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ref. 70717Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and published for the Press by Basil Blackwell 1935. Mediaeval Literature LIMITED PRIVATE PRESS EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Quarto 29 x 21cm pp.6 xvi; 318 6; pp.4 xvi; 268 6. With occasional woodcut illustrations produced in facsimile by Beedham and Francis. Number 64 of 325 copies thus letter-press printed on fine hand-made paper. Publisher's blue full morocco with gilt titles to spine. Top edges gilt others untrimmed with marbled endpapers. A series of old printed booksellers' descriptions loose to preliminaries. Internally crisp and clean with some sunning and light wear to spines. Near fine. A fine private press edition of Isaac Jaggard's first complete English edition from 1625 paired with facsimiles of the woodcuts from an edition printed in Venice in 1492 by the De Gregorii brothers. Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, and published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1935 unknown
1902ref. C4VGg-ES072726A5New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1902. 1902 c. 1910; early print. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 5.25 x 7.75. G/F. 1902 c. 1910 early print. Grosset & Dunlap NY. Unmarked. Hardcover. Good blue cloth covers w/ orange & black pictorial artwork; chip to top spine deep sun fading particularly to edges and spine fraying w/ small area of cloth loss to spine head edge shelf wear. Uneven tanning endpages. Frontispiece on glossy paper w/ b&w illustration. Acceptable red-stamped paper dust jacket quite rare even in fair condition to survive red artwork & lettering; heavy chipping & jacket loss to spine and upper right edge front see photos few half-inch chips & small closed tears along edges; unclipped; series adverts; protected in mylar cover. 224 pp. 5.25x7.75". Early Stratemeyer Syndicate juvenile w/ Edward Stratemeyer writing as Arthur M. Winfield in the original 40-cent Enterprise Books series. Ships in box from the USA quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: Preserved with its original pre-WWI red-stamped paper dust jacket this rare vintage 12mo hardcover edition of Bob the Photographer; or A Hero in Spite of Himself captures the turn-of-the-century transition from 19th-century dime novel paperbacks to publisher-bound juvenile series fiction. Authored by Edward Stratemeyer under his Arthur M. Winfield pseudonym the storyline follows orphaned youth Bob Hazelton navigating studio photography railroad intrigue and wilderness perils while thwarting a train conspiracy. The narrative blends Horatio Alger pluck-and-luck themes with period industrial fascinations specifically view-camera photography and steam railroading. The physical volume features blue cloth boards stamped in orange and black with a detailed view-camera illustration a glossy monochrome frontispiece and plain endpapers. Enclosing the binding is an authentic circa-1910 paper dust wrapper displaying red artwork the 40-cent Enterprise Books price mark and publisher series advertisements along the flaps and rear panel. The front flap advertises The Enterprise Books listing down to Lost in the Land of Ice while the rear flap advertises The Bobbsey Twins listing down to The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore. Bibliographically carrying a 1902 copyright date by A. Wessels Company and a Grosset & Dunlap title page this printing state dates to circa 1910 based on back cover advertisements listing The Tom Swift Series down to Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout published in 1910. Edward Stratemeyer's work during this era connects to the brief Stitt Publishing Company window 1905 to 1906 a pivotal phase in the development of the Stratemeyer Syndicate. Stratemeyer's factory assembly model pioneered the production framework that later spawned The Rover Boys The Bobbsey Twins The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew. Paper dust wrappers from popular libraries and early juvenile series suffered an estimated 99.5% attrition rate as early readers routinely discarded fragile wrappers. Surviving pre-WWI paper wrappers represent major antiquarian rarities in juvenile series collecting. As an intact dime-novel-era artifact preserving its original publisher wrapper the book provides an important physical record of early 20th-century popular print culture. Grosset & Dunlap hardcover
ref. 51-7299Paris: Jean-Jacques Pauvert 1955. 4to. 19 x 26.8cm. 69.pp Original wraps. Founded by Eric Losfeld–who went on to publish Jean-Claude’s notorious Barbarella comics in the early 1960s–Bizarre lasted for just two issues before falling off the map in 1953. The magazine was soon revived however by Jean-Jacques Pauvert and Michel Laclos who kept its torrent of iconoclastic wit cultural criticism and artistic daredevilry running uproariously from 1955 right up to the eve of the Paris uprisings in the spring of 1968. No stranger to controversy Pauvert made a name for himself in the immediate postwar years publishing at times clandestine editions of Sade. His new bookshop on the Rue Bonaparte was quickly put under police surveillance when it opened in 1956 just a year after he restarted Bizarre and the besieged bookseller/ publisher found himself at the center of the “Affaire