Search Results: Extraordinary Illustrations from Hatfield Books and Memorabilia

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1946 Reprint of 1930 Random House edition, featuring the illustrations of DONALD MCKAY. NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD. HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER, presents THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER in a reprint edition featuring the coveted DONALD MCKAY illustrations. ORIGINAL UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. Mr McKay (who died only ten years ago) is famous for illustrating the history of the island of Manhattan from the ground up, and from the mastodon era all the way through the skyscrapers. A twin to the same edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (which see), this hardcover is NOT the Illustrated Junior Library Edition, and DOES HAVE THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. 5 1/2" x 8 1/8', 305 pages, with decorated end papers showing a group of boys by the white board fence, color and b/w illustrations throughout Pages = Near Fine: page 97/98 has 1/4" chip, very slight tanning, else very clear, text sharp, corners sharp, tight to spine, very colorful pictures, no marks Cover (red… Read More

London: Octopus Books, 1974. FIRST BRITISH EDITION THUS, FIRST PRINTING THUS. Hardcover. NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD +. HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER, presents ALL COLOR BOOK OF SEASHELLS. 100 color illustrations (some of them full page sized) of the world's most beautiful and intricate seashells are nicely fitted into this 72 page oversize (8 3/4" x 11 /2", may require additional postage) hard cover, including the ORIGINAL UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. Reverse covers and first fep's are reproduced color photos of a beach with shells. FIRST BRITISH EDITION THUS, FIRST PRINTING THUS, printed in London stated. Overall book is NEAR FINE, with a Very Good Plus dust jacket. Pages = AS NEW. Cover (light green cloth boards with shell designs front and back in browns and white, particulars in white on spine only) = Near Fine: heavily sunned front and back, else clear, tight, sharp with no markings. Unclipped original dust jacket (blue glossy stiff paper with full color reproductions of shells… Read More

New York: Thomas Y Crowell Co., 1956. First edition, as stated; First Printing thus. Very Good. Aldren A Watson. HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER, presents ALL FOR A FRIEND a VERY RARE second children's book by KAY AVERY, who wrote a great many in the genre. Includes Dust Jacket (flaps only) pasted to reverse front cover and first fep. Illustrated by ALDREN WATSON (died in 2013), who was a professional artist, author, book illustrator, printmaker, hand book binder, and master woodworker. Mr. Watson illustrated over 75 books. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, FIRST PRINTING THUS. 5 1/2" x 8 1/8", 183 pages, with DUST JACKET flaps pasted in(in perfect condition). Overall book is Very Good Minus. Pages = slight folding of upper corner, pages 43/44 chipped outer edge, former library with all accoutrements thereto, else clear, tight, sharp, no internal marks. Cover (salmon cloth boards, with black particulars on spine) = Very Good: spine frayed at top, bottom and middle, well worn along… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION THUS, FIRST PRINTING VIA NUMBER ROW, with ORIGINAL UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. AS NEW/FINE. HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER, presents a FIRST PRINTING of ARTS OF WOOD, an illustrated survey of everyday wooden artwork made by various primitive cultures. 8 1/8" x 8 1/8", 64 page hard cover, including numerous sepia Illustrations and maps, together with the ORIGINAL UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. The overall book is AS NEW. The front and back end papers are solid brown. The cover is light brown cloth boards, with dark brown drawings and particulars--VERY ATTRACTIVE! The ORIGINAL DUST JACKET (2-tone brown paper with multiple designs and particulars in both colors) = NEAR FINE: 2 tiny chips from top edge, bottom edge slightly rubbed, else colorful, clear. no other marks or blemishes.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1972. FINE. HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER, presents a FIRST PRINTING of by Rodman E. Snead, explaining the evolution of geological features around the world. This 188 page oversize paperback book includes an extensive index, plus numerous maps, diagrams and illustrations. Not printed since 1982, this book is HARD TO FIND, particularly in this condition. 8 3/8" x 11" oversized (may require additional postage) softcover. Overall book is FINE. Pages = Fine: Slightly yellowed, owner's name and addy on reverse front cover, yet tight, clear, sharp, no additional marks. Cover (glossy mauve stiff cardboard with red and white illustrations and brown particulars) = Near Fine: small horizontal creases on front lower right, sunning to back, else tight, sharp and square.

HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER presents "BY LAND & WATER, A Trip Personally Conducted by McLoughlin Bros., 623 Broadway, New York, the Pictures by R. [Richard} Andre, Copyrighted 1889." 10" x 12 ¼", 18 pages (first and last of which are pasted to the reverse covers), no dust jacket. Extremely scarce Victorian children's book with fanciful illustrations by well known British artist of the time, Richard Andre. McLoughlin Brothers hired as many as 75 artists for their factory and experimented with color reproduction. Each illustrated page contains a small poem. Half the illustrations are full color, and the other half shades of black, white, and tan. Overall condition = FAIR. Pages (heavy paper) are held to back cover by threads, front cover nearly separated, thin red binder tape present but no longer functioning. Pages 14/15 has 2" tear to bottom, designed rounded corners are worn, else whole, bright, and clearly readable. NOTED APPRAISER JAMES BEATTIE has attributed a… Read More

New York: E P Dutton and Company, 1972. FIRST EDITION STATED, FIRST PRINTING THUS. Hardcover. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. Eliot Porter, photographer. HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER, presents BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA, 64 gorgeous, full color, full page plates and 2 black and white plates in a 144 page book. Eliot Porter was a world famous 20th Century photographer, and in this beautiful "coffee table" book he has meticulously rendered the color plates via the "dye transfer" process. Porter also explains in careful prose his process, his career, and his favorite birds. 10 3/4" x 12 1/4" (oversized, may require additional postage), 144 pages including index, with complete original dust jacket. Overall book is NEAR FINE. Pages are Near Fine: end papers have considerable foxing, rest of pages are white, clear, tight, sharp, with no marks. Cover (forest green cloth boards with gold gilt particulars on spine) = Fine: sunning to very top edge of front, else tight, sharp, square, bright,… Read More

New York: Shorewood Publishers Inc., 1965. FIRST EDITION THUS. Hardcover with ORIGINAL UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. VERY GOOD/FAIR. HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER, presents CAVE TO RENAISSANCE: DRAWINGS OF THE MASTERS, compiled and narrated by Harvard Professor Benjamin Rowland, Jr., 141 pages, We start in Pre-History and follow the progress of pictorial art all the way to the Renaissance, when paintings as "works of art" actually began. "The panorama of drawings in this volume provides a necessary background for all who would understand the sources and development of our Western art tradition." 8 1/8" x 9 1/2", 141 page hardcover, with the ORIGINAL UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. 93 plates (most in color). Overall condition of the book is VERY GOOD. Pages = Very Good: liquid damage to bottom of first 70 pages, particularly noticeable front reverse cover through end of Table of Contents, foxing to last fep and back reverse cover, else very tight, sharp, clear, white, very colorful, with… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1957?. FOURTH EDITION REVISED STATED. VERY GOOD +. HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER, presents the "gold standard" for theatre history over many, many decades: ALLARDYCE NICOLL'S THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE THEATRE. 319 photos and illustrations fill the 318 pages (including index) of this Fourth revised edition (stated). This may well be a first U S printing of this edition since all dates are missing. Worldcat indicates this edition was either 1957 or 1958. Not published since the early 70's, this fascinating history of the theatre is HARD TO FIND. 7 7/8" x 10 1/2", 318 pages, with no dust jacket. Overall book is VERY GOOD PLUS. Pages = Very Good Plus: pen underlining on 10 of the 318 pages, owners name and addy on both reverse front and reverse back cover, pages slightly yellowed, else clear, tight, sharp, no additional marks. Cover (green buckram boards with particulars in gold gilt) = Very Good Plus: light to moderate rubbing, indentation… Read More

Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2001. FIRST EDITION THUS, SECOND PRINTING VIA NUMBER LINE. Paperback. AS NEW. HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER, presents an AS NEW copy of the greatly amplified catalogue for the 2001 - 2002 GETTY MUSEUM exhibition, DEVICES OF WONDER. An inquiry into emergent media s rich lineage, DEVICES OF WONDER explores the artful machines humans have used to augment visual perception. Featured are android automata, lunar landscapes, perspective theaters, microscopes, magnetic games, magic lanterns, Mark Tilden s UniBug 3.1, panoramic works by Jeff Wall and Giovanni Lusieri, paintings by Jean-Baptiste Chardin and Joseph Wright of Derby, a pop-up book by Kara Walker and many more. 7" x 10", 405 page paperback (stiff glossy paper cover with flaps). Overall condition is AS NEW. White glossy cover with flaps features photos of some of the devices in the book, along with particulars in red, black and grey

HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER, presents FAIRY TALES-FROM NEAR AND FAR, selected and retold by FELIX SALTEN, author of "Bambi." Color and B/W Ilustrations by Elice Johnson. Translation by Clara Stillman. New York: Philosophical Library, Inc., copyright 1946. Full original jacket preserved in Brodart. 7" x 10 1/4", 141 pages. Pages = Very Good Plus: slightly tanned throughout, only marks are penciled former price, sharp, tight, clear . Cover (blue cloth with particulars in red, making it hard to read despite the fact it's in great shape) = Very Good Plus: sharp, tight, couple of small discolorations on front. Jacket (Purple with white and black particulars, illustrations black, white, blue, purple) = Very Good Minus: wear to top and bottom, with 2 1/2 inch tear repaired on front bottom, bit of fading, Very Good to Very Good Minus. 141 pages. Noted book appraiser JAMES BEATTIE has valued this copy at $45.00.

HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER, presents a very unusual NEAR FINE copy of the FIRST EDITION of A FIELD GUIDE TO THE MAMMALS. The ORIGINAL DUST JACKET illustrates the evolution of the Cat family (with a mole? At the top edge); this dust jacket seems to indicate first edition (though title and copyright pages are missing, and were never part of the book); book begins with page xvi "My Life List." No evidence of any page separation; while small print under it says "giving field marks of all species found north of the Mexican border," the title is exactly as above without the words "North of Mexico." 4 ¾ x 7 3/8", 200 pp. (incl. Index), color illustrations, b/w maps, animal tracks on endpapers. Book condition is Near Fine: foxing at edge of some pages, no marks, tight and clear. Jacket condition is good: four solid chips, tape marks at bottom of each fold.

New York: Bramhall House, 1960. Reprint of the Devin-Adair edition. FINE. John Henry Dick. HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER, presents A GATHERING OF SHORE BIRDS, in which 57 birds are identified, described and illustrated in a 241 page book. An early hunter of these beautiful birds, DR. HENRY HALL turned conservationist and was president of the Newport branch of the Audubon Society of Rhode Island. This is an EXTREMELY ATTRACTIVE BOOK of 242 pages, with a size of 7 1/8" x 10 1/4," without the dust jacket. Overall condition is FINE. Pages (first and last feps are light brown with aqua illustrations and identifications of shore birds) = Fine: light tanning, else no marks, tight, sharp, clear and attractive. Cover (dark green quarter bound cloth on light green boards, with black illustration and design, plus gilt particulars) = Fine. Laid in flaps of dust jacket are Fine, with a couple of light pink spots.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1958. FIRST EDITION STATED. Hardcover. NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD PLUS. Donald Bolognese. HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER, presents THE GREAT DECLARATION by American historian HENRY STEELE COMMAGER, who helped define Modern liberalism in the United States for two generations through his 40 books and 700 essays and reviews. The illustrator DONALD BOLOGNESE is an accomplished artist and calligrapher who has taught art at Cooper Union, New York University, the Pratt Institute, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art's medieval museum, the Cloisters. He has illustrated more than 90 books for children, many of which he wrote himself. 6 1/2" x 9 1/4", 112 pages, including index, notes, and many b/w illustrations. The ORIGINAL UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET is included with this STATED FIRST EDITION. Overall condition of the book is NEAR FINE. Pages (endpapers contain Bolognese illustrations of American Soldier uniforms in the Revolution) = Fine: slight… Read More

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1974. FIRST EDITION, FOURTH PRINTING PER NUMBER LINE. FINE. Derwin Bell. A BEAUTIFUL book, with its dark green end papers, and pink designed frontispieces, HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER, presents HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, which explores the intersection of sociology and geology over time. A 1974 FOURTH PRINTING, this HARD TO FIND book has not been reprinted since the mid 70's. 8 3/8" X 9 3/8", 281 pages including index, with no dust jacket. Overall book is FINE. Pages = Fine: slightly yellowed, but clear, tight, sharp, no markings. Cover (golden beige cloth boards, with illustrated designs outlined in black, particulars in white) = Fine: light rubbing to front, spine and back are pristine.

