Washington DC: Smithsonian Associates. Original printing. 184pp. Quarto. Magazine wraps. With the article, "John Held jr., inventor of the Jazz Age," by Dorothy and John Tarrant. Illustrations from the collection of Mrs. John Held Jr. More
New York: Macaulay Company, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. 186pp. Small quarto [22 cm] Light green cloth over boards with black ink lettering and pictorial stamping on the backstrip and front board. The covers and spine are a bit faded and bumped at the edges, and there is a small moisture..... More
New York: Literary Guild, 1930. Rockwell Kent. Trade edition. Hardcover. 281pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Tan cloth covered boards with blue ink stamped titles and designs on the spine and front cover. Very good. The ink stamping on the spine has faded, and there are several small, but prominent markings in..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. 336pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Blue cloth over boards with decorative stamping and lettering in silver on the backstrip. Publisher's brown top stain. The spine ends and edges of the covers are moderately bumped and rubbed, the front hinge is a...... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto [27.5 cm] Blue and white illustrated cloth covered boards. The extremities are rubbed, and the boards are just a bit toned and warped. The endsheets are discolored at the edges, and there is an ink stamp on each pastedown..... More
New York: Blue Ribbon Books, Inc, 1936. Fourth Blue Ribbon Books printing with a Halcyon House dust jacket. Hardcover. SIGNED. 217pp. Quarto [29 cm] Blue cloth covered boards and gilt stamped titles on the spine and front cover. Endpapers illustrated with the "Chart to Resurrection Bay, Alaska, Kenai Peninsula." The..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, No date. Dulac, Edmund. Early Hodder and Stoughton edition, with 20 illustrated plates by Edmund Dulac. Hardcover. Quarto [27 cm] Tan cloth over boards with gilt stamping to front board and backstrip. Paisley-patterned endpapers. Text printed on rectos only. Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. Illustrated with twenty..... More
Philadelphia: David McKay, 1942. Willy Pogany. First edition thus. Hardcover. 101pp. Small quarto [25 cm] Red cloth with gilt stamped titles, and a gilt stamped decorative design on the front cover. Very good, with several areas of minor abrasion on the front board. The pages are clean and bright. With..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. Willy Pogany. Hardcover. Quarto [26 cm] Pale green cloth lettered and decoratively stamped in gilt (the gilt on the spine has faded). Publisher's red top stain. Good only. The extremities are mildly bumped, rubbed and darkened. The front cover has a prominent abraded area..... More
London & Edinburgh: T. N. Foulis, 1920. Hardcover. Quarto [27 cm] Tan cloth over boards with a gilt stamped backstrip, and pictorial stamping in dark brown ink on the front board. The underlying boards are just beginning to peek through at the bottom fore-edge corners of the covers. The text..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, No date. Willy Pogany. Hardcover. 171pp. Quarto [26 cm] Pale orange cloth over boards, with decorative gilt lettering and embellishments on the backstrip and front board, and an illustrated paper label on the front board. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with twelve tipped-in color plates..... More
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, November, 1909. W. Heath Robinson. First American edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated quarto [29 cm]; green cloth boards with gilt title and pictorial crown device on spine and gilt title and pictorial armor device on front board. All thirty large, tipped in color illustrations present and..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, Publishers, 1915. Maxfield Parrish. Special Knickerbocker Edition. Hardcover. 298pp. Quarto [29.5 cm] 1/4 white cloth with peach colored paper over boards, a gilt stamped title on the spine, and a pictorial paper title label on the front board. Underlying boards exposed at the corners..... More
Boston: Lee and Shepard, Publishers, 1877. Hardcover. Unpaginated; [14 pp.] Original green cloth with a gilt stamped title on the spine, and a gilt and black ink stamped title and design on the front cover. All edges gilt. Mild rubbing to the extremities. There is a small stain on the..... More
London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin. Gustave Dore. Leather bound. 839pp. Very thick quarto [31.5 cm] 3/4 black leather with brown cloth covered boards, gilt tooled bands and title on the spine, and gilt stamped decorative borders on the covers. All edges gilt. Marbled endsheets. Good only. Ex-library. Extremities gently rubbed..... More
[Paris]: Adrien Maeght Editeur, 1968. First Edition. Sextodecimo [15.5 cm]. Accordion-folding artist's book composed of matte pictorial boards and folding color lithographic interior. Lacks lucite slipcase. A bright and colorful symbolic reinterpretation by the noted Swiss artist, 'La Fable du Hasard' combines elements of 'The Poor Man and the Rich..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1937. Clare Leighton. First edition. Hardcover. 159pp. Quarto [27 cm] Red cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. There are large splotchy areas of fading on the spine, and the top edge of the front cover has a strip of fading..... More
London: Victor Gollancz Limited, 1937. Clare Leighton. First edition. Hardcover. 159pp. Quarto [27 cm] Red cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the backstrip. The book is in very good condition. A small square has been cut from the jacket's spine, and there is a corresponding faded patch..... More
New York and Toronto: Rinehart and Company, Inc, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 202pp. Small quarto [26 cm] Tan cloth over boards with the title stamped in pale blue ink on the spine. Very good condition. The spine is slightly rolled, the spine and covers are mildly soiled (more so..... More
London and New York: The Studio Publications, 1944. New Edition. Hardcover. 96pp. Small quarto [25 cm] Tan cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine and front board, with a bit of thin staining to the extremities. In a price-clipped dust jacket, which is torn at the edges and..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1945. Clare Leighton. Twentieth anniversary edition, and first illustrated edition. Hardcover. 397pp. Octavo [23 cm] Tan cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on a brown blocked spine label, and a wood engraving by the artist within double ruled brown borders on the front..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 79pp. Duodecimo [20 cm] Red and black pictorial paper over boards. The spine and boards show light edge wear, and the endpapers are discolored. In a heavily worn, price-clipped dust jacket, which is torn in half. Dust jacket art by..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. [Second printing before publication]. Hardcover. 79pp. Duodecimo [20 cm] Yellow and black pictorial paper over boards. The spine and boards show trivial edge wear, and overall extremely crisp and bright. In a price-clipped dust jacket, with toning, and periodic shallow chips and closed tears..... More
London: The Fanfrolico Press. Hardcover. 188pp. Large octavo [25 cm] Black cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine, and a gilt stamped vignette on the front board. Top edge gilt. The extremities are gently bumped and rubbed. Mild spine roll. The text block edges and the..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1909. Hardcover. 352pp. Octavo [21 cm] Blue cloth covered boards with orange ink stamped titles on the spine and front cover, and a blind stamped vignette on the front cover. Illustrated endsheets. Very good. The spine and edges of the covers are lightly bumped and..... More