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Wausau: Van Vechten & Ellis, The Philosopher Press, 1897. First edition. 12mo. Illustrated card wrappers. Exceedingly scarce true first title of the Philosopher Press, NOT IN RANSOM. Art Nouveau-style cover design by Gardner C. Teall. Importantly inscribed on first page by co-publisher Ellis to the owner of the book, famed..... (Item #2953)

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1902. First edition. Green cloth with gilt, white and darker green pictorial designs on cover and spine. Illustrated with four full-page tinted plates by Anna Wheelan Betts (Brandywine Illustrator and student of Howard Pyle). Very good. (Item #773)

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900. First edition. Brown linen weave cloth, cover with attractive leaf and berry design in green and red, gilt and black device, by Margaret Armstrong. Gilt lettering on cover and spine. Eleven full-page black and white illustrations by Bernard Partridge. Corners slightly bumped, near fine..... (Item #675)

Amsterdam: D'Estienne Roger, 1701. 12mo. 19th Century marbled boards (rubbed), later calf spine (sl. wear to extr.), marbled endpapers contemporary with boards. 473pp. followed by six pages of Table [of Contents], ending with half-page advertisement. Exceedingly scarce Aesop title, with exquisite full-page copper-engraved frontispiece, title printed in red and black..... (Item #3790)

Chicago: George M. Hill Company, 1900. First edition. Folio size lap book. Original blue cloth spine, color pictorial paper covered boards showing soldier on steed on front cover, rear cover with another soldier on a horse, blowing a trumpet. Color illustrations every page by Kennedy, headed by hand-lettered (in the..... (Item #4376)

Chicago: Reilly & Britton, [1910]. First edition. Original light blue cloth with full-size color pictorial insert on cover depicting a number of the characters driving through the city in a toy donkey-drawn carriage. First edition, first state with light blue cloth, five titles on verso of ownership page, two-color endpapers..... (Item #2568)

Ca. turn of the century. A set of four separate proof illustrations printed on light proof paper by Franz von Bayros, 1886-1924, Austrian commercial artist and illustrator. (Item #4151)

A nice grouping of five specimen leaves of Beardsley prints, printed on Japan Vellum, all measuring 8 x 11" and not representing any one group of printed portfolios that we are aware of, no signature marks or glue remnants. Near fine. (Item #3746)

Berlin: Gerhard Stalling, 1941. First edition. 8vo. Color illustrated paper covered boards, cloth spine. In original color illustrated dust wrapper (thick card paper) reproducing exactly cover illustrations. Five super full-page, several half-page color illustrations, other B&W illustrations, all by Fritz Beblo. Scarce with wrapper. Hinges reinforced, else very good... (Item #160)

Wesel: W. Dums, ca. 1907. First edition. large quarto. Color pictorial paper covered boards. With twelve color illustrations on six solid unbreakable cardboard sheets. The colorful story of a toy box is illustrated, animals, dolls, soldiers, all becoming self-sufficient by night. Marie Ille-Beeg (1855-1927) published in all branches of the..... (Item #3630)

New York: William E. Rudge's Sons, 1955. First edition thus. Light violet patterned paper covered boards, purple cloth spine. One of 100 Copies with 'Special Imprint," Signed by Bruce Rogers. A fine copy in fine light blue original slipcase. (Item #2080)

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. First edition. 12mo. Brown cloth with famed cover design by Margaret Armstrong consisting of stylized butterflies/bow-ties, gold lamps and vines stamped in bright gold and white. Superb copy without the usual foxing almost always found with this title. Cover gilt is bold and bright..... (Item #167)

Leipzig: Eugen Diederichs, 1900. First edition. Original exquisite pictorial paper covered boards with gold spine and gold highlighted cover design of stylized flowers in two planters extending all the way up the front cover on both sides, by Behrens. A gorgeous and delicately printed book typifying Behrens' genius, printed in..... (Item #3635)