Melbourne: Edge Magazine 1957. Australian poetry/literary magazine. This issue features English translation by Alan Neame of Jean Cocteau's "Leoun". Very god condition with no markings or other major flaws. scarce. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Edge Magazine Paperback
New York circa 1930/1940: Robert M. McBride & Company 1930. First Separate Edition . Wrappers. Good. 32 pp. Christmas keepsake set in Linotype Electra printed by hand on White albion in an edition of 65 copies this one numbered 56. Undated; reprinted from the Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger. Covers with some wear and dust contents fine. No example shown in WorldCat. <br/> <br/> Robert M. McBride & Company unknown
Lincoln.: University of Nebraska Press. 1982. First edition. . Hardcover. . Fine copy in fine dust jacket in mylar. . Octavo. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. . Photograph of OUR copy available upon request. University of Nebraska Press. hardcover
Los Angeles: William Thomas Kellaway 1934. First Edition Thus . Printed Wrappers. Very Good. 17" Tall. Abridged And Handset Into Type By William Thomas Kellaway" Printed Cover Pages Printed On One Side Only And Attached At Top Original Two-Hole Twine Binding Printed On Very Heavy Brown Paper Pages Slightly Smaller Than Covers. Wear At Corners With Minor Losses A Few Short Edge Tears Mostly 1/4" Or Less One 1" One 1/2" On Rear Cover One Square Inch Of Rear Cover With Slight Surface Discoloration And Abrasion. <br/> <br/> William Thomas Kellaway unknown
Edinburgh: Macdonald & Sons / Edinburgh Society Circa 1950/1960 1955. First Edition Thus . Brown Cloth. Very Good /No DJ. Color Frontispiece B/W Plates. 535 Pp. Heavy Smooth Burlap Cloth Elaborate Paper Spine Label. Numbered #159 Of 250 Copies For England And America. Reprint Of All Five Christmas Books With Introduction To The "Cheap Edition" Of 1852 And The Preface To The Charles Dickens Edition. Vol. Xvi Of The Broadstairs Edition. <br/> <br/> Macdonald & Sons / Edinburgh Society Circa 1950/1960 hardcover
Oakland: Chapel of Mills College 1946. First Edition . Wrappers. Good-Very Good. Good To Very Good Light Wear But Traces Of Glass Stains On Front Cover Some General Edge-Browning And Wear. <br/> <br/> Chapel of Mills College unknown
New York: Franklin Watts Inc. 1972. First American Edition First Printing . Illustrated Boards. Very Good /Fair Dustjacket. 11 1/4" Tall. Brian Wildsmith. First printing. Signed by Wildsmith on the front endpaper. A little wear at corners lightly bumped at ends of spine. Dustjacket with large tears chips large tear removed top two inches of panel but not price-clipped and all text on DJ is complete. <br/> <br/> Franklin Watts, Inc. hardcover
Los Angeles County: Edith Carolyn Lee 1978. First Edition . Glossy Illustrated Wrappers. Fine. 11 " Tall. Line Drawings By Eulalie Banks Wilson . Scarce Set Of These Self-Published Books Illustrated By The Renowned Illustrator Eulalie Nee Banks Later Wilson Who Was An Important Book Illustrator From The 20'S Into The 1950'S Who Painted Nursery Room Walls For Such Hollywood Figures As Charlie Chaplin. This Set With The Three Cassette Tapes Of Readings Of The Stories. <br/> <br/> Edith Carolyn Lee unknown
Los Angeles: Biltmore Theatre 1948. Original Program . Illustrated Wrappers. Fine. 12 " Tall. Cover Portrait By Cecil BEaton; Photographs Throughout. Large size theatre program for performance at the Biltmore with single sheet performance program laid in loosely. <br/> <br/> Biltmore Theatre unknown
Los Angeles County : Vivian Volk 1976. First Edition . Printed Wrappers. Fine. 8" Tall. Very GOOD Christmas poetry for children and those who still feel Christmas written over a period of 40 years and printed for her grandchildren. <br/> <br/> Vivian Volk unknown
