Original publisher's brown cloth binding. No date, circa 1910. 7 1/2" x 9 3/4." 148 pages, complete. Twelve color plates and many black-and-white in-text illustrations, complete. Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for age toning and small red colored pencil marks accenting a few of the black-and-white illustrations in front. Covers are virtually pristine and intact except for light rubbing to front illustration, extremities, and edges of text block. A few of the front pages are slightly loose, else binding is tight. Overall, nice and clean inside and out. A Fine copy. Lew... View More...
1889 and 1893. 2 volumes; publisher's red cloth binding with gilt lettering and gilt edging to pages. Fading and soiling to the spines. I: xxiii, 400 pages; illustrations; index. II: Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, xxxi, 423 pages; [5] pages ads in back; illustrations; index. Collection of stories gathered by Carroll in two volumes. View More...
"New Magnet Library No. 1193". 208 pages; ads in front and back sections; color illustrated cover (4 7/8 x 7 inch) paper wrapper. Very good copy. View More...
"The New Magnet Library No. 1202". 205 pages; ads in the front and back sections; color illustrated cover, paper wrapper (4 7/8 x 7 inch). Tear at the base of the front cover, former owner's name on the cover. Very good copy. View More...
Original publisher's blue cloth binding with multicolored illustrated dust wrapper. 5 3/4" x 8 3/8." 246 pages, complete. One black and white frontispiece, complete. Pages and covers of book are very clean and intact. Dust wrapper is clean and intact overall but has some chipping along the extremities. No remainder marks to dust wrapper. A story of three young men who work to advance aviation technology for the U.S. military amid the backdrop of World War II. Inside of dust wrapper's front panel: "Besides serving as a tale of high adventure, this work presents an interesting inside pic... View More...
"The Adventure Library No. 35". 311 pages; ads in front and back sections; color illustrated cover (4 7/8 x 7 inch) paper wrapper. Very good copy. View More...
No. 4 of the What Katy Did (or Carr Family) series. Original publisher's red cloth binding. 5 1/4" x 7." 304 pages, complete. Black and white illustrations, complete. Sixteen additional pages of advertisements for books by Coolidge and other authors in the back, most are accompanied by black and white illustrations. Gilt floral decorations and lettering on front cover. Gilt decoration and lettering on spine. Pages are clean; binding is tight. This book by Susan Coolidge (the pen name, of Sarach Chauncey Woolsey) is the fourth in the What Katy Did series and follows the story of Katy's... View More...
Original publisher's folio with unbound leaves laid in. Folio is printed on white cardstock with a blue and white illustration on the front panel. The leaves come in a variety of colors, blue, green, and white. 8 1/4" x 10." Fifty-six unnumbered leaves, complete. Illustrations in black and white and color, complete. This is the 2009 Keepsake for members of the Book Club of California. Thirteen authors, twelve women and one man, are featured with accompanying biographies and a facsimile cover of one of their children's books. The following are the books with their respective authors: Al... View More...
194 pages; publisher's binding in pale green cloth with color flower decoration on front cover and spine. Gilt title, author, and publisher on the spine. "Premium Library" in gilt on the cover. Series of stories about peoples' lives and religion. Nice clean copy inside and out. View More...
Publisher:
London, England, Longman and Co.; Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.; Whittaker and Co.; F. and J. Rivington; Houlston and Stoneman; Smith, Elder, and Co.; Grant and Griffith; J. S. Hodson; Willoughby and Co. : 1851
Brown 3/4 leather binding with brown cloth-covered boards. Red spine label with gilt lettering. Four raised bands. All edges marbled. 4 1/4" x 6 3/4." 443 pages, complete. Black-and-white plates, complete. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Former owner's faint ink inscription dated 1851 on the blank recto of the frontispiece. Pages slightly age-toned. Both endpapers and a few pages in the front and back are foxed. Most of the pages are not foxed. Covers have slight wear to corners, edges, and front and back outer joints. A Very Good copy. A classic of... View More...
Original publisher's dark blue cloth binding in a light gray-blue paper-covered slipcase. Gilt lettering on front cover and book spine. No lettering on slipcase. Book: 6" x 8." Slipcase: 6 1/4" x 8 1/4." 122 pages, complete. Pages and covers of the book are very clean and intact overall. Binding is tight. Covers have slightly bumped corners, slight rubbing to corners and edges, and darkening along spine. Slipcase is clean and intact overall but has age toning, slight indenting or compressing to the sides, and light to moderate wear to corners and edges. A Near Fine book in a Very Goo... View More...
Leather backed illustrated boards, spine label. Slip case with decorated spine label. No. 482 of 2000 copies signed by illustrator. Color plates. 272 pages. 6 3/4" x 10". From the Introduction: "American Notes is the account of a love affair that went badly wrong. Charles Dickens traveled to America in January, 1842, with a romantic dream of what he would find in that Land of Liberty; he left six months later a disillusioned, hostile critic of most of what he had seen". In the author's Preface, Dickens notes: "To represent me as viewing America with ill-nature, coldness, or animosity, is merel... View More...
No. 744 of 850 copies printed at The Curwen Press. Gilt trim at vellum edges, gilt lettering front cover and spine. Color and black and white illustrations, full and partial page. Gilt edged page tops. Uncut page sides and bottoms. Some unopened pages. Small stain bottom last page of Introduction to page 3, text unaffected. The Introductory Note mentions that this work and "Ixion", both by Disraeli, were published in 1834 and ".it is significant that though he later wrote more profound, more sustained works, never did he write anything more brilliant and witty than 'Ixion' and 'The Infernal Ma... View More...
'The Childrens Bookshelf'. xiv, 325 pages; illustrations, 4 in color; bound in blue cloth, color illustration pasted on the cover with gilt lettering on the spine, dust jacket under mylar. Fine clean copy of this classic children's story. View More...
Original advertisement for a book by Booth Tarkington, Penrod and Sam. Published by Doubleday, Page and Company. Printed as a brochure on white paper. No date, circa 1916. 5 1/4" x 8 1/4." Four pages, complete. One leaf folded in half and printed on all sides. Paper is very clean and intact overall except for a some wrinkling and a small puncture on the third and fourth pages not affecting text. Splitting along a horizontal fold line at center. The first three pages provide example illustrations of the book and some selling points of the story. The price of the book is listed as $1.3... View More...
No. 10 of the Altemus' Illustrated Rose Carnation Series. Original publisher's gray cloth binding with gilt decorations and multicolored illustration on front cover showing Charlie pulling a sled loaded with wood in a wintry landscape while other children ride sleds for fun. Original (and quite uncommon) gray-brown dust wrapper included. Dust wrapper in mylar. The back panel of the dust wrapper lists other books in the Altemus' Illustrated Rose Carnation Series. 5 1/2" x 7 5/8." Fifty-six pages, complete. Black and white illustrations, complete. Dust wrapper and page and covers of the ... View More...
First edition. Illustrated wrapper. Black and white illustrations. A Rubiyat parody, set to the times of Prohibition. Unpaginated, but fifteen pages. View More...
Original publisher's pink cloth binding. Illustrated dust jacket with plastic cover. No date, circa 1930. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2." 212 pages, complete. Book has black and white illustrations. Pages are very clean but browned. Front joint is cracked. The dust wrapper lists this book as second of three in a series. The Submarine Boys is an adventure series and was written for juvenile boys. The books feature three sixteen-year-old boys and chronicle their adventures at sea. View More...
