Fun and Frolic
by Wain, Louis (illustrator)
Springfield [Massachusetts]: McLoughlin Bros., Inc, 1920. First American edition. Original quarter brown cloth over color pictorial glazed boards (plain tan rear board). Corners and board edges a little worn, inner hinges cracked. Quarto (10 x 8 inches; 256 x 205 mm.). 252 unnumbered pages (256 including covers and inside covers). Title -page illustrated by Louis Wain and eight other illustrations by Louis Wain including one double-page full color, two other color illustrations and five others either tinted or black... Read More
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Father Tuck's Post Card Painting Book
by Wain, Louis
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1903. First edition. Artistic Series No. 2530. Pictorial glossy wrappers in full color. Complete with all post cards present and uncolored; thus scarce. Unusually clean, and with just a tiny chip to lower right corner of front wrapper and a crossed out ink inscription dated 1904 on inside front wrapper. Quarto (10 1/2 x 8 in; 266 x 202 mm). Sixteen leaves (including inside covers) comprised of eight leaves with four full color, gum... Read More
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The Kings and the Cats. Munster Fairy Tales for Young & Old
by Wain, Louis (illustrator); John Hannon
London: Burns & Oates, Ltd, 1908. First edition. Publishers red cloth, front cover ruled and lettered in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, plain endpapers. Spine ends a little worn, slight staining to upper cover . Quarto (9 7/16 x 6 3/4 inches; 240 x 171 mm.). Collating xiv, 78. Including monotone frontispiece and ten full- page monotone plates. Light marginal foxing, otherwise an excellent copy of this extremely unusual Louis Wain title. This is a fascinating little book... Read More
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Animal Happyland
by Wain, Louis (illustrator); A.W. Ridler
London: James Clarke & Co, 1913. First edition. Publishers glazed color pictorial boards, front cover with a fine full-color drawing by Harry B. Nielsen. Lower cover with advertisements, spine lettered in black. Some light wear to extremities, otherwise Near Fine. Small quarto (9 5/16 x 7 11/16 inches; 237 x 195 mm.). Sixty unnumbered pages. Title-page illustration by Louis Wain, and fourteen full-page monotone plates alternately printed in green, brown, blue and purple, of which five are by Louis... Read More
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To Nursery Land with Louis Wain
by Wain, Louis
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1909. Second edition. Second, enlarged edition, the companion to the Tuck book of the same title issued in the same year. Publisher's red cloth backed color pictorial boards. Large quarto (10 1/4 x 7 3/8 in; 262 x 190 mm). Collating 48, [1, adv.], [1 , blank]. Full-color frontispiece (Tommy on his Travels). Text on every page. Sixteen pages printed in two colors (green and black, red and black, orange and black). Neat gift... Read More
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Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection
by Wallace, Alfred Russel
London: Macmillan and Co, 1870. First edition. Very Good. Octavo (leaves measuring 185 x 120 mm), collating complete. xvi, 384, 43 [publisher's catalogue]. Publisher's green cloth with spine titled in gilt. Spine a bit darkened, with some bubbling to cloth. Dustsoiling to top edge of text block, not affecting margins within. Brick red coated endpapers. Faint early ink ownership signature to upper pastedown and corresponding pencil ownership signature to margin of title-page. Inner hinges cracking, but holding firm... Read More
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Violette of Père Lachaise (Presentation copy)
by Walling, Anna Strunsky
New York: Frederick A. Stokes and Company, 1915. First edition. Near Fine. Inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf: "Paula Woitke, From her friend Anna Strunsky Walling - New London, June 22, 1917." Publisher's burgundy cloth titled in gilt with violet design. [10], 3-198 pp. Exceptionally bright and fresh aside from some fading to spine. Some cracking to lower gutter at tail edge. Without the rare dust jacket. A Near Fine copy of an attractively designed and... Read More
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![The Complete Angler or The Contemplative Man's Recreation. [with] Instructions How to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a Clear Stream](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/983/612/1621612983.0.l.jpg)
The Complete Angler or The Contemplative Man's Recreation. [with] Instructions How to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a Clear Stream
by Walton, Izaak and Charles Cotton
London: William Pickering, 1836. First thus. Very Good +. First Nicolas edition (true first published in 1653). Two large octavo volumes finely bound by Macdonald in half green crushed morocco over green cloth boards. Spines with five raised bands, gilt titles and decorations in the spine compartments. All edges marbled, but plain end papers. Collating [16], ccxii, [6], 129, [1, blank]; [4], 131-436, [32]: complete, including frontis and 14 plates. Vignette illustrations throughout. Previous owner's gift inscription, dated... Read More
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The History of English Poetry from the Close of the Eleventh to the Commencement of the Eighteenth Century
by Warton, Thomas (Richard Price, editor)
London: Printed for Thomas Tegg, 1824. Second edition. Four octavo volumes in the publisher's blue-grey paper-covered boards with cloth spines and paper spine labels. Complete with the engraved frontis of Thomas Warton. Staining along spine edge indicates some type of repair to the spine, but no cloth added, not rebacked, recased or otherwise muddled by restoration. Paper worn from board edges and spine cloth chipped at extremities, but internal contents are generally attractive. Warton's work on English Poetry, originally... Read More
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The Life of George Washington (in 5 vols.)
