New Arrivals: November 28, 2018

New Arrivals: November 28, 2018 Aliki. Medieval Feast. ill. Aliki. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1983. Stated First Edition. 4to. Very Good / Very Good. 1/4 cloth hard cover with peacock design blind stamped on cover, light shelf wear, top corner bumped; illustrated dust jacket with original price intact ($9.95 / $7.83), small stain visible on verso of jacket, spine creasing. A book about all of the preparations that might have been necessary for a visit from the king. The illustrations are captioned with factual information about life in the Middle Ages. $12.50 Bang, Molly. Yellow Ball. New York: Morrow Junior Books, 1991. First Printing. 4to. Near Fine / Very Good. Pictorial boards, a few signs of use internally; matching dust jacket with short tear to rear panel, price clipped. A beautifully illustrated picture book about a little yellow ball that is forgotten at water's edge and is swept out to sea. $30.00 Ardizzone, Edward (Illus); Wuorio, Eva- Lis (Auth). Kali and the Golden Mirror. Cleveland: World Publishing, 1967. First Printing. 8vo. Near Fine / Very Good Minus. (1967). The printing number line appears on last page of text instead of copyright page. Pictorial yellow cloth, boards very slightly bowed; in color illustrated dust jacket with a few abrasions, small losses and wear, price clipped. Lovely story about a little girl who would like to find the perfect present for her foster parents. Greek mythology is woven into the story. Illustrated with dual-page color artwork and line art by Ardizzone. Scarce. $50.00 < >

Jim Dine s Pinocchio Collodi, Carlo; Illustrated By Jim Dine. Pinocchio. ill. Jim Dine. Gottingen, Germany: Steidl, 2006. First Edition. Large 4to. Fine / Fine. Yellow cloth titled in black; color pictorial dust jacket. Collodi's famous tale as translated by M A Murray. A fabulous production by American Pop Artist, Jim Dine including interesting type treatment and a vision of Pinocchio that echoes familiar depictions but is presented in an original manner. $45.00 Colum, Padraic. Forge in The Forest. ill. Boris Artzybasheff. New York: Macmillan, 1925. First Edition. 8vo. Good Minus / No Jacket. 148 pgs. Black cloth pictorially stamped in green and gilt, spine gilt rubbed away, rubbing to cover gilt, edges rubbed, a few corner bends, 6 pages with erased child marks, marginal damp stain to a number of pages. European folk and fairy tales including: title tale; Old King Fork-Beard and the Scarf that He Gave; The Story of Ys; King Fergus and the Water-Horse; Seven Sleepers; King Solomon and the Servitor of the Lord of Earth; Saint Martin and the Honest Man; Bellerophon; & The Horse. Illustrated with 8 full color and 1 b&w dual-page spreads. $25.00 Crane, Walter (Illus); Gilbert, Henry (Auth). Robin Hood and the Men of the Greenwood. New York: Frederick A Stokes, 1912. First Edition American Issue. 8vo. Fair / No Jacket. TEG. 360 pgs. Green cloth pictorially stamped in gilt, heavy wear to corners, splits at folds, losses at spine ends, moderate finger soil, a few pages opened roughly, edges of rear endpaper chipped, binding shaken. Tales of Robin Hood with 16 color plates by Walter Crane. $25.00 Detmold, E J (Illus); Mrs. Rodolph Stawell (Trans. Teixeira De Mattos). Fabre's Book of Insects. New York: Tudor Publishing, 1935. First Printing of ReIssue. Thick 4to. Good / No Jacket. Green cloth decoratively titled in gilt, shelf wear, extremities worn, spine dulled, plate opposite pg 116 is creased (Spanish Copris), previous owner's stamp to endpaper. Illustrated with 12 tipped-in color plates with captioned guards. $35.00

