Bell & Daldy: London, 1857. Hardcover. Engraved frontispiece, 6.75 x 4.5", full crimson crushed morocco prize binding, with gilt seal on front cover, aeg, 350pp, bookplates (including the presentation one), inner front hinge cracked, rear one starting, ends foxed, spine faded to brown, corners worn. WITH FOREDGE PAINTING OF THE..... More
John Murray: London, 1815. Hardcover. 8.5 x 5.5", full straight grained goatskin, with nice gilt ruling and decorated spine, aeg, bookplates (George Cornwall Legh), 299pp + ads; errata, ink inscription, extremities rubbed and foxed. FIRST EDITION. NICE COLORFUL FOREDGE PAINTING OF CHURCH AND OTHER BUILDINGS HIDDEN UNDER GILT. More
Nims and Knight: Troy, NY, 1887. 10 full page color plates by Isaac Sprague, 12.75 x 10", gilt-lettered pict cloth, unpaginated, covers quite worn/stained, soiled and darkened, extremities bumped and fraying, hinges loose, inner hinges cracking, pp toned but complete and intact with the ten lovely, bright botanical prints (Arethusa..... More
Detroit, 1976. Paperback. 11.5 x 17", screened for printing, good condition. BOLDLY SIGNED PLUS PERSONAL INSCRIPTION SIGNED ON DEC. 26, 1976. Shows President Jimmy Carter grabbed by a King Kong hand labeled "unemployment" hovering over city. Carter says "Now watch carefully folks, as beauty kills the beast" More
Draper Hill: Detroit News, 1995. Hardcover. Cartoon approx. 11 x 14" (not examined out of frame), black metal frame 12 x 14.5". Very good condition. Shown are a man and woman in a car that is following a pickup truck whose bed is full of fertilizer bags. Comes with the..... More
Detroit, 1995. 24 x 17.5, black lettering and black and tan coloring against a white background. Fold crease, soiling on reverse else very good. Divided into four sections, front and back and interior. Thomas "Tommy" Schlientz had Draper Hill do his annual Christmas card which was always moose-themed. In this..... More
Art Gallery of Windsor: Windsor, ON, 1985. Oblong 8 x 9, wraps, 96 pp, covers unevenly toned, a bit worn but still a nice copy, showing dozens of Draper Hill's political cartoons from The Detroit News. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY DRAPER HILL (1990), WITH AN ORIGINAL SELF PORTRAIT. More
Illustr in color and b&w, 11.25 x 8.75m gilt ruled red boards, 154 pp, covers with very minor shelf wear, hinges a little loose else a nice, clean, fresh copy of the FIRST EDITION. Scarce. Underground comics oriented. More
MPH Comics: Detroit, MI, 2005. Paperback. Illus., photos; ads, 10 x 6.5", color pict stapled wraps, unpaginated, covers lightly rubbed and creased, contents toned but still a nice copy of this Detroit-made comic book. FIRST EDITION. Includes Nate Higley, Barb Houck, Gary Grimshaw ("Pagan Rites"), Sean Bieri, etc. More
Charles Scribner's Sons: NY (1991). Illus, oblong 10 x 12", cloth backed boards, 306 w/index, good in price-clipped dw. SIGNED & DATED BY HIRSCHFELD ON TITLE. More
NY (1984). 10 x 9 1/2", cloth, 102pp, spine a trifle sunned, in faded slipcase. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 250 NUMBERED COPIES, SIGNED BY MURICE SENDAK WHOSE NUMEROUS COLOR DRAWINGS ADORN THIS VOLUME, INCLUDES ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPH. THE ORIGINAL NUMBERED LITHOGRAPF HAS BEEN MATTED AND FRAMED. More
Middletown, Conn (1970). 15 x 11", cloth, 150pp, vg in slightly worn, soiled, scratched slipcase. NUMEROUS EXAMPLES OF HOGARTH'S ART. More
W.W. Norton & Co.: NY, (1963). Illus. by Tomi Ungerer. 12.25 x 9.25", dec cloth-like boards, unpaginated, covers a little rubbed, extremities a bit bumped, hinges loose, some toning to edges of text block, and minor spotting to preliminaries, in a rubbed, extremity-worn, edge-torn and spotted, price-clipped dustjacket. FIRST EDITION..... More
