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First Edition of Eric Carles Classic Work The Very Hungry Caterpillar; Signed By The Author With A Drawing of a Caterpillar
CARLE, Eric.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Cleveland: World Publishing, 1969.
First edition, first printing of Carle's most recognizable work (with the complete number line 1-5 on the copyright page and A3450 on the rear board). Oblong quarto, original illustrated boards. Signed by Eric Carle on the title page with an original drawing of a caterpillar. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with $3.91 on the bottom flap, clipped on the top as usual with a few small stains, small ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Signed first editions are exceedingly rare.
Price: $25,000.00 Item Number: 133755
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1,2,3 The Zoo; Signed by Eric Carle
CARLE, Eric.
1,2,3 To The Zoo.
New York: Philomel, 1982.
First edition, early printing of this classic work, the artists' first solely authored and original picture book. Thin quarto, original cloth, illustrated endpapers. Boldly signed by Eric Carle opposite the title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 137876
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First Edition of Eric Carles Classic Work The Very Hungry Caterpillar
CARLE, Eric.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Cleveland: World Publishing, 1969.
First edition, first printing of Carle's most recognizable work (with the complete number line 1-5 on the copyright page and A3450 on the rear board). Oblong quarto, original illustrated boards. Fine in a very good dust jacket price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 140979
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First Edition of Eric Carle's The Very Busy Spider; Inscribed by the Author with a Drawing of a Spider
CARLE, Eric.
The Very Busy Spider.
New York: Philomel Books, 1984.
First edition of this classic picture book. Oblong octavo, original illustrated boards. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed by the author opposite the title page in black felt tip, "For Van, with love, Eric Carle." Additionally inscribed with a drawing of a spider. In near fine condition. Ownership inscription of the recipient in the year of publication opposite the title page.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 146480
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First Edition of Why Noah Chose the Dove; Signed by Eric Carle
CARLE, Eric; Singer.
Why Noah Chose The Dove.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974.
First edition of this work by the author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Tall quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Eric Carle on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Translated by Elizabeth Shub.
Price: $550.00 Item Number: 3496
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"How doth the little crocodile improve its shining tail, and pour the waters of the Nile on every golden scale": First Edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures Under Ground
CARROL, Lewis. [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson].
Alice’s Adventures Under Ground.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1886.
First edition being a facsimile of the original manuscript which was later expanded and published as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Octavo, original scarlet cloth, elaborate gilt titles to the spine and front panel, gilt vignette to the rear panel, triple gilt ruled, all edges gilt, text printed in the author's handwriting including thirty-seven illustrations in facsimile, advertisements at rear. In very good condition.
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 145905
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"IF I HAD A WORLD OF MY OWN, EVERYTHING WOULD BE NONSENSE. NOTHING WOULD BE WHAT IT IS, BECAUSE EVERYTHING WOULD BE WHAT IT ISN'T": Lewis Carrol's Through The Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
CARROLL, Lewis.
Through The Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.
New York: Worthington Co, n.d..
Early printing of the immensely popular sequel to Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Octavo, original publisher's cloth decorated in gilt, patterned endpapers, with fifty illustrations by John Tenniel. In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 136052
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First Edition of The Game of Logic; Inscribed by Lewis Carroll to His Nephew
CARROLL, Lewis (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson).
The Game of Logic.
London: MacMillan and Co, 1887.
First trade edition of Lewis Carroll’s game, with scarce original card and several original markers. Octavo, original publisher's red cloth. Association copy, inscribed by Lewis Carroll to his nephew, on the half-title in purple ink in the year of publication, "Bertram J. Collingwood with the Author's love Mar. 87." The volume contains the original envelope containing the playing board, with six of the nine rare counters. In very good condition with some rubbing to the extremities. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 26048
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First Edition of the Centenary Edition of Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass & What Alice Found There; iNSCRIBED by Legendary Illustrator Ralph Steadman
CARROLL, Lewis [Ralph Steadman].
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There.
London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1972.
First Centenary edition of this classic work of children's literature. Large quarto, original black boards, pictorial endpapers, numerous illustrations by Ralph Steadman throughout. Boldly signed by the illustrator in the year of publication on the half-title page, "Ralph Steadman 11.11.72." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Book design by Brian J. Green. Uncommon signed.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 146024
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First edition, first printing of the Pennyroyal Press edition of Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
CARROLL, Lewis; Illustrated by Barry Moser.
Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.
Berkely: Published by the University of California Press, 1983.
First Pennyroyal Press edition of Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated by Barry Moser. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 140106
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"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?": Finely bound Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures In Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
CARROLL, Lewis. [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson].
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.
London: MacMillan and Co, 1872.
Octavo, two volumes, uniformly bound in full red morocco, all edges gilt, gilt titles and tooling to the spines, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, raised bands, original cloth bindings tipped in to rear of each volume. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an early printing. Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There is an early printing. Illustrated by John Tenniel, text illustrated. A very nice set.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 130848
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Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; finely bound in full crushed levant morocco by Whitman Bennett
CARROLL, Lewis. [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson].
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1867.
Finely bound early printing of Carroll's beloved children's classic. Octavo, bound in full 20th century scarlet crushed levant morocco by William Bennet, gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, central gilt ornament of Alice holding a rabbit to the front panel, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated by John Tenniel, many with hand-coloring and including tissue-guarded frontispiece. In near fine condition. Bookplate and neat ownership name.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 137243
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"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?": Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures In Wonderland; inscribed by him
CARROLL, Lewis. [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson].
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland.
London: MacMillan and Co, 1879.
Early edition with sixty-second thousand stated on the title page of this classic work, boldly inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "Edith Mary Alice Berkeley from the Author, May 15/80." Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine, all edges gilt, publisher's cloth s, all edges gilt, housed in a modern scarlet morocco slipcase and chemise. 7 1/8 x 4 1/2 inches (18 x 12 cm); 192 pp., [2] pp. ads, half-title; electrotyped frontispiece, and 42 illustrations from the woodcuts by Dalziel after John Tenniel. In near fine condition. From the library of actor William E. Self, with his book…
Price: $25,000.00 Item Number: 142979
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“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then": Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland; finely bound in full contemporary calf by Bayntun riviere
CARROLL, Lewis. [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]. With Illustrations by Eileen A. Soper.
Alice in Wonderland.
London: George G. Harrap and Company Ltd, 1947.
First edition thus of Carroll's beloved children's classic with illustrations by Eileen A. Soper. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf by Bayntun Riviere with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, gilt ruling and fleuron corner pieces to the front and rear panels, gilt central ornament of the White Rabbit to the front panel, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, tissue-guarded colored frontispiece of the Mad Tea-party, illustrations by Eileen A. Soper. In very good condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 145925
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"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't": First Edition of Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, And What Alice Found
CARROLL, Lewis. [Dodgson.
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.
London: MacMillan and Co, 1872.
First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt vignettes to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, frontispiece engraving with tissue guard present. With fifty illustrations by John Tenniel. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 130522
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First edition of Estella Cave' Ant Antics; with accompaniments by Stanley Baldwin, Beverley Nichols, and Rudyard Kipling
CAVE, Estella. [Rudyard Kipling; Stanley Baldwin; Beverley Nichols].
Ant Antics.
London: John Murray, 1933.
First edition of this charming collection of ant stories for children. Octavo, original cloth. With contributions by Stanley Baldwin, Basil Cave, Baden-Powell, Beverly Nichols, and Rudyard Kipling. In very good condition.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 123072
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First edition of Beverly Cleary's Ramona Forever
CLEARLY, Beverly.
Ramona Forever.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1984.
First edition of the seventh book in the Ramona Quimby series. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated by Alan Tiegreen. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 140932
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First edition of Beverly Cleary's Ramona Forever
CLEARLY, Beverly.
Ramona Forever.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1984.
First edition of the seventh book in the Ramona Quimby series. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated by Alan Tiegreen. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 146171
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First Edition of Beverly Cleary's Henry and Ribsy; Signed by Her
CLEARY, Beverly.
Henry and Ribsy.
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1954.
First edition of the third book in Cleary's classic Henry Huggins series. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by Beverly Cleary on the title page. In very good condition. Illustrated by Lois Darling.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 10007
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Beverly Cleary's Ramona and Her Father; inscribed by her
CLEARY, Beverly.
Ramona and Her Father.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1977.
First edition, early printing of the fourth book in Cleary's Ramona Quimby series; a 1978 Newbery Honor Book. Octavo, original boards. Illustrated by Alan Tiegreen. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Jennifer Hall - Happy reading! Beverly Cleary." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 117994