ENTERTAINING VIEWS
First edition of this charming collection of rural vignettes and short poems, including two depictions of men with prosthetic legs.
First edition of this charming collection of rural vignettes and short poems, including two depictions of men with prosthetic legs.
First US edition of this chapbook poem about the sights and sounds (and smells) of the UK's capitol city.
First edition of this collection of stories and little verses, illustrated in a style strongly influenced by Maud Humphrey.
First edition, inscribed to the Dean of Westminster, an acquaintance at Oxford and later mutually friendly with Henry Liddell, the father of Alice Liddell for whom ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND was written.
Gilded Age philosophical poem illustrated with striking late-19th century American chromolithographs.
First edition of Walter Crane's poetic work, populated by lovely and fashionable humanized flowers.
First edition of this satire of high society using humanized birds – with bright hand-colored illustrations featuring a rooster in purple, an owl in teal, and more.
First edition of this collection of bedtime poems for children, beautifully illustrated in Art Nouveau style.
First edition of this charming collection of simple moral poems for young readers, illustrated with attractive wood engravings.
First printing this uncommon Lang title, a collection of poetry first published in book form here, beginning with "A Scot to Jeanne D'Arc."
Fairy poem issued in honor of little Ruth Cleveland's move into the White House after her father's inauguration.
First edition thus, using the title "The Night Before Christmas" instead of the original title, "A Visit from St. Nicholas."
Civil War-era holiday compendium with an early printing of "A Visit From St. Nicholas" (the original name of the famous poem) and an engraving of Santa by Thomas Nast inspired by the poem.
Rare book of Christmas poems lavishly illustrated with chromolithography and retaining the pre-1900 original dust jacket featuring Santa Claus.
Lovely Victorian collection of poems evocative of the night with lovely dark toned chromolithographs.
Dynamic book of nonsense by the cartoonist and caricaturist best known as Marie Duval (Isabelle Émilie de Tessier), printed by the Brothers Dalziel at the Camden Press.
Publisher's presentation copy of the first edition, first issue of Stevenson's enduring collection of children's verse.
First edition of this very scarce Humphrey book, magnificently illustrated of little children dressed in the national costumes of various nations from Russia to Scotland, and with one child representing Africa.