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.
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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.
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.
Contes de Perrault
Paris: Librairie Ernest Flammarion, no date [ca 1920]. 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.
Sir Ribbeck Of Ribbeck Of Havelland
London: The Macmillan Co, Collier-Macmillan Ltd (1969). Stated First printing, First edition; Inscribed by Nonny Hogrogian on half title page; oblong 16mo.; pictorial cloth covered boards, hardcover; color woodcut illustrations by Hogrogian; a fine clean tight copy in a rubbed and edgeworn dust jacket.
Amphigorey Also
NY: Congdon & Weed Inc (1983). Stated First edition, first hardcover trade edition Toledano A85c; 4to.; pictorial cloth covered boards, hardcover; black and white illustrations; a very good clean tight copy in an edgeworn dust jacket that has been price-clipped.
The Object-Lesson
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1958. First edition second binding, Toledano A4b; oblong 16mo.; black cloth covered boards, hardcover; black and white illustrations; boards are lightly rubbed else a very good clean, tight copy in a sunned dust jacket that is unclipped.
The Raging Tide: or, The Black Doll’s Imbroglio
NY: A Peter Weed Book, Beaufort Books Publishers (1987). Stated First Beaufort edition, First trade edition with the proper price on dust jacket, Toledano A93c; oblong 16mo.; pictorial covered boards, hardcover; black and white illustrations; spine of boards is sunned else a very good clean tight copy in an unclipped...
Two Novels: The Grand Passion and The Doleful Domesticity
The Fantod Press (1992). Limited to 500 numbered #496 and signed; 1st edition, Toledano A107; both books signed by Gorey in the colophon and in a white envelope with titles and sketch on front upper left corner; 24mo.; pictorial stiff wraps, softcovers; black and white illustrations; wraps are lightly rubbed...
Home Wine and Cider Making Simplified
Noroton, CT: The Country Bookstore, 1949. 4to. stiff wraps, softcover; 24 pages; black & white illustrations; covers sunned and chipped, internallya very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy.
The Happy Home: Affectionately Inscribed to Working People
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.
Reminiscences Of An Octogenarian Of The City Of New York (1816 To 1860)
NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1897. 8vo.; cloth covered boards, hardcover; xi, 581 pages with deckled edges and gilt on top edge; black and white illustrations; some pages uncut else a very good clean, tight copy in edgeworn and soiled boards with a sunned spine.
The Built Upon House
Chicago: Albert Whitman & Co. (1929). First edition; 8vo.; cloth covered boards with color paste-on, 126 pages; hardcover; color and b/w illustrations by Lloyd J. Dotterer; a collection of 7 stories; very good in a lightly edgeworn, chipped and soiled dust jacket.
Stories The Sunflowers Told
London: John MacQueen , no date [ca 1900s]. 8vo.; decorative cloth covered boards, 211 pages; hardcover; b/w illustrations and frontispiece by Millicent M Sutcliffe; a Fairy Book for Children; former owner’s bookplate on front endpaper with front hinge cracked and nonauthorial inscription on title page else very good in lightly.....
Mon-Kiri. Japanese Paper Cutting
Tokyo: Japan Publications, Inc. 1957. Small oblong 4to; comb binding pictorial boards; 36 pages; colorful instructions for the art of Mon Kiri or Japanese paper cutting; ten original color papers in rear pocket; a very good clean tight copy; all domestic orders are shipped with a delivery confirmation tracking number.
The Early History of Southampton, L.I., New York, with Genealogies, Revised, Corrected and Enlarged
Albany, NY: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1887. Second Edition: 8vo; cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine; hardcover; 473 pages; black and white illustrations; handwritten notes laid in; black and white illustration laid in on dedication page; names and dates on front pastedown endpaper; sunned, soiled, and edgeworn covers...
Who Will Comfort Toffle?
London: Ernest Benn and NY: Henry Z. Walck (1969). Stated second impression; 4to.; orange cloth covered boards, hardcover; black and white and color illustrations; bottom corners of boards are bumped else a very good, clean tight copy in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket.
The Fairies' Annual.
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head.no date, ca.1918. 4to. Lightly rubbed black decorative cloth with some bubbling. Fifteen color plates by unnamed illustrators accompany twenty-five stories about fairies, b&w vignettes throughout. very good/o.
Little Folks Library Series One: The Topsy-Turvy-Circus, The Return of Araminta, Top O’ The Morning
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...
Capt. Quick’s Flying Saucers and Rocket Ships
Folio; stapled cloth backed pictorial stiff covers; large softcover; color easy-to-build action models; includes flying saucer, 30-inch rocket ship, ray gun, space helmet, space phone set, robot man mask, 2 space-jet planes, and accessories; complete set; sunned and edgeworn covers with sunned pages else a very good clean tight copy.
Mother Goose As Told By Kellogg’s Singing Lady
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......
Reminiscences of the Old Fire Laddies and Volunteer Fire Departments of New York and Brooklyn. Together with a Complete History of the Paid Departments of Both Cities
NY: M. Crane, 1885. 1st edition; small 4to; red and gilt fade and worn cloth covered boards; 895 pages; black & white illustrations; covers worn and endpapers torn else a very good, clean, unmarked copy. NO INTERNATIONAL ORDERS, PLEASE, due to extra weight.
Scrap Irony
Boston: Houghton Mifflin (1961). Stated First Printing, First edition, Toledano B14a; 8vo.; yellow cloth covered boards, hardcover; 128 pages; black and white illustrations; a very good clean tight copy in lightly sunned and edge-rubbed dust jacket that is unclipped.
Mariposa Grove of Big Trees California
Wawona: B. M. Leitch (1910). 4to., chipped pictorial pasteon, string bound wraps; softcover; black & white photographic illustrations; some edgewear else very good.
Forerunners and Competitors of the Pilgrims and Puritans or Narratives of Voyages Made By Persons Other Than The Pilgrims and Puritans Of The Bay Colony To The shores Of New England During The First Quarter Of The Seventeenth Century, 1601 -1625 With Especial Reference To The Labors of Captain John Smith In Behalf Of THe Settlement Of New England, 2 Volume Set
Brooklyn: The New England Society, 1912. 8vo. edgeworn and stained cloth covered boards, vol 1, 387 pages; vol 2, black & white map, x, 389 - 852 pages sunned and edgeworn covers else both volumes have lightly toned pages else very good, clean, tight unmarked copies.