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Kincaid's Battery
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Kincaid's Battery

by Cable, George W.; Kimball, Alonzo (Illustrations); Armstrong, Margaret (Publisher's Binding Design)

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Toronto: The Copp, Clark Company Limited, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Kimball, Alonzo. First printing of the Toronto imprint, duodecimo size, 412 pp. The designs of Margaret Armstrong (1867-1944), utilising the Art Nouveau style and floral patterns, were a sensation in the publishing business; Armstrong created over 270 book designs, often for the works of well-known authors such as Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, and George Washington Cable. In addition to designing books, Armstrong wrote books as well, including a comprehensive guide to wildflowers in the American West, which she also illustrated. This novel by George Washington Cable (1844-1925) tells of a romance set in New Orleans during the American Civil War; Cable, considered the "first modern southern writer", used his fiction to highlight the injustices of racism in the South, and he is considered a precursor to William Faulkner. This volume is a scarce Toronto imprint, and has a vintage bookseller's ticket on the… Read More
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Poetry at the Edge; Five Contemporary California Poets
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Poetry at the Edge; Five Contemporary California Poets

by Campbell, Carolee (Editor); Ryan, Kay; Stroud, Joseph; Young, Gary; Ronk, Martha; Hannon, Michael

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Ojai, California: The Book Club of California [printed by the Classic Letterpress in Ojai, California], 2014. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Campbell, Carolee. Number 90 of 300 copies, quarto size, [53] pp., with a broadside signed by Kay Ryan laid in, signed by all five contributing poets. The Book Club of California's 233rd publication, being a fine letterpress edition of poetry by five eminent contemporary poets, each of whom call California home. More than Californians, "they are poets of the world...each has charted a disparate course, mapping the terrain through which they travel their separate landscapes with a streamlined diction" (N.B., from Introduction). With two photographs by Carolee Campbell reproduced in colour; loosely laid in is a broadside with a poem by Kay Ryan, "Hermits", not found in the book, signed by her. ___DESCRIPTION: Original quarter linen and boards covered in indigo sheet of pure Belgian flax, title stamped in black on backstrip, fore-edge uncut, two colour photo… Read More
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Four Views of Kealakekua Bay
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Four Views of Kealakekua Bay

by Captain James Cook, Mark Twain, Johnny Noble (Quotes); Peter and Donna Thomas (Book Artists)

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[Santa Cruz, CA]: [Donna Thomas], 1998. Limited Edition. No binding. Fine. One of 75 copies, miniature book in scroll format. This lovely miniature book, by the incomparable book artists Peter and Donna Thomas, presents a single linoleum cut by Donna in a scroll format; it would become the Book Society Distinguished Award, 1999. Peter and Donna Thomas started their press in 1976; in 1988 they changed the name of their press from the "Good Book Press" to their names. They are "one of very few presses where the proprietors write the text, create the art for the illustrations, make the paper, handset the type, print on a letterpress, and bind the book" (n.b., Bradbury p. 302). The "four views" in the title consist of one pictorial - Donna's linocut - and three literary. The first being partial lyrics of the Johnny Noble song "I want to go back to my little grass shack in Kealakekua, Hawaii"; the second a description of "Karakakooa Bay" (as it was then called) by Captain James Cook in 1779, and the… Read More
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar

by Carle, Eric

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New York and Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Carle, Eric. First printing, oblong quarto, 28 pp., in first issue dust jacket. Eric Carle (b. 1929) is known world-wide for this, his third book, which has been translated into more than 60 languages and has sold more than 50 million copies, garnering numerous awards along the way including the American Institute of Graphic Arts Award in 1970 and the Nakamori Reader's Prize in Japan in 1975; Carle was awarded the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal in 2003 by the American Library Association and was a U.S. nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2010. Carle's style consists of using hand-painted tissue papers and creating a collage, which is then reproduced via offset colour lithography. This book, with its multiple die-cut pages as the caterpillar eats his way through various foodstuffs, created such a challenge for US printers that the publisher eventually found a printer in Japan.… Read More
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Alice in Wonderland
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Alice in Wonderland

by Carroll, Lewis; Laurencin, Marie (Illustrations)

