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1952011711New York: E.P. Dutton & Company 1952. Inscribed on half-title page by both author and illustrator. Blue cloth binding clean square and tight. Color frontispiece and double color center spread plus many b/w line drawings. No writing or marks in book no tears. DJ has lots of wear- chips tears along edge of dj flap rubbed spots - protected from further damage in clean Brodart jacket. This is a wonderful story about a riding academy horse who longs to be privately-owned. When she is purchased for an insecure boy because of her kindness and wisdom - not her looks! - she ends up helping to turn the young boy's life around. 120 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Illus. by Mellin Jeanne. Signed by Author AND Illustrat. 1st. Hardcover. Good/Fair. E.P. Dutton & Company Hardcover
1952012660Boston - Toronto: Little Brown & Company 1952. Red hardcover binding clean and tight - just the slightest cock to spine. Interior clean bright and tight - no writing tears or marks. DJ has sun-faded spine price clipped front flap. Shelfwear with some chips along edges and rubbing. 217 pages. Back flap details author's bio. Great Paul Brown illustrations throughout. Pamela was afraid of horses but when a tiny foal whose dam is too sick to care for her needs her help she overcomes that fear to help raise the filly she named Frosty Morning. A Sealyham Terrier named Toby also plays a small role in the story. A nice copy of a rare title. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 1st Printing. Illus. by Brown Paul. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Little Brown & Company Hardcover
197423030019Random House USA 1974. Book Club Edition later reprint. Hardcover Printed Boards. Fine. Hardcover Printed Boards. Size: 29cm x 21.5cm. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Random House USA 1974. Book Club Edition later reprint. CONDITION: This book is in fine condition. More specifically: Boards have no wear rubbing or soiling. Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In this rip-roaring story a young boy delights in explaining how his alphabet starts where our alphabet ends. Carrying on beyond Z for zebra we find letter Yuzz for Yuzz-a-ma-Tuzz and Glikk as in Glikker who lives in wild weeds and spen Quantity Available: 1. Category: Children & Young Adult; Children's Picture Books; ISBN: 0394800834. ISBN/EAN: 9780394800837. Inventory No: 23030019. 9780394800837 Random House hardcover
198323030018Random House USA 1983. Book Club Edition 11th Printing. Hardcover Printed Boards. Near Fine. Hardcover Printed Boards. Size: 29cm x 21.5cm. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Random House USA 1983. Book Club Edition 11th Printing. CONDITION: This book is in near fine condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In this rip-roaring story a young boy delights in explaining how his alphabet starts where our alphabet ends. Carrying on beyond Z for zebra we find letter Yuzz for Yuzz-a-ma-Tuzz and Glikk as in Glikker who lives in wild weeds and spen Quantity Available: 1. Category: Children & Young Adult; Children's Picture Books; ISBN: 0394800842. ISBN/EAN: 9780394800844. Inventory No: 23030018. 9780394800844 Random House hardcover
199926050216The Australian Bloodhorse Review Australia 1999. First Edition. Hardcover Printed Boards. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Hardcover Printed Boards. 514 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: The Australian Bloodhorse Review Australia 1999. First Edition. CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Boards have no wear rubbing or soiling. Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. Bumping to ends of spine and a know to top edge of from board. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Animals & Birds; Sports & Pastimes. ISBN: 0958619905. ISBN/EAN: 9780958619905. Inventory No: 26050216. 9780958619905 The Australian Bloodhorse Review hardcover
2000004989ACMRS Press 2000. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. Nice copy with just minor wear. Pages of text are clean bright and free of markings. Binding is tight and secure. Shipped within 24 hours from the beautiful Baltimore inner harbor area. First class service; accurate descriptions. Most items packed in boxes not envelopes. . ACMRS Press Hardcover
19382221949<p>First edition. 10 1/2" x 8 1/2". Color and b/w illustrations by Elise. Format and design by Merle Armitage. Dust jacket unclipped; soft creases; small chips. Gift pencil inscription on back of last page. Enclosed in a new blue cloth chemise and slipcase; leather spine label. Very good. unpaginated.</p><p>Children's tale of an adventurous and pampered dachshund in Vienna U.S. and Paris.</p> Longmans, Green & Co. hardcover
1944011190<p>New York: Harper & Brothers 1944 Red cloth pictorially stamped in black ink; color pictorial dust jacket with edge wear long closed tear to front panel original price intact $1.75. A really lovely copy of the book in a presentable dust jacket. The first book for which Margret Rey received author credit. The story of a long daschund called Pretzel. Illustrated in color throughout. ".the beginning of Harper picturebooks about the difficulties of being different." Bader pg 248. Stated First Edition. Cloth Hard Cover. Fine/Good Plus. Illus. by H A Rey. 4to.</p> Harper & Brothers hardcover
