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One page, on stationery printed with an illustration of the Cat in the Hat. The content is a response to a request to sign books and to a question about the availability of prints. Signed as both Dr. Seuss and Theodore S. Geisel. With the original envelope, addressed in Geisel's... more

Price: $1,500.00

274pp. Illustrated with a woodcut frontispiece. The ninth edition of John Taylor's Verbum Sempiternum is a rare American Thumb Bible about which only two copies are known, both of which are defective. According to Adomeit, "Epitomes of the story of the Bible were intended to provide early religious instruction for... more

Price: $2,250.00

Quarto. (xvi), (256)pp. One of 380 copies signed by Robinson, the author/illustrator. With sixteen mounted color plates and many black & white line drawings, head- and tail-pieces, and vignettes throughout that bring Robinson's imaginative story alive. Bill is the skilled minder, or babysitter, of the nine mostly bad-tempered children of... more

Price: $1,500.00

Quarto. x, 60, (2)pp. First edition. One of 350 numbered copies. Illustrated with eight full-page color plates, protected with tissue guards, and twelve half-tone drawings by Milo Winter. This is the first book by Winter, who went on to illustrate popular editions of such works as Gulliver's Travels, Arabian Nights,... more

Price: $500.00

Octavo. (6)ff. Manuscript alphabet book in Danish with hand-colored illustrations throughout. Written in cursive script, the book opens with lowercase and capital-letter alphabets. These are followed by tables of small, precise, colored drawings of items beginning with each letter of the alphabet, accompanied by descriptions of the items. Other pages... more

Price: $1,250.00

Octavo. xiv, 136pp. First illustrated edition. Charles Robinson's first full book, this edition is illustrated throughout in black & white, including a frontispiece portrait of the author and over 100 drawings showing the influence of Walter Crane, Aubrey Beardsley, and others. Bound in forest green cloth with pictorial gilt to... more

Price: $450.00

Octavo. (xvi), 152pp., + (8)pp. of advertisements. Charles Robinson's first full book, this edition is illustrated with nine full-page color plates, including the frontispiece and title page, and with over 100 black & white drawings showing the influence of Walter Crane, Aubrey Beardsley, and others. Bound in tan cloth with... more

Price: $300.00

Small quarto. 296pp., + 12ff. plates. First edition, first issue. Illustrated throughout in black & white by John R. Neill, with sixteen full-page color plates heightened with metallic emerald ink. In the introduction, Baum describes how he wrote this sixth installment in the Oz series by incorporating many of the... more

Price: $600.00

12mo. (36)pp., (wrappers included in pagination). Illustrated with several small woodcuts and typographical ornaments. The story of Honest Tom, the errand-boy, and how he overcame his slothful nature and was duly rewarded. Original peach wrappers show some chips to spine ends, several page corners creased, otherwise a nice copy of... more

Price: $375.00

Quarto. 251pp., + 12 plates. One of 1,000 copies signed and numbered by the artist. Illustrated with twelve brightly-colored full-page plates by Dulac, protected by tissue guards. Bound in gilt-accented vellum-backed blue buckram. A near fine copy with some wear to extremities, especially spine ends, spotting and soiling to boards,... more

Price: $750.00

Quarto. (30)pp. First edition. Illustrated throughout in color and black & white. A Danish guide to the craft of printing with carved potatoes, which also includes examples of stories illustrated with potato prints. Instructions show how to carve the stamps, and how to create characters, scenes, and action by combining... more

Price: $750.00

A leaf with a hand-colored, movable scene on the front depicting two royal children riding in a brightly-colored chaise pulled by two goats. When a tab at the bottom of the page is pulled, the boy raises and lowers his whip and the goats nod their heads up and down.... more

Price: $375.00

Small quarto. 281pp., + 12ff. plates. First edition. Illustrated throughout in black & white by John R. Neill, with twelve full-page color plates. In this continuation of L. Frank Baum's Oz stories, written by Ruth Plumly Thompson, a young boy proves that he is worthy to become Prince of Oz... more

Price: $400.00

Quarto. 221, (3)pp., + 23 plates. First trade edition. Includes twenty-three tipped-in color illustrations by Dulac, with tissue guards, and text surrounded by gold and black borders throughout. Fine, with only very minor wear to extremitites, in publisher's tan and blue flowered cloth, gilt-stamped with the title and an image... more

Price: $450.00

Oblong folio. (20)pp., + 24ff. plates. A portfolio of large, brightly-colored plates by the Swedish illustrator Carl Larsson. The plates depict life on a farm throughout the seasons, from plowing and sowing the fields to threshing wheat and milking cows. One illustration shows the artist himself painting and chatting with... more

Price: $300.00

Small quarto. (8)ff. A die-cut shape book for children in the form of a large-eyed puppy wearing a big blue ribbon. Illustrated throughout by Louis Wain in black and red, depicting the misadventures of Tatters the puppy as he learns how to be a good dog. Wain was best known... more

Price: $850.00

Quarto. (10)ff. A collection of wise, wry poems for children, brightly illustrated in bold red, blue, green, and yellow by Boucard Moinet. The illustrations depict scenes of children at play: spinning around on a carousel, sailing boats on a pond in the park, and waving at an airplane flying overhead.... more

Price: $450.00

Small quarto. 225pp. First edition. With twenty-six full-page illustrations, including eight color plates, and numerous smaller black & white drawings by Willy Pogány. A children's tale in which two girls are lured away from home by a witch named Hookface and taken to an enchanted land. The story might be... more

Price: $1,000.00