Amoroso: My Love Affair with a Violin
Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania: Fortunately Limited Editions, 1960. Softcover. First edition. Stapled tan wrappers. Illustrated by the author. Some spotting else about fine. Inscribed by the author. More
Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania: Fortunately Limited Editions, 1960. Softcover. First edition. Stapled tan wrappers. Illustrated by the author. Some spotting else about fine. Inscribed by the author. More
[Philaldelphia]: 2001-2004. Unbound. A collection of four Christmas cards measuring 6" x 4.5". Some spotting else near fine. Four cards sent to friends with artwork by author Lloyd Alexander of cats in various scenes. The cards were sent as holiday greetings and each is Signed by Alexander and his wife..... More
Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, 1964. Hardcover. First Japanese edition. Text in Japanese characters. Slightly bowed boards else about fine in a near fine slipcase with creasing and some toning. Scarce. More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1969). Hardcover. Third printing. The final volume only (of five). Dust jacket illustrated by Evaline Ness. Octavo. Helen E. Heinrich's decorative bookplate on front fly, spine ends lightly sunned and bumped, near fine in a very good lightly age-toned dust jacket with bottom corner..... More
Unbound. Original etching. Image approximately 7.25" x 6.75", matted and framed to 15.25" x 14.75". Copy number 2 of only 8 numbered copies. Titled and Signed by the beloved children's book author. Image is of a slightly abstract nature scene. More
New York: E.P. Dutton, (1978). Hardcover. First edition. Jacket illustration by Laszlo Kubinyi. Fine in a very good dust jacket with toning on the spine and tiny tears. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: Yearling, 1982. Softcover. Later. About very good in wrappers. Slightly rubbed on the edges and the corners. Paperback Book. More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1973). Hardcover. First edition. Pictures by Margot Zemach. Fine in a very good dust jacket with tears, chips, and toning. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: Dutton, (2001). Hardcover. First edition. Boards and jacket illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky. Some pages a little bit tacky along the top edge from previous exposure to damp, else fine in fine dustwrapper. Presentation copy, Inscribed by Alexander to his friends: "For Carl & B. [Karsch], a fond..... More
New York: Dutton Children's Book, (2001). Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky. Light spotting on the page edges else near fine in an about fine dust jacket with slight edgewear. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: Dutton, (1997). Hardcover. First edition. Octavo, cloth-backed boards, dust jacket illustrated by Jane Ray. Spine a little bit cocked, else fine copy. Presentation copy, inscribed by Alexander to his friends: "For Carl and B. [Karsch], with all fondest thoughts from Lloyd, 31 May 1997". Alexander and Carl Karsch..... More
New York: Dutton, (1997). Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. Fine in fine dust jacket illustrated by Jane Ray. Signed by the author. More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, (1959). Hardcover. First edition. 226pp. Slightly cocked spine, spotting on the boards, and toning on the endpapers thus very good with a newspaper review taped to the rear free endpaper, lacking the dust jacket. Inscribed by the author's wife and title subject, Janine Lloyd..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, (1971). Hardcover. First edition. Oblong quarto. Illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats. Very good with worn corners and rubbed board edges in a good only dust jacket in two pieces, chips, and tears. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1970. Hardcover. Second edition. Bottom corners a little bumped, else near fine in slightly rubbed, very near fine dustwrapper. From the library of the artists Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with an estate label designed by their son, Jonathan Shahn. A National Book Award Children's..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, (1970). Hardcover. First edition. Faint spotting on the page edges and tape remnants on the boards else very good in a near fine dust jacket with short tears and some toning. Winner of the National Book Award. More
Philadelphia, PA: Running Press, (1989). Softcover. First edition. Small quarto. Illustrated by Wendy Osterweil, pictorial wrappers by Mimi Vang Olsen. Fine in wrappers. Inscribed by Alexander. An unused journal book, with text excerpted from Alexander's *My Five Tigers* (1956) and generous space for individual notes. More
Philadelphia, PA: Running Press, (1989). Softcover. First edition. Small quarto. Illustrated by Wendy Osterweil, pictorial wrappers by Mimi Vang Olsen. Fine in wrappers. A presentation copy, Inscribed by Alexander to his friends: "For Carl and B. [Karsch], in fond recollection of the Tigers and their keeper, Lloyd, 29 April 1989."..... More
New York: Dutton, (2002). Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. Illustrated by Greg Spalenka. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by Alexander to his friends: "For Carl and B. [Karsch], new tricks fondly from an old Lloyd." Alexander and Carl Karsch were co-workers in a bank in the 1950s and they remained lifelong..... More
Unbound. A large sheet of stiff paper, with a handwritten tribute to the former and longtime head of the writer's program at Indiana University. Removed from a volume of tributes compiled in 1975 (and which we have been buying a page at a time over the past decade). Approximately 11.75"..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1963). Hardcover. First edition. Drawings by Bill Sokol. Good only with a slightly cocked spine, glue remnants on the endpapers and board edges, and toning in a very good dust jacket with creasing, internal glue remnants, and a clipped corners. Signed by the author..... More
New York: Dutton, (1981-1984). Hardcover. First editions. Three volumes. Dustwrappers illustrated by Charles Mikolaycak. Slight toning else all volumes near fine in very good dust jackets with toning and tiny tears. All volumes Inscribed by the author. *Westmark* won the 1982 American Book Award. *The Kestrel* was the winner of..... More
[Hillsboro, NC? The author], 1949. Softcover. First edition. (2), 69, (1) pp. Blue textured wrappers, stapled. Illustrated from photographs, portraits, folding street plan. Several dates corrected in red ink, spine lightly faded, small stamps on title and rear map, else very good. County seat of Orange County. Not in Thornton..... More