Rare, Special and Old Books

These are some of the older or rarer books that we have. These are not for sale. Let me know if you’d like me to look up something for you.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

William Shakespeare

Leather-look boxed hardcover

Illustrated by Charles Vess

Published by Donning, August 1988; 1^st printing

Limited Edition signed and numbered 58/1000

Purchased in London, UK. This is a beautiful book, to handle, to read and to view. This was my first purchase of a Vess-illustrated book. I found it purely by chance in a comic shop, high on a dusty shelf at the back of the store.

In 1999, Bud Plant was offering to pay $50 to purchase it.

In 2002, I saw an unsigned copy for sale on Amazon.com at $75.

in 2004, I saw a 1^st edition softcover selling for over $110.

A Reverence for Wood

Eric Sloane

Hardcover

Published by Funk & Wagnals, 1965; 1^st printing

Aesop’s Fables with proverbs and applications

Hardcover

Illustrated by ?

Published by Bliss, Sands & Co, 1847

The Amazing Spiderman: Spirits of the Earth

Charles Vess

Hardcover w/dust jacket

Illustrated by Charles Vess

Published by Marvel Comics, 1990; 1^st printing

The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri

Hardcover w/dust jacket

Translated by Lawrence Grant White

Illustrated by Gustave Dore

Published by Pantheon, 1948; 1^st printing

This is a nice old book; dimensions are 8 ½ x 11.

8/2004 – This edition is selling for $25 on the internet.

Dutton’s Holiday Annual

Hardcover

Edited by C. T. L’Estrange

Published by E. P. Dutton, 1893

This was my Grandfather’s book, given to me by my parents.

Eric Sloane’s Americana

Eric Sloane

Boxed set of three hardcovers

- American Barns and Covered Bridges, 1954

- Our Vanishing Landscape, 1955

- American Yesterday, 1956

Published by Funk & Wagnalls, 1956; 1^st printing

I bought this at a yard sale in Brewster, NY, for I think $5.

8/2004, 1956 HC of American Yesterday selling for $10 on internet.

Fabre’s Book of Insects

Fabre

Hardcover (no slipcase)

Illustrated by E. J. Detmold

Published by Tudor, New York, 1935

New Edition (first printing)

Copyright 1921.

This was my grandfather’s book, given to me by my father December, 2007.

In the back is a stamp from Ridge Bookshop, Glens Falls (NY).

It’s in fair condition. Internet prices (1/2008) range from $45 to $400.

Gaelic-English Dictionary

Maceachen

Hardcover

4^th edition

Published by Northern Chronicle, 1922

The Giant Nursery Book

Hardcover

Illustrated by Tony Palazzo

Published by Garden City Books, 1957; 1^st printing

I read this often growing up. After many years, I pulled it out to read stories to my children. I immediately recognized nearly every picture in the book.

History of New Paltz and Its Old Families

Ralph LeFevre

Hardcover

1^st Edition

Published by Fort Orange Press, 1903

This is great, but note the 2^nd edition includes a 200-odd page appendix with much additional information on Ulster County families. I bought the book on e-bay. The pages have separated from the binding, but they’re all together. And I bought it for reading, not looks.

1/5/2004 – a very good condition 1^st edition went for $150 on e-bay.

The Hobbit

J.R.R. Tolkien

Leathered, boxed hardcover

Published by Haughton Mifflin; 1993?

The Life of Christ Visualized

Set of Three comic books; Books one, two and three in the ‘Bible Visualized” series

Published by The Standard Publishing Company, Cincinnati, OH, 1942, 1943

Numbers 1051, 1052 and 1053

These were my mothers’. She has signed them on the top “Anita Zneimer”

8/2004: Book One is selling for $6.50-$14.25 on the internet; the three book set sells for $25.00. At biblio.com.

Mother Goose Rhymes

Edited by Watty Piper

Hardcover

Illustrated by Margot Austin

Published by The Platt & Munk Co., 1940

8/2004 – a similar printing of this book was selling for $25 on the internet.

Picture Book of Mother Goose

Berta and Elmer Hader

Hardcover

Published by Coward-McCann, 1930, 1944; 5^th printing

Stardust

Neil Gaimen

Hardcover

Illustrated by Charles Vess

Published by Vertigo/DC Comics, c1998; 1^st printing

Tales from the Shawangunk Mountains

Marc B. Fried

Hardcover

Published by Adirondack Mountain Club, Inc., Glens Falls, NY, c 1981

Printed by W.F. Humphrey Press, Inc., Geneva, NY; 1^st printing

Signed by Marc Fried July 28, 1982.

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Edward R. Tufte

Hardcover w/dust jacket

Published by Graphics Press, 1983; 7^th printing, December, 1986

This is an impressive book on how to present data in graphical form. It includes a great graphic of Napoleon’s army disintegrating in Russia (p. 41). I got a print of this graphic, and now my dad has it hanging in his living room.

Chris Jamison 2004-2007 Take me Home

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