Recent Arrivals from Jans Collectibles: Vintage Books

New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1973 An original storyboard illustration by Ben Shecter for the book Across the Meadow. The storyboard is of a cat watching another cat who has fallen into the water and hanging onto a log. A book is included with the illustration for provenance of the illustrator and author. The illustration is the original illustration for… Read more about this item

Laurys Station, PA: Garrigues House, Publishers, 1997 Book and dust jacket in near fine condition.

London and New York: Frederick Warne And Co., 1908 The outer boards look good. The front board almost lose from the book. A couple of cracks inside the book, reason for the fair rating. String binding.<p> Date of 1908 on the title page, but not a first printing , does not have the All Rights Reserved at the bottom… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1944 Green cloth covers, good or better condition. Paper clip clipped to the top edge of the front end paper, left a stain.<p> Signed in pencil on the blank front page by Eliza Orne White.<p> Included is a letter from Eliza Orne White to Miss Florence Poor, included is the envelope, has a large tear on the front.… Read more about this item

Prentice Hall, 1962 Book and dust jacket in very good condition. Not priced clipped. <p> A loose full page original signed drawing by Eric Gurney dated Feb 10/78 included. The inscription reads Very Best Wishes To_____ And Her Chorus Of Calculating Cats, From Your Friend Eric Gurney.

New York: Wm Penn Publishing Corp, 1945 Book dust jacket fair, half of the spine of the dust jacket missing, large piece missing top edge of the back of the dust jacket<p> Surface wear to the front board of the book , inch chip off the surface of the front board. All pull tabs working (4). Two inch off the bottom… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1966 Yellow cloth boards with red text. A few smudges and dirt but over all in good condition. No broken cloth, No dust jacket.<p> The inscription was ripped out at some point and taped back in. The inscription sayes To our friend and neighbor Hope from Margaret and Hans June 12, 1974. A large… Read more about this item

New York: Grosset And Dunlap Inch small tears on spine right hand edge. Over all the book looks good or better. Front board starting to come loose at bottom.. Some fading on the H and O in the text. NO copyright date. Pencil signatures and addresses of former owners on the first blank page.<p> … Read more about this item

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1901 Red cloth boards with a gold silhouette of a cat in the center. Front board is very good, the back board has a faded bottom 1 1/2" corner tip. String binding.<p> Former owners book plate on the inside front board. Fourty-Two illustrations by John Tenniel. A chip and tear at the bottom of… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1960 Nice looking tan cloth book with title in green text , the rest of the text in black. Illustrated cover. Ex library with two library discard stamps on the blank end papers, one on the front end paper and one on the back end paper.<p> In text illustrations. Solid binding.… Read more about this item

New York: Hurst & Co., 1890 Pre Owned The Fables by Jean De La Fontaine. No date but a book with the same cover and publisher dated 1890.<p> Antique book with pictorial green cloth. Hardcover decorated in black and gilt.<>p> Measures 11" x 9" and has 557 pages. Folio edition of Jean De La Fontaine's Fables with over 85 full size… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1973 An original storyboard illustration by Ben Shecter of a Cat and Rabbit for the book Across the Meadow. A book is included with the illustration for provenance of the illustrator and author.<p> The illustration is the original illustration for the book. The cat is so cute and a lot of… Read more about this item

Kansas City, MO: Tell-Well Press, 1946 Dust jacket is very good, not price clipped ( 1.00 on the inside dust jacket flap). Some clear tape on the backside of the dust jacket at the edges and seams.<p> The boards are very good, Inscribed by Bill Martin on the inside front end paper.<p> Really cute illustrations and very presentable.

Neew York: Harper & Brothers, 1928 Here is a very hard to find copy of "Alphabet People" by Lois Lenski, <p> The book is in good condition, some cover and spine wear, tifght binding and hinges, pages have some foxing and stains, their is a name written at the top in ink on the title page. 7 1/4" x 9… Read more about this item

Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1891 Maud Humphrey's Mother Goose<p> A rare first edition. Includes several Mother Goose tales with Maud Humpjrey's text with hand colored illustrations<p> Some of the classic verses are Little Miss Muffett, Jack and Jill, Little Boy Blue, and Little Bo Peep to name a few.<p> Maud Humphrey (1868-1940) a very successful commerical illustrator , Humphrey was the mother of… Read more about this item

New York: A. L. Burt, 1924 Book is in very good condition. A dedication on the front end paper Really nice boards . String binding, illustration on page 23 halfway loose. Page 15 spine cracked at the lower bottom, darkened edges. <p> Mylar covered dust jacket, inch off the bottom of the dust jacket spine, small piece missing at the… Read more about this item

Boston: Lee And Shepard, 1870 Alice's Adventures In Wonderland in good condition.<p> Front board cracked and coming loose from the book at the title page.. Front title page loose but in the book. Page three loose from the book , complete 192 pages.<p> Gold tipped edges. The second edition puiblished in the US after the 1869 edition Lee and Appleton… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1926 Tan and Red illustrated cloth boards in near fine condition, Dust jacket mylar covered in very good condition.

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1945 Book and dust jacket in very good condition. Five full page color illustrations plus the color front piece.<p> Mylar covered dust jacket

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1923 Book boards in near fine condition, pencil name and date of 1925 on the first blank end paper, Five grey and white illustrations plus the frontpiece.<p> Mylar covered dust jacket, not price clipped.