Undine by De La Motte-Fouque - 1909

(Easthampton, MA): Chamberlain Press, The, 1975. marbled paper-covered boards, paper spine label. Chamberlain Press. 16mo. marbled paper-covered boards, paper spine label. not paginated. Limited to 75 copies signed by Sarah Chamberlain, printer and illustrator. A fine copy. This is the first book printed at the Chamberlain Press. Printed on Rives buff using Goudy Old-style type. The illustrations are engraved in wood.

New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1929. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Willy Pogany. 192pp. Violet cloth, gilt lettering and decoration, color llustrated endpapers. Cover nearly unworn, spine is faded and lettering barely readable, several small holes in front endpaper evidently from bookplate removal, inscription on verso, text is mildly age-toned but clean and unmarked, binding is tight. Scarce dust jacket is missing a 2 1/2 inch piece from lower spine and several smaller pieces from top edge. Wonderful pen and ink drawings by Pogany throughout text.

London: George Harrap & Co, 1928. First Edition. Cloth. Very good/good. Arthur Rackham. 8x 10 inches (20 x 25.5 cm), green cloth with gilt lettering and illustration on front and gilt lettering on spine, gilt on top page edges. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. 8 color plates plus numerous black and white illustrations. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. There are two dust jackets. Outermost jacket has blue and red lettering on spine. Inner dust jacket has some green lettering on spine and large chip at top of spine obscuring most of the word "the". Both jacket have chips and small tears. This book is scarce in dust jacket. 103 pp.

Hardcover. First Edition. BAL 16384. Frontispiece "In the Belfry" and 24 full-page b/w plates as well as numerous text vignettes by Pyle. 16, ads. 8vo. Original half leather and green cloth binding (advertised on p. 16 of ads at $2.00. Gilt and red lettered green pictorial cloth. Spine/backing replaced. VG+/NF with wear to tips. Cloth has 1/4" split at lower rear tip.

NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Good in Poor dust jacket; Spine cocked, page tops spotted, owner name on . front free endpaper, sticker liftoff on front jacket flap, jacket heavily . tattered and torn, with yellowed tape repair to rear panel.. 1964. First Edition; Later Printing. Hardcover. Blindstamped red cloth with maroon topstain. Mustard endpapers. Five-lines on colophon page, $3.95 price on front jacket flap, no isbn number on rear jacket panel The delicious adventures of young Charlie Bucket and his fabulous tour of Willy Wonkas Chocolate Factory. Includes references to pygmies and Ooompa Loompa illustrations later edited from this title. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 162 pages .

Amsterdam: Franciscus Halma, 1701. Hardcover. Good. Engraved title page by Goerel/Boutats + 108 round copperplates on 18 full-page leaves signed I.V. Vianen (Jan van Vianen) dated 1701 + 49 woodcut initials & ornate figurative metal-cut head- & tail-pieces (some repeats but large & finely detailed).. Quarto gilt-ruled calf (rebacked in leather with original red gilt title label laid on, tips worn) All edges marbled. Engraved Title + Titlepage in red & black with metal cut vignette "In hoc signo" + [28]pp prelims +160pp (inc. at end "Appendix Fabularum a Marquardo Gudio) +[82]pp indices, 99 Fables with 9 extra scenes illustrated in great detail in 108 roundelles. Lacks folding portrait of Prince of Nassau (often omitted), Plate 18 misbound at page 50. Some staining from former damp most evident to early leaves & at end of book but hardly affecting the plates. *Most luxurious of the Dutch Phaedrus editions specially made for the Prince of Nassau (Lamb Annales Phaedriani 96, Cohen-deRicci 797-9, Landwehr 247).

This is a handsome, fine binding vintage copy of "The Complete Works of LEWIS CARROLL" with original illustrations by John Tenniel. Circa 1930's (there is no date of publication stated); Random House; New York. The book has been custom three-quarter leather bound with a decorative gilt spine with raised bands. With an Introduction by Alexander Woollcott and an Index of First Lines of Verse. Gilt top edge.The following works are included (please see the photos for the complete list of contents):* Alice's Adventures in Wonderland* Through the Looking-Glass* Sylvie and Bruno* Sylvia and Bruno Concluded* The Hunting of the Snark* Early Verse* Puzzles from Wonderland* Prologues to Plays* Phantasmagoria* College Rhymes and Notes by an Oxford Chiel* Acrostics, Inscriptions, and Other Verse* Three Sunsets and Other Poems* Stories* MiscellanyCondition:Clean covers with no stains; some wear to the leather at the center of the left edge of the front cover, at the top and bottom edges of the spine, and at the… Read More

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll. Copyright 1929. Illustrated by John Tenniel. Cover shows some age and so does the top of the spine. Binding is intact, all pages are firmly in place. "With forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel" The Macmillan Company, New York.

First edition of the first German translation - and one of the earliest - of the Jungle Book. One of 5000 copies printed. The Groh illustrations were made especially for this edition.Hardcover Fine. 8vo., original brown cloth, stamped in silver; front cover red and blue with an image of Mowgli. Edges stained red. Spine cocked slightly.. Edges lightly rubbed. Pages 161-165 mended with tape. Ownership stamp to title page. A beautiful and scarce book.

London: Hodder and Stoughton. Cloth. Very good. Edmund Dulac. 10 x 7.5 inches (25.5 x 19 cm), green cloth, with gilt lettering and illustrations on front and spine. Wear to cloth on front, a few white marks on back, wear to head and foot of spine, edges and corners. Between front end paper and half title, the paper is partly separted from the inner hinge but still intact. There are 40 color plates illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Black and white illustrations at the beginning of each act. There is a prose description of the story written by A. T. Quiller-Couch. v-xxiv, 143pp.