Search Results: Authors starting with S from Type Punch Matrix

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. First printing. Fine.. First edition of one of the most well executed pop-ups of its kind, with each spread containing two pop-ups, one emerging as the leaf is opened, the other under a flap. 8.25'' x 8.25''. Original cloth backed pictorial boards. 6 spreads with two different pop-ups, one hidden behind the marginal flap.

Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1915. Very good plus in very good minus dust jacket.. First edition of this darling fairy story featuring characters from a newspaper comic strip, with outrageously charming illustrations by the strip's illustrator - in the scarce original dust jacket. M. T. "Penny" Ross created the "Mamma's Angel Child" comic strip in 1908, which ran for 15 years and was syndicated in 25 major newspapers. MAMMA'S ANGEL CHILD IN TOYLAND follows the titular little girl - much more of a troublemaker than her looks let on - through a slightly surreal and visually stunning adventure among fairies and living toys. 8.75'' x 6.25''. Original brown boards with color pictorial onlay. Original unclipped ($1.00) color pictorial dust jacket. 24 full-page color plates and 4 smaller color illustrations, with numerous smaller black-and-white illustrations (cw: depiction of golliwog doll). 116 pages. Small bookseller label to rear pastedown "Strauss Toy Shops New York." Light pencil checks on rear… Read More

New York: Macmillan, 1991. Fine.. Signed first printing of this beautiful picture book, each page filled with beautiful color illustrations by Keiko Narahashi, and signed/dated by her. 10.75'' x 9.25''. Original pictorial boards. In original color pictorial dust jacket.

(Paris): (Editions de la Maison Française), 1947. Near fine in original slipcase.. Limited edition of this illustrated 18th-century French tragedy with abolitionist themes - with a numbered print by Friesz loosely laid in. The story of two French colonist children who grow up side-by-side in Mauritius and fall in love, only to be torn apart by class expectations. PAUL ET VIRGINIE is punctuated by anti-slavery sentiments, part of Saint-Pierre's desire to explore the possibility of "building a new society free of specific, clearly identified European ideals" (Wasserman, 104). This limited edition features illustrations by Fauvist E. Othon Friesz, and was published two years before his death. 11'' x 8.75''. Original stiff wrappers. Original glassine. Illustrated in color. [8], LVI, 146, [4] pages in loose folia. Black-and-white Friesz print numbered 92/230 loosely laid in. In original stiff folder with title to spine, and original slipcase. Slipcase with some edgewear, light shelfwear; small bump to… Read More

New-York: S. King, 1828. Very good plus.. Early Republic American edition of an altered version of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's work, featuring a happy ending not present in the original. This is the story of two French colonist children who grow up side-by-side and fall in love in Mauritius, only to be torn apart by class expectations. PAUL AND VIRGINIA is punctuated by abolitionist themes, which this version makes more explicit: rather than dying in a shipwreck as in the original work, Virginia is rescued by a formerly enslaved man. OCLC located only two holdings of this edition, the first published by S. King in New York. 12mo. 7.25'' x 4.25''. Modern half-calf binding with marbled boards. Hand-colored etched frontispiece. 32 pages followed by 18 modern blank leaves, collated complete. Binding with a bit of edgewear to spine. Leaves with light scattered soil, mild bleedthrough of colors to back of frontispiece. Sharp.

(Tokyo): (TOTO Shuppan), 2005. Later printing. Near fine in near fine jacket.. Later printing of this monograph on the lesser-known residential architecture of Louis Kahn, with biographical and critical essays contributed by Hisao Kohyama and Norman and Doris Fisher. 10'' x 7.5''. Text in Japanese and English. Original silver-stamped blue cloth. Blue endpapers. Illustrated throughout, with two fold-out plates. In original blue pictorial dust jacket, with original blue paper band. Book design by Tetsuya Ota. 313, [3] pages. Mild page toning, faint sunning to upper edges of cloth.