by [Washington, George]; John Marshall
London: Richard Phillips, 1807. First London edition. Near Fine. (In octavo). Overall a near fine and much cleaner set than is usually found with the folding plates and maps in excellent and undamaged state. Five octavo volumes (8 3/16 x 5 1/8 inches; 208 x 131 mm.). xxxvi, 579, [1], 2 folding maps; folding engraved frontispiece; viii, 245, 254-633, [3]; folding engraved frontispiece; viii, 570, folding engraved frontispiece and engraving on last page; viii, 684; viii, 843, [5],... Read More
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Get Off the Steps: Woman Suffrage Takes Precedence
by [Women's Suffrage] The Wasp
[San Francisco, CA], 1894. First edition. Near Fine. Large chromolithograph centerfold from the California magazine The Wasp. Measuring 513 x 339mm and in excellent condition, retaining its bright colors with only the slightest bit of foxing and toning to the margins. Focused on social and political satire, the influential Western publication weighed in on what they viewed as the shifting tides of the national women's suffrage movement. Scarce institutionally, with only a few libraries reporting full runs that... Read More
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Mathematics notebook of a 16 year old girl being educated in the 19th century
by [Women's Education] Caroline D. Waters
[Great Britain], 1850. Comprised of 88 manuscript pages of mathematical definitions, tables, methods, and exercises in a single hand, with the ownership signature of "Caroline Waters Age 16 yrs" to the front endpaper. Marbled paper vernacular binding, measuring 8 x 12 inches and stitched at spine. Caroline's metric measurements and English currency reveal her to be a student somewhere in the UK. Though the commonness of her name and the absence of a specific date prevents us from locating... Read More
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Journal of a Voyage, in 1811 and 1812, to Madras and China; returning by the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena; in the H. C. S. The Hope, Capt. James Pendergrass
by Wathen, James
London: J. Nichols, Son, and Bentley, 1814. First edition. Original publisher's boards, paper title label to spine, quarto. 24 uncolored aquatint plates by Clark after the author's own sketches (usually colored), many leaves uncut, bookplate of St. Augustine College to front pastedown and verso of title, early ink ownership of one C. J. Elliot to front pastedown. Joints cracked with sewing visible (however holding firm), a few gatherings a little roughly opened, occasional offsetting and foxing (heavier to a... Read More
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Picture Pages for Little Folks of All Ages
by Weatherly, Fred E. and Clifton Bingham. Louis Wain (illustrator)
London/New York: Ernest Nister/E.P. Dutton, 1894. First edition. Quarter blue cloth over chromolithographed pictorial glazed boards. Neat gift inscription dated 1895. A stunning copy with only the slightest hint of wear at corners. Chromolithograph and black and white illustrations throughout. Printed in Bavaria. Ernest Nister (1842-1909) "produced more than five hundred mostly undated illustrated books for children, but from the 1890s the firm's production was almost exclusively toy or movable books and Nister introduced many new mechanical techniques...... Read More
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A Voyage Towards the South Pole, Performed in the Years 1822-24. Containing an Examination of the Antarctic Sea..
by Weddell, James
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825. First edition. Very Good. Octavo. iv, [errata slip], 276 pp. Complete with hand-colored frontispiece, seven folding maps, and seven other plates. Contemporary calf, rebacked to style. Inner hinges cracked but holding. Twentieth-century bookplate to upper pastedown. Some foxing and offsetting from plates. One map with paper repair to verso. A Very Good copy. A cornerstone of any Polar collection, and the starting point for exploration to... Read More
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The Invisible Man
by Wells, H.G.
