Joilet, Illinois: P.F. Volland Company, 1929. First Edition. Oblong Quarto. (23.5 x 30 cm) Unpaginated. Half-cloth, pictorial paper boards with titles in script in yellow and blue. Green buckram spine. Pictorial endpapers. Some wear and loss of paper to corners and edges, unaffecting illustrations. Very slight soiling to boards but..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1979. First Edition. Folio. (40cm.x29cm.) 63pp. Ills. Color illustrated cardstock wrappers. Near Fine. Full page color reproductions of twenty-seven serigraph prints by artist, Will Barnett. These enigmatic and highly composed scenes are the product of decades of an artist moving from abstraction toward simplification. Barnett..... More
New York: Philomel Books, 1981. First Edition. Octavo. (30cm x 21cm.) 13 pp. ills. Photo illustrated, glossy coated boards. Inscribed with additional drawing by the author. All mechanicals working. Fine condition. Designer and illustrator of over 70 children's books, Eric Carle was inspired by the natural world and how to..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's, Circa 1960. Early Printing. Octavo. Six volumes. ills. Pictorial dust jackets. Full cloth in hunting green with gitl titles on spine. Royal purple endpapers. Mild edgewear and a few short, closed tears to some volumes. Overall, a bright and attractive set. Near Fine. Casanova --so complete..... More
Somerville, Massachusetts: Candlewick Press, 2013. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo. (21cm x 16cm) 232 pp.ills. Full red cloth, blindstamped partially eaten donut on front board, titles in gilt on spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. "Illuminated", in this case, means that Kate DiCamillo's novel..... More
France: Canson & Montgolfier, Unknown. Notebook. (12.5 cm. x 20 cm.) 17 pp. Horizontal Flip. Unruled. Beige cardstock wrappers. Brown cloth spine. Fine. Titles and coat of arms in Black on front wrapper. Horitzontal creasing to the front wrapper. Some minor edgewear to cloth spine. Small original purchase sticker affixed..... More
London, New York: Atheneum, Macmillan, 1979-1982. Goodall. Small Oblong Octavos. (14 x 19 cm.) Three volumes. Deep Maroon, Botanical Green, Smokey Green boards, respectively. Pictorial dust jackets. Very slight cocking to one volume. All in all, a Fine set. Created for young people, this set of bright, colorful and lively..... More
Cambridge, Mass: Candlewick Press, 2006. Later Printing. Octavo. (size) Unpaginated. ills. Illustrated dust jacket. Signed on publisher bookplate. Two stickers affixed to front dust jacket. Some mild edgewear. Near Fine. There are no rules about lions in the library -- yet. But librarian, Miss Merriweather, will have to make some..... More
Seattle, WA: Fantagraphics, 2016. Mixed. Folios. (34.5 cm. x 24 cm.) 112 pp. Illustrated slipcase. Illustrated wrappers. Some mild edgewear to slipcases. Insert in illustrated wrappers. All Near Fine. Fascinated by comics from an early age, Ed Piskor cut his cartooning teeth illustrating stories from Harvey Pekar's legendary "American Splendor"..... More
Paris: Editions Nilsson, 1932-1933. First Edition. Square Octavos. Lovely, two-volume set of books on women's fashions from the 15th through the 18th century. Each volume includes twenty plates with apparel choices that would have been worn by women of a higher status and would have been welcome at Europe's courts..... More
New York: New American Library, 1969. Special Signet Edition. Oblong Octavo. (11cm. x 18 cm.) Unpaginated. ills. Illustrated paper wrappers. Fine. A near-perfect copy of "Charlie Brown's All Stars" by Charles Schulz. This special Signet edition is in a larger, more child-friendly format than the smaller format, first paperback edition..... More
Pantheon Books, 2001. First Edition. Oblong Folio. (size) Unpaginated. Ills. Illustrated dust jacket. Full illustrated cover. Fine. Graphic designer specializing in dust jacket illustration, Chip Kidd, edits this collection of "Peanuts" comic strips created by legendary illustrator Charles Schulz. "The Art of Charles Schulz" is a study of the Peanuts..... More
New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2017. First Edition. Small Folio. (28 cm.) Unpaginated. Ills. Illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated boards. Fine. Winner of the Caldecott Award, "Radiant Child" is the biography of artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat. Artist and illustrator, Javaka Steptoe, visually recreates Basquiat's journey from his early childhood in Brooklyn..... More
Contemporary. Various Sizes. Acrylic gouache, ink, marker and watercolor on white paper. Vibrant and brilliant colors. Six hand drawn graphic characters. With one exception, all figures with titles or names. All characters are finished, with "Tea Woman" having two images on the page, one in sketched development. One untitled character..... More
Unknown: Circa 1940s. Cardstock. (14cm. x 14 cm.) Black illustrations on beige, heavy stock paper with some minor foxing. Near Fine. If anything helped folks get married in the last century, it was World War II which saw an explosion of nuptials despite rationing of nearly everything including the materials..... More
Unknown: Circa 1940s. Cardstock. (14cm x 15.5 cm.) Black illustration on beige, heavy stock paper. Light creasing and staining to the edges, not affecting images. Name in pencil at the bottom right corner. Fine. Because of the rationing and demands of World War II, immediate changes were made in the..... More
Circa 1940s. Cardstock. (14cm. x 14 cm.) Black illustrations on beige, heavy stock paper with some foxing and light staining to the edges, not affecting images. Fine. Fashion did not stop because of a World War. During the 1940s, leather was rationed for the war effort and women, who naturally..... More
San Diego: Idea and Design Works, 2009. Square Folio. (31 cm.) Unpaginated. Illustrated paper boards. Titles in black on spine and verso. Bleak but beautiful, "World War Robot" depicts the epic battle on Mars where human soldiers and their robots fight against an invading, organized force. Artist and illustrator, Ashley..... More