Sade” as the French government stepped in to ban the publication and sale of such works. Clashes with authority and public controversy also hounded other contributors to the journal including its ‘s star illustrator Siné. An anarchist with sharply anti-capitalist anti-colonialist and as many would later find anti-semitic views Siné felt pressured to quit his position as political cartoonist for L’Express due to his virulent opposition to the Algerian War which provoked public outcry from many readers and for a time in the early sixties he worked on Révolution africaine a journal financed by the Algerian resistance organization FLN. When the uprisings came in 1968 Siné again joined with Pauvert to found the magazine L’Enragé an important document of the rebellious spirit of the late sixties and early seventies recently acquired by Beinecke as part of the Philippe Zoummeroff Collection of May 1968 Paris / BIZARRE. N° 1. Mai 1955.Expertise by Amaury BONNETAIN Paris: Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1955. paperback
ref. 70684London: Collins 1979. Ornithology UK EDITION revised and enlarged the fourth edition. Octavo 20 x 14cm pp.256. With colour plate illustrations and line drawings. Publisher's illustrated hardback covers Collins price label to rear showing £5.95 cartographic endpapers no jacket issued. Contents clean a little spotting to edges two neat annotations to map covers lightly handled. Near fine. The acclaimed work by the ornithologist James Bond whose name was famously appropriated for spy fiction's most celebrated hero. Gilbert page 616. London: Collins, 1979 unknown
ref. 68181Boston MA: Houghton Mifflin Company 1961. Ornithology / Bondiana FIRST US EDITION THUS. Octavo 20 x 14cm pp.256. With occasional colour plate illustrations and frequent line drawings in-text. Publisher's green cloth with darker green titles to spine and upper. Cartographic endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by Samuel Bryant priced at $6. A nice clean copy showing just a hint of spotting to top edge and some light wear to jacket extremities. Near fine. The acclaimed work by the ornithologist James Bond whose name was famously appropriated for spy fiction's most celebrated hero. This new edition followed two earlier printings in America; Philadelphia 1936 and Macmillan New York 1947 under the title Field Guide to Birds of the West Indies. Gilbert page 616. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961 unknown
ref. 38609At the head of title: Greetings from Australia. Melbourne : Pater's Printery c.1911. Square duodecimo original pictorial wrappers with yapp edges edges worn a couple of small chips original string tie printed title page 11 eleven chromolithographic plates of Australian birds in natural settings; a good copy. Muir 704. A rare publication - both a souvenir and a children's book - designed and illustrated by Violet Teague and Geraldine Rede the two Australian artists most famous for their 1905 publication Night fall in the ti-tree. unknown
ref. 005029Esslingen and München: Verlag von J. F. Schreiber. Hardcover. Front board: pictorial paper pastedown. Cloth spine. Near Fine. An exceptionally clean and bright copy of this juvenile audience plate book depicting geography and domestic and work life. N.d. circa 1870s. Small folio. 32 by 21.5 cm. 5 7 1 pp followed by 30 double-sided hand-colored plates. Each plate measures 32 by 40 cm. The plates depict the home rural and urban the city the farm a vineyard tools a church interior a city market a winter skating scene a mountain landscape a railroad station a forest etc. The point was to educate children about the features of all these places and spaces and incidentally impart the vocabulary -- the many nouns -- associated with them. Nowadays the plates are simply wonderfully decorative with their bright chromolithography and evocation of a lost world. And the great Meggendorfer was responsible for three of the plates! Light wear to the cover. One of the plates has a minor closed tear by its fold. But as we indicated an unusually appealing copy. Verlag von J. F. Schreiber hardcover books
ref. 005029Esslingen and München: Verlag von J. F. Schreiber. Hardcover. Front board: pictorial paper pastedown. Cloth spine. Near Fine. An exceptionally clean and bright copy of this juvenile audience plate book depicting geography and domestic and work life. N.d. circa 1870s. Small folio. 32 by 21.5 cm. 5 7 1 pp followed by 30 double-sided hand-colored plates. Each plate measures 32 by 40 cm. The plates depict the home rural and urban the city the farm a vineyard tools a church interior a city market a winter skating scene a mountain landscape a railroad station a forest etc. The point was to educate children about the features of all these places and spaces and incidentally impart the vocabulary -- the many nouns -- associated with them. Nowadays the plates are simply wonderfully decorative with their bright chromolithography and evocation of a lost world. And the great Meggendorfer was responsible for three of the plates! Light wear to the cover. One of the plates has a minor closed tear by its fold. But as we indicated an unusually appealing copy. Verlag von J. F. Schreiber hardcover
1977ref. 9662Hamburg, Christians, 1977. 41 S. Mit 14 ganzseit. Abb. (= Schriften der A. Paul Weber-Gesellschaft, 1). Illustr. OBrosch.
