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1)	The Haunted Tea Cosy: A Dispirited and Distasteful Diversion for Christmas Gorey, Edward
	New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1997. Second Printing. Hardcover. Tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows very minor shelf/edge wear, else bright and clean. Color pictorial boards (matching DJ). Large square 12mo. np. Illus. (color and b/w plates). A very handsome copy of this emerging classic. ... more information Offered by Lux Mentis, Booksellers (Maine, United States) +/-	Price: $25.00

2)	Vandemark's Folly Quick, Herbert; Wyeth, NC (illus)
	Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1922. First Edition Thus. Hardcover.. Light shelf/edge wear, gilt at spine heavily toned, gilt at front moderately toned, minor moisture stain in upper corner, bookplate and signature on ffep, else tight, bright and unmarred. Burgundy cloth boards, gilt lettering and decorative elements, frontispiece. 12mo. 420pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Eight black and white Wyeth illustrations. A presentable copy. ... more information Offered by Lux Mentis, Booksellers (Maine, United States) +/-	Price: $25.00

3)	Piccadilly Notes: No. 7 Rackham, Arthur
	London: Henry Sotheran, Ltd., 1933. First Edition. Original Wraps.. Light shelf/edge wear, small stamp partially removed, paper label across bottom announcing addenda of the "Ionides Collection of Greek Texts" (included at center), prior owner stamp on front, else tight, bright and unmarred. Pictorial paper wraps. 12mo. 413-503pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Cover depicts George Morland; full rear wrap is a Rackham illustration from "Seventh Dinner" (advertised on page 448.). Stamp on front wr... more information Offered by Lux Mentis, Booksellers (Maine, United States) +/-	Price: $25.00

4)	Alice All-By-Herself Coatsworth, Elizabeth; de Angeli, Marguerite (illus)
	New York: Macmillan, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover.. Light shelf/edge wear, touch of soiling to boards, penciled name on ffep (partially erased), small tape ghost on ffep, small stain on fore-edge, else tight, bright and unmarred. Green cloth boards, blue ink lettering and decorative elements, pictorial endpages, frontispiece. 8vo. 182pp. Illus. (color and b/w plates). Lovely tale of a little girl in Maine and author's poetry. ... more information Offered by Lux Mentis, Booksellers (Maine, United States) +/-	Price: $25.00

5)	To Have and to Hold Johnston, Mary; Pyle, Howard, et al (illus)
	New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover.. Minor shelf wear, front hinge starting, ffep partially separated (easy repair), small thumb tear at prelim through title page, else tight, bright and unmarred. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering, green and red ink pictorial elements, frontispiece. 12mo. vi, 403pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Illustrated by A. W. Betts, Emlen McConnell, Howard Pyle and E. B. Thompson. Johnston's second book. Noted flaws notwithstanding, a rather handsome copy. ... more information Offered by Lux Mentis, Booksellers (Maine, United States) +/-	Price: $25.00

6)	Minit Classics Presents: Joyce's Ulysses Lasky, David
	Falls Church, VA: David Lasky, 1991. Second Printing. Original Wraps. Very minimal shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright and unmarred. Pictorial wraps (black ink on white). 16mo. np. Illus. (b/w plates). Lasky's absolutely brilliant exploration of Ulysses in 36 panels (plus the wraps). "Please note: That in order to adapt James Joyce's novel "Ulysses" fro the mini-comics format, a few details had to be excluded. This comic is by no means a substitute for the original work." A must... more information Offered by Lux Mentis, Booksellers (Maine, United States) +/-	Price: $25.00

7)	The Bad Child's Book of Beasts Belloc, H; B.T.B. (illus)
	London: Duckworth, nd. First Edition Thus (presumed). Hardcover. Light shelf/edge wear, small chip at head, light toning to boards and endpages, rather careful coloring of images at title page and the Dodo at p30, else tight, bright and unmarred. Printed pale grey paper boards, red ink lettering, black ink lettering and decorative elements. Small 8vo. 48pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Noted flaws notwithstanding, overall a rather handsome copy of this wonderful collection. ... more information Offered by Lux Mentis, Booksellers (Maine, United States) +/-	Price: $25.00

