19694to., Second Edition, with coloured plates and over 400 illustrations in monochrome; cloth, a very good, bright, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Greatly augmented version of the original edition of 1958. A standard reference

Antiquarian Bookshop Island Books · United Kingdom€143.30

Various Authors & IllustratorsBiblio.com

The Intellectual Observer Vol. VI The Intellectual Observer: Review of Natural History Microscopic Research and Recreative Science

1865ref. mon0000078264Groombridge and Sons London 1865-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 0.0000 in x 0.0000 in x 0.0000 in. 1865 leather bound edition volume VI of the Intectual Observer libris plate to end paper ILLUSTRATED WITH PLATES IN COLOURS AND TINTS AND NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD Groombridge and Sons, London hardcover

The Guru Bookshop Ltd, Green Warehouse · United Kingdom£122.60≈ €145.90

Keane, Edward, and Liz Dauber and Dan Gormley (Illustrators)Biblio.com

HOWDY DOODY'S CIRCUS SIGNED

1950ref. 85256New York: Little Golden Book Simon and Schuster 1950. FIRST EDITION NAP. Very Good Minus. First Edition with the "A" on final page. A little shelf-wear especially on the golden paper strip over the spine which is where the Little Golden Books tend to go first. SIGNED by Howdy Doody and Buffalo Bob Smith. Smith -- aka Robert Emil Schmidt 1917-19980 was a radio and television personality from yes! Buffalo who through a series of events found himself at the helm of an enormously popular children's television show which unlike other kids' shows was not designed as a teaching device but only to please the children. "Hey Kids What Time Is It It's Howdy Doody Time! and the song the words and music of which constitutes the last page of this book would be sung in unison -- LOUD! Story of Howdy Doody the Cowboy rodeo star back home after a busy season with the whole summer stretched out before him. He and his friends decide to start their own circus so they take off on a plane for Africa and recruit all the happy animals including the Octopus which Howdy scoops up in a net while hanging from the plane. Little Golden Book (Simon and Schuster) unknown

Aardvark Rare Books · United States$165.00≈ €147.12

Rochling, C, R Knotell and W Friedrich (illustrators)Biblio.com

Die Konigin Luise in 50 Bildern Fur Jung und Alt Queen Luise in 50 pictures for young and old

1896ref. 022553Berlin: Paul Kittel successor Peter Stanik 1896. Oblong Quarto. No pagination. A beautiful near fine copy depicting the life of the Prussian Queen Luise through color lithographs. Beautifully bound in light purple cloth pictorial pastedown of the Queen lettered and decorated in black white and gilt decorative endpapers no names or bookplates small bump to foot of spine. Very nice. Paul Kittel successor Peter Stanik unknown

Alcuin Books · United States$165.00≈ €147.12

WATERHOUSE, EG (1881-1977), [FEINT, Adrian, and JONES, Paul, illustrators] E GBiblio.com

Camellia Quest. With four plates in colour and six in monochrome

ref. 72873Sydney NSW: Ure Smith Pty. Limited 1947. Botany SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Large quarto 34 x 26cm pp.30. With a total of 10 illustrated plates by Feint and Jones. Number 270 of 550 copies thus SIGNED by the author and both artists to the limitation page. Publisher's green cloth with darker green titles to spine and a device stamped to upper. With the dust-jacket priced at 50s. Internally crisp and clean. Jacket shows light wear with a closed tear to top right of the front panel. Near fine. Sydney, NSW: Ure Smith Pty. Limited, 1947 unknown

Adrian Harrington Rare Books · United Kingdom£125.00≈ €148.76

Johnstone, Janet & Anne Grahame - illustratorsBiblio.com

Dean's Gift Book of Fairy Tales

ref. 0603075010.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover

Bonita · United States$167.97≈ €149.77

Robert Louis Stevenson; E Mars and M H Squire (Illustrators)Biblio.com

A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES

1900ref. 15109New York: R. H. Russell. Fair. Hardcover. Green cover with arts & crafts style illustration has light wear along the extremities hinges are cracked with 1" chips to the spine caps and clear scotch tape has been crudely added to hold the backstrip. Boards and spine are straight. Although binding is is in need of repair the individual signatures are still intact. Lacking frontispiece and title page otherwise complete with mostly b&w in the style of the arts & crafts era in which the book was created and many color illustrations. Pages are lightly toned with modest thumbing. . . 1900. R. H. Russell hardcover

Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA · United States$171.60≈ €153.01

MUNRO, Neil (author). Mary Y and J Young HUNTER (illustrators).Biblio.com

The Clyde. River and Firth.