1920009623Covent Garden London: Lawrence & Jellicoe Ltd 1920 Pictorial card cover with edge and spine wear soiled and marked completely unused painting book. A book containing 8 spreads with an example color plate and its corresponding plate that is meant to be colored in by the user. The title page is also meant to be colored in. Amazingly this copy is completely uncolored. The paper used in the production of this book is meant to take the paint well however it is also very fragile so it will need to be handled with great care. This is an uncommon Aldin item especially unused. Pictorial Card Covers. Very Good -/No Jacket. Illus. by Cecil Aldin. 4to. Lawrence & Jellicoe, Ltd paperback
1932010102Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Co. 1932 Illustrated boards with light shelf wear previous owner's name erased from endpaper; in a matching color pictorial dustjacket with edge wear and a few closed tears erased name from rear panel original price intact $1.00. A very nice copy of the third Angus book with wonderful color lithos on nearly every page. Very scarce. . Stated First Edition. Illustrated Boards. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Marjorie Flack. Oblong 4to. Doubleday Doran & Co. hardcover
1957013397New York: Viking 1957. Turquoise cloth binding lightly soiled slight spine cock else square and tight. Hinges good. Illustrated endpapers - interior clean with slightly yellowing pages. 199 pages. DJ has sun-faded spine covers a bit faded and lightly soiled shelfwear wrinkles a few chips. Not price-clipped - $2.75 on front flap. Scarce 1st edition. Basis for the Disney movie but oh-so-much better a story! The book club edition does not include the many illustrations of this original edition. Story of Pongo and Missis - Perdita is actually a nurse-dog in the book. The original story goes into much more detail on the Dalmatians' search for their puppies. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Illus. by Grahame-Johnstone Janet and Anne. 1st US. Hardcover. Good/Good. Viking Hardcover
19980384851998. Painting. Illus. by Mitsuharu Mishima. Very Good. Framed. Signed by THE ARTIST. Original. An original watercolour study of Opithandra primuloides by Mitsuharu Mishima signed and dated 1998 in pencil lower right; titled lower left. Image 345 x 370 mm frame 530 x 545 mm. Single cream mount 'clean-lined' gilt frame very slightly rubbed. Painting in very good condition bright and unmarked. Provenance: with Tryon & Swan Gallery Ltd London W1X 1HB label to reverse. Biography. Mitsuharu Mishima 1932 to 2016. Japanese. Graduated University of Chiba in 1956 then at Kuwazawa Design Institute during 1957. Became a freelance graphic designer working in pen & ink watercolour and gouache. Exhibited 1985 1986 Gallery Du Mont Yokohama; 1986 Higashiyama Botanic Garden Gallery Nagoya; 1987 Happy Fair Higashiyama Botanic Garden Nagoya; 1987 12th World Orchid Conference Tokyo. Bibliography. The Bosei. Tokai Education Research Institute 1984.Encyclopaedia Heibonsha. Tokyo. Heibonsha 1984. The Grand Atlas of Alpine Flora. Tokyo. K. K. Hokuryukan 1987.Imai Kunikatsu. The wonder of lily. Tokyo. Akane Publishing 1987.Moriya Sumi. The secrets of water plants. Tokyo: Akane Publishing 1983.Yanagida Kunio. The Memorandum of Wild Flowers. Kanda Tokyo: Yasaka Book Publishing 1985. Information adapted from Hunt Botanical Institute Please contact us if you would like to view any of our artwork in person. The shipping cost on this painting within the UK is likely to be in the region of £20. unknown
19830050421983. Hardcover. Good. Publisher: Academic Press Inc. 1983 Good HB ISBN: 0-12-710780-0 hardcover
19090006911Brooklyn NY: Charles Meeker Kozlay` 1909. First Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. 16mo 53 pages t.e.g. partially unopened deckle-edged the fragile binding recently rebound in new brown cloth with the original leather label on the top cover. <br/><br/>Copy no. 83 of only 100 of the limited edition. Includes the first book appearance of Mark Twain's "Letter to John Camden Hotten" pp. 48-51 in which Clemens complains that adding injury to insult Hotten not only pirated some of Twain's work but added his own chapters to Twain's writings. Hotten also pirated Bret Harte. Harte's editor Kozlay has collected Harte's lectures on "The Argonauts of '498" and "American Humor" his "Reply to 'Toast to Literature'" three Fables followed by Kozlay's essay on their piracy. Three of the 7 illustrations here were done by Merle Johnson artist and Twain's bibliographer. BAL 3510 7407. Eight plates inserted. Charles Meeker Kozlay` hardcover
19660051411966. Hardcover. Good. Publisher: The Williams & Wilkins Company 1966 Good HB 216 pp hardcover
1927MASTER324852ILOS ANGELES CA.: Published by Author. VG IN BROWN EMBOSSED BUCKRAM. MARBLED EPS. Pages: 334 PLATES. . 1927. HARDCOVER. 2" INK STAIN AT FORE-EDGE & ALONG EDGE OF REAR BOARD. LIGHT SOILING TO BOARDS. PREV. OWNER INSCRIPTION INSIDE. ALL TEXT & ILLUSTRATIONS CLEAN BINDING TIGHT. . Published by Author. hardcover
1939013400New York: Charles Scribners Sons 1939. Green hardcover cloth binding clean and tight spine mildly cocked. Bookplate fep. Yellowing pages some foxing but overall clean interior. 261 pages. DJ not price-clipped - $2.00 on front flap. Chip bottom of spine smaller chip top of spine front displays nicely in clean Brodart jacket. Back of DJ is yellowed small chips along top edge photos and bios of author and illustrator. Many b/w sketches throughout by noted artist Paul Brown. Scarce book about a dog part Irish Terrier in the text but all Irish Terrier in Brown's drawings who worked his way into the affection of an army company during World War I. No dogs are supposed to be on the transport but Mike manages to be on it when it reaches France. Both author and illustrator were with the AEF. This is a moving and humorous story of a dog at war who becomes the soldiers' friend and comrade. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 1st Printing. Illus. by Brown Paul. 1st. Hardcover. Near Very Good/Good. Charles Scribners Sons Hardcover