Fairy Tales. Three Little Pigs and The Foolish Pig. ill. Frances Beem. Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, (1918, 1934). Later Edition. 16mo. Fair / No Jacket. Color illustrated boards with heavy wear to edges and corners, stickers and sticker residue to front endpapers, tear in rear endpaper, finger soil. The familiar fairy tale about the three little pigs and the big bad wolf accompanied by the poem The Foolish Pig. Illustrated in line and full page part-color plates. $7.50 History.. Peril and Patriotism, True Tales of Heroic Deeds and Startling Adventures, Volume One Only. ill. Various. London, Paris, New York & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, 1899. Large Thick 8vo. Good Minus / No Jacket. Beige cloth pictorially stamped in red, green & black, corners worn, splitting along spine folds, spine ends frayed, pages darkened. All sorts of exciting stories take from history illustrated with full and partial-page b&w plates by some of the best-known artists of the day: George Soper, T W Holmes, H R Millar, Charles Sheldon, E Stuart Hardy, etc... $25.00 Kruyff, Joe C. De. Master Entwistle and the Frolics of Freddie Frog. ill. John Kennis. Assen, Netherlands: Bunny Books, 1954. 4to. VG / No Jacket. Pictorial boards with some edge and corner wear, rear staples pulled away from binding, previous owner's name on endpaper. Illustrated with four pages in color, partial page b&w artwork throughout, all featuring humanized animals. $25.00 James, Frederick. Cloud Hoppers. ill. Katherine Evans. Chicago: Children's Press, 1949. Stated First Printing. Small 4to. Near Fine / Very Good Minus. Pictorial boards with light shelf wear; matching dust jacket with wear at extremities, an abrasion at the top of the spine marring the author's name, original price intact ($1.25). The story of a young boy who is excited by the prospect of an a visit from his airline pilot Uncle Dan. He is also a little worries that he will have to give up the dog Jeff that he has been looking after for his uncle. Adorable color and b&w artwork on every page. Scarce. $40.00 Fouquee, Friedrich de La Motte (retold from); MacGregor, Mary (Auth). Undine Told to the Children. ill. Katharine Cameron. London: T C & E C Jack, [1907] per British Library, gift inscription dated 1921. 16mo. Good Plus / No Jacket. 115 pgs. Green cloth titled in black inc, full color pastedown to front cover, 3/4" loss from pastedown, endpapers browned, gift inscription. Overall a handsome copy of this French tale about a water maiden who marries a knight in order to gain a soul. Illustrated with 8 lovely color plates by Glasgow School artist, Katharine Cameron. $30.00 Lasker, Joe (Illus); Brown, Fern & Grabe, Andree Vilas (Auth). When Grandpa Wore Knickers, Life in the Early Thirties (Signed By Illustrator). Chicago: Albert Whitman, 1966. First Edition. 4to. Good / Good. Pictorial cloth, 2 inch long marginal stain at fore edge that affects every page and dust jacket flaps; color illustrated dust jacket with light wear and stain, original price intact (3.25 / 2.44). A book about daily life in the 1930s. Cute color artwork throughout. This copy is signed by the illustrator. $12.50

Moser, Barry (Illus); Rylant, Cynthia (AUth). Appalachia, The Voices of Sleeping Birds (Signed By Illustrator). San Diego: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1991. First Printing. 4to. Very Good / Fine. 1/4 cloth hard cover, bottom corners rubbed, dent in top edge of boards; color pictorial dust jacket Fine with original price intact ($14.95). A description of life in the mountains of West Virginia and Tennessee with beautiful color artwork by Barry Moser; this copy is signed by him. $30.00 Petersham, Maud & Miska. Story Book of Ships. Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1935. First Edition. Square 8vo. Near Fine / Very Good. Turquoise cloth hard cover with color pastedown, shelf wear, gift inscription else clean and beautiful; color illustrated dust jacket is worn at folds, price clipped. A history of man's attempt to traverse bodies of water, from hollowed out logs to large steam ships. From the Petersham s fabulous series of "Story of..." books which was a massive undertaking and unlike anything else at the time of its production. The books are an important landmark in the evolution of children's non-fiction. Webster pgs. 124-137 and Bader pgs 93-4 $45.00 Norton, Mary. Borrowers Aloft. ill. Beth and Joe Krush. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961. First American Edition. 8vo. Very Good / Near Fine. Pink cloth, light shelf wear, top corner of text block bumped, not writing or foxing; color illustrated dust jacket with light dusting to rear panel, darkening to very bottom edge of jacket, original price intact ($2.95). A beautiful copy of the fourth installment in Norton's classic series of books about the little people, "no bigger than a pencil." Illustrated in b&w by Beth and Joe Crush. $45.00 Penn, William (Subj); Mason, Miriam E. (Auth). William Penn Friendly Boy. ill. Lawrence Dresser. New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1944. Stated First Edition. 8vo. Very Good / Poor. 210 pgs. Orange cloth with light shelf wear, previous owner's name on endpaper; pictorial dust jacket with 1" loss from front panel, rear panel with vertical tape repair on verso, spine sunned, original price intact ($1.50). Story of the boyhood of William Penn, the found of Philadelphia. Illustrated in b&w throughout. $40.00 Pyle, Howard. Pepper & Salt, or Seasoning for Young Folk. New York: Harper & Brothers, (1885) but publisher's code indicates 1931. Later Edition. 8vo. Good Minus / No Jacket. Beige cloth stamped in navy, cover soil, tear in spine cloth, occasional marks to text pages but generally clean. Fairy tales, stories, poems and songs for young people beautifully decorated and illustrated in line by Brandywine artist, Howard Pyle. $12.50 Roe, E T (Editor). Merry Mates. ill. Various. Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry & Co, 1899. 4to. Pictorial Boards. Good / No Jacket. Pictorial boards accented in gilt, cloth spine, edges worn, pages yellowed (printed on cheap paper), crude binding, an old price stamped on endpaper. A selection of stories and verses by various authors. Includes Mother Goose rhymes, "The Little Slave-Boy Artist," & "How Sam Turned His Dollar," both of which contain racial stereotypes, stories about animals and morality tales. Illustrated with color covers, frontis and a b&w illustration on every other page by various illustrators. $8.50

