Publications geared toward children and adolescents.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, [1985]. First edition, first printing. Large octavo. Blue embossed boards, orange cloth spine. Twenty dazzling full-color portraits of dragons by Leonard Baskin, "with the help of his son Hosie he brings us a glorious gathering of dragons from all mythologies and literature: ranging from the.....
New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, [N.d., but ca. 1934]. First edition. Original red paper boards with a lively repeating book pattern. [14x10 cm]. Two color illustrations by Philip G. Reed. Fine. First edition, thus. An extract from Blades's 19th century book on the various enemies of books from.....
New York: The Century Co., 1894. First American edition. Octavo. Publisher's original green cloth, gilt lettering and elephant on upper panel, gilt tiger on rear, blindstamped designs, gilt animal vignettes and lettering to the spine. t.e.g. xvii,[3],303,[3] pp. Frontispiece, and 34 illustrated plates. Designated as a "Printers Copy" on front.....
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1983. First American edition. Large octavo. Red cloth, image stamped in gilt on front panel. Text and full color illustrations by Gerrard in a style he describes as "small, highly detailed watercolors, remorselessly whimsical, and often Victorian/Edwardian in subject." Winner of the Fiera di Bologna Graphic.....
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., [1971]. Original color decorated paper boards. 8 x 7.25"; 63 pp. Fine, in a good + dust jacket with a closed tear at top edge of front panel, a small chip to the lower edge of the back, and some light handsoiling. First edition.....
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New York: Random House, 1982. Tall octavo. Laminated pictorial boards, all art work and rhymes by Gorey; six pop-up illustrations, paper engineering by Ib Penick. Small pinch at top of spine, else a very good copy of a book intended to be shared with children - children with a macabre.....
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., [1960]. ARDIZZONE, Edward:. First American edition. Small quarto. Green cloth boards, white lettering. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. First American edition, trade binding. Twenty-three of Graves’ best poems for and about children. A very nice copy in price-clipped, faintly edgeworn, beautifully decorated dust jacket.....
London: Cassell & Company, Ltd., [1960]. ARDIZZONE, Edward:. Green cloth boards, lettered in gilt. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. First edition. Upper fore-corners lightly bumped, otherwise a very good copy in pictorial dust jacket with a few marks on the back panel and a trace of darkening near a few edges.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1968]. Red cloth, gilt spine. 248 pp. First edition. Crown of spine has light repair, else fine, in a very good wraparound pictorial dust jacket with bottom corner front flap clipped, minor chip on lower panel, chips at crown of spine and closed split at.....
Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1976. Edward Gorey, illustrator. Oblong decorated wrappers. First trade edition. Near fine copy with minor edgewear, one small ½" closed tear at top of rear spine edge. Illustrated throughout with Edward Gorey's irreverent Victorian Gothic images in response to the authors' equally nonsense poems and prose.....
New York: Macmillan, [1993]. Quarto. Decorated boards. Full color illustrations by Leonard Baskin. Fine copy in equally fine, unclipped dust jacket. Not intended as a bedtime story for the very young but a humorous repetitive rhyming story for slightly older children.
[New York]: Harry N. Abrams, [2004]. Edward Gorey. Oblong. Black and white decorated boards. Illustrated endpapers. First edition, thus (as we booksellers like to say). Originally published in 1970, this is a reissue in a new skin. Bookplate of previous owner on verso to the title page, else a fine.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1955]. First American edition. Octavo. Bright green cloth, lettered and decorated in black. 215,[3] pp. Illustrated throughout text by Beth and Joe Krush. Tiny ink speck on lower edge, else about fine, in a very good or better dust jacket with a light pencil.....
[London: Bloomsbury, 2007]. First UK edition. Thick octavo. Pictorial boards. First UK edition, first printing. Spotting to top edge, else a very good copy of the adult's edition; small snag at top of rear panel, else a very good dust jacket. The final edition in the Harry Potter series, personally.....
London: William Heinemann, Ltd., [1934]. First edition. Thick octavo. Brown cloth, stamped in gilt. [10],531,[1] pp. Shelf wear at bottom edge, top edge of spine close-splayed, bookplate to front pastedown, stamp of NY literary agency to first free endpaper, else rather good; in an unclipped pictorial dust jacket that has.....
New York: Prepared by The Bureau of Child Hygiene of the New York City Department of Health, [c. 1945]. Printed wrappers, stapled. 20 unnumbered pages. Wrappers toned at edges, first and last leaf of text tanned due to possibly inexpensive war era paper; tiny neat ownership name on top edge.....
Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1899. Limited edition. Cream-colored card wraps with lapped edges, printed in brown on upper panel and spine. 88pp. Old World Series. First edition, thus; edition limited to 925 on Van Gelder paper. Title page in red and black; ribbon bookmark laid in. About fine, enfolded.....
New York: The New York Public Library, 1948. Octavo. White wrappers printed in black. 21,[1] pp. First separate edition, reprinted from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library of August 1948. A list of approximately 100 printers and publishers in New York City for the period 1698 to 1830.....
London: Hogarth Press, 1966. Duncan Grant:. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Gilt purple cloth boards. Frontispiece and five additional illustrations by Duncan Grant. A faint trace of foxing to endsheets, otherwise a near fine, bright copy, without printed dust jacket, as issued. From the famed collection of Bloomsbury/Hogarth Press collector William Beekman.....