Arthur Rackham
Louis Rhead
Gregory Rogers
W. Heath Robinson
Suzanne: Little Black Sambo
Nicole Rubel
Joseph Servello
Shel Silverstein
Emanuel Schongut
Fairy Operettas
Boston: Little Brown: 1916 1st. 4to. 5X7.5 in. 119 pps. Gold cloth with decorations and titles in blue and black. Favorite fairy tales recast as small plays and operettas. Illustrations by Mary Robertson Bassett. Inscribed in a rhymed couplet amd signed by the author on the title page. Book is FINE in all respects. A remarkable copy albeit without DJ. Extremely rare. Bookseller Inventory #5027
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Robin Hood
NY; Harper & Brothers : 1912. 4to 6X9 inches. Black cloth with paste on illustration to cover. 45 full page illustrations by Louis Rhead plus color frontis, head and tail pieces and other decorations. A truly elegant book. Pages 217-218 roughly cut at bottom. Owner's name to FEP. Some wrinkling to cover illustration. Corners bumped. Otherwise an elegant copy. Bookseller Inventory #7043 Price: $65.00
Walter De La Mare, poet
Peacock Pie
NY Henry Holt, (March 1924) 1st American Edition Hardback. Green cloth gold stamped on cover with peacock and titles.Ocxtavo [6X8 in] Wonderful Heath Robinson b&w illustrations throughout - some full page. No markings, no wear. Spine titles unreadable but cloth not sunned. A FINE copy NO DJ . Bookseller Inventory # 19 Price: $75.00
Gardner, John
In The Suicide Mountains
New York, Knopf, 1977 1st edition. Hardback 8vo [7.5 X 8.5 in] Embossed blue paper blindstamped : quarter-bound in linen spine stamped with title. 159 pages. Wrap around illustration on DJ. Colophon.. A perfect unread copy in broadart cover.Inventory 162 Price $160.00
Little Black Sambo
Whitman Publishers, 1950. Therefore 1st. 5.5X6,5 inches. In the "Tell-A-Tale" series of little books. The hinge of this copy is worn and the bottom of the front cover scuffed. Interior is fine with an owner signature on paste-down. Inventory# 8540 Price $60.00
Where The Sidewalk Ends
Harper and Row Publshers, 1974. Decorative Cloth. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Shel Silverstein (illustrator). DJ is unclipped and has 1174 on flap with price of 10.95. Gypsies are Coming on page 50. Book is unread. No markings. Pristine copy. A collector's copy. Inventory # 7697 Price $75.00
Emmanuel Schongut, Illustrator
Elidor and the Golden Ball
Dodd, Mead, New York, 1973. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: NF. First Edition. Royal Octavo. Some browning of jacket. Illustrated with wonderful full page line drawings in color and black and white by Emanuel Schongut. Dust jacket is mylar-protected. Bookseller Inventory #7705 Price $45.00.
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Nicole Rubel, Illustrator IT Came From The Swamp New York: Dial, 1988, First Edition. 10 By 9 inches Tall. First Edition. Hardback. Near fine.A book about illustrators by a very original illustrator. Slight bow to front cover. Else Fine in Fine in brodart.Inventory# 520 Price $30.00 |
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Charles Robinson, Illustrator A Child's Garden of Verses Robert Louis Stevenson 1902: Charles Scribners, NY; John Lane, London. 137 pages. Red cloth bound. Beautifully and sumptuously illusratrated by Robinson. Gift inscription of FEP. Otherwise fine in every respect. Inventory# 8581 Price $48.00 |
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Running Away from Home
Gray, Nigel
Crown Publishers, New York, New York, 1996. Hard Cover. Stated First American Edition. "Sam gets so angry at his father one day that he runs away from home, but he soon feels sad and lonely." Fine in Fine in brodart. Inventory # 518 Price: $35.00