London: The Studio Limited, 1930. Near fine.. First printing of this heavily-illustrated perspective on the resurgence of the popularity of the woodcut illustration, including a look at 1930s woodcuts in Japan. 11.5'' x 8.25''. Original black and brown pictorial wrappers. Illustrated in black and white and color. [4], viii, 176 pages. Wrappers with mild edgewear, a bit of toning; a couple shallow creases to spine. Interior clean and bright.

(Sao Paulo): Companhia Das Letras, 2000. Near fine or better in like jacket.. True first edition of this classic photobook which movingly depicts displaced peoples from around the globe. Published the same year by Aperture under the (less accurate) title "Migrations," Salgado's distinctive black-and-white images, taken over the course of six years in more than 40 countries, document in detail the lives and plights of refugees from Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and Asia. In this, perhaps his best known and most important work, the Brazilian photographer, photojournalist, and social documentarian trains his lens on the southern border of the United States, Jews fleeing the former Soviet Union, Hutu refugees from Rwanda, as well as many attempting the dangerous Mediterranean crossing to reach Europe. A beautiful copy of a book as terribly relevant today as when it was originally released. 13" x 9.75" Original full grey cloth. In original photographic dust jacket. 432 pages.… Read More

Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown & Co, 1963. Third state. Near fine in very good dust jacket.. First edition of Salinger's two acclaimed novellas, the final book published during Salinger's life. The parodic elements - rightly admired by the likes of Nabokov - which come to fruition a few years later in "Hapworth," here are just beginning. A misunderstood book, worthy of a sympathetic rereading. 8'' x 5.25''. Original grey cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Original unclipped ($4.00) dust jacket. 248 pages. Ownership stamp to front flyleaf. Jacket with some rubbing, mild edgewear; slight sunning to spine. Textblock with a touch of soil to fore edge. Solid and tight.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1928. Near fine in very good plus jacket.. First printing of the first trade edition in English, in the scarce original dust jacket (expertly restored). Like many great children's books, Bambi was originally published to an admiring audience of adults, who in time found themselves too sensitive for the terror and brutality of Life in the Woods. To generations scarred in childhood by the softened Disney adaptation, it may seem scarcely credible that Salten's original novel could be still more great and terrible in its presentation of a fawn's first bewildered encounters with pain, death, and sex - but it is. Though BAMBI is easily read as an environmentalist or anti-hunting fable, more recent critics suggest "the text is really best understood not when dehistoricized (as presented by Disney), but rather when read within the specific context of Vienna of the 1920s, as a text that has to do with anti-Semitism and the struggle for a Jewish identity." Salten, born Siegmund… Read More

(Renton, WA): Mirrorstone, 2008. Fine in fine jacket.. Signed first edition of this young adult fantasy, a collaboration between R.A. Salvatore and his son, set in the same Forgotten Realms world as his other well-known work. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original black boards. In original unclipped ($17.95) dust jacket by Scott Fischer. 287, [3] pages. Slight bumping to lower corners.

New York: Tor / Tom Doherty Associates, 2008. First edition (stated). Fine in fine jacket.. Signed first printing of the second installment in Salvatore's four-book Saga of the First King series. 9.25'' x 6''. Original blue boards. In original unclipped ($25.95) dust jacket. Blue endpapers. 384 pages. Signed by Salvatore on front free endpaper. Minimal edgewear.

New York: Random House, 1986. First printing. Near fine in near fine jacket.. First edition of this memoir of post-Cultural-Revolution China. 8.25'' x 5.25''. Original quarter black cloth over papyrus-style boards. In original unclipped ($16.95) pictorial dust jacket. 211, [1] pages. Very light toning to jacket. Touch of soil to page edges. Interior clean, crisp, and bright. Sound throughout.

