Lafcadio; The Lion Who Shot Back
Harper Collins Publishers. Hardcover. clipped dust jacket. More
Harper Collins Publishers. Hardcover. clipped dust jacket. More
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1982-1983. Barry Moser. First printings of The California Edition of the Pennyroyal Press Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 146; 167pp. Quarto [35 cm] 1/4 cloth with paper over boards. Decorative endpapers. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is bumped at the bottom fore-edge corner of the front cover..... More
New York: Everyman's Library, 1993. Arthur Hughes. Reprint. Hardcover. 238pp. Octavo [21cm]. Blue cloth over boards, with gilt and black titles and details, and an illustrated label on the front board. Charming pictorial endpapers. Gilt and black on spine has begun to rub off. Black-and-white illustrations by Arthur Hughes. More
Gallup, NM: Buffalo Medicine Books, 2001. Ernest Franklin. Limited Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 31pp. Slim oblong quarto [22 cm x 27 cm] Purple vinyl cloth over boards gilt lettering on the spine, and a gilt stamped vignette on the front board. Light wear to the extremities. With a tipped-in full-page original..... More
Boston, MA: David R. Godine, 1980. Erna Voigt. First American edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. Oblong quarto (26.5 cm x 24.5 cm) in boards over cloth spine. Light shelfwear to jacket; light rubbing to extremities, else boards are crisp and unworn; interior is clean and crisp. Signed and inscribed by Voigt, on..... More
Harlin Quist, Incorporated, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Short oblong octavo [16 cm x 23.5 cm] Black cloth over boards. In a dust wrapper, with subtle yellowing, and minor soiling to the rear panel. With the author's auto-signed signature stamped on the tipped-in dedication page. More
Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Company, Circa 1906. Neill, John R. First edition, second printing, binding B. Hardcover. 314pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Tan cloth with title and illustration on front board and backstrip in red, brown, and black. Illustrated endpapers in red, brown, two shades of green, and black. The..... More
New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1974. Parnall, Peter. Later printing. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Small oblong quarto. [21 cm. x 25.5 cm.] Paper over boards. In Baylor's ALA Notable Children's Book, a child details 10 rules for finding a special rock to befriend. More
New York: An Anne Schwartz Book, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2001. Ian Falconer. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. [31pp.] Quarto [28.5 cm] Black illustrated boards. Signed by the author/illustrator in black marker on the title page. At school Olivia tells about her summer vacation and how, when she went to..... More
New York: Cheshire House, 1931. Franklin Hughes. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 129pp. Quarto [28 cm] White moire cloth over boards with the title stamped in silver on the spine, and silver stamped chess piece designs on the covers. Top edge silver; other edges deckled. Housed in a silver moire thin card..... More
Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co, 1911. John R. Neill. First edition, binding A. Hardcover. 239pp. Small quarto [23.5 cm] Light green cloth over boards with a textured pictorial label on the front board. With 12 color plates. The backstrip has a light stain, measuring 2" tall by 1/4" wide..... More
Gallup, NM: Buffalo Medicine Books, 2001. Ernest Franklin. Limited Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 31pp. Slim oblong quarto [22 cm x 27 cm] Purple vinyl cloth over boards gilt lettering on the spine, and a gilt stamped vignette on the front board. With a tipped-in full-page original watercolor illustration signed by Ernest..... More
New York: Ember, 2019. First edition thus. Paperback. 505pp. Octavo [21cm]. Printed wraps. NEW. From back of book - "Spensa's world has been under attack for decades. Now pilots are the heroes of what's left of the human race, and becoming one has always been Spensa's dream. Since she was..... More
Seattle, WA: Fantagraphics Books, 2019. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 189 pp. Quart [27 cm]; pictorial boards. "The tyrannical Shadow Prince rules the otherworldly land of Argaar, and only a hero foretold by legend can dethrone him -- by plunging the powerful Sword of Ice into a magic stone. But..... More
New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. Thin folio [31 cm] Blue cloth over boards. In a dust jacket, with only minor surface and edge wear. Signed by both Mark Strand and Red Grooms on the title page. More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1903. Hardcover. Hardcover. 142pp. Twentyfourmo [13.5 cm] 1/4 brown cloth with illustrated paper covered boards. Fair condition only. The covers are heavily rubbed. The underlying boards are exposed along the edges. The cloth backstrip has almost completely come away from the spine. The text..... More
Chicago and New York: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1929. First edition. Hardcover. 278pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Red cloth over boards with black ink stamped titles on the spine and front cover, and double ruled title borders in black on the front cover. With light bumping and rubbing at the..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. Quarto [29 cm] 1/4 black cloth with burgundy paper over boards. Light soiling to the slightly warped boards. In a dust jacket, with mild edge wear. Signed by the author, in the year of publication, on the title page. More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1938. Fourteenth Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED. 45pp. Quarto [26 cm] Blue cloth over boards. The cloth on the boards is foxed, the boards are negligibly warped, and the hinges are weak. In the pictorial dust jacket, which is darkened in areas, has periodic tears to..... More
Harlin Quist, Incorporated, 1974. Patrick Couratin. Early printing. Hardcover. Slim square quarto [26cm]; black cloth boards with embossed title on front board and white ink stamped title on spine. The front board is splaying, and the bottom corner of the jacket's front flap has been clipped. Harlin Quist was a...... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1995. Later printing. Hardcover. SIGNED. Slim quarto [29 cm] 1/2 black cloth with orange paper over boards, with subtle warping to the boards. In a dust jacket with a slight crease to the top edge of the front panel. Signed by Van Allsburg on the title..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. Slim oblong quarto [23.5 cm x 30 cm] With multiple small patches of rubbing and light scratch marks on the boards. In a dust jacket, with subtle edge wear, and a 3/4" closed tear along the bottom edge of the front..... More
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. 55 pp. Large octavo. 1/4 brown cloth over gold boards. Illustrated. Fine/Fine. A celebration in honor of Frank Baum's classic Oz series. The contributor list read like a who's who of children's authors and illustrators. Contributors include Mark Buehner, Eric Carle..... More
New York: Atheneum. Lane Smith. Later printing. Hardcover. 144pp. Octavo [23.5cm]; orange boards. Feisty Lulu sets out to make some dough in this illustrated chapter book with “plenty of appeal” (Kirkus Reviews) from children’s book legends Judith Viorst and Lane Smith. The stubbornly hilarious Lulu has decided it’s time to..... More
Gallup, NM: Buffalo Medicine Books, 2001. Ernest Franklin. Limited Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 31pp. Slim oblong quarto [22 cm x 27 cm] Purple vinyl cloth over boards gilt lettering on the spine, and a gilt stamped vignette on the front board. With a tipped-in full-page original watercolor illustration signed by Ernest..... More