A Tale of Time City by Diana Wynne Jones - 1987

SCIESZKA, Jon. The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales. [Illustrated by Lane Smith]. [NY]: Viking [1992]. 8vo, [48]pp. Color pictorial boards. Patterned endpapers; color illustrations on every page. A fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (no medal affixed, price-clipped). Signed by the artist, Lane Smith, with a full-page drawing of the Stinky Cheese Man on the front free endpaper. Scarce thus.
First edition. 1993 Caldecott Honor Book! Following up on the success of their previous collaboration, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, this award-winning duo created 10 new tales filled with humor and heart. With its unconventional page arrangement, and eclectic, frenetic mix of text and pictures, this delightful spoof has captured readers imaginations for nearly 30 years and influenced a generation of picture book authors. Copies signed by Lane Smith have grown quite scarce.

LOVETT, Charles C. & Stephanie B. Lewis Carroll's Alice. An Annotated Checklist of The Lovett Collection. Westport, CT/London: Meckler [1990]. 8vo, xviii 548pp. Red cloth stamped in gold foil. One color plate and 20 pages of b&w photographs. Minute rubbing to spine ends, else a fine copy.
First and only edition. An annotated checklist detailing the nearly two-thousand item collection of Charles and Stephanie Lovett, avid collectors of the works of Lewis Carroll who had each also served as two-time presidents of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America. A vital reference work for any collectors interested in building a library of Alice.

HYMAN, Trina Schart. The Sleeping Beauty. From the Brothers Grimm. Boston: Little, Brown [1977]. 8vo, [48]pp. Brown cloth stamped in gold. Marbled endpapers; color illustrations on every page. A fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket. Inscribed by the author/artist, Caldecott Medalist Trina Schart Hyman.
First edition. The first of Trina Schart Hyman's achingly beautiful illustrated fairy tales, The Sleeping Beauty is one of her most lush and beautiful picture books. In spread after spread, Hyman captures the magic and grandeur of this ageless tale.

WEATHERFORD, Carole Boston. Box. Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom. Illustrated by Michele Wood. [Somerville, MA]: Candlewick [2020]. Oblong 8vo, [56]pp. Color pictorial boards. Black endpapers; color illustrations on nearly every page. A fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (no medal affixed). With a bookplate signed by Newbery Honor author Carole Boston Weatherford.
First edition. 2021 Newbery Honor Book! Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be known as Box, he "entered the world a slave." Put to work as a child and passed down from one generation to the next — as property – he lost his wife and children when they were sold away out of spite. But Henry Brown found hope — and help —in the form of the Underground Railroad. And escaped enclosed in a box!

LEIBER, Fritz. The Worlds of Fritz Leiber. With a New Introduction by Justin Leiber. Boston: Gregg Press, 1979. 8vo, xii 340pp. Green cloth with spine stamped in red and gold. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. Signed by the author, Fritz Leiber. Scarce signed.
First hardcover edition, being a photographic reprint of the 1976 Ace Books paperback edition. A collection of 22 stories from one of the masters of the science fiction genre, including his 1976 Hugo-winning "Catch That Zeppelin!" Also featured in this collection are both of Leiber's stories about Dr. Dragonet, the story "When the Change-Winds Blow" from his "Change War" stories, and the story "The Bait" which appears in the sixth book of The Saga of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. All Gregg Press titles were printed on acid-free paper, sewn and bound in library-grade cloth bindings stamped with a color panel and gold lettering, and issued without dust jackets. Most of their print runs were under 500 copies, with no title ever selling more… Read More

SCIESZKA, Jon. The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales. [Illustrated by Lane Smith]. [NY]: Viking [1992]. 8vo, [48]pp. Color pictorial boards. Patterned endpapers; color illustrations on every page. A fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (no medal affixed, price-clipped). Signed by the artist, Lane Smith, with a full-page drawing of the Stinky Cheese Man on the front free endpaper. Scarce thus.
First edition. 1993 Caldecott Honor Book! Following up on the success of their previous collaboration, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, this award-winning duo created 10 new tales filled with humor and heart. With its unconventional page arrangement, and eclectic, frenetic mix of text and pictures, this delightful spoof has captured readers imaginations for nearly 30 years and influenced a generation of picture book authors. Copies signed by Lane Smith have grown quite scarce.

LOVETT, Charles C. & Stephanie B. Lewis Carroll's Alice. An Annotated Checklist of The Lovett Collection. Westport, CT/London: Meckler [1990]. 8vo, xviii 548pp. Red cloth stamped in gold foil. One color plate and 20 pages of b&w photographs. Minute rubbing to spine ends, else a fine copy.
First and only edition. An annotated checklist detailing the nearly two-thousand item collection of Charles and Stephanie Lovett, avid collectors of the works of Lewis Carroll who had each also served as two-time presidents of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America. A vital reference work for any collectors interested in building a library of Alice.

HYMAN, Trina Schart. The Sleeping Beauty. From the Brothers Grimm. Boston: Little, Brown [1977]. 8vo, [48]pp. Brown cloth stamped in gold. Marbled endpapers; color illustrations on every page. A fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket. Inscribed by the author/artist, Caldecott Medalist Trina Schart Hyman.
First edition. The first of Trina Schart Hyman's achingly beautiful illustrated fairy tales, The Sleeping Beauty is one of her most lush and beautiful picture books. In spread after spread, Hyman captures the magic and grandeur of this ageless tale.

WEATHERFORD, Carole Boston. Box. Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom. Illustrated by Michele Wood. [Somerville, MA]: Candlewick [2020]. Oblong 8vo, [56]pp. Color pictorial boards. Black endpapers; color illustrations on nearly every page. A fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (no medal affixed). With a bookplate signed by Newbery Honor author Carole Boston Weatherford.
First edition. 2021 Newbery Honor Book! Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be known as Box, he "entered the world a slave." Put to work as a child and passed down from one generation to the next — as property – he lost his wife and children when they were sold away out of spite. But Henry Brown found hope — and help —in the form of the Underground Railroad. And escaped enclosed in a box!

LEIBER, Fritz. The Worlds of Fritz Leiber. With a New Introduction by Justin Leiber. Boston: Gregg Press, 1979. 8vo, xii 340pp. Green cloth with spine stamped in red and gold. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. Signed by the author, Fritz Leiber. Scarce signed.
First hardcover edition, being a photographic reprint of the 1976 Ace Books paperback edition. A collection of 22 stories from one of the masters of the science fiction genre, including his 1976 Hugo-winning "Catch That Zeppelin!" Also featured in this collection are both of Leiber's stories about Dr. Dragonet, the story "When the Change-Winds Blow" from his "Change War" stories, and the story "The Bait" which appears in the sixth book of The Saga of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. All Gregg Press titles were printed on acid-free paper, sewn and bound in library-grade cloth bindings stamped with a color panel and gold lettering, and issued without dust jackets. Most of their print runs were under 500 copies, with no title ever selling more… Read More