New York: Checkerboard Press, 1992. Near fine.. Signed first printing of this classic rhyme illustrated with darling humanized mice. This charming "window book" has cutouts on each leaf, offering a sneak peek at the characters coming up next. 6.25'' x 6''. Original color pictorial boards. Illustrated in color. [12] pages on board, with shaped die-cut holes. Signed by Sampson to first page, dated '00. Binding with a hint of bumping to spine ends. Bright.

New York: Checkerboard Press, 1992. Near fine.. Signed first printing of this delightful look at all the animals who call a big tree their home. This charming "window book" has cutouts on each leaf, offering a sneak peek at the characters coming up next. 6.25'' x 6''. Original color pictorial boards. Illustrated in color. [12] pages on board, with shaped die-cut holes. Signed by Sampson to first page, dated '00. Binding with a hint of bumping to spine ends, a hint of edgewear. Bright.

(New York): (Tudor Publishing Co), 1971. Near fine.. First edition of this extensively illustrated monograph on Ernst, with essays by Lucy Lippard, Jean Cassou, Marcel Brion, Julien Levy, and others. 12.25'' x 9.5''. Original gilt-lettered teal cloth. In original dust jacket with cover photo by Karlheinz Bauer. Illustrated with 29 color plates and 130 black and white reproductions. Original lithograph by Max Ernst, "Après moi le XXe Siècle," printed by F. Mourlot, facing page 76. 131, [1] pages. Minor edgewear, toning to jacket verso, slight foxing to endpapers and edges of text block. Small bookseller label to rear paste-down.

(New York): (Tudor Publishing), 1971. First English language edition. Fine in fine jacket.. Special Rouault issue of the XXe siècle Review, with critical essays on his body of work and a selection of personal remembrances. Contributors to this volume include Léon Lehmann, Geneviève Nouaille-Rouault, Jacques Rivière, Guillaume Apollinaire, André Malraux, Gaëton Picon, Bernard Dorival, Jean Cassou, Christian Zervos, André Lhote, and several others. 12'' x 9.5''. Translations by Joan Sanchez. Original gilt-lettered green cloth. In original corner-clipped pictorial dust jacket. 127, [1] pages. Illustrations throughout, including several color plates and one lithograph facing page 8. Light edgewear to jacket.

New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1989. First edition. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. First printing of this magical folktale about the beauty to be found inside, winner of the 1989 Coretta Scott King Award and a 1990 Caldecott Honor. Winner of five Coretta Scott King Awards, five Caldecott Honors, a Caldecott Medal (for THE LION AND THE MOUSE), and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, Jerry Pinkney was a prolific author and illustrator of children's literature, and one of the preeminent artists in the field. "Jerry used his talent as one of America's great watercolorists to tell stories in pictures [...]with the goal of moving society to a better place," said William R. Valerio, director of Woodmere Art Museum, at time of Pinkney's death in 2021. 10'' x 9.75''. Original color pictorial boards. Original unclipped ($12.95) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. Unpaginated. Jacket with mild edgewear, a hint of sunning to spine. Binding spine ends a touch bumped. Bright.

Little Rock: August House Publishers, Inc, 2006. First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket.. Signed first printing of this collection of tales of mischievous humanized women animals, from the storytelling traditions of enslaved people. The brothers book production team of Daniel and Robert D. San Souci is responsible for a variety of vibrant titles, both together and separately. Between them, they have earned a Caldecott Honor, Horn Book honors, and ALA Notable Book citations, among a wide variety of other accolades. 11'' x 8.5''. Original color pictorial boards. Original unclipped ($19.95) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. 72 pages. Signed by Robert D. San Souci to half-title page. Jacket with mild sunning to spine. Tight and clean.

New York: Delacourte Press, 1994. First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket.. First printing of this love story of a warrior who could make himself invisible and the only woman who could see through his spell. 8.5'' x 10.5''. Original color pictorial boards. Original unclipped ($14.95) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. [32] pages. Jacket with a hint of edgewear. Else sharp and bright.