La Fontaine: Fables Choisies pour les Enfants.
LA FONTAINE. DE MONVEL, M. B. (illus.) 48 pp. Illustrated throughout in color by M. B. de Monvel. Oblong 4to, publisher's patterned and gilt cloth in dust jacket. The cloth is a bit soiled but unworn, tight and sound; contents fine. The illustrated dust jacket has a fe small chips and a small calculation in ink on the rear panel.- $250
- $250
Le Quartine.
OMAR KHAYYAM. FITZGERALD, Edward (Trans.) ANGELI, Diego. DULAC, Edmondo (illus.) Frontispiece plus 16 tipped-in color plates by Edmund Dulac, each with printed border and captioned tissue overleaf. Folio, publisher's gilt cloth. This is the first reprint of the first Italian edition (1910). Some tanning to the edges of the text; the plates all fine. The cloth is a bit frayed at extremities; tight and sound.- $200
- $200
William Blake, Painter and Poet.
[BLAKE, William] GARNETT, Richard. 80 pp. Illustrated. 8vo, publisher's printed wrappers. The text block is separated from the wrappers and essentially disbound. A few chips to wrappers. The Portfolio: Monographs on Artistic Subjects with Many Illustrations; Published Monthly.- $75
- $75
What is Life? The Physical Aspect of he Living Cell.
SCHROEDINGER [SCHRODINGER], Erwin. 91 pp. Illustrated. 12mo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. Reprint. Tiny tears at the margin of one text leaf (dog-ear); otherwise a fine copy in a tanned jacket with a few tiny spots and chips. Based on Lectures delivered under the auspices of the Institute at Trinity College, Dublin, in February 1943.- $45
- $45
Dick Whittington & His Cat. Saint George & The Dragon. Beauty and the Beast.
LAWSON, Robert (illus.) KINGSTON, William H. G. SHENTON, Edward (illus.) DE BEAUMONT, Mme. Le Prince de. LEGRAND, Edy (illus.) HERSHOLT, Jean (General Editor) 3 vols. Folio, publisher's decorated boards in glassine and publisher's slipcase. First edition; No. 60 of 2500 copis. Volumes fine; glassine fine. slipcase fine. The Evergreen Tales; or, Tales for the Ageless.- $100
- $100
About Robins. Songs, Facts, & Legends, collected & illustrated by Lady Lindsay.
LADY LINDSAY. Illustrated in color and line by Lady Lindsay. 4to, publisher's cloth-backed illustrated boards. Some scattered soiling to text; boards rubbed, particularly at the edges; with a light use at the extremities of the spine; tight and sound. The color illustrations are quite attractive.- $30
- $30
Cinderella. Retold by C. S. Evans.
RACKHAM, Charles (illus.) EVANS, C. S. 110 pp. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, including a tipped-in color frontispiece with border. Large 8vo, publisher's boards illustrated in black and orange, in dust jacket. Trade edition. A bright unworn copy in a jacket with a 1-1/4" chip at the bottom of the spine and a few other much smaller chips. Printed at The Complete Press, West Norwood, London.- $350
- $350
The Tale of King Midas and the Golden Touch. Pandora’s Box. The Emperor’s NEw Clothes.
HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. EICHENBERG, Fritz (illus.) BUSONI, Rafael (illus.)HERSHOLT, Jean (General Editor). ANDERSEN, Hans Christian. METZL, Ervine (illus.) 3 vols. Folio, publisher's decorated boards in glassine and publisher's slipcase. First edition; No. 1873 of 2500 sets. Volumes fine; glassine fine; slipcase fine. Signed by Jean Hersholt. The Evergreen Tales; or, Tales for the Ageless.- $100
- $100
Illustrations of the Book of Job by William Blake. Being all the Water-colour Designs, Pencil Drawings and Engravings Reproduced in Facsimile.
BLAKE, William. BINYON, Laurence. KEYNES, Geoffrey. With an Introduction by Laurence Binyon and Geoffrey Keynes. Part II: Twenty-one Water-colour Drawings Made for Thomas Butts. III. Twenty-one Water-colour Drawings Made for John Linnell. Part IV. Pencil Drawings Made for the Reduced Water-colours (25 plates). Part V. Twenty-one Reduced Water-colours known as The New Zealand Set. Part VI. Illustrations of the Book of Job, in Twenty-one Plates (21 plates plus title leaf). Folio, publisher's cloth plus five fascicles in cloth-backed wrappers, each with printed paper label; in publisher's cloth folding box with printed paper label on spine. Bookplate and tiny ink accession number in each part; contents otherwise fine. The folding box is faded, with some whitish stains and splitting and several short joints and wear at others. Additional postage applicable: large and heavy. Publisher's announcement laid in.- $750
- $750
Ola.
