W. HEATH ROBINSON CALENDAR 1935
Original weekly calendar for the year 1935, illustrated with Heath Robinson's comic drawings of useful new inventions, such as a cat-silencer and a mountain-climbing motorcar.
Original weekly calendar for the year 1935, illustrated with Heath Robinson's comic drawings of useful new inventions, such as a cat-silencer and a mountain-climbing motorcar.
First edition of Parrish's masterwork, an unusually nice copy.
Signed limited first Dulac edition, one of only 500 numbered copies signed by Dulac — a beautiful copy of a sumptuous book.
Signed limited first Rackham edition, one of 520 copies signed by Rackham, with an extra color plate not in the trade edition.
Magnificent copy, in original publisher's box.
First edition, third issue of this gloriously Golden Age Mother Goose, one of Jessie Willcox Smith's best-loved works.
Beautiful Golden Age of Illustration-era edition of the Victorian fantasy novel, one of the best illustrated interpretations of the classic.
Early printing of the original Duffield edition (more commonly found as the Dial reprint), illustrated with Smith's gorgeous aesthetic to accompany an anthology of nearly 100 stories and poems reflecting popular children's literature of the 1920s.
Signed limited first edition, one of 50 unnumbered copies for presentation, signed by John Greenaway and additionally signed by a woman for whom Greenaway wrote a story that is collected in this book, with an original sketch by Greenaway bound in.
New edition, sixth printing of this beautiful and popular entomological work, featuring engaging writing and beautiful illustrations.
Lovely and scarce edition of Stevenson's classic poems, one of the better known works illustrated by portrait painter and children's artist Kate Olver.
Fabulous signed original watercolor by William Timlin, best known for his fairy-populated science-fiction fantasy, THE SHIP THAT SAILED TO MARS.
First edition, in the original dust jacket, of this gorgeous outlier of the Golden Age of Illustration, a fantasy of interplanetary travel by South African architect William Timlin.
First edition of this gorgeous outlier of the Golden Age of Illustration, a fully realized fantasy of interplanetary travel written and illustrated by South African architect William Timlin.
First edition of this beautifully illustrated Edwardian fantasy of an "unsophisticated little boy" who sets out to rescue a Princess on orders from a fairy.
First Wyeth-illustrated edition of this adventure novel by the French author better known for his science fiction — a Brandywine beauty with gorgeous color plates by Wyeth.
First printing of the Wyeth edition, an incredible copy in the scarce original dust jacket.
Signed limited first edition, one of only 525 numbered copies signed by Pogany, a sumptuous production with Art Noveau binding, rarely found in such beautiful condition with the box.
Signed limited edition, one of 1150 numbered copies (this one of 150 for the US market) signed by Rackham, of the first volume in Rackham's version of Wagner's Ring Cycle.
First editions, first impression of volume two and second impression of volume one, of Arthur Rackham's illustrated version of Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle – beautifully preserved in the original dust jackets.
Luxurious edition of Walton's classic treatise on the virtuous and temperate recreation, with Rackham's illustrations, in the rare publisher's morocco binding.
First US edition of this lovely illustrated alphabet adapted (uncredited) from Barrie, with a brief synopsis of the full story followed by 26 related alphabet verses.
First edition of Wodehouse's comic children's retelling of the William Tell legend, written "rapidly for cash rather than art" (Phelps) to accompany Dadd's existing illustrations, with verse accompaniments by John W. Houghton.
First Wyeth-illustrated edition of this collection of stories about the legendary emperor in stunning Golden Age style — scarce in dust jacket.