TROLLKARLENS HATT (Finn Family Moomintroll) - Signed by Jansson, Tove - 1957

Borzoi Books/ Alfred A. Knopf NY, 2004. HBDJ, 2004, Stated First Edition, 1st Printing, Dates Match on Title & Copyright page, BRAND NEW, UNREAD! CONDITION: Near Mint, The dust jacket is in very fine/new condition, showing no shelf wear, not price-clipped. blue embossed Cloth with Gold Gilt Titles on Spine, The book is in very fine/new condition, very tightly bound. No writing or markings inside the book other than the autograph. No remainder. No pages are missing or bent. Not ex-library, 959 pgs, + Index. the 42nd president of the United States reveals, for the first time and in his own words, how he sees his life and career. MY LIFE is a 900+-page work that is ambitious in scope, yet very conversational in tone. Clinton speaks fondly of his early years in Hope, Arkansas, . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

London: Geoffrey Bles, 1956. Bound in the publishers original blue boards with silver title lettering to spine. This is the second impression of the first edition. A notoriously elusive Narnia title to encounter in the first or early impressions. All pages are present and correct. Book sits solid and square with all corners sharp. Housed in the beautiful Pauline Baynes dustwrapper with the illustrators exquisite silver chair to the front panel. Light wear and signs of handling otherwise a most presentable example of the dustwrapper. Protected in a removable archival booksleeve to preserve its condition. A jolly nice copy !. First Edition. Very Good +/Very Good +. Illus. by Pauline Baynes. FIRST EDITION.

Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications, 1990. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. SIGNED. 151 pages. Softcover. SIGNED ON HALF TITLE PAGE BY THE 14TH DALAI LAMA IN OCTOBER OF 2012 AT MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE. Light wear. Clean, tight copy. Record # 612428

NY: Charles Scribners Sons, 1955. Signed hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Charles Scribners Sons, 1955. 8vo., xi+306pp. Gray cloth with gilt titles and designs. Inscribed by Niebuhr on the half title: "to Susan & Bob on their wedding day, Best wishes, Reinhold Niebuhr". Some rubbing to the gilt titles, offsetting from NY Times Book Review clipping on Niebuhr laid in, else very good, clean, bright in very good dust jacket with a small chip off the rear panel and wear at the extremities. . Signed by Author. Hard. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: Richard Bentley, 1836. Signed first edition. 2 volumes finely bound in crimson 3/4 morocco by Stikeman with raised bands and gilt titles. Power's autograph signature bound in. Published London: Richard Bentley, 1836. Large 8vo., 6" x 9", xv+440pp.; vi+408pp., with half titles and frontispieces etched by Hervieu present. Marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt. Name plate of noted collector Benjamin DeForest Curtiss on front pastedown of each volume. Power was a well known Irish comedian, actor and author. He toured the Eastern U.S. extensively and was lost at sea returning home from his last tour of 1841. He was great-grandfather of the Hollywood actor of the same name. Pages clean and bright white, page block crisp. Minor rub/scuff at extremities. A fine set in an elegant binding.. Signed. 1st. Hard. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo.

O.H. Oldroyd. . 1901. Cloth, octavo, xviii and 305 pp. Foldout map attached at rear, in good shape. This edition was limited to 250 copies . This is recorded as 175. 305 pages. Illustrated with photos. Cardstock engraved plate of Lincoln and fold-out map are present. . Limited 1st Edition. 1901. Osborn Oldroyd (1842-1930) was one of the great collectors and early researchers on Lincoln and lived in Lincoln's Springfield home for several years in the 1880s. He accumulated thousands of items related to the president, many of which are at the Ford's Theater Lincoln Museum today. As part of this account Oldroyd describes personally retracing the route of John Wilkes Booth's flight, with a folding map of the route laid in. 82 illustrations including photographs from Oldroyd's collections, with an introduction by Thomas Maley Harris, a Union general who was on the commission to try the Lincoln conspirators and also authored books on the assassination. Signed by Author .

Edinburgh, 1870. Two beautiful watercolours of pixies playing together. Watercolour over pencil heightened with body white. Glaze and mounted under later gold passe partout with gilt frame Images and frames are in excellent condition. images size 115 mm x 70 mm Frame size 245 x 200 mm (9¾ x 7¾ inches). Born in 1838 in Dunfermline, Scotland, he moved to Edinburgh, beginning to exhibit works at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1857, and then to London. Though he worked variously as a painter, sculptor and stained glass designer, John Lawson is best remembered as an illustrator of books and periodicals. His early work relates to those by his fellow Scotsman, Joseph Noel Paton, who is likely to have been a close friend. However, his later colour plates reveal his ability to adapt to a new market for popular children's books and annuals, and so work alongside his eldest daughter, Lizzie Mack. His known contributions include: Stories Told to a Child by the author of 'Studies for Stories' (illus. with… Read More

NY: Whittlesey House, 1950. First edition. Blue cloth. Good. Worn at extremities; spine ends lightly frayed, mild bump to text block. INSCRIBED TO GENERAL A.C. WEDEMEYER: " To: General A.C. Wedemeyer, USA. A colleague during the war years and an outstanding General officer of the army where the standard is of superlative quality--with affectionate regards. William D. Leahy, Fleet Admiral. June 1950." With Wedemeyer's bookplate.

Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1954. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in VG dw. 8vo, [x]+118pp (plus plates), blue cloth with spine stamped in silver, printed dustwrapper. INSCRIBED by the author (founder of the John Birch Society) in early 1955 on the front free endpaper. Endpaper also has the ownership stamp of Myers G. Lowman, executive secretary of the anti-Communist Methodist group Circuit Riders, Incorporated. No other markings. A clean copy with typical toning of the acidic text stock used; jacket has publisher's clipping of corner and price stamp and a bit of toning and wear (including a small closed tear, but nice overall).

1939 DISNEY 1ed Books Mickey Mouse Donald Duck Pinocchio Dumbo 8v Heath

"That's the real trouble with the world. Too many people grow up."
– Walt Disney

Mickey Mouse has long been one of the world's most iconic and recognized cartoon characters. From the imagination of Walt Disney, Mickey and Minnie Mouse have captured the attention and hearts of both children and adults for nearly a century.

This lot of Disney books includes some of the most famous characters Mickey and Donald Duck!

Item number: #23502
Price: $599

Title: Pinocchio
Published: Boston: D.C. Heath and Co., 1940.

Title: Water Babies' Circus
Published: Boston: D.C. Heath and Co., 1940.

Title: Mickey Never Fails
Published: Boston: D.C. Heath and Co., 1939.

Title: School Days in Disneyville
Published: Boston: D.C. Heath and Co., 1939.

Title: Here They Are
Published: Boston: D.C. Heath and Co., 1940.

Title: Donald Duck and His Nephews
Published: Boston: D.C. Heath and Co., 1940.

Title: Little Pig's Picnic
Published: Boston:… Read More