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Broadside. About 300 copies. A striking presentation of this fanciful poem, silkscreened in turquoise, purple and orange by Karyl Klopp. Very fine. ... more

Price: $35.00

Octavo. 61pp. Second edition. A Russian telling of Alice in Wonderland, illustrated throughout in black & white. Each chapter has an illustrated heading with fanciful lettering. Some of the pages have rules on the side with marginal notes and additional illustrations. Gennady Kalinovski (1929-2006) was a prolific Soviet illustrator, who... more

Price: $275.00

Single leaf measuring 5 by 7 3/4 inches. A drawing of a young man and woman glancing shyly at each other, with their noses drawn in an angular fashion so as to point at each other. Below the figures is penned words "i cant [sic] stop long this time." A... more

Price: $850.00

Oblong small quarto. 14ff. manuscript album of fifteen illustrated, nonsensical limericks after Edward Lear, featuring comical characters, like the Old Man from the Cape and his Barbary ape. The illustrations are just as diverting as the verse, populated with wide-eyed creatures and caricatures of monstrous men. The images and text... more

Price: $1,250.00

Cased stipple-engraved picture, hand-colored, with cut-out figures. Image is circular and measures seven inches in diameter, within a frame that measures 12 by 14 by 3 inches. The picture shows a boy playing the pipe and drums, while activating a pair of dancing dolls on a plank of wood with... more

Price: $1,350.00

An original drawing of Peter Pan, in pencil and pastel on gray paper. Together with a manuscript poem written by Gould upon completion of the work. The drawing shows the face of Peter Pan gazing through a thicket of leaves and branches. His "ageless" eyes, as Gould describes them in... more

Price: $3,500.00

Single folio sheet, on which is printed twenty rebus cards, to be cut out. Each card has a very fine hand-colored stipple engraving. A few examples are: a man bowing before a statue of Cupid, a sunset, three children sledding, and Napoleon sitting on an upper-case "B." The sheet measures... more

Price: $750.00

Box bears a lithographed image on laminated boards with a circular cut-out in which thirty separate, lithographed wooden cards are shown sequentially as the box is turned over. Measures 5 1/2 by 3 by 1 5/8 inches. The image that appears on either side is a harlequin, and the only... more

Price: $650.00

Oblong 32mo. (6)ff. First edition. A collection of stories told without words through a series of illustrated frames, in a style similar to a comic book. In the stories, small animals, like mice, birds, and squirrels, outsmart potential predators. At the end, a race where frogs ride insects turns into... more

Price: $100.00

Two hand-printed pieces of cloth with uncut patterns for very large rag dolls, measuring 22 by 25 inches. The costume styles date from the early nineteenth century. The first pattern, Little Lizzie, is a young girl dressed in a Regency-style empire dress in a blue and green floral print, trimmed... more

Price: $450.00

An uncut rectangle of cloth printed with three replicas of large, antique doll patterns, measuring 18 by 24 inches. The dolls are elaborately costumed in fancy nineteenth-century dresses with puffed sleeves and full skirts: one wears a dress with a tiered skirt trimmed with lace, a lace collar, and a... more

Price: $150.00

Square octavo. 366pp. First American edition, early state, in the scarce blue cloth publisher's binding. The following BAL issue points apply: pages 13 and 57 are first state, page 155 is third state, page 283 is third state. With 173 illustrations by E.W. Kemble and photogravure frontispiece portrait bust by... more

Price: $35,000.00

Small quarto. 32pp. First edition. Illustrated throughout by Walter Lorraine, with bold, quirky drawings in purple, peach, and red. Even when facing the scariest of witches or a frightening nightmare, cool, composed Isabel never loses her courage in this tale by Nash, the influential American poet and humorist known for... more

Price: $275.00

Octavo. (viii), 94pp. First edition. A collection of pre-Victorian children's prose and verse. In the preface, the author mentions, "They have been chosen, some because they are characteristic of their period, some because of their unlikeness to the children's books which 'grown-ups' read today, and some for no better, or... more

Price: $225.00

Oblong octavo. (24) ff. A panorama which opens out to show a colorful wedding procession of musicians, vintners, farmworkers, and costumed villagers. The Roman goddesses of the harvest, Ceres and Pales, follow their attendants in ox-drawn chariots, and Bacchus' chariot is pulled by fat Sileni and fauns, wearing vines and... more

Price: $750.00

Octavo. (v)ff., 192pp. First edition, second issue. With forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel. Carroll's enduring tale of a child's dreamworld was first issued in 1865 by Macmillan and Company of London, but Carroll and Tenniel were unhappy with the print quality of the illustrations and canceled the issue, insisting that... more

Price: $9,750.00

Quarto. xi, 162pp., + 12ff. plates. One of 1,100 copies. With an original ink and watercolor illustration on the limitation page, signed by Arthur Rackham. The drawing shows Alice in conversation with the Caterpillar, who is sitting on a mushroom next to his hookah. Also contains thirteen large tipped-in color... more

Price: $25,000.00

Two folio volumes. 150pp.; xxv, 160pp. From editions limited to 350 copies signed by Barry Moser, these are both one of thirty special copies bound in full leather by Gray Parrot. Alice is one of the Patron's copies and is numbered; Through the Looking Glass is identified on the colophon... more

Price: $12,500.00