Rare books from Moneyblows Books & Music

Duenewald Printing Corporation, 1949 Pictorial hard covers with red comb binding. The covers are edgeworn with a few nicks, name written in "This Book Belongs To" space inside front cover. The animations are in good working order. Pages are clean and unmarked. Beautiful illustrations!

Chicago: Marshall Field & Co. 1930s. 7 1/2" square booklet, with four full-page color illustrations, and b&w line drawings illustrating nursery rhymes. Two handkerchiefs - same design, in different color schemes, attached. Edgewear, some foxing and staining to pages.

NYC: Harcourt Brace & World, 1961 Turquoise cloth covers, 248 pp. Dust jacket is price-clipped with minimal edgewear - now in mylar protective cover.

Springfield, MA: McLoughlin Bros., 1942 Spine is worn, some wear to corners, pop-ups are in excellent condition. Pop-ups of Washington, D.C., U.S. Naval Academy, West Point, camping in the mountains, The Grand Canyon, at the seashore.

NYC: Random House, 2001 First printing (with 24689753 number line) in first state dust jacket -- author blurbs are in correct order: Ambrose, Nack, Beyer, Rosenbaum, $24.95 price, with no mention of the audio version or being a NY Times bestseller. The incredible story of the little horse who could, basis for the movie with Jeff Bridges. 399 pp, indexed. B&W photographs. Minimal edgewear, slight rubbing to dust jacket - now in protective mylar.

Johannesburg, South Africa: SPRO-CAS/RAVAN, 1973 Rare first printing -- includes the censored text excerpts by the poet Mandlenkosi Langa (pgs. 54, 60), which was subsequently blacked out in later printings. Slight browning to glossy pictorial wraps.

Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1905 Half red leather over marbled boards, spine is lavishly decorated in gilt, raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Frontis illustration with tissue guard. Pages are gilt-edged on top, rough cut on sides. Illustrated throughout. Slight edgewear at top spine and corners. Published October 1905 on copyright page. A handsome copy.

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908 Limited edition of 750 copies, this is #261. Books have been rebound in half-leather with gilt on spine, marbled endpapers. Frontis illustrations, red ribbon bookmarks, pages are deckle-edged -- some still uncut. Edgewear varies from volume to volume; two volumes (shown in photo) have damage at bottom spine. Overall, a handsome set. 25 volumes, extra postage required.

London: Ernest Nister, 1900 Nister Edition No. 5022. No date, c.1891-1900. Pictorial blue boards, with red spine. B/W line illustration and four decorative color plates, with revolving illustrations. No illustrator credited, but several of the line drawings are signed E.R., P.B.H. Four poems: Round We Go, Bubbles, The Circus, Hurry Up! -- each with a color revolving illustation, consisting of discs with cut-ours that allow the pictures to change colors when turned by hand. White eggs become multi-colored, acrobats' clothes hange, even children turn from brown to white. A final poem, E'envoi, urges children to put the book away "Right up on the shelf, in the proper way, For the dear little elf would come no more If he saw his book on the nurs'ry floor." Slight browning to pages, rubbing to covers. The revolving photos have slight edgewear, one has a very small tear at inside edge. The colors are bright. A charming book

NY: Dial Press, 1928 Lincoln Mac Veagh/Dial Press. Dust jacket is edgeworn with small tears at top spine and tears along lower spine -- now in protective cover. Brown/black Politzer illustration has good color. Jacket has $2.00 price, page ends are browned.

London: Pye Golden Guinea Records, 1960 Record sleeve is signed by Ray Harryhausen on front. VG+/VG+ LP Vinyl Record. Score by Bernard Herrman. Harryhausen is credited with the visual effects.

Viking, 1949 Signed by Arthur Miller. Slight edgewear, soiling to orange hard covers, spine is faded. Previous owner bookplate inside front cover, previous owner name and 1949 date on first endpaper. Small ink blotches in margin on page 45. Endpaper shows the set design by Jo Mielziner.

Harper & Brothers, 1871. Brown covers with gilt. Illustrated with 25 engravings, including frontis and map on title page. Edgewear, spine is faded, corner torn off first endpaper, previous owner name on title page. Some of the signature threads have come loose, but binding is still intact. 314 pages, plus publisher's ads.

Zurich: JRP / Ringier, 2006 Text in English, German, French. Introduction and notes by by François Rappo. "Publication within the context of the research project 'Corporate Typeface,' with the financial support of the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO)". Plastic covered boards.

D. Appleton and Company, 1867 Reddish-brown cloth with gilt illustration on cover. Ex-library -- two stamp markings, Covers are edgeworn, spine is sunned. Evidence of some water damage affecting page edges and some pages along the spine. 21 illustrations, plus frontis with tissue guard and small illustration on the title page. Includes fold-out map, which shows foxing..501 pages.