The MFLIBRA Reference Archive
This archive preserves a selection of rare and antiquarian books previously handled by MFLIBRA over the years. Though these volumes have found new homes, their bibliographical record remains part of the continuing history of the book.
1930 Rare Book - Raggedy Ann and Andy and the Camel with the Wrinkled Knees
Author: Johnny Gruelle. Illustrated by Johnny Gruelle.Title: Raggedy Ann and Andy and the Camel with the Wrinkled Knees.Publisher: Joliet, Illinois...
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1967 Second edition, second printing - The Lord of The Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien.Title: The Lord of the Rings. (The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King). Publisher: London, Geo...
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1926 Rare Book - Grimm's Fairy Tales Selected and Illustrated by Elenore Abbott
Author: Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm.Title: Grimm’s Fairy Tales.Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1944.Language: Text in English.Size:...
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1874 Rare Book bound by Zaehnsdorf - Maud, and Other Poems by Alfred Tennyson
Author: Alfred Tennyson.Title: Maud, and Other Poems.Publisher: London, Henry S. King and Co., 65 Cornhill and 12 Paternoster Row, 1874.Language: T...
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1920 Rare Book - The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle.Title: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.Publisher: New York & Chicago, A. L. Burt Company, ca. 1920.Language: Text in E...
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1912 First Edition - Chronicles of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Author: L. M. Montgomery.Title: Chronicles of Avonlea.Publisher: Boston, L. C. Page & Company, June 1912 (First Edition, first printing).Langua...
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1887 Rare Book - Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, writing as Ellis Bell
Author: Emily Brontë, writing as Ellis Bell; and Anne Brontë, writing as Acton Bell. With a biographical notice by Charlotte Brontë (Currer Bell).T...
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1860 Rare book - The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Illustrated
Author: Edgar Allan Poe.Title: The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe.Publisher: London, J. & C. Brown and Co., Ave Maria Lane, [circa early 186...
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1915 Rare Psychoanalysis Book - The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
Author: Sigmund Freud. Translated with introduction by A. A. Brill.Title: The Interpretation of Dreams.Publisher: London, George Allen & Unwin,...
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1878 Rare Victorian Book - The Mine, or Darkness and Light by A.L.O.E.
Author: A.L.O.E. (a Lady of England)- Charlotte Maria Tucker.Title: The Mine, or Darkness and Light.Publisher: London, Thomas Nelson and Sons, ...
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1900 Rare Book bound by Bayntun - The Phaedrus, Lysis, and Protagoras of Plato
Author: Plato. Translated by J. Wright.Title: The Phaedrus, Lysis, and Protagoras of Plato.Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1900.Lang...
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1914 Rare First Edition - A Year with the Fairies illustrated by Marion T. Ross
Author: Anna M. Scott. Illustrated by Marion T. Ross.Title: A YEAR WITH THE FAIRIES. Publisher: Chicago, P.F. Volland & Co., 1914. Firs...
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1886 Scarce First Henry Sandham Illustrated Edition - Lenore by Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Edgar Allan Poe. Illustrated by H. Sandham.Title: Lenore.Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat, 1886. First Henry Sandham Illustrated Editio...
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1919 Jessie Willcox Smith First Edition - At The Back of the North Wind
Author: George MacDonald. (Jessie Willcox Smith, illustrator).Title: At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald. Illustrated by Jessie Wil...
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1927 First Edmund Dulac Illustrated Edition - Treasure Island by Louis Stevenson
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac.Title: Treasure Island.Publisher: London, Ernest Benn Limited, 1927. First Edmund Dulac...
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1858 Rare Book - Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Poetical Works of John Milton
Author: John Milton. Illustrated by William Harvey.Title: The Poetical Works of John Milton.Publisher: London, George Routledge and Co., 1858.Langu...
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1864 Rare book- The Snow-Image, A Childish Miracle by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne.Illustrations: Illustrated by Marcus Waterman. Title: The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle.Publisher: New York: James G. ...
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1880 Scarce First US Edition - William HAUFF'S Fairy Tales, Illustrated
Author: William Hauff. (Percy Pinkerton, translator).Title: Hauff's Fairy Tales: Translated from the German by Percy Pinkerton. Illustrated. Publ...
