Old Mother West Wind: Golden Anniversary Edition by Burgess; Thornton W.; illustrated by Harrison Cady - 1960

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. First edition. Softcover. Uncorrected proof. Pulitzer Prize winning novel from the author of "Goodbye Columbus." A tight very near fine copy in creme colored printed wrappers that are very lightly soiled. The trade edition had a first printing of 100,000 copies and the proof would have been done in a tiny fraction of that.

Engraved and Printed by Edmund Evans, Ltd. London. Noted as given Christmas 1929

Brown leather-like fabric bound cover with gilt embossed lettering, embossed cover detail, and 5 raised bands on spine; gold red and dark brown. This has a lot of shelf wear, front cover edges are rubbed and chipped. The spine has been rubbed and corners bumped. Spine is straight. Binding is tight. Red marbled end sheets and paste downs are clean and bright. Title page and index page have multiple creases and tears but the print is readable. Contents are in very good condition. Thumbed index tabs. Page edges have a lot of dust. All reference pages are clean and not marked

Uk: Macdonald & Jane's, 1979 This Is An Apparent First Of The 12Th In A Series Of 13 Written By Kenneth Bird. "Himself" Is 'A Selfish Irish Dog.' The Series Appears To Be Much Loved But Out Of Print. The 'Ogre' In This Title Is 'A Thing . . . A Steel Dustbin With Arms Reaching Nearly To The Floor.' One Of The Other Series Titles That Appeals To Me Is Himself And The Fake Santas. It Is An Exlibrary Hardcover And Scarce Even As Such. Despite The Many Usual Library Artifacts Present, I Have Rated It Good Plus As It Is Clean And Structurally Sound And The Gilt Titles Are Still Bright. It Looks Like Seven Children Borrowed It Between 1982 And 1991 And There Are Two Stamps, One 'Discard' And One Naming The Elementary School From Whence It Came.

Springfield, Massachusetts: Milton Bradley Compay, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good -. Square 4to, [2], 30pp. Glossy coated paper, printed recto-only. A book designed for teachers with excerpts from popular rhymes and fairy tales with silhouette illustrations "for cuttings made as simply as possible... so that children between six and ten years old may illustrate some of the best stories that they read and tell in school." Cloth backed pictorial paper boards, Very Good- with rubbing and bumping at the corners and spine ends. Mild general soil, but overall clean and bright. Scarce.

Whiteley's Schoolboys' Story Book. William Whiteley Ltd. ND. Circa 1925. Quarto Annual. Illustrated cloth spine on Illustrated paper boards of Bi plane flying over desert. PP211 with 16 full page chromolithograph images. Many line drawings within text. 26 stories an articles written by notable authors as Algernon Blackwood and R A H Good Year. A little shelf wear to edges of boards. All pages are bright and clean, probably unread. A scarce copy of the book sold in the Whiteleys Department store in Bayswater, which was to be taken over by Selfridges in 1927.

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons. Very Good-. [1920]. Hardcover. 159 p. 26 cm. Sound and square with cloth backed spine. Coloured pastedown illustration on upper board. Corners rounded and worn through. Edges worn. Bottom of spine is slightly frayed. Upper board has a couple of small pull marks and stains. Lower board has darkened has has a stain along the bottom front corner. Inside, the endpapers are discoloured, the front free heavily so. The pages have occasional soiling, mostly in the margins, and are slightly age toned. One plate has a closed tear that extends 1" into the illustration and which has been repaired with acid free PVA. Still quite attractive, overall. A collection of stories and poems by such authors as Ethel Talbot and Angela Brazil, with six full colour plates by Scottish illustrator Anne Anderson, and pen and ink illustrations by her and her husband Allan Wright. .

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. paperback. 8.27 x 11.69 inches. paperback. 128 pages. "Spellerberg has become an important new authority on implements designed to do controlled damage to paper. In the process, he's turned what most people thought they knew about these objects, particularly about page turners, on its head." - Ben Marks, Collector's Weekly "The book is illustrated with paper-knives and paper-folders of every design... There are cutters in the form of a stockinged leg, a hammer, a cricket bat, a ruler (with postal information, and an alligator." - J.C, TLS "As its subtitle notes, this is indeed a study, implying thoughtful, balanced and well considered [writing] rather than a mere price guide or pictorial history... You'd never think such a narrow subject (!) could be so deeply explored, but Spellerberg does so in a lively yet scholarly fashion." - William Butts, Manuscripts "Well-researched and eloquently presented... Readers are provided with a dazzling array… Read More

New York: Harry N. Abrams, , 1969. 325 fascinating b/w photographs giving a unique and intimate insight in to the Republican and Democratic conventions of 1968. In publisher's blue/green cloth with gilt, inside its dust jacket. Very good condition dust jacket, with lightly bumped corners (one has a very small closed tear shown in photographs). Book itself is in a fine condition. David Douglas Duncan was an American photojournalist renowned for his photographs of combat situations in the Vietnam War, during which he was an officer in the Marine Corps. His camera of choice was the Nikon F. This was Nikon's first SLR camera, and one of the most advanced cameras of its day. 240 pages. 360 x 285 mm (14¼ x 11¼ inches).

Random House, New York. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. 274 pp Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting. School library, Front board somewhat Loose. Some rubbing on upper corner of spine. The spine remains undamaged. The dust jacket is missing.