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217964 ACMI & Wasikowska, Mia (foreword) & various Wonderland Thames & Hudson, Melbourne, 2018. Quarto hardcover; blue decorated boards with white upper board and spine titles; red and white spiral decorations on endpapers; all edges vivid pink; many colour and b&w illustrations. Mild wear; tiny losses of pink at text block edge tips and fine superficial scratch on rear panel. No dustwrapper as issued. Near fine. Since the publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1865, Lewis Carroll's Alice has delighted children and adults alike. However this girl-hero was always destined for life beyond the page. From silent film to animation, she has been portrayed many times and continues to inspire. Wonderland follows Alice's journey from page to screen, from 1903's silent Alice in Wonderland to her first talking film in 1931, to Tim Burton's recent blockbusters. It celebrates the endurance of Carroll's stories and characters, and the remarkable technological innovations that have enabled filmmakers to continually re-imagine Alice. Tracing Alice's evolution on screen, Wonderland is a journey down the rabbit hole and into an enchanted world where expectations are upended and curiosity rewarded. Click here to order $40

88958 Allingham, William (Richard Doyle, illus.) In Fairyland A Series of Pictures from the Elf-World Longmans Green Reader & Dyer, London, 1870. First edition: folio; hardcover, with gilt spine decorations, gilt rules to the upper board, gilt upper board titles and decorations and blind-ruled lower board; 31pp., all edges gilt, with an engraved coloured frontispiece and many full-coloured engraved illustrations. Re-backed, retaining the original cloth, with new endpapers; softening to the spine extremities with some scraping; some bumps to the board edges and corners; mild foxing to the preliminaries and light offset to the illustrations. Very good to near fine in a new, gilt-titled slipcase. Richard Doyle was the son of an Irish artist and the uncle of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. By nineteen years old he was a designer of such skill and originality that the famous first cover of Punch was chosen from his work. "In Fairyland" was first published in 1870, and the pictures are complemented by William Allingham's text-poem. Click here to order $2200

84014 Ardizzone, Edward (intro. Malcolm Muggeridge) Indian Diary Bodley Head, London, 1984. First edition. Octavo hardcover; blue boards with gilt spine titling; 159pp., monochrome illustrations and top edges dyed green. Minor wear; offsetting to endpapers and half-title; mildly spotted text block edges; dustwrapper faded along spine and slightly worn at edges. Very good otherwise and now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Click here to order $22

68980 [Arthur Rackham] Hudson, Derek Arthur Rackham His Life and Work William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1960. Quarto; hardcover, with gilt spine-titling on a black label, a small upper board decoration and decorated endpapers; 181pp., top edges dyed brown, with a colour frontispiece and many tipped-in illustrations tipped-in colour and monochrome plates. Mild wear; rubbing to lower board edges; text block edges browned. Dustwrapper with missing segment to the top edge of the lower panel across to the head of the spine panel with associated tears and creasing; a few tiny tears and chips on the edges (now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film and white paper backing). Very good. Rackham's appeal has proved ageless, his faultless draughtsmanship allied to an imagination which may be delicate or grotesque, but is always original and illuminating. Derek Hudson introduces us to the man behind the work and comments on technique and achievements, often illustrating his point with reproductions of Rackham's own drawings or plates. Included in this edition is a revised check-list of the artist's work. Beautiful selection of colour plates. Click here to order $50

70537 [Arthur Rackham] Shakespeare, William & Graily Hewitt (Arthur Rackham, illus.) A Midsummer Night's Dream Abaris Books, New York NY, 1977. Quarto; hardcover, with upper board gilt decoration and gilt spine titling; unpaginated with colour and monochrome illustrations. Minor wear; foxing to endpapers and pastedowns; lightly toned and spotted text block edges. Dustwrapper with scraping to spine panel extremities, corners and along spine edge; mild rubbing and creasing to front inner flaps; now backed by archival-quality white paper and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $65

89193 [Australian Centre for the Moving Image] Pixar: 20 Years of Animation ACMI, 2005. Quarto gatefold paperback; 175pp., colour illustrations. Slightly scuffed black illustrated cover. Near fine otherwise. Exhibition catalogue. Australian presentation of 'Pixar: 20 Years of Animation' held at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, June to October 2005. Originally published by Chronicle Books in San Francisco. The exhibition was designed to take the spectator behind the scenes of the studio that created Finding Nemo, Monsters, Inc., Toy Story, Cars and The Incredibles. Over 500 sketches, paintings, sculptures and storyboards reveal how Pixar's much-loved characters and worlds are brought to life. In addition to these one-of-a-kind works by artists and sculptors, the exhibition included spectacular immersive environments and interactive experiences developed by Pixar to extend the magic of their films. The exhibition - the world's largest dedicated to the art of animation - came from the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Click here to order $35

75745 Baxter, Glen Jodhpurs in the Quantocks Jonathan Cape, London, 1986. First edition. Royal octavo hardcover, unpaginated with monochrome illustrations. Illustrated purple boards with pink title plate and description plate on rear. Moderate wear; spine panel extremities worn and frayed, chipping to corners; front board slightly fanned; offsetting to endpapers, inscription; spotting and toning to text block edges. Very good. No dustwrapper as issued. Click here to order $18

50764 [Blair Hughes-Stanton] Hughes-Stanton, Penelope The Wood-Engravings of Blair Hughes-Stanton Private Libraries Association, Pinner Middlesex UK, 1991. Quarto; hardcover, with gilt spine-titling; 183pp., with many monochrome illustrations. Near fine. Blair Hughes-Stanton came from a family of artists but nevertheless fell into the world of art and print-making almost accidentally, after initially deciding upon life as a naval officer: the notion of being his own boss was to clinch the deal. He had an erratic education, mainly augmented by the crash course of mathematics which he underwent as a cadet in the Royal Navy, and developed an idiosyncratic method of spelling which stayed with him all his life. Having made the decision to attend art school, he found the method of instruction stilted and unedifying: chance encounters with other young artists taught him the importance of the line, and formed a logical, structural underpinning to the artform - woodblock engraving - which later became his prime means of expression, some would say his singular voice. Included here is the complete catalogue of his published works in wood, showing an elegance of expression not normally associated with this medium. This is one of 1750 copies bound by The Fine Bindery (of which 600 were released for sale) and was designed by David Chambers. All of the reproductions included are full size unless noted otherwise in the captions. Click here to order $45

