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2018ref. 2436Seattle: Fantagraphic 2018. First printings. Hardcovers 7 7/8 x 10 5 /8 in. illustrated boards decorative endpapers no dust jackets illustrated slip case 192 pp. Donald Duck; 178 pp. Mickey Mouse. Very good condition books very good condition slip case with some wear and light bruising at corners. Donald Duck in The Great Survival Test and Mickey Mouse in The Case of the Vanishing Bandit. Fantagraphic hardcover
2018ref. 2437Seattle: Fantagraphic 2018. First printings. Hardcovers 7 7/8 x 10 5 /8 in. illustrated boards decorative endpapers no dust jackets illustrated slip case 182 pp. Donald Duck; 208 pp. Mickey Mouse. Very good condition books very good condition slip case with some wear and light bruising at corners. Donald Duck in Uncle Scrooge's Money Rocket and Mickey Mouse in The Delta Dimension. Fantagraphic hardcover
2018ref. 2438Seattle: Fantagraphic 2018. First printings. Hardcovers 7 7/8 x 10 5 /8 in. illustrated boards decorative endpapers no dust jackets illustrated slip case 186 pp. Donald Duck; 177 pp. Mickey Mouse. Very good condition books very good condition slip case with some wear and light bruising at corners. Donald Duck in King of the Golden River and Mickey Mouse in The Phantom Blot's Double Mystery. Fantagraphic hardcover
2013ref. 48117Baltimore MD: Cemetery Dance Publications 2013. Near Fine/Near Fine. Baltimore MD: Cemetery Dance Publications 2013. Publisher's Deluxe Gift Slipcased Edition. Small quarto; illustrated dust jacket; red silver and black boards; illustrated endpapers; 527pp. Housed in publisher's slipcase. Very slight rubbing to dust jacket; mild shelfwear to slipcase; a Near Fine copy and lavish production for King's sequel to "The Shining. Cemetery Dance Publications unknown
2013ref. 48117Baltimore MD: Cemetery Dance Publications 2013. Near Fine/Near Fine. Baltimore MD: Cemetery Dance Publications 2013. Publisher's Deluxe Gift Slipcased Edition. Small quarto; illustrated dust jacket; red silver and black boards; illustrated endpapers; 527pp. Housed in publisher's slipcase. Very slight rubbing to dust jacket; mild shelfwear to slipcase; a Near Fine copy and lavish production for King's sequel to "The Shining. Cemetery Dance Publications unknown books
1925ref. 646918A. & C. Black Ltd 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A fine copy of the 1925 first edition in a near fine jacket jacket has a small chip to rear panel some closed tears and wear to edges; two ink stamps of prior owner. A nice copy. Color plates double-page map. A. & C. Black Ltd hardcover
2001ref. 330957London: Macmillan Children's 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Movable books: specimen. Fine copy in the original colour-printed boards. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; 12 p.: chiefly col. ill.; 31 cm. Subjects; Pop-up book with stereoscope zoetrope and 3-D glasses. Audience juvenile. Subjects; Optical illusions . Children's literature. Toy and movable books. London: Macmillan Children's hardcover
1982ref. 73962(Düsseldorf), Claassen, (1982). 96 Bll. Mit zahlr. tls. doppelblattgr. farb. Illustr. 4to (30 x 21,5 cm). Farb. illustr. OLn. mit Cellophan-SU in farb. illustr. OKart.-Schuber.