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Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1930. Limited Edition. Wraps. Near fine. Laurencin, Marie. One of 790 copies, oblong quarto, 123 pp. This publication of "Alice" by The Black Sun Press; formed by Harry and Caresse Crosby (1898-1929, 1891-1970, respectively) the Press continued under the operation of Caresse Crosby after Harry's death. "Harry and Caresse Crosby were a glamorous, wealthy and well-connected couple enmeshed in the fabric of Paris's avant-garde explosion; yet they are all but forgotten today. What emerges from the literature of those who knew them is that the flamboyant Crosbys were trailblazers, who had an enormous impact on both friends and strangers....They published some of the greatest literary giants of 1920s Paris, held riotous parties, smoked opium and flouted just about every convention of society during the eight years of their open marriage. They travelled to North Africa and Egypt on holiday before it was fashionable and were obsessed with ancient rites and rituals" (n.b., quotes… Read More
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(G)loveless [Artist Book - Susan Caspi]
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(G)loveless [Artist Book - Susan Caspi]

by Caspi, Susan

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Susan Caspi, 2014. Limited Edition. Fine. No. 14 of 24. Artist book with four components. A lovely poem of longing and insight, beginning: "As lovers welded by their passion / hands, by gloves, encased in fashion" and ending with "do they protect or do they smother? / when I see gloves, I see my mother". The artist has placed her poem upon a replica pair of gloves which can be housed in the evening bag, along with the lipstick and compact - as Susan says in her Artist's Statement: "The gloves representing propriety and the lady like attire that was my mother. An evening bag to contain them but made with Japanese fabrics to represent something more substantial emotionally, a lipstick because you should always show your prettiest face, and a powder compact for the same reason with my mother's lovely face and sweet smile looking back out". Susan realized one day why she was unable to bear having gloves on her hands, even in the snow; because they made her feel suffocated. At that point she wrote the… Read More
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The Defense of the Sugar Islands; A Recruiting Poster
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The Defense of the Sugar Islands; A Recruiting Poster

by Cassity, Turner

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Los Angeles [Lunenburg, Vermont]: The Symposium Press [printed at The Stinehour Press], 1979. Limited Edition. Wraps. Fine. Letter I of those lettered A to AA, of a total edition of 300 copies, quarto size, 27 pp., signed by Turner Cassity and Charles Gullans. American playwright and poet Allen Turner Cassity (1929-2009) produced this collection of poems with the Symposium Press; many of the poems seem to allude to his time spent in Puerto Rico where he was stationed from 1952 to 1954, having been drafted into the US Army. They are, however, decidedly non-military and contain a smooth rhythm with his observations of the world he saw around him. ___DESCRIPTION: Green paper wraps, black lettering on the front wrap, title page in green and black, fore- and bottom edges uncut; quarto size (10.25" by 7.25"), pagination: [1-6] 7-25 [26-27], letter I of those lettered A to AA, of a total edition of 300 copies, signed by Turner Cassity and Charles Gullans on the colophon. ___CONDITION: Volume is fine,… Read More
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Price List No. 20 of Scientific Laboratory Apparatus
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Price List No. 20 of Scientific Laboratory Apparatus

by [Publisher's Catalogue]

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Chicago: E.H. Sargent & Company, 1914. Limp cloth. Very good. Quarto size, 382 pp. A catalogue offering for sale "scientific laboratory apparatus" which, we are assured, will either be in stock or "we will import or make to order promptly at a reasonable price" (n.b., from the "Announcement" - i.e., Introduction). Included is a particularly nice section on scales, but a wide range is offered, most with illustrations and all with the then-current prices. ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full cordovan-coloured textured cloth over cardstock covers, narrow blind ruled border on both covers, gilt lettering on the front and spine, all edges stained red, brown endpapers, illustrated throughout; quarto size (10 3/8" by 7"), pagination: [1-2] 3-382. ___CONDITION: A solid very good copy, the covers mostly clean with a few spots of soil, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior is clean and bright, and the sole prior owner marking we see a name on the top of the front free endpaper with the… Read More
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Illusion and Reality; A Study of the Sources of Poetry
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Illusion and Reality; A Study of the Sources of Poetry

