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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1954 Limited Edition #1104/1500. Vellum backed marbled boards. Fine in a slightly scuffed slipcase with a few small chips. Preface by Mark Van Doren. Milton's dramatic text punctuated by very beautiful watercolors from Dulac. Sadly the book was published after Dulac's passing, hence unsigned. . First Limited Edition. Quarter Vellum. Fine. Illus. by Edmund Dulac. 4to.
East of the Sun and West of the Moon, Old Tales from the North by Nielsen, Kay (Illus)
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon, Old Tales from the North
by Nielsen, Kay (Illus)
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New York: George H Doran Company 204 pgs. No date, circa 1924. Mustard cloth with red stamped titling to cover and spine, previous owner's name on endpaper, occasional marks to pages, one page with edge tear, corner off one mounting page, all color plates are intact and fine; the rare dust jacket is age-toned with a stain at spine edge, but complete. Orange and white decorative endpapers,Tipped-in color frontis and 24 other tipped in color plates with captions. Many other decorative elements and illustrations in b&w. Nielsen's illustrations are breathtaking and bold. Uncommon in such a nice dust jacket.. Early American Edition. Very Good/Very Good. Large 8vo.
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- Keywords illustrated, Children's, color Plates, Tipped-in Plates, Norwegian tales, folk tales, Fairy Tales, Norse Mythology
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Comus: A Masque with The Airs
by Dulac, Edmund (Illus); Milton, John (Auth)
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There's No Place Like Home
by Walker, Lula Mae (Compiled By); Illustrated with Chromolithographs
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Troy, NY: Nims and Knight, 1891 Illustrated boards with cloth spine, light cover soil, minor edge rubbing, front hinge re-enforced, rubbed spot on first page. A collection of short verses by famed authors and poets, each poem surrounded by color chromo illustrations with illuminated accents, printed on one side of paper only. A very lovely Victorian era book, printed by Armstrong & Co of Boston, MA.. First Edition. Illustrated Boards. Very Good. Illus. by Chromolithographs. Slim Oblong Folio.
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Book of Old Ballads
by Nichols, Beverly (Selected by); Illustrated By H M Brock
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London: Hutchinson & Co, 1934 (1934). Light brown cloth boards pictorially stamped in gilt, one corner bumped, book plate on flyleaf. A selection of old ballads illustrated by Brock with 16 beautiful color plates. . First Edition. Near Fine. Illus. by H M Brock. 4to.
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Off the Weather-Bow on Life's Voyage
by Little, Elisabeth A.
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New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1889 Illustrated boards with brown cloth spine, light edge wear, front and rear hinges reinforced. Inspirational verses and quotes illustrated with lovely duotone chromolithographs featuring oceanic imagery.. First American Edition. Illustrated Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Chromolithographs. Narrow Oblong Folio.
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Elf-Errant
by O'Neill, Moira; Illustrated By W. E. F. Britten
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London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1895 Mauve patterned cloth pictorially stamped in gilt, gilt slightly dulled, spine sunned, boards slightly bowed. Fairy stories set in Ireland, written by Irish poetess, Moira O'Neill. Illustrated with lovely b&w plates by Britten. Scarce.. First Edition. Pictorial Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by W. E. F. Britten. 8vo.
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Comus: A Masque with The Airs
by Dulac, Edmund (Illus); Milton, John (Auth)
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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1954 Limited Edition #1104/1500. Vellum backed marbled boards. Fine in a slightly scuffed slipcase with a few small chips. Preface by Mark Van Doren. Milton's dramatic text punctuated by very beautiful watercolors from Dulac. Sadly the book was published after Dulac's passing, hence unsigned. . First Limited Edition. Quarter Vellum. Fine. Illus. by Edmund Dulac. 4to.
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There's No Place Like Home
by Walker, Lula Mae (Compiled By); Illustrated with Chromolithographs
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Troy, NY: Nims and Knight, 1891 Illustrated boards with cloth spine, light cover soil, minor edge rubbing, front hinge re-enforced, rubbed spot on first page. A collection of short verses by famed authors and poets, each poem surrounded by color chromo illustrations with illuminated accents, printed on one side of paper only. A very lovely Victorian era book, printed by Armstrong & Co of Boston, MA.. First Edition. Illustrated Boards. Very Good. Illus. by Chromolithographs. Slim Oblong Folio.
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Book of Old Ballads
by Nichols, Beverly (Selected by); Illustrated By H M Brock
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London: Hutchinson & Co, 1934 (1934). Light brown cloth boards pictorially stamped in gilt, one corner bumped, book plate on flyleaf. A selection of old ballads illustrated by Brock with 16 beautiful color plates. . First Edition. Near Fine. Illus. by H M Brock. 4to.
