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 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.
Revised edition of Hudson's important reference, richly illustrated with tipped-in color plates and reissued with an updated checklist of Rackham's works.
A gorgeously illustrated handmade production from the Golden Age of children's illustration, by an unknown or pseudonymous artist-author credited only as "Roland."
Fabulous signed original watercolor by William Timlin, best known for his fairy-populated science-fiction fantasy, THE SHIP THAT SAILED TO MARS.
Signed limited edition, one of only 460 copies signed by Rackham, of this popular play based on a Norwegian fairy tale — accompanied by the original drawing that appears on page 78 of the text.
First edition of this reference guide to illustrators of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century from Aldin to Wyeth, with essays including Lynd Ward's "Contemporary Book Illustration," Esther Averill's "Avant-Gardes and Traditions in France," and Jacqueline Overton's "The Fairies Come Into Their Own."
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.
First MacKinstry edition, a gorgeous Jazz-Age vision of Ibsen's classic.
Original WWI-era calendar for the modern business man with an original Parrish cover, featuring motivational aphorisms like "Be Ambitious: To rest content with results achieved is the first sign of business decay."
Original Jazz Age calendar with a vivid original Parrish cover, featuring inspirational quotes from Emerson, Longfellow, Ruskin, Samuel Johnson, Dickens, and more.
First edition of this attractive collection of three humorous rhymes about hunting and fishing, with vibrant illustrations by Frank Adams.
First edition, third issue of this gloriously Golden Age Mother Goose, one of Jessie Willcox Smith's best-loved works.
First edition of this French large-format picture book history of the contested Alsace region, then under German occupation – published at a time when even speaking French in the region was against the law.
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.
Beautiful copy of this deluxe edition of the Rubaiyat, introduced by Laurence Housman and spectacularly illustrated by Charles Robinson.
Deluxe large format portfolio edition of one of Dulac's most desired books, a quirky ABC.
Lovely US edition of these verses on the hardships of a dog's life, much scarcer than the UK edition.
First Rackham trade edition of six stories from Ancient Greek mythology, famously retold by Nathaniel Hawthorne, with gorgeous Golden Age illustrations.
First edition of this collection of rhymes illustrated with darling chromolithographs of Victorian children by Ida Waugh.
Unique presentation copy of Ford's distinctively melancholy story of a child's imagined half-world, inscribed by Ford to Rackham collector and bibliographer Sarah Briggs Latimore.
First trade edition of this stunningly illustrated collection of Aesop's fables: Detmold at his best.
First edition, American issue, printed on dark green paper that contrasts vividly with the tipped-in color plates in Harrison's distinctive style.
First US edition of Rackham's illustrated rendition of Poe's short stories, in the original dust jacket.
First Rackham-illustrated edition, US issue, an exceptional survival in the rare original dust jacket and pictorial publisher's box.