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
ref. 010639PM Press, 2022. Paperback Gr. 8° 688
2004ref. 86119New York:: Gulliver Books / Harcourt 2004. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in blue boards in a fine dust jacket. First printing. A selection of bird stories from around the world collected by Howard Norman and illustrated in beautiful full color with colored pencil and watercolor on Bristol board by Caldecott award-winning artists Leo and Diane Dillon Leo was the first Black US American to receive this award. SIGNED on the title page by both Leo and Diane Dillon. Includes a 4 pp note by Norman about the stories and the selection process - "laughter argument friendship." Slightly oblong format. ix 78 pp. Gulliver Books / Harcourt, hardcover
1983ref. 88367Madison, N.J. Friends of the Library, Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1983. 18, (2) S., mit 5 Holzstichtafeln u. 2 vom Künstler geschnittenen Initialen. 4to. 33 cm. OBüttenkart. mit Fadenheftung.
ref. 57588London: A. and C. Black Ltd. 1928. Travel SECOND EDITION REVISED. Octavo 21 x 16cm pp.x; 250; 2. Publisher's blind stamped blue cloth gilt titles to spine and in blind to upper blue top edge dust-jacket. With thirty two plates in colour and a sketch map of the country. Ownership to flyleaf some spotting to edges. Wrapper price clipped with a few small marks. Uncommon in wrapper. A clean bright example. Near fine. Part of Black's Popular Series of Colour Books this volume being a revised version of the same title which formed part of the A. and C. Black 20 Shilling series first published in 1908. London: A. and C. Black Ltd., 1928 unknown
1992ref. 1396962Boston: Little Brown and Company 1992. First edition. Softcover. 12mo 66 pages. In Very Good condition. Spine is purple with black print. Price unclipped: "$3.95". Cover is illustrated black and orange print. Illustrated: b&w. Inscribed in ink by the author on the title page. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office Case #2 - New Ephemera Box #4. 1396962. FP New Rockville Stock. Little, Brown and Company unknown books
2008ref. FLAHIVE-1606Pantheon New York 2008 First printing with full number line. A very fine as-new copy in a very fine as-new wraparound. A clean copy. Wraparound comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Very light wear to corners as pictured of an otherwise beautiful copy. SIGNED by Chip Kidd and another illustrator on bookplate as pictured. Fiction-K. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition Limited Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Pantheon, New York hardcover
1834ref. V62471London: Simpkin & Marshall 1834 but no date given. Hardcover. Good. Engraved plates 40 incl. illustrated titlepage doublpage map by W.H. Bartlett T. Barber et al. 235x152mm in 4's green cloth spined boards newer rebind and new endpapers 110pp some foxing and edge browning but all plates with tissue guards present. Generally clean and tight. Simpkin & Marshall hardcover
1915ref. 67866New York:: Frederick A. Stokes Company 1915. First edition. publisher's cloth-backed boards with applied color illustration on front panel in dust jacket illustrated with the same color plate. Faint reddish stain near the red cloth backstrip along short sections of the joint area; very slight wear to binding; clean tight and sound in a slightly dampstained dust jacket which is missing the bottom four inches of the backstrip. . Folio. With tipped-in color plates and text illustrations in black and white by E. Yarrow Jones and R. B. Brook-Greaves. Frederick A. Stokes Company, hardcover
1953ref. 69458Zürich, Rotapfel-Verlag, 1953. 25 S. Text, [36] Bl. Abb. 4to (30 cm). OKart. m. illustr. Orig.-SU u. Orig.-Pergamin-Umschlag.
