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My Brother's Ghost
New York: Viking, 2001. Single volume, measuring 5.75 x 4 inches: [8], 88. Original green pictorial cloth boards stamped in gilt, red endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. With: Puffin postcard for the English first edition.
Price: $30.00
Picture Posters to Color: Fruits and Vegetables
Chicago: Beckley-Cardy Company, 1951. Complete set of twelve black and white posters, measuring 10.5 x 8.5 inches. Housed in publisher’s pictorial envelope printed in black and red. Light wear and smudging to envelope, posters fine.
Price: $95.00
The Coat-Hanger Christmas Tree
(Oxford): Oxford University Press, 1976. Single volume, measuring 8 x 6 inches: [6], 75, [3]. Original red cloth lettered in gilt, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout text. Lightest toning to edges of jacket.
Price: $125.00
A Likely Place
(London): Macmillan, (1967). Single volume, measuring 8.5 x 5.5 inches: [6], 57, [1]. Original black cloth lettered in silver, original clipped orange pictorial dust jacket printed in black and white. Black and white illustrations throughout text. Lightest edgewear and sunning, small tape repair to jacket verso, ghost of bookseller label.....
Price: $50.00
The Second Book of History, Including the Modern History of Europe, Africa, and Asia . . . by the Author of Peter Parley’s Tales
Boston: Charles J. Hendee, 1836. Octavo, measuring 7 x 5.5 inches: 180. Original pale blue pictorial paper boards backed in sheep, smooth spine gilt in compartments. Text printed in two columns, wood-engraved frontispiece and wood engravings throughout text, sixteen engraved maps inserted at rear. Pencil ownership inscription to front free.....
Price: $75.00
Complete set of Almanacks, inscribed by Kate Greenaway
London: George Routledge & Sons; J.M. Dent, 1883-1895, 1897. Nineteen miniature volumes, variously sized, with color-printed wood engravings throughout text. Three variant bindings of 1884 almanac; two variant bindings each for years 1887, 1890, and 1892. The 1889 almanac includes presentation inscriptions from Kate Greenaway and John Drinkwater, and is.....
Price: $8,500.00
In The Fairy Ring
London: Blackie & Son, [1908]. Quarto, measuring 10.5 x 8.5 inches: 63, [1]. Original ivory cloth decorated in gilt, pictorial endpapers, all edges gilt. Twenty-four full-color plates, illustrations throughout text. Light scattered foxing (heavier to first and last pages), rear endpapers toned, corners lightly bumped.
Price: $2,000.00
Music Time: A Book of Easy Tunes. A Puffin Picture Book
West Drayton, Middlesex: Penguin Books, no date, circa 1950. Side-stapled volume, measuring 9 x 7 inches: [2], 26. Original color lithographed wrappers, color and black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Two stamps inside wrappers: “Chace Junior School / City of Coventry Education Committee.”.
Price: $40.00
Charles F. Heartman Reviews Dr. Rosenbach’s Young American Parade (broadside)
No place: no publisher, [1933]. Color-printed pictorial broadside, measuring 17.5 x 12.5 inches. Two faint creases from folding, several small paper repairs and evidence of previous mount to verso, one short closed tear.
Price: $500.00
Numerous Names Nimbly Narrated
New York: Oxford University Press, (1930). Single volume, measuring 11 x 8.5 inches: [64]. Original color pictorial paper boards, blue cloth spine. Single-sided leaves colored en pochoir, text block uncut. No dust jacket, light shelfwear and smudging to binding.
Price: $300.00
Philipok
New York: Philomel Books, 2000. Slim quarto, measuring 10 x 8 inches: [32]. Original color pictorial laminated boards, red endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Signed by Gennady Spirin in gold ink on half-title.
Price: $150.00
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children) Object Assembly Test: Mannequin
New York City: The Psychological Corporation, circa 1950s. Two-dimensional wooden puzzle. Housed in original green cardboard box measuring 4 x 6.5 inches, printed in silver with manufacturer’s information and a capital letter M.
Price: $25.00
A Visit to William Blake’s Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers
New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981. Slim quarto, measuring 10 x 8 inches: 45, [1]. Original beige cloth spine stamped in gilt over blindstamped terracotta boards, original clipped color pictorial dust jacket with no Newbery Medal or Caldecott Honor Seal, ivory speckled endpapers. Color illustrations throughout text. Light.....
Price: $100.00