[Trade Cards] Anonymous Handmade Scrapbook Featuring Chromolithograph Trade Cards, Circa 1890. Contains approx. 270 individual pieces, mostly chromolithograph trade cards, post cards, and other illustrations. Quarto. 30 leaves. Contemporary green pictorial cloth album, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt and red, rear cover in blind. Occasional.....
Bates, Jr., Joseph D. Streamers & Bucktails. The Big Fish Flies. Illustrated with pencil drawings by Bill Elliott, and pen-and-ink drawings by Milton C. Weiler. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. First edition.Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. With TLS signed by Bates, as well as an.....
BBC Children's Books. Dr. Who: Time Travels. London: Penguin Group, 2007. First edition. Quarto. Unpaginated. Fully illustrated. Publisher's holographic paper boards, spine and boards lettered and decorated in blindstamp, original unclipped acetate dust wrapper. All pop-ups and moving parts in good working condition.
Walter Crane. Renascence: A Book of Verse. London: Elkin Mathews at the Sign of the Bodley Head, 1891. Large paper edition, number 35 of 65 numbered copies printed for England. Octavo. 162pp. Illustrated in black and white. Quarter vellum over plain paper boards, spine lettered in gilt, deckled edges, erratum tipped in at.....
Francis Foster Perry. Harrison Fisher, illustrator. Theodore B. Hapgood, decoration. Their Hearts’ Desire. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1909. First edition. Octavo. 152pp. With illustrations by Harrison Fisher and decorations by Theodore B. Hapgood. Publisher’s lavender decorative cloth, stamped in gilt to spine and front cover, illustrated pastedown.....
Arthur Lee Humphreys. A Garland of Love. London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1902. First edition. 16mo (approx. 6.5 x 5 inches). 74pp. Attractively rebound in full brown leather, spine lettered in gilt with a charming heart motif to front cover, five raised bands, all edges gilt, tooled leather turn-ins over blue paper endleaves.
John Steinbeck. Tortilla Flat. Illustrated by Ruth Gannett. New York: Covici Friede, [1935]. First edition. Octavo. vi, [vii-viii, section title], 9-316 pp. Illustrations in the text, some full page. Quarter modern dark red crushed morocco over red cloth boards, lettered in gilt and ruled in black, top edge with original.....
Matthew Reinhart and Robert Sabuda. Fairies and Magical Creatures. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2008. First edition. Quarto. Unpaginated. Fully illustrated. Publisher's decorative paper boards. All pop-ups and moving parts in good working condition.
Margaret C. Sullivan. Jane Austen Cover to Cover: 200 Years of Classic Covers. Philadelphia: Quirk Books, 2014. First edition. Oblong quarto. 223pp. Fully illustrated with photos. Publisher's Blue quarter cloth over decorated paper boards, spine lettered in white.
Wouk, Herman. War and Remembrance. Illustrated by Harlan M. Krakovitz. Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1978. Limited first edition. Publisher's leather binding, stamped and gilt extra. All edges gilt.