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By: N/A
Price: $40.00
Publisher: London, The Poetry Bookshop: 1922
Seller ID: 31703
Mother Goose rhymes; embellished with drawings by C. Lovat Fraser and printed by the Curwen Press. 12mo, red boards. 64 pp. "A new edition, fourth thousand". Very good; front cover has a light band of sunning at top; rear cover lightly soiled. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $3,200.00
Publisher: Mexico. D.F., Libreria Anticuaria. G. M. Echaniz.: 1939
Seller ID: k1707041
1st ed. thus, 11-1/2”x8-1/2”. Scarce (No.22 of 25 signed and numbered copies] A hand-colored facsimile of the Codex Nuttall, an accordion-fold pre-Columbian document of Mixtec pictography, now in the collection of the British Museum. The Codex is one of about 16 manuscripts from Mexico that are entirely pre-Columbian in origin. Its name is derived from Zelia Nuttall, who first published the Codex for the Peabody Museum in 1902. It is one of three codices that record ... View more info
By: (Wulfing, Sulamith) Anderson, Hans Christian
Price: $185.00
Publisher: Wuppertal-Elberfeld, Sulamith Wulfing: 1953
Seller ID: 10501
1st ed. Self-published by Wulfing in 1953. Limited printing and now scarce. German text. The suite of illustrations consists of 8 color images and 8 monotone illustrations. Bound in gold-stamped cardboard cover. Interior is clean and bright; light surface wear and light age-toning to covers; a 1/4" spot on back cover. View more info
By: Aesop
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Chamberlain Press: 1984
Seller ID: 1007
boards, 5"x6. A selection of fables illustrated with colored wood engravings by Sarah Chamberlain and translated by Boris Artzybasheff. Limited signed edition of 150 copies. Signed by the illustrator on the limitation page. Ten coloured plates, each with small illustration on the reverse. View more info
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By: Anonymous. [Anastasius Scriptor]
Price: $1,850.00
Seller ID: k180228l
n.p. n.d. 4to, illuminated vellum wrappers; 52 leaves; stitched binding. Pen and ink calligraphy, illuminations with watercolor head and tail pieces, and in-text illustrations all on hand-made paper. The artist/author is unknown. Clean, tight and unmarked interior. Covers torn and chipped on all edges. Date unknown but probably from late 1950’s - early 1960’s. View more info
By: AQUITH, Cynthia & Bigland, Eileen
Price: $30.00
Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1935
Seller ID: 0219022
4to, white cloth, 224p. An anthology of stories and poems published to raise money for the Princess Elizabeth Hospital for Children. Includes a Rupert Story by Mary Tourtel (Rupert the Little Bear goes Adventuring in the Robbers Den and with the Giants), an intro. by J.M. Barrie, poem by De La Mare etc. Illustrated with 2 double page color spreads by the Disney Studios, endpapers by Rex Whistler, color plates by A.H. Watson and others and with many illus. in line. Pris... View more info
![Image for La Gravure Sur Bois Moderne de L'occident. [The Art of Modern Woodcuts]](/assets/images/product/BB - 41.jpg)
Price: $500.00
Publisher: Paris: Dorbon Aine: 1928
Edition: 1st ed,
Seller ID: k18028k
8vo, softcovers rebound in gray cloth. Classic reference on the art of the woodcut, with emphasis on the revival of the art in Western Europe during the first quarter of the 20th century. 239 woodblocks, 9 in color. 177 original illustrations. No. 18 of 1000 copies; a prior owner has neatly written in pencil which woodcuts are originals and which previously published; owner's inked name on front flyleaf, otherwise a fine copy in original paper wraps, subsequently reboun... View more info
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By: Barbier, George
Price: $650.00
Publisher: Francois-Louis Schmied : 1918
Edition: 1st
Seller ID: k181227e
A frontispiece design for the book “les Lettres Persanes” [Persian Letters} by Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu. 4.75”x7.5” printed in pale green, black, and dusty rose on rag paper. An image of a woman in oriental garb with feathered hat and holding a parrot. Drawn by Barbier as one of a series of 100 frontispieces by a variety of artists engraved and printed by Francois-Louis Schmied in 1918 in a limited edition of fifty portfolios. [Les Cent... View more info
By: Barrie, J. M.
Price: $65.00
Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton:
Seller ID: 254
London: Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. (1913). Small 4to, violet cloth, decorative embossed cover. 22 full color tipped-in plates by Hugh Thompson. Good condition: Loose joint but text bloc is fine. Binding is straight and tight, edges and corners rubbed. Fabric is frayed at head/heel of spine; top edge lightly stained but does not intrude into the text block. View more info
By: Baskin, Leonard
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Viking Press: 1972
Seller ID: 17061913
1st edition (1972) of this Caldecott Medal winner, signed by illustrator Leonard Baskin in red ink on the front end paper. The book itself is in fine condition. The dust jacket has a 3/4" closed tear at front top, a 1/4" closed tear at rear top and a 2" water stain in lower right front corner. The water stain does not affect the book. View more info
By: Baskin, Leonard [wth Tobias, Lucretia, Hosie, & Lisa Baskin]
Price: $65.00
Publisher: Viking Press: 1979
Edition: 1st ed.