1907ref. 21179131907. London A. & C. Black 1907 but 1915. Large 8vo. Original navy blue decorated cloth with dust-wrappers unknown to the bibliographer; pp. x 2 205 2 publisher's catalogue; with decorated title-page in black and green and a total of 67 coloured plates protected by captioned tissue-guards and a large folding map of the region printed in sepia tipped in to rear; cloth very well preserved; wrappers with a few small marginal flaws very light offsetting from endpapers otherwise very good.Reprint the variant in the less elaboarate binding. This is a fine monograph on the Clyde not only detailing the ship-building industry but the picturesque aspects of the landscape and history as well in a binding designed by Albert Angus Turbayne one of the leading book designers and follower of William Morris of American-Scottish extraction. Inman 14. hardcover

Henry Sotheran Ltd. · United Kingdom£130.00≈ €154.71

Baldwin, James (Dillon, Leo and Diane, illustrators)Biblio.com

THE AMEN CORNER.

1968ref. 91593New York:: Dial Press 1968. Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in very good dust jacket short tear on front cover of dj chip and a bit of creasing on back cover . First printing. An attractive copy of this rather uncommon play by Baldwin the story of the members of a storefront Harlem church. Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon with a frontispiece and one other plate in the book as well as the illustration on the dustjacket. Includes an interesting introduction by Baldwin in which he refers to writing this as a "desperate and rather irresponsible act." Bookplate on front pastedown indicating that this is part of the Hanley Family Collection that is the collection of philanthropist and art collector as well as book collector of T. Edward Hanley 1893-1969 and his wife Tullah Hanley. xvii 91 pp. Dial Press, hardcover

Bookfever.com, IOBA · United States$175.00≈ €156.04

Ridler, A W (text); Louis Wain, Harry B Neilson; Elsie Blomfield and others (illustrators)Biblio.com

Animals in Fun-Land

1911ref. 27058London: James Clarke and Co. Good with no dust jacket. 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Joints worn with loss of paper along joints. 25mm chip to paper at lower corner of front cover. Binding shaken some leaves coming loose. School prize label dated 1918 partly removed from front endpaper.; Scarce. No date 1911 Spectator review. Pages unnumbered. 60 pages. Papered card covers. Colour illustration on front cover looks like it is by Harry B. Neilson. Page dimensions: 235 x 192mm. Numerous black-and-white illustrations some full page. With 11 illustrations by Louis Wain. The Louis Wain illustrations are of cats 2; dogs 2; cats and dogs 2; owls 2; fox 1; toad 1; elephant and monkeys 1. . James Clarke and Co. hardcover

Renaissance Books · New Zealand$175.00≈ €156.04

Autobooks Team Of Writers And IllustratorsBiblio.com

Lotus Elan Special Workshop Manual

ref. 0851478948.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover

Bonita · United States$177.86≈ €158.59

Tasso, Torquato; Wiffen,JH (Bio); Devey, John (Bio Postscript 1854); Hinchliff, J ; Williams, S (Illustrators) J HBiblio.com

The Jerusalem Delivered Of Torquato Tasso

1854ref. 98280London UK: Henry G.Bohn 1854. 5th Edition. Leather Bound. Fine. 12mo 6.75 - 7.75'' tall. Leather Bound. Condition: Fine. Henry G.Bohn London UK 1854. 5th Edition. 500 pages. 9 full-page engravings on steel by J. Hinchliff including a frontispiece portrait of Tasso. 22 in text engravings on wood by S. Williams. Deluxe binding 5-ribbed Green leather spine and board tips gold decorations on spine green cloth boards with gold rule borders pastel marbled endpapers top page ends gold gilt. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Unmarked. hinges excellent. No foxing. Size: 12mo 6.75 - 7.75'' tall. Jerusalem Delivered La Gerusalemme liberata is an epic poem by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso first published in 1581 which tells a largely mythified version of the First Crusade in which Catholic knights led by Godfrey of Bouillon battle Muslims in order to take Jerusalem. The poem is composed of eight line stanzas grouped into 20 cantos of varying length. The poem was immensely successful throughout Europe and over the next two centuries various sections were frequently adapted as individual storylines for madrigals operas plays ballets and masquerades; scenes from the poem were also depicted in paintings and frescoes. Contents: Dedication in verse to Georgiana Duchess of Bedford; Preface to the First Edition; Preface to the Fourth Edition; facsimile of Tasso's writing; Life of Tasso; List of English Crusaders; Postscript to the Life of Tasso by John Devey controversy of causes of Tasso's imprisonment and his love affair with Leonora; Canto Summaries; Jerusalem Delivered; L'Envoi 2 page poem. Poetry::Before 1900 History::Medieval History::Middle East Military History::Medieval RBR17 RBR17 Henry G.Bohn hardcover