Florence, AL: Books Americana, 1993. reprint of 1992 Krause edition. Paperback. FINE. HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER, presents AN IDENTIFICATION & VALUE GUIDE 1830's TO `1990's AMERICAN STERLING SILVER FLATWARE by lecturer, appraiser and Antique Shop owner MARYANNE DOLAN. 8 1/2" x 11", 222 page catalog (oversize, may require additional postage) with an introduction, articles on each producing company, and miles of precise illustrations of each style, with dates and values. Overall condition of this softcover book is FINE, with a one inch scratch on the bottom left corner of back cover, beginning of a crease to lower right front cover corner, else As New. Glossy cover has many mixed examples flatware displayed on a grey designed background, with particulars in red and white, photo and bio of the author on back. VERY VALUABLE for the Collector of flatware. Noted appraiser James Beattie has valued this book at $60.

New York: Greystone Press, 1964. SPECIAL EDITION. Hardcover. NEAR FINE. HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER, presents 3 volumes of the multi-volume series, THE ILLUSTRATED LIBRARY OF THE WORLD AND ITS PEOPLES: (1) JAPAN 1 and (2) JAPAN 2, KOREA, and (3) SPAIN, PORTUGAL, ANDORRA, GIBRALTER. 8 5/8" x 11 1/4", the three volumes have a combined total of 646 pages, including several hundred photos, part in color), with no dust jackets (as designed). May require additional postage. These are three volumes of a multi-volume series. Overall condition of all three is NEAR FINE. Pages (illustrated end papers) = Fine: light foxing to pages opposite title page and opposite last page, else As New. Covers (red cloth boards, with black and gold gilt designs and particulars) = Very Good Plus: rubbing to front edges, else very tight, sharp, clear, colorful, square. Price is for 2 books.

New York: Parker and Brothers, February, 1942. First edition stated, First printing via letter system. ORIGINAL UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD. Peggy Bacon. HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER, presents a Rare First Printing ofJOSEPHINE by KATHLEEN COYLE, the book which first introduces us to the new heroine, Josephine the cat. Born in New York, but brought up in Ireland, KATHLEEN COYLE became involved in the socialist movement. Under the name Selma Sigerson, Coyle co-wrote a pamphlet entitled Sinn Fein and socialism with James Connolly that was published in 1919. PEGGY BACON was a very prolific artist, and illustrated over 60 books, 19 of which she also wrote, including a successful mystery book, The Inward Eye, which was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe award in 1952 for best novel. 5 5/8" x 8 1/4", 174 page hard cover, with ORIGINAL UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. Overall condition of the book is NEAR FINE. Pages = Near Fine: non author dedication on front reverse… Read More

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2006. FIRST PRINTING VIA NUMBER LINE. AS NEW.. HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER, presents an AS NEW FIRST PRINTING of THE KNOT GUIDE FOR THE MOTHER OF THE BRIDE by CARLEY RONEY, co-founder of THE KNOT wedding consulting business. The book contains real-live advice and insider info from the experts! 6 1/4" x 8 1/4", 108 page hard cover, including index, with the ORIGINAL UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET Overall condition of the book is AS NEW Both reverse covers and first and last fep's have a beautiful 2-tone blue design. Cover is dark blue glossy boards with light blue designs and particulars in silver. ORIGINAL DUST JACKET (silver glossy paper with white and pink illustrated mother and bride, and particulars in white and black) = AS NEW.

HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER, presents the FIRST EDITION THUS, BCE of MISTRESS MASHAM'S REPOSE by T. H. WHITE with Illustrations by the celebrated artist FRITZ EICHENBERG. Original unclipped jacket has no price and no reviews, thus a FIRST EDITION, BCE. The author introduces us to the Lilliputians. Book condition = NEAR FINE (some yellowing with no marks), with the jacket being VERY GOOD (some chipping and mild ripping). 5 3/4" x 8 3/8", 255 pages. Noted book appraiser JAMES BEATTIE gives this copy a value of $60.00.