The Water Babies by Kingsley, Charles - 1916

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. "This edition of Eloise: The Absolutely Essential Edition has been specially bound and is limited to two hundred and fifty copies signed by the illustraor and numbered". This copy is number 72. Signed by Hilary Knight on the limitation page. "Including the Original Eloise and a new, color Eloise Scrapbook with rare photos & drawings from the files of Hilary Knight". A beautiful copy; essentially as new. In a near fine slipcase with a tiny tear at the lower front corner and very light soiling.. Signed by Illustrator. Limited. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Hilary Knight. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1938. THE HARDY BOYS: The Secret Warning- #17- Illustrated by Paul Laune- Grosset & Dunlap, New York- 1938- 1st Edition- Hardcover:-12mo- Near Fine/VG++-Near Fine dj is unclipped, bright and clean with shallow nicls at heel and crown of spine, rubs at corners-a real beauty. Textblock and spine are tight and clean. PO name on back of frontis. All points according to Carpentieri: Title not listed on inner flap. 5050 and 110-150 on inner flap of dj. Glossy frontispiece. Lists to itself on copyright page. Red Orange Gretta endpapers. Western Stories For Boys lists to The X Bar X Boys Hunting The Prize Mustang on back inner flap. Spotlight Books For Boys on back cover with 11 titles to Jimmy Drury, Candid Camera Detective. 25 chapters in book. A scarce book in this condition with dust jacket. Please look at photos-more available on request. Fiction-juvenile-series-Hardy Boys-illustrated (3872). 1st Edition-1st Printing. Hard Cover. Near FINE/VG++-Near FINE. Illus. by… Read More

London: Sampson Low, 1925. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Mary Tourtel. A first edition of the third book in the Rupert "Little Bear" series with the first three titles, only, on rear board. Generally in very good condition with no inscriptions or colouring in and showing only minor wear to hinges of spine. Rear board has some faint diagonal marks (see photos). Printed in blue, brown and red. An uncommon book in this condition. A first edition of the third book in the Rupert "Little Bear" series.

Macmillan & Co. New York. 1889. New edition. 12mo. (7.5 x 5.2 inches). xii, 192, 12 pp publishers catalogue. Also an extra gathering bound in so that pages 117 to 124 appear twice. One gathering slightly sprung. Publishers dark green cloth with gilt and black decorative band across the top of the front board and the top and bottom of the spine. Black decorative roll to the bottom of the front board. Title on gilt to the middle of the front board. Spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Rear board with blind stamped floral roll to the top and bottom. Floral decorative endpapers. Neat two line inscription to the front free endpaper. The rear endpapers have an early previous owner's name and address written in red crayon to the free endpaper and a few short lines to the pastedown. Cloth a bit rubbed to the edges and a couple of small marks to the boards but overall a very good copy. An uncommon and attractive nineteenth century edition, printed in New York by J. J. Little and Co. This 1889 new edition was… Read More