ref. 15-4007New York: Harcourt Brace & World circa 1959. Original dust-jacket with price of $2.95. Bottom of the front flap clipped else in near fine condition. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, circa 1959. unknown
ref. 15-4006New York: Harcourt Brace & World circa 1952. Original unclipped dust-jacket with price of $2.95. Sticker with author's name at the bottom spine small tear on back panel else in very good condition. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, circa 1952. unknown
20168vo., First Edition, title in green and black, with very numerous coloured and tinted illustrations throughout, and coloured pictorial endpapers; patterned boards, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
20058vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations throughout; pictorial boards, backstrip lettered in white, red endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
1975ref. 40729Eerie / Warren Publishing Softcovers New York 1975
ref. 11581Title in Vol. 1 & frontis. in Vol. 2 printed in color. 55 double-page woodcut illus. 29.5; 29.5 folding leaves. Two vols. 8vo orig. semi-stiff wrappers title-slips new stitching. Osaka Edo & Kyoto: Yamatoya ShirÅsaburÅ 大和屋四郎三郎 et al. 1823. First edition of this beautifully illustrated guide to making ehon 画本 or picture books. It is rare especially outside Japan and no copy is found in WorldCat. The work opens onto early modern printing culture book distribution and the popular pleasures of reading and consumption. As its title suggests it is a handbook tebiki 手引ã for producing ehon 画本 or "picture books." Ehon covers any book in which illustration plays an important role from fine-art portfolios to illustrated fiction poetry collections travel guides and popular books such as kusazÅshi. Together with the rise of commerce and urban life and a popular fervor for pleasure reading ehon became one of the most influential forms of printed content. The illustrations are alive with humor. The subjects include cheeky scenes of everyday life "behind the scenes" bribery between merchants and politicians armies sojourning across the countryside and festivals. There are also fictional scenes from the classics such as the sage conversing with fish for wisdom along with depictions of nature the changing seasons and personified animals such as traveling frogs. Housewives blacksmiths and Edo contractors are shown at their crafts. Each page carries a short prose text some in the lyrical structure of tanka. The result is an invitation into the imaginative world of early modern Japan carefully portrayed to highlight its essence. The illustrators are of particular interest. The first volume was illustrated by Niwa TÅkei 1760-1822 a prolific Osaka-based painter whose artistic range extended from landscape and refined painting to comic and satirical drawings. He died in the winter of 1822 and his pupil Suga ShÅhÅ 1790-1851 completed the second volume. On the colophon leaf in the second volume we learn the name of the carver: JuryÅken 壽良軒. Very good copy. Unimportant mostly marginal worming carefully repaired. unknown
ref. 11581Title in Vol. 1 & frontis. in Vol. 2 printed in color. 55 double-page woodcut illus. 29.5; 29.5 folding leaves. Two vols. 8vo orig. semi-stiff wrappers title-slips new stitching. Osaka Edo & Kyoto: Yamatoya ShirÅsaburÅ 大和屋四郎三郎 et al. 1823. First edition of this beautifully illustrated guide to making ehon 画本 or picture books. It is rare especially outside Japan and no copy is found in WorldCat. The work opens onto early modern printing culture book distribution and the popular pleasures of reading and consumption. As its title suggests it is a handbook tebiki 手引ã for producing ehon 画本 or "picture books." Ehon covers any book in which illustration plays an important role from fine-art portfolios to illustrated fiction poetry collections travel guides and popular books such as kusazÅshi. Together with the rise of commerce and urban life and a popular fervor for pleasure reading ehon became one of the most influential forms of printed content. The illustrations are alive with humor. The subjects include cheeky scenes of everyday life "behind the scenes" bribery between merchants and politicians armies sojourning across the countryside and festivals. There are also fictional scenes from the classics such as the sage conversing with fish for wisdom along with depictions of nature the changing seasons and personified animals such as traveling frogs. Housewives blacksmiths and Edo contractors are shown at their crafts. Each page carries a short prose text some in the lyrical structure of tanka. The result is an invitation into the imaginative world of early modern Japan carefully portrayed to highlight its essence. The illustrators are of particular interest. The first volume was illustrated by Niwa TÅkei 1760-1822 a prolific Osaka-based painter whose artistic range extended from landscape and refined painting to comic and satirical drawings. He died in the winter of 1822 and his pupil Suga ShÅhÅ 1790-1851 completed the second volume. On the colophon leaf in the second volume we learn the name of the carver: JuryÅken 壽良軒. Very good copy. Unimportant mostly marginal worming carefully repaired. unknown books
1978ref. 67370(Hamburg, gedruckt bei Hans Christians Druckerei, 1978). [19] Bl. Mit 32 ganzseitigen Illustr. (incl. illustr. Titel). 4to (30 x 20 cm). OKart.