BookScene · United States$179.95≈ €160.45

Johnston, Antony (& illustrators Christopher Mitten & others)Biblio.com

Wasteland: The Apocalyptic Edition: Volumes 1-4

2014ref. 53486Oni Press: Portland OR 2014. First edition & 1st printing. Oversize hardcover. Fine copiesin pictorial boards as issued without dustjacket. Four hardcover volumes reprinting 52 issues of the b/w post-apocalyptic comic book series which ran for 60 issues total between 2006-2015. Written by Antony Johnston and illustrated by Christopher Mitten vol 1-3 Justin Greenwood vol 3 Remington Vetet vol 3 and Russel Roehling vol 4: iIntroductions by Jeff VanderMeer to volume 1 Warren Ellis to volume 2 Greg Rucka to volume 3 and Kieron Gillen to volume 4. Over 1500 pages. Oni Press: Portland, OR unknown

Cold Tonnage Books · United Kingdom£143.75≈ €171.07

Burglon, Nora; Ingri and Edgar D'Aulaire, IllustratorsBiblio.com

THE CUCKOO CALLS; A Story of Finland

1940ref. 19330John C. Winston Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Blue blindstamped decorated cover has wear to corners and caps but is clean bright and in very good condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Illustrated end sheets and paste downs clean and very good with former owner's name on blank side. Pages are clean and near pristine. Dust jacket has . Wear to the extremities with a couple of short tears and soiling to back panel but bright and in good condition. DJ corners clipped. DJ protected by a brand new clear acid-free mylar cover. We add mylar covers to all books with DJs to preserve the DJs and add luster to magnify their beauty. If pictured shown without the mylar cover for an accurate representation of dust jacket. ; 280 pages . 1940. John C. Winston Company hardcover

Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA · United States$192.00≈ €171.20

Cloud, C Carey; Harold B Lentz [illustrators]Biblio.com

Puss in Boots

1934ref. 9441New York: Blue Ribbon Press 1934. Illustrated pop-up edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. Illustrated pop-up edition. Original Wraps. Classic story of Puss in Boots illustrated by Harold Lentz in pop-up form and black and white text with illustrations. Harold Lentz was an advertising and children's pop-up book illustrator also the paper engineer for other books as "Pinocchio" "Jack the Giant Killer" and "Little Red Riding Hood." All paper engineering in excellent condition. Little shelf/edge wear soiling else tight bright and unmarred. Bound in original illustrated boards with pop-up end pages 8vo. np. Illus. color. Inscription on title page. No dust jacket as issued. Blue Ribbon Press unknown

Lux Mentis, Booksellers · United States$200.00≈ €178.33

Cloud, C Carey; Harold B Lentz [illustrators]ABAA

Puss in Boots

1934ref. 9441New York: Blue Ribbon Press 1934. Illustrated pop-up edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. Illustrated pop-up edition. Original Wraps. Classic story of Puss in Boots illustrated by Harold Lentz in pop-up form and black and white text with illustrations. Harold Lentz was an advertising and children's pop-up book illustrator also the paper engineer for other books as "Pinocchio" "Jack the Giant Killer" and "Little Red Riding Hood." All paper engineering in excellent condition. Little shelf/edge wear soiling else tight bright and unmarred. Bound in original illustrated boards with pop-up end pages 8vo. np. Illus. color. Inscription on title page. No dust jacket as issued. Blue Ribbon Press unknown books

Lux Mentis, Booksellers · United States$200.00≈ €178.33

Dillon, Leo and Diane (illustrators); Carlstrom, Nancy WhiteBiblio.com

Northern Lullaby; with: signed publisher's poster

1992ref. 1003919New York: Philomel Books 1992. First edition review copy of Nancy White Carlstrom's Alaskan bedtime story richly illustrated with Native American imagery by Leo and Diane Dillon accompanied by the publisher's signed promotional poster. A sleepy young narrator bids goodnight to the Earth each feature of the snow-covered landscape imagined as part of the family: "Goodnight Papa Star / Goodnight Mama Moon / Bending your silver arms / down through the darkness." Leo and Diane Dillon won numerous awards over the course of their long career including back-to-back Caldecott Medals in 1976 and 1977 for Ashanti to Zulu and Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears the only consecutive medals given to date. They would win the 1992 Society Of Illustrators Gold Medal for the vibrant airbrush and watercolor images in Northern Lullaby. The publisher's poster reproduces their two-page spread of the tree spirits Auntie Willow and Auntie Birch "standing in long flannel gowns in the silence." A near-fine inscribed copy of a stunning book accompanied by a signed poster. Single volume measuring 11 x 10 inches: 26. Original black cloth spine lettered in silver purple pictorial boards stamped in blind original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket color pictorial endpapers. Color illustrations on every page. Inscribed "For Daniel" signed and dated 1993 by Dillons on title page. Publisher's review slip laid in. Poster measuring 18.5 x 21.5 inches signed at lower right. Lightest shelfwear to book horizontal and vertical creases to poster from folding. Philomel Books unknown

