Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1980. First American edition, first printing, first issue with sticker on copyright page adding American illustrator Brock Cole's name (the British edition has a different illustrator). Signed by Lynne Reid Banks on title page. x, 181 pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with gilt..... More
Washington, DC [actually Healdsburg, CA]: Zephyrus Image / National Endowment for the Domestic Arts, 1977. First edition. Publisher's stringbound stiff wraps, housed in original printed envelope. [20] pp. Near Fine with typical offsetting to endpapers, in Very Good+ envelope with toning and light wear. Uncommon. The author's first publication..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1960. First edition. (First printing with stated "first edition" on copyright page.) Signed by Peg Bracken in the year of publication, "Greetings, and keep your chin up!" xii, 176 pp. Bound in publisher's gray cloth stamped in blue. Near Fine with a few penciled..... More
New York: Longmans, Green & Company, 1949. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author Catherine Cate Goblentz and illustrator Janice Holland on the half-title page in the year of publication. Bound in publisher's turquoise cloth stamped on dark blue. Near Fine with light shelf wear, light toning to cloth..... More
New York: Random House, 1948. First edition, first printing of this Newbery Honor novel. Signed by Ruth Stiles Gannett on the dedication page and inscribed. "I'm so glad we met, and hope we see more of each other than we've managed so far." Bound in publisher's original yellow cloth boards..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1942. First edition, first printing. xiv, 497 pp. Bound in publisher's russet cloth stamped in gilt. Fine with bright gilt, tiny vintage bookseller's ticket to front free endpaper, in a Very Good example of the rare dust jacket, spine panel sunned, small tears, edge wear..... More
New York: Modern Age Books, 1940. First edition. [viii], 252 pp. Publisher's flecked tan cloth stamped in black and crimson. A Very Good copy, offsetting to gutters, small stain to fore edge, lacking the original dust jacket. The first English-language book written by a Japanese woman, a memoir of her..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. 63 pp. First edition thus. Bound in publisher's green cloth, beautifully stamped in gilt, all edges gilt, in dust jacket repeating the design. Fine, with light bruising to cloth at spine ends, offsetting to endsheets. Dust jacket with a small chip at the head, else..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original black pebbled cloth with pictorial onlay on front cover. Near Fine or better with slight bump to bottom of spine. A spectacular copy housed in a custom cloth slipcase. The illustrations in this book are generally..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1950. First edition. 280pp. Original green cloth with gilt lettering. Very Near Fine in Near Fine unclipped (8s 6d) dust jacket. Very slight musty smell. Jacket lightly worn at edges but bright and unfaded. A lovely copy of the author's first book. More
New York: Simon and Schuster. [undated]. Signed limited edition. Number 79 of a 250 numbered copies, signed by both author Kay Thompson and illustrator Hilary Knight. Undated, but Kay Thompson died in 1998, so presumably published before that. Bound in publisher's original red cloth stamped in gilt, in original red..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955. First edition, stated first printing. Bound in publisher's cream cloth boards with decorations stamped in black and maroon. Very Good, with light toning to cloth. Pages toned, with glue repair seemingly evident at hinge of page 20. In a Very Good un-clipped ($2.95) dust..... More
