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1912réf. 005495New York: David McKay 1912. Book. Illus. by Harriet MacY. Near Fine. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. The author's SCARCE 2nd book particularly in such lovely condition. Near Fine tiny rubs to cloth at the tips. Tissue guard frontispiece illustration one of 10 full page illustrations by Harriet Macy. Great illustrated front cover and spine. A handsome addition to any collection of fine bindings. David McKay Hardcover books
1946réf. 010811Chicago: Childrens Press Inc. 1946. Book. Near Fine. Pictorial Paper Covered Boards. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Eighth printing. 20 cm. 14 leaves. Bound in original pictorial paper-covered boards with colored pictorial endpapers. Near Fine. Light shelf wear to spine ends and bottom edge else fine. In original dust jacket which is in Very Good condition. Light rubbing to hinges and two closed tears to rear panel. Permanent book form of what was originally a 1939 Manhattan Christmas radio broadcast script. One of the bestselling children's Christmas classics of the 20th century. Gift quality. . Childrens Press, Inc. Hardcover books
1943réf. 010651Chicago: At the Sign of the Gargoyle 1943. Book. Fine. Hardcover. SIGNED BY PUBLISHER. Limited Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. SIGNED BY PUBLISHER Norman W. Forgue on the colophon page. N Limited Edition. " This book THE FIRST PUBLICATION from At the Sign of the Gargoyle was composed entirely by hand in eleven point Scotch Roman and its italic by Aud Wilkerson from a design by Norman W. Forgue. Printed in a limited edition on Strathmore Wayside text plate finish by Stanley Mihalik at the Norman Press. Cover paper and press mark by Mathias Noheimer of Cincinnati Ohio. Project completed during the month of September 1943. " Translated from The Arabian Nights. Foreword by Lloyd Siberell with decorations by Calvin Brazelton. Decorative paper covered boards with brown cloth spine and gilt lettering and design to the spine. Fine NO Jacket As Issued. Norman W. Forgue was an American bookmaker typographer and founder of several private presses including At the Sign of the Gargoyle The Black Cat Press The Norman Press and Normandie House. . At the Sign of the Gargoyle Hardcover books
1948réf. 004838New York: Harcourt Brace & Co. 1948. Book. Illus. by Robert Doremus. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine prior owner name in ink front pastedown hidden by front flap in a Very Good Plus dust jacket front flap price-clipped slight edgewear. A RARE book especially so in dust jacket and collectible condition. Harcourt Brace & Co. Hardcover books
1948réf. 004813Indianapolis IN: Bobbs-Merrill 1948. Book. Illus. by Margaret Ayer. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Near Fine one small corner bump prior owner name in ink front pastedown under front flap in a Very Good Plus dust jacket light edgewear. 230 pages with illustrations by Margaret Ayer. RARE in collector's condition. Bobbs-Merrill Hardcover books
1939réf. 004755New York: Viking Press 1939. Book. Illus. by Harry Daugherty. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. Near Fine cloth rubbed at bottom corners in a Very Good dustjacket 1" triangular chip bottom corner front panel 1/2" chips at spine ends jacket rubbed and a bit age-darkened. "The story of a boy who lived 20000 years ago and became the greatest artist of his times.". Viking Press Hardcover books
1970réf. 68065New York: Harper & Row Publishers 1970. Early printing. Hardcover. Very Good /Very Good. William Pène du Bois. 40pp. Slim square octavo 23.5 cm 1/4 black cloth with olive green paper over boards. Illustrated endpapers. With very light edgewear to the spine and boards and a faint thin 1 1/2 inch mark to the front board. In a price-clipped dust jacket with light soiling to the rear panel and several closed tears to the edges one backed with tape. The longest tear measures just over 1" deep. Roald Dahl's third book for children. The story of a little girl who dislikes hunting and who uses the power of her magic finger to turn the people who live on the neighboring farm into birds. "How the Greggs build a nest and spend a stormy night in a tree and what they have to promise before they can regain their human shapes round out a tale of magic that all young lovers of fantasy will enjoy reading." from the dust jacket. Harper & Row, Publishers hardcover
