Search Results: Titles starting with W from Acme Book & Anvil

This is a 1920s reprint of the first octavoA edition of Water Babies with the beautiful full page, full-color Goble illustrations. There's a catch: the rare and expensive 1909 quarto edition has 32 plates, whilst all subsequent editions (such as this one) have 16. I usually like to trade in books with the same full complement of plates as the first edition. I'm loose about that with Goble because his first edition books have often never been reprinted in full, leaving us to get the Goble we can, and not always the Goble we want or deserve.

Red buckram boards and spine with pictorial gilt on front board. Top edge gilt. Sixteen full-page plates, including frontis, all present and in fine shape except the one facing page 35, which has come unbound and suffered some chipping on the top and right edge of its border. Book is solidly bound, straight and square. Some kid (Anita Newell) clearly enjoyed this book. Shelf and corner wear and spine cloth torn at the front board, but holding on as if by magic… Read More

Full color pastedown on front board, full color dust jacket in effect. This 1920s edition is identical to the 1915 Houghton Mifflin first edition in its text and layout, including 80(!) line illustrations by Heath Robinson, and all eight of his full-page color plates.

Book is solid, tight and square and nearly as new except for fading of the pictorial gilt spine and a minuscule tear at the top edge of the front endpapers. The faded gilt on the spine is solved, or at least put out of sight and mind, by a nice original dust jacket.

DJ is resplendent with minor chipping, small loss of paper on the spine top edge, and minor diffuse foxing -- which together make it both nicely presentable in itself and about the best DJ I've ever seen for one of these Riverside editions.

Red boards with pictorial spine, full color dust jacket. Identical to the 1915 Houghton Mifflin first edition in text, its 80 line illustrations, and most importantly, in having all eight of its full-page color plates by W. Heath Robinson.

Pretty strangely near-mint in binding and interior, including all plates. Some trivial foxing in the front and rear gutters. The dust jacket, which is sort of a big deal here, is in nice shape except for a small area of missing material on the bottom spine and top front corner. These are ameliorated by a classy archival sleeve. Price-clipped.