Knight's Gambit by Faulkner, William - 1949

1914 1ed Butterfly Babies Book Gordon Ross Children Literature Color Illustrated

M.T. Ross, "Penny", was a popular artist and cartoonist in the early 1900s whose works include "The Flower Babies Book", "The Flower Children", "Butterfly Babies", "Bird Children", "Animal Children" and others. He was also the originator of the extremely popular comic strip "Mamma's Angel Child" for the Chicago Tribune and worked with Walt Disney before he made his own company.
Elizabeth Gordon was a fantasy author and poet. Her book 'Butterfly Babies' Book' is a short children's fantasy collection of poems that anthropomorphize butterflies giving them names and stories while giving information through poetry on the trees and flowers they eat and take shelter from. The book ends with an area for the reader to notate when they see butterflies and what butterflies they see.
This charming children's book of poems contains color illustrations from Ross on each page of each butterfly including on the cover boards!

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1874 EXQUISITE Saint Louis IX Medieval France Joinville Crusades French Wailly

Jean de Joinville was a 13th-century French historian who is best known for his biographical work on the life of Saint Louis, or King Louis IX of France. This work is perhaps the most authentic and best account of the King Louis leadership during the Seventh Crusade. This 1874 French edition was collected and edited by J Natalis de Wailly. Wailly includes impressive facsimile views of original portions of Joinville's text.

Item number: #10653
Price: $550
JOINVILLE, Jean
Jean, sire Joinville : Histoire de Saint Louis ; Credo ; et, Lettre à Louis X
Paris : F. Didot frères, fils et cie, 1874.

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Collation: complete with all pages
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[4], [xxviii], 690p
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Illustrated throughout
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Language: French
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Binding: Leather; tight and secure
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Size: ~11in X 7in (28cm x 17.5cm)
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1907 1st ed Dream of Fair Women Harrison Fisher Girl Illustrated Color Poetry

Harrison Fisher, the "Historian of American Beauty," was an American illustrator whose works regularly appeared on the cover of 'Cosmopolitan' Magazine in the early 1900s.
"At the top of the heap stands Harrison Fisher, creator of the Fisher Girl and most popular of all Americans who ply brush and pencil for reproduction. By reason of his industry and because of the uniform soundness of his drawings and color sense, he is the acknowledged master of the pretty girl picture"(Cosmopolitan).
This first edition of the book 'A Dream of Fair Women' is filled with romantic full-color illustrations of the "Fisher Girl" type. The illustrations are inspired from the text of famous poems decorated in Art Nouveau style by E. Stetson Crawford. A fine piece!
Item number: #13376
Price: $399
FISHER, Harrison
A dream of fair women,
Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill [©1907] First Edition.

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1908 1st ed Harrison Fisher ART Bachelor Belles Portraits Cosmopolitan Magazine

Harrison Fisher was a 20th-century American artist known for his drawings of women, portraits that regularly appeared on early 1900s editions of 'Cosmopolitan' magazine. 'Bachelor Belles' is a 1908 portfolio of Fisher's portraits – each beautifully colored. These 22 illustrations are paired with American poetry and short stories and illustrated page decorations by Theodore Hapgood.
Item number: #13402
Price: $499
FISHER, Harrison
Bachelor Belles
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1908. First edition

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
o 22 full-page illustrations
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure
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Original dust jacket
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Original hard shell
· Size: ~11in X 8in (28cm x 20cm)
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1924. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo, 108 pages; VG-/VG-; spine light blue unmarked paper; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering; mild shelf wear and soiling; small chips missing at corners of flap folds; 2.5 inch closed tear at lower edge of jacket front; multiple small closed tears to upper edge of jacket front; small chips missing at crown and tail of jacket spine; two-inch closed tear at lower edge of jacket back; three-inch curved closed tear at jacket back; two small closed tears at upper edge of jacket back; speckled soiling across jacket overall; price uncut '$2.50'; board exposed at lower edges of boards; mild age toning to textblock; bookseller's sticker to back pastedown; pages clean; CX consignment; shelved in Room G. 1346075. Special Collections.

NY, Random House, 1962, first edition, first printing.. No dust jacket, this is John Gardner's first book, preceding his The Resurrection by four years, it is essentially a text book written while he was an English professor at Chico State College, Signed by Gardner, it includes John Steinbeck's The Chrysanthemums, pages 248-258, text from The Long Valley, Goldstone & Payne B124, not recorded by Morrow, also includes Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Edgar Allan Poe, Anton Chekhov, James Joyce, and others. Very good plus.

London, T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., 1925, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Review Copy with review slip, preface by R. B. Cunninghame Graham, jacket illustration by E. Lucchesi, includes four short stories, they are The Warrior's Soul, Prince Roman, The Tale, and The Black Mate, all the stories were privately printed originally, this is their first trade publication, Smith 27, Keating 193. Very good.

Surrey, Kerosina Books, 1987, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.. With publisher's slipcase, a novel, with an afterword by Kim Stanley Robinson, No. 179 of 250 specially bound copies Signed by Robinson, together with Cosmogony and Cosmology, a separate book by Dick , with an introduction by Paul Williams, issued without dust jacket, also published in 1987 by Kerosina Books, also No. 179, being one of 325 hardcover copies to be distributed with Valis. Fine, unread.

New York: The Century Company, 1913. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/No Jacket. Frontispiece. [Iv], 291 Pp. + Ad At Rear, One Rear Blank. Blue Gray Cloth, Gilt Lettering, Black Designs On Spine And Cover. First Printing, One Of An Unknown But Small Printing. Very Good +, Light Rubbing To Upper And Lower Edges With Tiny Frays At Lower Corners, Gilt Bright, No Loss Of Gilt Lettering, A Few Tiny Partial Losses Of Black Design.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994. Signed on the title page by Umberto Eco. First edition / First printing. Green paper spine, blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.