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Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row , 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Mel Furukawa. Dust jacket shows minor wear and chipping. Laid-in: Slip showing this a review copy.

Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Rhee. Clear plastic protective cover.

Hardcover. New York , Macmillan , 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 182 pages, hardcover with no dust jacket. Decorations by Boris Artzybasheff. Light wear to edges. Previous owner's sticker on copyright page.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st US, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 176 pages, end papers drawing, b&w illustrations by Arthur E. Becher. Red cloth covers with gilt design.

Hardcover. NY, Harpercollins Childrens Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color illustrations by Barry Moser.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 311 pages. Hardcover with clipped dust jacket. Sticker residue on front dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to covers.

Hardcover. Wellington NZ , Gecko Press , reprint, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non paginated. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations by Leo Timmers throughout. Illustrated title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 2nd, 1903, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictures in color, B&W by Frank Verbeck. 1st Edition, 2nd State - July on copyright page. Previous owner's pencil signature on blank preliminary page. Front hinge cracked.

Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 7th pr., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 248 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. Mushrooms magically spew forth from the earth in the hours that follow a summer rain. Fuzzy brown molds mischievously turn forgotten peaches to slime in the kitchen fruit bowl. And in thousands of other ways, members of the kingdom Fungi do their part to make life on Earth the miracle that it is. In this lively book, George Hudler leads us on a tour of an often-overlooked group of organisms, which differ radically from both animals and plants. Along the way the author stops to ponder the marvels of nature and the impact of mere microbes on the evolution of civilization. Nature's ultimate recyclers not only save us from drowning in a sea of organic waste, but also provide us with food, drink, and a wide array of valuable medicines and industrial chemicals. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 249 pages. Black and red striped dust jacket with light edgewear. A clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 101 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Serena Riglietti. SIGNED BY SUSAN COOPER on title page. Clean, tight copy with minor edge wear to covers.

Softcover. New York , Catalan Communications, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 88 pages illustrated in color by Boucq.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 200 pages, lavishly illustrated with examples of Sendak's work, illustrated endpapers. Bound in black cloth with gold lettering. The bestselling author of the wildly imaginative "Wicked Years" presents a magical visual tribute to the art of the legendary Maurice Sendak. SIGNED BY MAGUIRE on title page.

Softcover. Toronto , Dragon Lady Press, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated wrappers with staple binding. 67 pages of b&w Mandrake newspaper strips from 1936-38. The Lost World and Princess Narda. Clean, very good.

Hardcover. NY, Nostalgia Press], 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, A complete story reprinted as it originally appeared in the newspaper comic strips of 1938, b&w illustrations. No. 7 in the publisher's Golden Age of the Comics series. Dust jacket with chunk gone from front top edge.

Hardcover. London, Titan Comics, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. From the very beginning in 1934, these are the original adventures of the famous comic strip detective - collected in full for the very first time! Mandrake is a master of hypnosis, whose ability causes his opponents to encounter wild illusions, giving the heroes the upper hand in a fight. His enemies cover a broad spectrum, including gangsters, mad scientists, alien creatures, and characters from other adventures. His greatest ally is Lothar, "Prince of the Seven Nations" who gave up his crown to join Mandrake in his globe-trotting adventures. They are accompanied by the beautiful Narda, princess of a European nation and Mandrake's romantic interest.

Hardcover. London, Titan, 1st Titan, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy. Color illustrations throughout. From the very beginning in 1934, these are the original adventures of the famous comic strip detective - collected in full for the very first time! Mandrake is a master of hypnosis, whose ability causes his opponents to encounter wild illusions, giving the heroes the upper hand in a fight. His enemies cover a broad spectrum, including gangsters, mad scientists, alien creatures, and characters from other adventures. His greatest ally is Lothar, "Prince of the Seven Nations" who gave up his crown to join Mandrake in his globe-trotting adventures. They are accompanied by the beautiful Narda, princess of a European nation and Mandrake's romantic interest.

Hardcover. London , Titan Comics, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 156 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations by Phil Davis throughout. Illustrated pastedowns and end papers. Clean, tight copy. The Sunday strips from the first two years.

Hardcover. NY, Coward-McCann, 1st US, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. llustrated by Janet and Anne Grahame-Johnstone. Dust jacket with light edgewear. The adventures of a ceramic mouse that magically comes to life.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to cover boards. Illustrations by author.

Hardcover. NY, Abbeville, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. Hank Ketcham, the self-styled "Merchant of Dennis," passed away in 2001 at the age of 81, but not before writing this engaging memoir. In this volume, the Dennis the Menace creator charmingly tells his own colorful story, starting when he was about "five-ana-half" and first picked up the "magic pencil." A child of the Great Depression from Seattle, Ketcham abandoned college for Hollywood, to pursue a dream of making drawings for Walt Disney films. Initially rebuffed at Disney, he persisted in huffing and puffing at the Mouse Factory door (all the while drawing "Andy Pandas, rabbits, squirrels, and monkeys" at Walter Lantz studio) until finally he was let inside to labor happily on Pinocchio, Bambi, Fantasia and a host of Donald Duck shorts. World War II intervened, but Photographer's Mate Ketcham was, nevertheless, able to resume his artistic career in the Navy, where, in Washington, D.C., he created cartoons for the War Bond program. Following the war, Ketcham developed into a successful freelancer, placing cartoons in The New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post and Collier's.Then one fateful day, his harried wife screamed at him that his son Dennis was a menace! That, of course, sparked an idea that subsequently was sold to a newspaper syndicate in the fall of 1950. Within a year, Dennis the Menace was up to a hundred daily subscribers-a figure that climbed steadily.The Merchant of Dennis the Menace not only traces the humorous adventures of Hank Ketcham-with copious illustrations of his artistic development from a kid with an early knack for copying cartoon characters to a mature and masterful artist of everyday life in the Mitchell and Wilson households-it also offers a special insight into the life and times of the half-pint "Menace." In one unique section, Ketcham takes us behind the scenes of Dennis and provides complete backgrounds for all the major characters, including their genealogies. We are also treated to official model sheets, in-depth analysis of each character's personality and motivations, and an exclusive peek at the private sketches that Ketcham referred to of rooms in the Wilson and Mitchell homes, their backyards, and the neighborhood. To top it all off, the book includes a dozen of Ketcham's hand-picked, all-time favorite strips.

hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&w illustrations by Peter Sis. A tale of Touch, a runaway orphan boy who seeks help from the ghost of a magician. The Great Chaffalo obliges the boy with a stallion with a golden mane and a hide as fine as China silk. But Touch discovers even this wonderful horse cannot take him beyond the reach of his troubles. A tale of innocence in a world of villainy, of things that are seen but are not what they seem -- a tale of mystery and wonder. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, scarce true first printing with b&w drawings by Clara Skinner. 113 pages, blue cloth covers.

Hardcover. New York , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in abright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MCCLINTOCK. A delightful picture book loosely based upon the Charles Dickens story The Magic Fishbone.When Molly's fairy godmother tells her that she will find a magic fishbone that will grant her but one wish, all her brothers and sisters want to know what Molly will wish for. There are many things Molly would like, and so many ways in which a wish would come in handy, but she decides to wait until she knows exactly what she wants.Enchanting, old-fashioned illustrations depict a wondrous nineteenth-century London alive with elegantly clad cats, pigs, goats, birds, and other two- and four-legged creatures in Barbara McClintock's delightful reminder that patience and practicality are rewarded.