Inscription: Signed by Baskin
Seller ID: sw180315a
4to, green cloth. 1st ed, signed by illustrator Leonard Baskin in red ink on the front end paper. A companion volume to his Caldecott Honor Book Hosie’s Alphaet; kBaskins illustraions of birds with light verse. A light fade line along bottom of front cover, else fine in fine d/w. View more info
Price: $50.00
Seller ID: 040305
Braunschweig: Verlag von A.Graff's Buchhandlung, 1919. 8vo, 94 pp. Illustrated boards. An illustrated history of the Paris Commune, with 94 drawings and tipped-plates by Gustave Dore. Fair-Good. Interior lightly shaken but clean throughout. Front hinge partially split at bottom. Covers lightly soiled with 1/2" closed tears at top of spine. Edges and corners lightly rubbed. View more info
By: Bidloo, Govard
Price: $1,200.00
Publisher: Paris, Editions Roger DaCosta: 1972
Seller ID: 1936
Facsimile edition of Bidloo's noted atlas of human anatomy first published in Amsterdam in 1685. Large 4to (11"x16"), bound in burgundy leatherette, marbled end-papers, all edges gilt. No. 411 of 2000 copies printed. A bit of rubbing at top and bottom of spine, otherwise fine. The atlas is illustrated with 105 plates by Gerard de Lairesse, showing the human figure both in living attitudes and as dissected cadavers. The book was later plagiarized by English surgeon ... View more info
By: Blake, William
Price: $45.00
Seller ID: 150302
London: Arthur L Humphreys, 1911. 12mo, leather binding with gilt spine design, raised bands, gilt borders and bands by Riviere and Son. 1st ed. thus, containing Songs of Innocence & Songs of Experience. 64 pages. Decorated throughout with tipped-in engravings. Internally fine, but front cover is detached, light wear on edges and corners. Contemporary inked inscription inside front cover. View more info
Price: $57.50
Seller ID: 040301
1st edition; London: Macmillan & Co., 1882. Pictorial boards with cloth spine. Illustrations by George Cruikshank – note that this is not THE George Cruikshank, but his nephew. Interior is clean and tight. The covers are rubbed at edges, more heavily so at corners. View more info
Price: $265.00
Publisher: Dublin, Irish Academic Press: 1989
Edition: 1st ed.
Seller ID: 1403
8vo, cloth, 301 pp. The first substantial biography of Clarke and a critical survey of his varied work: stained glass, book illustration, commercial art. 24 color plates and 180 b/w illustrations. A marvelous treatment. Fine; as new in d/w with some very minor shelf-wear. A near pristine copy. View more info
Price: $350.00
Publisher: Mountrath Ireland/Los Angeles, The Dolmen Press/H. Keith Burns: 1983
Seller ID: g1012
Deluxe edition, limited to 250 numbered copies. 125 for distribution in Ireland, 125 for the U.S. Black cloth with gilt decorations in black slipcase. This special edition, signed by Bowe, contains an extra suite of eight plates reproduced from Clarke's original drawings for "The Ancient Mariner." The gilt decoration on the front cover is from a design by Clarke adapted from the binding of the special copies of the 1922 edition of the Fair Tales of Perrault. This specia... View more info
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By: Boydell, John. (Shakespeare, William)
Price: $2,000.00
Publisher: New York: Shearjashub Spooner: 1852
Edition: 1st thus.
Seller ID: k181231b
[New York: Shearjashub Spooner, 1852]. Elephant folio, 23”x28”, in plain brown library binding. The first American edition, printed from Boydells' original plates purchased and restored by the American publisher. This oversized edition has finely detailed impressions, the engravings having been brightened by re-cutting worn areas. Background: John Boydell was a London bookseller and print-seller. In 1786, he and a group of associates commissioned paintings of scenes... View more info
By: Bradbury, Ray
Price: $55.00
Publisher: New York, Barnes and Noble Books: 1996
Seller ID: k1997
1st ed. thus. 8vo, hardcover signed by Bradbury on front end-paper. Pristine copy in d/w! Previously published stories about prehistoric beasts; illustrated by William Stout, Steranko, Gahan Wilson, Moebius and others. View more info
By: Bridgman, L.J.
Price: $225.00
Publisher: Boston: Small, Maynard & Company:
Seller ID: dgvl180226a
1st ed., 16mo, ¼ cloth, illustrated boards. undated; circa 1910. Scarce adult title by the popular children’s book author/illustrator. Illustrated verses on a variety of subjects where people ‘get the hook.’ No copies on the net, only three in OCLC. A fair-good copy: heavily rubbed on corners, moderate surface wear, small ink mark on back cover. Text block clean and unmarked but lightly shaken at hinges. View more info