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Off the Weather-Bow on Life's Voyage
by Little, Elisabeth A.
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New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1889 Illustrated boards with brown cloth spine, light edge wear, front and rear hinges reinforced. Inspirational verses and quotes illustrated with lovely duotone chromolithographs featuring oceanic imagery.. First American Edition. Illustrated Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Chromolithographs. Narrow Oblong Folio.
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Elf-Errant
by O'Neill, Moira; Illustrated By W. E. F. Britten
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London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1895 Mauve patterned cloth pictorially stamped in gilt, gilt slightly dulled, spine sunned, boards slightly bowed. Fairy stories set in Ireland, written by Irish poetess, Moira O'Neill. Illustrated with lovely b&w plates by Britten. Scarce.. First Edition. Pictorial Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by W. E. F. Britten. 8vo.
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon Old Tales from the North
by Nielsen, Kay illustrated by
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1977. First American Edition; small 4to.; green cloth covered boards with gilt decorations and illustrated endpapers, hardcover; 108 pages; green and white and color illustrations; endpapers and preliminary pages are lightly foxed else very good in a edgeworn and price-clipped dust jacket.
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East Of The Sun And West Of The Moon Old Tales From The North
by Nielsen, Kay (Illustrator)
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ardsley, New York, United States
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New York: Garden City Publishing Company, 1930. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth with illustrated color paper inset front cover, backstrip lettered in green. Near fine. 204 pages. 22 x 16.5 cm. Originally appeared in Sir G.W. Dasent's `Popular Tales from the Norse' by P.C. Asbjornsen and J.I. Moe. "Nielsen acknowledged that his work was influenced by the art of the early Italian Renaissance, but most of all by oriental art and the art of the Middle East." [see: JOHNSON p.78]. An unusual combination of full page color plates in offset lithography, and the small and more numberers color lithograph plates within the text. Owner inscription front cover pastedown.
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon, Old Tales from the North
by Nielsen, Kay
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George H. Doran. Fair/No Dust Wrapper. 1924. Binding Thread Showing. Hard Cover. (T88) Circa 1924 .
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon - Old Tales from the North
by Nielsen, Kay
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Tan cloth with dark blue lettering and design on front cover, dark blue lettering on spine, cover showing some soiling and corner bumping. Pictorial end papers with writing on front end paper and a date of 1927. Lovely color frontispiece plus many full-page color illustrations. Page 24 is loose from binding, some other pages pulling from binding. Book is in Good condition. 204 pp
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon Old Tales from the North
by Nielsen, Kay
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New York: George H. Doran. Very Good with no dust jacket. No pub date. 1st U.S. Ed. Hardback. Slightly soiled yellow cloth HB with red lettering on front and spine/very scarce edition/watercolor frontispiece/orange & white; 204 pages; Illustrations on end pages .
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon, Old Tales from the North
by Nielsen, Kay (Illus)
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Torrington, Connecticut, United States
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New York: George H Doran Company, 1914 205 pgs. Black paper over boards, titled in gilt with a pastedown illustration to upper cover, lavender cloth spine titled in gilt, the edges are rubbed, corners worn, gilt dulled, faint edge crease to frontis. Tipped-in color frontis and 24 other tipped in color plates with captions. Many other decorative elements and illustrations in b&w. This is the first edition printed and bound in the US, preceded by a large paper copy bound in black cloth published by Hodder & Stoughton from British sheets and followed by the more common American edition bound in yellow cloth. Curiously, this edition can be found in various states, with a Hodder & Stoughton title page, a Doran cancel title page and lastly, a Doran title page bound in, as this is. Priority is unknown.. First American Edition. Pictorial Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Kay Nielsen. Large 8vo.
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Escape On Venus Tarzana
by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
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Stated First edition Burroughs hardcover, copyright 1946, as shown in scans. Published by Tarzana. Illustrated by John Coleman Burroughs. Dedicated to Brigadier General Kendall J. Fielder. Frontispiece and 4 other illustrations plus all pages without writing or marks. Good binding. Pebbled blue front board has rubbing and wear. Back inside cover has light foxing. Second interior page has a label remnant from original owner. Not ex- library. Please see scans.
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The DOs and DON'Ts of Yesterday: Little Book of Early American Know-How
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Illustrated with pen/ink images Sloane is known for. (2) books,a yellow and an orange (18x12cm) with gilt title on covers and spines. Paper title on dark red slipcase with signature of author. Slipcase has very minor wear to bottom fore edge.
