And to Think I Saw it on Mulberry Street by Dr. Seuss - 2010

Berne, Basle & Lausanne: J.P. Lamy, 1816 approx (no date given). Hardcover. Good. Hand-coloured aquatints (12) of children by Geofroi Mind engr. by [Ernst] Rauch mounted on printed titled brown art paper all but one with diamond or oval embossed blindstamp L.(Lamy) or JPL.. Oblong quarto red roan with green diamond shaped onlay gilt, titled JEUX D'ENFANTS DE MIND, later red cloth slip case (spine, corners & some parts of rear board repaired with leather & near matching gilt edge tooling) recased with new endpapers & large engraved label of Lamy laid down on older Free EP. Titlepage with stipple engraved vignette of Mind and his cat at work +[2]pp Foreword +[6]pp Life of Mind +12 plates mounted within rules with "Jeu d'Enfants Bernois, Mind del. & Rauch sc." on each and owner of the original picture on most. *This collection of 12 aquatints is the most charming of four published by Lamy and identical to the 3rd MIND-3 in the Helvetic Archives Gugelmann collection. They are: 1) Two boys and sled, no… Read More

Chicago: Reilly & Britton, 1909. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/No Jacket. Black And White Illustrations By John R. Neill. 261 Pp. First Edition, First Printing, Binding "A". Medium Green Cloth, Printed In Dark Green, Orange-Red, And Black, Donkey-Headed Man Printed In Dark Green And Light Yellow-Brown; Publisher's Spine Imprint In Upper And Lower Case Letters; Coarser-Weave Cloth, With Tinting To Edges Of Page Block; Earliest State, With No Typographical Damage To Pages 34, 121 Or 129; Pages Printed On Sheaves Of Color-Tinted Paper. Some Rubbing And Dust To Covers, Tiny Fray To Bottom Of Rear Spine Edge, No Names Or Marks.

Chicago: Reilly & Britton, 1910. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/No Jacket. 9 1/4" Tall. 296 Pp. First Edition, First Printing, Binding A. Dark Blue Cloth, Horizontally Ribbed, Front Cover Paper Illustration With Metallic Silver Background And Metallic Green Ink Embellishments, Spine Stamped In Black With Vignette Embellished In Metallic Silver With Variant Black Shoes And Paw, Reilly & Britton Spine Imprint In Upper And Lower Case, Variant 4 1/2 Cm Tall; 16 Full Color Inserts Embellished With Bright Metallic-Green Ink, No Captions Beneath Illustrations. This Binding Appears To Be A Variant, With Much Heavier Inking To Rabbit On Spine, Including Entirely Black Shoes And Paw, All Other Black Inking On Rabbit Much Heavier And Wider, Publisher's Name Is 4 1/2 Cm Tall Rather Than 4 Cm Tall, "Emerald City" And "Oz" Slightly Larger (Over 10/32" Tall Rather Than Exactly 10/32" Tall) Compared To Usual Imprint; This Variant Not Described In… Read More

Black cloth spine and color pictorial boards in orange, white and black. Orange endpapers decorated with industrial cogs. Small, closed repaired tear on front endpaper. Remarkable copy of an exceedingly rare book. (A facsimile was printed in 2009 and is widely held institutionally.)With 62 pages; text and illustrations in sharp primary colors on facing pages tell the story of a little boy robot who grew up out of pieces of a wrecked steam engine, an old trolley car and a broken automobile. He has constructed himself out of the wreckage of technology: drill, saws, wheel, pliers, chisel, hammers, etc.Higonnet, Margaret, "Modernism and Childhood: Violence and Renovation" in The Comparatist, Volume 33 (May 2009), University of North Carolina Press. discusses the brilliantly experimental design of three Modernist children's books: El Lissitzky, Suprematist Story of Two Squares, l922; Kurt Schwitters, Die Scheuche (The Scarecrow), 1925; and Mary Liddell, Little Machinery, 1926. "(Liddell's) text plays with… Read More

