Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. Rackham, Arthur. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing of this specific publication (see below), octavo size, 121 pp., in original dust jacket. British illustrator Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) is credited with renewing interest in book illustration at a vital moment of advances in..... More
London: MacMillan & Co. Ltd., 1920. Rackham, Arthur. First Edition. Hardcover. First trade edition, first printing, octavo size, 330 pp., in original dust jacket. British illustrator Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) is credited with renewing interest in book illustration at a vital moment of advances in printing technology. The subtle colours and..... More
Philadelphia: David McKay, 1919. Smith, Jessie Willcox. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing (second issue) with Jessie Willcox Smith illustrations, large octavo size, 342 pp., in original publisher's dust jacket. Scottish author and minister George MacDonald (1824-1905) wrote about diverse subjects, from fantasy to fairy tales to Christian apologetics;..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, c. 1955. Knight, Hilary. Hardcover. 16th printing of the first edition, quarto size, 67 pp. "Eloise" is the little girl every woman wanted to be in the mid-1950s; daring, charming, inquisitive, and who was, according to Maurice Sendak, a "brazen loose-limbed little monster" (n.b., per..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., (1928). Shepard, Ernest H. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. First US edition, first printing, no. 46 of 250 copies, duodecimo size, 190 pp., signed by both A.A. Milne and Ernest H. Shepard. Alan Alexander Milne (1882-1956) will likely ever be remembered for having..... More
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n.p. Self-published, 1939. Later printing. Hardcover. Twelvemo size, 79 pp., with accompanying MS note from Sonya. An utterly charming volume of two fairy tales: one written by Fritz Joachim Weyl and the other by his wife, "Sonya" (Martha Weyl), who (it is highly likely) also did the calligraphy and bound..... More
London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Twenty-fourmo size, 85 pp. Beatrix Potter (1866-1922) is likely one of the most beloved of childrens' book authors, for having given the world "Peter Rabbit" and his many companions, which have delighted children - and adults - for generations. "The Tale of..... More
London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. First or second printing (identical), twenty-fourmo size, 85 pp., in a custom clamshell box. Beatrix Potter (1866-1922) is likely one of the most beloved of childrens' book authors, for having given the world "Peter Rabbit" and his many companions, which have..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, folio size, 32 pp., no Caldecott Medal on the dust jacket. David Macaulay (b. 1946) was fascinated with machines and how they operated as a young child, making models and drawing illustrations of them. Many of his books display this..... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1871. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing of the first American edition, sixmo size, 384 pp. Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), penned this sequel two years after "Little Women" which was popular immediately upon publication. Alcott, an abolitionist and feminist, grew up surrounded by many of the 19th-century literary..... More