Delaware, OH: Cooperative Recreation Service, ca. 1940s. First Edition. Seven volumes housed in original "Handy" cloth binder; small 12mo (17.5cm.); each issue bound in pictorial stapled card wrappers, binder upper cover lettered in gilt. Binder a bit bumped at corners and slightly dusty, minor toning to wrappers and stock, contemporary..... More
Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, 1884. 12mo. Unpaginated. Black and white illustrations. Grey publisher's cloth stamped in gilt and maroon. A series of stories for children revolving around food, culminating with "How the Lactians Discovered Ice-Cream." Boards are soiled with some light rippling. Extremities worn with brief exposure and..... More
Toronto: William Briggs, 1900. First Edition. Octavo. 94 pages. Black and white illustrations. Brown paper covered boards. Text in French and English, often rhyming and alternating between the two within verses. Boards are chipped with exposure with signs of damp staining. Shaky in binding but holding. Ownership stamp, inscription..... More
New York: Hodder & Stoughton, [n.d. but 1911]. First American Edition from the U.K. sheets. Large, thick octavo; publisher's blue-green pictorial cloth stamped in blue and gilt; xii,[13]-335pp.; color frontispiece tipped to stiff grey stock, nineteen (19) leaves of plates to match, pictorial endpapers printed in green and grey. Cloth..... More
![Item #25743 Max: The Story of a Little Black Bear [Signed]. Mabelle Halleck St. Clair, Lee Townsend](/pictures/thumb/25743.jpg?v=1677442311)
New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1931. Presumed First Edition with no additional printings listed. Signed by Mabelle Halleck St. Clair with brief inscription to previous owner at half title. Octavo. 133 pp. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket with "$2.00" price present. Tan boards stamped in black... More
![Item #6633 Sam & Dave Dig a Hole [Signed]. Mac Barnett, Jon Klassen](/pictures/thumb/6633.jpg?v=1596225851)
Somerville, Mass.: Candlewick Press, 2014. First Edition. Signed on the title page by the author Mac Barnett with a small illustration of a smiling face wearing a hat. Lacks dust jacket. Pictorial paper over boards. Bottom corners slightly rubbed and bumped. Binding sound. Small closed tear (1 cm)..... More
![Item #8432 A House Like A Lotus [Signed Bookplate Laid in]. Madeleine L'Engle](/pictures/thumb/8432.jpg?v=1610478585)
New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1984. Stated First Edition. Bookplate signed by L'Engle loosely laid in at front. Octavo. 308 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Green and navy boards stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket is gently worn along edges with a touch of toning. Boards show very light..... More
New York: Ives Washburn, 1966. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket (retaining original price of $3.75); [8],184pp. Light shelf wear to jacket and cloth extremities, cloth and lighter portions of jacket faintly foxed, else Very Good and sound overall. Third and final installment in the..... More
New York: Exposition Press, [1957]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($3.50); 274pp. Light wear to jacket extremities, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy. Uncommon self-published young adult novel grandiosely channeling the popular creations of Mark Twain and Booth Tarkington..... More
Margaret Tarrant. First American Edition. Boston & London: The Medici Society, [1925]. First American Edition. Octavo; 108pp. 16 mounted color plates including frontis, all present, with numerous color portraits and embellishments throughout. Blue cloth-covered boards with yellow lettering and illustration. Lacking dust jacket. Boards edgeworn with a couple light paperclip..... More
London: Alexander Moring, 1903. Reprint. Octavo. 74 pp. Black and white illustrations by Doyle. Illustrated green boards with gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt. No dust jacket. Boards worn at extremities with exposure, light general rubbing to boards. Binding is sound. Touch of foxing to preliminaries, pages..... More
![Item #9859 Helen Carey Somewhere in America [and] Marieken De Bruin Somewhere in Belgium [and]...](/pictures/thumb/9859.jpg?v=1623073128)
Cleveland: The Goldsmith Publishing Company (Barse and Hopkins), 1918-1919. Early reprints, probably from the late 1920s, by a co-publisher of Barse and Hopkins'. Octavo (19.5x13x3cm); Helen America 217pp; Marieken Belgium 224pp + 1p of publisher's prospectuses; Phoebe Canada 221pp + 2pp of publisher's prospectuses. Each with full-page illustrations by Charles..... More