London: C. Arthur Pearson Limited, 1897. First edition. About Fine. Original red publisher's cloth binding with gilt titles to spine and front board; black illustration to front board. The front inner hinge has been repaired, but otherwise the copy is in exceptional condition. A book that is often plagued with condition issues from faded cloth to brittle paper. This is a superior copy: bright, clean and unfaded, about Fine. H.G. Wells connects science with philosophy in this... Read More
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Mr. Britling Sees It Through
by Wells, H. G.
London: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1916. First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. A Fine copy of the book, extremely clean and bright on account of the original dust jacket. Dust jacket Near Fine with only trivial signs of use and age. A work from Wells' middle career period, when his novels became "discussions of social or political themes that showed little concern for the novel as a literary form...Mr. Britling Sees it Through, though touched by the prejudice and... Read More
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Acrobats in a Park (Signed limited edition)
by Welty, Eudora
Northridge: Lord John Press, 1980. First thus. Fine. Presentation copy, outside of the three hundred numbered and signed copies and the hundred deluxe editions, signed by the author on the limitation page. A Fine copy bound in green cloth boards, with embossed design of acrobats on front board and right marbled endpapers. Interior as new. One of Welty's first short stories written around 1935 (although not seen in print until its 1977 publication in Delta magazine),... Read More
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In Black and White: Photographs of the 30's and 40's (Signed limited edition)
by Welty, Eudora; Anne Tyler (introduction)
Northridge: Lord John Press, 1985. First edition. Fine. Presentation copy, one of 400 numbered and one hundred deluxe copies. A Fine copy, signed by the author on a leaf before the half title, and by Anne Tyler at the end of the introduction. Bound in black and white marbled boards with black cloth backstrip and gilt title to spine, only the most trivial toning to spine. No slipcase. A photo-essay from the Pulitzer Prize winning author... Read More
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The Gentle Art of Making Enemies (Signed limited edition)
by Whistler, James McNeill
London: William Heinemann, 1890. First edition. Very Good +. Number 97 of 250 copies of the large paper edition, initialed by the author with his signature butterfly monogram on the limitation page. Original cloth backed boards with gilt stamping on the front board and spine, and black titling on the spine. A Very Good+ copy with slight wear to the front board and some foxing to the end papers, but unrestored and text generally clean. A historical... Read More
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Stuart Little
by White, E.B.
New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1945. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. First edition (stated on copyright page with 10-5 and I-U). A Fine copy in Near Fine jacket. Octavo (8 x 5 1/4 inches; 202 x 134 mm.). viii, 131, [1 blank] pp. Five full-page line drawings (including frontispiece) and numerous line-drawings in the text. Publishers gray linen over boards, front cover and spine pictorially decorated in orange and green, pictorial endpapers printed in green. A clean... Read More
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Stuart Little
by White, E.B.
New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1945. First edition. Fine/Fine. First edition (stated on copyright page with 10-5 and I-U). An exceptionally Fine copy in like dust jacket, and scarce in this condition. The first children's book by ecological writer E. B. White, it was praised at its release by Malcolm Cowley of The New York Times as "one of the best children's books published this year." Since then, it has become a classic, and it... Read More
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Stuart Little
by White, E.B.
New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1945. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. First edition (stated on copyright page with 10-5 and I-U). A Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket. Octavo (8 x 5 1/4 inches; 202 x 134 mm.). viii, 131, [1 blank] pp. Five full-page line drawings (including frontispiece) and numerous line-drawings in the text. Publishers gray linen over boards, front cover and spine pictorially decorated in orange and green, pictorial endpapers printed in green. A... Read More
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Charlotte's Web
by White, E. B. [Elwyn Brooks]
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1952. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good +. A Near Fine copy in Very Good+ dust jacket. Retaining the original (and required) price of $2.50 to front flap. Very clean throughout aside from some toning to endpapers at gutter. Bookseller's ticket to lower pastedown. Dust jacket with two nicks to back panel (not affecting text) and some toning to folds. White's charming story of Wilbur, the runt of the litter, who... Read More
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Charlotte's Web
by White, E. B. [Elwyn Brooks]
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1952. First edition. Fine/Fine. A beautiful, exceptionally Fine copy in like dust jacket. Retaining the original (and required) price of $2.50 to front flap. White's charming story of Wilbur, the runt of the litter, who unexpectedly becomes famous after his friend Charlotte spins words into her web advertising Wilbur's good qualities. Though initially Wilbur questions the basis of their friendship and her motives in promoting him, it becomes clear that... Read More
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