by Caudwell, Christopher

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New York: International Publishers, 1947. Hardcover. Fine/Good+. Octavo size, 346 pp. Per Wikipedia, "Christopher Caudwell was the pseudonym of Christopher St John Sprigg (20 October 1907 - 13 February 1937), a British Marxist writer, literary critic, intellectual and activist..published The Crisis of Physics in 1936... According to Marxist historian Helena Sheehan, Caudwell became interested in Marxism in 1934 and began to study it with "extraordinary intensity". In the summer of 1935, he wrote [Illusion and Reality] his first Marxist book...According to the socialist magazine Monthly Review, Caudwell on 12 February 1937 "was killed by fascists in the valley of Jarama during the Spanish Civil War. He died at a machine gun post, guarding the retreat of his comrades in the British Battalion of the International Brigade. The Marxist historian E. P. Thompson wrote of Caudwell, "It is not difficult to see Caudwell as a phenomenon - as an extraordinary shooting-star crossing England's empirical night -… Read More
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Ezra Pound's Cavalcanti Poems
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Ezra Pound's Cavalcanti Poems

by Cavalcanti, Guido; Pound, Ezra (Translator, Essays, Notes)

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[Verona]: A New Directions Book [Printed by the Officina Bodoni], 1966. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Quarto size, 108 pp., signed by Ezra Pound, no. 78 of 200 copies. Guido Cavalcanti (ca. 1255 - 1300) is regarded as the first major poet of Italian literatue and was the best friend of Dante Alighieri; he was a character in Boccaccio's Decameron, and influenced writers as recently as 1861 with Dante Gabriel Rossetti - from there he had an influence on Ezra Pound, an admirer of Rossetti. In 1912 Pound first published his translations of Cavalcanti's work, with another publication in 1932. Pound's main focus was on Cavalcanti's philosophy of love and light, and this focus had a further influence on Pound's friend and fellow modernist T.S. Eliot. (N.B., above information from Wikipedia.) This edition of 1966, exquisitely printed by the Officina Bodoni, includes Pound's translations with two pages of Notes at the end, the Introduction to the Edition of 1912, and two essays entitled "Mediaevalism"… Read More
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Type: A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles; Volume I, 1628-1900
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Type: A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles; Volume I, 1628-1900

by Cees W. de Jong (Editor); Alston W. Purvis, Jan Tholenaar (Essays)

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[Cologne, Germany]: Taschen, 2009. Hardcover. Fine. Folio size, 360 pp. From the web site of Taschen: "A connoisseur's overview of typeface design, 'Type' offers a dependable history of elegant fonts from 1628 through 1900. Derived from a distinguished Dutch collection, exquisitely designed catalogues trace the evolution of the printed letter through specimens in roman, italic, bold, semi-bold, narrow, and broad fonts, as well as borders, ornaments, and initial letters." From our research it appears as though Taschen subsequently published a second volume covering the period of 1901 to 1938, and at some point issued a single volume including the entire date range. ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full textured white cloth over boards, decorations in red, black and gilt stamped onto both boards and spine, black and gilt lettering on front and spine, red endpapers, in a pocket mounted onto the rear pastedown is a small "Key Card" which gives the owner access to a digital copy with "over 1000… Read More
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Todesfuge [Death Fugue]
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Todesfuge [Death Fugue]

by Celan, Paul; Kuball, Mischa (Artist)

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New York: [Edition Gunnar A. Kaldewey] Printed in the tower of Poestenkill, 1984. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Kuball, Mischa. One of 15 deluxe copies bound in vellum, folio size, 40 pp., signed by Mischa Kuball, in German. "Todesfuge" is one of the "great and terrifying literary works" written by survivors of the Holocaust. Paul Celan (1920-1970) was born Paul Antschel in Romania to a German-speaking Jewish family, his surname was later spelled Ancel and he eventually adopted the anagram Celan as his nom de plume. Celan lived in France and was influenced by the French surrealists but wrote his poetry in German (he was well versed in at least six languages, and also translated the work of many notable poets). As a German-speaking Jewish survivor of WWII, living in France, Celan struggled immensely throughout his life with feelings of estrangement from his native language; he is said to have tried to create his own version of the language, emotionally dismantling it, resulting in an… Read More
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La Prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France, Couleurs simultanées de Mme....
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La Prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France, Couleurs simultanées de Mme. Delaunay-Terk [caption title]

