Chicago: By the author, 1910. 1st. Hardbound. 12mo, 54 pages. Housed in original cardboard box (corners separating). Handsome production, gilt stamped and color illustration on front cover, top edge gilt. INSCRIBED 'With love and/understanding friendship./Blanch S. Ortmann/Jan. 8, 1938' on half title. More
Joliet: P.F. Volland, 1918. Early printing. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [40] pp.7 full page color illustrations and several smaller ones throughout the book by Johnny Gruelle. Black cloth spine, color pictorial paper-covered boards; color pictorial endpapers. Housed in publisher's color illustrated lidded box. The book is in near fine condition (hint..... More
San Francisco: Determined Productions, (1962). First Edition. Square 12mo. [61] pp. black & white illustrations. Printed publisher's order form laid in. Cream & orange-brown pictorial boards in publisher's dustjacket. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket. Brief text and illustrations featuring Charlie Brown and his friends finding happiness in the..... More
San Francisco: Determined Productions, 1963. First Edition. Square 12mo. [64] pp. black & white illustrations. Pictorial pictorial boards in publisher's illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket (minor wear to extremities). The second title in this series of square-shaped books written and illustrated by Schulz, in which Snoopy..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1947. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author, with 4 pp. ALS taped to ffep. 8vo. 96 pp. Illustrated by Berta and Elmer Hader. Near fine in very good dustjacket (small paper loss along lower front edge and spine end; lower front flap corder clipped; price of $2.00..... More
London; New York: Dean & Son; International Art Publishing Co., (1897). First Edition. Date from owner name and date of 1897. (14 1/2" x 9 3/4"). [10] pp. Full-page chromolithographic vignettes with titles on every page as well as front & rear covers. Stiff staplebound lithographic covers. A good copy..... More
Portola Valley, CA: Published by the author, 1999. First Edition. Oblong 4to. [46] pp. Story and drawings by Martin Davis Taylor; retold by Catherine N. Coleman. SIGNED & dated '2000' by the author. Materials from bookstore signing in Carmel, CA laid in (6 color & black & white prints; photographic..... More
New York: Longmans & Green, 1942. Berry, Erick. 1st. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo. viii, 248pp, including baking recipes. Black & white illustrations by Berry Erick; illustrated end papers. Green cloth covered boards with black illustration to front cover and lettering to spine; illustrated endpapers; in original illustrated dustjacket. A fine..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1954. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author. Oblong 8vo. [56] pp. Color and black & white illustrations. Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering in original color illustrated dustjacket. Minor wear along board edges else fine in near fine dustjacket (small crease and short closed tear..... More
San Francisco: New England Soap Co., ca. 1900. Paperback. 12mo. 12 pp. Color illustrations. Advertisements for Kleeno Washing Powder & Queen Lily Soap. Color illustrated wrappers in very good condition (light, general wear & creasing). Includes 10 simple illustrated rhymes. The New England Soap co. appears to have started business..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939. Antonio Sotomayor. 1st. Hardcover. Quarto; [xii], 198 pages. Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket w/light extremity wear. INSCRIBED on half title 'For Elizabeth Atkins Berg/from two authors to another/with best wishes/V. Wolfgang von Hagen/ Quail Hawkins/Antonio Sotomayor'. More
Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1942. First Edition. 8vo. Unpaginated. Color and black & white llustrations by the author. Orange cloth with black illustrationg and lettering in color illustrated dustjacket. Previous owner name else fine in very good dustjacket (minor wear to extremities; age toning to covers). Winner of the New..... More
New York: Dodd Mead, 1882. First American Edition. 12mo. 63 pp. Illustrated plates. Original publisher's brown cloth with title and gilt illustration of a cat at an open window stamped in black and gilt, chromolithographic plate on front cover. Light wear, gift inscription dated 1883, else a near fine copy..... More
Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Company, 1920. Cloth. Small octavo. 44pp. 12 delightful full-page color illustrations (including frontispiece). Original brown cloth with black lettering and color illustration pastedown in scarce illustrated dustjacket. The Bunnykin Books series. Tony Twiddler's Inn is robbed by Weasel and Rat. More