Search Results: Titles starting with W from Nana's Top Shelf: Rare and Collector Books

The Wishing Horse of Oz, Copyright 1935 by The Reilly & Lee Company, 9.25" x 7" (8vo), 298 pp. First edition, earliest state. Color plates and black-and-white illustrations throughout. Dark blue cloth with pictorial cover paste down.
This is another listings from "Nana's Top Shelf," a collection of first editions and other fine volumes collected over a lifetime from estate sales and booksellers across the East Coast and Europe. We are now listing books from our early-edition L. Frank Baum, Wizard of Oz collection. All of these books are in outstanding condition and suitable for selective collectors or as investment-grade books. This 1st Edition of Wishing Horse is one of the rarest in the Oz series.
Condition: Very Good. Interior pages and plates are bright and clean. Binding is tight. Owner's inscription ("This book belongs to Doug Robertson ...") and ownership label inside front cover. Light shelf wear; gently bumped corners. ~1" long scuff to lower right of cover (see photo).… Read More

FIRST EDITION (first American edition) of Nathaniel Hawthorne's beloved volume of myths and legends published by Goerge H. Doran Company: New York, 207 pp., 6.75" x 9.75 (Small4to). Color plates and black-and-white illustrations by Arthur Rackham, including 24 beautiful tipped-in and full-page color illustrations. Illustrated end papers.
This is the sought-after first Rackham-illustrated edition of Hawthorne's Wonder Book. Arthur Rackham illustrated books are all widely collected. Suitable as a bespoke gift or investment book.
There are six tales: The Gorgon's Head, The Golden Touch, The Paradise of Children, The Three Golden Apples, The Miraculous Pitcher, The Chimaera. This undated printing appears to be the 1922 edition of this volume (before merger of publisher with Doubleday.
Very Good condition. Clean cover and spine, with gently bumped corners and top and bottom of spine. Original vertical seam on cover. Light foxing of interior of cover with original bookseller notes in pencil… Read More