Otkuda u nosoroga shkura? : Skazka [How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin] by Rudyard Kipling - 1927

[Paris]: 1925. folio. 40 x 30 cm. pp. 4. 60 pochoirs of women’s dresses and coats. original wrs. (worn)

NY: Blue Ribbon Books, 1933. First edition. Fine. Hardcover/Near fine. Glazed pictorial boards printed in color. Pictorial endpapers in color. Four fabulous and detailed double-page pop-up scenes, plus full and partial page black & white illustrations throughout. The boards are ever so lightly soiled else this is a fine copy with fine pop-ups. The scarce dustwrapper is present; it lightly browned with age else near fine. A nice copy of an early Disney work.

London: Albion Press Printed : Published by James Cundee, 1805. First Edition. Hardcover. xxiii, [1], 467, [9]pp index + 3pp of publisher's advertisements. Recent deep brown half calf, five raised bands, spine ruled, decorated and lettered in gold. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece and eight engraved plates by J. Barlow after drawings by the author, letter facsimile, folding map of the island of St. Domingo, folding plan of the city of Cape Francois as it existed before the revolution. Includes A Succinct historical View of the Colonies of Hispaniola and St. Domingo, Origin of the Revolutionary Spirit of this Period in St. Domingo, Account of the Progress and Accomplishment of the Independence of St. Domingo, State of Manners on the Independence of the Blacks in St. Domingo, View of the Black Army, and of the War between the French Republic and the independent Blacks of St. Domingo, On the Establishment of a Black Empire, and more. Margins very slightly trimmed, faint stain to the verso… Read More

NY: Harper & Brothers, 1955. SIGNED first edition. Hard cover in original cloth and dust jacket. Published NY: Harper & Brothers, 1955, first printing. [Hanrahan A18]. 12mo., 5 3/8" x 6 3/4", unpaginated 24pp., color illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Sendak's first all-color illustrated book. Black cloth and pictorial paper covered boards, floral design decorative endpapers in color. Inscribed by Sendak to 5 year-old Sing-Si Schwartz on half-title. (Sing-Si later became a fine-arts photographer, and presumably photographed the laid in Sendak illustrations) : "Jul 70' , For Sing-Si, hello: Maurice Sendak" Laid in is a 1955 publication notice of the book in "The Villager", Greenwich Village, NY, Dec 15, 1955 featuring a photo of Sendak holding a dog. Three 4" x 6" duotone prints of Sendak's illustrations for the book laid in. Book is fine with no wear, dust jacket very good, $2 price on flap, mild age toning, darkening fade along the spine with… Read More

London: Printed for Iohn Grismand, 1621. First Edition. Hardcover. [26], 317 (but actually 315), [11], 182, 185-264, [12]pp. Recent chocolate brown half calf over marbled boards, blind tooling on the sides, spine with five raised bands, gold lettering and decorations. Engraved title in compartments representing the history of creation by Simon van de Passe, head-pieces, initials and tail-pieces, text enclosed in borders. Index and errata for the first and second week at end. The English translation of Simon Goulart's Commentaires et annotations sur la semaine de la création du monde de G. de Saluste, sieur du Bartas. Title page edges and fore edges of eleven leaves skillfully repaired. Sporadic foxing, an occasional spot and minor soiling, previous owner's name in ink on title. A very good copy. ; Folio.

[Paris]: 1925. folio. 40 x 30 cm. pp. 4. 60 pochoirs of women’s dresses and coats. original wrs. (worn)

NY: Blue Ribbon Books, 1933. First edition. Fine. Hardcover/Near fine. Glazed pictorial boards printed in color. Pictorial endpapers in color. Four fabulous and detailed double-page pop-up scenes, plus full and partial page black & white illustrations throughout. The boards are ever so lightly soiled else this is a fine copy with fine pop-ups. The scarce dustwrapper is present; it lightly browned with age else near fine. A nice copy of an early Disney work.

London: Albion Press Printed : Published by James Cundee, 1805. First Edition. Hardcover. xxiii, [1], 467, [9]pp index + 3pp of publisher's advertisements. Recent deep brown half calf, five raised bands, spine ruled, decorated and lettered in gold. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece and eight engraved plates by J. Barlow after drawings by the author, letter facsimile, folding map of the island of St. Domingo, folding plan of the city of Cape Francois as it existed before the revolution. Includes A Succinct historical View of the Colonies of Hispaniola and St. Domingo, Origin of the Revolutionary Spirit of this Period in St. Domingo, Account of the Progress and Accomplishment of the Independence of St. Domingo, State of Manners on the Independence of the Blacks in St. Domingo, View of the Black Army, and of the War between the French Republic and the independent Blacks of St. Domingo, On the Establishment of a Black Empire, and more. Margins very slightly trimmed, faint stain to the verso… Read More

NY: Harper & Brothers, 1955. SIGNED first edition. Hard cover in original cloth and dust jacket. Published NY: Harper & Brothers, 1955, first printing. [Hanrahan A18]. 12mo., 5 3/8" x 6 3/4", unpaginated 24pp., color illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Sendak's first all-color illustrated book. Black cloth and pictorial paper covered boards, floral design decorative endpapers in color. Inscribed by Sendak to 5 year-old Sing-Si Schwartz on half-title. (Sing-Si later became a fine-arts photographer, and presumably photographed the laid in Sendak illustrations) : "Jul 70' , For Sing-Si, hello: Maurice Sendak" Laid in is a 1955 publication notice of the book in "The Villager", Greenwich Village, NY, Dec 15, 1955 featuring a photo of Sendak holding a dog. Three 4" x 6" duotone prints of Sendak's illustrations for the book laid in. Book is fine with no wear, dust jacket very good, $2 price on flap, mild age toning, darkening fade along the spine with… Read More

London: Printed for Iohn Grismand, 1621. First Edition. Hardcover. [26], 317 (but actually 315), [11], 182, 185-264, [12]pp. Recent chocolate brown half calf over marbled boards, blind tooling on the sides, spine with five raised bands, gold lettering and decorations. Engraved title in compartments representing the history of creation by Simon van de Passe, head-pieces, initials and tail-pieces, text enclosed in borders. Index and errata for the first and second week at end. The English translation of Simon Goulart's Commentaires et annotations sur la semaine de la création du monde de G. de Saluste, sieur du Bartas. Title page edges and fore edges of eleven leaves skillfully repaired. Sporadic foxing, an occasional spot and minor soiling, previous owner's name in ink on title. A very good copy. ; Folio.