1919010492London: Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press 1919 1919. Pictorial boards with cloth spine edges rubbed mild uneven sunning to boards some bubbling to endpapers long narrow loss to last page and free rear endpaper. A large delightful picture book featuring humanized animals. Illustrated with 16 full-page color plates by Cecil Aldin. Scarce. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. Near Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Cecil Aldin. Large Square 4to. Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press unknown
1937008216New York: Frederick A Stokes 1937 Tan cloth pictorially stamped in brown and black gift inscription to FFEP some offsetting opposite illustrations throughout; illustrated dust jacket with edge tears light wear darkened original price intact $1.50. A daschund wishes he were another shape and size and a dog fairy grants his wish. A great collaboration by the author of Ferdinand and the creator of Madeline. Pomerance G31 Bader pg 248. First Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Very Good Plus/Very Good. Illus. by Ludwig Bemelmans. Oblong 4to. Frederick A Stokes hardcover
199717110096Penguin Australia 1997. Reprint. Medium Trade Paperback. Very Good. Medium Trade Paperback. 175 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Penguin Australia 1997. Reprint. CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Edges of covers have superficial wear. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are reasonably tanned. ABOUT THIS BOOK: A story about a boy who is raised by dogs on the outskirts of human civilisation and coerced by the glitter and greed of others grows up believing he is destined to be a great shaman only to discover that his identity is something much simpler. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Children & Young Adult; Teenage Fiction; ISBN: 0140387536. ISBN/EAN: 9780140387537. Inventory No: 17110096. 9780140387537 Penguin paperback
1999035989Norfolk 1999. Drawing. Illus. by Robert Gillmor. Fine. Framed. Signed by THE ARTIST. Limited. 21cm x 25cm. Dust jacket artwork for Plant Disease New Naturalist no.85 published in 1999. A unique final felt tip pen visual. In 1985 Robert took on the design of the jackets for Harper Collins' renowned New Naturalists until 2021 and has become one of the UK's most collectable printmakers. Acid free mount glazed with frame. Frame size 38cm x 42cm; artwork 21cm x 25cm. A vibrant piece of jacket art by Robert Gillmor for the New Naturalist series. Please contact us if you would like to view any of our artwork in person. unknown
1920157882N.p.: N.p. 1920. Vintage borderless photograph of Trixie the Wonder Dog a performing canine billed as "The Dog with the Mind of a Child." Annotations in manuscript pencil regarding cropping on the verso. <br /> <br /> The photograph shows Trixie posed on a carved wooden seat surrounded by props ostensibly used in her performances including a hoop several balls and a mock menu. <br /> <br /> 7.75 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1906036694London & Johannesburg: Praagh & Lloyd. 1906. VERY HEAVY. 640pp vii; index hundreds bw photographs inc many folding/panoramic. Or burgundy bevelled boards with title and crest in gilt to front all edges gilt. Ex-reference library of the Queensland Government Mining Journal spine label label on front pastedown unobtrusive stamp and card pocket. Approx 6cm split at top if spine edges rubbed. All folding plate are intact with NO tears- a couple of minor corner creases. History of the Transvaal in South Africa beginning with the Voortrekkers. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus. 4to. Praagh & Lloyd. Hardcover
1913009861New York: Hodder and Stoughton 1913 Color pictorial boards with shelf wear small crack at top of front fold and a gift inscription else Near Fine; pictorial dust jacket with a few losses and wear.printed on such thin paper it's amazing it survived at all! A tale excerpted from Cecil Aldin's Merry Party. Illustrated with four color plates and one dual-page color plate plus other artwork in line. Rare especially in dust jacket. First Separate Edition American Issue. Pictorial Boards. Near Fine/Good. Illus. by Cecil Aldin. Square 8vo. Hodder and Stoughton unknown
195320220250New York: Oxford University Press 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Square d`uodecimo unpaginated blue cloth pictorial label on top cover toning to pastedown from a bookmarker slightly affecting her signature ; dj is a bit toned from underneath from the cloth cover tiny nick at heel of spine <br/><br/>Signed by Tasha Tudor on the pictorial front free endpaper. "Edgar Allan Crow's ambition was to be useful to his adopted human family. But sometimes this got him into a great deal of trouble and his attempts were not always understood and his mischievous pranks not always appreciated!" The work is lavishly illustrated with watercolors by the author. DJ flap priced $1.75. <br /> Oxford University Press hardcover