New York: Viking, (1939), early printing ca 1950s, (jacket mentons Sunshine 1950 as a recent publication ), not a 1st printing, with 12 little girls but no date on title page; full illustrated boards with Miss Clavel and her charges heading toward the Eiffel Tower, pictorial endpapers, in jacket identical..... more
Chelsea, Mass: Thomas Strahan & Co. [1930] pattern #6884; heavy paper with thick base colour, figure heights vary, but for, example, the footman with the letter is about 3.75" high. in attractive Kaldewey envelope. Toploader large, softcover. Over 40 charming figures and groups (not counting cards) which have been expertly..... more
London: Collins Clear-Type Pres1s, (1930's); dark red fine corded silk boards, maroon endpapers, colored frontis and many black and white illustrations; 4x6" ; 318 pp. Small hardback. A very nice and compact little book of both Alice stories with pleasant sized type and many illustrations A nice present for a...... more
NY: Harper and Brothers, 1903/1876, 1st printing as to illustrator Ivory vellum boards with gilt figure and title, script titles, coloured frontis and 39 half tone umber plates, as issued, top edge gilt, deckle edges, green page border decorations by Robert Murray Wright; xii + 248 pp. Juvenile hardback. A...... more
Artia (1973) ; Printed in Czechoslovakia, Octopus pop-up Picture Stories,, top and bottom green boards with Alice with a dark pink thistle and a large orange dog.with unattached center pages accordian folded to make a pop-up panorama.8.25 sq.; np. Novelty book hardback pop-up. With no attempt at Tenniel or Rackham..... more
Prague, Artia (1973) probably a later reprint; Printed in Czechoslovakia, Murray's Sales and Service, Treasure Hour distributors, white boards with Alice with a dark pink thistle and a large orange dog. with unattached center pages accordian folded to make a pop-up panorama.8.25 sq.; np. Novelty book hardback pop-up. With no..... more
New York: Simon & Schuster, Wanderer Books, Simon & Schuster Classic, 1982/1978 Schocken, reprint; red boards with dark brown leatherette spine and circular plate with Alice and the White Rabbit encircled with stamped gilt design, grey endpapers, gilt all around, ribbon; coloured plates and many illustrations in text and around..... more
G (Sam'l Gabriel) no date, (1930's?), Linenette, #433, with one staple, as bound,, this edition with a front cover illustrated by Burley and back and interior illustrations by Gordon Robinson, probably from his 1916 Alice. Toploader medium softcover story. A thoughtful Alice in the midst of outrageous characters. Robinson line..... more
Timperley, UK: John Sherratt and Sons; late 1940's reprint./1890 thus adapted, (titles of jacket back); red cloth boards with printed orange and black design showing Don Quixote seated with his book of chivalry and his sword, in grey jacket with same design and titles in orange; 11 roughly coloured illustrations..... more
Garden City, NY: Garden City Books, 1958, probably first or year of publication since Garden City 1959 books not mentioned on flap;. Picture Book hardback. Told in a way to captivate a small child, with a few sentences on each spread and large dramatic pictures featuring Rosinante and Dapple. more
New York: Methuen, Inc., 1980 simultaneous publication, 1st thus abridged from Cohen's 1950 translation; brown cloth with the hero in his nightshirt brandishing a sword stamped in gilt; in light brown jacket with Don Quixote and Rocinante about to challenge the windmills; 8vo; 207 pp. Juvenile hardback. Lively and amusing..... more
Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company, (1881, 1897 Oliver Optic text, Lee & Shepard), probable first in this format, glossy paper-covered heavy card boards, titles and cover illustration outlined in gilt, red cloth spine, large b/w illustration on back, no ads; 3 chromolithos incld frontis, b/w illustrations, about 38 in all, Address..... more
Paris: Nelson, Éditeurs, 189 rue Saint-Jacques, and Londres, Edimbourg & New-York; Paris: Imprimerie, Knapp [1912] 1st French edition thus; (full English Edition thus illustrated was 1909); purple boards with gold border and large pastedown of the baby floating with fish underwater, repeated , plain fixed endpapers, frontis and 5 plates..... more
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1910/1903, stories reprinted from among those in 1900 Fairy book; green cloth boards, blindstamped ruling and gold decorated title and spine, green decorated endpapers, coloured frontis, b/w plates and. Juvenile hardback. One of a nice series of excerpts from the fairy books: The Invisible..... more
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1911/1906 new impression/1903, stories reprinted from Lang's Fairy books; red cloth boards, blindstamped ruling and gold decorated title and spine, red decorated endpapers, coloured frontis, b/w plates and. Juvenile hardback. One of a nice series of excerpts from the fairy books: The Magic Ring..... more
New York: Frederick Warne & Co. (1913) early US edition: 1914 to 1917; brown paper boards with silver titles and rectangular plate of Pigling at a crossroads, pasted down endpapers of the first edition (Linder) with Pigling Bland last title mentioned and no Town Mouse; single sided plates on coated..... more
New York: W. W. Norton, Inc, 1964, 1st, nl; pale yellow boards, jacket with paintings of the princes, 6.5x9.75"; 228 pp. Juvenile hardback. A very diverse group of princes! James Thurber, Oscar Wilde, E. Nesbit, Charles Dickens, Eleanor Farjeon, and other well know authors. more
Limited Editions Club, 1944/1944 thus; numbered 967 of 1100 copies, the printing has been done by Marchbanks Press in New York and colored by hand in the studio of Charlize Blakely from the drawings of the artist, SIGNED by the artist; introduction by William Rose Benet; black quarter leather spine..... more