200423 Bland, David A History of Book Illustration The Illuminated Manuscript and the Printed Book Faber and Faber Ltd., London, 1969. Quarto; hardcover, with gilt spine titling on a black label and an upper board gilt decoration; 459pp., with many colour and monochrome tipped-in plates. Mild wear; previous owner's name in ink; offsetting to endpapers; toned text block edges; very mild rubbing to lower board edges. Dustwrapper slightly edgeworn; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. "Mr. Bland traces the development of book illustration from the earliest decorated Egyptian papyrus to the modern edition-de-luxe. There are more than four hundred half tone and wood block illustrations, and twenty superb full colour reproductions, but the book is much more than a picture book. The text is divided roughly into centuries country by country, the first part carrying through to the end of the 17th century, and at each phase the illustrations are integral to the text. Here is no dry catalogue of important figures in the art world, but rather a diverting commentary on the relationships of illustration to the various aspects of the social and artistic life of the times. While giving book illustration its place as an art in its own right and denying the inferior status too often attributed to it, he deals too with the significant aspects of the mechanics and techniques of book production. An extensive bibliography, cross indexing, and excellent typography add up to a book that will be an essential tool in its field for a long time to come." - Kirkus Click here to order $65

62609 Blegvad, Peter The Book of Leviathan Overlook Press, New York NY, 2000. Oblong quarto; paperback; unpaginated, with colour and monochrome illustrations. Mild wear; covers scuffed; glue stain to inner edge of the front endpaper. Near fine. "One of the greatest, weirdest things I've ever stared at. Give me Leviathan or give me death." Click here to order $17

217971 Calamari, Barbara & Sandra DiPasqua Holy Cards with Scrapbook Harry Abrams, New York, 2004. Small quarto hardcover; quarter bound in white papered boards and ochre cloth spine with gilt titling; blue endpapers; 144pp., colour plates. Minor wear; two tiny tears on lower board edges. Near fine. Scrapbook: homemade notebook with handwritten title 'My Treasure Book'. Covered with wrapping paper and decorated with a holy card on front and gilt decorative border added; two cut-out flower decorations on upper front corners. Eight pages of holy cards (sometimes two and sometimes three cards to a page) each accompanied by a biblical verse, in neat handwritten ink. One separate page from another notebook laid in - six cards with no verses but a few decorative elements. Tissue guards over each page - one detached. Staples holding the notebook now detached from the covers. One of the most important and endearing traditions of Catholic iconography is the holy card. Offering images of the saints, these portable objects of daily ritual are carried for protection, given as remembrances at communions, confirmations, and funerals and collected and traded. In Holy Cards, authors Barbara Calamari and Sandra DiPasqua offer the first book to survey this rich and varied art form. Featuring both a pantheon of major religious figures in Catholicism and many little-known saints - such as St. Clare, patron saint of television, and St. Monica, patron saint of disappointing children - this book is sure to inform and inspire. Click here to order $50

214139 Campbell, Peter (Foreword by Bill Manhire; Introduction by Jeremy Harding) Artwork The London Review of Books/Profile Books Ltd., London, 2012. Quarto; hardcover, with upper board titles; 192pp., with many colour and monochrome illustrations. Minor wear. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Near fine. Until his death in 2011, Peter Campbell was the resident designer and art critic at the fortnightly London Review of Books and wrote more than three hundred pieces for the paper, including, from 2000, a regular gallery piece. From 1993 to 2011, the expat New Zealander painted its distinctive cover illustrations. His last, a fox in the street outside his house, was painted only a few weeks earlier. Many of these covers, as well as some of his other illustrations and book designs, can be seen in the collection Artwork. In Campbell's images, ordinary things are handled tenderly, strangely; he described what he saw around him: gasometers, plane trees, beaches (and untucked shirts), funfairs, the squares of Bloomsbury (where the LRB offices are), the timber-framed houses of Wellington. He was also interested in how things work, writing memorably about escalators. There were, as Mary-Kay Wilmers (who first worked with him on the Listener in the late 1960s) wrote, 'few aspects of the world that Peter didn't wish to honour'.. Click here to order $45

92358 Canemaker, John Before the Animation Begins: The Art and Lives of Disney Inspirational Sketch Artists Hyperion, New York, 1996. Large quarto hardcover; green cloth boards with purple gilt spine titling, yellow endpapers; 209pp., colour and monochrome illustrations. Minor wear; spotting to upper text block edges Illustrated dustwrapper with slightly faded spine and faint toning to rear panel edges. Near fine and wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Canemaker's book is on the people who created preliminary sketches 'that explore the visual possibilities in a literary property.' These possibilities for any proposed cartoon include the visual style of the film, how the characters will look, the way a major scene could be portrayed, and so on. Specific sketch artists have put their individual stamp on the entire look of the finished film in such cases as Sleeping Beauty, Bambi, and Night on Bald Mountain. In addition, they have created memorable minor characters, such as Pocahontas's raccoon pal and Beauty and the Beast's Mrs. Potts. Canemaker primarily concentrates on the feature-length cartoons, and he gives special attention to Fantasia. By chronologically examining the life and work of the significant sketch artists, he ably demonstrates their contributions. Click here to order $32

68489 Canemaker, John Winsor McCay His Life and Art Abrams, New York, 2005. Quarto hardcover; illustrated yellow boards and illustrated endpapers; 271pp., monochrome and colour illustrations. Minor wear only; near fine in like dustwrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. This volume is the only existing biography of one of America's greatest and most influential cartoonists. Winsor McCay (1867-1934) is universally acknowledged as the first master of both the comic strip and the animated cartoon. Although invented by others, both genres were developed into enduring popular art of the highest imagination through McCay's innovative genius. Originally published in 1987, it is now back in print in a newly expanded and revised edition on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Little Nemo in Slumberland. Included are new materials found since the previous publication of the book such as new comic strips of Little Nemo in Slumberland, and new sketches of Gertie the Dinosaur. In the book the author reviews and fully analyzes McCay's achievements in print and film while examining his work in relation to his life, family, and to American culture and values of the period. This painstakingly thorough biography begins with McCay's childhood in Michigan to his seat as one of the greatest of the early animators. Click here to order $70

212107 Cott, Jonathan There's a Mystery There The Primal Vision of Maurice Sendak Doubleday, New York NY, 2017. First edition: octavo; hardcover; 242pp., colour illustrations. Remainder. New. An extraordinary, path-breaking, and penetrating book on the life and work and creative inspirations of the great children's book genius Maurice Sendak, who since his death in 2012 has only grown in his stature and recognition as a major American artist, period. Polymath and master interviewer Jonathan Cott first interviewed Maurice Sendak in 1976 for Rolling Stone, just at the time when Outside Over There, the concluding and by far the strangest volume of a trilogy that began with Where The Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen, was gestating. Over the course of their wide-ranging and revelatory conversation about his life, work, and the fantasies and obsessions that drove his creative process, they focused on many of the themes and images that would appear in the new book five years later. Drawing on that interview, There's a Mystery There is a profound examination of the inner workings of a complicated genius's torments and inspirations that ranges over the entirety of his work and his formative life experiences, and uses Outside Over There, brilliantly and originally, as the key to understanding just what made this extravagantly talented man tick. To gain multiple perspectives on that intricate and multifaceted book, Cott also turns to four "companion guides": a Freudian analyst, a Jungian analyst, an art historian, and Sendak's great friend and admirer, the playwright Tony Kushner. The book is richly illustrated with examples from Sendak's work and other related images. Click here to order $24

