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190613121401New York: The Macmillan Company 1906. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Bailey Vernon Howe and Ralph Lester. No. 2 of 200 copies printed on Japan vellum octavo size 420 pp. signed by Owen Wister. Owen Wister was an American writer and is known as the father of western fiction - his most famous work "The Virginian" is widely regarded as being the first cowboy novel. A classmate and friend of Teddy Roosevelt's like him Wister was attracted to the culture and lore of the West and on a visit to Yellowstone in 1893 he met Frederic Remington who remained a lifelong friend. This novel Lady Baltimore published four years after The Virginian is set in the East yet shares a similar theme of searching for aristocratic roots in everyday personas.<br/><br/>Limited edition of 200 copies printed on Japan vellum this being number 2 with dust jacket and publisher's slipcase. Signed by the author on the limitation page with a tipped-in note on front free endpaper which states 'This is a presentation copy containing author's autograph.' <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Tan paper boards with author and title in a darker tan outlined in gilt vellum spine with same lettering top-edge gilt other edges untrimmed. Dust jacket is light brown woven paper with similar lettering outlined in dark brown slipcase also a light tan cardboard. Tipped in note as referred to above on front free endpaper denoting a signed Presentation copy same note pasted to the side of the slipcase. Octavo size approx. 8.5" tall pagination: i-xiv 1-406.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: The book is near fine minor rubbing to tail of the spine corners are perfect text block and hinges are strong and solid free of prior owner markings interior is clean and bright. Dust jacket good only with several large chips due mostly to the jacket having been cut larger than the book and so apparently often caught when returning the book to the slipcase. Slipcase is overall very good with no creases or tears however does exhibit overall soiling.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Macmillan Company hardcover books
19061330553New York: The Macmilliam Company 1906. Hardcover. Octavo; Fair; Hardcover; Spine green with black print; Boards in green cloth wear to corners and spine caps mild shelfwear cocked spine; Text block has cracked rear hinge tanning to endpapers small stains on front endpapers intermittent spine breaks large portion of p. 165/166 torn out mild age-toning to paper; xiii 406 pages frontispiece illustrated b&w plates. 1330553. FP New Rockville Stock. The Macmilliam Company hardcover books
1963140940527Highlands North Carolina: The Nantahala Foundation 1963. First Edition. Very Good. First edition copy #32 of 100 signed by Jonathan Williams and illustrator R.B. Kitaj. Stringbound wraps. Very Good with wear to back wrap from removed sticker. Jargon 61. The Nantahala Foundation unknown books
19103818London: S.W. Partridge & Co. Lrd 1910. First edition. Original red cloth over color pictorial front board and advertisement on rear board advertisements on endpapers. Corners and board edges a little worn. Large quarto 10 3/16 x 7 11/16 inches; 259 x 195 mm. Pictorial title-page printed in blue 92 unnumbered pages and six full page color plates. Numerous other mono-color and black & white illustrations throughout the text including six by Louis Wain. Ink inscription on verso of color frontispiece dated Xmas 1910. A good copy of a very scarce book in fact the first time that we have ever seen this title. <br/><br/>The Louis Wain illustrations in this delicate book include the following:<br/>How Pride Betrays. three 0ne-third page printed in brown When the Cook's Away. full-page printed in blue<br/>Tubbing the Kitties. one-third page printed in green "You Naughty Kitties!" full-page printed in green. S.W. Partridge & Co., Lrd unknown books
197851286NY:: David McKay Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1978. Hardcover. 0679209751 . First printing. Near fine in a near fine small corner crease on front flap dust jacket. . David McKay Company, hardcover books
197825094Danbury: Addison House. Near Fine. 1978. Paperback. 0891690239 . Text by Tomie de Paola. First edition paperback. Near fine in oversized illustrated wraps. . Addison House paperback books
1908286449Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company 1908. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Hermann Becker & August Horn. 270pp. Prospectuses for Saunders's Books for Nurses and Saunders's Hand Atlases laid in. Also laid in is Dr. Cullen's visiting card.Previous owner name; no markings in text; green cloth binding with light edgewear to extremities; slightly heavier wear at top and bottom spine; the front hinge has had a bit of later discreet gluing and is holding well. There is a previous owner name on the front endpaper. Mylar cut to protect boards. Very Good binding. W. B. Saunders Company unknown books
