Linda's Rare Books

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. Definitive Edition. #318. Green boards. Book is clean and tight. DJ has rubbing along the edges. Price intact.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket as Issued. 1st Edition. #81. First Printing with "A". Boards have slight soiling and minor edgewear. Child's name in Book Belongs to. Otherwise clean and tight interior. Richard Scarry (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. 1946-47 edition. Corners bent. Child scribble on endpapers, ffep and a couple of pages. Mostly clean. Nicely illustrated.

Condition: Very Good. Stiff wrappers. No date. Some chipping to corners and some creasing. Interior is toned (or it may be original color) but clean and tight. Includes: Little Boy Blue and My Cat and My Kittens, Miss Moffat and others.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Thick 8vo. First Printing. Light owner's dedication on front endpaper. Interior is clean and tight. DJ has some soiling, chipping and creasing. Price intact.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Light wear to red boards. Book has an owner's dedication on the ffep and a slight lean. Otherwise clean pages, tight binding. DJ has mild soiling/toning, close tear on back, rubbing to spine and is price-clipped. Book of short stories by the master of macabre.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket as Issued. 1st Edition. First with "A" on last page. Book has some rubbing to edges. Light soiling to back. Interior is unmarked, clean and tight. Very nice well preserved copy. Garth Williams (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Red boards have some minor fading and bumping to edges. DJ has some soiling. Price intact. Protected in mylar. Very entertaining story of a small boy moving to a new neighborhood. Lisl Weil (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Stated fifth impression. Front book board has some soiling. Interior is clean and tight. DJ has chipping, mostly to spine, some soiling. First in the series. Great illustrations and cute story. Marc Simont (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket as Issued. 1st Edition. D39. First Printing with "A" on last page in margin.Very light soiling to back board otherwise book is clean and bright with no markings. Very collectible copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. DJ has some soiling to back and minor edgewear. Price clipped. Book has rubbing to bottom. Interior is clean and tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First American Edition. Green boards with gilt lettering and design. Uncut pages. Gilt top. Ex Libris owner's sticker on front endpaper. Some soiling around sticker and on first free page. Bit of rubbing to boards mostly around spine. Corners lightly bumped. Otherwise clean and tight. 8 illustrations plus frontispiece and tissue guard.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A Brownie Book. Book has some minor rubbing to edges and a bit of bubbling to back. Front and back papers are toned. Otherwise clean and tight with no marks.

The Better Little Book #1456. Illustrated cover is bright and clean. Good condition with a slight bend, two small cracks on back cover and some dirt, tight with hinge showing a bit of stitching in front. Pages are clean and nice. Uncommon.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. 12mo. Grant Richards/London. Decorative spine. No date mentioned but appears to be early 1900s. Blue boards are faded and rubbed, Vol II has stain. Foxing to endpapers and page block but scattered throughout , mostly to very edge of pages, not affecting text. Owner's neat signature to front endpapers of Volume 1. Binding slightly loose. Two volumes. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Book has some bumping to extremities. Interior is clean and tight. DJ has some soiling and edgewear. Price intact.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Oblong book. Boards have some fading. There is a one inch chip to bottom spine. Interior is clean. Nicely illustrated. DJ has same chip, some edgewear and some toning. Price intact. Fun book. Ed Emberley (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Red boards have a bit of soiling. Interior is clean. Signed by author on title page. DJ has some soiling and mild edgewear. Price intact. Book of poetry. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Square 8vo. Some soiling to the oards. Name on front endpaper. Interior is clean and tight. Signed by Sheila Greenwald (Illustratror) on title page. Sheila Greenwald (illustrator). Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. Authorized Edition. Critical Intro by Henry James. Original Red Cloth with gilt decoration. Boards are a bit darkened. There is minor foxing along page block and light toning to endpaper and a few pages. Tipped in poem (White Horses) from 1897 (caused a spot on fep). Very nice tight copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. A Little Golden book. Third Printing. #21. Book has some fading to spine strip. A bit of soiling to boards. Tibor Gergely (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A Holt Reinforced Edition. Orange boards. Book is clean and tight with a small mark on top. DJ has light chipping to edges. Adorable square book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Jacket. Second printing. Blue boards have black lettering and gilt vignette. Some soiling and rubbing/fraying along spine. Corners bumped. Hinge is a bit loose in front and in a couple of places but mostly binding is tight, a few pages have mild soiling but most are clean. Pages are uncut. Slight musty smell. Interesting read.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American Edition. Book has some rubbing to spine, bumped corners. Interior is clean and tight. DJ has chipping, soiling, closed tears. Price intact.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket as Issued. Later Printing. Minimum wear. Inscribed opposite title page. Henry Cole (illustrator). By Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Signed by author of a limited 125 copies. Fine in Fine DJ. By Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Later printing. Book is clean and tight with minor DJ has loss to bottom. $2.75 price intact. Protected in mylar. By Author (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. First Edition. Yellow pictorial boards. Book is clean and tight with some edgewear to boards. DJ has toning and soiling with some rubbing and closed tears. DJ states $1.00 price on dj flap ( orginally $3.00).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Red boards. Pastedown on front has some rubbing with slight loss to title in corner. Endpapers have bubbling. Interior is clean and tight. On French fold paper with tear on title page. Beautifully illustrated and nice copy of this charming story. Protected with glassine cover. Gladys Rourke Blackwood (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. First Printing. Slight tearing to front hinge. Owner's name on front endpaper. Interior is clean and tight. DJ has some toning and soiling, chipping to spine edges. Price intact.