'Building the house for Maimie' [page 104] Art Nouveau Original Vintage Print by Arthur Rackham from Peter Pan in Kensington Gasrdens
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1906. Arthur Rackham. No Binding.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1906. Arthur Rackham. No Binding.
This photo postcard from 1973 depicts four men, dressed in 1920s-style attire, relieving themselves along a wall in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico. Produced as a humor or novelty postcard, it reflects a playful approach to visual comedy aimed at tourists and collectors. While the card references Mazatlán, the primary focus is the.....
New York: Ballantine Books, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. An extraordinary novel about the fate of men and women no longer in step with the rhythms of the modern world, marching back into Southern history to make things right, Last of the Dixie.....
Boston: Page Co.;, 1914. Illustrations by Walter S. Rogers. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. The Young Pioneer Series #4. First Edition, First Printing.Ref: Mattson, 330.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1902. Humorous tales of male-female relationships in the late 19th-century illustrated with numerous drawings.Background Information:George Ade, an influential American writer, syndicated newspaper columnist, and playwright, rose to prominence during the early 20th century. He achieved widespread recognition with his column "Stories of the Streets and of.....
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1880. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE ---William Harrison Ainsworth was a key figure in the mid-Victorian literary scene, often outselling his contemporary Charles Dickens in the 1840s. The Star-Chamber reflects the Victorian fascination with the darker corners of British legal history, specifically the period when the monarch attempted.....
New York: George Braziller, 1970. Hardcover in an Illustrated Slipcover. The Book of Hours of Engelbert of Nassau, housed in the Bodleian Library at Oxford as MSS. Douce 219–220, is a splendid example of a book of hours following the Dominican Rite. Crafted in Ghent during the late 1470s or.....
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1938. 2nd Edition. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. A historical novel of the US Civil War set along the border territory of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania set in 1864 and deals with the effects on the people of the Shenandoah valley and.....
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1938. Dust Jacket painting by Andrew Wyeth. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Good Dust Jacket. Toward the Morning tells of Salathiel Albine's progress down the bright Pennsylvania trail from Bedford Village toward the city which to him means civilization and the life.....
New York: Venture Press Book/Simon and Schuster, 1947. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Interesting period historical fiction novel regarding race in the south involving the rape of a black woman.
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1977. llustrated With Woodcuts by Raoul Dufy. When originally published in 1911, Le Bestiaire marked a turning point in the history of the illustrated book. It was Raoul Dufy’s first major engagement with wood engraving, a medium he revitalized with his bold, physical style.....
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1954. Illustrated by Leo Hershfield. Third Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. This delightful collection showcases the author's wit and whimsy through a diverse array of poetic forms. Armour's poetry spans topics ranging from the mundane to the profound, each poem crafted with a keen sense.....
London: Willian Heinemann, London, 1907, 1907. Arthur Rackham. Background Information: Arthur Rackham is widely regarded as one of the leading illustrators from the 'Golden Age' of British book illustration which encompassed the years from 1900 until the start of the First World War. During that period, there was a strong.....
New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. This collection includes over two hundred poems, most of them never published before, concluding with the contents of Auden's privately printed volume, Poems (1928). The poems are generously annotated with information on Auden's education, reading, literary.....
Crown, 2002. Book Club Edition. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. "Auel may be creating one of the most believable characters in English fiction-one to rank with Sherlock Holmes, Scarlett O'Hara and a handful of others." -UPI.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. Illustrations by Peter Newell. A Very Good Hardcover. An important early American parody of Sherlock Holmes and the first printed in the USA. The author dedicated the book to A. Conan Doyle.Ref: Bleiler, 39.
Rochester: The Boydell Press, 2004. A Fine Soft cover. The tales drawn together in this book, from a wide range of medieval sources, span the centuries from the dawn of Christianity to the age of the Plantagenets.
London: Warne, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. The story follows a typical day in Fairyopolis, from sunrise to sunset!Each scene contains a paper- engineered viewer revealing a magical 3-D scene of Flower Fairies going about their daily life!Each set in a different natural environment with distinctive color schemes. Children.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. Illustrated by A. J. Keller. First Edition, First Printing. A manuscript penned by John Hurdiss of Stonington, Connecticut, and found in an old desk of a shipping office is the basis for this 'autobiographical' story.James Barnes (1866–1936) was an American author. From 1918 until.....
New York: Putnam Pub Group, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. District park ranger Anna Pigeon is forced to reexamine her "spiritual connection" to God's creatures when she works on a project that has her hanging out bloody lures to attract grizzly bears in Glacier National Park.....
Chicago, Consolidated Book Publishers, 1945. Cover Art Sue Simmons. First Edition, First Printing. Stories, poems and cartoons in color including Mr. Mergenthwirker's Lobblies by Nelson S. Bond, My Friend Merton by Julius Fast and Our Nasty Ghosts by Robert Benchley.
Chicago, Consolidated Book Publishers, 1945. Cover Art and Illustrations Sue Simmons and others. First Edition, First Printing. Featuring James Thruber, Clarence Day, Ellis Parker Butler, Owen Johnson, O. Henry, E. B. White and Other Famous Humorists.Subjects: Humor; Cartoons, Anthology.
New York: David R Godine Publisher, 1982. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Howard’s translation, still regarded as one of the finest English renderings of Baudelaire, mirrors the musicality and irony of the original Les Fleurs du Mal. The accompanying correspondence provides a vivid link between translator and.....
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1903. First Edition, thus. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE --L. Frank Baum is synonymous with American fantasy, but 'The Magical Monarch of Mo' holds a unique place as his first attempt at a cohesive fairy-tale world, predating the publication of 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.' When the original 1900.....
New York: Del Rey, 1999. First Edition, Fourth Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Hugo Award Nominee. All the best thrillers contain the solution to a mystery, and the mystery in this intellectually sparkling scientific thriller is more crucial and stranger than most. Greg Bear has spent much.....