1946réf. 62713London: Modern Art Gallery Ltd. 1946. 4to. 124 2 pp. With plates throughout. Black publisher’s cloth silver lettering front cover w/ d.j. cover art by Bilbo minor chipping & closed tears to lower fore-edge scuffing dustsoiling still NF/G copy w/ small bookseller’s stamp of Bertrand Smith Acres of Books on front pastedown. First edition stated of this curious blend of fantastic and macabre stories by the German-Jewish painter sculptor draughtsman and larger-than-life gallery owner whose family escaped the Nazis in the early 1930’s was interned on the Isle of Man and founded the Modern Art Gallery in London. Modern Art Gallery, Ltd., hardcover
1943réf. 63774Garden City NY: Doubleday Doran & Co. Inc. 1943. Thick 8vo. xx 487 1 pp. Blue publisher’s cloth gilt lettering on spine minor shelfwear slight age toning w/ d.j. minor chipping head & foot of spine minor closed tears scuffing still a VG/G- copy from the library of the noted Joseph G. Dittrich 1916-1976 well known as “Uncle Joe” with the National Fantasy Fan Federation featuring one of his Hannes Bok bookplates on front pastedown. First edition stated of this fantasy anthology including stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald Saki E.M. Forster Walter de la Mare Max Beerbohm Rudyard Kipling Lord Dunsany Edgar Allen Poe and more. Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., hardcover
1990réf. 64198Novato CA & Lancaster PA: Underwood-Miller 1990. Thick 8vo. 14 641 3 pp. Frontisp. Black publisher’s cloth gilt lettering on spine w/ d.j. cover art by Michael Whelan NF/NF copy. First edition stated of this anthology collecting all fifty-one stories from DAW’s Year’s Best Horror Stories 10 11 and 12 the second omnibus in the series. Authors include stories from Stephen King David Drake Manly Wade Wellman Al Sarrantonio Shelia Hodgson Jane Yolen Tanith Lee and many others. Underwood-Miller, hardcover
1979réf. 64205New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1979. 8vo. 4 279 1 pp. Black publisher’s boards silver lettering on spine soiling to fore-edge age toning edgewear w/ d.j. cover art by Edward Gorey minor chip & tear to lower fore-edge back cover still G/G copy. First American edition of Aickman’s collection of short stories of nightmare madness death and the supernatural. Charles Scribner’s Sons, hardcover
réf. FORT800977Used - Very Good. unknown
1983réf. 006270Boston: Little Brown & Co 1983. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine in a Near fine dust jacket spine a bit sunned. Little Brown & Co Hardcover
1986réf. 001902West Kingston RI: Donald M. Grant 1986. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. F/F dj an unread copy. Limited to 750 copies signed by Brennan of which 700 were for sale. Collects twenty-four Brennan gems. From the collection and estate of noted SF/F/H & comic collector Kennett Neily - owner of the White Mountain Comic Collection - without his name or date of purchase as usual to ffep. Donald M. Grant hardcover
1988réf. 002150Bloomington IN: Friends of the Lilly Library at Indiana University 1988. Book. About Fine. Cloth. Limited and Numbered First Edition. LIMITED EDITION of 202 copies of which this is numbered 27. Cloth hardcover in purple dustjacket Near Fine with small stain front pastedown and tiny tear bottom edge of dustjacket at spine. . Published by the Friends of the Lilly Library at Indiana University. Laid in is a blue envelope containing a bound facsimile of "Nursery Poems from the Ancient and Modern Poets" both envelope and book are Very Fine. A quite handsome production sure to please any collector of children's literature. Friends of the Lilly Library at Indiana University Hardcover
1912réf. 001689Boston: Lothrop Lee & Shepard Co. 1912. Book. Near Fine. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. Near Fine with spine a bit chipped at head and heels in a Very Good dustjacket that is chipped at spine tips and along bottom edge of back panel. SCARCE in dustjacket. Prior owner bookplate front pastedown. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. Hardcover
1910réf. 001690Boston: Lothrop Lee & Shepard Co. 1910. Book. Near Fine. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. Near Fine with spine a bit chipped at head and heels in a Very Good dustjacket that is chipped at spine tips and at bottom corner front panel 1' x 1" . SCARCE in dustjacket. Prior owner bookplate front pastedown. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. Hardcover
