MIDNIGHT. Famous Horse Stories
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1940). Reprint. 275, [1 (blank)] pp. Illustrated by Jacob Bates Abbott. 12mo. Hardback. Dust jacket ($1.25 price). More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1940). Reprint. 275, [1 (blank)] pp. Illustrated by Jacob Bates Abbott. 12mo. Hardback. Dust jacket ($1.25 price). More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1949). Reprint. 224 pp. Illustrated. 12mo. Hardback. Dust jacket ($1.25 price). More
New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., (1951). Early printing. [6], 244, [6 (blank)] pp. Illustrated by Wesley Dennis. 8vo. 8-1/4" x 5-1/2". Linen cloth spine over green cloth boards. Dust jacket, with $2.75 price. More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2019. 1st Edition. Signed / Limited #115 / 200 cc. 329, [3] pp. Prospectus accompanies, as does BCC TLs. Illustrated in color. Small folio. 11-1/4" x 8-5/8". Original red cloth binding with gilt stamping. Red marbled eps. Issued without jacket... More
Chicago: Reilly & Lee Co., (1932). 1st printing (presumed). 270, [2 (blank)] pp. 12mo. Maroon cloth binding with stamped black lettering. Full color dust jacket. Advert lists Covington titles published prior to Q2. More
[Boston]: Houghton Mifflin Company, [1984]. 1st printing. SIGNED by the author. Broadside, ~ 27-5/8" x 23-1/2". Black & white image of a man about to crush a lamp with a chair. Now housed, folded, in an archival mylar sleeve. Van Allsburg "is an American illustrator and writer of children's books..... More
Philadelphia: American Sunday - School Union, No. 1122 Chestnut St. (n. d.). Ca latter 19th C. 16 pp. Cut to front cover, as well as p. 1. 32mo. 4-1/4" x 2-3/4". Printed buff paper covers, sewn. Rear wrapper prints "A Hymn". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. The American..... More
London: The Religious Tract Society, 56 Paternoster Row, and 65 St. Paul's Churchyard; Sold by the Booksellers. (n. d.). ca 1860. 32 pp. Cut to t.p., p. 3, 32 & rear cover. 4-1/8" x 2-11/16" Printed buff paper covers, sewn. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Date of publication..... More
Concord, N. H. Rufus Merrill and Co., (n. d.). Ca 1850. Not in the Osborne Catalogue, Gumuchian, nor the Spencer Catalogue. 16 pp. Cut to each page. 16mo. 4-5/16" x 2-13/16". Original pale yellow wrappers printed in black ink, sewn. Front wrapper with decorative border & vignette. Rear wrapper with..... More
New-York: The American Tract Society, 144 Nassau-St. Fanshaw, Printer. (n. d.). Ca. 1829 - 1832 (cf. AAS Catalog Record #246852). Not in Rosenbach. 36 pp. Front wrapper with ornamental border & woodcut vignette. T.p. cut, 19 additional cuts, 3 full page. 5-1/2" x 3-7/16". Printed pale green covers, sewn. "2..... More
New York: The Studio Publications, 1933. 1st Edition. 128 pp. Adverts at front. Profusely illustrated. 11-5/8" x 8". Green cloth binding with blue title lettering stamped to front board and spine. Green dust jacket with blue graphic and title lettering printed to front panel and spine. More
New York: Kiggins & Kellogg, 88 John Street. (n. d.). Ca 1849 - 1856. OCLC records just one copy with this earlier "88 John Street" imprint [Free Libary of Philadelphia]. Not in the Spencer Collection Catalogue. 16 pp. Illustrated with 7 cuts, with 1 signed: Barritt sc.; 2 - W...... More
Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, (1923). Circa late 20s/early 30s. xii, [2], 349, [5] pp. 4 pp of adverts @ rear. Illustrated with plates. 12mo. Blue cloth with black lettering (binding style #4). Lt blue dust jacket (style #2). More
Santa Fé, NM: The Lightning Tree - Jene Lyon, Publisher, (1986). 1st Edition. Copy #24 of 200, SIGNED by Marjorie Batcheldger McPharlin. Unpaginated. Main text printed recto only. Illustrated. 4to. White buckram cloth with red & black stamped spine lettering. Orange paper eps. Grey slipcase. More
New York: The Grolier Club, 1998. 1st edition Ltd to 1400 cc. 63 pp. illustrated. 4to. 11" x 8". Grey paper wrappers printed in purple, with photographic image of Carroll to the front cover. More
New York: Atheneum, 1986. 1st edition. INSCRIBED & SIGNED by the author. 87 pp. Illustrated by Bryan (some color). 8vo. Yellow cloth binding. Dust jacket. Inscribed by Bryan on the ffep & with the title page signed. More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1965. BCE. INSCRIBED & SIGNED by the author & John Beatty. 188, [4] pp. Illustrated by Franz Altschuler. 8vo. Hardback. Green map eps. Dust jacket. More
New York: Frank Tousey, Publisher, 34 & 36 North Moore Street, 1892. Early, if not first, printing of this edition. Series advert to rear cover lists through #112 of the series. 14, [2] pp. Text triple column. Adverts last 2-1/2 pages. Large wood engraved image to front wrapper. 11-1/2" x...... More
New York: Frank Tousey, Publisher, 34 & 36 North Moore Street, 1898. Early, if not first, printing of this edition. Series advert to rear cover lists through #173 of the series. 14, [2] pp. Text triple column. Adverts last 2-1/2 pages. Large wood engraved image to front wrapper. 11-5/8" x...... More
New York: Frank Tousey, Publisher, 34 & 36 North Moore Street, 1895. Early reprint of this edition. Series advert to rear cover lists through #173 of the series. 15, [1] pp. Text triple column. Advert last page. Large wood engraved image to front wrapper. 11-5/8" x 8-1/2". Printed paper wrappers..... More
London: Printed for S. and A. Davis, Radcliffe Highway. J. Jordan, Printer. 1818. 1st edition thus. Not in the Hill Collection Catalogue. 168 pp. Frontis leaf included in pagination. Frontispiece. 3 internal plates. 16mo. 5-1/2" x 3-1/2". Period black leather spine over marbled paper boards. Flat back. Gilt stamping to..... More
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1986). 40 pp. Illustrated by Barry Moser. 4to. Hardcover. Dust jacket. More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1926). Early printing, ca 1927. [4], 216, [4 (adverts)] pp. Frontispiece, on coated paper, by Walter S. Rogers. 12mo. 7-5/8" x 5-1/8". Pale green cloth binding with dark green lettering. Dust jacket. Jacket lists through #5, Stanley Prep. More
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, (1948). Later printing, ca 1952. 212, [4] pp. Illustrated. 12mo. 7-1/2" x 5-1/8". Grey & pale green paper wrapped boards. Red edgestain. More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1949). Later printing, ca 1956. vii, [3], 213, [1 (blank)] pp. Frontispiece. 12mo. Linen cloth with dark black lettering & top edge dark green. Green pictorial eps. Greet topstain. Dust jacket. Series adverts list through "Vanishing Magician" More