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London: Selwyn and Blount Ltd, 1923. limited edition. Hard Cover. vg. octavo . 119pp Paper title label to cover and spine. Color pictorial endpapers. Many full page color illustrations and smaller color decorations by John Austen. This copy is number 139 of 250 SIGNED copies (signed by Austin) Corners and edges show some light rubbing.

London: J. J. Dubochet & Co., 1836. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 volume set. 26 x 16.5 cm. 486, Bound into 3/4 green leather with marble boards and endpapers by Pawson & Nicholson. 5 raised leather bands This set is a unique "extra illustrated" copy with around 100 plates from other editions of the work having been bound-in. The base work illustrated by Jean Gigoux. Extra plates include illustrations from the Thomas Mclean 1819 edition (in color), the London Richard Phillips1807, engravings by G. Vickers and many others not all noted on the plates. Spines are faded to brown and a bit scuffed.

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Good in Fair dust jacket. 24.5 x 18 cm. Octavo. Green cloth in worn dust jacket. Signed by Steig: "To Stanley with love from Bill" on front free endpaper. Stated first edition. Cartoon drawings with captions on opposing pages. Damp staining to front and back cover. Chipping to head and tail of spien of boards. The jacket is in rough shape with the rear flap being detached, tape repair, and some pieces missing.

London/New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons/ David McKay Co., 1920. Hardcover. very good. Large octavo. 25cm x 20cm. Blue cloth. Gilt lettering to cover and spine. Gilt pictorial design to spine. 25cm x 19cm. Twelve full page color plates. Small bump to the back cover.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1909. early reprint. Hardcover. good+. Quarto. 11 1/4" x 8". Green cloth with color pictorial paste-on to front cover. Full page color illustrations by Harrison Fisher with decorations by E.Stetson Crawford. Corners bumped and edges of cloth show some wear.

Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1923. First with Anerson's illustrations. Hardcover. very good+. Quarto. 12"x 9 1/2". 190pp. Gray boards with color pictorial paste-on to front cover.Twelve full page color mounted illustrations by Anne Anderson. Pictorial endpapers. Some very light wear at head and tail of spine. A lovely copy by a fine illustrator.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1917. Hardcover. near fine. Large octavo. Blue cloth with color paste-on to front cover. Eight color tipped in plates by Rene Bull. Spine has been rebacked.

Norwalk, Connecticut: EASTON, 1996. Collector's Edition. Full Leather. ner fine. 23 x 18 cm. 344po. Bound into full black leather, decorated in blue and gilt with gilt lettering and foredges. 3 raised bands to spine, moire endpapers silk ribbon.Text follows that of the 1909 edition with color illustrations by Maxfield Parrish. A few small scratches to gilt foredges.

Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Co, 1928. First edition thus. Hardcover. very good. Quarto. (29cm x 22cm) 308pp. Black cloth with color pictorial paste-on to front cover. Gilt lettering to cover. Gilt lettering is faded at spine. Wear at head of and tail of spine with some edge rubbing. Color pictorial endpapers. 16 full page color illustrations by Virginia Sterrett. First edition of Arabian Night's with Virginia Sterrett's illustrations. This was her last work before she died.

Horace Liveright, 1928. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. very good/very good. Two volume set. Limited to 2000 copies. Black decorated cloth with gilt lettering to covers and spines. With color and black and white illustrations by De Bosschere. Volume one cloth cover has a circular stain The spine of jacket is missing about six inches. In dust jackets with brodart protective wrappers.

Sydney: Art in Australia Limited, 1930. Hardcover. Very Good. 24.5 x 18.5 cm. Octavo. 73pp 39 plates by Norman Lindsay, some color. Bound in stiff boards. Foxing to prelims. Small closed tear to spine.

Lansing, Michigan: Peregrine Books, 1982. Wraps. Very Good. 28 x 21.5 cm. Quarto. Mostly black and white reproductions with some in color. Cover price markered off. Light stain to foredge.

London: George Bell & Sons at Cheswick Press, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. 35 x 24.5 cm. Folio. xiii [1] 148pp. Bound into blue decorative cloth. Extensively illustrated with full page plates including 8 photogravure plates, 16 color plates, 22 reproductions from paintings, 10 wall-paper designs, 14 book illustrations, 11 decorative works and studies as well as many other in-text illustrations. Some minor rubbing to edges of covers. Previous owner's gft inscription on second front endpaper. Bottom corners are bumped. Sections include: "Art and Socialism", "The Making of the Artist", "Art for the Nursery", "Book Illustrations", "Walter Crane the Painter", "Theory and Practice", "Walter Crane the Craftsman", "The Harvest of Honours", "List of Exhibited Pictures", "List of Books illustrated or Written by Crane. Authoratative and well done monograph of Crane.

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. very good. Quarto. Purple cloth. 179pp. Color frontispiece of Arthur Rackham and numerous color tipped-in plates & others in black and white. Lacking dust jacket. Gift inscription on front free endpaper.

Arcade Pub, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. fine/fine. Quarto. 199pp. Numerous illustrations in color and black and white. A fine copy in an equally nice dust jacket. Definitive biography of this English illustrator.

London: William Jackson Books Ltd, 1930. Limited edition. Hardcover. very good. Quarto. 11 1/2" x9 1/2. Blue cloth.Gilt lettering to cover and spine. Fading to spine.113pp. This is copy #58 of 125 copies. Six mounted illustrations and fifteen black & white illustration by John Austen. Foxing to endpapers. Beautiful art deco illustrations by John Austen.

Peter Weed Books, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. near fine/very good. oblong octavo. 6 1/2" x 9". A very nice copy in an edge rubbed dust jacket. Some small tears at edges.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1930. Wraps. very good+. Quarto. 13" x 8 1/2". Stiff pictorial wrappers. 167pp. Tipped in color plates by Ida Outhwaite, John Austen, Arthur Rackham and others.

J.P.Lippincott, 1920. Full Leather. very good. 16mo. (6 1/2" x 4 1/2") 154pp Bound in blue limp leather with gilt lettering to cover and spine.Gilt lettering to cover and spine. 10 color illustrations by Byam Shaw. Edge rubbing at head and tail of spine. Bookplate of previous owner on front end paper.

London: J.M. Dent Ldt, 1922. early reprint. Hardcover. very good. Olive green cloth with gilt lettering and design to cover and spine. 127pp. Pictorial endpapers. 17 tipped in color plates by Charles Robinson. Corners bumped. Some edge rubbing at spine. Beautiful color illustrations.