The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum - 1900

SENDAK, Maurice. King Grisly-Beard. A Tale from the Brothers Grimm. Translated by Edgar Taylor. Pictures by Maurice Sendak. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux [1973]. 8vo, 24pp. Brown cloth stamped in silver on spine. Gray endpapers; full-color illustrations on nearly every page. A fine copy in original color pictorial jacket.
First edition. Maurice Sendak's bright and vibrant illustrations perfectly capture the brother Grimm's tale in this stunning edition. Sendak's creative genius is further on display in the framing narrative he creates for the book which tells of two small children who are recruited to act in a play of the story and who end up performing the main roles in the King Grisly-Beard tale.

GAIMAN, Neil. The Wolves in the Walls. Illustrated by David McKean. [NY]: HarperCollins [2003]. Square 8vo, [56]pp. Color pictorial boards. Black endpapers; color illustrations on every page. A fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket. Signed by the author, Newbery Medalist Neil Gaiman.
First edition. A delightfully scary, strange and hilarious romp from Neil Gaiman, captured powerfully in David McKean's haunting illustrations. Delicious fun!

POLITI, Leo. The Poinsettia. [Palm Desert, CA]: Best-West Publications [1967]. 4to, [48]pp. Light blue cloth pictorially stamped in navy. Pictorial endpapers; color illustrations on nearly every page. Spine ends a tad rubbed, else a fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (slight edgewear). Lengthy inscription from the author/artist, Caldecott Medalist Leo Politi, with a large original watercolor of a vase of flowers.
First edition. A celebration of the many cultures that make up America and the way each celebrates its own traditions during the holiday season. The original watercolor by Politi is lush and detailed, even by his standards.

RANSOME, Arthur. The Big Six. London: Jonathan Cape [1940]. 12mo, 400pp. Green cloth stamped in gilt on spine and blind-stamped on front. Two-color map endpapers; b&w illustrations throughout. Spine ends and corners slightly rubbed, light foxing on fore-edge of sheets – but not extending internally, endpapers minutely foxed, in original color pictorial dust jacket (light edgewear, some soiling, spine lightly sunned).
First edition. The ninth book in Arthur Ransome's beloved Swallows and Amazons series. Ransome returns once more to his beloved Norfolk Broads where trouble is again brewing between the three boatbuilders' sons (who more or less live full-time aboard the Death and Glory) and the three Coots, Tom, Dorothea and Dick. The problem arises when the boats are constantly being set adrift, and all the evidence points squarely to the boatbuilders' sons. In a clever bit of detective work, and with some help from a sophisticated photographic trap, the two trios come together as the Big Six and… Read More

FLOCA, Brian. Locomotive. NY: Atheneum [2013]. 4to, [56]pp. Color pictorial boards. Color pictorial endpapers; color illustrations on every page. A fine copy in dust jacket (medal not affixed). Signed by the author/artist, Caldecott Medalist Brian Floca, with a small drawing of a locomotive and dated within days of winning the medal.First edition. 2014 Caldecott Medal Winner! It is the summer of 1869, and trains, crews, and family are traveling together, riding America's brand-new transcontinental railroad. Floca's stunning art brings these pages to life with the details of the trip and the sounds, speed, and strength of the mighty locomotives; the work that keeps them moving; and the thrill of travel from plains to mountain to ocean. Come hear the hiss of the steam, feel the heat of the engine, watch the landscape race by. Come ride the rails, come cross the young country!

SENDAK, Maurice. King Grisly-Beard. A Tale from the Brothers Grimm. Translated by Edgar Taylor. Pictures by Maurice Sendak. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux [1973]. 8vo, 24pp. Brown cloth stamped in silver on spine. Gray endpapers; full-color illustrations on nearly every page. A fine copy in original color pictorial jacket.
First edition. Maurice Sendak's bright and vibrant illustrations perfectly capture the brother Grimm's tale in this stunning edition. Sendak's creative genius is further on display in the framing narrative he creates for the book which tells of two small children who are recruited to act in a play of the story and who end up performing the main roles in the King Grisly-Beard tale.

GAIMAN, Neil. The Wolves in the Walls. Illustrated by David McKean. [NY]: HarperCollins [2003]. Square 8vo, [56]pp. Color pictorial boards. Black endpapers; color illustrations on every page. A fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket. Signed by the author, Newbery Medalist Neil Gaiman.
First edition. A delightfully scary, strange and hilarious romp from Neil Gaiman, captured powerfully in David McKean's haunting illustrations. Delicious fun!

GIBSON, Eva Katharine. Zauberlinda The Wise Witch. Chicago: Robert Smith Printing Co [1901]. 8vo, 258pp. Blue cloth pictorially stamped in yellow and orange. Pictorial endpapers with fixed sheets printed with an orange background; illustrations in one-color on every page with text in black. Light rubbing to spine ends and lower corners, covers slightly so, spine lightly sunned, a few pages slightly soiled in margins, else an unusually clean, tight copy.
First edition. A very early Oz imitation, being released just a year after the publication of Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (which had been the best-selling children's book of 1900). The book features a style imitating the format of the first Oz novel, with line drawings printed in a variety of colors appearing over and around the text of the novel, just as in The Wizard. Gibson's tale is also very reminiscent of Baum's, telling of an isolated little girl on the prairie who is transported into a realm of magic and danger, only to have to find her… Read More

POLITI, Leo. The Poinsettia. [Palm Desert, CA]: Best-West Publications [1967]. 4to, [48]pp. Light blue cloth pictorially stamped in navy. Pictorial endpapers; color illustrations on nearly every page. Spine ends a tad rubbed, else a fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (slight edgewear). Lengthy inscription from the author/artist, Caldecott Medalist Leo Politi, with a large original watercolor of a vase of flowers.
First edition. A celebration of the many cultures that make up America and the way each celebrates its own traditions during the holiday season. The original watercolor by Politi is lush and detailed, even by his standards.

FLOCA, Brian. Locomotive. NY: Atheneum [2013]. 4to, [56]pp. Color pictorial boards. Color pictorial endpapers; color illustrations on every page. A fine copy in dust jacket (medal not affixed). Signed by the author/artist, Caldecott Medalist Brian Floca, with a small drawing of a locomotive and dated within days of winning the medal.First edition. 2014 Caldecott Medal Winner! It is the summer of 1869, and trains, crews, and family are traveling together, riding America's brand-new transcontinental railroad. Floca's stunning art brings these pages to life with the details of the trip and the sounds, speed, and strength of the mighty locomotives; the work that keeps them moving; and the thrill of travel from plains to mountain to ocean. Come hear the hiss of the steam, feel the heat of the engine, watch the landscape race by. Come ride the rails, come cross the young country!