ref. 69446Bruxelles: Helio-Offset no date c. 1944. No edition stated but presumed first edition softcover. 4to 28cm x 22cm 48pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Original white card wrappers. Slight rubbing of the covers else this book is in very good condition. Text in French. An extremely rare celebration of the liberation of Belgium in September 1944. Bruxelles: Helio-Offset, no date [c. 1944]. paperback
ref. 10378From "Punch or the London Charivari" November 30 1867. On paper roughly 33 x 25.5 cm. The illustration itself is clear and complete on lightly-aged paper. Creasing around extremities and to left of caption. Tenniel's monogram with number 61 in bottom left-hand corner. Britannia grips King Mob by the throat while a paper crown with 'MOB LAW' written on it falls from his head. See Image From "Punch, or the London Charivari", November 30, 1867. unknown
1998ref. Q-2880463165Rotovision 1998-03-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Rotovision hardcover
1924ref. 31628Los Angeles: The Rowny Press 1924. First edition. Hardcover. vg. 18 159 3pp. Uncut and partly unopened. Quarto. Original half cloth over paper covered boards with pasted illustration on front cover. Title label on spine. Top edge gilt. Pictorial endpapers. Frontispiece. Collection of poetry illustrated by 10 delightful Art Nouveau style drawings of which 9 are tipped in. Minor shelf wear. Title label slightly chipped along edges. Binding in overall good interior in very good condition. The Rowny Press hardcover
1924ref. 31628Los Angeles: The Rowny Press 1924. First edition. Hardcover. vg. 18 159 3pp. Uncut and partly unopened. Quarto. Original half cloth over paper covered boards with pasted illustration on front cover. Title label on spine. Top edge gilt. Pictorial endpapers. Frontispiece. Collection of poetry illustrated by 10 delightful Art Nouveau style drawings of which 9 are tipped in. Minor shelf wear. Title label slightly chipped along edges. Binding in overall good interior in very good condition. The Rowny Press hardcover books
ref. 37782London: Raphael Tuck & Sons n.d. Hardcover. Fair. Hardcover. A surprisingly scarce title. No date but the ownership signature on the free front endpaper is dated Christmas 1908. This charming collection of illustrated fairy tales including Beauty and the Beast Tom Thumb. Snow-White and Rose-Red and Rapunzel among others has fortunately or unfortunately been well used and read. The quite worn covers are present but detached and the spine is missing. Tears to first couple of front endpapers and soiling and spots to many of the text pages. Nonetheless a sweet survivor of this well loved book. Measures 7.5 x 10.25 inches. 72 pages. CHILD/012925. Raphael Tuck & Sons hardcover books
ref. 70010London: Collins 1974. Ornithology SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY. Fourth printing. Octavo 20 x 14cm pp.256. With colour plate illustrations and line drawings. Publisher's mid-blue cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine cartographic endpapers. With author's inscription to the title page; To Dick Sargent / James Bond. With occasional pencil and ink annotations by Sargent together with a note confirming the signed book was presented to him by Bond's colleague Lisa Salmon. A near fine copy without wrapper. The acclaimed work by the ornithologist James Bond whose name was famously appropriated for spy fiction's most celebrated hero. A rare signature in full as here the author usually signing as 'Jim Bond'. The recipient Dick Sargent was president and CEO of the Chubb Institute A dedicated conservationist he served as a trustee on the board of The Land Conservancy of New Jersey. Lisa Salmon founded the Rocklands Bird Sanctuary near Montego Bay in 1958. Laid in is a tri-fold checklist compiled by Salmon identifying birds to be observed at Rockland Feeding Station. Later part of the collection of Ian Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert. Gilbert page 616. London: Collins, 1974 unknown