Los Angeles County: Edith Carolyn Lee 1978. First Edition . Printed Wrappers. Fine. 11 " Tall. Line Drawings By Eulalie Banks Wilson . Scarce Set Of These Self-Published Books Illustrated By The Renowned Illustrator Eulalie Nee Banks Later Wilson Who Was An Important Children's Book Illustrator From The 20'S Into The 1950'S And Who Painted Nursery Room Walls For Such Hollywood Figures As Charlie Chaplin And Also Many Commercial Murals. This Set Is On Heavy Porous Paper Stock With The Copyright Notice At The Bottom Of The Inside Cover. The Volume Of "Skippy The Elf" Has An Additional Box Handdrawn On The Reverse Of The Cover With The Legend "Little Elf Skippy's Coloring-Story Book To: - " With A Colored Holly Leaf With Berries All Done In The Style Of Eulalie With The Inscription Below "Dear Little Girl Helen With My Love Skippy" . <br/> <br/> Edith Carolyn Lee unknown
Alkmaar Gebr. Kluitman 1925. First Edition . Illustrated Boards. Very Good. Platen Van Freddie Langeler. First Edition With Long Verses By Van Tienhoven. Illustrated Boards. With Another Volume The Later Kluitman Edition Printed On Glossy Paper Mounted On Bound Boards Retaining The Original Illustrations But With New Shorter Verses By Another Author And With A Different Illustration Repeated On The Front Cover. Santa Claus Has A White Horse And Is Accompanied By A Black Boy Who Is His Assistant. The First Edition Is Scarce. This Is An Ex-Library Copy With Library Number Written On Side Of Spine Picket And Charge Slip On Endpapers And A Few Small Library Marks. <br/> <br/> Alkmaar Gebr. Kluitman hardcover
New York: Hastings House 1958. First Book Edition . Cloth. Fine Book/Near Fine DJ. Drawings By Artur Morokvia. A bright clean copy. DJ with just a touch of wear and a 3/4" closed tear along top of front spine edge. <br/> <br/> Hastings House hardcover
Washington: Solar System Exploration Committee of the NASA Advisory Council 1986. First Editions . Illustrated Wrappers. Fine. Color and B/W Illustrations. <br/> <br/> Solar System Exploration Committee of the NASA Advisory Council unknown
Herrin Illinois: Trovillion Private Press 1940. Second Edition . Peach Boards. Very Good /Good Slipcase. 6 3/8" Tall. Decorations. 13 Pp. #209 Of 211 Copies Of The Second Edition Numbered And Signed On The Colophon. Touch Of Wear At Corners With Tiny Bump/Loss At Top Of Spine. In The Original Illustrated Slipcase With A Bright Christmasy Country Scene Printed In Red Green And Silver On A Beige Background The Slipcase Apparently Lacking The Tall Thin Rear Panel. Also With The Trovillions Four Page Flyer "Announcing Two Old Reprints". Signature Of Original Owner On Front Pastedown. <br/> <br/> Trovillion Private Press hardcover
Boston / New York: Houghton Mifflin & Co. 1890. First Edition . Green / Red Cloth. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. V 200. This Christmas Themed Story With Covers In Green And Red Cloth Lettered In Gilt And Decorated In Gilt Holly Is Nicely Inscribed As A Christmas Gift In The Year Of Publication. Inscribed "For Dr. And Mrs. Stebbins With The Dearest Love Kate D Wiggin Xmas 1890" . Stebbins Was A Good Friend Of Wiggin And Had Assisted Her Move From Santa Barbara To San Francisco; His Children Were The Dedicatees Of Her Most Famous Book "A Bird's Christmas Carol". <br/> <br/> Houghton, Mifflin & Co. hardcover
Hollywood: Homer H. Boelter / The Westerners 1970. First Edition Thus . Illustrated Wrappers. Very Good . 12 3/4" Tall. Color Lithographs By Sylvia G. M. Holland. Lovely initials and full page illustrations in color. A Christmas keepsake from the Westerners. A little edgewear. <br/> <br/> Homer H. Boelter / The Westerners unknown
New York and London 1924: Harper & Brothers 1937. Reprint . Red Cloth. Very Good . Maginel Wright Barney. 175 pages. A reprint as publisher's code K-M on copyright page indicates an October 1937 printing. A bright clean copy no fraying or marks or soiling a litle aging to pages small owner's signature at upper left corner of front pastedown. Plates clean and bright. <br/> <br/> Harper & Brothers hardcover