by Cendrars, Blaise and Sonia Delauney

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Playa Vista, California: Two Hands Press, 2018. Limited Edition. Accordion. Fine. Delauney, Sonia. Lettered copy "J" of 30 lettered copies hors de commerce, artist book folded accordion style, signed by Kitty Marryat at the colophon. This the first Two Hands Press edition, a facsimile - or "recreation" as the press prefers to describe it - of the first edition of 1913, lettered copy "J" of 30 lettered copies hors de commerce; there are also 150 numbered copies, for a total edition of 180 copies. "Transsibérien" is considered a seminal avant-garde artist book of the 20th century; of the eleven copies of the original edition that have sold at auction in this century, the average price realized has been about $200,000. This is the first true facsimile, using similar methods and materials as the first edition of 1913. The original "La Prose du Transsibérien" was written, designed and printed by letterpress and illustrated by pochoir in an edition that was stated to be 150 copies (in three subsets,… Read More
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Trans-Siberian Prosody and Little Jeanne from France [No. V of X of the Special Edition]; La...
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Trans-Siberian Prosody and Little Jeanne from France [No. V of X of the Special Edition]; La Prose du Transsiberian et de la Petite Jehanne de France

by Cendrars, Blaise (Author); Jones, Dick (Translator); d'Arbeloff, Natalie (Artist)

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[Monmouthshire]: The Old Stile Press, 2014. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. d'Arbeloff, Natalie. No. V of X (total edition 160), folio size, 44 pp., signed by Dick Jones and Natalie d'Arbeloff. Blaise Cendrars (nom de plume for Frederic-Louis Sauser, 1887-1961), the "heir of Rimbaud", greatly influenced the European Modernist movement with his early works, including this one which tells of the voyage of Cendrars through Russia on the Trans-Siberian Express in 1905 during the Russian Revolution. First published in 1913, it is still considered a milestone in the evolution of artist's books; it was interlaced with an abstract pochoir by Sonia Delaunay-Terk, bound accordion style and would have measured almost 7 feet tall when unfolded. This version by The Old Stile Press, illustrated in vinylcuts by Natalie d'Arbeloff keeps the almost-abstract nature of the original, but with a modern sense. ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in red and blue paper boards, gold cloth spine with bronze lettering, the front cover… Read More
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J.S. Bach's Johannine Theology; The St. John Passion and the Cantatas for Spring 1725
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J.S. Bach's Johannine Theology; The St. John Passion and the Cantatas for Spring 1725

by Chafe, Eric

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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. fine/fine. 2nd impression (printing), octavo size, 620 pp. From Oxford University Press, "Written by an internationally renowned Bach scholar; Explores Bach's interaction of the special character of John's gospel; First work to look at the St. John Passion and the Cantatas for spring 1725 as they would have been originally heard; Expands on the author's well-known concept of tonal allegory." From the dust jacket flap, "...a fertile examination of this group of fourteen surviving liturgical works. Renowned Bach scholar Eric Chafe begins his investigation into Bach's theology with the composer's 'St. John Passion', concentrating on its first and last versions.... Beyond providing a uniquely detailed assessment...Chafe thereby uncovers a range of theological implications underlying Bach's creative approach itself... an enlightening exploration of the theological and liturgical contexts within which this music was first heard."… Read More
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Splendide Californie!; Impressions of the Golden State by French Artists, 1786 to 1900
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Splendide Californie!; Impressions of the Golden State by French Artists, 1786 to 1900

by Chalmers, Claudine; McClatchy, James (Foreword)

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San Francisco: The Book Club of California [designed by The Yolla Bolly Press], 2001. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of 450 copies, unnumbered, folio size, 159 pp. After moving from Cannes, France, to Northern California, historian and researcher Claudine Chalmers was captured by the history and landscape of the Golden State; this publication by The Book Club of California examines the settlement of the state and the people and scenery that make up California from an unusual perspective: that of French artists who travelled and lived in the state. The book is filled with reproductions of paintings from numerous French artists, and it was designed by The Yolla Bolly Press, publishers of fine press editions of modern literature in Covelo, California. ___DESCRIPTION: Full green cloth, colour reproduction of a painting by Ernest Etienne Narjot inset on the front board, grey paper spine label with black lettering, light grey endpapers, frontispiece a colour reproduction of a painting by Narjot,… Read More
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Sir John Chardin's Travels in Persia
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Sir John Chardin's Travels in Persia

by Chardin, Sir John; Penzer, N.M. (Editor); Sykes, Percy, Sir (Introduction)

