Concord, N. H. Rufus Merrill, 1854. Hard Cover. 16mo. Bound in original blind stamped brown cloth. Profusely illustrated in black and white throughout; six parts in one volume, each part is 16 pages, thus: My Flower Pot; Book About Birds; Stories About Dogs; People of the Old World; Book About... More about Child's Picture Book
Venice: Ferd. Ogania, 1906. LIMITED EDITION. Hard Cover. English edition limited to 500 copies, 110 full page plates including four chromolithographic plates all with tissue guards, several various colored silk ribbons tissue wrapped for protection, bound in deep red velvet, central gilt portrait medallion with florets, pictorial orange endpapers, top... More about A GLANCE AT THE GRIMANI BREVIARY Preserved in S. Mark's Library, Venice
Boston: Dana Estes & Co., 1910. Hard Cover. Quarto. 237pp., 16 full page photo illustrations, bound in green pictorial cloth depicting totem poles accented in blue and orange, lettering gilt. A near fine copy, with just a hint of wear at edges. A beautiful copy. More about OUR NORTHERN DOMAIN Alaska Picturesque, Historic and Commercial
Philadelphia [ca.1812]: Kimber and Conrad. Original Wraps. 2 1/2" X 5 1/2" 12 leaves illustrated with woodcuts, text containing little sayings, advice, etc.; bound in plain tan stiff paper wraps. A fine copy. More about A PICTURE BOOK FOR LITTLE CHILDREN
Philadelphia [ca.1812]: Kimber and Conrad. Original Wraps. 2 1/2" X 5 1/2" 12 leaves illustrated with woodcuts, text containing sayings, advice, etc., bound in plain tan stiff paper wraps. minor soiling to rear panel with corners slightly clipped. Very nice. More about A PICTURE BOOK FOR LITTLE CHILDREN
New York; (nd.ca.1925): Thomas Nelson & Sons. Hard Cover. 63(1)pp., four full page color illustrations by; (2) Anne Anderson, (1) E. Dorothy Rees and (1) AW/AA. illustrated throughout in black and white, bound in tan pictorial cloth designed by the "Decorative Designers" in colors of black, blue and purple, spine... More about TINY TOT'S FIRST BOOK
Philadelphia: Benjamin Warner, 1821. Original Wraps. 16pp., half-title, illustrated with 8 plates including frontispiece. Bound in original plain salmon stiff wrappers; one page creased. Small loss at head of spine, in all a very good copy. More about THE TRAGI-COMIC HISTORY OF THE BURIAL OF COCK ROBIN; With the Lamentations of Jenny Wren; the...
London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co. John Leech. Three-Quarter Leather. Octavo. c.1870, xviii [320] 304 pages. Two volumes in one book. Twenty hand-colored plates and 200 woodcuts in the text. Beautifully bound in 3/4 red morocco, with gilt decorated panels on spine; top edges gilt. More about The Comic History of England
London & Paris: A. H. Walker, 1878. Hard Cover. Large folio (27 1/4" x 13"), "Third edition and Twelfth-Thousand carefully and critically revised and brought down to 1878." Twenty-one color lithographs (each 27" x 13"), conjoined to make a folding panorama of approximately 22 feet long, when unfolded; simply spectacular... More about Adams' Illustrated Panorama of History
Bruxelles: Editions Du Nord, 1943. Nelly Degouy. Original Wraps. Number 47 of 50 copies on Holland Van Gelder paper, with an extra suite of 30 color plates in original envelope; original paper covered slipcase. Original pictorial wrappers, original glassine dust jacket. A lovely copy, internally clean and bright, with no... More about Le Grand Meaulnes (#47 of 50 copies
New York: American Art Association; Anderson Galleries, Inc., 1937. First Edition. Hard Cover. Quarto. Bound in original grey boards, with color label of a fox, pasted to front board; 115 pages, illustrated in black and white. Blank bid sheet tipped in at rear. A very good copy, issued withour dust wrapper. More about Sporting and Colored Plate Books Illustrated By Henry Alken, Thomas Rowlandson, Edward Orme and...