8)	An alliterative Alphabet aimed at adult Abecedarians Elliott, Huger; Elliot, Elizabeth Shippen Green (illus)
	Philadelphia, PA: David McKay, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf/edge wear, most of paper spine missing (save small section "taped" at the head) but present and laid in), else tight, bright and unmarred. Color pictorial paper boards, decorative endpages. 8vo. np. Illus. (color plates). Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott was a member of Howard Pyle's "Brandywine School". This work, wonderfully illustrated, goes from "An Atrabilious Afrit with An Asiatic sneer Attitudinizi... more information Offered by Lux Mentis, Booksellers (Maine, United States) +/-	Price: $25.00

9)	Master Skylark Bennett, John; Pitz, Henry (illus)
	New York: The Century Co., 1922. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Minor shelf/edge wear, small closed vertical tear mid-spine at the head, hint of rubbing at edges of paper onlay, gift inscription on ffep, gilt at spine toned, else tight, bright and unmarred. Black cloth boards, gilt lettering, color pictorial endpage, pictorial endpages, frontispiece. 8vo. viii, 322pp. Illus. (color and b/w plates). Overall, a very presentable copy of this classic. ... more information Offered by Lux Mentis, Booksellers (Maine, United States) +/-	Price: $30.00

10)	A Dog at His Heel Finger, Charles J.; Pitz, Henry C. (illus)
	Philadelphia, PA: Winston, 1936. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover.. Minor shelf/edge wear, hint of sun at spine, hint of spotting at textblock edges, bookplate on verso of ffep, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows light shelf/edge wear, price clipped, minor chipping at head, heel and tips, toning at spine, small area through at mid-hinge, light toning overall, light rubbing at perimeters, else bright and clean. Orange cloth boards, black ink lettering and decorative element, color pictorial endpag... more information Offered by Lux Mentis, Booksellers (Maine, United States) +/-	Price: $30.00

11)	The Mentor - The Metropolitan Museum of Art: [Two Issues - Vol. 6, Numbers 8 and 9] Noe, Sydney P; Graves, Henry S; etc
	New York: The Mentor Assoc., 1918. First Edition Thus. Original Wraps. Minor shelf/edge wear, touch of toning, else tight, bright and unmarred. Original printed wraps, loose plates laid in (six in each). Small 4to. 10ppp; 12pp. Illus. (b/w plates). ... more information Offered by Lux Mentis, Booksellers (Maine, United States) +/-	Price: $35.00

12)	Old Chester Tales Deland, Margaret; Pyle, Howard (illus)
	New York: Harper and Brothers, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover.. Light shelf/edge wear, owner signatures at ffep and title page, light duststaining at top of text block, else tight, bright and unmarred. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering and decorative elements, color pictorial/decorative elements, frontispiece. 12mo. 360pp plus 4pp ads. Illus. (b/w plates). Apparently second state, lacking "Chelsea" on p. 5. A handsome copy of this rather scarce Pyle title. ... more information Offered by Lux Mentis, Booksellers (Maine, United States) +/-	Price: $35.00

13)

Dear Mili

Grimm, Wilhelm; Manheim, Ralph (trans); Sendak, Maurice (illus)

Stock photo.

