NY: Gotham Book Mart & Gallery Inc, 1976. First edition; pictorial stiff wraps, softcover; small 4to.; black and white illustrations by Gorey; includes a price list for Edward Gorey’s First Etchings and an Addenda to the Fall/Winter List laid in; a fine, unmarked copy. More about Edward Gorey Priced Order List Fall/Winter 1976
London: Watts & Co., 1900. 8vo. cloth backed boards, hardcover; 100 pages plus ads; lightly soiled covers and foxed pages else a clean, tight copy. More about Will Women Help An Appeal To Women To Assist In Liberating Modern Thought From Theological Bonds
NY: Grosset & Dunlap (1937). later edition of a 1909 title. 12 mo., red cloth covered boards with black lettering;, hardcover; 310 pages; toned pages else a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy in an edgechipped dustjacket. More about The Shortstop
Breslau: Ostdeutsche Verlagsanstalt, (1927). Small 4to.; cloth backed decorative boards, hardcover; 37 pages; color illustrations; pages of music with opposite page with illustrations making the same movement as the music notes; German Text; age toned pages in lightly soiled and bumped boards with rubbed corners else very good. More about Liederfibel Kinderlieder In Bildernoten Dargestellt
NY: Robert Carter & Brothers, New York, 1853. Later printing; red cloth hardcover with gilt title and spine decorations, 298 pages, black & white illustrations; heavily foxed else a tight, clean, unmarked copy. More about The Happy Home: Affectionately Inscribed to Working People
Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Co. (1904). small 8vo., blue cloth with gilt lettering and decorations with large color pictorial paste-on; color frontis and b&w illustrations by J.C. Claghorn; very good/o. More about Chuggins: the Youngest Hero With the Army: a Tale of the Capture of Santiago
NY:American Sports Publishing, 1928. 12mo. stiff pictorial wraps, softcover; 71 pages plus ads; black & white illustrations; a very good, clean, tight copy; this has been rebound as a hardcover with a title slip pasted on the spine and the name J. T. Doyle in glilt on the cover. More about Spalding's Official Lawn Tennis Annual 1928
NY: Harper and Brothers (1962). First edition; 8vo.; glossy pictorial boards, hardcover; 63 pages; color illustrations; boards are lightly edgerubbed and soiled with endpapers that have some foxing and a red ink mark else a very good clean tight copy in an edgeworn and soiled dust jacket that has the... More about The Happy Birthday Present An I Can Read Book
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 about Memoir of Mrs. Mary E. Van Lennep, Only Daughter of the Rev. Joel Hawes, D. D. and Wife of the...
San Francisco: Henry Keller & Co., 1877. First Trade edition, published the same year as the Author’s Edition; 16mo.; blind stamped green cloth covered boards with black decorative titles, hardcover; 131 pages and 11 pages addendum of “The Author to the Public”, opinions of the press, and letters and extracts;..... More about The Dance Of Death
Philadelphia: David McKay Co. (1929). Small 8vo.; cloth covered boards with pictorial paste on; hardcover; b/w and color illustrations; boards are lightly rubbed on corners else very good in a poor chipped and torn dust jacket. More about Ameliaranne And The Monkey
NY: The Bobbs-Merrill Company (1939). 8vo. blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering; 206 pages; black & white photographic drawings; toned pages with former owner’s bookplate on front free endpaper else a very good, clean tight copy in a stained and edge-chipped cover (see picture). More about New York, Fair Or No Fair: A Guide For The Woman Vacationist
Chicago: Privately Printed, 1967. 8vo.; pictorial stiff wraps, softcover; black and white glossy photographic illustrations; endpapers and page edges are foxed else a very good clean tight copy in sunned and edge rubbed wraps. More about The Sculpture of John David Brcin Being a Collection of Work by the Artist
NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1916. Small 8vo; decorative cloth covered boards with front pictorial pastedown and gilt lettering; hardcover; 355 pages with (I) on last page; black and white illustrations; edgeworn and rubbed covers with sunned spine else a very good clean tight copy. More about The Magnificent Adventure This being the Story of the World’s Greatest Exploration, and the...
NY: The Merchants’ National Bank, 1903. Small 4to; black cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and decoration; hardcover; 206 pages; black and white photographic illustrations and portraits; lightly edgeworn with lightly sunned pages else a very good clean tight copy. More about The Merchants National Bank 1803-1903
New York: Jack Kriendler Memorial Foundation, 1950. First edition. 4to, 220 pages, gilt stamped red cloth covered boards, hardcover, black & white, color illustrations and photographic illustrations; title page states “Issued on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of “21,” in memory of John Carl Kriendler for the benefit of... More about The Iron Gate of Jack and Charlie's 21 Thru which is presented a vivid portrayal of a unique...
Chicago: The Regensteiner Corp, 1926. 16mo.; three pictorial wrapped books with stapled spine, softcover, inside pictorial box; color and blue and white illustrations; some pencil markings on cover of Topsy-Turvy-Circus and all three books have closed tears on spine ends and are edgeworn in an edgeworn and soiled box with... More about Little Folks Library Series One: The Topsy-Turvy-Circus, The Return of Araminta, Top O’ The...
Battle Creek, Mich: Kellogg Co., 1933. 8vo. stiff pictorial wraps, softcover; 30 page booklet, color and black & white illustrations; Tommy Tucker,Jack Spratt and his wife, Jack and his candlestick, Old Mother Hubbard, Tom the Piper’s Son, Simple Simon and Old King Cole illustrated by Grant; lightly sunned else a...... More about Mother Goose As Told By Kellogg’s Singing Lady
NY: Simon and Schuster (1963). Stated First Printing; 8vo., stiff pictorial wraps, softcover; 96 pages; black and white illustrations; a very good clean tight copy. More about Pogo Puce Stamp Catalog
NY: Sam Gabriel, 1911. Small 4to.; pictorial “linenette” stiff wraps with stapled binding, softcover; color and black and white illustrations; some light soiling else a very good copy in edge rubbed wraps. More about The Railway A. B. C
NY: Harper & Row, 1988. 1st edition with 1 in the numberline; 8vo; cloth backed boards, hardcover; 232 pages; signed by the author on the half-title page; a fine, clean, tight, unmarked copy in a fine unclipped dustjacket. More about The Bean Trees
NY: Alfred A.Knopf (1980). Stated First Edition; 8vo. cloth backed boards, hardcover; signed: “Maxine Hong Kingston” on the title page; a fine clean tight copy in a lightly edgeworn dustjacket. More about Chinamen
Indianapolis, Indiana: Ladies of the Third Presbyterian Church of Indianapolis, Indiana, 1876. Probable 1st edition; small 8vo; purple cloth covered boards with gilt lettering; 134 pages plus index; the book is filled with recipes written in ink and in pencil and multiple newspapers pasted on the pages. There is a.... More about The House-Keepers’ Help A Book Of Tested Recipes
NY: Aldus Printers, 1955. 8vo.; from the advertising and sales promoting department of the Aldus Printers of NY, Keepsakes on Strathmore Papers; contains The Legend of the Christmas Rose and The Little Hunchback Zia both in red boards, hardcover; in a paper slipcase; black and white illustrations; the Legend of... More about The Legend of the Christmas Rose and The Little Hunchback Zia, Keepsake on Strathmore Papers
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 about Stony Brook Secrets