Maggie A Girl Of The Streets; A Story Of New York
by Crane, Stephen
Avon, Connecticut: Limited Editions Club, 1974. Hardcover. Quarter black goatskin and decorated gray cloth boards. Fine in fine black slipcase. Sigmund Abeles. 124 pages. 27 x 19.5 cm. With an original signed copper etching by Sigmund Abeles laid-in, "A Portrait of Maggie," which appears in the book as the frontispiece. Introduction by Shirley Ann Grau, printed at the... Read More
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Maggie A Girl Of The Streets
by Crane, Stephen
London: William Heinemann, 1896. First English edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth. Teg. Very good. 148 pages. 16.5 x 11 cm. Crane self published the first edition in 1893. To his great dismay it sold so poorly, he was forced to give copies away. Today, he is recognized by modern critics as one of the most innovative writers of... Read More
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A Gaping-Wide-Mouth-Waddling Frog
by Crane, Walter
London & New York: John Lane The Bodley Head, Nd. Stiff Wraps. Orig. stiff wrappers, front cover in decorated frame illustrated in red and black against a delft blue background. Fine. 27 x 23.5 cm. Walter Crane's Picture Books, Large Series: eight eight color plates engraved on wood by Edmund Evans, and printed verso or recto with blank... Read More
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Sing A Song Of Sixpence
by Crane, Walter
London: John Lane, 1895. Stiff Wraps. Orig. stiff wrappers, front cover in decorated frame illustrated in red and black against a delft blue background. Fine. 27 x 23.5 cm. Walter Crane's Picture Books, Large Series: eight eight color plates engraved on wood by Edmund Evans, and printed verso or recto with blank backing. Originally published anonymously, these pamphlets... Read More
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An Alphabet Of Old Friends
by Crane, Walter
London & New York: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1895. Stiff Wraps. Orig. stiff wrappers, front cover in decorated frame illustrated in red and black against a delft blue background. Fine. 27 x 23.5 cm. Walter Crane's Picture Books, Large Series: six eight color plates engraved on wood by Edmund Evans, and printed verso or recto with blank... Read More
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Princess Belle Etoile
by Crane, Walter
London & New York: John Lane, 1895. Stiff Wraps. Orig. stiff wrappers, front cover in decorated frame illustrated in red and black against a delft blue background. Near fine. Crane, Walter. 6 pages of text. 27 x 23 cm. Five full-page color wood engraved plates printed by Edmund Evans. Walter Crane's Picture Books, Large Series. SPENCER, p.39, notes, "Walter Crane's... Read More
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A Collection Twenty One Picture Books: Large Series and Re-Issue Series
by Crane, Walter
London & New York & Chicago: John Lane The Bodley Head & Stone & Kimball, Late 19th early 20th century. Hardcover. Half navy blue calf slightly rubbed and matching cloth, raised bands marbled endpapers. Aeg. Very good. Crane, Walter. 26.3 x 22 cm. All are color plates engraved on wood by Edmund Evans, and printed verso or recto... Read More
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Pan-Pipes A Book of Old Songs Newly Arranged & With Accompaniments by Theo: Marzials
by Crane, Walter [Illustrator]
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth spine and illustrated boards decorated endpapers and beveled edges. Near fine. Crane, Walter. 52 pages. 22 x 31 cm. Crane explained the book was given its landscape format so that it could be propped up on a piano. Illustrated throughout by Walter Crane, printed from wood... Read More
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The First Of May, A Fairy Masque
by Crane, Walter
London: Henry Sotheran, 1881. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. front cover paper label faded. Very good. Unpaginated. Folio, 48 x 39 cm. Limited edition, copy 161 of 300 signed by Crane. 57 engraved plates including half-title, title, dedication, frontispiece, colophon and 52 engraved plates mounted on India proof paper containing illustrations and calligraphy by Crane. The 52... Read More
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The Wonder Book For Girls And Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne
by Crane, Walter (Illustrator)
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1893. Hardcover. Three quarter polished rust levant, covers and endpapers in diaper pattern floral motif. Aeg. Fine. 210 pages 22.5 x 16 cm. Sixty designs including nineteen color lithograph plates by Walter Crane. Bound by Leonard Mounteney at The Monastery Hill Bindery. Spencer [WALTER CRANE pp. 138], notes, "He also continued to work on more... Read More
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Walter Crane's Picture Books -- Bluebeard, The Fairy Ship, The Hind In The Wood, This Little Pig, King Luckyboy's Party, Puss In Boots, Sleeping Beauty, The Three Bears, The Yellow Dwarf
by Crane, Walter
Springfield MA: The H.R. Huntting Co. Inc, Nd. Stiff Wraps. Orig. printed stiff wrappers. Near fine. 9 Vols.. Crane, Walter. 28 x 23 cm. Offered as a lot only. Interior contents are as issued, color lithographs as originally published, all Crane's images printed recto and verso only as per first editions. Replication of the first editions with colors... Read More
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Shakespeare's Comedy Of The Merry Wives Of Windsor Presented In Eight Pen Designs; Engraved & Printed By Duncan C. Dallas
by Crane, Walter (Illustrator)
London: George Allen Ruskin House, 1894. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Teg. Near fine. Crane, Walter. Folio, 36 x 29 cm. Limited edition, copy 118 of 650 signed by Duncan C. Dallas and Walter Crane. Title leaf, colophon, and eight engravings by Walter Crane engraved by Duncan C. Dallas on India tissue.... Read More
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Eight Illustrations To Shakespeare's Tempest; Engraved & Printed By Duncan C. Dallas Dallastype Press No5
by Crane, Walter (Illustrator)
London: J.M. Dent & Co: Aldine House, 1893. Hardcover. Loose as issued in publisher gilt stamped red and green cloth solander box. Very good. Crane, Walter. Folio, 36 x 28 cm. Limited edition, copy 294 of 600 signed by Duncan C. Dallas and Walter Crane. All plates with lettered tissue guards: black and white plates mounted and matted... Read More