ref. 55437Sarajevo: Izdanje glavnog odbora AFŽ-a za Bosne i Hertsegovine Državna štamparija 1945. Quarto 25 × 20 cm. Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers by Mica Todorović; 35 1 pp. One double page reproducing drawings by Ismet Mujezinović. Light soil and foxing to wrappers else very good. An illustrated election brochure from Sarajevo promoting Tito the communist revolutionary and WWII partisan leader to head Yugoslavia. The volume was published by the Women's Antifascist Front AFŽ in anticipation of the first election with the participation of women voters in 1945. In the opening text of the volume Tito addresses Yugoslav women "On November 11th you the women of Yugoslavia who have earned the right to solve all internal political and economic problems on an equal footing with men will have your say. And I do not doubt your word. I have no doubt that it will correspond to the heroic struggle and heroic actions of women during this war." The brochure includes political agitational speeches by female communist and antifascist political leaders such as Mitra Mitrović 1912-2001 who was the founding member of the Women's Antifascist Front in 1942 and later the Minister of Education of communist Yugoslavia as well as by Lepa Perović 1911-2000 a communist activist partisan leader during WWII and later a member of the Yugoslav parliament. Perović's essay is accompanied with photo-illustrations of women taking part in the partisan war effort. Nadžida Hadžić 1906-2001 the president of Women's Antifascist Front contributed a longer article on the post-war activities of the AFŽ members in sheltering the homeless elderly and orphaned children in the aftermath of WWII. A double page spread reproducing drawings of war atrocities by Ismet Mujezinović poems about the victory of the partisans and a satirical article about Tito's opposition close the volume. The wrapper designer Bosnian Expressionist painter Mica Todorović 1900-1981 is often called the "first lady of Yugoslav art" because she was the first woman to graduate from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb 1926 and the first female member of the Bosnian Academy of Science and Arts. Part of the communist-leaning Zagreb Zemlja 1929-1935 artist collective and a member of the communist party since 1932 she was imprisoned at the Stara Gradiška concentration camp during WWII for her political beliefs. After liberation she used a cycle of her drawings of the conditions at the camp to testify for the State Commission of War Crimes in Belgrade becoming the first and only artist whose work was used as evidence by the Commission. The volume seems to have been sent to the AFŽ members by mail in anticipation of this historic election with the front wrapper indicating that postage has been paid. As of November 2025 KVK OCLC show no copies in North America. unknown
1785ref. ST18172Turin: Michael Briolus 1785. FIRST EDITION. 410 x 270 mm. 16 1/8 x 10 5/8". Volume II with pp. 3-4 bound before pp. 1-2 but complete. Three volumes. INVENTIVE AND ELEGANT BROWN CRUSHED MOROCCO BY ANNIE BOIGE stamp-signed "A. Boige" on front pastedown and dated 1996 on rear pastedown upper covers cleverly encrusted with botanical specimens leaves or branches smooth spines with silver titling leather hinges watermarked light gray endpapers. Housed together in the original suede-lined brown cloth drop-back box suede-covered separators preventing contact between volumes. WITH engraved frontispiece portrait of the king of Sardinia in volume I engraved allegorical vignette on title pages and 92 FINE ENGRAVED PLATES ILLUSTRATING 237 BOTANICAL SPECIES. A Large Paper Copy. Cleveland Collections 557; Dunthorne 6; Sitwell "Great Flower Books" p. 67 69; Nissen BBI 18. ◆One plate with minor repair to fore-edge margin another with tiny rust hole not touching image half a dozen plates with insignificant smudges made during the printing process other trivial imperfections but A VERY FINE COPY clean fresh and wide-margined in a flawless binding. This is a major work of 18th century botany describing more than 2800 species of plants found in Italy's Piedmont region illustrating 237 previously unknown specimens and--crucially--classifying them all according to the new Linnean system becoming one of the first regional botanicals to use that taxonomy; as a bonus our copy comes in a particularly appropriate and charming binding with prominent botanical design elements. "Flora Pedemontana" was the chief work of Italian physician Carlo Allioni 1728-1804 professor of botany at the University of Turin and director of its natural history cabinet and botanical garden. The illustrations were drawn and engraved by the botanical garden's resident artist Francesco Peyroleri and his son Pietro. Our flora is also an important source of information on Alpine flowers. The modern binding is by an artisan who was proclaimed the "Grande Dame of French bookbinding" by the journal "Art & Métiers du Livre." Annie Boige trained at the Estienne School and at the Vésinet Applied Art Workshop before establishing her atelier in 1985. An art bookbinder she is noted for her monochrome color schemes and her use of beautiful leathers and vegetal materials a felicitous choice here. Michael Briolus unknown