98551 Crumb, Aline & Robert Drawn Together The Complete Works W.W. Norton & Co. Inc., New York NY, 2012. Quarto; hardcover, with illustrated boards; 264p., with many colour and monochrome illustrations. Dustwrapper. Remainder. New. Click here to order $32

90693 Davidson, Joe Fruit Crate Art Wellfleet Press, Secaucus NJ, 1990. Quarto; hardcover, with gilt spine titling; 144pp., with many colour illustrations. Minor wear; spotting to upper text block edges and a few scattered spots to the half-title page edges. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Near fine. In an art world replete with "limited editions" of 5,000 or more, many fruit crate labels exist in much lower quantities and are probably a better investment. Herein, you will find a brief history of the industry and lithographers that created them, and their relationship to the brokers and consumers. This book contains coloured photographs of fruit and vegetable labels found on wooden boxes and a history of the labels, art, and advertising associated with them. Also included are examples of the various methods of lithography used in label creation. Click here to order $30

200422 Diringer, David The Illuminated Book Its History & Production Faber and Faber Ltd, London, 1967. Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titling on a red label; 514pp., with many colour and monochrome plates and illustrations. Mild wear; offsetting to endpapers; mild toning and spotting to text block edges; previous owner's name in ink. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good to near fine. 'The work contains a vast mass of information and a wealth of illustration and it constitutes what is virtually an encyclopaedia of illumination... The author has shown astounding assiduity, and the book contains between its covers more material than any other single work on the subject, while its illustrations, many of them drawn from unfamiliar sources, afford a valuable and most useful corpus.' - The Times Literary Supplement Click here to order $100

207255 Dulac, Edmund (illus.) Sinbad the Sailor & Other Tales from The Arabian Nights Calla Press/Dover Publications Inc., Mineola NY, 2016. Quarto; hardcover. full decorated cloth with gilt spine and upper board titles and decorations and decorative endpapers; 224pp., all pages decorated, with a colour frontispiece and 22 plates likewise. Minor wear; text block top edge very lightly dusted. No dustwrapper. Very good. Click here to order $45

204430 [Edmund Dulac] Housman, Laurence (Edmund Dulac, illus.) Stories from the Arabian Nights Retold by Laurence Housman Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., London, 1911. Abridged (selected from the 1907 edition): octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles and upper board decorations with a tipped-on illustration; unpaginated (132pp.), with a colour frontispiece and 23 colour plates, each with a captioned tissue guard. Moderate wear; boards dished; spine extremities softened; spotting to the text block edges; offset to the endpapers; mild scattered foxing throughout; previous owner's name in ink to the flyleaf. No dustwrapper. Very good. Lacks gift box in which the book was originally issued. The Arabian Nights is the most celebrated collection of tales in all of literature. The best of these tales are collected here by Laurence Housman. Edmund Dulac masterfully captures the fantastic elements of the tales using brilliantly coloured characters against soft, impressionistic backgrounds and in other scenes, achieves a brooding and dark mysterious atmosphere. Click here to order $230

98707 [Edward Ardizzone] Alderson, Brian Edward Ardizzone A Bibliographic Commentary Private Libraries Association - The British Library, London, 2003. Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titling and upper board decoration; 309pp., with monochrome illustrations. Mild wear; some marks to the text block edge. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Near fine. Click here to order $50

92507 Erte (Marshall Lee, ed.; Preface by Jack Solomon) Erte at Ninety The Complete Graphics Weidenfeld and Nicolson Ltd., London, 1982. Quarto; hardcover, with an upper board decoration and decorative endpapers; 223pp., with many colour illustrations. Minor wear; mild spotting to the text block edges. Slightly rubbed dustwrapper; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good to near fine. Erte was at the centre of the important art movement, Art Deco. The roots of this movement were in geometric motifs, luxuriant colours and graceful curvilinear feminine lines. Art Deco was the first comprehensive style to make 'modernism' in art widely popular. But the very popularity of Art Deco contained within it the seeds of its downfall, for when Art Deco was mass-produced to meet growing demand, much of its excellence of materials and craftsmanship had to be sacrificed, even though such excellence was critical to the Art Deco statement. It is probable that Erte's meticulous, luxurious, superbly crafted graphics succeed so well to some extent because they re-establish many of the significant attributes of classical Art Deco - that magical fusion of sleek design, exquisite materials, and superb craftsmanship. But Erte's graphics are timeless - an art which can be appreciated today as much as it was in the Twenties. Publication of this book marks the artist's ninetieth year and his seventieth year of work in the visual arts. Click here to order $85

201539 Foster, Hal (Brian M. Kane, ed.) Prince Valiant: Vol. 13: 1961-1962 Fantagraphics Books, Seattle WA, 2016. Folio; hardcover, quarter-bound in cloth with illustrated boards and gilt spine titles; unpaginated with many colour and monochrome illustrations. No dustwrapper as issued. Remainder. New. Click here to order $32

208129 Foster, Hal (Brian M. Kane, ed.; Introduction by Greg Hildebrandt) Prince Valiant: Vol. 16: 1967-1968 Fantagraphics Books, Seattle WA, 2017. Folio; hardcover, quarter-bound in cloth with illustrated boards and gilt spine titles; unpaginated, with many colour and monochrome illustrations. No dustwrapper as issued. Remainder. New. Click here to order $32

209864 [George Herriman] Tisserand, Michael Krazy George Herriman - A Life in Black and White HarperCollins Publishers Inc., New York NY, 2016. Reprint. Octavo hardcover; quarter bound blue-gray boards with beige spine and black spine titling, gray endpapers; 545pp., monochrome illustrations. Dustwrapper . Remainder, new. In the tradition of Schulz and "Peanuts", an epic and revelatory biography of Krazy Kat creator George Herriman that explores the turbulent time and place from which he emerged - and the deep secret he explored through his art. The creator of the greatest comic strip in history finally gets his due - in an eye-opening biography that lays bare the truth about his art, his heritage, and his life on America's colour line. A native of Nineteenth-Century New Orleans, George Herriman came of age as an illustrator, journalist, and cartoonist in the boomtown of Los Angeles and the wild metropolis of New York. Appearing in the biggest newspapers of the early Twentieth Century - including those owned by William Randolph Hearst - Herriman's "Krazy Kat" cartoons quickly propelled him to fame. Although fitfully popular with readers of the period, his work has been widely credited with elevating cartoons from daily amusements to anarchic art. Herriman used his work to explore the human condition, creating a modernist fantasia that was inspired by the landscapes he discovered in his travels - from chaotic urban life to the Beckett-like desert vistas of the Southwest. Yet underlying his own life - and often emerging from the contours of his very public art - was a very private secret: known as "the Greek" for his swarthy complexion and curly hair, Herriman was actually African American, born to a prominent Creole family that hid its racial identity in the dangerous days of Reconstruction. Drawing on exhaustive original research into Herriman's family history, interviews with surviving friends and family, and deep analysis of the artist's work and surviving written records, Michael Tisserand brings this little-understood figure to vivid life, paying homage to a visionary artist who helped shape modern culture. Click here to order $25

