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RARE OCTOBER, 1908 HARPER & BROS. UNEXPURGATED FIRST EDITION. FIRST PRINTING THUS. INCLUDES THE WATERMELON PAGE. COLOUR PRINTS. ILLUSTRATED BY PETER NEWELL. Good + condition / No DJ included. USED. Front paper past-down is in good shape. Some finger marks noticed on a few pages. Unpaginated. 7 1/4 X 9
Sketches by Low by Low, David - 1926
by Low, David
Sketches by Low
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London: New Statesman, 1926. Very Good -. 20 caricatures, loose, consisting of 18 25 x 19 cm. leaves, 1 25 x 11 cm. leaf, and 1 19 x 19 cm. leaf. Lacking original portfolio. Originally issued as supplements to The New Statesman, Jan. 16-July 17, 1926. Sir David Alexander Cecil Low (1891-1963) was born in New Zealand, but spent most of his career in London. He was famous for his political cartoons, in particular those featuring Colonel Blimp. Contents: Max, Lord Beaverbrook -- Viscount Cecil -- Clemence Dane -- Mr. Amery "On behalf of the British Empire" -- Marconi -- Sir Austen -- St. Loe Strachey -- L. G. [in pencil on back: Lloyd George] -- J. H. Thomas -- Philip Snowden -- Biarritz [in pencil on back: HRH P of W (Prince of Wales)] --Sir 'Bill' Orpen -- Ramsay [in pencil on back: Ramsay MacDonald] -- Sir John Lavery -- Lord Oxford -- Jix [in pencil on back: Sir Wm. Joynson Hicks] -- The Lord Chief Justice -- C.F.G. Masterman -- Augustus John. In Very Good- Condition: closed 1-cm. tear from edge of 4 leaves; a few edges slightly darkened; loss at corners of several leaves; several corners creased; images are clean and bright. Scarce.
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The Hole Book
by Newell, Peter
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MILO WINTER DUST JACKET: AESOP FOR CHILDREN
by Aesop; Milo Winter (Illustrator)
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DUST JACKET ONLY. NO BOOK IS INCLUDED The Aesop For Children Rand McNally & Company copyright 1919. MILO WINTER 27 X 11 7/8 Orange/Red First Edition unclipped DUST JACKET ONLY. This dust jacket (fits a volume 9 3/4 X 11 7/8) Original price $2.00. USED. Good condition.
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Country Bunny And The Little Gold Shoes
by Heyward, Du Bose
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Heyward, Du Bose. The Country Bunny And The Little Gold Shoes. 1939 Houghton Mifflin First Edition, First Printing Thus. QUITE RARE in this first printing. No other printings listed. ILLUSTRATED BY MARJORIE FLACK. EXLIB. Good Condition/ No Dust Jacket Included. Library Bound. Bright red pictorial boards with red, green, and gold ornamentation. Plot Summary: "With twenty-one baby bunnies to look after, mother bunny Cottontail abandons her dream of becoming an Easter Bunny. But when Grandfather Bunny spies her perfectly behaved brood, he's so impressed that he makes Cottontail the most important Easter Bunny of all!"
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Make Way For Ducklings
by McCloskey, Robert
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McCloskey, Robert: MAKE WAY FOR DUCKLINGS Publisher: The Viking Press, copyright 1941. Stated Fifth Printing Thus, May, 1944. Used. VG-/ Good- 2nd State$2.00 unclipped Dust Jacket. Jacket has some insect damage to back panel. Please see our photos. Caldecott Award winner for 1942. Unpaginated. 9 ¼ X 12 1/4. This title has been designated as the official children's book for the City of Boston.
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Shrek!
by Steig, William
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SHREK! By William Steig. 1990 Stated First Edition, Farrar, Straux Giroux. QUITE RARE IN A STATED FIRST. Used. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ NONE AS ISSUED. ISBN 0374368775. Swamp creatures back panel. Unpaginated. 8 5/8 X 10 7/8. Summary: Original source material for the beloved film of the same name. Summary: "Shrek, a horrid, ugly, little ogre, goes out into the world to find adventure and along the way encounters a witch, a knight in armor, a dragon, and, finally, a hideous princess, who's even uglier than he is!" About the artist/author William Steig: "He created his masterpiece character, Shrek, in 1990, at the age of 83."
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The Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose
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The Little Mother Goose (1918 Dodd, Mead & Company Stated 2nd Edition. Children's book. Nursery Tales. ILLUSTRATED BY JESSIE WILCOX SMITH. Used. VG/ No DJ if issued. Black cloth. Gold Titling on spine is somewhat dimmed. Front Pastedown is complete and in nice condition. Twelve color plates (including frontis) . Please see our photos. Rare/scarce. A clean, solid copy. 8 X 6.
