidad, Martinique, and Jamaica. Folio sheet creased at corners with several short closed tears, general rubbing, and some soiling/discoloration. Plates themselves..... More
New York: The Junior Literary Guild and the Viking Press, 1937. First Edition. Quarto (29.5x22x1cm); unpaginated [30pp]. Fourteen full-page color illustrations, with a similar number of vignettes and decorative motifs as marginalia. Illustrated dustjacket in metallic gold and three colors. Jade green boards with dark green lettering and frieze..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1935. First Edition. Octavo. 154 pp. Arzybasheff-illustrated endpapers, with seven interior illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price intact; bound in red boards with paper labels to front and spine. Illustrated endpapers. Jacket chipped at head of spine with loss of author's first name..... More
New York: The Junior Literary Guild and Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1933. First Junior Guild Edition, published same year as the true First by Doubleday. Octavo. 276 pp. Illustrated frontispiece. Boris Artzybasheff-illustrated dust jacket. Black endpapers stamped in red. Illustrated endpapers. Red topstain. Dust jacket light chipped..... More
New York: Coward, McCann, Inc., 1933. First Edition. Octavo. 249 pp. Boris Artzybasheff-illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price present. Orange boards stamped in black and gilt. Decorated endpapers. Dark topstain. Dust jacket chipped along edges with general creasing and rubbing with heavier soiling to verso. Boards shelfworn with some..... More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1939. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in grey dust jacket illustrated by Artzybasheff with his initials in image; xvi,182pp.; illus. throughout. A few closed tears to jacket extremities occasionally touching text without loss of meaning, light dust-soil, small loss at top fore-edge corner of front flap..... More