206060 [George Herriman] Yoe, Craig, with Bill Watterson Krazy Kat & The Art of George Herriman A Celebration Abrams ComicArts/Harry N. Abrams Inc., New York NY, 2011. Quarto; hardcover, with illustrated boards and endpapers; 176pp., with many monochrome and colour illustrations. Remainder. New. Krazy Kat & the Art of George Herriman is a tribute to one of the most influential and innovative comic strips and creators of all time. This unique collection of rare art, essays, memorabilia, and biography highlights the career of the first genius of comics, George Herriman, and his iconic creations, Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse. During its 31-year run, Krazy Kat was enormously popular with the public, as well as influential writers, artists, and intellectuals of the time. Includes original essays by Jay Cantor, Douglas Wolk, Harry Katz, Richard Thompson, Dee Cox (Herriman's granddaughter), Craig McCracken, Bill Watterson, and authorized reprints of two seminal essays on Herriman by Gilbert Seldes and e.e. cummings, alongside newly discovered vintage essays by TAD, Summerfield Baldwin, and Toots Herriman. With Krazy Kat & the Art of George Herriman, Craig Yoe reveals this influential artist and writer for a whole new generation. Click here to order $28

97605 Griffith, David, & Charlotte Parry-Crooke Decorative Printed Tins The Golden Age of Printed Tin Packaging Studio Vista Books/Cassell Ltd., London, 1979. Quarto; hardcover, with silver-gilt spine titles; 96pp. with many monochrome and full-colour illustrations. Mild wear; previous owner's ink stamp to the flyleaf. Dustwrapper rubbed with an old price sticker to the front flap; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. In 1971 the Victoria and Albert Museum first held an exhibition of biscuit tins, establishing the validity of the printed tin as an object of serious interest. Many of these tins are indeed works of art, inspiring respect for an age when such care was taken over the packaging of ordinary household goods like tea and mustard. As many as twelve separate colour printings were used to obtain the delicacy and richness of the illustrations and rivalry between companies led to increasingly adventurous designs, pushing construction processes to their limits. The technical peak of tin production was the famous novelty tins, some minutely detailed replicas of books, picnic hampers and birds' nests, others with ingenious moving parts: a grandfather clock, a windmill, even an articulated lorry. Covetable objects in their own right, printed tins are also fascinating in their reflection of changing social attitudes and world events. This book is a record of the golden age of British printed tins. Click here to order $17

203872 Gruelle, Johnny (ed. Rick Marschall, ed.) Mr. Twee Deedle Raggedy Ann's Sprightly Cousin Fantagraphics Books, Seattle WA, 2012. Elephant folio hardcover; illustrated green and red boards with red spine and gilt spine titling, illustrated red endpapers; 127pp., colour and monochrome illustrations. No dustwrapper. Remainder, new. Click here to order $45

94104 Harthan, John Books of Hours and Their Owners Thames & Hudson Ltd., London, 1977. Quarto; hardcover, with gilt spine titling and upper board publisher's insignia; 192pp., with 89 illustrations, 72 in colour. Minor wear; offsetting to endpapers and half-title pages; spotting to upper text block edges with a few scattered spots on board edges. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good to near fine. Of all the illuminated manuscripts that survive from the later middle Ages and the Renaissance, Books of Hours form the largest single category: the personal prayer books of a devout and status-conscious society. From thirty-four Books of Hours, an anthology of over ninety manuscript pages are reproduced here with the author's descriptive, explanatory and historical notes on the books themselves and their owners. The examples represent a wide range of styles, dates and countries, and include little-known as well as famous examples. John Harthan brings to his subject an imaginative concern with the people who owned and created the Books of Hours and a deep familiarity with many of the superb manuscripts which he illustrates and describes. Click here to order $35

202116 [Heath Robinson] Beare, Geoffrey Heath Robinson's Commercial Art A Compendium of his Advertising Work Lund Humphries, London, 2017. Quarto; hardcover, with silver-gilt spine titling; 255pp., with many colour and monochrome illustrations. Minor wear. Very light rubbing to dustwrapper and tiny tear to upper rear panel edge; slight edgewear; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Near fine. The name Heath Robinson immediately conjures images of overly-complicated contraptions, often held together with string and precarious in their construction. For a diverse range of clients, Robinson's inventiveness, humour, artistic skill and professionalism made him the obvious choice to advertise their products, which ranged from asbestos cement roofing to bread. Exploring the myriad companies which engaged Robinson's services, this book underlines the artist's significant contribution to Britain's cultural life. Including a complete list of Robinson's advertising clients and the work he undertook for them. Click here to order $40

15306 [Heath Robinson] Robinson, W. Heath Humours of Golf Methuen Ltd., London, 1923. First edition: quarto; hardcover, in illustrated boards; 50pp., with many colour and monochrome illustrations. Moderate wear; re-backed; boards edgeworn with some minor scrapes; two small pen marks on the corner of the front pastedown; tape and other stains on the front free endpaper; offset to the preliminaries; one page with a torn corner; a few pages with light smudging to the lower edges. No dustwrapper. Very good. Click here to order $350

62544 Herriman, George Krazy & Ignatz - Necromancy by the Blue Bean Bush Compounding the Complete Full-Page Comic Strips with some extra rarities 1933-34 Fantagraphics Books, Seattle WA, 2008. Second edition: quarto; paperback; 108pp., with many monochrome illustrations. Remainder. New. Click here to order $25

