Closed dimensions: 13 1/2" H x 13 1/2" W. "Open up this spectacular playset and join Noddy and his friends in Toy Town! You can bring the wonderful world of Toy Town to life with an amazing array of pop-ups, plus press-outs of Noddy, his little car, and all your other favourite Toy Town characters. There's a special booklet for you to read about Noddy's busy life - and you'll enjoy lots of your own adventures in Toy Town too!" "WARNING: CONTAINS SMALL PARTS. NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN UNDER 36 MONTHS." Still in original publisher's shrinkwrap. A tiny dent on bottom edge of both boards, lea... View More...
Closed dimensions: 13 1/2" H x 13 1/2" W. "Open up this spectacular playset and join Noddy and his friends in Toy Town! You can bring the wonderful world of Toy Town to life with an amazing array of pop-ups, plus press-outs of Noddy, his little car, and all your other favourite Toy Town characters. There's a special booklet for you to read about Noddy's busy life - and you'll enjoy lots of your own adventures in Toy Town too!" "WARNING: CONTAINS SMALL PARTS. NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN UNDER 36 MONTHS." Still in original publisher's shrinkwrap. Slight lean to spine View More...
284 pp, 8vo (8 5/8" H). B&w illustrations - collated. "For more than a generation 'The Pink 'Un', as 'The Sporting Times' was familiarly known, occupied a position unique in the journalistic world - a position which no paper to-day has achieved. It was more than a mere journal for the sportsman and man about town; it established itself as a social centre of a highly specialized nature, and its readers constituted a species of home and overseas club, whose bond of fellowship was good humour and good sportsmanship." Chapter headings: The "Pink 'Un" World; The "Pink 'Un" and the Stage; The Acto... View More...
48 pp, 12" H. Beautifully illustrated thoughout in monotone with reproductions of Edward Ardizzone's specially produced Christmas cards. "(A) brief, but warm and personal account by Edward Booth-Clibborn of the long friendship between his father (known professionally as an artist under the name of Augustin Booth) and Edward Ardizzone. They met as art students, though Augustin was several years older than Edward, and remained lasting friends until Augustin died in 1969. The lasting bond of their friendship is the succession of Christmas cards which Edward and Catherine sent out annually and... View More...
Unpaginated (approx. 24 pages), 9 3/4" H. Black & white and blue & black illustrations. The little donkey who was present at the nativity, bore Mary & Jesus on their flight to Egypt and Jesus on his entry in Jerusalem, tells his story. Interior - small 1969 Christmas greeting in ink on first page. Exterior - some minor soft wrinkling on covers, some very light brown speckles on front cover illustration/title area, a few small areas of light browning marks on covers. View More...
216 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H). B&w illustrations. "In the course of thirty-five years, the eminent American artist Marcia Brown has written and spoken eloquently concerning children, pictures, and books. This volume brings together thirteen of those major statements, including her three Caldecott acceptance speeches, as well as a moving memoir of her first editor, Alice Dalgliesh. The reader will find here astute comments on books published for children during the past three decades, glimpses of Marcia Brown's early years as a teacher and a storyteller in the New York Public Library, observations... View More...
216 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H). B&w illustrations. "In the course of thirty-five years, the eminent American artist Marcia Brown has written and spoken eloquently concerning children, pictures, and books. This volume brings together thirteen of those major statements, including her three Caldecott acceptance speeches, as well as a moving memoir of her first editor, Alice Dalgliesh. The reader will find here astute comments on books published for children during the past three decades, glimpses of Marcia Brown's early years as a teacher and a storyteller in the New York Public Library, observations... View More...
168 pp, 4to (11 1/4" H). "Swashbuckling, romantic, mysterious, fantastical - all these words can be used to describe the art in this splendid book of 'wondrous strange' paintings by four great American artists. Conceived and entitled by Betsy James Wyeth, (it) focuses on an aspect of American realism that stems from the great turn-of-the-century illustrator Howard Pyle and continues in the work of his student N.C. Wyeth, N.C.'s son Andrew Wyeth, and his grandson Jamie Wyeth. The thread that links the four artists is an imaginative, often disquieting, dreamlike imagery - 'the incarnation of... View More...
216 pp + publisher's catalog, 8vo (8 7/16" H). Profusely illustrated with Busch's b&w cartoons. Bilingual text (English/German). "Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908), endowed with an equipotent facility with sketch-pad and rhyming dictionary, created during his career some of the most arresting sketches and drollest verses the world has ever seen. Few men since his time have shown the same ability to match simple yet penetrating pictures with rollicking, quotable verse. In his native Germany he is still by all odds the best-loved creator of illustrated light verse. (Many of his pithy aphorisms have long... View More...
48 pp + 24 colour plates (reproductions of illustrations from the 1875 edition, printed on one side of leaf only), 9 1/2" H. "By the 1870s, Patience was already a popular pastime, and it is surprising to learn that Lady Adelaide's compilation was the first on the subject to appear in the English language. (It) became, and remained, a best seller. It has been reprinted many times, but without the elegant and colourful plates that made it 'the' coffe-table book of London society during the latter half of Queen Victoria's reign and throughout that of Edward VII. The book delighted me so much th... View More...
