CROSSING THE PLAINS
Akron, OH: The Saalfield Pub. Co., 1942. Softcover. Stiff pictorial wraps; 12 pages including covers, all in color. Stand-up punch-outs of cowboys and wranglers.
Akron, OH: The Saalfield Pub. Co., 1942. Softcover. Stiff pictorial wraps; 12 pages including covers, all in color. Stand-up punch-outs of cowboys and wranglers.
The Platt & Munk Co. Inc., (1937). Eulalie. First Edition. Softcover. Illustrated covers, printed on linen; 12 pages all in color illustrated by Eulalie. The hardcover edition seems to be much more common.
Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Company, n.d. [early 1900s]. Softcover. Pictorial linen; 8 pages including covers. Front cover, which depicts cats and kittens, and rear cover along with two internal pages in color.
Kenosha, WI: Samuel Lowe Company, n.d. [1950s]. Softcover. Pictorial wraps; 8 pages including covers. Stand-up sailors and punch-outs of sailors and soldiers.
Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Company, n.d. [early 1900s]. Softcover. Pictorial linen; 8 pages including covers. Front cover, which depicts a rooster, and rear cover along with two internal pages in color. A few images are negative stereotyped depictions of African-Americans including a Golliwog and a Mammy.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1945. Everett Gee Jackson. Hardcover. Octavo (6-3/8" x 10") bound in half brown morocco and gold-stamped, wood-grain paper sides. Illustrated with color plates by Everett Gee Jackson. Retold by Louis Untermeyer and with a foreword by him. Copy #834 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1945. Everett Gee Jackson. Hardcover. Octavo (6-3/8" x 10") bound in half brown morocco and gold-stamped, wood-grain paper sides. Illustrated with color plates by Everett Gee Jackson. Retold by Louis Untermeyer and with a foreword by him. Copy #1420 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist.....
London: 19 June 1973. Letter. Wonderful AUTOGRAPHED LETTER SIGNED, 3-1/2 pages, to the creator of the cover art for the Puffin edition of WATERSHIP DOWN which was published in June 1973 becoming a bestseller and responsible for establishing the book in the public's eye. Adams praises the artist's work: "Fiver's.....
London: John Gray and Co., [1890]. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (7-1/4" x 12") in half leather and marbled boards with leather corners, gilt-decorated and lettered spine; 476 pages. Facsimile of the 1669 third edition printed for R Sare, et al. translated by Sir Roger l'Estrange. Engraved frontispiece.
no date [1880]. Manuscript. Two 7-5/8" x 9-3/4" pages of AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT on two lined sheets of paper consisting of @300 words completely in Alcott's hand. In part: "'Jill goes wherever Jack does & he lets her. He's such a good-natured chap he can't say No.' 'To a girl,' shyly.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, (1949). Fritz Kredel. Hardcover. Six large octavo volumes (6-1/2" x 10-1/2") bound in half blue buckram stamped with genuine aluminum leaf and decorated paper boards. This marks the first publication of all 168 stories by Andersen, not simply his better known fairy tales, all translated.....
Portland [ME]: Lamson, n.d. Photograph. Wonderful SIGNED photograph (2-1/2" x 3-7/8") of Hans Christian Andersen seated at a small table and holding an open book. On the otherwise blank verso of the photograph, Andersen has written, in English, "The first moment of arrival at home is however the Bouquet of.....
New York: George H. Doran Company, (1923). Margaret T. Applegarth. First Edition. Hardcover. A collection of Home Mission stories illustrated by the author.
New York: William R. Scott, (1942). Jean Charlot. First Edition. hardcover. Pictorial green cloth, likely the first issue with the dustwrapper having only two titles listed on the rear inside flap. Illustrated with line drawings by Jean Charlot.
Philadelphia: M'Carty & Davis, 1827. New Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo (3-3/4" x 6-1/2") in original sheep-backed boards; 167 pages. Shoemaker 28348. Illustrated with small woodcuts, about half of which are crudely colored by hand. The title page bears a large woodcut of a variation of the United States Presidential Seal, similar.....
New York: Times Books, (1995). Amy Carter. First Edition. Hardcover. Pictorial boards. INSCRIBED and SIGNED to Emily "Best wishes/Jimmy Carter" by the author on the title page. Books signed in full by the former President and Nobel Prize winner are much less common than those with his first name initialed.....
New York: Times Books, (1995). Amy Carter. First Edition. Hardcover. Pictorial boards. SIGNED ("J. Carter") by the author and also by the illustrator, Amy Carter, on the title page.
New York: Dutton Children's Books, (1993). First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards. The first book by a former U.S. president to address young readers. Illustrated with photographs. INSCRIBED "Best Wishes to ----" and SIGNED in full as "Jimmy Carter" on the half title page. Books inscribed by Carter, especially with his.....
New York: Dutton Children's Books, (1993). First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards. Third printing. The first book by a former U.S. president to address young readers. Illustrated with photographs. INSCRIBED "Best Wishes to ----" and SIGNED in full as "Jimmy Carter" on the half title page. Books inscribed by Carter, especially.....
New York: Dutton Children's Books, (1993). First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards. The first book by a former U.S. president to address young readers. Illustrated with photographs.
New York: McLoughlin Bros. 1904. First Edition. Wraps. Pictorial wraps; [10] pages. Part of the Friendly Animal Series. Brief stories about a horse, a cow, and a calf. Illustrated with a chromolithographed cover and 4 full-page color plates.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1937. George Cruikshank. Hardcover. Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-1/2") bound in pictorially embossed blindstamped full cowhide. Copy #1208 of 1500 designed by Frederick Warde and illustrated with collotype reproductions of the original etchings by George Cruikshank and 24 sketches in color by Cruikshank never before printed.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1937. George Cruikshank. Hardcover. Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-1/2") bound in pictorially embossed blindstamped full cowhide. Copy #1477 of 1500 designed by Frederick Warde and illustrated with collotype reproductions of the original etchings by George Cruikshank and 24 sketches in color by Cruikshank never before printed.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1937. George Cruikshank. Hardcover. Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-1/2") bound in pictorially embossed blindstamped full cowhide. Designed by Frederick Warde and illustrated with collotype reproductions of the original etchings by George Cruikshank and 24 sketches in color by Cruikshank never before printed. Issued unsigned. Of a......
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1937. George Cruikshank. Hardcover. Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-1/2") bound in pictorially embossed blindstamped full cowhide. Copy #565 of 1500 designed by Frederick Warde and illustrated with collotype reproductions of the original etchings by George Cruikshank and 24 sketches in color by Cruikshank never before printed.....