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New York & Philadelphia. Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1942. SIGNED & inscribed by Horte & Wyncie, the author & Illustrator, & Original COLOR DRAWING FRONT DJ GLUED IN OPPOSITE TITLE PG, Inner DJ Flap $1.50, COLOR illustrated Endpapers, HBDJ, 1942 ON TITLE PG & COPYRIGHT. Small Quarto. First Edition. 1st Printong, VG+/VG, Bound in original bluegrey embossed cloth RED LETTERING,. DJ with chips at tips and edges. Hinges sound. Overall, very good or better.Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Edge-torn & Chipped. hardcover, partial discoloration of endpapers, corners slightly worn, light wear to extremities, contents lightly toned, Unpaginated, in edge-torn and edge-chipped dust jacket; LARGE ORIGINAL B/W INK SKETCH of boy on bicycle carrying large pie, with cat in basket, by Wyncie King (tag attached to pie says "for Ivor and George"; and on blank facing this sketch, on the half-title page, in ink, "to - Ivor and George with our love - Hortie and Wyncie"; PLUS pen and ink and watercolor rendering of a variant of the image on the dust jacket (girl and boy peering into pie shop window) on sheet mounted on the blank facing the title page Size: 8vo , Foreword by Dorothy Canfield Fisher ,,A interesting and scarce example of the story of two French children, Clare & Jacques in Nazi occupied France during WWII, Madame Bon bon had shop in Village of Routon with Pink Peppermints,Chocolate creams ETC. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Wyncie KING, .

Printed at Newburyport, By Edmund M. Blunt, for Mathew Carey, Philadelphia,, 1797. HB NODustJacket, 1797 on title page. 1st edition, Later Printing, Brown full LEATHER contemporary sheepskin,with Much Rubbed Label on Spine, Cover rub, wear & tiny Chips Tears Extremities, Outer Hinges along spine Partially Separated & Rather Fragile, with small chips top & bottom Spine, VG-/VG-, AS-IS, NODJ, Delacate Condition, Interior relatively tight, Wear, FOXing some dogeared pgs, Last two pages show some Silverfish Damage, 239 pgs withLast Page Corner Margin Chip, 12mo (in 6s), gilt spine, morocco label; text fingered and soiled, top and base of spine chipped, corners worn, upper front joint cracked. . Full-Leather.

G. W. Dillingham, NY, 1904. . There are 16 full page color plates and many color illustrations in orange, white & black throughout this book. HardBack NODJ, 1904, 1st Edition, 1st State, GOOD+/VG-, NOJACKET, AS-IS, Green Cloth with Green LETTERING & Charming Color Pictorial Label of 2 Men one holding Gun other sitting on Ball with White Hat & Trowell, Cover Rub, wear , Scuff, Tears to Extremites & Spine Ends, Small Red Spot Cover Back & Tears Edges Spine, Interior slight Rub, Wear, Scuff , FOXING, Some pgs small separation Hinge & Tears Edges, This book has light green hard covers with dark green lettering & a pastedown picture on the front cover. There are light blue pictorial endpapers and a title page with a picture in orange, white, & black.The hard covers show some fading/wear/staining, The spine has a rip and shows wear. The top & bottom spine edges and the book corners show ripping/wear. The lettering is faded on the spine. The cover pastedown picture is ripped, & looks like it was glued/repaired at the rip.There are minor pencil marks on the front endpapers and on back blank page. ,Some pages are coming apart from the binding. Three of the color plates are apart from the binding. The back endpapers are split a bit at the binding. alot of the pages have either fingerprints/smudges/minor staining/minor rips. There is some minor aging/browing around the edges of the pages, 240 pages. First Edition. Hard Cover.

HARDBACK NODUSTJACKET, 1913, 1ST EDITION, NOJACKET, Tan paper boards, lettered in green on front, cover illustration, half page illustrations on title page, the first page and the last page, 7 additional full page illustrations, all illustrations in cover, 19 unnumbered pages. ; 4-1/2" x 6-1/4"; Lightly soiled with minor wear noted at the corners and top of spine, lower part of spine missing paper covering to reveal the backstrip, paper is starting to split from the backstrip, overall binding is a bit loose though holding, prior owners inscription dated 1915 on copyright page in space provided.