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The Man Who Lost His Head
by Claire Huchet Bishop
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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The Man Who Lost His Head. By Claire Huchet Bishop. Viking Press, Copyright Renewed 1970. 16th Impression thus. Exlib. VG/VG unclipped DJ. Original cover price $3.56. Wrap-around blue and white endpapers show a headless man walking past farm animals on his way to the fair to look for his head there. Pages are bright. Now protected in a mylar wrap. A fantasy illustrated by Robert McCloskey, author and illustrator of "Make Way For Ducklings". Summary: "A man wakes up to find that he has no head, so he goes looking for it." Hard title to find.
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Goldrush Days With Mark Twain, Illustrated with Woodcuts By Henry J. Glintenkamp
by William R. Gillis
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William R. Gillis. Goldrush Days with Mark Twain (H. Glintenkamp woodcuts). Copyright 1930. Albert & Charles Boni, NY. With an into by Cyril Clemens. RARE H. Glintenkamp WOODCUTS 6 woodcut illustrations included, Twain frontis (Three old friends), and 5 other historic and realistic woodcut illustrations. MEMOIRS. HISTORY OF NEVADA GOLDRUSH. Summary: Mr. Gillis was a friend of American author/humorist Mark Twain and was with him at Virginia, Nevada in the Goldrush days. In 1859 placer miners in the Great Basin discovered the largest gold and silver strike that had happened in the United States up until that time. RARE H. Glintenkamp WOODCUTS. Used. Good- Condition. 264 pages. Used. Good condition. First few pages are loose. Frontis is still affixed to binding. Green cloth boards gold titling. No titles left on spine. Spine is sunned.
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The Professional Cosmetologist
by John W. Dalton
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West Pub. Co, 1981. 2nd. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. John W. Dalton's near definitive textbook of cosmetology. Professional level instruction covering all significant topics for students of cosmetology. Valuable resource for replicating ca. 1970's hairstyles, makeup, etc. A standard in its field. Expanded and revised second edition. 463 pp. 10" x 7 3/8". Tight copy with light rubbing to cover and scattered yellow highlighting. Small corner loss to front blank endpaper. Photographs of or additional information about this item are available on request. All inquiries answered promptly.
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The Magyars; The Birth of a European Nation
by Gyorgy Balazs
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Budapest: Corvina, 1989. Gray Buckram Binding w/black and red lettering on spine, Crest on cover. Pictorial Endpapers,w/91 pages of full color photo illustrations from Hungarian National Gallery, National Szechenyl Library and private collections. Includes 2 page Genealogy of the House of Arpad. Book is in As New Condition w/Fine wrap around DJ. Also contains (2)Brochures osThe Danube Bend, Hungary, found in book. **Oversized-extra shipping charges may apply Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Karoly Szelenyi (photos).
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RIP VAN WINKLE
by Washington Irving
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Philadelphia: DAVID MCKAY, 1921. Probable 1st edition. Hardcover Hardcover. Poor. Philadelphia: DAVID MCKAY, 1921. Probable 1st edition. Poor. N.C. Wyeth. Front cover has a badly bumped corner, spine is faded and soiled as is the rear cover. Front hinge is torn but cover is still attached, binding is loose. FFEP has some child's writing but otherwise contents are clean and the Wyeth illustrations are clean and bright .
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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
by Dickens, Charles
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THE PICKWICK PAPERS. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. By Charles Dickens. Dodd, Mead 1935. 637 pages. Illustrated edition. Dark green boards, Gilt decorated spine. Titling still fairy. bright. . Illustrated by C.E. Brock. All colour plates including frontispiece are affixed to binding and are in nice condition. 16 colour plates in all. Used. Good Condition/ No Dj if issued. 637 pages 5 3/4 X 8 1/2. A nice copy. Will ship from Oregon. We consider offers.
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Mister Rogers' Plan and Play Book: Daily Activities from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
by Rogers, Fred
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032 Mister Rogers' Plan and Play Book: Daily Activities from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for Child Care Providers, Family Communications, Inc. Copyright 1983. 1985 2nd Edition Thus, Spiral bound. Pre-owned unused condition. ISBN 9789995253899 RARE IN THIS 2ND EDITION PRINTING. Large format 9 1/2 X 11 1/8. 333 pages, indexed.
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The Owl Tree, Choose Your Own Adventure #36
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Montgomery, R.A: 1986 Bantam-Skylark: The Owl Tree, Choose Your Own Adventure #36. Softcover. Illustrated by Leslie Morrill. Number line CW 098765432. Used. VG condition. 50 pages. 5 ¼ X 7 5/8. Series. Keywords: Choose Your Own Adventure, Bantam-Skylark, Adventure, Series, Collectible. ISBN9780553154498
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