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London: Adam and Charles Black, 1905. GREENAWAY, Kate. LAYARD, G.S and M.H. SPIELMANN. Kate Greenaway. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1905. Edition Deluxe, one of 500 signed copies, of which this is number 342. With an original pencil sketch by Kate Greenaway. The sketch is a portrait of a young girl and is much nicer than most with added shading and detail. Quarto. [xx], 301 pp. With fifty-three color illustrations and numerous black and white illustrations. Publisher's white beveled cloth, geometric blind stamping to the front and spine, gilt cover and spine lettering, decorative color endpapers, top edge gilt. Some light wear to spine extremities, front and rear hinge starting. A very attractive copy. This biography and bibliography of Kate Greenaway has a very interesting publishing history. Published by John Greenaway as a memorial to his sister, all five hundred copies contain original Kate Greenaway artwork bound in. Copy number one has five watercolor sketches, copy number two has four… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. PARRISH, Maxfield; SAUNDERS, Louise. Autograph Note Signed. [No place, no date]. An autographed note, signed by Parrish on a 3 x 5 inch card. In his distinct hand it reads: "Dear Mr. Johnson:/As far as I can remember the books I/ have illustrated are about as follows:/ The Knave of Hearts: Louise Saunders./ Arabian Nights./ Italian Villas. Edith Wharton./ Mother Goose in Prose./ The Golden Age [and] Dream Days} Kenneth Grahame./ Poems of Childhood. Eugene Field./ M.P." And on the reverse of the note is his full name, signed "Maxfield Parrish" "Not until 1920 did [Parrish] agree to illustrate what was to become one of the most valuable children's books ever published, Louise Saunders's Knave of Hearts. Saunders was the wife of Maxwell Perkins, the editor of Scribner's. They summered in Cornish, New Hampshire, and were friends with the Parrishes. In a letter to J.H. Chapin of Scribner's, Parrish wrote on October 24, 1920: The reason I wanted to illustrate… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. PARRISH, Maxfield; SAUNDERS, Louise. illustrator]. SAUNDERS, Louise, [contributor]. The Knave of Hearts. With pictures by Maxfield Parrish. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. Full Description: PARRISH, Maxfield, [illustrator]. SAUNDERS, Louise. The Knave of Hearts. With pictures by Maxfield Parrish. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. First edition. Large quarto (13 7/8 x 11 1/2 inches; 352 x 292 mm.). [6], 46, [1], [3, blank] pp. Complete with the full complement of illustrations by Maxfield Parrish, his last and most brilliant book illustration project. Original black cloth with mounted cover illustration and pictorial endpapers. Internal contents generally in excellent condition. Cover illustration lightly rubbed and a previous owner's name on the verso of the free endpaper. Complete with the full complement of illustrations by Maxfield Parrish, his last and most brilliant book illustration project. A clean, near fine copy of the book.… Read More

Frankfurt am Main: Verlag von Meidinger Sohn & Cie, 1855. First edition. Octavo (7 1/16 x 4 5/8 inches; 179 x 117 mm). xvi, 269, [3, imprint and ads] pp. Publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. Edges speckled. Some browning to endpapers, small owner's stamp to front endpaper. A small bit of wear to head of the spine. An excellent copy. "Berkeley denied the existence of matter. Büchner declared that nothing else existed. It was not however the idealist philosophy of Berkeley that the Materialist school was concerned to oppose so much as the application of vitalistic ideas to scientific problems. The vitalistic view of creation is that all substances, whether organic or inorganic, are actuated by a vital spark or force which is the cause of growth and which determines their form". Experiments and studies leading to the artificial synthesis of organic compounds claimed to debunk this idea and led to the development of a school that "declared that all the phenomena of the… Read More