NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 128 pages. Black & white illustrations by Leonard Weisgard. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf. An unusual and unforgettable Christmas story set aboard a freighter bound for South America. Three companions -- a boy, a goat and a dog -- meet Domingo, a burro, and spend Christmas below the Equator.
Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st Ed, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Unpaginated; color illustrations by Garth Williams throughout. Full-color cover with black-cloth binding, exhibits some edgewear. Bookplate on front endpaper and some pencil marks. Interior text clean. Dust jacket has edgewear, damp wrinkling, as well as soiling around edges, unclipped, but with adhesive marks from tape on top edges. Otherwise, clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, D. Lothrop Co., 1st, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with a bright gilt, black and red design. Illustrated with 31 b&w drawings by F. O. Small. Small, previous owner's inscription to front fly leaf (dated 1891). Rosalind, Marjory, and Ida are the three eldest children of Col. And Mrs. Peel, who are off in India with their younger children. The Three Little Maids live with a governess back in England and this is their tale.
Hardcover. NY, Blue Ribbon Books, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, illustrated boards, in a fair dust jacket with chipping, closed tears. Original $1 price still on front flap. Previous owner's inscription on half title page otherwise clean and tight. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white.
Hardcover. Boston, Dana Estes, reprint, 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 244 pages. Yellow pictorial cloth, minor rubbing. Black & white illustrations by Ethelred Barry. Title page states Eighth Thousand. Clean.
Hardcover. Ipswitch UK, Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Horizontal quarto (10-7/8" x 9") in a three-piece binding of linen sides printed in a pattern of scarlet, slate, and yellow vertical stripes with a shelfback of ochre buckram stamped in gold leaf; 224 pages. Introduction by Stella Gibbons. Designed by John Lewis and printed by W. S. Cowell Ltd. Illustrated by John Griffiths with 2 double-spread color drawings and numerous black-and-white part-page and marginal sketches. Copy #1370 of 2000 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 338 pages, illustrated in b&w by James, green cloth covers with a black and gilt design. Square, bright copy with a small brownish stain to top inch of spine, Otherwise very good.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 92 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by Pene du Bois. Page 58 has a child's ink scribbling with a few marks on opposite page. Covers worn, soiled. Otherwise the book is tight and clean. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth stamped in black. 211 pages, black & white illustrations, endpapers art by Le Roy Appleton. Mild soil to covers. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth stamped in black. 211 pages, black & white illustrations, endpapers art by Le Roy Appleton. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, George H. Doran Company, 2nd pr., 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with orange lettering on the cover and spine, 433 pages. No colophon on title page or copyright page. Red top edge faded. This was Dos Passos' second book -- published when he was just 25 years old, and having spent the end of WWI as a volunteer with the ambulance corps in Spain and Italy during WWI. This is a profoundly anti-war book - and remains a high-water mark of realism in war writing. Second state with the correct "singing" on page 213. No dust jacket. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott , 1st US, 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 278 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Bound from English sheets. 17 black & white illust. by Lewis Baumer. Front hinge cracked. Several corners creased, one corner (page 23). Page 13 with tear. Decorated green covers.
Hardcover. New York, American Subscription Publishing House, 1st, 1859, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 358 pages. Black & white illustrations. Title in gilt on spine. Fading to spine, and along top 1" of front cover.
Hardcover. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 226 pages of text followed by section of corresponding black & white photographic illustrations. Hardcover. Clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.
Softcover. Washington DC, Giles, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. Beautiful and poignant photographs by African American and other photographers (selected from the large and growing photography collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture), accompanied by three short, insightful essays, reveal the rich and significant contributions African Americans have made to to our great American heritage.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, reprint , 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 344 pages plus black & white photos at rear of book. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on back of front end paper. Foreword by Owen Wister. Small tears, chipping to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, December 1, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Black cloth cover, embossed design, very little wear. Dust jacket has very slight wear to some edges. Die-cut slipcase has some edgewear. 343 illustrations, 333 are in full color. A bright and clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Books of Wonder, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 304 pages. Join Tik-Tok, the Shaggy Man, and a host of other friends--both old and new--on an exciting, imaginative journey through the world of Oz. Capturing all the fun are twelve color plates and nearly eighty black-and-white drawings by Oz artist John R. Neill, as well as a facsimile of Neill's full-color map endpapers of Oz and the enchanted realms that surround it--the first maps of Oz ever published. Tik-Tok of Oz is the eighth Oz novel and the first to bring a girl other than Dorothy to Oz. Now, in this beautiful reproduction of the rare first edition, a whole new generation can discover the enchantment and joy that have made the Oz series such an enduring favorite. Afterword by Peter Glassman.
Hardcover. NY, Platt and Munk, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong format, green cloth covers with title and drawing of panicked cows. Color, black & white illustrations by Brook. No dust jacket. Clean copy.
NY, Platt & Munk, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth covers. Color, black & white illustrations by Brook. No dust jacket.
Softcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 117 pages. Introduction by William Shawcross. Text and photographs by Tim Page, a photo-journalist. Cover is a photograph of soldier with rifle in a rice paddy with yellow lettering. Rear cover is white with black lettering, states price of $14.95, and shows date of 3/83. Last page of book has list of photographs. Almost all photographs are in color. Book is square and tight.
Hardcover. New York, Prestel, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 167 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean and tight copy with minor wear to cover edges. Black and white photography throughout.
Softcover. Madison WI, University of Wisconsin Press, reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 469 pages."One of the first histories to treat non-whites as active self conscious protagonists in twentieth-century South African affairs rather than as a dark acquiescent host before which the really important story of white South Africa unfolds. The new edition has been corrected and eight new chapters extend the coverage to the end of 1963. It is an important addition to the literature about South Africa."--The Historian. C;ean copy.