A recently discovered story by the Grimm Brothers tells the tale of a little girl sent into the forest by her mother to escap... read more

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Minor shelf/edge wear, hint of dust staining at top of textblock, very minor sunning at top to boards, owner signature on front pastedown, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows light shelf/edge wear, tiny ink notation below "R" in "Dear", small closed tear at top front corner, minor even soiling, sunning line at rear, else bright and clean. Blue cloth boards, gilt lettering, pink endpages. Oblong 8vo. np. Il... more information

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14)	Work for Artists: What, Where, How? A Symposium McCausland, Elizabeth (ed)
	New York: American Artists Group, 1947. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Minor shelf/edge wear, one corner gently bumped, light glue toning at pastedowns, else tight, bright and unmarred. Red cloth boards, silver gilt lettering and decorative elements. 8vo. 194pp. Essays by W. Baermann, T.H. Benton, F. Caspers, R. Kent, W.S. Mack, Jr., L. Rothschild, M. Varda, L. Ward, et al. It remains an interesting read on the nature of the art market. ... more information Offered by Lux Mentis, Booksellers (Maine, United States) +/-	Price: $35.00

15)	The Book That Jack Wrote Scieszka, Jon; Adel, Daniel (illus)
	New York: Viking, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ bright and clean. Quarterbound, red cloth spine, glossy color paper boards, black ink lettering, marbled endpages. Small 4to. np. Illus. (color plates). A wonderful parody of the famed "The House That Jack Built"...but Jack is now writing a book. Scieszka wrote the Caldecott Honor book "The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales" and "The True Story of the 3 Little P... more information Offered by Lux Mentis, Booksellers (Maine, United States) +/-	Price: $35.00

16)	Woodcuts U.S.A Heller, Helen West
	New York: Oxford University Press/The Merrymount Press, 1947. First Edition. Original Wraps. Light shelf/edge wear, light even toning to wraps, else tight, bright and unmarred. Printed paper wraps, black ink lettering, red ink decorative elements. Oblong 12mo. np (16 full-page plates with paired quotations). Illus. (b/w plates). Introduction by John Taylor Arms. Laid in card of Grant Dahlstrom of The Castle Press. A wonderful collection of cited quotations, each accompanying one of Heller's exceptional... more information Offered by Lux Mentis, Booksellers (Maine, United States) +/-	Price: $35.00

17)	The Silver Surfer Lee, Stan; Kirby, Jack (illus)
	New York: Simon and Schuster/Fireside, 1978. First Edition Thus. Original Wraps. Light shelf/edge wear, soft crease at upper front cover, else tight, bright and unmarred. Color pictorial wraps. 8vo. 114pp. Illus. (color plates). Truly, a visual feast for your unleashed imagination. Behold you now - the Silver Surfer! You'll never see his like again!" (from rear). ... more information Offered by Lux Mentis, Booksellers (Maine, United States) +/-	Price: $35.00

18)	The Kate Greenaway Treasury Viguers, Ruth Hill; Greenaway, Kate (illus)
	New York: World Publishing, 1967. First Edition Thus. Hardcover.. Very minor shelf/edge wear, bookplate on front pastedown, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows light toning/rubbing at spine, two small moisture stain at spine, small closed tear with related creases at top, else bright and clean. Quarterbound, red cloth spine, gilt lettering and decorative elements, color pictorial endpages. Small 4to. 319pp. Illus. (color and b/w plates). Bibliography. Reproductions of many of the author's classic... more information Offered by Lux Mentis, Booksellers (Maine, United States) +/-	Price: $35.00

19)	The Song of Songs Reid, James (illus)
	New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1931. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Minor shelf/edge wear, sunning at spine and edges, hint of ghosting at plate versos, else tight, bright and unmarred. Pale blue cloth boards, black in lettering and decorative elements, pale blue leaves. 8vo. np. Illus. (b/w plates). ... more information Offered by Lux Mentis, Booksellers (Maine, United States) +/-	Price: $45.00

20)	The Way of Wood Engraving: The How To Do It Series Braby, Dorothea
	London: Studio Publications, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor bump at the head, slight bow to the boards, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows light shelf/edge wear, three small tears (repaired with clear tape), else bright and clean. Red cloth boards, black ink lettering, frontispiece. 8vo. 96pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Bibliography. Index. ... more information Offered by Lux Mentis, Booksellers (Maine, United States) +/-	Price: $45.00