Boston: L. C. Page & Company 1909. First Edition First Printing . Green Decorated Cloth. Very Good. 7 3/4" Tall. Etheldred B. Barry. 192 Pp. First Printing. Page Edge And Bottom Roughly Trimmed As Issued. Beautifully Decorated Endpapers In A Style Anticipating The Great Illustrators Of The Twenties And Thirties. Frontispiece And Five Other Full-Page Color Illustrations All In Delicate Limited Palette. Large Print For Young Readers. Green Cover With Elaborate Red Candelabra Light Rays And Lettering Seven Informally Dressed Children In Dark Green. Red Lettering On Spine Is Well Worn Hinges Tight No Marks. <br/> <br/> L. C. Page & Company hardcover
London: Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd 1938. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Very Good/Very Good DJ. 10" Tall. 38 Black and White Illustrations. First Edition 1938 The American Edition Came Decades Later. 152 Clean Unmarked Pages. Gift Inscription In Ink On Ffep. Yellowing To Ffep And Rear Free Endpaper Matching Area Where Dj Flaps End. Dj Chipped Top And Bottom Of Spine And With Some Short Vertical Closed Tears Rear Panel. Front Panel Dj With A 1 1/2" X 1" Irregular Chip Bottom Corner Edge And A 1/4" Closed Vertical Tear Bottom Gutter Edge. Dj Tips Chipped. Dj Not Price-Clipped And In A Protective Brodart Cover. <br/> <br/> Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd hardcover
Los Angeles County: Edith Carolyn Lee 1978. First Edition . Glossy Illustrated Wrappers. Fine/Fine Printed Box. 11 " Tall. Line Drawings By Eulalie Banks Wilson . Very scarce boxed set of these self-published books illustrated by the renowned illustrator Eulalie nee Banks later Wilson who was an important book illustrator from the 20's into the 1950's who painted nursery room walls for such Hollywood figures as Charlie Chaplin. The boxed set with printed label and with the accompanying cassette tapes of the readings. <br/> <br/> Edith Carolyn Lee unknown
Washington 1983 1986: Solar System Exploration Committee of the NASA Advisory Council 1983. First Editions . Illustrated Wrappers. Fine/Fine Slipcase. Color and B/W Illustrations. Four Volumes In A Special Nasa Blue Slipcase Titled "Solar System Exploration". Signed By Morrison Hinners And Naugle And Presented To Jpl Scientific Manager Albert Hibbs Who Co-Wrote A Book With Richard Feynman. <br/> <br/> Solar System Exploration Committee of the NASA Advisory Council unknown
New York Circa 1895: Hurst & Company 1895. Early Edition . Illustrated Boards. Good. Color Litho Cover B/W Plates. Unpaginated appears to be complete. Illustrated endpapers. Color paste-on cover with illustration of three children and a Christmas tree. Wear to edges but no fraying to cloth. No names two small yellow color marks internally else clean. Cover illustration undamaged but paper covered boards worn along all edges with a little loss of paper on edges of plain lightr green rear cover. Scarce; only 4 institutional holdings shown in WorldCat. <br/> <br/> Hurst & Company hardcover
New York: Harper & Row 1976. First Edition stated . Brown Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 9 1/4" High. Black and White Illustrations. 320 immaculate pages. No inscriptions. DJ not price-clipped and in a protective Brodart cover. <br/> <br/> Harper & Row hardcover
New York: Harms 1925. First Edition . No Binding. Near Fine. Green and Orange Cover. No chips or tears faint stamp of agent Louise Gilbert. <br/> <br/> Harms unknown
New York: Macmillan 1958. No Edition Stated . Orange Cloth. Good/No Dust Jacket. 8 3/4" High. 348 pages with some notations in pencil and ink. FEP FFEP second free endpaper and third free endpaper rear with notations in pencil and ink. Covers lightly soiled. <br/> <br/> Macmillan hardcover