First Edition. Hardcover. Philadelphia: H.C. Peck & Theo Bliss, 1855. Small octavo (3.75" x 4.5"); 96p. Illustrated throughout. Publisher's blindstamped blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Covers edgeworn with fraying along fore-edge and spine ends, along with a dampstain along spine and bottom back edge. Hinges cracked. Dampstain down..... More
Cleveland, OH: Central Publishing House, [1899]. Slim 16mo (15cm.); publisher's brown cloth lettered and ruled in black; 94pp. Boards rather bumped and rubbed with some light soiling to covers and text block, tiny hole mid-spine, contemporary juvenile pencil notes to endpapers, later pen ownership signature to front free endpaper; Good..... More
New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1938. First Thus. Quarto. Unpaginated. Black and white and color illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price present. Red boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket worn and chipped along edges with some rubbing to joints. One inch closed tear along top..... More
Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1921. First Edition. Octavo. 224 pages. Frontispiece + four additional black and white plates. Green cloth stamped in black with color illustration mounted to front board. No dust jacket. Boards worn at extremities with brief exposure. Illustration rubbed at edges. Binding is sound..... More
Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1924. First Edition. Octavo. 203 pages. Frontispiece + two additional black and white plates. Green cloth stamped in black with color illustration mounted to front board. No dust jacket. Boards worn at extremities with brief exposure. Illustration rubbed at edges. Slight lean to..... More
Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1929. First Edition. Octavo. 224 pages. Frontispiece + two additional black and white plates. Green cloth stamped in black with color illustration mounted to front board. No dust jacket. Boards worn at extremities with brief exposure, most heavily a patch along top edge..... More
New York: Hodder & Stoughton, 1909. First Edition. 12mo. 16 unnumbered pages. Illustrations in shades of pink. Striped boards with cover pastedown and illustrated endpapers. No dust jacket. Light wear to extremities, bit of spotting to rear. Binding is sound. Ownership inscription over title page dated 1911. Pages..... More
![In Powder & Crinoline: Old Fairy Tales [Large Paper Issue]. Arthur Quiller-Couch, Kay Nielsen](/pictures/thumb/10576.jpg?v=1629216836)
[London]: Hodder & Stoughton, [1913]. First Edition, Large Paper Issue with 26 Plates. Large quarto (31.5cm.); publisher's vegetable vellum-backed paper-covered boards, black morocco gilt-lettered spine label, top edge gilt, housed in later blue clamshell box; xii,[13]-163pp.; tipped in color frontispiece and twenty-five plates, each accompanied with printed tissue-guard, additional vignettes..... More
![Mother Goose: The Old Nursery Rhymes [Signed Limited Edition]. Arthur Rackham](/pictures/thumb/10714.jpg?v=1629825693)
New York: The Century Co., [1913]. Limited First U.S. Edition; a run of 150 copies signed by Rackham on limitation page, this being #59. Quarto. 158 pp. Thirteen color plates, including frontis, mounted on heavy brown paper with lettered tissue guards; one additional black and white plate, "Little Bo-peep" tipped..... More
New-York: J.E.D. Comstock, [1847]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); contemporary half sheep over marbled boards; vi,[153]-426,[2],[9]-148pp.; 24 leaves of plates including 12 colored botanicals, woodcuts throughout text. Boards rather rubbed, contemporary ownership inscription of a Mary Hart to front free endpaper, rear endpaper torn away, else Very Good and sound, complete..... More
![Maisie & Her Dog Snip in Fairyland [Cover title: Maisie and Her Dog Snip in Fairyland]. Bennet...](/pictures/thumb/10607.jpg?v=1629143029)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1903. First Edition. Large octavo; publisher's tan pictorial cloth stamped in four colors, [8],164pp.; two-toned (black and peach) frontispiece, eight leaves of plates, text illus. and vignettes throughout. Light shelf wear, chiefly at spine ends, spine cloth a shade darkened and slightly spotted, corners gently..... More
![Pieces of Eight [Nos. 1-10]. Boy Scouts of America - Troop 8](/pictures/thumb/7268.jpg?v=1600458386)