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London: The Argonaut Press, 1927. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Number 628 of 975 copies, quarto size, [318] pp. Sir John Chardin (1643-1712) was a French merchant and traveler; the publication of the first volume of his "Voyages du chevalier Jean Chardin en Perse et autres lieux de l'Orient" simultaneously in French and English in 1686 permitted Chardin to "position himself as one of the most important arbiters of European commercial and colonial expansion. Over the next decade two successive editions of his 'Travels' were published in England, along with reprints of his 1671 'Le Couronnement de Soleiman Troisieme.' In 1711, with the publication of the four-volume edition of his 'Travels,' Chardin provided a full and authoritative account, and abbreviated editions followed in rapid succession, testifying to a nearly insatiable European interest in oriental studies and culture. By the time of his death in 1712 Chardin's chronicles of life and society in Persia had become one of the… Read More
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The Canterbury Tales
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The Canterbury Tales

by Chaucer, Geoffrey; Robinson, F.N. (Editor); Wright, David (Translator); [Multiple Illustrators]

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London: The Folio Society, 1986. Hardcover. Fine. Three volumes (complete), large octavo size, approximately 1380 pp. Geoffrey Chaucer's (ca. 1343-1400) "Canterbury Tales" is a middle English collection of stories originally written between 1387-1400. Thought of as Chaucer's magnum opus, it has been reprinted countless times and is one of the most important works of English literature (n.b., info from Wiki). ___DESCRIPTION: Three volumes (complete) uniformly bound in brown quarter leather over cloth (each volume in different colour of cloth), gilt lettering stamped onto the spines, titles enclosed in a red "spine label", illustrated endpapers of the pilgrims, title pages in red and black; all volumes large octavo size (9 3/8" by 5 5/8"), pagination as follows: Vol. I [i-iv] v-lx [1] 2-331; Vol. II [i-iv] v-vii, [1, blank] [1] 2-379; Vol. III [i-iv] v-vii [1, blank] [1] 2-600. In publisher's slipcase covered with patterned red paper. ___CONDITION: Volumes fine overall, with clean boards, straight… Read More
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The Wonderful Adventures of Little Prince Toofat
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The Wonderful Adventures of Little Prince Toofat

by Chester, George Randolph; Lawson, Robert

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New York: James A. McCann Company, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Lawson, Robert. First printing, folio size, 78 pp. The story of a trip to "Looking Glass Land" by "Prince Toofat" and "Himself", with wonderful illustrations by Robert Lawson (1892-1957). This was Lawson's first published book, he would later win both the Caldecott Medal (1941, "They Were Strong and Good") and Newbery Medal (1945, "Rabbit Hill"). ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full grey cloth over boards, dark grey illustration stamped on the front board, the top portion of the illustration enclosing the title in gilt debossed, patterned endpapers, the half-title with the front board illustration in light green with black lettering, colour frontis one of six colour plates bound in throught, the book is richly decorated with pale green line drawn borders on every text page, and pictorial headpieces and rubricated initials at the opening of each chapter, both in black; folio size (12 1/8" by 10 1/2"), pagination: [i-viii] [1-2]… Read More
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I Remember It Well
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I Remember It Well

by Chevalier, Maurice; Pagnol, Marcel (Preface); Higginson, Cornelia (Translation)

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(New York): The Macmillan Company, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. First U.S. edition, first printing, octavo size, 221 pp. signed by Maurice Chevalier. Perhaps one of the best-known French actors of the first half of the 20th century, Maurice Chevalier (1888-1972) was nominated for the Academy Award in 1930 for Best Actor for his roles in "The Love Parade" (1929) and "The Big Pond" (1930), which secured his first big American hit, "Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight" (N.B., from Wiki). ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in sky blue cloth, gilt lettering on the front and spine, plain endpapers, M. Chevalier's signature boldly written with in blue on the front free endpaper, one section of black and white photographs bound in; octavo size (8.5" by 5.75"), pagination: [1-6] 7-221. The dust jacket shows the original price of $5.95, pictorial head shot of M. Chevalier with red and white lettering on the front panel and spine, quotes from the book on the back panel, summary of book on… Read More
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