DANCE IN THE DESERT
NY: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux;, [1978]. Pictures by Symeon Shimin. First Edition, first printing. 8vo., orange boards in dust jacket. Very Good (covers nice; contents clean & tight); price-clipped & very little wear d/j. More
NY: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux;, [1978]. Pictures by Symeon Shimin. First Edition, first printing. 8vo., orange boards in dust jacket. Very Good (covers nice; contents clean & tight); price-clipped & very little wear d/j. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company Inc., [1931]. Illustrated by the Petershams. First Edition. Scarce in dust jacket. 4to., pictorial blue boards in dust jacket. Very Good (covers nice; contents clean & tight); some wear (small chips & tears edges; rubbing to edges of spine) d/j. A nice copy..... More
London/Paris/New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons, [1891]. Illustrated with many chromolithographic plates. First Edition. A scarce Victorian-era children's book with wonderful illustrations. Small quarto: pictorial white boards with brown cloth spine; 77 pages. Very Good (little wear covers; contents clean & tight, ink presentation dated 1893 on front blank page)..... More
Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1925. Translated from the Danish of Frede-Thomsen by Antoinette D. Coursey Patterson. Illustrated by Jeannette Berkowitz. First Edition. An uncommon book. Small quarto: pictorial blue cloth, stamped in gilt with pictorial front panel; 296 pages. Very Good (covers bright; contents clean & tight with little..... More
NY: The Viking Press;, 1945. Illustrated By Velino Herrera. First Edition, third printing. A book about the Tewa Indian children of Tesuque Pueblo near Santa Fe. Quarto: decorative brown cloth in dust jacket; 56 pages. Very Good (covers nice; content clean & tight); little rubbing, tiny nicks & few short..... More
NY: The Viking Press;, 1933. Illustrated in color and black & white. First Edition. First Edition. A picture story book, into which have crept most of the Petersham's collection of toys from all countries. The chief characters are a three-legged horse, a boastful Hungarian soldier with one arm, and some..... More
[Neward,NJ]: Ye Paint Pot Publisher, 1928. Illustrated. Scarce First Edition. A Mother Goose title published by students of the Fawcett School of Industrial Arts. “Designed and Lettered By The Second Year Class.” Ida Wells Stroud was the Instructor. The Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art (NSFIA) was a city-run..... More
NY: Harper & Brothers, Publishers;, 1936. With Illustrations by the Author. First Edition (so stated). 8vo., orange pictorial boards in dust jacket; 28 pages. Very Good (minor bumping front corners, little browning along front & rear gutters); some rubbing (little edgewear, price-clipped) d/j. More
NY: The P.F. Volland Company;, [1927]. Illustrations by Ilona de Karekjarto. Third Edition. 12mo., orange pictorial boards; 39 pages. Very Good (little soil covers; contents clean & tight). More
NY: Grossett & Dunlap Publishers, [1956]. First Edition, appears to be the earliest printing. With this title listed last on the titles list page and with no mention of this title on the rear panel of the dust jacket. 12mo., blue tweed covers in dust jacket; 214 pages. Very good..... More
Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company;, [[1948]. First Edition. In The Better Little Books series: #1449. 64mo., pictorial boards; 286 pages. Very Good (minor wear with small, rubbed spot on spine; contents clean & tight); very tiny gouge fore-edge). More
NY: Grossett & Dunlap Publishers, [1942]. Illustrated endpapers. First Edition, later printing? With this title and "Sky Attack" listed on rear panel of d/j. 12mo., pictorial green cloth in dust jacket; 209 pages plus ads. Very Good (covers nice; contents clean & tight); minor wear & few very tiny tears..... More
Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company;, [1943]. An original story based on the Famous Newspaper Strip "DICK TRACY." Authorized Edition. An uncommon war-time production. 12mo., blue cloth in dust jacket; illustrated endpapers; in original d/j. Very Good (covers nice; contents clean & tight with light crease to upper corner of a...... More