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Adventures Of Puffy (By The Author of "How Jessie Was Lost) New Sixpenny Toy Books. New Sixpenny Toy Books
by Crane, Walter
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1873. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Very good. 24.5 x 19 cm. Each with eight color plates signed in the plate with the artist's monogram and engraved on wood by Edmund Evans. Originally published anonymously, these pamphlets proved so popular the public demanded to know the artist. Routledge eventually capitulated in 1873 and... Read More
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My Mother
by Crane, Walter
London & New York: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1910. Stiff Wraps. Orig. stiff wrappers, front cover in decorated frame illustrated in red and black against a delft blue background. Near fine. 27 x 23.5 cm. Walter Crane's Picture Books, Large Series: eight eight color plates engraved on wood by Edmund Evans, and printed verso or recto with... Read More
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Don Quixote of The Mancha Retold by Judge Parry
by Crane, Walter (Illustrator)
London & Mancheseter: Blackie & Son Limited & Sherratt & Hughes, 1900. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated cloth. Near fine. Crane, Walter. 245 pages. 23 x 17 cm. Eleven full-page illustrations in color and nineteen black and white illustrations in the text. SPENCER, p.204. Bright copy with front cover, spine and back cover designs in maroon, yellow, black,... Read More
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Queen Summer or the Tourney of the Lily & the Rose penned & portrayed by Walter Crane
by Crane, Walter
London: Cassell & Co, 1891. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. cream cloth spine and decorated boards. Very good. 40 pages. 28.5 x 20.5. SPENCER p.138. "The theme is of the flower masque and tournament of suitors for the Queen Summer's favour. The style is medieval; a kind of decorated Gothic of Crane's own devising." Text is written on scroll... Read More
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The Song Of Sixpence Picture Book Containing Sing A Song of Sixpence; Princess Belle-Etoile; An Alphabet Of Old Friends; With The Original Coloured Designs By Walter Crane Including A Preface And Other Embellishments
by Crane, Walter
London & New York: John Lane, 1909. Hardcover. Orig. green illustrated cloth. Near fine. 27.5 x 23 cm. A composite of three titles under one roof with all original decorated wrappers bound-in. In the preface Crane notes, "Thus we launch another volume of our series, like a fairy ship with a rather mixed cargo, in the hope that... Read More
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Pan-Pipes A Book of Old Songs Newly Arranged & With Accompaniments by Theo: Marzials
by Crane, Walter [Illustrator]
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth spine and illustrated boards decorated endpapers and beveled edges. Fine in very good dust wrapper nicked at head, and recreates front cover design of the book in tan.. Crane, Walter. 52 pages. 22 x 31 cm. Crane explained the book was given its landscape format so... Read More
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The Evolution of Italian Sculpture
by Crawford, David A.E.L. (Lord Balcarres)
London: John Murray, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth decorated in gilt. Teg. Very good. 348 pages. Fifty-five plates. Index. CHAMBERLAIN 1044. "A general survey of the field, beginning with Benedetto Antelami." Ex-library, no external marking, backstrip chipped at extremities, bookplate.
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The Birds of Tierra Del Fuego
by Crawshay, Richard
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1907. First edition. Hardcover. Half brown morocco and green cloth. Teg. Fine. xxxvi, 158 pages. 29 x 21 cm. Limited edition one of 300 this copy not numbered. 21 hand-colored lithographic plates by J. G. Keulemans, 23 uncolored photogravure plates, and one lithographed map of Tierra Del Fuego. The author was a retired British army officer, Inniskilling... Read More
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Virginia Illustrated Containing A Visit To The Virginian Canaan. And The Adventures Of Porte Crayon And His Cousins
by Crayon, Porte
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1857. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter light brown calf and marbled boards with matching endpapers. All edges marbled. Fine. 300 pages. 25.5 x 17 cm. 188 black and white illustrations. Four pages of adverts at rear. David Hunter Strother, an American journalist, artist, brevet Brigadier General, innkeeper, politician and diplomat from West... Read More
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The Fifteen Decisive Battles Of The World
by Creasy, Sir Edward
Lunenberg, Vermont: Limited Edition Club, 1969. Hardcover. Orig. blue illustrated cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt. Fine in fine slipcase. Domjan, Joseph. 222 pages. 31 x 24 cm. Illustrated by Joseph Domjan with full-page multicolor and black and white woodcuts, printed at the Stinehour Press. Limited edition, copy 1376 of 1500, signed by Domjan. Introduction by Hanson W. Baldwin.... Read More
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The Crowning of the American Landscape: Eight Great Spaces and their Buildings
by Creese, Walter L.
Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. forest green cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Sixteen color and 138 black and white photographs. Eight maps. Index. The author analyzes four large and four small spaces -- Charlottesville, VA, the Hudson and Yosemite Valleys and Mount Hood (large): The Boston Fens, Graceland, Riverside and Wright's Taliesin Valley... Read More
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Queen Elizabeth
by Creighton, Mandell
London, Paris, Edinburgh: Boussod, Valadon & Co, 1896. leather_bound. Full crushed morocco. Near fine. [1] 202 pages. Folio, 32.5 x 24.5 cm. 39 photogravures, 23 full-page inserted plates, and one double-page, all with lettered tissue guards. First edition of the “best short biography of Elizabeth” (Conyers 514) and the first book in the Goupil series with the publisher's... Read More
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