1902réf. 010795Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press Cambridge 1902. Book. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Later printing uncommon institutional / educational issue. Featuring the Riverside Press title-page layout and omitting publisher advertisements. 19 cm. 6 259 pp. In publisher's original olive-green cloth. Very Good. Light shelf wear to spine ends and corners. Issued as part of Houghton Mifflin's push into the progressive education movement printed on heavier-duty stock for bulk distribution to classrooms and public libraries. Uncommon for copies to survive in this condition. . Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press Cambridge Hardcover
1983réf. 010096No Place: Morrow 1983. Poster. Near Fine. Poster. First Printing. 17 3/4" w x 25 1/2" h. SCARCE publisher's promotional poster printed 1983 and distributed at the ABA trade show in limited numbers. Near Fine faint creases at margins 17 3/4" w x 25 1/2" h. Well suited for framing and will be shipped loosely rolled in a mailing tube. Morrow unknown
réf. 002876London: Frederick Warne and Co. Book. Illus. by Caldecott R. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. First Edition Thus. Drawings & full-color illustrations by the great Randolph Caldecott of 8 classic children's stories including: The Diverting History of John Gilpin The House That Jack Built An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog The Babes in the Wood The Three Jovial Huntsmen Sing a Song for Sixpence The Quuen of Hearts and The Farmer's Boy. No date according to the Randolph Caldecott Society this title was reissued by Frederick Warne in 1896. Lacking the dustjacket still a Very Good copy cloth a bit rubbed contents are clean tight and unmarked. Frederick Warne and Co. Hardcover
1951réf. 7610Pensylvania USA: Fantasy 1951. Has been in one collection since new and is in exceptionally good condition wrapper art is by Hannes Bok and is sl rubbed to head and foot of spine has paper tape protection to inside. Teal bds with crisp Gilt title not worn interior tight and bright not inscribed. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fantasy Hardcover
1900réf. 0007678Manchester: Blackie & Son 1900. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. 245 pages original pictorial cloth worn hinges cracking untrimmed foxed. With 11 colored plates by Walter Crane. A splendidly illustrated version of DON Q. attempting to capture the essence of it for children. "DON QUIXOTE" is one of those universal works which are read by all ages at all times and there are very few who have not at one time or another felt themselves to be Don Quixote confronting the windmills or Sancho Panza at the inn - PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 111." "I have DON QUIXOTE by the bedside . DON Q is the best book out there on political theory followed by "Hamlet" and "MacBeth" -Subcommandante Marcos Zapatista leader." .Sedo Collection Blackie & Son hardcover
1975réf. 37717NY:: Simon & Schuster Margaret K. McElderry Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1975. Hardcover. 0689500297 . Book club edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Near fine in a near fine minor edge wear one short closed edge tear dust jacket. ; Signed by Author . Simon & Schuster (Margaret K. McElderry Books), hardcover
1990réf. 005831New York: ST Martin's 1990. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Editor & Contributors. A Very Nice Copy - Signed By Ellen Datlow On The Title Page. Signature Only. Signed By Michael Swanwick James P. Blaylock Nancy Etchemendy Emma Bull Charles De Lint Dan Simmons John Shirley Greg Bear Ramsey Campbell Pat Cadigan Joe Haldeman Joe R. Lansdale Edward Bryant Leif Enger Joyce Carol Oates And Delia Sherman On Their Short Story. First Edition First Printing With The Corresponding Number Line. Book Is In Very Good Condition. Boards Are Clean Not Bumped. Page Fore Edges Have A Small Amount Of Shelf Wear And Foxing. Interior Is Clean And Legible. Not Remaindered. Dust Jacket Is In Very Good Condition. Tiny Bit Of Crinkle Along The Edges. Not Price Clipped. Dust Jacket Is Covered By Mylar Wrapper. Thanks And Enjoy. ST Martin's Hardcover
1948réf. 004816New York: Dodd Mead 1948. Book. Illus. by Kurt Weise. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Near Fine small bump bottom edge of boards prior owner name in ink front pastedown hidden by front flap. In a Very Good Plus dust jacket spine red coloring faded a few small chips at the tips. Utterly charming Kurt Wiese illustrations 162 pages. RARE in collectible condition. Dodd Mead Hardcover