Honey & Wax Booksellers · United States$200.00≈ €178.33

Dillon, Leo and Diane (illustrators); Carlstrom, Nancy WhiteABAA

Northern Lullaby; with: signed publisher's poster

1992ref. 1003919New York: Philomel Books 1992. First edition review copy of Nancy White Carlstrom's Alaskan bedtime story richly illustrated with Native American imagery by Leo and Diane Dillon accompanied by the publisher's signed promotional poster. A sleepy young narrator bids goodnight to the Earth each feature of the snow-covered landscape imagined as part of the family: "Goodnight Papa Star / Goodnight Mama Moon / Bending your silver arms / down through the darkness." Leo and Diane Dillon won numerous awards over the course of their long career including back-to-back Caldecott Medals in 1976 and 1977 for Ashanti to Zulu and Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears the only consecutive medals given to date. They would win the 1992 Society Of Illustrators Gold Medal for the vibrant airbrush and watercolor images in Northern Lullaby. The publisher's poster reproduces their two-page spread of the tree spirits Auntie Willow and Auntie Birch "standing in long flannel gowns in the silence." A near-fine inscribed copy of a stunning book accompanied by a signed poster. Single volume measuring 11 x 10 inches: 26. Original black cloth spine lettered in silver purple pictorial boards stamped in blind original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket color pictorial endpapers. Color illustrations on every page. Inscribed "For Daniel" signed and dated 1993 by Dillons on title page. Publisher's review slip laid in. Poster measuring 18.5 x 21.5 inches signed at lower right. Lightest shelfwear to book horizontal and vertical creases to poster from folding. Philomel Books unknown books

Honey & Wax Booksellers · United States$200.00≈ €178.33

Howard A Kelly; Charles P Noble (editors); Hermann Becker; Max Brodel (illustrators); Alexander J C Skene (contributor)Biblio.com

Gynecology and Abdominal Surgery Volume 2

1908ref. FLAHIVE-645W.B. Saunders & Company Philadelphia 1908 A good copy of a scarce title. Many b&w illustrations all in fine condition. Considerable foxing to edges front matter and back matter. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. W.B. Saunders & Company, Philadelphia hardcover

Dan Pope Books · United States$200.00≈ €178.33

Larkin, David (Devised by) Heller, Julek & Scrace, Carolyn & Wijngaard, Juan (Illustrators)Biblio.com

GIANTS: PROMOTIONAL POSTER.

1979ref. 310052NY: ABRAMS. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1979. Poster. Promotional POSTER. 21" X 49" Close to fine on single printed sheet. Horizontal fold at middle. A few tiny hints of foxing at white margins. Long full-color illustration of a giant with "The Giants Are Coming!" printed at the base. Nicely suited for framing. MG . ABRAMS. unknown

Waverley Books · United States$200.00≈ €178.33

Presber, Rudolf, author of verses Illustrators include Ludwig Berwald-Salensee, Hans Bohrdt, Hans Rudolf Schulze, etcBiblio.com

Vater ist im Kriege; Ein Bilderbuch fur Kinder

1915ref. 002601Berlin: Hermann Hillger Verlag 1915. First Edition. Paper pastedown on boards. Very Good. 8vo. Unpaginated with 25 leaves a color plate on each of them not counting title leaf. The color plate is on the recto and the facing verso contains accompanying verse. The artwork bears the style of a darkish late impressionism as it moved towards an Expressionist sensibility. As not everything was by the same hand there is some diversity of style coloring literalism of course. Included is an original subscription or order form for the book. It would appear that the book was sold in part or perhaps entirely through direct sales spearheaded by the Crown Princess and conducted by aristocratic women at least in some measure. Light soiling to the cover pastedown. Scattered light soiling within. One gathering is partly loose. Hermann Hillger Verlag unknown

White Fox Rare Books and Antiques · United States$200.00≈ €178.33

Presber, Rudolf, author of verses Illustrators include Ludwig Berwald-Salensee, Hans Bohrdt, Hans Rudolf Schulze, etcABAA