(mm 197x150); pp. (24) covers included. Original chromo-lithographed covers, background in black tones (Petrushka riding in on a book on the front cover, stylized composition on the back). A very nice copy.Only edition, very scarce.Unique eÌ�dition de ce livre de peintre. Ouvrage pour les enfants illustreÌ� par la figure majeure de la reÌ�organisation des arts dans les anneÌ�es postreÌ�volutionnaires. David Shterenberg (1881-1948) eÌ�tudia aÌ€ Odessa, aux Beaux-arts de Paris, puis aÌ€ l'AcadeÌ�mie Vitti, eÌ�leÌ€ve, entre autres, de Van Dongen ; Salon d'automne de 1912, Salon des indeÌ�pendants de 1912 aÌ€ 1917. ApreÌ€s la reÌ�volution, il devint commissaire pour l'art et son influence sera consideÌ�rable dans l'eÌ�volution artistique de son pays. Membre fondateur du Komfut (futurisme communiste) avec Osip Brik et Vladimir Mayakovski, il exposa en compagnie de Kandinsky et Rodchenko, Chagall et Altman, enseigna aux Vkhutemas et sera en charge des expositions russes de Berlin en 1922, Internationale de… Read More

New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1959. Book. Illus. by Reginald Marsh. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Bing Crosby and Kathryn Crosby. Fifth Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover in Very Good condition. Beige boards and green cloth spine with gilt lettering and design on spine. Slight bumping on top and bottom of spine and top corners. Binding tight. Pages clean. 833 pages. Illustrations by Reginald Marsh throughout book. SIGNED on illustrated bookplate printed with "KATHRYN AND BING CROSBY" in blue ink "Kathryn, Bing" . Book is protected by a boxed cover which is in Good condition, some chips and wear on edges and a little chipping on cover. Stated on boxed cover under title "Being those parts of The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers, and The Prairie which specifically pertain to Natty Bumppo, otherwise known as Pathfinder, Deerslayer, or Hawkeye". Noted in book Fifth Edition. A very special edition signed by the greatest singer of the twentieth century, Bing Crosby..

first edition first printing hardcover (The World Publishing Company, 1969); no dust jacket; prior owner title page corner; text has no prior owner marks but some pages have age tone, light soil; binding shaken but no loose pages; glazed illustrated boards worn at corners and spine ends (little fraying); panels have shelf rub (scratches);dust jacket missing SoWll

NY: Blue Ribbon Books, 1933. First edition. Fine. Hardcover/Near fine. Glazed pictorial boards printed in color. Pictorial endpapers in color. Four fabulous and detailed double-page pop-up scenes, plus full and partial page black & white illustrations throughout. The boards are ever so lightly soiled else this is a fine copy with fine pop-ups. The scarce dustwrapper is present; it lightly browned with age else near fine. A nice copy of an early Disney work.

LONDON: WARNE, 1902. 1st Edition 5th Printing. Hardcover. Fine. AUTHOR. The First 2 years of the LONDON Publication of "The TALE of PETER RABBIT" have reference books about the various Printings/evolution of changes. I'm fascinated by it myself. Now, excluding the impossible First Private Printings in Late 1901 & Early 1902 from the realm of possibility for we mere mortals, the First few Original Warne Trade Printings are one of my joys to study - and even more to Find! Most collector's know that the First few Warne Printings (late 1902 - mid 1903) were done with patterned leaf end papers and had 97 pages with all illustrations in Color (Private Printings were B&W). The distinction between the printings was the Board Color. The last of these 4 printings changed "wept" to "shed". NOTE: NONE of These Printings had a COPYRIGHT DATE (on the rear of the Title Page)! Now, here is where it gets interesting!! All References deal with the Change in Format in Late 1903 from 97 pages… Read More

First edition, first impression (Heinemann, 1967). Illustrated by Janet and Anne Grahame-Johnstone. Signed, inscribed and dated by the author in the year of publication on the front blank: 'To Cicely Courtneidge, from Dodie Smith "Dear Octopus", Theatre Royal, Haymarket, 1967'. The inscription refers to Smith's play 'Dear Octopus', which was revived in 1967 for the fiftieth wedding anniversary of the comedy actors Dame Cicely Courtneidge and Jack Hubert. Dodie Smith's married name, 'Mrs Beesley', Dodie Smith's married name is also written in ink in another hand to the front flap of the dust jacket. Additionally a postcard from the author is loosely inserted: 'Dearest Cis, Here is "The Starlight Barking" as a tiny first night present. It's also intended as a get well present to your dear poodle - I trust you'll be able to use Bill's line and say "The dog liked it". Bless you and thank you for your lovable, funny and altogether admirable performance as "Dora". Much love as ever, Dodie". 8vo, publisher's… Read More