Long Acre: Odhams Press, ca. 1940s. First edition. Hardcover. ca. 1940s. First edition. Hardcover, 4to. in blue cloth, dust jacket. 319pp. over 300 illustrations by well known artists, including E. Prescott, May Smith, Joyce Mercer, Alfred Kerr, Lola Onslow, et al. Very good in good dust jacket. Chipping to spine.....
New York: The Century Co., 1908. Hardcover. Very good, light wear and soil. The copy of Mabel Narcissa Cox, the wife of Frank A. Vanderlip, a well known NY banker noted for having played a large part in the founding of the Federal Reserve, and for establishing the first Montessori.....
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1909. First printing. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket, book very good with minor wear, jacket good with wear, tanning, slight loss.
London: Smith, Elder, 1850. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1850, fine copy in full crushed golden brown calf gilt, by Wallis, 87 pp, 2 pp ads, frontispiece, title page in color, with 13 color plates in addition. A lovely copy of one of Thackeray's Christmas books.
Sierra Madre, CA: F. A. Pagenkopf, C. 1924. First printing. Hardcover. 9 x 7.25 inches, yellow boards with color pictorial onlay, very good with light wear and soil, light straining to rear inner hinge, in original spiderweb glassine dust jackdet that is somewhat worn and chipped. 7 mounted color plates.....
Sierra Madre, CA: F. A. Pagenkopf, C. 1924. First printing. Hardcover. 9 x 7.25 inches, yellow boards with color pictorial onlay, good with light wear, especially at spine head. 7 mounted plates and some funny verses.
New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1978. First printing. Hardcover. Signed by Tudor on the titlepage. First edition, 1978. Quarto, cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 52 pp., illustrated (some in color), clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket, light rubbing to the tips of the.....
Philadelphia: E. H. Butler & Co., 1855. Hardcover. Published 1855, large 8vo, deluxe publisher's decorative leather binding with gilt borders, Grecian urn image at center of front and rear panels, gilt decorated spine, 391 pp, 16 steel engraved plates. Very good, light rubbing to binding's joints and corners, inscription from.....
Chicago: Cuneo Press, 1970. Hardcover. Tall 8vo, finely bound in full deep red morocco gilt, very good or better, slight mellowing to paper tone. Prints a number of stories including Twain's One Million Pound Note, ends with Pope Paul VI's Christmas Message, a lovely book, hardly ever seen in the.....
Boston: Otis, Broaders, 1846. Hardcover. 8vo, embossed deep red full leather, heavily gilt decorated spine, very good, light rubbing and wear. 296 pp, illustrated with engraved plates.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1925. First printing. Paperback. 6 x 4.25 inches, silver decorated wraps, good with some wear and creasing to covers, 16 pp, a few woodcut illustrations, recounting in "creative nonfiction" ways a narrative about shopping in Pittsburgh during the holidays. RARE, OCLC locates copies at the Heinz History.....
Boston: L. Prang, C. 1889. Stiff wraps, 7 x 4.75 inches, 9 stiff leaves, printed on rectos only, with 4 chromolithograph landscapes and other pages printing the text in brown-tone. Remarkably fine copy with some minor discoloration to rear cover. No copies located by Worldcat in institutions, and one of.....