75001 [James Gillray] Hill, Draper (ed.) Fashionable Contrasts Caricatures by James Gillray Phaidon Press Ltd., London, 1966. Quarto; hardcover, with upper board decoration; 185pp. with many monochrome plates and illustrations. Mild toning to text block edges. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Near fine. James Gillray commenced life by learning letter-engraving, at which he soon became adept. This employment, however, proved irksome to James, so he wandered about for a time with a company of strolling players... he returned to London and was admitted as a student in the Royal Academy, supporting himself by engraving, and probably issuing a considerable number of caricatures under fictitious names. The name of Gillray's publisher and print seller, Miss Hannah Humphrey whose shop was first at 227 Strand, and finally in St James's Street, is inextricably associated with that of the caricaturist himself. Gillray lived with Miss (often called Mrs) Humphrey during the entire period of his fame. It is believed that he several times thought of marrying her, and that on one occasion the pair were on their way to the church, when Gillray said: 'This is a foolish affair, methinks, Miss Humphrey. We live very comfortably together; we had better let well alone.' Gillray's plates were exposed in Humphrey's shop window, where eager crowds examined them. His last work, from a design by Bunbury, is entitled "Interior of a Barber's Shop in Assize Time", and is dated 1811. While he was engaged on it he became mad, although he had occasional intervals of sanity, which he employed on his last work. He died on the 1st of June in 1815, and was buried in St James's churchyard, Piccadilly. Click here to order $50

31628 [John Flaxman] Bindman, David (ed.) John Flaxman Thames & Hudson Ltd., London, 1979. Quarto; hardcover; 188pp., with 426 monochrome and 4 colour plates. Mild wear; upper text block edge spotted; boards sunned to the top edges. Scuffed dustwrapper with chipping at head of spine panel; some small tears; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. John Flaxman was renowned in his own day throughout Europe for his book illustrations; the drawings for the works of Homer, Aeschylus, Hesiod and Dante were inspirational for many contemporary painters, including David, Ingres, Goya and Gericault. He designed works for pottery and silverware and was also a prolific sculptor. This book offers a comprehensive appraisal of Flaxman's works and includes essays by scholars on subjects ranging from the artist's designs for silverwork to his influence on other European artists. Click here to order $25

215564 Kenner, Hugh Chuck Jones: A Flurry of Drawings University of California Press, Berkeley, 1994. Octavo hardcover; quarter bound dark cream boards with black spine and gilt spine titling, dark cream endpapers; 109pp, b&w illustrations and untrimmed page edges. Mild rubbing to board edges and corners. Slightly rubbed illustrated dustwrapper, now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good to near fine. Click here to order $18

90210 Krause, Martin & Linda Witkowski Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: An Art in Its Making Featuring the Collection of Stephen H. Ison Hyperion, New York, 1994. First US edition: oblong quarto hardcover; blue cloth boards with pale yellow upper board and spine titling, red endpapers; 194pp., colour and monochrome illustrations. Minor wear; tiny scrapes on board corners; black mark along the hinge of front pastedown and remnant of white sticker on endpaper corner; very faint spotting to text block edges. Illustrated dustwrapper with some rubbing. Very good to near fine and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Nowadays, much of the "grunt-work" of producing an animated film is alleviated by the use of computers and complex animation programs; however, at one time, all of this work had to be done by hand, by teams of artists and animators under the direction of a studio head. This book takes as its example, the Walt Disney film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", guiding the reader step-by-step through the entire process, from background and character design, through special effects and final compositing and editing. With the gorgeous imagery of this film classic as a backdrop, the reader gains a minute understanding of the work that was once involved in bringing an animated screen classic to life. Click here to order $40

41824 Leunig, Mary A Piece of Cake Penguin, Melbourne, 1986. Paperback, square quarto; unpaginated, colour illustrations. Minor wear; spotting to page and text block edges. Very good. Click here to order $16

201900 Leunig, Michael The Essential Leunig Cartoons from a Winding Path Viking, 2012. Square quarto hardcover; orange illustrated boards with black upper board and spine titling, decorated endpapers; 400pp., monochrome & colour illustrations. Minor wear only. Near fine. No dustwrapper. Click here to order $35

216029 Leunig, Michael The Wayward Leunig Cartoons that Wandered Off Viking, 2015. Square quarto hardcover; illustrated yellow boards with black upper board and spine titling, decorated dark red endpapers; 400pp., colour and b&w illustrations. Very faint marks on upper text block edge. Minor wear otherwise; near fine. No dustwrapper as issued. Click here to order $40

75955 Loftus, Barbara Sigismund's Watch A Tiny Catastrophe Philip Wilson, London, 2011. Square quarto; paperback; 111pp., with many monochrome and colour illustrations. Minor wear only. Near fine. "Sigismund's Watch: A Tiny Catastrophe" is a cycle of artworks prompted by the recollections of the artist's mother Hildegard, who fled from Germany to England as a Jewish refugee in 1939. The story is told through a series of oil paintings and works on paper, vividly contextualised by documentary images and quotations from the Weimar period. "Sigismund's Watch" narrates a 'primal scene' from the early 1920s, recalled by Hildegard in old age, when, as a small child, she witnessed, unseen by her parents, a bitter marital row. The cause was her father Sigismund's bankruptcy, which inflicted sudden impoverishment on their comfortable bourgeois way of life. Hidden under the table, she saw her mother tear her father's gold pocket watch from his waistcoat pocket, stamp on it and smash it. The smashing of the watch becomes for Loftus a potent and poignant symbol - standing for the chaos into which Hildegard's family and many others were plunged overnight. The ensuing climate of fear, suspicion and destabilization in the collective psyche dealt a fatal blow to the fragile concept of the German-Jewish symbiosis. The historic equation of the Jew and money re-emerged as the scapegoat for the failing mark, and the brutalising effects of hyperinflation helped undermine the Weimar Republic and lay the foundations for the Third Reich and the rise of Hitler. Click here to order $20

92629 Lubbock, Tom English Graphic Frances Lincoln, London, 2012. Octavo; hardcover; 207pp., with many colour and monochrome illustrations and plates. Dustwrapper. Remainder, new. "English Graphic" is a book of essays on the subject of illustration, with the focus entirely on English artists using graphic media; drawings, prints, and watercolours. The pieces are largely drawn from Tom Lubbock's weekly Great Works column for The Independent, with some longer pieces originally published as reviews or catalogue essays. The historical span of the book is broad - from the Uffington White Horse to the Winchester Psalter Hellmouth to Harry Beck's London Underground Map and beyond. The high point of English graphic art in the late 18th and early 19th century makes up the heart of the book, with Fuseli, Blake, Bewick, and Palmer all the subject of extended essays. The fifty or so images range from the visionary to the empirical, from folk art to caricature. Connecting and overlapping ideas on line and shape run through the book; maps, islands, clouds, swarms, wombs, skins, dots, contours, and boundaries. Energetic, coherent and strange, "English Graphic" presents an electrical storm of ideas and illuminations provocatively argued by one of Britain's most brilliant writers on art. Click here to order $24