Norimbergae, nd (c 1730). 21 x 23 map, hand colored, showing North and South America, with California as a peninsula but without the "cum privlegio" in the lower cartouche, folds, soiling, edge wear, ink number "5" at top, formerly cello-taped at vertical center fold on reverse but tape browning,has seeped..... More
John and Gillis Janssons: Waesberge, 1799. Extra engraved title page, 61 double page or folding maps (all called for in index), 20 x 13, leather backed boards, 36 pp of text + maps, binding very worn and chipped, front cover detached, title page darkened and creased, first few pp chipped..... More
Charles Scribner's Sons: NY, (1907). Hardcover. 50 tipped-in color plates by Edmund Dulac, 9.5 x 7", gilt-dec cloth, 133pp + illustrations, covers very worn, extremities bumped and fraying, frontis and half-title detached (but present), pp toned and used with scattered finger soiling, textblock cracking, but illustrations appear to be nice..... More
Hodder and Stoughton: NY, 1911. 8 x 6, hardcover, unpag, 24 color plates, blue cloth with red, white and blue titles and decorations, small chip to edgeworn jacket, mild bumping to edges, a nice, clean copy. FIRST ED. More
Hodder and Stoughton: London, 1911. 8 x 6, hardcover, unpag, color illustr, terra cotta cloth with gilt titles and decorations, hinges cracked, insect damage to cloth sizing, corners and spine ends worn, fair FIRST ED. More
Frederick A. Stokes: NY, 1903. Illustr, 15 x 14, cloth backed pict boards, (44)pp printed on rectos only, front cover and spine detached but present, covers very heavily worn, scratched, chipped, stained, extremities bumped, pp well used with some creased corners, tears, spotting, finger soil, etc. FRONT COVER ILLUSTR AND..... More
Frederick A. Stokes: NY, 1897. WITH SIX FULL PAGE COLOR PLATES BY MAUD HUMPHERY; additional illus. by Elizabeth S. Tucker, 11.25 x 9", cloth backed pict boards (illus. by Maud Humphrey), unpaginated, covers worn and soiled with extremities chipping and fraying, hinges loose, front inner hinge cracking, large ink splot..... More
Frederick A. Stokes: NY, 1898. Illustr, 11 x 9, pict boards, unpag. Covers very well worn, rubbed, soiled, spotted, corners and spine tips bumped and worn, extremities very well worn, sticker on front cover, inner hinges cracked and covers loose, soiling, smudging, offsetting and ink inscriptions on title page, red..... More
Frederick A. Stokes Co: NY, 1897. Six full page color plates by Maud Humphrey; decorated borders and designs by Elizabeth S. Tucker, 11 x 9, cloth backed pict boards, unpag, covers heavily worn, soiled and scuffed, extremities bumped and fraying, spine stained, inner hinges cracking, contents worn, soiled and stained..... More
11.5x8", one is signed showing "Little Miss Muffet" being frightened by spider, other two unsigned but appear similar in style incl. Christmas and "old woman lives in a shoe". Margins chipped, minor edge tears, paper being a bit brittle with slight spotting. All three offered…. More
Simon and Schuster: NY, (1948). Illus. by author, 12 x 9.25", cloth, unpaginated, covers a bit rubbed and toned, extremities bumped, hinges loose, pp edge-toned, old small inkstamped name on front fly mostly inked out else a nice, clean copy in a rubbed, edge-torn and edge-chipped, extremity-spotted dustjacket. More
NY (1948). 12x9", cloth, unpaged, covers darkened, hinges loose, couple corners folded over else good. FIRST EDITION WITH NUMEROUS REPRODUCTIONS OF HIS DRAWINGS. HURTER CONTRIBUTED TO THE DISNEY LEGEND. More