Someone in the Room: Strange tales Old and New by Burrage, A.M - 1997

New York: Viking Press, 1979. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fine. Cooney, Barbara. 1st ptg., oblong 8vo picture book, the 1980 Caldecott winner illustrated in naive color by Barbara Cooney. Cloth-backed boards printed with silhouette drawings, fine in near fine, unclipped dj (almost invisible closed tear to top of dj flap), without the Caldecott medal sticker on the dj.

Los Angeles: Sutton House, 1935. 1st ed. Hardcover. Near Fine. Pogany, Willy. No additional printings noted. 4to, full blue cloth stamped in gilt, seven children's stories by various authors, illustrated with seven handsomely drawn color plates, color illustrated endpapers and charcoal drawings on every page by Willy Pogany, many full page. Meets the definition of "profusely illustrated." One of Pogany's scarcer titles. Slight bowing to boards, tips moderately bumped, light wear to front cover, period bookplate to front pastedown.

New York: Scribners, 1929. 1st edition US. Hardcover. Near Fine. Dulac, Edmund. 1st ptg., 4to, full blue cloth, gilt spine titling and blind-stamped rule bordering front board. Illustrated with 12 full color plates printed on the same laid cream cloth as the text, which works well to give the illustrations a softer, warmer feeling that if they were done on glossy paper. 1/2" circular beverage stain (?) to front board, small scuffed mark of label removal to top of ffep, slight water stain at very top of fore-edge. Tips and spine edge wear very lightly touched up in blue by former owner. Still a near fine, bright copy. No previous ownership marks.

New York: Watson Guptill, 1945. 2nd edition. Hardcover. 4to, full brown cloth with color cover plate, introduced by Frank Crowninshield. Ink name and date to front free endpaper, rubbing to board edges. Very good in very good, unclipped dj.

San Francisco: Monarch Editions, 1998. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fine. Merriam, Daniel. 1st ptg., folio, full black cloth. Page after page of Merriam's vivid fantasy paintings, many full-page, some 2 or 3 to a page. Fine in fine, unclipped dj, no previous owner's marks.

Los Angeles: Sutton House, 1935. 1st ed. Hardcover. Near Fine. Pogany, Willy. No additional printings noted. 4to, full blue cloth stamped in gilt, seven children's stories by various authors, illustrated with seven handsomely drawn color plates, color illustrated endpapers and charcoal drawings on every page by Willy Pogany, many full page. Meets the definition of "profusely illustrated." One of Pogany's scarcer titles. Slight bowing to boards, tips moderately bumped, light wear to front cover, period bookplate to front pastedown.

New York: Scribners, 1929. 1st edition US. Hardcover. Near Fine. Dulac, Edmund. 1st ptg., 4to, full blue cloth, gilt spine titling and blind-stamped rule bordering front board. Illustrated with 12 full color plates printed on the same laid cream cloth as the text, which works well to give the illustrations a softer, warmer feeling that if they were done on glossy paper. 1/2" circular beverage stain (?) to front board, small scuffed mark of label removal to top of ffep, slight water stain at very top of fore-edge. Tips and spine edge wear very lightly touched up in blue by former owner. Still a near fine, bright copy. No previous ownership marks.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1925. 1st edition US. Hardcover. Fine. Gaze, Harold. 1st ptg., 8vo, full yellow pictorial cloth stamped in dark red, with lovely silhouette endpapers printed in blue on powder blue paper, eight color plates and scattered full and partial page line drawings by Gaze. Fine in a scarce good to very good jacket. Small St. Paul bookstore sticker to bottom back paste down in price clipped dj with several very small chips, moderate staining to the top of the jacket cover and 1/2"x3" paper loss to the bottom. No previous owner's marks. Ad for The Goblins Glen illustrated by Gaze, on the rear jacket flap. Uncommon in jacket.

New York: Watson Guptill, 1945. 2nd edition. Hardcover. 4to, full brown cloth with color cover plate, introduced by Frank Crowninshield. Ink name and date to front free endpaper, rubbing to board edges. Very good in very good, unclipped dj.

San Francisco: Monarch Editions, 1998. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fine. Merriam, Daniel. 1st ptg., folio, full black cloth. Page after page of Merriam's vivid fantasy paintings, many full-page, some 2 or 3 to a page. Fine in fine, unclipped dj, no previous owner's marks.