217922 McCay, Winsor (ed. Peter Maresca] Little Nemo in Slumberland Splendid Sundays 1905-1910 Sunday Press Books, Palo Alto, 2005. Second printing. Hardback, elephant folio, illustrated boards. Unpaginated, colour illustrations. Some minor wear and scrapes to board edges, lower left corner bumped. Else very good. The largest size reproduction ever issued of McCay's wondrous strip. Click here to order $350

217893 McCay, Winsor (intro. Bill Blackbeard and Woody Gelman) Winsor McCay's Dream Days An Original Compilation: 1904-1914 Hyperion Press, Westport, 1977. Quarto hardcover; red boards with gilt spine titling; 178pp., b&w line drawings. A few tiny scrapes on spine panel, board corners and spine extremities slightly worn. Otherwise very good. No dustwrapper, as issued. Click here to order $25

89698 McDonnell, Patrick, Karen O'Connell & Georgia Riley de Havenon Krazy Kat The Comic Art of George Herriman Harry Abrams, New York NY, 1986. Quarto; paperback; 223pp., with many colour and monochrome illustrations. Mild scuffing and edgewear to the covers. Very good. "Out of a ludicrous triangle - a dogged dog named Offissa B. Pupp loves the cat named Krazy, who, in turn, loves Ignatz, a most unromantic and cynical mouse - Mr. Herriman succeeded in creating an oddly touching love story, as well as an enduring parable about innocence and knowledge, hope and redemption." - Michiko Katatani, The New York Times. The book constitutes an anthology of the strip with an accompanying biography of the artist. It also reprints Gilbert Seldes essay "The Krazy Kat that Walks by Himself", still regarded as the best possible introduction to the subject. Click here to order $22

200414 McLean, Ruari Victorian Book Design and Colour Printing Faber and Faber Ltd., London, 1972. Quarto; hardcover, with gilt spine titling on a pink label and an upper board decoration; 241pp., many colour and monochrome illustrations. Minor wear; some scattered spotting throughout; mildly toned text block edges; previous owner's name in ink. Dustwrapper with wear to spine panel extremities and corners; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $50

69248 [Maira Kalman] Schaffner, Ingrid Maira Kalman Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World) DelMonico Books/Prestel, New York NY, 2010. Quarto, hardcover, with illustrated paper upper board and decorated endpapers; 144pp., with many colour illustrations. Mild wear; bottom corner of upper board bumped. No dustwrapper. Near fine. Click here to order $22

217909 Marschall, Richard (ed.) Daydreams & Nightmares: The Fantastic Visions of Winsor McCay Fantagraphics Books, Westlake Village, 1988. Landscape quarto paperback; 169pp., monochrome illustrations. Minor wear; rubbed covers with edge and corner wear; diagonal crease to rear cover panel. Else very good. Click here to order $25

66416 Martin, Douglas The Telling Line Essays on Fifteen Contemporary Book Illustrators Julia MacRae Books, London, 1989. Quarto; hardcover; 320pp., with many colour and monochrome illustrations. Minor wear; board edges and corners lightly worn. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good to near fine. A comprehensive assessment of fifteen leading children's book illustrators, considering them first and foremost as artists and discussing all aspects of their work and its place in the development of contemporary illustration. Accompanied by a generous selection of each illustrator's work, including several unpublished examples. The artists are Charles Keeping, Faith Jacques, Victor Ambrus, Nigel Lambourne, Brian Wildsmith, Shirley Hughes, Raymond Briggs, Helen Oxenbury, John Burmingham, Jan Pienkowski, John Lawrence, Janet and Allan Ahlberg, Quentin Blake, Anthony Browne and Michael Foreman. Click here to order $50

211146 [Maurice Sendak] Maguire, Gregory Making Mischief A Maurice Sendak Appreciation William Morrow/HarperCollins Publishers Inc., New York NY, 2009. Quarto; hardcover; 200pp., with many colour illustrations. Mild wear; text block edges lightly toned. Dustwrapper lightly rubbed and edgeworn; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. In "Making Mischief", Gregory Maguire reconsiders Maurice Sendak's oeuvre with the same adroit and idiosyncratic scrutiny that allowed him to see a heroine in the Wicked Witch of the West and add a charming dimension to the story of the Little Match Girl. An accomplished critic, Maguire examines Sendak's aesthetic influences from William Blake to Walt Disney, revealing the "conversations" that artists have with one another. He also explores Sendak's use of recurring motifs as well as his profound understanding of children, their creativity, and the breadth of emotions with which they encounter the world. With hundreds of beautifully reproduced illustrations from Sendak's catalogue. Click here to order $25

95283 Miyazaki, Hayao (Yuji Oniki, trans.; Eric Searleman, et al., eds) The Art of Porco Rosso A Film by Hayao Miyazaki Seiji Horibuchi/VIZ LLC., San Francisco CA, 2005 Quarto; hardcover, with illustrated upper board; 208pp., with many colour and monochrome illustrations. Minor wear. No dustwrapper as issued. Very good to near fine. Click here to order $45

50824 Muir, Percy Victorian Illustrated Books Portman Press, London, 1989 . Hardcover, small quarto, xv + 287pp. This edition contains a number of minor revisions. Beautifully illustrated in both black and white and colour. Faint spotting to upper text block edge. Very good in like dustwrapper, spine panel a little sunned (now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film). In the field of book illustration, as elsewhere the fertility, technical virtuosity, and, not infrequently, the aesthetic excellence of the Victorian era reached standards that neither preceding nor succeeding ages have surpassed. There are certain authors and illustrators whose names will always be associated with the period: for example, Dickens and Cruikshank, Lewis Carroll and Tenniel, Leech and Surtees, the writers and illustrators for Punch. Others, such as Bewick, Turner, Caldecott, Kate Greenaway, Beardsley and Phil May, seem to exist independently of any particular writer. The author chronicles these artists and their work. Click here to order $35

9302 [not credited] Sixpenny Wonderfuls 6d Gems from the Past Chatto & Windus, London, 1985. Hardcover, quarto, 69pp., numerous colour illustrations. Upper text block edges spotted; illustrated boards a little sunned; no dustwrapper. Otherwise near fine in decorated boards. "... she had been brought up to believe that to read a novel before luncheon was one of the gravest sins a gentlewoman could commit..." At the turn of the century series such as Chatto & Windus' sixpenny novels were reaching an ever-widening public and their covers were designed to intrigue, to persuade and to entice the reader into committing - repeatedly! - just that sin. Click here to order $15

88722 [Orlando Jewitt] Broomhead, Frank The Book Illustrations of Orlando Jewitt Private Libraries Association, Middlesex UK, 1995. Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titling; 256pp., with many monochrome illustrations. Minor wear; faint spotting to upper text block edges. No dustwrapper as issued. Near fine. Limited edition of 1250 copies (250 not for sale). Click here to order $45