[FLINT, W[illiam] Russell]. The Odyssey of Homer. Done into English Prose by S.H. Butcher & Andrew Lang. With Twenty Plates in Colour After the Water-Colour Drawings of W. Russell Flint, A.R.A. London: The Medici Society, 1924. 4to, xxviii 319pp. White cloth with brown leather labels stamped in gilt affixed to spine. 20 hand-tipped color plates with captioned tissue guards. Corners and spine ends a tad rubbed, some wear to spine labels, free endpapers discolored, else an internally clean, tight copy with all color plates fine and bright.
First Flint-illustrated edition being a limited edition of 530 numbered copies. A wonderfully captured adaptation of Homer's epic translated by Andrew Lang and featuring W. Russell Flint's lavish illustrations. The illustrations for this book were first created in 1914, but due to the outbreak of WWI, the book's publication was delayed until 1924 when it was produced in this lavish, limited edition. Flint's gorgeous, classically inspired illustrations are a truly marvel.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. "This edition of Eloise: The Absolutely Essential Edition has been specially bound and is limited to two hundred and fifty copies signed by the illustraor and numbered". This copy is number 72. Signed by Hilary Knight on the limitation page. "Including the Original Eloise and a new, color Eloise Scrapbook with rare photos & drawings from the files of Hilary Knight". A beautiful copy; essentially as new. In a near fine slipcase with a tiny tear at the lower front corner and very light soiling.. Signed by Illustrator. Limited. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Hilary Knight. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1938. THE HARDY BOYS: The Secret Warning- #17- Illustrated by Paul Laune- Grosset & Dunlap, New York- 1938- 1st Edition- Hardcover:-12mo- Near Fine/VG++-Near Fine dj is unclipped, bright and clean with shallow nicls at heel and crown of spine, rubs at corners-a real beauty. Textblock and spine are tight and clean. PO name on back of frontis. All points according to Carpentieri: Title not listed on inner flap. 5050 and 110-150 on inner flap of dj. Glossy frontispiece. Lists to itself on copyright page. Red Orange Gretta endpapers. Western Stories For Boys lists to The X Bar X Boys Hunting The Prize Mustang on back inner flap. Spotlight Books For Boys on back cover with 11 titles to Jimmy Drury, Candid Camera Detective. 25 chapters in book. A scarce book in this condition with dust jacket. Please look at photos-more available on request. Fiction-juvenile-series-Hardy Boys-illustrated (3872). 1st Edition-1st Printing. Hard Cover. Near FINE/VG++-Near FINE. Illus. by… Read More

SIGNED, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, FIRST STATE. New York, Frederick A Stokes Co., 1937. A Rare First Edition of the WINNER OF THE FIRST CALDECOTT AWARD for Best Illustrated Children's Book in 1938. First State with Lathrop's name misspelled "Lathop" on both the spine of the book and the spine of the dust jacket. This copy is Signed by Dorothy Lathrop on the blank page opposite the title page.
The Book is in Very Good+ condition with mild toning and foxing on the endpapers and paste-downs, a dark spot on the first 4 pages. No writing or other marks. Gilt lettering on front board and spine Bright, no wear. Edges and corners show slight wear. Dust Jacket Very Good+ with small chips, light edge wear, and a red stain on the rear panel, the front is clean. Not price-clipped, "$2.00" on the top front dj flap. No medal or mention of Caldecott Award on the dust jacket.
Helen Fish wrote the introduction and selected passages from the King James Bible to accompany the beautiful drawings of Dorothy Lathrop.… Read More

Macmillan & Co. New York. 1889. New edition. 12mo. (7.5 x 5.2 inches). xii, 192, 12 pp publishers catalogue. Also an extra gathering bound in so that pages 117 to 124 appear twice. One gathering slightly sprung. Publishers dark green cloth with gilt and black decorative band across the top of the front board and the top and bottom of the spine. Black decorative roll to the bottom of the front board. Title on gilt to the middle of the front board. Spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Rear board with blind stamped floral roll to the top and bottom. Floral decorative endpapers. Neat two line inscription to the front free endpaper. The rear endpapers have an early previous owner's name and address written in red crayon to the free endpaper and a few short lines to the pastedown. Cloth a bit rubbed to the edges and a couple of small marks to the boards but overall a very good copy. An uncommon and attractive nineteenth century edition, printed in New York by J. J. Little and Co. This 1889 new edition was… Read More

RANSOME, Arthur. The Big Six. London: Jonathan Cape [1940]. 12mo, 400pp. Green cloth stamped in gilt on spine and blind-stamped on front. Two-color map endpapers; b&w illustrations throughout. Spine ends and corners slightly rubbed, light foxing on fore-edge of sheets – but not extending internally, endpapers minutely foxed, in original color pictorial dust jacket (light edgewear, some soiling, spine lightly sunned).
First edition. The ninth book in Arthur Ransome's beloved Swallows and Amazons series. Ransome returns once more to his beloved Norfolk Broads where trouble is again brewing between the three boatbuilders' sons (who more or less live full-time aboard the Death and Glory) and the three Coots, Tom, Dorothea and Dick. The problem arises when the boats are constantly being set adrift, and all the evidence points squarely to the boatbuilders' sons. In a clever bit of detective work, and with some help from a sophisticated photographic trap, the two trios come together as the Big Six and… Read More