Ruskin, John; Illustrated By Arthur Rackham. King of the Golden River. ill. Arthur Rackham. Philadelphia: J B Lippincott Co, 1932. First Edition American Issue. 8vo. Hard Cover. Good to Very Good / No Jacket. Orange cloth with 3-color title label pasted to front cover, covers faded at edges, bookplate partially removed from endpaper, top corner bumped, occasional finger soil. Ruskin's famous tale illustrated with four full page color plates, other artwork in line. $35.00 Turner, Nancy Byrd. Zodiac Town, The Rhymes of Amos and Ann. ill. Winifred Bromhall. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1921. First Edition. 8vo. Pictorial Cloth. Very Good Minus / No Jacket. Blue cloth pictorially stamped in gilt, light shelf wear, small abrasion and stain to front cover, tiny mends to about 8 pages, small loss from edge of a few pages. Poems for each month of the year illustrated with really lovely full page b&w plates and decorations throughout by Winifred Bromhall. $45.00 Smith, Jessie Willcox (Illus); Spyri, Johanna (Auth). Heidi. ill. Jessie Willcox Smith. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1922. First Edition, First Issue. Thick 8vo. Hard Cover. Very Good Minus / No Jacket. TEG. 380 pgs. Blue cloth with full color pastedown (rubbed), spine gilt bright, cloth at extremities fraying, spine slightly concave but clean and no obvious cracks in binding, old bookshop sticker on endpaper. Illustrated with color title page and 10 color plates plus full page line art accented with either red, green or yellow. $60.00 Vinck, Marcel De. Lord Pington Decouvre L'Amerique. ill. Marcel De Vinck. Paris: Hachette, 1933. 4to. Pictorial Boards. Very Good / No Jacket. Pictorial card covers, light soil and wear, boards slightly bowed. Lord Pington decides to leave his dogs and horses behind and head for America with his hired help. They are amazed by the big city of New York but head out west where they try to ride American horses and meet a tribe of American Indians (depictions are stereotypical). Illustrated in color on every page. $85.00

Wiggin, Kate Douglas. Marm Lisa. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1896. First Edition. 8vo. Hard Cover. Good Minus / No Jacket. (1896). First issue in an early state of the binding. BAL 22617. Cream cloth pictorially stamped in navy with the design of an angel and child, spine darkened, cover soil, rear hinge webbing showing, a few pressed flower stains, binding shaken. The story of an epileptic child and her teacher, set in San Francisco. $7.50 Will & Nicolas (William Lipkind and Nicolas Mordvinoff). Circus Ruckus. ill. Will & Nicolas. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1954. Stated First Edition. 4to. Hard Cover. Good / Poor. Hard cover stamped in black; corners and spine ends worn through, previous owner's name on endpaper, a few signs of use internally but mostly clean; color pictorial dust jacket heavily worn with small losses and tape repairs, price clipped. A humorous picture book about a boy and his dog who cause a commotion at a circus. $40.00 Thanks for stopping by! E M Maurice Books, LLC Timothy Forry, Proprietor 358 Ledge Drive Torrington, CT 06790 Tel: (860) 480-2264 Email: timothy@emmauricebooks.com Email us your contact info to join our digital catalog distribution list ORDERING: Orders are accepted by phone 7 days a week from 10am to 9pm EST. Email orders any time. All items subject to prior sale. PAYMENT METHODS: Visa, MasterCard, Amex, Discover, checks, money orders, and PayPal. (Credit Card orders require: billing address & security code on reverse of card) PAYMENT TERMS: Payment is due before book(s) ship. We will hold book(s) for payment for seven business days. Libraries and institutions may be billed. Connecticut residents, please add 6.35% sales tax. SHIPPING: Media Mail: $4.75 for 1st Book, $1.00 each additional book OR Priority Mail: $11.75 for 1 st book, $2.00 for each book after that, per order Insurance is extra, please request insurance when ordering. INTERNATIONAL orders will be shipped via Global Priority at cost. Please note: We will not falsify customs documents, so please do not ask. RETURNS: You may return any book for any reason as long as: 1) Prior notice by telephone is given within 3 days after receiving book, 2) Item is returned in condition in which is was received and is properly packed and insured for return trip, please use a traceable shipping method. Refunds will be issued for book price and original shipping once item has been safely returned and inspected. Text and Images Copyright 2018 E M Maurice Books, LLC