210774 Ouellette, William, & Barbara Jones Erotic Postcards Excalibur Books, New York NY, 1977. Quarto; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 127pp., with many colour and monochrome illustrations. Mild wear; mild scuffing to the boards; text lock edges lightly toned; some light foxing to the preliminaries. Dustwrapper is lightly rubbed and edgeworn; mild chipping to the flap-turns. Very good. Click here to order $30

87561 Ouellette, William (intro. Barbara Jones) Fantasy Postcards Doubleday, New York NY, nd [1975]. Landscape quarto; paperback, with illustrated wrappers; 96pp., with many monochrome and full-colour illustrations. Light foxing to preliminaries; previous owner's ink inscription to the half-title; wrappers worn and curling with some creasing, and the lacquer lifting along the hinges. Good. In this extraordinary album of postcards dating from the late Belle Epoque through the Great War, William Ouellette has chosen from his own collection rare marvels of the fanciful, the erotic and the bizarre. Among the more than 250 postcards reproduced in colour and in black and white are dreamlike images the likes of which later influenced the Surrealists, fantasies created by the sender, and serious, straightforward documents which reveal today layers of meaning not intended or recognised in their time. The author's witty juxtapositions and notes reveal an artist's insight into this new point of view, whereby the accidental, the ambiguous and the illogical stimulate a modern fantasy interpretation of past reality. Fantasy Postcards is both a revelation of the boundless imagination of the anonymous popular artist, and a guide to the delightful possibilities of reverie, encouraging us to discover, believe and enjoy fantasies of our own creation. Click here to order $23

217957 Phillips, Tom The Postcard Century: 2000 Cards and Their Messages Thames & Hudson, London, 2000. Quarto gatefold paperback; 452pp., colour illustrations. Very minor wear only; near fine. 'Wish You Were There? This book is an encyclopaedic, evocative and exuberant portrait of the 20th century through 2,000 postcards and their messages. It's the work not of a pop sociologist or nostalgia-peddler but of an artist, Tom Phillips, one of our most polymathic painters and a maker of beautiful and teasing books. It belongs to the category of millennial publications, but it has infinitely more layers and dimensions than the big photographic anthologies. Phillips has scrutinised and transcribed the scribbled messages of countless correspondents; his book is not just a graphic catalogue of popular icons but a democratic chorus of ordinary voices, a sounding board of the people. The brevity and impulsiveness of postcard messages, he notes, encouraged people who might have been daunted by the conventions of letter-writing. This vernacular intimacy gives the book a great humanity.' - Michael Kustow Click here to order $50

35338 [Ralph Steadman] Steadman, Ralph The Big I Am Jonathan Cape Ltd., London, 1988. First edition: square quarto; hardcover, with gilt spine titling; unpaginated, with many colour and monochrome illustrations. Minor wear. Mildly scuffed dustwrapper with wear at spine panel extremities; some minor moisture damage; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $35

201051 [Ralph Steadman] Steadman, Ralph Near the Bone Arrow Books Ltd./Random Century Group, London, 1990. First edition. Quarto; paperback; unpaginated (128pp.), with many monochrome illustrations. Mild wear; covers rubbed and edgeworn. Very good. Click here to order $18

81355 [Ralph Steadman] Steadman, Ralph Paranoids George G. Harrap Ltd., London, 1986. First edition: quarto; paperback; 128pp., with many colour illustrations. Minor wear; light scuffing and creasing to covers; scraping and wear to edges with frayed corners; offsetting to first two pages and small mark to the half-title page. Very good. Click here to order $20

32483 [Ralph Steadman] Steadman, Ralph Sigmund Freud Paddington Press, 1979. First edition. Hardcover square quarto; olive boards with dark red spine titling; illustrated endpapers; 118pp., monochrome illustrations throughout. Owner's name. Lightly browned text block edges with a few spots; a couple of page corners creased; two small tears to upper front dustwrapper edge and small missing segment, with creasing on lower front edge; tiny missing segments at spine extremities. Very good to near fine and protected in archival film with white paper backing. Bursting defiantly and gleefully beyond the bounds of orthodox biography, Ralph Steadman's "Sigmund Freud" is an unparalleled artistic voyage into the realms of fantasy inspired by the everyday reality of a life of genius. Taking his lead from the actual facts of Freud's life - but bending, stretching and speculating, often uproariously, at every step of the way - Steadman highlights the movement of Freud's career, from early childhood and his years of "Splendid Isolation" culminating in "The Interpretation of Dreams" right up to the moment of his death. The unique twist is that, through a masterful interplay of text and illustration, each and every scene is transformed into a 'joking situation', which in turn is hilariously probed and analyzed by Steadman in terms of the joking techniques discussed by Freud himself in his "Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious". The result is a fantastic Freudian festival, full of visual and verbal puns, unexpected insights and sheer intellectual enjoyment. But beneath the joking - beneath the Freudian slips and the brilliantly executed comic visions of Freud in the army and at the barber's, writing love letters and telling off-colour jokes - there is something much more fundamental and poignant struggling to rise to the surface: a desire to break through the layers of academic pretension and pomposity in which Freud and his works are so often surrounded; a desire, ultimately, to show Freud, the frustrated, sex-obsessed tyrant, as Freud the man - laughing, loving, doubting, suffering. Click here to order $35

94248 Rawls, Walton (ed.) (Preface by Robert E. Abrams; Introduction by John Canemaker) Treasures of Disney Animation Art Abbeville Press Publishers; New York NY, 1982. First edition, third printing: landscape folio; hardcover, with gilt spine titles and blind-stamped upper board decoration; 319pp., with many monochrome and colour illustrations. Minor wear. Dustwrapper mildly rubbed; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Near fine. "Disney and his artists created. They incessantly criticized, analyzed, and strove for an even greater illusion of life. They entertained us and made us believe. In the final analysis, the Disney artists showed us what one young animator at the Studios succinctly pointed out - 'the real art in animation lies in what occurs between the drawings'. It was the consummate skill and dedication, the artistry and apparent ease with which the Disney artists' work invited our emotions and imaginations to leap into this gap between the frames that argued so strongly for this work to be seen in the light of this artistry. This book, then is an unabashed homage to these treasures of Disney animation art." - Robert E. Adams. Click here to order $75

214648 Schenk de Regniers, Beatrice (Edward Gorey, illus.) Red Riding Hood Retold in Verse William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., London, 1973. First UK edition: square octavo; hardcover, with illustrated boards; 43pp., with many monochrome illustrations. Moderate wear; rolled; boards sunned and spine extremities softened; text block edges toned; heavy offset to the endpapers; scattered foxing to the preliminaries; a heavy stain and offset to the title page where flowers were pressed. Price-clipped dustwrapper is rubbed and edgeworn with sunning; chipping to the spine panel extremities and flap-turns; flaps spotted; now backed by archival-quality white paper and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Good. Click here to order $35

