Most people, when asked about their favorite book, will invariably include a book they read as a child. Hemingway famously proclaimed that "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn". Twain's book, like its predecessor, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, were books whose intended audience was young readers. Such books speak to us on multiple levels. As literature, they are well-crafted and clever with memorable characters and conflicts, but they matter to us for more than these reasons because we discovered them at a formative period of our lives. Their ideas helped to form our own, and so they are more personal ...
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(Middle Falls, NY: Toy Works), 1980. This bean bag bat with wings outstretched measures approximately fifteen inches from wingtip to wingtip. The fabric is printed with a black & white crosshatched pattern that is shaded on the wings and body to give the figure more dimensionality, evoking Gorey’s characteristic drawing..... More
(Middle Falls, NY: The Toy Works), 1978. A cotton beanbag of a beatifically smiling cat, the color of café au lait, dressed in a jaunty blue and grey striped jersey. This is one of five bean bag animals in a collection designed by Edward Gorey and produced by Toy Works..... More
(Middle Falls, NY: The Toy Works), 1979. A cotton beanbag of a smiling pink pig, measuring seven inches from toe to eartip, and wearing a brown tweed jacket. In back, the turned-up vent shows that the jacket is lined to match his tasteful goldenrod bow-tie. This is one of five..... More
(Middle Falls, NY: The Toy Works), 1979. A cotton beanbag of a smiling pink pig, measuring seven inches from toe to eartip, and wearing a brown tweed jacket. In back, the turned-up vent shows that the jacket is lined to match his tasteful goldenrod bow-tie. This is one of five..... More
Philadelphia; NY: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1961. First edition. Drawings throughout by Edward Gorey accompany Ciardi's ribald poetry. Bound in full yellow cloth with a drawing reproduced in red on the upper cover. Mild toning to edges, faint foxing to paste-downs, else a very good copy with a mildly soiled..... More
NY: Young Scott, 1968. First edition. Signed by Gorey. The first poem in Lear's Book of Nonsense, adorned with illustrations, which Gorey dedicated to Foss, Lear's celebrated cat. Scant wear to extremities of pictorial boards, else near fine. Some toning and minor rubbing to matching dust wrapper. (Toledano B38a). More
NY: Charles Scribner's, 1979. Folio. 21ff. First edition, first printing. The sets and costumes of the Broadway production of Dracula, which were designed by Gorey, and for which he won a Tony Award. Printed on cardboard, with instructions for cutting out and assembling the stage set, with furniture and characters..... More
NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1973. Square octavo. (88)pp. First edition. Inscribed by the author/illustrator, Hardie Gramatky, on the title page, with an ink drawing of Little Toot. Fourth in the series of children's books that started with 1939's Little Toot, Little Toot on the Mississippi tells the story of the..... More
NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1964. Square octavo. 86pp. First edition. Inscribed by the author/illustrator, Hardie Gramatky, on the title page. The first sequel to Gramatky's first children's book, 1939's Little Toot, tells the story of the adventurous tugboat's journey across the Atlantic to London. There he encounters London Bridge, the..... More
Great Britain: Frederick Warne & Co., (1925). Oblong 64mo. Each page with colored illustrations by Greenaway, which first appeared in her 1887 Almanack. Bound in cloth-backed pictorial boards. Some soiling to exterior, else near fine in mildly chipped original glassine. More
London: Routledge, 1882-1895, 1897. Fourteen 24mo. volumes. All in first issue bindings with the following exceptions: 1884 is the fifth variant; 1886 is the third variant; 1888 is the seventh variant; 1893 is the second variant. Each volume is illustrated throughout with full-color images by Greenaway, many of which are..... More
Worcester, MA: J. Grout, Jr., (c. 1840). 32mo. 24pp. Illustrated with a frontispiece, title-page vignette, four woodcuts, and a tailpiece. Bound in green printed wrappers illustrated with a small vignette to the front cover, and a larger woodcut of a man herding cattle to the rear cover. Corners of covers..... More