Los Angeles, CA. Segnogram Publishing Co., 1908. First Edition. Hard Cover. Octavo. Enchanting illustrations by Alexander Sharp depicting the goblins, fairies, brownies, gnomes, elves and cherubs who live in Fairy-Land. Anyone living in fairy-land who became angry at anyone and stayed angry, would then be turned into a toad, a.... More about THE GOBLINS' CHRISTMAS
New York: V. G. Audubon. Hard Cover. First octavo edition, 1849-51-54, with all 31 original wrappers present (front and rear), and bound into 3 volumes. All 155 hand-colored plates are present, as issued; original brown printed wrappers for all 31 parts are bound in; marginal loss to front wrap of... More about Quadrupeds of North America, the
London; 1840-42 & 47: Richard Bentley and Son. First Edition. Full-Leather. 8vo. FIRST EDITION, first issue; the First, Second and Third Series, in three volumes, each with half-title and engraved title pages, humorously illustrated by George Cruikshank and John Leach and with a 2 portraits of the author, with the... More about THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS or, Mirth and Marvels
Chicago: Reilly & Britton, 1904. Hard Cover. First edition, second printing. Color frontispiece and 12 color plates. Bound in red cloth with green illustration endpapers. Fair copy with rear inner hinge broken, front inner hinge cracked, few pages unbound and laid in. All pages included. Cover edge wear. 287 pp. More about THE MARVELOUS LAND OF OZ. Being an Account of the Further Adventures of the Scarecrow and Tin...
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Folio. Bound in illustarted paper covered boards with blue cloth spine. In printed dust jacket. Beautiful full page color illustrations throughout. Very good copy with bookplate front pastedown, gift inscription ffep. Dust jacket age toned with mild chips and... More about OLLE'S SKI TRIP
Philadelphia; 1845-46: Sorin & Ball/Thomas Warddle. Hard Cover. 12mo. With marginal readings together with a copious and original selection of references to parallel and illustrative passages, exhibited in a manner hitherto unattempted. Engraved half-title, 2 title pages, 2 frontispieces, illustrated with 6 maps(some folding) 7 engravings, and 1 folding chart... More about THE ENGLISH VERSION OF THE POLYGLOTT BIBLE, Containing the Old and New Testaments
Boston (1817-18-20): Cummings and Hilliard. First Edition. Full-Leather. Three volumes in six, octavo (25 cm x 16.5cm); the first color plate book printed in America; the plates were printed by aquatint, with the ink applied to the plates "a la poupee." Being a collection of the native medicinal plants of... More about American Medical Botany, Being a Collection of the Native Medicinal Plants of the United States
New York: J. F. Taylor, 1902. First Edition. Hard Cover. Folio. Color illustrated title page, text printed in red and black. A very good- copy bound in gray paper covered boards stamped in white and black. Mild cover edge wear, spine lettering faded, stain spine, tear color title page and... More about SUFI INTERPRETATIONS OF THE QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM AND FITZGERALD
London: Frost and Reed Ltd., 1962. First Edition. Large folio (24" x 18") beautifully reproduced in color, from the originals by Karl Bodmer in Maximilian of Wied's Travels in the Interior of North America, originally published in 1839. A set of 6 plates, housed in an imitation leather portfolio, the... More about Travels in the Interior of North America (Missouri River Expedition
New York: H. M. Caldwell. Hard Cover. Quarter. Bound in gray cloth with past-down color illustration front cover. Very good- copy with mild cover edge wear, stains cover, gift inscription ffep, first few pages pulling away from binding. More about BUMPS AND THUMPS
New York: Random House, 1978. First American Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Folio. Very good copy with top cover corners bumped, mild spotting spine, piece of paper taped to ffep. In a very good dust jacket with minimal soil, short closed tears. More about THE SNOWMAN
New York: G. P. Putnam. Folio. Designed and engraved by W. J. Linton. 75 COPIES PRINTED. THIS IS No. 16. SIGNED BY G. P. PUTNAM. 46 loose sheets laid-in folding brown leather and cloth portfolio with gilt lettering top and bottom of front cover. Missing ribbon ties. Edges of portfolio... More about THANATOPSIS and THE FLOOD OF YEARS
New York: Workman Publishing, 1985. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Square octavo. Illustrated by John Gurney. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. 44 pp. More about The Temptation of Wilfred Malachey
San Francisco: William Doxey, 1895. First Edition. Original Wraps. 12mo. FIRST STATE (16)pp. Stapled, printed and illustrated on both sides of rough China paper. Splendid copy housed within a custom made red morocco slipcase and chemise. Burgess' famous couplet: "I never saw a purple cow. I never hope to see... More about THE PURPLE COW