90400 Thomas, Roy Wonder Woman The War Years: 1941-1945 Chartwell Books, New York NY, 2015. Quarto; hardcover; 302pp. Dustwrapper. Remainder. New. Click here to order $35

78429 Vassos, John Phobia An Art Deco Graphic Masterpiece Dover, New York, 2009. Quarto; paperback; 90pp., monochrome illustrations. Remainder. New. A leader in promoting the Art Deco style in advertising art and book illustration, John Vassos undertook his most personal and ambitious work in this 1931 volume. Its twenty-four gripping images represent visceral depictions of common fears - the dread of heights, open and enclosed spaces, the dark, and the menace lurking behind other everyday situations. Doctors and the general public alike hailed Phobia as a masterpiece of psychological insight. Click here to order $15

201826 Watterson, Bill The Complete Calvin and Hobbes - Three slipcased volumes Andrews McMeel Publishing/Andrews McMeel Universal Company, Kansas City MO, 2006. Reprint, three volumes: landscape quarto; hardcover, quarter-bound in cloth with decorated boards, gilt spine titles and decorative endpapers; 1,454pp. [492pp. + 480pp. + 482pp.], with many monochrome and colour illustrations. Mild wear; corners bumped and boards very lightly rubbed. No dustwrappers as issued. Decorative slipcase is rubbed and mildly scuffed with corner-bumping and wear to the cloth. Very good to near fine. Click here to order $350

86963 Weitzmann, Kurt Illustrations in Roll and Codex A Study of the Origin and Method of Text Illustration Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, 1970. Second printing with Addenda: quarto; hardcover, with gilt upper board and spine titling; 261pp., with 56 monochrome plates. Minor wear; spotting to text block edges. Dustwrapper missing small segments on spine panel extremities and upper rear edge; some rubbing and a few marks to the spine panel; now backed by archival-quality whoite paper and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good to near fine. Kurt Weitzmann's book presents a fresh approach to the whole complex of early book illumination. Therefore, the importance of his study cannot be too strongly emphasized. Future research is bound to benefit greatly from it for a variety of reasons. To begin with, Weitzmann is the first to discuss in a systematic and comprehensive manner 'the problem of how miniature and text are related to each other in principle'. By solving essential questions or suggesting possible solutions for them, he opens new vistas to the student of early book illumination. He formulates new terms, which in the precision of their meaning should prove very fruitful tools for an analysis of illustration methods. He also revitalizes ideas of great nineteenth century scholars by carefully scrutinizing their theories. Click here to order $60

92496 Whalley, Joyce Irene & Tessa Rose Chester A History of Children's Book Illustration John Murray, London, 1988. Small quarto hardcover; blue boards with gilt spine titling; 268pp., colour and monochrome illustrations. Minor wear; offsetting to endpapers; foxing to prelims and title page and dustwrapper spine slightly faded. Very good to near fine otherwise and wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Click here to order $40

78467 [Winsor McCay] McCay, Winsor Dream of the Rarebit Fiend The Saturdays Checker Book Publishing, New York, 2007. Quarto; oblong paperback; 189pp., monochrome illustrations. Remainder. New. Click here to order $20

92585 [Winsor McCay] Roeder, Katherine Wide Awake in Slumberland Fantasy, Mass Culture, and Modernism in the Art of Winsor McCay University Press of Mississippi, Jackson MI, 2014. Quarto; hardcover; 221pp., with many colour illustrations. Dustwrapper. Remainder. New. " 'The High Sign,' a silent Buster Keaton movie, opens with the great comic sitting down on a park bench with a newspaper. He unfolds it, notices it has to be unfolded again, and once more after that, then again, on and on, the newspaper expanding in his hands until it's as big as a bedsheet and he can't give it full play without climbing up on the bench. This gag is even more outlandish today than it was in 1921 because in the interim, newspapers have shrunk. Broadsheets were indeed broad then [and]... Few artists took better advantage of that spaciousness than Winsor McCay, creator of 'Dream of the Rarebit Fiend' and 'Little Nemo in Slumberland,' who usually had an entire page to sprawl across. For both strips, the basic framework was the same: the title character falls asleep, and their dreams become so wild, ornate, architecturally complex and downright thrilling that they practically engulf the reader. McCay's playfulness suggested that he had kept a direct channel open to his childhood imagination. And as Katherine Roeder points out in her introduction to this generously illustrated study, 'He experimented with the comic strip medium from the very beginning by dismantling conventions and exploring new points of view.' At the end of every Nemo episode, the boy dreamer was awakened and jerked back into reality: a sometimes rude ending to an adventure that might have taken him - and readers - to a palace with a vast interior framed by monstrous pillars, or might have landed him in the seat of a chariot pulled by gigantic peacocks, or plopped him on a bed whose posts grew into long, gangly legs that taxied him all over the city. In this joyful book, the Rarebit Fiends and Little Nemo sleep and dream again." - Dennis Drabelle Click here to order $45

207252 Zipes, Jack (Foreword by Marina Warner) Tales of Wonder Retelling Fairy Tales through Picture Postcards University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis MN, 2017. Quarto; hardcover, full-cloth with gilt spine titles; 226pp, with many colour and monochrome illustrations. Minor wear. Dustwrapper mildly edgeworn. Near fine. The most familiar fairy tales call to mind certain images: Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, Snow White, Cinderella, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty. Yet these visions often merely reflect illustrations encountered in classic tellings of the tales. The postcards gathered here by one of the world's foremost scholars of folk and fairy tales tell another story - of the remarkable range of interpretations and reimaginings these tales have inspired, captured, and conveyed picture by picture in this singular form. A pictorial history of fairy-tale postcards from the late nineteenth century to the present, Tales of Wonder presents a fascinating look at how key scenes of fairy tales have been rendered over time, suggesting a rethinking and reliving of the tales through the years. Drawn from the author's collection of more than three thousand fairy-tale postcards from around the world, these five hundred beautiful illustrations reproduce oil paintings, watercolours, photographs, ink drawings, and silhouettes - all evincing the myriad ways popular artists and their audiences have reimagined these tales. After an introduction and general history of fairy tales in postcards, the book features Jack Zipes's own translations of the most classical fairy tales in Europe and the United States, including versions by Charles Perrault and by Brothers Grimm. The fairy tale is not just once upon a time: it is, as fairy-tale postcard, a particular if not peculiar expression of a time, created by talented artists and innovative publishing companies. Tales of Wonder tells this intriguing history of the postcards as well as providing new perspectives on familiar stories. Click here to order $32