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Clare Newberry Herbert the Lion
$325.00
Brewer, Warren & Putnam, Inc., 1931. Hardcover. Oblong small 4to. Very good. Newberry’s first book. Wear to exterior includes browning, light soiling, and minor bumping to spine ends and corners. Boards exposed at corners. Gift inscription to front free end paper. Minor fading to edges of end papers. Light sporadic foxing. Minor browning to margins. Lovely color illustrations throughout. More photos available.
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Signed 1st printing with signing-event provenance
Mackesy, Charlie The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
$1,405.07 *
* estimated currency conversionEbury Press, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Charlie Mackesy. Fine 2019 1st impression 1st ed 2019 Ebury Press hardback, beautifully preserved and with Signed by Author sticker to front. Very faint pressure mark to lower front board visible when held to the light only. Signed by author on title page with wording ‘Charlie M x’ and black felt pen visible to reverse of page confirms this is a hand-applied signature. Full provenance as shown in the photos of the event leaflet and Mackesy signing the books. Size: small quarto. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2kg. Category: Children; United Kingdom; Signed by Author. ISBN: 1529105102. ISBN/EAN: 9781529105100. 84cxrarebooks is the trading name of Cambridge-based bookseller Marino Guida, with 25 years experience in the trade. We guarantee the condition of all our books. Further images or a short video presentation of any book can be arranged on request. We send tax-free and tariff-free to EU, US/Canada and Australia/NZ with insurance included for peace of mind. Inventory No: 103539. Collectable – Fine Condition.
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A reflective, non-sentimental meditation on belief
Porter, Katharine Anne (1890–1980) A Christmas Story Author SIGNED – Drawings by Ben Shahn (1898–1969)
$450.00New York: Delacorte Press, 1967. Limited Edition. Hardcover in a slipcase. The design and production place this squarely within the tradition of American literary livre d’artiste projects of the postwar period, pairing a canonical author with a major modern artist in a deliberately limited format. Octavo, green cloth in matching slipcase. Limited to 500 numbered copies, this being no. 306 and signed by Katherine Anne Porter on the limitation page (Ben Shahn’s name in facsimile). Designed by Ben Shahn, with a special frontispiece drawing and additional illustrations throughout. Condition: The bindings are tight and square. Text is clean; light, even age-toning. Slipcase shows minimal handling. Signed limitation page present and complete. Originally published in Mademoiselle, A Christmas Story is a reflective, non-sentimental meditation on belief, innocence, and moral inheritance, written late in Porter’s career and widely regarded as one of her most affecting shorter works. Shahn’s linear, symbolic drawings—angels, floral fields, architectural motifs—complement the text with restraint and gravity, aligning the book with mid-century fine-press sensibilities rather than commercial illustration. Historical Context:Katharine Anne Porter is a central figure of American modernism, best known for Ship of Fools and her finely wrought short fiction. This late work reflects her long-standing preoccupation with moral clarity and mythic structures. Ben Shahn, a leading figure in American social realism, brings a spare, emblematic visual language that elevates the book beyond holiday literature into the realm of serious artistic collaboration Subjects: Katharine Anne Porter, Ben Shahn, Signed Limited Editions, Mid-Century American Book Design, Literary Illustration, Christmas Literature, American Modernist Prose, Livre d’Artiste Tradition, American Literature, Modernism, Fine Press, Artist-Illustrated Books
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Rare Dutch flap book with six color lithographs
Andriessen, Pieter Jacob Wat er alzoo in de wereld te zien is een aardig boek voor kinderen, met bijschriften
$1,024.00Amsterdam: G. Theod. Bom, n.d. [c. 1874]. Pictorial Wrappers. Crown 8vo (180 x 128mm): [8]pp, with six color lithographs (printed by Emrik & Binger, Haarlem), each with flaps that, when flipped, reveal a completely different image (a ship at sea becomes Bedouins in the desert, a volcano erupts into walruses in the Arctic, Native Americans transform into explorers in the Rockies), taking the viewer on a tour around the world. The accompanying text guides the reader through these twists and turns. Original burnt orange illustrated card wrappers printed in green, gold, and terracotta and lettered in black. A superbly preserved example of this fragile production, all but pristine, rare, with Worldcat Discovery listing only one copy and LHD none. Fine. For more than 700 years book designers have been pushing back the boundaries of the two-dimensional page, adding flaps and rotating parts to enhance the text, most often in scientific literature. But only in the nineteenth century did movable flaps became a regular feature in children’s books. In the Netherlands, ‘De nieuwe rijschool’ [The new riding school], published in 1856, was the first movable children’s book, which reached their peak in the 1870s and 1880s. Gerardus Theodorus Bom (1814-1884) was a Dutch publisher of books in Amsterdam, issuing such titles as Kindervreugd (1864), Robinson Crusoë (c.1865), and Kunstenmakers at work (1875). Andriessen’s first books were published under the pseudonym Pieter Jacobsz. Under his own name he wrote a series of romantic stories for young people, mainly derived from Dutch national history. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
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CALDECOTT AWARD WINNING BOOK
Goble, Paul (1933-2017) THE GIRL WHO LOVED WILD HORSES.
$600.00Scarsdale NY: Bradbury Press, (1978) First printing in first issue dust jacket.  A beautiful and unique copy of this Caldecott winning book by this  author and artist, who was known for his children’s books which chronicled the stories of Great Plains groups, including the Lakota, Cheyenne, Blackfoot and Crow peoples. Although born and raised in England, Goble commented that “From early childhood, I always wanted to know more, and to see the country and wildlife with which the lives and beliefs of Native Americans were so closely interwoven.” After several summers spent in the US, in 1977 Goble came to live in the Black Hills of South Dakota and spent the rest of his life there. Shortly after moving to the United States, this book won the Caldecott Medal in 1979 as the year’s best-illustrated book for children. In 1991, the American Indian LIbrary Association recommended all of his books, commenting that he “flawlessly captures the flavor of Indian humor and the easy blend of cultures so common in contemporary Indian America, and so lacking in the works of other authors.” This copy is INSCRIBED on the dedication page by one of the two dedicatees – “for Bonnie, who loves horses.” (The other dedicatee was Janet, who later became his wife – and Bonnie’s name was removed from later printings of this title)  Very near fine in tan cloth with a small line drawing on the front cover in a dust jacket with just very minor edgewear,  no award sticker. Â
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