London: Heinemann, 1919. First Rackham illustrated edition. One of 850 in the limited edition signed by Rackham, #518 of 525 of those printed on English handmade paper. 110, (1)pp. Green boards with tan cloth back, in folding chemise housed in custom slipcase. Very Good+ with bumped corners and light wear... More about Cinderella
London: William Heinemann, 1916. Copy number 259 of a limited 500, signed by Arthur Rackham. Publisher's blue cloth stamped in gilt on the upper board and spine. Very Good+ with light rubbing to cloth at corners and spine ends, toning to spine and to a square area of browning around... More about The Allies' Fairy Book
London: George G. Harrap, 1932. First thus. 48pp. with four color plates. Publisher's limp vellum lettered in gilt. Copy #537 of 550 copies in the limited edition signed by Arthur Rackham. Fine in Very Good original slipcase with small split along bottom edge, light wear. A very nice copy. Haskell and Latimore p. 67. More about The King of the Golden River
Paris: Hachette et Cie, 1913. Deluxe French limited edition; copy #223 of 460 signed by Arthur Rackham on the limitation page. Publisher's full vellum binding, stamped in gilt. Very Good. Boards faintly bowed, foxing to vellum, darkening and a patch of rubbing to spine. Tissue guard for plate 25 incorrectly... More about L'Oeuvre de Arthur Rackham
London: George G. Harrap, 1934. Copy number 173 of a limited 410, signed by Arthur Rackham. In original full limp vellum stamped in gilt. Near Fine with light toning, rippling to pastedowns. In a Very Good publisher's slipcase with title label and matching limitation number on spine; a bit toned... More about The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Paris: Christian Dior, 1966. First edition, limited to 1,000 copies, this being #417. Buff cloth covered boards with titles printed on marbled paper onlay. Near Fine, light foxing, light toning, previous owner bookplate to front paste down, small stray ink mark to rear paste down. An illustrated hunting journal/checklist for... More about Livre de Chasse
New York: The Experimenter Publications, 1930. First edition. 94 pp. Paper covered boards with black cloth backstrip. About Very Good with rubbing to boards, chipping along edges, interior has a few small stains and closed tears. An uncommon illustrated Prohibition-era book of cocktailiana and humorous verse. More about The Home Bartender's Guide and Song Book
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 about Goblin Market
London: Faber and Faber, 1928. First illustrated edition, signed limited issue. Copy #58 of a limited 300, signed by Siegfried Sassoon and illustrator William Nicholson. Bound in publisher's decorated vellum, in publisher's glassine and dust jacket. Light bowing to boards, light dust-soiling to top edge, else Fine. In Near Fine... More about Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
San Francisco: Collins Publishers, 1996. First limited edition, one of 2,000 copies signed by Charles M. Schulz. Hardcover in black cloth slipcase stamped in silver, publisher's certificate of authenticity, and 3-D glasses in pocket holder at front. Light rubbing to book and slip case, rubbing to 3-D Glasses pocket holderr... More about Snoopy: Not Your Average Dog
New York: Abbeville Press, 1983. First American edition as stated, First Printing, in original dust jacket. In Very Good condition. Slight ding to top edge of boards, with small abrasion to the cloth at the edge of top board. Faint uneven sunning to bottom edge of front board. The dust... More about Codex Seraphinianus
New York: The Viking Press, 1931. Signed by Dr. Seuss at his usual spot in the corner, on the verso of the front free endpaper, and inscribed to Arnold A. Rogow, political scientist and psycho-biographer of famous figures. First edition. Bound in publisher's red cloth lettered in black. Very Good+... More about Boners: By Those Who Pulled Them
[No place]: Essomarine Oils/ Penola Inc., 1934. First edition, first printing dated 1934 on inside of rear cover (Younger & Hirsch). Very Good. Light edge wear, toning and light foxing to wraps, with a small erased price to the top corner of the front cover. Contents lightly toned. A very... More about Secrets of the Deep or The Perfect Yachtsman
[no place]: Essomarine Oils/ Penola Inc., 1935 & 1936. Volume I and Volume II, in original and un-addressed envelopes, with two additional two promotional placards. Volume I is second issue. Very Good. Pamphlets show rusting to staples, light soiling, faint storage odor. Envelopes show toning and offsetting at the glue... More about Secrets of the Deep: Volume I & II
Tokyo: Pacific Stars and Stripes, 1955. First edition. Near Fine, in Good dust jacket. Light edge wear. Foxing and previous owner name written to front paste down, number written to rear free end paper. The dust jacket shows edge wear, with chipping at spine ends and splits along spine fold... More about Take Ten
New York: HarperCollins, 1974. [but ca. 1990s]. Reprint. Signed by Shel Silverstein on the dedication page with a zig-zag doodle taking up the entire page. Bound in publisher's tan cloth stamped in dark brown. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light shelf wear and light toning. A lovely... More about Where the Sidewalk Ends
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San Francisco: Arion Press, 1986. Signed by the illustrator, Clement Hurd on the half title page of "The World is Round." Bound in pink cloth circular boards printed in blue, with companion volume "The World is Not Flat" by Edith Thatcher Hurd, in original pink box printed in blue, lacking... More about The World is Round [together with] The World is Not Flat by Edith Thatcher Hurd
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1966. Easton Press collector's edition bound in genuine navy leather, lettered and edged in gilt, silken endpapers. Near Fine with former owner's bookplate on half title page. A lovely copy. More about Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751
London and New York: J. M. Dent & Co. and E. P. Dutton, 1909. Copy #335 of a limited 750 in the large paper edition, signed by Arthur Rackham. Very Good. Publisher's cream buckram cloth stamped in gilt, with rose colored ribbon ties intact. Toning, and light but prominent drip-stains... More about Gulliver's Travels
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, 1893. First one-volume edition by Crowell. Bound in pulisher's dark green cloth, with lavish peacock design stamped in gilt and dark blue. Near Fine. Cloth lightly rubbed at tips, previous owner bookplate to front pastedown, pages toned. A beautifully done reprint of Thackeray's... More about Vanity Fair
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition, first printing. First issue with the headline on page 1 in rustic type, the woodcut of Mr. Steyne on page 336 which was later suppressed, and "Mr. Pitt" for "Sir Pitt" on page 453; bound without ads. Finely bound in somewhat contemporary three-quarter... More about Vanity Fair
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1935. First edition. (xii), 227 pp. Original tan cloth with navy lettering. Near Fine with offsetting to gutters, in About Very Good dust jacket with darkened spine panel, faint staining to front panel, chip in back panel, price-clipped. Nice condition overall. More about The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze: A Collection of Short Pieces with Drawings by the Author
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1923. First American edition, bound from plates from the British edition and one of 250 copies thus. Very Good with slightly bowed and edge worn boards, front and rear hinges exposed and a bit tender, gift inscription on front end paper, corner chip to single... More about The Ship That Sailed to Mars
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1930. First edition. [xii], 330 pp. Original brown cloth lettered in yellow. Very Good with light soiling, slight insecting along top edge, scattered foxing to contents, lacking dust jacket. A long out-of-print proletarian novel by the author of Beggars of Life, illustrated by... More about Shadows of Men
New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1885. First edition, first issue. (The first American edition in cloth. All definitive points present: p. 9 has "Decided" instead of "Decides"; p. 13 lists illustration on p. 88 "Him and another Man"; p. 57 error "with the was" 11 lines up from... More about Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Tom Sawyer's Comrade