Beauty and the Beast; Or a Rough Outside with a Gentle Heart. by Charles Lamb

New York: Random House, 1929. FIRST LIMITED EDITION / SIGNED Small 8vo, 7 1/4 x5 inches (180 x128 mm), 80 pp. Printed on special Japan paper, each sheet French-folded. Blue cloth bi...

London: Faber & Gwyer Ltd., 1927. First Edition. 12mo, 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 (183 x 120 mm). Cover title, 4 pp, including one color illustration by E. McKnight Kauffer. Stab-stitched yello...

A RARE Caledonian Theatre pamphlet, with witty satirical color plates in the Cruikshank style. Tom, Jerry, and Logic or Life in London: A Musical Extravagan...

A rare first edition, with near-fine dust jacket of the children's classic. Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows; with a frontispiece by Graham Robertson. London: Methuen and Co., 1908. First Edition. 8vo. 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. (190 x 120 mm). pp. [1] + viii + 302 + i. Laid paper, deckle edges, t.e.g. With a captioned frontispieces, "And a River went out of Eden", on coated paper after a pen-and-ink drawing by Walford Graham Robertson (1866 – 1948); tissue guard. Original blue-green cloth with gilt illustration on the spine (Toad dressed in a driving outfit and goggles) and upper cover ( Pan playing flute to Rat and Mole by the river) and a single gilt rule on the upper cover. In the second issue publisher's pictorial peach-color dust jacket printed in black with price of 7/6 instead of 6/-.The spine of the dust jacket slightly darkened but in excellent condition with a couple small tears at head expertly repaired on verso; scattered foxing and discoloration to dust jacket and pages, wear to spine edges consistent with age. [Grolier: One Hundred Books Famous in Children's Literature, no.61; Osborne I, p. 349; Hunt p. 45 & 66; Hahn, D. Oxford Companion to Children's Literature, p. 241-242] Condition: Near fine in Near fine dust-jacket. This is the FIRST EDITION with a SCARCE DUST JACKET of one of the essential classics of children's literature. The book is based on bedtime stories that the Scottish-born banker and author Kenneth Grahame...

American Beauties, Women in Art and Literature, edited by Charles Sullivan. Hardcover book with dustjacket. First edition published in 1993 by Harry N...

Original Italian lobby card from the Classic 1946 fantasy film. The film had it's first Italian release one year later in 1947. Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve's novel, La Belle et la Bête...

AUTHOR: LAMB, Charles. TITLE: Elia. Essays Which Have Appeared Under That Signature In The London Magazine. PUBLISHER: London: for Taylor and Hessey, 1823. DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDI...

AUTHOR: LAMB, Charles and Mary (Arthur Rackham). TITLE: Tales From Shakespeare. PUBLISHER: London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1909. DESCRIPTION: LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY RACKHAM. 1 vols....