1913. Akron, OH: Saalfield Publishing Co., 1913. Slim small 4to., [10] pp., four full page color illustrations and illustrated cover title, illustrations also in text. Pictorial wrappers, stab-sewn. Some tears and chipping to edges; good copy. § Number 114. Early printing of the same edition which would have been... More about Our Darling’s ABC
1897. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1897. 8vo., [iv], 217 pp., title-page printed in red and black within a double-ruled border, with a hedera. Original pictorial light-blue cloth with lettering in gilt, and backstrip with lettering in gilt. Boards a bit rubbed around the edge, faint foxing to outer... More about The Children of the Sea: A Tale of the Forecastle
1996. New York: Orchard Books, 1996. 4to., [32] pp., blind-stamped purple boards, pictorial dust-jacket. Very bright, clean copy, unclipped. Inscribed by the illustrator, “Especially for Peggy and Kevin. I hope you enjoy Books until ‘chickens grow teeth...’, 1998.” § A cafe keeper in a small French village cannot escape... More about When Chickens Grow Teeth. From the French of Guy de Maupassant
1871. Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1871. 8vo. 152 pp. Publisher’s green beveled cloth in red cloth slipcase. Gift inscription in pencil on first blank. With advertisement for Luck of Roaring Camp in front. With minor wear to headcap and tail, otherwise a very good copy. § First edition, first... More about Poems
1929. Paris: Hachette, n.d. [c. 1929]. Folio, 72 pp., full color chromolithograph illustrations with a few lines of text printed on every page. Grey green-printed paper covered boards, backed in green cloth, with an illustrated color label on the upper board, decorative endpapers. Hinges a bit stressed, corners and edges... More about Fables de La Fontaine
1998. London: Walker Books, 1998. 4to., [32] pp., color illustrations on every page, decorative endpapers. Pictorial laminated boards, lacking dust jacket; very good. Gift inscription in ink on title page. § A children’s book by Newbery Honor winning author Kathryn Lasky, with a gift inscription by the illustrator. A story... More about Sophie and Rose. Illustrated by Wendy Alderson Halperin
1912. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1912. 4to., 24 leaves, the recto of each printed with an illustration in color and the text in verso. Blue cloth boards with a color print pasted on upper board. Blank book-label affixed to the upper paste-down, minor foxing around margins, a bright copy... More about The Rocket Book
1931. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1931. 8vo., [x], [1]-122 pp., title-page printed in red and black. Original red cloth with lettering in silver to backstrip, top-edge red, original silver, black , and red dust-jacket. Dust-jacket is only partially intact with some of the upper and lower cover torn away. Inscribed... More about The Long Christmas Dinner and Other Plays in One Act
1906. London: Methuen & Co., n. d. [1906] 4to., 24 leaves, illustrations printed on rectos only, pictorial paper boards with red cloth backstrip. Corners slightly chipped, boards shows minor shelf wear, internally bright with minor foxing around margins; very good. § First edition of this scarce title. In this parody... More about Petrol Peter. Illustrated by A. Wallis Mills