1993007311New York NY: Watson-Guptill Publications Incorporated 1993. Book. Near fine condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto 4to. Hardcover binding. Unclipped dustjacket protected in archival mylar. Contains 493 illustrations most of which are in color. Almost new condition. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition. Watson-Guptill Publications, Incorporated Hardcover books
1987237013New York: Madison Square Press 1987. hardcover. fine/fine. Thick 4to black boards d.w. New York: Madison Square Press 1987. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper.<br/><br/> From the Exhibition Humor '87 Held at the Society of Illustrators New York City September 1987.<br/><br/> Madison Square Press unknown books
1998263645New York: Society of Illustrators 1998. hardcover. fine/near fine. Hundreds of color illustrations. 4to white cloth d.w. New York: Society of Illustrarors 1998. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Society of Illustrators unknown books
1939179237New York: Society of Illustrators 1939. Softcover. VG- general wear around wrap and spine edges. Red and B&W illustrated wraps. Profusely illustrated in B&W. Unpaginated. Includes list of pictures for sale. Published to accompany an exhibition which took place April 13-May 6 1939 Grand Central Fifth Avenue Galleries Fifth Avenue at 51st Street New York. Society of Illustrators unknown books
1985207517New York: Madison Square Press 1985. hardcover. fine/near fine. Illustrated with 668 full-color reproductions. 440 pages. Thick folio blue cloth d.w. d.w. has small sticker ghost on top corner of front cover else clean. New York: Madison Square Press 1985. A fine copy.<br/><br/> Published for the exhibition held in the Galleries of the Society of American Illustrators in New York from January 30 through April 10 1985.<br/><br/> Madison Square Press unknown books
1984245330New York: Madison Square Press 1984. hardcover. fine. Illustrated with over 500 full-color reproductions. Thick folio black cloth inlaid color plate on front cover. New York: Madison Square Press 1984. A fine copy.<br/><br/> Madison Square Press unknown books
197118978New York: Atheneum 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good /very good . Small 8vo. Green cloth in pictorial dust jacket. Very good plus in like DJ. Small tears rubbing touches of soil to DJ. Interior clean bright with trace soil at title page. Otherwise sharp. Good and sound. Reinfoced library binding as issued. Unpaginated. <br/><br/>Charming first printing of this story depicting the journey of Peter the Rat Peter the Butterfly and the boy named Peter. Atheneum hardcover books
190893748London:: Archibald Constable & Co. Good. 1908. Hardcover. B000R9D11E . With about 130 illustrations color frontispiece and title page - all other illustrations are black and white. First edition thus. Shelf worn starting to separate at the front hinge else good in paper covered boards with color illustrations on front board and spine. No dust jacket. ; 435 pages . Archibald Constable & Co., hardcover books
19043810London: John F. Shaw 1904. First edition. Publisher's quarter decorated cloth over full-color glazed pictorial boards corners a little worn.Small quarto 9 5/8 x 7 1/8 in; 245 x 180 mm. A few illustrations hand-colored by a child. Closed tear to bottom edge of page. 17. Early ink presentation dated "Christmas 1905" on front paste-down. Illustrated throughout in black and white and color with fifteen drawings by Louis Wain and an unrecorded text drawing by Arthur Rackham so initialed on page 40. Unrecorded and scarce with no copies noted in the Wain or Rackham bibliographies.<br/><br/>Anytime an unrecorded book illustration by Arthur Rackham comes to light it's an item for collectors to note. Buried within this book unheralded on page forty is a black and white text illustration of four chickens in various states of distress as they observe in high dudgeon and with no little annoyance a cat within their food bucket chowing down the chicken feed. And at the lower left of the bucket as small as can be are Rackham's initials as typically drawn. Latimore and Haskell and Riall make no mention of this illustration in their Rackham bibliographies and the Arthur Rackham Society expressed no knowledge of it when we inquired. A true scarcity -- a previously unknown Rackham during his transitional period when his fairies and goblins were emerging but had not yet fully vanquished the simple pay-the-bills work of his early years.<br/><br/>Cf. Dale 34 and 35. John F. Shaw unknown books
