Birdy's Smile Book
New York: Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company, (2010). 9780805088830. Signed on title page. First edition. Square quarto, 10-1/4" x 9-1/2." Bright illustrated paper covered boards. More
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Ilenka
Boston and New York: Junior Literary Guild & Houghton Mifflin Company, 1945. Illustrated by Arnold Edwin Bare. Signed by Arnold Edwin Bare. Junior Literary Guild selection. 4to. unpaginated. 46 pp. Orange cloth. "Ilenka was a pretty little girl who lived in the faraway country of Russia. She had a father..... More
The Poisonwood Bible
HarperFlamingo, (1998). 0060175400. Stated First Edition. Black paper covered boards. More
The Happy Day
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1949). Pictures by Marc Simont. Early vintage edition of this 1949 Caldecott Honor winner. Price on dust jacket flap is $1.75. 4to. Pictorial paper covered boards. Same picture on book cover as on dust jacket. This is a lovely copy of this charming book illustrated..... More
If You Were Here
New York: New American Library, May 2011. 9780451234384. Signed on title page. Stated First Printing. 306 pp. 8vo. Cantaloupe color paper covered boards. White paper spine stamped in metallic red. Mia has no doubt that she and her husband, Mac, can win a war of spray-painted words with the young..... More
Old Friends, Essays in Epistolary Parody
New York: Longmans,Green and Co. 205 pp. 12 mo. bound in green cloth with white paper (simulated leather) covered spine. Title page printed in red and black. Half-tone frontispiece picture of golfer titled "The Baron at St. Andrews," from an old painting in the club at St. Andrews, is believed..... More
Seven volumes in series of opera stories for children
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1938. Illustrated by Alexander Serebriakoff. Authorized Edition of the Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc. Small 4to. 9-1/2" x 7-3/8". 42 pp. each. Pictorial paper covered boards. Cloth spines. Each book has a pictorial dust jacket. Every page decorated. Lovely color illustrations throughout. Color frontispiece shows characters..... More
Wee Gillis illustrated by Robert Lawson
New York: Viking, 1938. Illustrated by Robert Lawson. First edition. Unpaginated small 4to. Pictorial paper covered boards. Yellow cloth spine. A Caldecott Honor book for 1939. Robert Lawson loved to draw! 33 full page pen and ink drawings. Green and white pictorial endpapers. More
Rose, Poems
Brockport, NY: Boa Editions, Limited, 1986. 0918526531. Paperback. 71 pp. 8vo. English. "What characterizes Li-Young Lee's poetry is a certain humility, a kind of cunning, a love of plain speech, a search for wisdom and understanding - but more like a sad than a desperate search - a willingness to..... More
Houseboat Girl
Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1957. Illustrated by Lois Lenski. First edition. Blue cloth. 176 pp. Charming pencil illustrations scattered all throughout. More
The Little Train
New York: Oxford University Press, (1957). Illustrated by the author. Eighteenth printing - 1957. Light green cloth stamped in black. Small oblong 8vo. 7-1/4" x 8-3/4". Unpaginated. Charming pictorial endpapers. Engineer Small has a little train. The engine is black and shiny and with the help of Fireman Shorty and..... More
Johnny Appleseed
New York: Macmillan, 1947. Illustrated by George Richards. Small hardcover 8vo.144 pp. Green textured paper covered boards stamped in black. The charming pictorial dust jacket shows one of the poet's heroes, Johnny Appleseed, from Part III of this book titled "Stories and Heroes." Part I, titled "Yellow Butterflies," includes 16..... More
With the Chinook to Georgian Bay
(1931). Brick colored cloth boards. 8vo.Unpaginated. "This book, a Memento of our Georgian Bay and Great Lakes Cruise is dedicated to the Chinook and each member of the crew. . . . . "Saturday afternoon, and what a beautiful sunshiny day it is, but the beauty of such a perfect..... More
The New England Tragedies
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1868. First Edition. 179 pp. 12 mo. bound in reddish brown cloth stamped in gold. Contains two plays: I. John Endicott and II. Giles Corey of the Salem Farms. More
The Princess and Curdie; The Princess and the Goblin, 2 books
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott. 8vo. Pictorial red cloth stamped in gold and black. Top edge of text block stained gold. The Princess and the Goblin (1907). With illustrations in color by Maria L. Kirk together with the original wood engravings after Arthur Hughes. Pictorial endpapers. A slight touch of wear..... More
The Story of the Jubilee Singers with Their Songs
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, no date. Revised edition. Green cloth stamped in black and gold. Small 8vo. 263 pp. More
Virtuosity
New York: Simon Pulse, (2011). 9781442420526. Signed by author on the title page. First Edition. Black paper covered boards with white spine stamped in iridescent red. 294 pp. 8vo. More
How to Draw Funny Pictures, A Complete Course in Cartooning
Chicago: Frederick J. Drake, (1928). With 200 illustrations by Zim. Tall 4to. 162 pp. including index. Grey cloth stamped in black. More
Princess September and the Nightingale
(New York): Oxford University Press, (1939). Illustrated by Richard C. Jones. First edition. Small quarto, 10" x 7-1/4". Green cloth binding. Spine stamped in gold. Beautiful yellow endpapers illustrated in bright primary colors. Just about every page decorated or strikingly illustrated. More
Historical Tales of Toledo
Toledo, Ohio: Woodlands Publishing, (2004). 9780972484428. Inscribed and signed on the free front endpaper. Oblong 4to. 88 pp. Illustrated with many photos. Brown leather binding stamped in silver. More
Linda's Indian Home
Portland, OR: Binfords and Mort, (1956). with photographs by Archie McKeown. Stated First Edition. Orange cloth stamped in black. Small 4to. 10" x 8-1/4". Photographic pictorial endpapers. The real life story of a Wyam Indian girl and her family in the fishing village of Celilo Falls on the great Columbia..... More
The Lost Upland
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. 0679405267. Stated First Edition. Wine colored cloth binding stamped in gold. 307 pp. 8vo. More
The Children
New York and London: John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1897. Decorations by Will Bradley. 134 pp. 12mo. Decorated endpapers. Green cloth stamped in green and gold. Done into types and printed for John Lane at the Wayside Press, Springfield, Massachusetts, in December, Mdcccxcvi. More
A History of English Craft Bookbinding Technique
New York and London: Hafner Publishing Company, (1963). 8vo. Blue cloth binding. 307 pp. including appendices and extensive index. 11 black and white plates illustrating vintage antique bindings. Explanatory illustrations throughout the text. Full color frontispiece showing popular decorated papers used in England during the seventeenth eighteenth and nineteenth centuries..... More
Fox and the Fire
Little Brown and Company, (1966). Illustrated by John Schoenherr. Signed on recto of free front endpaper by illustrator, John Schoenherr. Stated First Edition. 41 pp. Oblong 10-1/4" x 7-1/4". Carmel brown paper covered boards, textured to look like cloth stamped in dark brown. Blue endpapers. Beautiful wildlife illustrations done in..... More