When Clay Sings by Byrd Baylor - 1972

New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons,, 1948.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a good only dustjacket (long tear on back cover of dj, and short closed tear on front cover. Jacket is now protected by archival cover.).. First printing. A story of life on Olvera Street in old Los Angeles for a four-year old girl, told with Politi's sensitiveness and beautifully illustrated with his paintings throughout. Born in Fresno, California, Politi studied art in Italy, but when he returned to California he settled in Los Angeles near Olivera Street. Included in the story is the music to three songs. INSCRIBED by Politi on the page facing the title page "Horace with best wishes from Juanita and me" and dated in 1950. The large 'H' in Horace is embellished with watercolor paintings of flowers.

George Routledge and Sons. Ltd. London. ND.,c.1883. 8vo. (7.3 x 5 inches). Beautifully illustrated with 8 full page colour printed plates engraved by Dalziel, each with a tissue guard. A very good copy in an attractive early binding of full burgundy calf. Spine with raised bands, each with gilt wavy line decoration. Compartments double ruled and fully decorated in gilt. Double ruled gilt borders to both boards. Marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. Gilt stamped school arms on the front board. The binding is unsigned but is certainly the work of a master bindery. A lovely copy on a fine early leather binding. The book is not dated but a search of Copac shows a copy of this same edition in the Cambridge University Library where they have dated its publication to 1883.:

Houghton Mifflin, New York, 1952 Front Cvr Little Wobbly at Hinge, HBDJ, 1952, 1ST EDITION, 1ST Printing, 1952 on Title Page, VG-/VG- , AS-IS, Light Tweed Green Hard Cover Illustrated & Titled in Yellow Light Wear has small Tears along Outside Spine cvr. Book Condition: Very Good -. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. vintage copy. Book & jacket are lightly worn, though bright and colorful, Book & jacket are lightly worn,though bright and colorful, 42 PGS, Interior nice tight light Wear Scuff Fox , 9 1/4 X 9 1/2 in, Wide 8vo, DJ has small Silver Gilt LabeL at Spine, DJ Protected Clear Mylar ,  CVR Spine ends are worn with tears up & down slightly . 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-/Very Good-.

New York, New York: Horace Liveright. Very Good with no Dust Jacket. 1928. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 323 pages: 6 x 8.25 in.: 2: KB#010633: Boards now protected by a new Brodart Archival Mylar Cover. First Edition, Limited, Copy - limited to 3,000 copies. No Dustjacket. Boards are dark blue with red print and gilt triangular emblem on front and red print on spine. Has prior owner's name (Harry Runyan) neatly written at top of front flyleaf. Otherwise, boards and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered (except for some small bent edges of a few back pages). Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. This is Barnes's second novel and it draws heavily on her childhood experiences in Cornwall-on-Hudson. It covers fifty years of history of the Ryder family and fragments of the Ryder family chronicle are interspersed with children's stories, songs, letters, poems, parables, and dreams. "When it was first published in 1928, Djuna Barnes's… Read More

Limited first edition in slipcase with original Franklin watercolor depicting Buster, tipped-in as a front end page and signed by the artist. A Fine unread book, number 6 of 100 such copies, in a Good to Very Good slipcase that has been rubbed to white along two edges. An oversize, oblong book approximately 9 by 11 inches. All pages are full-color illustrations with text printed over the illustrations. Although not indicated, this is a retelling of the old Brothers Grimm fairy tale, "The Town Musicians of Bremen," with a Southwestern flavor. The limited editions were numbered on a special limitation page and signed by Hillerman and Franklin, and bound in purple boards with a gold, embossed picture of Buster on the front board. They were housed in a matching slipcase with the Buffalo Medicine logo of a buffalo skull embossed on front panel. This was Hillerman’s second book for children and it was reprinted in a trade edition in 2007 by Sidewinder Publications, Albuquerque.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran / Junior Books, 1931. First Edition . Hardcover. Collectible; VG. George Shanks. 1st edition [stated, logo of JR on copyright page], 8vo, green cloth with yellow illustrations and lettering, yellow top edge, illustrated endpapers, 240 pages, color frontispiece, ten b/w illustrations. VERY GOOD / no jacket: slight cover wear, light rubbing to spine extremities, spine is slightly toned, faint foxing to first and last few pages, owner name on front endpaper, otherwise internally very clean and tight. A rare children's book, unfortunately without the even more rarely seen dust jacket...this is a nice copy.

New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1998. The exquisite illustrations by author-painter Jonathan Hunt have made this book on mythological beasts a rare, hightly collectible children's book since it was first published 12 years ago. Rarer still is this Stated First Edition (and, unless it's stated, it's not) that also includes the complete "number line" ending in a "1" to indicate First Printing. (The copyright information is located at the rear of the book on the Bibliography Page.) The book features full-page as well as double spread color paintings of various mythical medieval beasts, with descriptive paragraphs, including the Amphisbaena, the Basilisk, the Catoblepas, the Dreaded Black Dog of Ireland and Scotland, the Echeneis, the Firedrake, the Griffin, the Hippocampus, the Ichneumon, the Javelin Snake, the Kraken, the Leucrocuta, the Manticore, the Nycticorax, the Ozaena, the Phoenix, the Questing Beast, the Roc, the Unicorn, the Vegetable… Read More

New York: Viking Press, 1933. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9. 4to, unpaginated; illustrated paper boards backed in black cloth, boards edge worn, price clipped dust jacket rubbed and edge worn with chipping at spine ends. An attractive copy. Marjorie Flack collaborated with Kurt Wiese to illustrate The Story About Ping because she had no experience with Chinese culture and Wiese had lived in Japan. The collaboration was a success, and Ping became a popular favorite, in part because it was featured on the television show, Captain Kangaroo.

Macmillan & Co. New York. 1883 & 87. TWO VOLUMES. 8vo. First volume illustrated with line engravings by Arthur Hughes and Sydney Prior Hall. The second book illustrated solely by Hall. Early American editions. Both Volumes are very good clean copies in contemporary leather bindings of half black calf, raised bands, extra gilt. Marbled paper on boards and endpapers. All edges marbled. Some rubbing to extremities but still an attractive early bound pair.

New York;nd [1922]: E.P. Dutton. First American Edition. Quarto. 102(1)pp., illustrated with 16 plates (8 color and 8 black & white). Annie and Ida were Australian sisters. Annie wrote children's stories while Ida illustrated them. A charming fairy story bound in a checker patterned paper covered boards backed in green cloth, paper labels to upper board and spine, some edge wear and rubbing to boards, some occasional scattered foxing, front inner hinge repaired after half-title. A very good copy of the First American edition published the same year as the first British edition. No American editions at auction and only three copies via OCLC.[Baumgarten, p. 168].