Gorgeous three-scene peepshow depicting the Arc de Triomphe, the Champs Elysees, the Tuilieries, and other landmarks of Paris as they looked in the early 19th century.

First printing of the sixth book in the Harold series of mid-century minimalist meta-picture books, the only one first published in this format, as an I Can Read Book.

Signed first printing of this introduction to rhyming Cockney slang illustrated with magnificent color woodcuts.

First edition of this Orlando title, in which Orlando and his family open a shop called "The Frisky Housewife."

Early English-language adaptation/imitation of Hoffmann's STRUWWELPETER: the uncredited Anglophone interpreter produces a strong effort, with avaricious girls bitterly stung by furious bees, set on fire, and the like. Some of the children do live.

First printing of Krauss's first book, terrifically illustrated by abstract expressionist Ad Reinhardt.

First edition of a chapbook collection of short moralistic stories by the Scottish firm Lumsden, with woodcuts after John Bewick.

First printing of this book depicting the world of the tidal basin as viewed thru the development of Pagoo, a hermit crab, a companion to TREE IN THE TRAIL and PADDLE TO THE SEA.

Early American pirated edition of the English classic, part of Henry Altemus's Wee Books for Wee Folks series.

First issue of Gorey's bracing alphabet book, with a lengthy inscription by the publisher to comedian Phyllis Diller asserting he "designed this format for all this books to get him into a larger market. It worked!"

Advance uncorrected proof copy of the "complete collection" of Card's short-fiction work, including reprints of his Mormon future dystopian short stories and the version of ENDER'S GAME first published in ANALOG in 1977.

First edition of this Gilded Age collection of short stories, vibrantly illustrated.

First edition of this particularly patriotic book about the founding of the United States and the meaning of the flag, as explained by states personified as children.