D'AULAIRE, Ingri & Edgar Parin. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white. Folio, publisher's cloth-backed boards illustrated in color, in dust jacket. First edition. Light use at extremities; tight and sound in a tanned jacket with a few coin-sized chips and some light use at edges. With the pencil ownership signature of Helen T. Fay with the annotation "used in many demonstrations." Helen Fay was involved in the publishing industry.- $75
- $75
The Three Policemen; or Young Bottsford of Farbe Island.
DU BOIS, William Pene. 92 pp. Illustrated in color and black and white by William Pene du Bois. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Slight sunning to the spine and edges of the cloth; clean, tight and sound in a jacket with some chips at edges and other moderate use.- $60
- $60
Land’s End. A Naturalist’s Impressions in West Cornwall.
HUDSON, W.H. viii, 323 [4, ads] pp. 8vo, publishers' blue gilt cloth. First edition. Payne A26a. Corners bumped; a bit shaken, and with some wear to extremities. Bookplate on pastedown. Preserved in a custom blue cloth slipcase and chemise. With Forty-nine illustrations by A.L. Collins.- $200
- $200
Holly Berries: or, The Pleasures of Home and the Country. New Stories for the Winter and Summer Holidays of Little People.
HAZARD, Willis P. (pub.] [HARRISON, Weir, illus.] 168 pp. With Illustrations brilliantly printed in colors: color frontispiece and four color plates 12mo, publisher's cloth. First edition. Small old ink gift inscription; a few scattered spots to text; cloth faded and stained.- $75
- $75
Cassell’s Dore Gallery. Containing Two Hundred and Fifty Beautiful Engravings, Selected from The Dore Bible, Milton, Dante’s Inferno [and others] With Memoir of Dore, Critical Essay, and Descriptive Letterpress.
OLLIER, Edmund. DORE, Gustave (illus.) xlix, 152 pp. Illustrated throughout from engravings. Folio, old half morocco; a.e.g. Later edition. Ink ownership signature; binding scuffed and soiled with splitting along both joints (rear cover nearly detached). Additional postage applicable.- $75
- $75
Hansel and Gretel. The Whimsical History Bluebeard. The Story of Jack and the Beanstalk.
BROTHERS GRIMM. PITZ, Henry C. (illus.) PERRAULT, Charles. BENDIX, Hans (illus.) HERSHOLT, Jean (General Editor). CAMERON, Malcoln (illus.) 3 vols. Folio, publisher's decorated boards in glassine and publisher's slipcase. First edition; No. 1873 of 2500 sets. Volumes fine; glassine fine; slipcase fine. Signed by Henry Pitz and Jean Hersholt. The Evergreen Tales; or, Tales for the Ageless.- $100
- $100
My Fairy Tale Library Linette Books. Alice in Wonderland. Tom Thumb. Sleeping Beauty. Cinderella. Mother Goose. Snow-Drop. Jack and the Bean-Stalk. Red Riding Hood.
MY FAIRY TALE LIBRARY. ROBINSON, Gordon (illus.) 8 vols. 8vo, publisher's linen-like wrappers illustrated in colors, in publisher's two-part box illustrated in colors. The eight booklets are fine. light dust-soiling and use to the box top, which is slightly collapsed. Mr Fairy Tale Library No. 2003.- $75
- $75
The Ffoulke Collection of Tapestries.
FFOULKE, Charles M. 346 pp. Profusely illustrated. Oversized folio; full morocco, t.e.g. First edition; one of 250 copies. The morocco is tight and sound; but is seriously rubbed at the joints and all edges, with shallow chipping at the extremities of the spine. Contents clean and fine. Additional postage applicable for this large, very heavy boo.- $150
- $150
Alice thro’ the Looking-Glass and Other Fairy Tales for Children. [Bound with]: Dame Holle, or Servantgalism in Fairy Land [and] The Princess and the White Wolf [and] King Thrusgbill and Princess Disdain.
[CARROLL, Lewis] FREILIGRATH-KROEKER, Kate. 202 pp. Engraved frontispiece and two engraved plates. 12mo, publisher's cloth. First American edition. Shallow chipping and smudges to a few leaves; one gathering starting; cloth quite soiled with a darkened spine and wear at extremities.- $100
- $100
South African Songs for Voice and Piano . Based on Native Melodies. “Song of the Warrior” “Dancers, come up!” “Lullaby” “Victory” “Oh waters, O tranquil waters (Zulu Love Song)” and “Spirit Song.”
[SHEET MUSIC] WENDT, Theophil. Six items. Folio, publisher's wrappers illustrated in color. First edition. Faint stamp in the lower right corner of each front wrapper: "Reference Copy." No other institutional markings and otherwise fine. South African Loves Songs Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 & 7.- $35
- $35