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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1952. Printed at The Riverside Press. First Edition. Hardcover. Thin quarto. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. 122 pages. Very Good+. Lacking dust jacket. Illustrated by Lisl Weil. Yellow cloth on board. Green lettering and illustration on front board, with green lettering on spine. Binding tight and square. Case very lightly soiled with bottom edges of both lower tips rubbed through (no bumping). Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, else clean and unmarked throughout. Some pages age toned. Upper corners dog-eared on pages 87/88 and 89/90. This extremely rare children's book, printed at The Riverside Press, was written by renowned American historian Henry Steele Commager, who helped define modern liberalism in the United States with 40 books and 700 essays and reviews, and illustrated by Lisl Weil, an Austrian-American graphic artist associated with the Zinkenbacher Malerkolonie.

New York: Random House, 1960. First Edition thus, First Printing. Hardcover. Thin octavo. 9.25 x 7.5 inches. 62 pp. Very Good+ / Good. Translated by Doris Orgel. Pictures by Maurice Sendak. Preface by Phyllis McGinley. Unclipped dust jacket. Cloth-backed pictorial boards. Spine lettering stamped in black and white. Top edge dyed red. Illustrated endpapers. Profusely illustrated in black, white, and olive in text and plates by Sendak. Conforms to all points in Hanrahan A38. Binding solid, tight, and square. Black and white stamped board illustrations bright and sharp. Tips sharp. Light shelf wear at head and tail of spine. Cloth back strip and text block edges slightly age toned. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Else, internally clean and unmarked throughout. Dust jacket rubbed, edge worn, torn and taped with some loss (see photos). Dust jacket now in protective archival sleeve.

New Milford, CT: Angros Publishers, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Thick quarto. 11.25 x 8.75 inches. Fine / Fine. 1732 pp. Turquoise leatherette on board with gold lettering on front board and spine. Signatured, stitched, and glued. Original unclipped dust jacket showing price of $129.95. Profusely illustrated with photos and drawings by the author. Dust jacket now in archival protective sleeve.Learn a bit about this book on YouTube. "Geraldine Rosato - Encyclopedia of the Modern Elongated by Angelo A. Rosato" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ipbb6gn6sI&ab_channel=ZachEdick

New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc. 1942. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. Thin quarto. 10 x 9 inches. 37 pp (unpaginated). Near Fine / Very Good. Unclipped dust jacket. Publisher's cloth-backed illustrated boards. Illustrated end papers. Illustrated by author. Boards clean and unmarked. Tips lightly rubbed and bumped. Text block edges slightly age toned. Interior clean and unmarked throughout. Dust jacket shows light soiling and moderate edgewear, with minor chipping at tips. Dust jacket now in protective archival sleeve.

New York, NY, USA.: DC Comics Inc., 1979, 1980. First collected comics edition thus. Paperback. 16mo (6 ½ x 4 ¾ inches). Complete set of issues Nos. 1-3 – Jonah Hex and Other Western Tales (DC Blue Ribbon Digest). All age toned, else Near Fine in illustrated wrappers. 100 pp each, including covers. Cover art by Luis Dominguez. Interior art by; Neal Adams, Alex Toth, Sergio Aragones, Gil Kane, Doug Wildey. Digest series reprinting 9 of the earliest 1970's classic color comic book stories of Jonah Hex. Issue No. 1 (Sept/Oct, 1979) includes The Hundred Dollar Deal, The Point Pyrrhus Massacre, The Point Pyrrhus Aftermath. Issue No. 2 (Nov/Dec, 1979) includes Blood Brothers, Grasshopper Courage, and Promise to a Princess . #Issue No. 3 (Jan/Feb, 1980) includes Hangin' Woman, Face Off with the Galagher Boys, and Killers Die Alone. Non-Jonah Hex stories include El Diablo, Scalphunter, Billy the Kid, and Outlaw. Now in archival protective sleeve.

New York: Rand McNally, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Thin octavo. 9.25 x 7 inches. 102 pages. Very Good+ / Good. Illustrated by the author. Tan cloth on board. Front board stamped in blue with pictorial pastedown. Spine stamped in blue. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated in color throughout. Binding tight. Boards clean, tips sharp. Pages age toned. Previous owner's bookplate and some smudging on half title, else internally clean and unmarked. Dust jacket rubbed, edge worn, torn with some loss (see photos). Dust jacket now in protective archival sleeve. Scarce in dustjacket.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948. Little Golden Book. "D" Printing. Hardcover. Small octavo. 8 x 6.75 inches. Unpaginated. Very Good+. No dust jacket as issued. Pictorial paper on boards. Rear cover shows price of 25 Cents and listing of The Little Golden Book Library, with Johnny Appleseed, D11, as last book in the series. Gutter code D on last page. Told and illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones. Clean, unmarked covers with light rubbing and edge wear. Previous owner's name ("DICKIE") appropriately penciled in "This book belongs to" field inside front board. Pages clean, lightly age toned, and free of markings.

New York: DC Comics, 1998. First Edition thus, First Printing. Hardcover. Quarto. 10.5 x 7 inches. 240 pp. Fine / Fine. First volume in the Wonder Woman Archives series of the hardcover DC Archive Editions. Reprints of classic Golden Age of Comics stories of Wonder Woman from issues of All-Star Comics, Sensation Comics, and Wonder Woman. All covers by H.G. Peter. Foreword by Judy Collins. Textured red leatherette on board, with gold stamping. Dust jacket now in protective archival cover.