[Original Drawings]: Cavafy Poems by MARSHALL, James - 1971

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985. Hardcover. Fine. First edition thus, with pictures by Maurice Sendak. Publisher's presentation issue. Full gray morocco gilt. One of a handful of copies, perhaps as few as five, prepared by the publisher for presentation to the author, and for very limited distribution from the publisher. Bound from the unbound sheets of the signed and limited edition, this copy Signed by Sendak, but unnumbered. Possibly the only copy ever to reach the marketplace, this copy was retained by the binder. We've never seen another. Classic Czechoslovakian novel illustrated by Sendak.

New York: Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, (1964). First edition thus: collecting seven stories previously published separately. Illustrations for each story and on front cover by Sendak. Stories deal with various situations or conflicts children might encounter and demonstrate ways to deal with them. Includes "On Your Mark," "Jacob's Friendliest Town," "The Crankiest Man on Main Street," "Down the Old Bear Trail," "Johnny Red Feather," "Lonesome Feet," and "The Secret." Small, white-and-yellow, faintly soiled pictorial paperwraps showing light creasing to page-top corners. Very good to near fine. Scarce issue. SCARCE FIRST COMBINED EDITION

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. From TBCL's Children's Bookcase. First Edition, first printing of the fourth and final Eloise book inspired by the antics of the author's goddaughter, Liza Minnelli. A fine copy in orange paper covered boards, black titles and decorations in a lovely, crisp, pictorial dustwrapper that has been lightly and expertly restored. Bold and sassy illustrations by Hilary Knight. 4to. 66 pp. Unpaginated. A modern classic of children's literature, noted children's book illustrator and author Maurice Sendak called Eloise, "that brazen loose-limbed delicious little girl monster". TBCL.

New York: Harper & Brothers. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1955. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A most attractive first edition/first printing [Hanrahan A18] in Fine condition in Near Fine dustjacket. Some chipping and soiling of dustjacket, but in general it is clean and bright; The fantasy story of a little girl, named Charlotte, and her little white horse, Milky Way from the time Milky Way was born and took his first wobbly steps and from the beginning of the day to the end when Charlotte tells him goodnight and leaves her horse a bowl of water, hay, and oats; 16mo .

New York: Harper & Row, 1963. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition with the publisher's price and the correct first issue code on the front flap. Cloth and papercovered illustrated boards. A bit of foxing to the boards, near fine in a modestly toned, very good dustwrapper with a couple of faint splash marks. Nicely Inscribed by Sendak in 1966 with a small drawing of a dog.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985. Hardcover. Fine. First edition thus, with pictures by Maurice Sendak. Publisher's presentation issue. Full gray morocco gilt. One of a handful of copies, perhaps as few as five, prepared by the publisher for presentation to the author, and for very limited distribution from the publisher. Bound from the unbound sheets of the signed and limited edition, this copy Signed by Sendak, but unnumbered. Possibly the only copy ever to reach the marketplace, this copy was retained by the binder. We've never seen another. Classic Czechoslovakian novel illustrated by Sendak.

New York: Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, (1964). First edition thus: collecting seven stories previously published separately. Illustrations for each story and on front cover by Sendak. Stories deal with various situations or conflicts children might encounter and demonstrate ways to deal with them. Includes "On Your Mark," "Jacob's Friendliest Town," "The Crankiest Man on Main Street," "Down the Old Bear Trail," "Johnny Red Feather," "Lonesome Feet," and "The Secret." Small, white-and-yellow, faintly soiled pictorial paperwraps showing light creasing to page-top corners. Very good to near fine. Scarce issue. SCARCE FIRST COMBINED EDITION

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. From TBCL's Children's Bookcase. First Edition, first printing of the fourth and final Eloise book inspired by the antics of the author's goddaughter, Liza Minnelli. A fine copy in orange paper covered boards, black titles and decorations in a lovely, crisp, pictorial dustwrapper that has been lightly and expertly restored. Bold and sassy illustrations by Hilary Knight. 4to. 66 pp. Unpaginated. A modern classic of children's literature, noted children's book illustrator and author Maurice Sendak called Eloise, "that brazen loose-limbed delicious little girl monster". TBCL.

New York: Harper & Brothers. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1955. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A most attractive first edition/first printing [Hanrahan A18] in Fine condition in Near Fine dustjacket. Some chipping and soiling of dustjacket, but in general it is clean and bright; The fantasy story of a little girl, named Charlotte, and her little white horse, Milky Way from the time Milky Way was born and took his first wobbly steps and from the beginning of the day to the end when Charlotte tells him goodnight and leaves her horse a bowl of water, hay, and oats; 16mo .

New York: Harper & Row, 1963. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition with the publisher's price and the correct first issue code on the front flap. Cloth and papercovered illustrated boards. A bit of foxing to the boards, near fine in a modestly toned, very good dustwrapper with a couple of faint splash marks. Nicely Inscribed by Sendak in 1966 with a small drawing of a dog.