Little, Brown & Co., 1935. First Thus. First printing. Octavo (20cm.); green pictorial publisher's cloth-backed boards w/ gilt lettering, in yellow pictorial dustwrapper; frontis.,viii,132pp; illus. Gift inscription on front endpaper; else light wear and soil; Very Good+. In the original dustwrapper, price-clipped, lightly soiled and worn; Very Good. First illustrated..... More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1970, but 1976]. New Edition. Slim octavo (20.75cm.); original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; 55pp.; illus. Dust jacket slightly unevenly toned, else Near Fine. Originally published by Norton. This edition with a new dust jacket illustration and design. Date provided by TOLEDANO B44c. More

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1945. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19.5cm); green publisher's cloth with black lettering and portraiture, in white pictorial dustwrapper; 215pp. Spine, rear panel, and interiors toned; creasing, chipping, and soiling to dustwrapper; bright red top edgestain. Very Good. Magic, mystery, and a little counterfeiting intrigue..... More

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1902. First Edition. Juvenile novel set in Ohio, centered around a little boy who attempts to run away from home, and his adventures in the process. Characters bear striking similarities to Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. BAL 9748. First Printing. Octavo (19cm); maroon cloth..... More

[San Francisco: 1975]. First Edition. Quarto (28.5cm.); publisher's comb-bound pictorial card wrappers; mixed pagination; illus. Shallow crease along bottom edge of upper cover, rear cover a bit soiled, else Very Good and sound. Hungarian-language epic poem, the illustrations evolving from medieval romance to futuristic apocalypse. Unlocated in OCLC as of..... More

[Kaduna, Nigeria]: Macmillan, 1948. 1970 Reprint. 3 volumes; 12mo (18.25cm.); uniformly bound in grey pictorial staplebound card wrappers. About Fine. Book 1 devoted entirely to the Prophet Mohammad; Books 2 and 3 cover the first four Caliphs. More

New York: Doubleday, 1978. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo, oblong (21x27cm); dark blue pictorial boards titled in white and yellow on cover and spine; dustjacket; illustrated by John Schoenherr. Minor rubbing to spine ends; Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $5.95) with minimal wear including a few minor nicks and..... More

[New York]: Dial Press, 1968. Lithographic broadside, 21" x 16"; printed in black on thick paper. Small paper adhesions to verso from mounting; slightly wrinkled, but free of soil; Very Good or better. Signed in ink at lower left, "Best wishes from / Tom Feelings." Uncommon publisher's advertising broadside, reproducing..... More

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1867. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19cm). Blue cloth stamped in gilt and blind; noncontinuous pagination; black and white in-text illustrations throughout. Rubbed but bright and straight, one central gathering pulled, complete, around Very Good. Question-and-answer guide for children about household items, food, animals, birds..... More

An enigmatic folktale in which a fox and a horse, each starving to death, must decide among themselves which one is to die. Shahn's animal illustrations are lively and accurate throughout. This is presumably an unused trial version, as an ink note to the front cover states "do not use..... More

Detroit: Labadie Shop, 1912. Third issue (of four) of this extremely ephemeral, privately-circulated "newspaper," produced by a 13-year-old Laurance Labadie on the premises of his father's (Jo Labadie) anarchist print shop in Detroit. Labadie (1898-1975) would go on to become an influential, if somewhat eccentric, anarchist philosopher, closely affiliated with..... More

N.p. [New York? Kanrom Inc., 1962]. First Edition. Sardonic joke-coloring book, inspired by Richard Nixon, with text written in the first person as JFK's children. Begins with "My daddy is very important. He has a lot of people working for him. They would do anything for my daddy. Color their..... More

New York: Macmillan, 1929. First Edition. First printing. Small octavo. Deep red cloth, titled in black; dustjacket; 211pp; illus. Tight and straight, with mild toning to text; Very Good+. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped but with original printed price over-printed with a new ($2.00) price; generally rubbed with loss..... More