Worcester: Jonathan Grout, Jr., (c. 1840). 32mo. 24pp. Illustrated with a frontispiece, title-page vignette, six woodcuts, and a tailpiece. Bound in green printed wrappers, illustrated with a small vignette to the front cover and a larger woodcut of a man next to a stream to the rear cover. Gift inscription..... More
Bern & Biel, Switzerland: Ernst Kuhn, 1920. Square 16mo. (45)ff., printed on rectos only. First issue. A striking picture book in the Swiss dialect, illustrated with forty-two brightly colored full-page woodcuts by Erna Haas in the style of the Wiener Werkstätte. The scenes depicted in the woodcuts are charming and..... More
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. Octavo. First edition of the second Uncle Remus collection of stories. Widely illustrated with scenes from the familiar tales, including images of Brother Fox, Brother Bear, and Brother Rabbit. Bound in full yellow cloth elaborately stamped in black and with the title in..... More
Franklin, NH: Hillside Press, 1966. xvii, 42pp. One of 375 copies. Various texts by Shakespeare with twelve silhouettes by Paul Konewka. Fine in burgundy cloth over boards, faintly rubbed. (2 5/16 by 1 15/16; 60x50mm). More
Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1945. Folio. (14)ff., two of which fold out, + (7) strips. Intact and unused paper activity book designed by Italian artist Edina Altara. Includes a wide variety of colorful paper toys and dolls: an illusionist, finger-puppet dancing girls, a three-dimensional carousel, a regiment of soldiers, birds and..... More
Boston: Henry Hoyt, (1860). 12mo. 164pp. Each lesson is illustrated with wood engravings, and contain passages from the New Testament followed by questions and an explanatory verse. There was a second edition of this work published in 1876, issued by Hoyt's successor. This edition is known in six institutional holdings..... More
London: Heinemann, 1912. Quarto. xxx, 224pp. One of 1450 copies, signed by the artist, Arthur Rackham. Contains thirteen color plates tipped-in on brown paper, and 53 illustrations in black & white. Translated by V.S. Vernon Jones, with an Introduction by G.K. Chesterton. Bound in tan paper-covered boards backed with dark..... More
NY: Frederick A. Stokes Company, (1924). First American edition. One of only 250 copies designated for the United States from a total edition of 2,000. The handsomely produced and lavishly illustrated tale of an old man who builds a square-rigged ship with the help of fairy artisans, and sails through..... More
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Tokyo: Gakushuusha, October 5, 1926. Small octavo. (18)pp. Highly illustrated, with a few pages partitioned into panels suggestive of modern manga. One issue of a monthly periodical aimed toward boys; a parallel series was published for girls. The series of short narratives presented within emphasize aspects of life in contemporary..... More
1935-1938. Signed by the artist, Cherry Barr Jerry. This painting depicts a rosy-cheeked Santa Claus, his mittened-hands as much a part of his red-robed outfit as a staple feature of the puppet's design. Jerry was an artist who explored a variety of media throughout her career, developing from a position..... More
1935-1938. Signed by the artist, Cherry Barr Jerry. This painting depicts a rosy-cheeked young boy in a blue-collared shirt and patterned overalls. Jerry worked with a variety of media throughout her career, including embroidery, charcoal sketching, and other forms of decorative art. Her efforts grew out of her role as..... More
1935-1938. Two original paintings, signed by the artist, Cherry Barr Jerry. This set of paintings vividly depicts Punch and Judy in their traditional style: rosy cheeks, mitten-hands, and large eyes and mouths. The artist worked with a variety of media throughout her career, delving into embroidery, sketches with charcoal, and..... More
1935-1938. Two original paintings, signed by the artist, Cherry Barr Jerry. The paintings show puppets, with chubby cheeks and mitten-hands, though these skew toward racist stereotypes in their depiction of African-American characters. Jerry was an art instructor in Racine, Wisconsin, during the Great Depression as part of the Works Progress..... More