1875ref. 15560New York: McLoughlin Brothers. Good with no dust jacket. 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Edgewear with rubbed corners and rear spine edge gutter weakness light tone Christmas 1876 inscription otherwise light wear. Still solid oversize hardcover. ; Notable for containing Thomas Nast's only political juvenile illustrations the uncommon first edition of this delightful chromolith illustrated collection also offers Nast illustrations for Rip Van Winkle and his cover paste-on illustration. Rip Van Winkle and Yankee Doodle are in verse. "Aunt Louisa's child's delight. $1.50 contains four standard stories--Rip Van Winkle Yankee Doodle Pocahontas and Putnam--with twenty-four full-paged illustrations in colors. 4to. Cloth beveled edges embossed in black and gold with fine chromatic illustration mounted on cover."--McLoughlin Bros. New York. Catalogue of toy books games &c. for 1875-'76. ; 54 24 pl pages . McLoughlin Brothers hardcover
1880ref. H5089Tours: Camp du Ruchard 1880. Hardcover. Very Good. Information taken from the spine title published ca. 1880 quarto 12.5 inches 31 cm tall quarter calf and mottled boards 13 double-page color lithographs showing the stocks mechanics and actions of various rifles including Remington Winchester Mauser Spencer Berdan Wetterli Beaumont Albini etc. Very good light rubbing to binding. Very rare we could not find any copies of this book or its text volume in OCLC nor by using the meta-search of vialibri. Camp du Ruchard hardcover
1965ref. 82424NY:: Bonanza Books. Very Good. 1965. Hardcover. A reprint edition. Worn at the upper corners age toning else very good in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket. . Bonanza Books, hardcover books
1976ref. 591977 CALDECOTT AWARD MEDAL - SIGNED BY DIANE & LEO DILLON A VERY SPECIAL ABC - A LETTER FOR EACH OF THE 26 AFRICAN TRIBES SELECTED - A Map - at the back shows where each tribe lives. This is a hard-to-find Caldecott Winner - the 2nd for the Dillons. Their illustrations are beautiful colorful and well-researched. showing us a glimpse into a tribe's traditions. Below each illustration - the author gives us insights into the 26 tribes selected. The Dillons show us "a man a woman a child their living quarters an artifact and a local animal in most of their illustrations." Illustration alphabet letter and text are enclosed within an illustrated border. Book is in VG condition. It is a Stated First Printing. Dust jacket is correct for the first printing - unclipped price still there. There is NO Award Medal affixed to the dj. Minor soiling to the dj- o/w VG. This is a special copy as it is Signed by both Dillons. Also there is a four - pg pamphlet - about Leo and Diane Dillon's work- including information on their previous awards. I believe this was given out at a special meet with the illustrators that the previous owner went to. On this pamphlet there is some pencil underllning & notes by her. A RICH AND INFORMATIVE BOOK! Dial Pess hardcover books
1976ref. 591977 CALDECOTT AWARD MEDAL - SIGNED BY DIANE & LEO DILLON A VERY SPECIAL ABC - A LETTER FOR EACH OF THE 26 AFRICAN TRIBES SELECTED - A Map - at the back shows where each tribe lives. This is a hard-to-find Caldecott Winner - the 2nd for the Dillons. Their illustrations are beautiful colorful and well-researched. showing us a glimpse into a tribe's traditions. Below each illustration - the author gives us insights into the 26 tribes selected. The Dillons show us "a man a woman a child their living quarters an artifact and a local animal in most of their illustrations." Illustration alphabet letter and text are enclosed within an illustrated border. Book is in VG condition. It is a Stated First Printing. Dust jacket is correct for the first printing - unclipped price still there. There is NO Award Medal affixed to the dj. Minor soiling to the dj- o/w VG. This is a special copy as it is Signed by both Dillons. Also there is a four - pg pamphlet - about Leo and Diane Dillon's work- including information on their previous awards. I believe this was given out at a special meet with the illustrators that the previous owner went to. On this pamphlet there is some pencil underllning & notes by her. A RICH AND INFORMATIVE BOOK! Dial Pess hardcover
1943ref. R240070754AMERICAN ARTISTS GROUP. 1943. In-4. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Coiffe en pied abîmée, Intérieur acceptable. Environ 75 pages - nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc dans le texte - coins frottés - illustration en couleurs sur le 1er plat - Ouvrage essentiellement en anglais.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