Worcester, MA?: Boy Scouts of America Troop 8, 1949. Ten volumes; small 12mo (18cm.); each issue comprised of a single sheet folded into 4-paneled brochure; text and illus. printed mimeograph. A hint of wear, else a Very Good or better collection. Possibly unrecorded newsletter issued by the Boy Scouts..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1923. First Edition. Octavo. 218 pages. Color frontis, 8 full-page black and white illustrations, and black and white in-text illustrations throughout. Blue boards stamped in yellow. Boards lightly worn along extremities with some general spotting. Binding is sound and pages clean and unmarked..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1923. First Edition. Octavo. 218 pages. Color frontis, 8 full-page black and white illustrations, and black and white in-text illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in yellow. Dust jacket chipped along edges with a dime-sized chip near top of spine. General..... More
![Rootabaga Stories [Signed]. Carl Sandburg, Maud and Miska Petersham, Maud, Miska Petersham](/pictures/thumb/8941.jpg?v=1615499121)
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922. First Edition. Signed by Sandburg to preliminary with inscription, "D.G. McCarn - yours zigzag - Carlo Sandburg," with the "o" after Carl crossed out, presumably a mistake while signing from the author. Octavo. 230 pages. Color frontis,11 full-page black and white..... More
Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Co., 1932. Reprint. Folio. Unpaginated. Color illustrations throughout. Illustrated boards. Lacks dust jacket. Boards worn along edges and joints with brief exposure. Binding is sound and pages clean and unmarked. Delightful children's book originally published in 1926. Includes chapters on the origin..... More
![Yankee Enchantments [Inscribed and Signed by Loomis to George Elmer Browne]. Charles Battell...](/pictures/thumb/10612.jpg?v=1629225310)
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1900. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's green pictorial cloth designed and signed in image by Fanny Y. Cory; ix,[1],328pp.; half-tone line drawings throughout. Cloth a bit rubbed with very brief exposure to one corner, very occasional finger soil to textblock, else Very Good or better..... More
New York: Baker & Taylor Company Publishers, 1907. Large octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's decorative green cloth lettered in gilt, three color pictorial paper inlays to upper cover, top edge gilt; xvii,[18]-139pp.; color frontispiece, nine leaves of plates including five in color or sepia tone, additional vignettes throughout. Light shelf wear, ownership..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1921. First Thus. Quarto. 200 pp. Six color plates and numerous black and white illustrations, complete. Blue boards with illustrated pastedown to front and paper labels to spine. Recased with new endpapers. No dust jacket. Light wear to extremities and small chip..... More
First Edition. Hardcover. Boston: D. Lothrop Company, 1888. First Edition with no additional printings. Octavo; 217pp +6pp ads at back. Six illustrations including frontis, all present, with first illustration mis-numbered in contents as being on p 51 vs. 41. Green publisher's cloth with gilt and white accents. Covers lightly bumped..... More
Maurice LaLau. Paris: Boivin & Cie, Editeurs, 1923. Later Printing of the 1914 First Edition. French language. Quarto; iv, 154pp. Nine mounted color plates, with numerous black and white illustrations throughout. Publisher's pink cloth with color illustration to front. Boards bumped at corners and spine ends, with some scuffs down..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1934. Reprint. Octavo; publisher's boards in yellow pictorial dust jacket; [8],196pp.; frontispiece, illus. throughout. Jacket extremities rather chipped and worn with small loss at top margin of upper jacket panel touching the "T" in "Those," later bookseller rubberstamp to front free endpaper, else Good to..... More
![Inkdeath [Signed Limited Edition]. Cornelia Funke, Anthea Bell, trans](/pictures/thumb/8427.jpg?v=1613499941)
Frome, UK: Chicken House, 2008. Signed Limited First Edition, this being #755 of 1000. Signed bookplate affixed to half title. Octavo. 713 pages. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated purple boards in illustrated slipcase. Text in English. Boards lightly worn at corners. Binding is sound. Corner-creasing to pages 58 and..... More
![Sunday School Advocate [Complete Vol. XXV, nos. 1-24, October 14, 1865-September 22, 1866]....](/pictures/thumb/6615.jpeg?v=1597349915)
[New York: Methodist Episcopal Church, 1865-1866.] Twenty-four volumes in one; tabloid format (36cm.); contemporary morocco-backed marbled boards; 96pp.; illus. throughout, text in triple columns. Boards quite rubbed and leather dried and chipped, one-inch losses at both spine ends, shallow damp stain to textblock fore-edge, general old soil throughout, else Good..... More
Dennis Anfuso. First Edition. Hardcover. Wilton: Interset Press, 1995. Stated First Interset Press Edition with full numberline. SIGNED by the author without inscription on half title. Illustrated dustjacket with original $24.95 price; book in green cloth with gilt lettering. Jacket shows a clean 1.5" tear from top near spine and..... More