Once a Mouse, a Fable Cut in Wood PLUS 1962 Newberry & Caldecott Award Dinner Place Mat by Brown, Marcia - 1962

Patavi (Padua): Petri Mariae Frambotti 3rd edition with large additions.., 1685. Hardcover. Good. Copperplates (frontis of 3 male figures & Minerva on architectural stage + 50 plates & 2 text illustratations by Ruffonus, Gio. Georg or unsigned.. Three Books in One quarto vellum-spined thin pasteboard covers (tips bumped covers damp marked). Engraved title + printed title with woodcut PFM printer's mark (Minerva with owl) +3 full page plates preceding dedication leaf +[6]ppprelims +261p; Titlepage to "Pars Altera Libri Quatuor" with larger PFM Minerva printer's mark signed DR +[6]pp prelims +213pp + [21]pp indices +"Analecta de Re Vestiaria sive exercitationes ad Albert Rubenius Commentarium, accessit dissertatio De Veterum Lucernis" with repeat of printer's mark of 1st titlepage +[10]pp prelims + 155pp +Titlepage to De Veterum Lucernis with printer's mark +39pp +[16]pp index + multi folding copy of a Latin inscription. Neat early MS note in Latin on flyleaf about placing of 2 plates.The plates… Read More

SIGNED BY MS. OBAMA + BONUS PHOTO! This is the Deluxe Limited Edition with slipcase issued by Crown for the holidays. Includes a lovely bonus 5x7 color portrait photo of Ms. Obama. This copy is brand new and unread. IMPORTANT: international buyers please request a shipping fee quote prior to purchase. Signed by author.

Madison, Wisconsin: Evanescent Press, 1977. #13 of 60 copies printed. Signed by printer Lee Ruelle. Maroon Tri-fold Hardback cover.. Signed by Author. Numbered. Linen Cloth Hard Cover. Fine. Private Press.

Hardcover. First Edition. BAL 16384. Frontispiece "In the Belfry" and 24 full-page b/w plates as well as numerous text vignettes by Pyle. 16, ads. 8vo. Original half leather and green cloth binding (advertised on p. 16 of ads at $2.00. Gilt and red lettered green pictorial cloth. Spine/backing replaced. VG+/NF with wear to tips. Cloth has 1/4" split at lower rear tip.

Accokeek, MD: Sun-Stone: The Private Press of Lenore Thomas, 1969. Poem on the creative process & spirituality of a sculptor. Born in Chicago in 1909, Lenore Thomas, though she studied at the Chicago Art Institute, was a largely self-taught sculptor, creating large-scale public works for New Deal programs. Living in Maryland in the 1940s, she married Robert Ware Straus; both were involved in social justice issues and Lenore was investigated by HUAC in the 1950s. Later she moved to Maine, where she taught, continued to sculpt, and became active with a zen community until her death in 1988. This, her second book, was made entirely by the artist (except the binding), including two copper-plate engravings printed with hand-set type, fifteen engravings reproduced as half-tones overprinted with color woodblocks and a tipped-in half-tone plate of a sculpture she erected in the Lofoten Islands of Norway in 1967. This is number 541 of 600 printed (there was a smaller edition with a more elaborate binding,… Read More

William Morrow And Co. , N. Y.. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. First Edition. hardcover with dustjacket. 0688174418 . Signed First Edition. Boldly signed on the half title page, by the then Governor of Texas, George W. Bush, soon after to become the Nation's 43rd President. It is his signature only - not signed to anyone - signed by him directly on the page with a bold black felt tip pen, not on a book plate. 253 pages, index. Original publisher's price of $23.00 is on the dust jacket. No wear or tears on the jacket and no writing (other than President's signature) , marks, or any other names or writing in book. Has the complete number line of "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10" below First Edition statement on publisher's page. Dust jacket and book are in Fine condition, without defects. ; 6 1/4 in. x 9 1/2 in.; 253 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Dutton, 1904 Pictorial boards with cloth spine, edges rubbed, corners worn, eps foxed. A scarce and humorous picture book featuring 24 full-page color plates depicting humans and humanized animals in funny situations. Opposite each plate is a short verse and line art relating to the image.. First American Edition. Very Good. Illus. by Lewis Baumer. Oblong 4to.

xii+144 pages Illustrated throughout. Quarto (10 3/4" x 8 1/2") bound in original pictorial boards in original pictorial jacket in a custom slipcase. First edition, first state, with the De Vinne Press seal immediately below the copyright notice.The Brownies is a series of publications by Canadian illustrator and author Palmer Cox, based on names and elements from English traditional mythology and Scottish stories told to Cox by his grandmother. Illustrations with verse aimed at children, The Brownies was published in magazines and books during the late 19th century and early 20th century. Not unlike fairies and goblins, Brownies are imaginary little sprites, who are supposed to delight in harmless pranks and helpful deeds. Never allowing themselves to be seen by mortal eyes, they are male, drawn to represent many professions and nationalities, all mischievous members of the fairy world whose principal attribute is helping with chores while a family sleeps. The Brownie characters became famous in… Read More

New York: The Armchair Detective, 1991. Signed by Richard Condon on the colophon. Limited Edition / First Printing. Number 87 0f 100 copies. Maroon cloth in a Maroon cloth slipcase Very fine in a very fine slipcase. With a new introduction by Richard Condon. Basis for the 1962 John Frankenheimer film, starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, and Angela Lansbury.

In three 8vo. volumes.Vol. 1: Three unnumbered title pages + vi-viii, pp.287 + 32 pp. Publisher's catalogues No.1 & 2, dated October, 1842;Vol. 2: 269pp. plus identical 32 pp. catalogues;
Vol. 3: 225pp. and an additional note by author.
With an engraved frontispiece to each volume, numerous engraved illustrations in the text, and publisher's advertisement catalogues to Vols. I and II. Spines lightly sunned. Original publisher's bindings by Westleys & Clark, London. Light yellow FEPs with original owner's neat signatures (Marie Tronchin) on all three volumes. Internally very clean. The first edition of Frederick Marryat's (1792-1848) three volume naval adventure for children, following the Seagrave family and their experiences surviving on an island after shipwreck.
Marryat began writing books for children in 1839 when his own children asked him to write a continuation of their own favourite The Swiss Family Robinson. But when Marryat came to examine Wyss's tale, he considered it so implausible, so… Read More