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Orestes or the Art of Smiling
by Gnoli, Domenico
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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. First edition, first printing. Folio. Original brown cloth and dust jacket (not price-clipped). Minor edgewear to dust jacket, else fine in a fine dust jacket. Increasingly uncommon with dust jacket in this condition.. Gnoli, Domenico. Beautiful first edition of Domenico Gnoli's (1933-1970) modern fairy tale about a melancholy prince who discovers how to smile. Gnoli was a renowned Italian painter and stage designer best known for his surrealist pop art and canvas work featuring extremely scaled paintings of folds, patterns, and textures. Gnoli's more surrealist and fantastical illustrations, sketches, and etchings recall the famed works of Edward Gorey (with which Gnoli's works were sometimes confused)-and Gnoli's talent for the surreal and fantastic are on full display in his most popular and treasured book, Orestes or the Art of Smiling. Equal parts fairy tale and work of art, Gnoli's 1961 book tells the tale of Orestes, young Prince of Terramafiusa, and how he…
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Animal, Vegetable, and South Kensington: A book of pictures
by Nicolas Bentley
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Dame mit Glockenhut #1- Kreidezeichnung [signiert]: Lady in a cloche hat #1 - chalk portrait drawing [signed]
by Ingel, Richard
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Charlottenburg, 1928. An original portrait by the artist Richard Ingel who was based in Windscheidstraße in Berlin, Germany. The subject is a beautiful woman wearing a hat, and fashionable fur collar from the time. Her facial features and best points are highlighted by the artist, showing real skill with chalk. Signed by Ingel in the portrait. Circa mid to late 1920s. Sold under glass, in bronze effect frame, under passe-partout. If shipped, postage will be quoted at cost (either in frame or outside). Visible image: 375 mm x 260 mm (14¾ x 10¼ inches). Total size in frame: 510 x 390 mm (20 x 15¼ inches).
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Cats & Kittens: A Portfolio of Drawings
by Clare Turlay Newberry
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Harper and Brothers, 1956. INCOMPLETE SET of cat and kitten drawings (15 plates where originally there were 16). Missing Champion Sunny-Land Char-Miri. Plates are in good condition, clean, with some faint age-toning to paper. Portfolio wrapper and information sheets are dog-eared and show age-toning. Lovely cat and kitten prints that are worth framing. Don't hesitate to contact us if you need additional photos or details about condition. Photos are of the portfolio here at Barbed Wire Books.
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The Man Who Lost His Head
by Claire Huchet Bishop
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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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Travel and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
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Phoenix Publising Company, n. Hardcover. Good. Good. 0 ex library , pages browning and brittle
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At the Bottom of the Ladder
by Camillus Kessler
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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1926, Cartoons by Camillus Kessler. Quarto, cloth pictorial boards, 274 pages, no dust jacket. Platinum Age comics depicting celebrities, political humor, captains of industry (and their first jobs), economics and social strata. Cracked hinges, toning, wear to covers, clean pages.28 x 21 x 4 cm; 3lb 2.4oz
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Harold's Fairy Tale
by Crockett Johnson
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HAROLD'S FAIRY TALE, FURTHER ADVENTURES WITH THE PURPLE CRAYON. HARPER & BROTHERS FIRST EDITION. Exlib. Acceptable Condition. No Dust Jacket is included. RARE.
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Freddy and the Baseball Team From Mars
by Brooks, Walter R
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Freddy and the Baseball Team From Mars, Alfred A. Knopf 1st Ed. 1955. Hardcover. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Used. VG/ No DJ. Rose red boards. Spine lightly sunned. A nice copy of a scarce item.
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Freddy And The Men From Mars
by Brooks, Walter R
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Freddy And The Men From Mars. Brooks, Walter: Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Hardcover. Alfred A. Knopf , 1956 First Edition 2nd Printing Thus. Used. Very Good Condition/ No dust jacket included. A nice copy.
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Oscar-The-Grouch's Alphabet Of Trash (1977 Golden Shape 1st Ed. "A")
by Moss, Jeffrey
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Oscar-The-Grouch's Alphabet Of Trash (1977 Sesame Street Golden Shape 1st Ed. IMPRESSION "A", Western Publishing) RARE. Used. VG Paperback. Written by Moss, Jeffrey. Features Jim Henson's Sesame Street Muppets. Rare/Scarce.
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The Man Who Lost His Head
by Claire Huchet Bishop
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THE MAN WHO LOST HIS HEAD. By Clair Huchet Bishop. RARE/SCARCE. ILLUSTRATED BY ROBERT MC CLOSKEY, author, Illustrator of the beloved "Make Way For Ducklings".EXLIB. GOOD+/ NO DJ INCLUDED. LIBRARY BOUND. Red Geometric pattern boards. Copyright October, 1942. STATED SEPTEMBER, 1955 5TH PRINTING THUS. SUMMARY: "It's bad news when you wake up in the morning and find you've lost your head, especially if it's an especially agreeable and handsome head, but there you go, such things happen." Claire Huchet Bishop's charming parable is illustrated by the great Robert McCloskey, whose books for children include One Morning in Maine, Blueberries for Sal, and the Caldecott Medal-winning Make Way for Ducklings."
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The Withdrawing Room
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The With-Drawing Room (1980, Doubleday 1st Ed. SIGNED W/DJ) THE WITH-DRAWING ROOM, A MYSTERY BY FAMED CANADIAN AUTHOR CHARLOTTE MACLEOD. Publisher: Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY, 1980.Used. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. First or early printing thus. Good Condition/ Includes good condition unclipped $8.95 dust jacket. Features young Sarah Kelling. Will ship from United States.
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The Beauties Of Washington Irving (Illustrated by George Cruikshank)
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THE BEAUTIES OF WASHINGTON IRVING. ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM TEGG, LONDON, 1866. 4 X 5/58. 373 5/8. pages, plus adverts. USED. Good condition. All gilting still visible on titling on spine. Foxed on a a few pages.
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