Garden City: Doubleday, 1937. Later printing. Quarto. Cloth-backed pictorial boards; dustjacket; [88]pp; illus; pictorial endpapers. Very Good, with mild soiling and wear to board edges; jacket chipped at extremities, with loss to "I" in author's name at heel; just VG. Edition not stated, but in the correct ($2.00) dustwrapper according..... More

New York: Stein and Day, 1963. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (33.5cm.); turquoise boards quarterbound in black publisher's cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front panel; [27pp]. Front pastedown signed and inscribed by William Archibald. Text block overall sound, with intermittent toning, stray marks, and light denting. Boards have..... More

New York: Henry Z. Walck, Inc., 1959. First American Edition. Slim quarto (26cm); light green pictorial cloth, stamped in black, in yellow pictorial dustwrapper; [46]pp. Boards and dustwrapper dampstained/wrinkled, rubbed about extremities; short tears to dustwrapper upper edges; moderate soiling and toning; inner flap price-clipped. Textblock has mild handling wear..... More

Seattle: Aqueduct Press, 2010. First Edition. 12mo. Pictorial glossy card wrappers; 142,(6)pp. Fine. Inscribed by the author on half-title to Minnesota poet John Calvin Rezmerski. More

Auburn, NY: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1854. Later edition. Octavo (18.5cm); brown cloth, stamped in blind with gilt on spine; yellow endpapers; 243+[12]pp, frontispiece. Spine lolled, backstrip and upper margins sunned; soiling and surface wear; extremities bumped and rubbed. Textblock damped and foxed throughout, with some soiling and slight pulling..... More

Minneapolis: Carl Waring Jones, 1941. First Edition. Quarto. Pictorial cloth; 135pp; illus. Inscribed on front endpaper: "Sincerely Yours / Al Baker," dated in year of publication. Two small ink-stains to front board, else light aging and wear; VG, lacking the dustwrapper. Exercises in hand-magic by one of the more popular..... More

New York: Duenewald Printing Corporation, [1943]. First Thus. Small, slim quarto (22cm.); publisher's pictorial spiral-bound paper-covered boards; [18]pp.; color illus. throughout, including six moveable plates. Boards rubbed with brief exposure to corners, small paper flaw to upper cover not affecting text, else Very Good, internally fine and unused. A moveable..... More

Chicago: Geo. M Hill, 1899. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (28cm). Original pictorial gray paper-covered boards; unpaginated [54 leaves, including front blank]. Typical rubbing and soil to covers, occasional mild thumb-soil to text margins, but still a tight, complete, Very Good copy free of restoration. First printing per Bienvenue, with..... More

Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill Company, [1901]. First Edition. First printing (with the comma closer to "N.Y." than to "Brooklyn" in the copyright notice), binding A. Octavo (21cm). Original dark green cloth, stamped in gilt on front and spine, pictorial paper onlay on front; blank endpapers; [xvi],245pp; frontispiece and 12 color plates. Lightly..... More

New York: Friendship Press, [1936]. First Edition. Small octavo (19.25cm.); publisher's tan pictorial wrappers printed in brown; viii,168pp. Light wear to extremities, occasional unobtrusive red pencil underlining throughout, else Very Good or better. Collection of folk tales and stories by missionaries in Africa. More

New York: Viking Kestrel, 1985. First Hardcover Edition. First Printing. Quarto (31.25cm); glossy pictorial boards; dustjacket; [32]pp; illus. Light wear to extremities, tiny tear to upper rear joint, with neat gift inscription on verso of half-title; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $12.95), lightly edgeworn, with some rubbing to crown..... More

[Phoenix, NY]: Frank E. Richards Publishing Co., [1971]. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); original pictorial card wrappers; [4], 219pp.; illus. A bit dust-soiled, else Fine. Juvenile novel recounting the experiences of Jacques "Ebony Jack" Duval, a black man from Massachusetts lured to the West in the antebellum years. More

Hartford: Oliver D. Cooke, 1820. 32mo (10.5cm.); pictorial vernacularly stitched wrappers printed in brown; 13,[3]pp.; woodcut illus. throughout. Quite worn, lacking rear wrapper, crude contemporary stitching starting to unravel, upper wrapper rather damaged by biopredation and laid down on contemporary piece of plain stock, several small losses to margins of..... More