Vater ist im Kriege; Ein Bilderbuch fur Kinder

1915ref. 002601Berlin: Hermann Hillger Verlag 1915. First Edition. Paper pastedown on boards. Very Good. 8vo. Unpaginated with 25 leaves a color plate on each of them not counting title leaf. The color plate is on the recto and the facing verso contains accompanying verse. The artwork bears the style of a darkish late impressionism as it moved towards an Expressionist sensibility. As not everything was by the same hand there is some diversity of style coloring literalism of course. Included is an original subscription or order form for the book. It would appear that the book was sold in part or perhaps entirely through direct sales spearheaded by the Crown Princess and conducted by aristocratic women at least in some measure. Light soiling to the cover pastedown. Scattered light soiling within. One gathering is partly loose. Hermann Hillger Verlag unknown books

White Fox Rare Books and Antiques · United States$200.00≈ €178.33

Wehnert, Edward, Wier, Harrison, IllustratorsBiblio.com

The Charmed Fawn: Pleasure Books for Children Elton & Co John McLoughlin Collection of 4 Titles: Peter the 'Goatherd and Battle of Blenheim' 'Ugly Little Duck or The Beautiful Swan' 'The Story of the Charmed Fawn' and 'The Story of Hans In Luck or the Five Bad Bargains' Rebound Copy Circa 1850's

1850ref. 79133New York NY USA: Elton & CO and John McLoughlin Circa 1850s. Hardcover. Good. The Charmed Fawn: Pleasure Books for Children Elton & Co John McLoughlin Collection of 4 Titles: Peter the 'Goatherd and Battle of Blenheim' 'Ugly Little Duck or The Beautiful Swan' 'The Story of the Charmed Fawn' and 'The Story of Hans In Luck or the Five Bad Bargains' Rebound Copy Circa 1850's. Cover board depicts 'The Charmed Fawn' states John McLoughlin Successor to ELTON & CO Publisher but the books themselves collected and rebound together only state Elton & CO as publishers. Spine and back board are a maroon wrapping with tanned endpapers. All four books are in tact and complete within the book but have foxing and wear due to age/use. There is a curve to the boards as well. Still very nice rebound collection of Rare Children's story pamphlets circa 1850's. G Elton & CO and John McLoughlin hardcover

Fallen Leaf Books · United States$200.00≈ €178.33

JOHNS, Captain WE (1893-1968), [LEIGH, Howard and SINDALL, Alfred, illustrators] W EBiblio.com

Biggles Sees It Through

ref. 68889London: Geoffrey Cumberlege / Oxford University Press 1941. Children's Adventure FIRST EDITION. Octavo 19 x 13cm pp.254; 2 blank. With a colour frontispiece and six full-page black and white illustrations by Alfred Sindall. Publisher's orange cloth blocked in brown text block thickness is 32mm. Some light and infrequent spotting throughout heavier in preliminaries and endpapers toning to edges of textblock no inscriptions some expected marks to covers spine sunned. Very good. Biggles is sent on a dangerous mission to retrieve a Polish inventor's plans which were hidden from the Nazis near the Finnish frontier. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege / Oxford University Press, [1941] unknown

Adrian Harrington Rare Books · United Kingdom£150.00≈ €178.51

Linton, W J - Linton, H - Smythe, F J - Langton, R - Morton, R - Jewsbury, T S - Carbonneau, M - Facnion, M [illustrators]Biblio.com

The Art Treasures Examiner - A Pictorial Critical And Historical Record Of The Art Treasures Exhibition At Manchester In 1857

1857ref. 57315Alexander Ireland & Co 22 Market Street Manchester & W H Smith & Son 186 Strand 1857. 1st edition. Hardback. Half calf over silk G. viii300pp 2 chromolithographic frontis b/w plan 32 fulll page b/w engraved illustrations & 120 b/w illustrations in the text leather grubby & worn at the edges glue splash to the rar cover some slight marking & staining to the contents occasional offsetting but generally a nice copy of an unaccountably scarce item. A bound copy of a weekly souvenier publication which was produced to mark the 1857 Art Treasures Exhibition which was held in Manchester. It remains the largest art exhibition ever to be held in the UK if not the World with over 16000 exhibits. It attracted over 1.3 million visitors in the 142 days it was open. The two chromolithographs show the building - a temporary iron-and-glass structure similar to the Crystal Palace in London 656 feet long and 200 feet wide with one central barrel vault 56 feet wide. Its selection and display of artworks had a formative influence on the public art collections that were then being established in the UK such as the National Gallery National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Alexander Ireland & Co, 22 Market Street Manchester & W H Smith & Son, 186 Strand hardcover