Search Results: Titles starting with F from E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA

Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley (1976). Illustrated boards, spine slightly cocked; matching full-color pictorial dust jacket. The story of a little boy who wants to be a fish, and gets his wish. Colorful and graphically interesting illustrations throughout by French illustrator, animator and set designer Arnaud Laval.. First American Edition. Illustrated Boards. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Arnaud Laval. 4to.

New York: Harper & Row, 1980 Blue cloth in color pictorial dust jacket with slight wear at extremities, price clipped. 20 original fables illustrated with colorful and handsome artwork by Lobel. Awarded the 1981 Caldecott Medal. . First Edition. Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Arnold Lobel. 4to.

New York: Harper & Row, 1980 Blue cloth, occasional foxing to pages, faint crease at top corner of 8 pages; color pictorial dust jacket foxed, stain at base of spine, worn with tears and creases, award seal present, price clipped. 20 original fables illustrated with colorful and handsome artwork by Lobel. Awarded the 1981 Caldecott Medal. . Stated First Edition. Cloth Hard Cover. Good/Good. Illus. by Arnold Lobel. 4to.

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1975 Blue hard cover stamped in red, slightly faded along top and bottom edge, stain at top edge of front cover; pictorial dust jacket with stain at top of front panel, else fine, original price intact ($5.50). Set in the Andes Mountains of Peru, a young boy takes the harvest to town with the aid of magic flute. Wonderfully detailed artwork in b&w throughout.. First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Carlos Antonio Llerena. Square 8vo.

London and Glasgow: Blackie & Son, 1958 Approximately 5.75"H x 4.5"W. Decorative hard cover with full color pastedown, gift inscription in pencil else fine; dust jacket with dust soil, tiny edge tears and light wear, publisher's price sticker over printed price (3/-). Verses about various shrubs and trees, accompanied by 24 full-page color plates. . Later Printing. Pictorial Boards. Fine/Very Good Plus. Illus. by Cicely Mary Barker. 12mo.

New York: E P Dutton, 1905 TEG. 155 pgs. Pictorial cloth, soiled with wear to extremities, foxing on text pages, binding a bit shaken. A collection of original stories with 31 illustrations in color, others in b&w. Lovely artwork with similarities to Florence Harrison, Honor Appleton, the Sowerbys, etc. . First American Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Mabel Chadburn. Large 8vo.

New York: Barse & Co. ND, circa 1915. Originally published by Stern in 1909. Green cloth with pastedown which is chipped and creased, wear to corners, splits and fraying along spine edges and ends, foxing to frontis and title page, otherwise nice interior. Illustrated with 6 lovely color plates and 6 b&w pen and ink drawings.. Later Edition. Good/No Jacket. 4to.

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1991 Pictorial boards, small inkstamp of soccer ball on endpaper else fine; dust jacket with small spot on front panel, original price intact. A little girl begins to suspect her neighbor, Mrs. Leaf may be a fairy. Illustrated in color throughout.. First American Edition. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

New York: Saml Gabriel Sons (1937). Pictorial boards with cloth spine, edges rubbed, pictures completed; matching dust jacket with wear and soil, small losses at corners and spine ends. A collection of fairy tales originally published in 1927 with Becker's illustrations, but not a "Put-Together" book. The pictures have all been very neatly completed and are actually very nice to look at. The text is surrounded by lovely green pictorial borders.. First Thus. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1924 TEG. 197 pgs. Full vellum pictorially stamped in gilt, small ding in cover, occasional foxing else fine; in the rare paper-backed oilcloth dust jacket with gilt spine titles, a trifle rubbed; housed in a custom solander box with morocco spine, titled in gilt and stamped with the cover design. One of an unspecified number with the cover design from In Powder in Crinoline repurposed, but title text changed. #328 of 500 copies signed by Kay Nielsen. Illustrated with 12 tipped-in color plates with lettered guards as well as full and partial page line-art decorations throughout. A stunning copy.. Signed Limited Edition. Pictorial Vellum. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Kay Nielsen. 4to.

Chicago: Ziff-Davis, 1947 (1947). Illustrated boards with light shelf wear, small abrasion on endpaper, in matching dust jacket with minor wear, child's sticker over jacket price. A selection of familiar fairy tales, arranged for bedtime reading and illustrated in b&w and full color by Violet LaMont. Scarce.. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Violet LaMont. 4to.

New York: Putnam (1980). Pictorial boards with cloth spine, light shelf wear, matching dust jacket with light soil and wear. A collection of paintings by Larsson featuring scenes of family life. Gorgeous artwork.. First American Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Carl Larsson. Oblong 4to.

New York: Atheneum, 1992 Pictorial boards in matching dust jacket. An imagining of what life was like on a farm along the New England coast. Delicate color and b&w artwork throughout.. First Printing. Fine/Fine. Small Oblong 4to.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1946 Illustrated boards with wear and small chip at top of spine, otherwise and a nice clean copy; matching dust jacket with some wear and small chips, hard to find with the very fragile jacket. A collection of stories all about the goings on at a farm. Wonderfully illustrated in full color by Tenggren.. Stated First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. Large 4to.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co, 1854 Brown cloth with blindstamped design and gilt spine titles & decoration; wear and soil to exterior, occasional foxing to text, but clean overall. The workings of a farm, plus descriptions and pictures of crops, livestock, tools and structures. Book number five in the Peter Parley's Little Library, originally published in 1834. . Later Printing. Cloth Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Engravings. 16mo.

New York: Thomas Nelson, 1961 Hard cover pictorially stamped in blue, small brown mark to title page, else fine; pictorial dust jacket with light soil and a few small edge tears, original price intact ($2.95). A non-Middle Earth fairy story illustrated in line throughout, plus 2 color plates by Pauline Baynes. Issued simultaneously with Unwin's 4th printing (hence the "Fourth Impression" statement on the dust jacket) the book was produced in Great Britain and offered to Houghton Mifflin who had published the true first American Edition in 1950, but they declined, so Unwin found a new publisher in Thomas Nelson. A more detailed account can be read at Tolkienbooks-dot-us. . First Edition By This Publisher. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Pauline Diana Baynes. 12mo.

New York: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1870 AEG. 74 pgs. Blue cloth pictorially stamped in black & gilt, corners and spine ends worn, else clean and bright. A long, four-part pastoral poem which makes observations about rural life throughout the seasons. Illustrated with engravings by Birket Foster, Harrison Weir and G E Hicks. Publisher was at this address from 1869-76. . Pictorial Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Illus. by Birket Foster, Harrison Weir & G E Hicks. 12mo.

Akron, OH: Saalfield Publishing Company, 1940 Illustrated boards, some edge and corner wear, 1" split in cloth at base of spine, a few small bends internally but quite nice and clean overall. A die-cut panorama of farm animals, printed entirely in color and mounted on thick boards, hinged with cloth between each animal. Hard to find in such nice condition.. Very Good. Square 8vo.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976 White cloth with small illustration of an elf on upper cover in two colors, spotting to cloth and foxing to first and last few pages; color pictorial dust jacket worn with a few tears and a sunned spine and part of front panel, original price intact ($8.95). Reproductions of letters from Father Christmas, written and drawn by Tolkien for his children. . First American Edition. Cloth Hard Cover. Good/Good. Illus. by J R R Tolkien. 4to.

New York: Dutton, 2012 Hard cover in dust jacket with publisher's "Signed Copy" sticker on front panel. Bestselling novel which was made into a film starring Shailene Woodley and Ansel Algort. The book follows the story of two teens with terminal cancer.. Signed by Author. First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.