New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1860. 16mo (16x10x1.5cm); 194pp. Engraved frontis with tissue guard; preliminary additional illustrated title page republished, as a bibliographic ornament, from the 1833 edition. Hunter green publisher's cloth with gilt spine stamping; blind stamped borders and publisher's monogram on front and rear panels. Very slight..... More
Boulder, CO: Robert Rinehart Publishers / Chrysler Museum of Art, 1996. First Edition. Quarto; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xii,242pp.; color illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, most notably at jacket spine crown, spine very slightly cocked, else Very Good or better overall. A splendid exhibition catalog and reference, opulently..... More
![Item #13107 Let the Circle Be Unbroken [Signed and Inscribed]. Mildred D. Taylor](/pictures/thumb/13107.jpg?v=1652362184)
New York: Dial Books, 1981. Fourth Printing. Signed by the author on full title with inscription "Best wishes to Jennifer & Alicia! Mildred D. Taylor (1988)." Octavo; [vi], 394pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $15.95 price; bound in blue paper-covered boards with ivory cloth spine and gilt lettering. Jacket rubbed..... More
![Item #25189 Gray Moon Tales [Inscribed and Signed by Mitchell]. Minnie Belle Mitchell, Will Vawter](/pictures/thumb/25189.jpg?v=1674419624)
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1926]. No edition statement, presumed First Edition. Octavo; publisher's blue cloth lettered in orange, color pictorial element mounted to upper cover, [14],169pp.; illus. throughout. Cloth rather scuffed at extremities with crown fraying, juvenile pencil ownership to front pastedown, textblock a bit toned, else Very Good and sound..... More
Hartford: Silas Andrus, 1827. Later Edition. 12mo; publisher's calf over wooden boards, gilt-lettered spine; 136pp.; woodcut frontispiece. Binding quite worn and, assuming boards were once paper-covered, the paper has since entirely perished; shallow loss along top edge of both covers, textblock a bit soiled and worn from handling, lacking rear..... More
Chicago: The John C. Winston Co., 1936. First Edition. Octavo; 121pp. Illustrations throughout: 22 full-page full-color; 8 full-page B&W; mixture of full-color and B&W head-pieces, tail-pieces, illustrated glossary, and Hopi motifs throughout. Full-color pictorial dust jacket. Five-color cloth binding with Hope textile motif on both front and rear..... More
New York: James O'Kane, 1866. First Edition. 347 pages + 4 pages publisher's advertisements printed in black and red. Frontispiece by F.O.C. Darley. Three black and white plates by Nast present and complete, though publisher bound them in at wrong pages. Publisher's brown cloth stamped in gilt. Boards..... More
London: Lutterworth Press, 1953. First Edition. Signed by the author on front free endpaper with inscription "Happy Christmas Phil - to (?) you & your family. Hope you'll enjoy this effort of mine. M - Nov 1953." Octavo; 208pp. Full-color frontis, with moon illustration preceding text. Blue cloth-covered boards..... More
East Aurora, NY: Elbert Hubbard / Roycroft Shop, 1906. First Thus. Octavo; publisher's limp reverse calf, blind-embossed upper cover lettered in gilt, yapp edges, moiré silk endpapers; [4],90pp.; printed letterpress in red and black. Damp stain at bottom fore-edge corner of final third of textblock very slightly bleeding to leather..... More
Hardcover. Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company, 1887. Quarto (9" x 7.25"). Illustrated paper-covered boards with blue cloth spine. Covers rubbed and bumped along edges and frayed down spine, with a good bit of soiling and smudging and a small pen number at top front corner. Hinges cracked with boards opening shakily..... More
New York: Hyperion, 1997. First U.S. Edition. Large square quarto. 235 pp. Bright high-quality color illustrations throughout, many with a glossy varnish. Illustrated dust jacket with $150.00 price present. Blindstamped black boards with silver lettering to spine. Dust jacket gently rubbed along edges with some creasing, predominantly to rear..... More
[New York]: Platt & Munk Co., 1932-1934. Sixteen volumes. Small quartos; uniform in pictorial staplebound self-wrappers; illus. throughout, many in color. Light wear, chiefly along spine edges, else a Very Good to Near Fine collection, the works fresh, unfaded, and apparently unread. Collection includes the following titles: 1. The..... More
New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1929. First Edition. Quarto; 57pp. Diagrammatic, how-to illustrations on every page; a few in two colors. Illustrated and coated two-color boards. Illustrated endpapers. Lightly soiled and spine scuffed by respectful use. Small orange crayon or paint smudge on rear free endpaper. Hinges loosened..... More