HBDJ, 1964, STATED 1st Edition,, VG/VG, NOT EX-LIBRARY, Blue book cloth has some LITE WEAR, DJ has minor edgewear tiny chips Overall a very good copy of a scarce and collectible title. Size: Octavo, 151 pgs

Doubleday, New York,, 1925 HB NODJ, VG-/GOOD, NOJacket. AS-IS, 1925. 1st Edition. 1st printing, Dates Match on Title & Copyright page, Binding is ORANGE & Black plaid Design Hardbound. Book Condition: GOOD, VG-/GOOD, NOJacket. AS-IS, 157 pgs, Orange w/ black title at spine. Some shelf wear. front board is Nice Plaid on front cvr. . 6 X 7 3/4 in. Interior nice tight Clean light Fox, Wear, Slight Lean to book, Publishers Orange Dye Top outer pgs topedge.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.

Ditchling, Sussex: Pepler and Sewell, St Dominic's Press, 1934. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Hagreen, Philip. One of 300 copies, octavo size, sixteen unpaginated leaves. The text of a lecture given in London by Fr. McNabb to the Catholic Poetry Society. ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in brown quarter-cloth over green paper covered boards, limitation page states, "300 copies have been printed by hand in Caslon 14 point Old Face type on Head's hand-made paper, January 1934. This is No. 255."; "Stones from the Brook: No. 1 Geoffrey Chaucer" (printed on the half-title); octavo size, (8" x 5 1/4"), sixteen unpaginated leaves. In a paper wrapper with black lettering on both panels and flaps. ___CONDITION: Volume is near fine, boards have straight corners without rubbing, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior is clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; some fading to green color of both boards in uneven patches and on back boards around perimeter. The paper wrapper very good, overall light sunning, the right margin of the front flap unevenly torn vertically, and a 3/4" closed tear near head of spine. ___CITATION: Taylor & Sewell, no. A234, which notes the title-page engraving by Philip Hagreen. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.

Doubleday, New York,, 1925 HB NODJ, VG-/GOOD+, NOJacket. AS-IS,, 1925. 1st Edition. 1st printing, Dates Match on Title & Copyright page, Binding is ORANGE & Black plaid Design Hardbound. Book Condition: VG-/GOOD+, NOJacket. 157 pgs, Orange w/ black title at spine. Some shelf wear. front board is Nice Plaid on front cvr. . 6 X 7 3/4 in. Interior nice tight Clean light Fox, Wear, k, Publishers Orange Dye Top outer pgs topedge. front cover a little warped. . 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

HBDJ, First Modern Library Edition #187 ,1931. First Edition stated on copyright page, VG-/GOOD, , Rose brown balloon cloth thin flexible boards stamped in gilt at spine and front cover.Back DJ cover states complete list of 190 Bks COUPON with Pre Zip Code Coupon. , book is Near Fine, with a Bloomingdales stamp to title page and a penciled price to ffep. Penciled owner's signature. Binding tight and straight. Jacket is Very Good, with separation to front and rear flaps and attendant chipping. Deep price clip. Minor chipping to top of slighty darkened spine and 1/2" closed tear to bottom. Spine separation starting very lightly. 372 PGS, NO ADS IN BACK

Very rare book. B/W & COLOR ILLUSTRATED, Inner Hinges Starting Slightly cracked, HARDBACK NODustJacket ISSUED ,1923 , , 1st Edition, EARLY ISSUE, GO0D- Condition, 3 PLATES MISSING. ?,HALFTITLE PAGE IS PRESENT BUT TITLE PAGE & COPYRIGHT Page & FRONTISPIECE are NOT THERE, NO JACKET, SCUFF MARK TOP FRONT COVER ERASING WORD BABIES, PLATES WERE ACTUALLY REMOVED FROM THE BOOK AT ONE TIME AND RE-TAPED TO THE BLANK PAGE BEHIND IT rather Crudely & most Have Tape Residue on pg edges & some edge creasing,Contents page is Present in Front of Book. TAPE RESIDUE ON EDGES SOME PAGES, ONLY 4 COLOR PLATES AVAILABLE ARE OPPOSITE PG 33, 43, 59, 67 , CRUDELY REPLACED INTO BOOK, 73 PAGES , Drawings for American Children, Includes some Indian Songs, Six whimsical, yet moral, stories about the virtues of being well-behaved, trustworthy, and diligent children.