135 pp, 9" H. Playfully inscribed (with the addition of several 'faces') - "To David / from / Hoggbound Barry". Colour illustrations. "Barry Callaghan originally created 'The Hogg Poems and Drawings' during the 1970s and published them in 1978. (I)n 1988, Callaghan published 'Stone Blind Love', which was soon recognized by him and others, as pure Hogg, in spite of its ostensible topic - a dying mother. Now Callaghan has combined the two, edited them, revised them. The result is the present volume, which gives us the entire text and a good section of the drawings; in other words, the entire vi... View More...
125 pp, 11 1/4" H. "Eric Carle is one of the world's most beloved artists of children's books. Creator of the classic 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar', he has captured the imagination of millions of children and adults with his bold, colorful collage illustrations. (His) life and work are explored in this comprehensive portrait that includes: more than sixty full-color illustrations from his books; artwork from his student days; a moving autobiographical account of his life, with photographs; anecdotal reflections by Ann Beneduce, his longtime friend and editor of 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'... View More...
112 pp, 10" H. Colour and b&w illustrations by artists of the Golden Age of book illustration, including Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, Walter Crane, W. Heath Robinson, Margaret Tarrant, Harry Clarke and others. "Contains seven different versions of the story of Bluebeard. It includes an in-depth introduction to the fairy tale genre itself, as well as the folkloric provenance of the 'Bluebeard' story. It encompasses folk tales such as 'La Barbe Bleue' by Charles Perrault, 'Fitcher's Bird' by the Brothers Grimm, Joseph Jacob's 'Mr. Fox', the Indian Legend of 'The Brahman Girl who Married a Tige... View More...
343 pp, 8vo (9" H) - medium brown cloth with dark brown lettering on spine and front board, illustration of a pot on front board. Pictorial endpapers, b&w illustrations. The first illustrated trade edition. Set in New Mexico in the second half of the 19th century, this is a story of the interaction between the respresentatives of the Catholic Church and the local and native people. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, a few pages slightly roughly opened at bottom edge - mainly at front of book and at page 331, a few pages at rear of book not opened, moderate browning to edges of tex... View More...
Unpaginated, 12 3/4" H. 15 tipped-in colour reproductions (many double-page) and 3 b&w illustrations in text. As well as the Introduction by Andrei Chegodayev, the book includes a section entitled "Rockwell Kent on Art: Excerpts from 'It's Me O Lord' ", and a Biographical Outline. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor wear at top of rear hinge, small punch hole and very small soiling mark on rear cover View More...
Unpaginated, oblong (7" H x 8 1/4" D). Plain yellow/orange card covers with decorated dust jacket. Printed on buff-coloured stockwith illustrations in black/red/buff. From the first edition of 1000 copies. "Galahad found the Holy Grail and saved the order. He died clutching it. In that last moment of consciousness he realised he had lived his whole life in order to die finding the Holy Grail. Oh well, he thought, Georgina has grown old and ugly and I've been hiding a paunch under my armour. I never would have enjoyed retirement." An offbeat rendering of the life of Galahad, the perfect knight... View More...
243 pp, 8vo (8" H). B&w illustrations. "Originally published in 1896, this survey of book illustration is both a comprehensive guide to many facets of early work in the field and important evidence of Victorian taste and the influences which shaped it. Walter Crane, as a leading designer and illustrator, was exceptionally well placed to survey the subject - indeed, some of the finest pieces among over 100 drawings reproduced here are those by Crane himself. Crane begins by describing the artist's role in producing manuscripts and early printed books up to the end of the sixteenth century, ... View More...
107 pp, 4to (11 3/4" H). B&w and monotone illustrations throughout. "(A) book of foxhunting ways - and means. The ways are as fully discussed as the means - the ways in which things should be done, and other ways in which things are (or are not) done. Through all the book the threads of the hunting theme, grave and gay, are gathered together to weave a foxhunting whole for young, and not so young, for newcomer and expert." Pages browning lightly at edges, book lightly cracked at spine in a few place, but pages are not loose and the book is clean and sound overall. Edges of boards/spine light... View More...
Unpaginated (approx. 45 pp.), small 4to (10 1/2" H). Wonderfully detailed full page b&w illustrations, every text page bordered by monochrome illustrations of insects. Young Caleb van Doorn is a genius, obsessed with insects. One day, he disappears and some think he may have been murdered - but his college roommate thinks otherwise - he believes Caleb may have evolved into one of his beloved creatures. Very minor rubbing/edgewear - a clean, bright copy. View More...
Unpaginated (approx. 45 pp.), small 4to (10 1/2" H). Wonderfully detailed full page b&w illustrations, every text page bordered by monochrome illustrations of insects. Young Caleb van Doorn is a genius, obsessed with insects. One day, he disappears and some think he may have been murdered - but his college roommate thinks otherwise - he believes Caleb may have evolved into one of his beloved creatures. Minor wear at the top/bottom edge of the spine. Dust jacket has very minor rubbing. View More...
