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
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Tavistock Books is on vacation from January 21, 2023 to February 7, 2023. Beginning at 4:30 pm today, Saturday January 21st, and until 9am Tuesday, February 7th, I will be in Reno spending time with my family. Orders may certainly be placed, though shipment will be until after my return to Alameda. I thank you for your patience & understanding.
KENTUCKY DERBY WINNER. Famous Horse Stories
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1949). Reprint. 224 pp. Illustrated. 12mo. Hardback. Dust jacket ($1.25 price). More
DARK SUNSHINE.
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
A SHIMMER Of JOY. One Hundred Children's Picture Books in America.
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
MYSTERY FLIGHT Of The Q2.
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
The MYSTERY Of HARRIS BURDICK.
[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
CHARLES MURRAY. No. 431. IV. Series.; Revised by the Committee of Publication of the American Sunday School Union.
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
LILY And Her DOLL. 903.
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
MY FLOWER - POT.
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
The HISTORY Of PETER THOMSON. In Two Parts. Series IV. No. IX.; By the author of Noonday and evening; Cottage friends; Shepherd's son, &c.
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
CHILDREN'S BOOKS Of YESTERDAY. The Studio Special Autumn Number.
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
The PRACTICAL JOKE; or The Christmas Story of Uncle Ned. Third Series. - No. 3.
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
The BOY With The U.S. DIPLOMATS. U.S. Service Series #15.
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
ANGELICA And OTHER CATS. Rhymes and Cut Paper Pictures.; With an Introduction by Marjorie Batchelder McPharlin.
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
YOURS VERY SINCERELY, C. L. DODGSON (alias "Lewis Carroll").; An Exhibition from the Jon A. Lindseth Collection of C. L. Dodgson and Lewis Carroll on View at the Grolier Club April 1 through May 29, 1998.
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
LION And The OSTRICH CHICKS.
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
SQUAW DOG.
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
From TROPIC To TROPIC; or, Frank Reade Jr.'s Latest Tour With His Bicycle Car. Frank Reade Library. Vol. V. No. 110. October 5, 1892.
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
The MAGIC MINE: or, Frank Reade, Jr's Trip Up the Yukon With His Electric Combination Traveller. Frank Reade Library. Vol. VII. No. 176. January 7, 1898
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
FRANK READE And His ELECTRIC CAR; Or, Outwitting a Desperate Gang. Frank Reade Library. Vol. IV. No. 101. February 22, 1895.
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
BYRON'S NARRATIVE, CONTAINING ACCOUNT Of The GREAT DISTRESS SUFFERED By HIMSELF And COMPANIONS On The COASTS Of PATAGONIA; From the Year 1740, till their Arrival in England 1746, with a Description of St. Iago de Chili, And the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants; Also a Relation of the Loss of the Wager Man of War, One of Admiral Anson's Squadron. Juvenile Library.
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
JUMP! The Adventures of Brer Rabbit.; Adapted by Van Dyke Parks & Malcolm Jones.
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1986). 40 pp. Illustrated by Barry Moser. 4to. Hardcover. Dust jacket. More
GARRY GRAYSON'S HILL STREET ELEVEN of The Football Boys of Lenox. Garry Greyson Series #1
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
JEAN CRAIG FINDS ROMANCE.
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
The RIDDLE Of The STONE ELEPHANT. Ken Holt Mysteries #2.
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