Friday, February 28, 2014

1899 POETICAL WORKS OF JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL - ILLUSTRATED - SARAH WYMAN WHITMAN BINDING

1899

THE POETICAL WORKS OF JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
ILLUSTRATED

HANDSOME GILT STAMPED FINE BINDING
DESIGNED BY SARAH WYMAN WHITMAN

Publisher:
Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1899.

Features:
• measures about 7.5'' x 5.25''
• beautiful publisher's decorative cloth fine binding
• embossed gold gilt stamping
• slate blue endpapers
• frontispiece with tissue-guard
• illustrated with numerous full-page engraved plates




Thursday, February 27, 2014

CA. 1926 ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND BY LEWIS CARROLL ADAPTED FOR LITTLE FOLKS

CA. 1926

ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND

ADAPTED FOR VERY LITTLE FOLKS
FROM THE ORIGINAL STORY

BY LEWIS CARROLL

WITH THIRTY-ONE COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS FROM
THE ORIGINAL DESIGNS BY JOHN TENNIEL

*** RARE EDITION ~ COLOR PLATES ~ ORIGINAL DUST JACKET ~ CLASSIC ***

Publisher:
Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, no date, circa 1926.

Features:
• rare hardcover in original paper dust jacket
• measures about 5.5'' x 4.25''
• beautiful and charming binding
• red cloth spine with black lettering, gray paper over boards printed in dark blue, color plate mounted to front
• pictorial endpapers
• frontispiece and 30 more full-page color plates



• 126 pages

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

1878 AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND BY GEORGE MACDONALD

1878

AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND
BY GEORGE MACDONALD

ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR HUGHES

London: Daldy, Isbister & Co., 1878.
Strahan & Co binding. Printed by Virtue & Co., Limited.

• measures about 7.5'' x 5''
• beautiful publisher's decorative cloth Victorian fine binding
• ornate embossed black and gold gilt stamping
• pale pink coated endpapers
• ad for MacDonald's "Dealings with the Fairies" book tipped in on front endpaper
• illustrated with part-page engravings by Arthur Hughes