New York: Grove Press. 1988. 8vo. Softcover. 304 pp. Second printing of first Evergreen edition. Signed by the author to the front free endpage. Light wear to cover, overall in fine condition. Read More...
London: Ward, Lock and Tyler [Endmund Evans, Engraver and Printer]. 1865. First Edition. Quarto. (9.44 x 7.19 inches; 240 x 183 mm). Unpaginated, 10 leaves. Six full-page color illustrations by Walter Crane and engraved by Edmund Evans. Color illustrated paper wrappers. Rebacked, with skillful archival repairs to corners and various tears, else fine. Considered to be one of the first toy books ever printed, the extremely scarce first of three "Painted Toy-Books" designed by Walter Crane, issued as part of the "New Shilling Series" in Fall 1865. Read More...
Original Elliott and Fry of London cabinet card photograph of the poet, author of the Christmas carols "In the Bleak Midwinter" and "Love Came Down at Christmas." Trimmed along the lower mount, studio numbering in ink to upper right cover of mount and numerous stamps and notations to verso, overall in fine condition. 4.125 x 5.875 inches (10.5 x 14.9 cm.).
Original photograph of the important Irish novelist and playwright, who has signed and inscribed in black ink to the lower mount, "Für Dr. Renate Jacobi / mit allerbesten Wünschen, Berlin September 1971". The photographer is unidentified. Dedication a shade light, overall in fine condition. 8.25 x 11.75 inches [21 x 29 cm] and set in a simple white wooden frame. Read More...