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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

Woodcut measuring 21 by 14 1/2 inches. One of 250 copies, signed and dated by Antonio Frasconi, an artist born in Uruguay and known for his distinctive woodcuts and numerous illustrated books for children. In this depiction of Aesop's fable, a hungry, curvaceous crocodile tempts a dog to linger by... more

Price: $550.00

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

Oblong 32mo. (8)pp. A shaped book in the form of a cat, with the covers depicting both the front and the back of the feline. The tabby cat has blue eyes and wears a blue ribbon with a bell. Illustrated with four color lithographs of the two sister cats going... more

Price: $375.00

Octavo. Single-sheet valentine. This "cobweb"-style valentine was so-named for its intricate lacework and circular central device, which, in this instance, is decorated with flowers. This circular element pulls out, creating a delicate, detailed peep show labeled, "Road to Happiness," which depicts two lovers sitting on a bench in a garden... more

Price: $750.00

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

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

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

Quarto. (8)pp, including wrappers. Presumed first printing of this edition. Text, in Spanish, of Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, and Sleeping Beauty, translated in verse by Alberto Gracian. Each story is illustrated with a color handkerchief, which is pasted onto an uncolored version of the same illustration. The cover... more

Price: $850.00

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. 240pp. Illustrated with eight color plates by Gertrude A. Kay and the original black & white illustrations by John Tenniel. Bound in gilt-stamped maroon cloth, with color illustration pasted to front cover, and pictorial endpapers. A good copy, with some edgewear, a tanned spine, and a cracked front hinge.... more

Price: $350.00

Quarto. (6)ff. Illustrated by Jenny Thorne, after John Tenniel. In the moveable version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a cut-out Alice falls into a three-dimensional rabbit hole, pops up to disclose a shrunken version of herself, and more. A slatted Cheshire Cat transformation and moveable rose bushes that change from... more

Price: $300.00

Oblong quarto. (13)ff., interleaved with twelve plates colored in pochoir. First edition. A poignant fable about the escapades of a magpie & whose body is made of a pinecone & and three little pinecone chicks as they leave the mantel of the fireplace on which they live to venture out... more

Price: $2,500.00

Quarto. A fine copy in cloth, with a very good dust jacket, which has a few nicks and loss at head of spine. ... more

Price: $85.00