19143708London: Hodder and Stoughton 1914. First edition. Finely bound ca. 1914 by Sangorski & Sutcliffe stamp-signed on rear turn-in in full dark blue morocco covers decoratively paneled in gilt with inlaid red morocco floral corner-pieces and in the center in gilt the Royal stamp of Princess Mary. Spine with five raised bands paneled and lettered in gilt in compartments all edges gilt cream watered silk liners and endleaves.Quarto 9 7/8 x 7 5/16 inches; 251 x 186 mm. vi 140 pp. Fourteen color plates tipped-in to captioned tan stock with brown line frame many black and white text drawings. Four figure ink number upside down on verso of rear blank leaf. An exceptional copy.<br/><br/>A relatively common book but scarce in fine condition. This may well be a special presentation binding that was done at the time of publication. "This was the first of a group of wartime books sponsored by prominent people and sold to raise money for worthy causes. The most popular it sold 604884 copies during the two years 1914-1916 that is was in print. The Times in an article November 21 1914 sought to promote the cause "The Queen's Fund" by directing the public to the display of the original drawings at the Leicester Galleries" Hughey.<br/><br/>The fourteen tipped-in color plates include:<br/><br/>"So nobody can quite explain Exactly where the rainbows end" Arthur Rackham "True Spartan Hearts" Edmund Dulac<br/>"The Ant Lion" E.J. Detmold<br/>"A Holiday in Bed" W. Russell Flint<br/><br/>There are also many black & white drawings by C.E. Brock; E.J. Detmold; Arthur Rackham; Byam Shaw; H. M. Brock; Lewis Baumer and Edmund J. Sullivan<br/><br/>Latimore and Haskell 93. Riall 120. Hughey 34. Hodder and Stoughton unknown books
198564103NY:: Viking. Near Fine. 1985. Hardcover. 067042384X . All pop-ups are intact and in good working order. Fourth printing. Short tears to two of the pop-ups else near fine in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. . Viking, hardcover books
1915002601Berlin: Hermann Hillger Verlag 1915. First Edition. Paper pastedown on boards. Very Good. 8vo. Unpaginated with 25 leaves a color plate on each of them not counting title leaf. The color plate is on the recto and the facing verso contains accompanying verse. The artwork bears the style of a darkish late impressionism as it moved towards an Expressionist sensibility. As not everything was by the same hand there is some diversity of style coloring literalism of course. Included is an original subscription or order form for the book. It would appear that the book was sold in part or perhaps entirely through direct sales spearheaded by the Crown Princess and conducted by aristocratic women at least in some measure. Light soiling to the cover pastedown. Scattered light soiling within. One gathering is partly loose. <br/><br/> Hermann Hillger Verlag hardcover books
194432258New York: Macmillan 1944. Later printing. Linen cloth binding with blue stamped lettering. Yellow dust jacket. VG/VG. 119 1 pp. Color blue & white illustrations by the Petershams. 12mo. <br/><br/> Macmillan hardcover books
197375146NY:: Simon & Schuster. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1973. Hardcover. 0027731006 . Caldecott Medal winner. Twenty-ninth printing 1990s. Fine in a near fine sun faded along the spine dust jacket with the Caldecott Medal emblem on the front panel. . Simon & Schuster, hardcover books
19791341339Ohio: Self Published 1979. FIrst Edition. Other. Staple-bound comic; VG. Minor creasing to cover. Corners very slightly rounded. Cover white pages cream. Several pages have small cuts at lower margins from flaws in paper. Mild creasing/wrinkling of some pages ~1" in from spine. Staples original and centered but somewhat rusted. RH Consignment; Shelved case 8 1/4. 1341339. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Self Published unknown books
195327100302Kingsport TN: Kingsport City Schools 1953. This is a brochure prepared for parents of children in public schools in Kingsport Tennessee. It is directed towards the parents who are sending their kids to school for the first time. The brochure is divided up into categories: Rules & Regulations Visits & Conferences Health & Safety Readiness in Subject-matter Areas Home-School Cooperation Suggested List of Children's Books and References of Interest to Parents of School-Beginners. Along with the information presented there are cartoon line drawings throughout. 26 pp. Illustrated wraps. Measures 8 1/2" x 5 1/2". <br/><br/> Kingsport City Schools paperback books
197957456London:: Octopus Books Limited. Very Good. 1979. Hardcover. 0706410297 . All pop-ups are intact and in good working order. Second impression thus. Light age toning else very good or better in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. . Octopus Books Limited, hardcover books
198024235NY: Viking 1980. 1st edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. F/NF spine sunned. Unpaginated. Illustrated by Alice & Martin Provensen. Oblong 8vo. <br/><br/> Viking hardcover books
