A selection of 50 fine and rare titles.
Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1919. Quarto. Color frontispiece and twelve color pates. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards with illustration by Alan Wright. FIRST EDITION. Scottish-born Anderson's fluid and delicate style exemplifies the Art Nouveau movement.
New York: Leavitt & Allen, 1863. Six volumes, complete, 12mo. Frontispieces, with tissue guards, and plates. Original green blind-embossed decorated cloth. Sarah L. Barrow was the daughter of Frances Barrow, who wrote the "Nightcaps", "Mittens" and other popular series under the name "Aunt Fanny."
Chicago IL: Reilly and Britton Co, Christmas Stocking Series, 1905. 103 x 75 mm. 124 pages. Color plates by John R. Neill and E. S. Hardy. Original blue cloth rear cover and spine, board front cover with mounted picture. First edition, and part of the miniature Christmas Stocking Series: collections.....
New York: Macmillan, 1932. First edition. Octavo. Original cloth; original pictorial dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, in a very clean and fresh dust jacket.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1986. First edition, later issue. Quarto. Original pictorial glazed boards; original pictorial dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY DEPAOLA on the half-title "For Sophie & Michael / Tomie [with a heart] '92/97." dePaola created a richly illustrated book of nursery tales, taken from fairy and folk tales.....
Putnam, 1992. First edition. 4to. Original glazed pictorial boards; original pictorial dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, the 1993 Caldecott Medal winner for illustration. Mirette is a French girl who learns to walk on a tightrope. Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt (creators of The Fantasticks) created a musical version in 1996.
Dickery, 1936. Quarto. 13 pages. Six three-dimensional photos. "Ortho-Scope" glasses present in the pocket in the front. Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION of this unusual production -- the reader can view the pictures through the "Ortho-Scope" glasses to see the three-dimensional images rise from the page.
P F Volland Co, 1929. First edition. 4to. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION of Justin C. Gruelle's Mother Goose. "...The figures are not manikins; they speak; they body emotion; they move; they show forth that intangible but very real quality which the artist dismisses with the single word 'character'.......
New York: The Century Co., 1902. Oblong quarto. Color illustrations. Original glazed pictorial boards. Each page offers a metapicture, framed by a couple -- the first line appears below the image and right-side up, the second line above and upside-down. One turns the book 180 degrees to complete the rhyme.....
London: J. M. Dent, 1894. First edition. 12mo. 60 pages. Original gilt-decorated cloth, top edges gilt. Robert Anning Bell (1863-1933) designed, with George Frampton, the altarpiece exhibited at the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society. He was later appointed chief of the design section at the Glasgow School of Art, and.....
![Item #107613 Somebody Else's Nut Tree [two issues]. Maurice SENDAK, Ruth KRAUSS](https://riverrunbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/107613.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1472670079)
New York: Harpers, 1958. Sendak, Maurice. First edition, "Reinforced Library Edition", and "Harpercrest Edition" 4to. Original cloth; original pictorial dust jackets. Together two volumes. The first is price clipped and repriced at $2.99 and states "Reinforced Library Edition" on the front of the jacket. The second is price clipped and.....
New York: Harper and Bros, 1961. First edition, first state. Square small quarto. Original pictorial boards; original printed dust jacket priced $1.95. FIRST EDITION, published in Sendak's first annus mirabilis as a budding artist: the year he received the remarkable letter of encouragement from his editor, Ursula Nordstrom, and the.....
New York: Harper and Row, I Can Read, 1968. 8vo. The uncorrected proof of the reissue, in unimprinted black wrappers. SIGNED on the title-page by Sendak.
New York: Harper and Row, 1975. Four long sheets of the text only. 24 x 9 inches. Dated 11-13-75. The long uncut galley sheets issued in advance of the finished book.
Simon and Schuster, 1955. First edition. Quarto. The pullout (pages 13-16) is present but detached (bright with no tears). Original decorated cloth; original dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of the original Eloise -- a work initially meant for adults (its re-release in 1969 was aimed at children). This book.....
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. First edition. Oblong quarto. Original cloth; original pictorial dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, heralded by Publisher's Weekly upon publication: "Two-time Caldecott Medalist Van Allsburg reaches a new pinnacle of excellence in both illustration and storytelling in his latest work."
