E. D. Ward A Mercurial Bear A Dogear Wryde Paper Pastime
NY: Gotham Book Mart (1983). First edition, Toledano A87; 16mo.; pictorial stiff wraps with stapled binding, softcover; a very good clean uncut copy. More
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The Poetry of John Donne
N.P: At The Signe of The Ink-Well by Vincent Torre, 1952. #2 of 50 copies; 4to., beige paper-covered boards; decorations cut in oak wood; a very good clean tight copy with no apparent flaws. More
Stories of the Gorilla Country. Narrated for Young People.
NY: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1869. Small 8vo; gilt decorated cloth covered boards; hardcover; 292 pages plus 6 pages of valuable and interesting books, suitable for young persons; black and white frontispiece and black and white illustrations; stories of Africa; sunned boards that are edgeworn with frayed spine ends and... More
Dutch Treat How To Book 1955
NY: Dutch Treat Club, 1955. 1st edition;small 8vo., pictorial endpapers; not paginated; color and black & white illustrations; a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy. More
Poppy Ott’s Seven League Stilts
NY: Grosset & Dunlap (1926). small 8vo. red cloth covered boards; red and white pictorial endpapers; 242 pages; lightly tanned pages else a very good clean, tight copy in a lightly soiled and edgeworn dustjacket. More
Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats Calendar for 1989 with excerpts from the poems by T.S. Eliot
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers (1989). Stated First edition with an A present in the number line; small 4to.; stiff pictorial wraps with metal spiral binding, softcover; a fine unmarked copy. More
Christmas Stories
Brooklyn, NY: Baldwin the Clothier, 1894. Large 8vo. stiff pictorial wraps; softcover; 48 pages; black and white illustrations; a very good clean tight copy with no apparent flaws. More
The Little Housewife ABC Father Tuck’s Nursery Tales Series ABC No. 5120
London, Paris, Berlin, New York, Montreal: Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd, no date [ca 1913]. Small 4to.; stiff glossy pictorial wraps, softcover; pages are untearable Linen; brown and white and color illustrations; some internal foxing wraps and pages are edgeworn with a small circle rubbed on front cover with some... More
The Bible ABC Father Tuck’s “Old Testament” Series
NY, London, Paris: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd, no date [ca 1900]. Small 4to.; glossy stiff pictorial boards, softcover; brown and white illustrations and 4 full color plates; gift inscription on front wrap on top edge dated 1910 also name written on back wrap, wraps are soiled and edgeworn else very good. More
Long Island The Sunrise Home Land Islandwide Survey Of Communities 1929 Eighth Annual Edition
NY: Committee on Publications Long Island Chamber of Commerce, 1929. Small 4to.; stiff pictorial wraps, 192 pages; softcover; black & white illustrations, photographic illustrations and maps; contents include: Islandwide information, Long Island State Parks, Railroad Transportation Information, Borough of Brooklyn, Map of Brooklyn, Borough of Queens, Map of Queens, Communities... More
Contes de Perrault
Paris: Librairie Ernest Flammarion, no date. 24mo; small cloth backed boards, hardcover; 77 pages plus ad; 7 full page color plates by Margaret Tarrant; French text; edge chipped covers, internally, a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy. More
Catalogue of British Military Medals in the Collection of Rev Ralph A Fitzpatrick
Los Angeles: Richard Keefe, 1972. 1st edition; 8vo., hardcover; number 3 of 50 copiesl 267 pages; inscription to a friend; a very good, clean, tight copy. More
The Betty Fairy Book No. 30
Rochester, NY: Stecher Litho Co, 1915. Narrow Folio shape book; stiff pictorial wraps with stapled binding, softcover; red, blue and white and full color illustrations; No. 30; gift inscription on page opposite title page else very good in edgerubbed wraps. More
Before I Go, You Should Know... My Funeral and Final Plans
Hinesburg, VT: A Funeral Consumers Alliance Publication (2000). First edition; 8vo.; softcover booklet, pamphlets, and refrigerator magnet all contained in a stiff plastic envelope with a string closer; black and white illustrations by Edward Gorey; Includes, sheet on Palliative Care, advance directives, death away from home, a checklist to prepare... More
Open Spaces
London: Burberry’s Limited. 1st edition; 8vo; cloth covered flexible boards with pictorial title label; 247 pages with black & white illustrations; a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy. More
Woven History The Technology and Innovation of Long Island Coverlets, 1800 - 1860
Seatauket, NY: Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities. 1st edition; small 4to; stiff pictorial wraps, softcover; 86 pages, black and white photographic illustrations of coverlets and related things on almost every page; a fine, clean, tight copy. More
The Willowdale Handcar Or The Return Of The Black Doll
Indianapolis/NY: Bobbs-Merrill Co. (1962). First edition, Toledano A10a; square 24mo.; pictorial stiff wraps, softcover; black and white illustrations; a very good clean tight copy. More
Mielziner Master Of Modern Stage Design
NY: Back Stage Books (2001). Stated First printing, First edition with a 1 present in the number line; Inscribed and signed by the author on the front free endpaper “To dearest XXX, With heartfelt thanks for all of her moral and spiritual support for many many years. Love, Mary Henderson... More
Albert Bierstadt Painter of the American West
NY: Harry N. Abrams in association with the Amon Carter Museum (1974). square 4to., cloth covered boards, hardcover; 360 pages; color and black and white illustrations;a very good clean tight copy in a very good dustjacket . More
Cinnabar, The One O'Clock Fox
NY: Rand McNally (1956). 1st printing "A", small 4to., cloth covered boards ; a very good clean tight copy with no apparent flaws in a lightly edgeworn and wrinkled dustjacket with some red edge stains on inside edges. More
Memoir of Mrs. Mary E. Van Lennep, Only Daughter of the Rev. Joel Hawes, D. D. and Wife of the Rev. Henry J. Van Lennep, Missionary in Turkey.
Hartford: Belknap and Hamersley, 1847. 1st edition; 12mo., 382 pages; stamped decorative brown cloth covered boards, hardcover; edgeworn with two small stains on front cover and some internal foxing else a very good. clean, tight copy. More
The Moral Probe or One Hundred and Two Common Sense Essays on the Nature of Men and Things: Interspersed with Scraps of Science and History With an Appendix, Containing the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution of the United States...
NY: J.M. Stoddard, 1972. 8vo.; brown cloth covered boards with gilt lettering, hardcover; 272 pages and a 64 page appendix; light edgewear else a fine, clean, tight copy. More
Stony Brook Secrets
NY: The Gotham Bookmart Press (1942). First Edition; small 4to; pictorial cloth covered boards; hardcover; 146 pages; black and white illustrations; contents include: Indians and First Whites, The Creek and Lubber Street, The Old Mill and Mill Pond, Old Homesteads and Sailing Ships, Artists and Old Homes, Stony Brook Old... More
Seven Tales by H.C. Andersen
NY: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1959. 8vo; decoratively embossed cloth covered boards with gilt lettering; hardcover;128 pages; color and black and white illustrations; 5 colored plates by Sendak; Translated from the Danish; lightly sunned covers else a very good clean tight copy. More