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1911 Rare First Edition - Andersen's Nightingale Illustrated By Edmund Dulac
Author: Hans Christian Andersen. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Title: The Nightingale and Other Stories. Publisher: New York and London, Hodder and ...
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1888 Rare Victorian Book set - Victor Hugo's Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Gothic
Author: Victor Hugo. Illustrated by Luc-Olivier Merson and A. de Lemud.Title: Notre-Dame de Paris.Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 18...
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1890 Rare French Book - One Thousand and One Nights, Les Mille et une Nuits
Author: Anonymous. Adaptation by Paul de Maurelly. Illustrated by H. Grobet.Title: Les Mille et Une Nuits. Contes Arabes choisis pour la jeunesse.P...
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1901 Rare Book- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen and Hugh Thomson
Author: Jane Austen. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.Title: Sense and Sensibility.Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co., Limited; New York, The Macmilla...
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1875 First English Edition - The English at the North Pole by Jules Verne
Author: Jules Verne. Illustrated by Édouard Riou.Title: The English at the North Pole.Publisher: London and New York, George Routledge and Sons, 18...
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1925 First Edition - Old Swedish Fairy Tales Illustrated by Jeannette Berkowitz
Author: Anna Wahlenberg. Illustrated by Jeannette Berkowitz.Title: Old Swedish Fairy Tales.Publisher: Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Company, 19...
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2018 Scarce Triptych - Splendid Crow Field Guide to Decent Humans by van Sandwyk
Author: Charles van Sandwyk.Title: Splendid Crow: Life is Art; Art is Life (also known as A Field Guide to Decent Humans).Publisher: North Vancouve...
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1897 First Edition bound by Asprey - Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
Author: Rudyard Kipling. Illustrated by I. W. Taber.Title: Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks.Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co., Li...
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1950 First Edition - Fairies of the Flowers and Trees by Cicely Mary Barker
Author: Cicely Mary Barker. Illustrated by Cicely Mary Barker.Title: Fairies of the Flowers and Trees: Poems and Pictures by Cicely Mary Barker.Pub...
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1962 Tasha Tudor First Illustrated Edition - The Secret Garden by F. H. Burnett
Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett. Illustrated by Tasha Tudor.Title: The Secret Garden.Publisher: Philadelphia and New York, J. B. Lippincott Company...
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1931 Rare Book in Dust Jacket - Moby Dick Illustrated by Anton Otto Fischer
Author: Herman Melville. Illustrated by Anton Otto Fischer.Title: Moby Dick; or, The White Whale.Publisher: Chicago, Philadelphia & Toronto, Th...
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1935 Rare First Edition - Andersen Fairy Tales Illustrated by Rex Whistler
Author: Hans Christian Andersen. Illustrated by Rex Whistler.Title: Fairy Tales and Legends by Hans Andersen.Publisher: London, Cobden-Sanderson Lt...
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2021 Rare book - Animal Wisdom written and illustrated by Charles van Sandwyk
Author: Charles van Sandwyk. Title: Animal Wisdom.Language: Text in English.Publisher: North Vancouver, B.C., Charles van Sandwyk Fine Arts, 2021. ...
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1896 Rare First Edition - The Were-Wolf by Clemence Housman. Illustrated
Author: Clemence Housman. Illustrated by Laurence Housman.Title: The Were-Wolf.Publisher: London: John Lane at the Bodley Head; Chicago: Way and Wi...
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1859 Rare Book - The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper, Illustrated
Author: William Cowper. With a memoir by Rev. H. Stebbing, A.M.Title: The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq., including the Hymns and ...
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2002 Scarce Signed First Edition - The Meaning of Mice by Charles van Sandwyk
Author: Charles van Sandwyk. Title: The Painter Mouse Presents the Meaning of Mice (translated for humans by Charles van Sandwyk). Publisher: North...
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1893 Rare Book Set - The Earthly Paradise, a poem by William Morris
Author: William Morris.Title: The Earthly Paradise. A Poem.Publisher: Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1893. Complete set of 3 volumes.Language: Text in E...
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1888 Scarce Deluxe Edition - Walden; A Week on the Concord; Essays of Thoreau
Author: Henry David Thoreau. Edited by Will H. Dircks.Title: Walden; A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers; Essays and Other Writings.Publisher...
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