![Item #686 Ricordo di Siracusa; Memory of Syracuse [Sicily]. Anonymous](https://slhbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/686.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1578346896)
Roma: Antonino Greco tu Carmelo, No date [c. 1900]. Wraps. 18mo; unpaginated [24pp]; photographic illustrations with guard sheets; tan paper wrapper with stamped gilt design and title on cover; light age toning of paper, stain to last illustration, recto and verso and to back wrapper; very good. Scarce, only one..... More
[New York]: McLoughlin Bros. Publisher, 30 Beekman [Street], No date [c. 1863-1869]. Wraps. 12mo; [7pp]; yellow pictorial wrapper relief printed in red and navy, rear wrapper publisher’s ads for Paper Dolls—Book Form and Paper Furniture; publisher’s string binding; ownership in pencil on verso front wrapper; color pictorial title page; color..... More
Waterville, Maine: W. M. Ladd Company, Printers, No date [1902]. Stiff wraps. 12mo; [1-2] 3-36; light brown stiff wrapper with black title printed on front; 2 staple binding; black and white photographic illustrations; some printing ink smears, rusting of the staples with some staining; near fine. Four copies located in..... More
Mt. Vernon, New York: Peter Pauper Press, 1958. Ruth McCREA. Boards. First edition. 12mo; 62pp; illustrated paper over board with title and publisher in front cover cartouche, title on spine; illustrated throughout text in black and green; clipped dust jacket; light soiling to dj, light bumping to cover corners; very..... More
No place listed: No publisher listed, No date [c. 1889]. [EPHEMERA] [POETRY] [VICTORIAN GIFT BOOK] [LOVE TOKEN]. [ANONYMOUS]. 7 ¼” x 8 7/8”; [5] leaves; stiff board with a calendar style easel backing, easel back has pencil inscription “From Samuel Danforth 1889”; 3” x 3 ¾” booklet bound with a...... More
New York: Samuel S. & William Wood, No. 261 Pearl-Street, 1842. Wraps. 4 ½” x 3 ½”; 24pp; yellow paper wrapper with wood-cut decoration of a paddle-wheeler on the front and a listing of other publisher’s School Books to rear; string binding; wood-cut decoration to title page; all text within..... More
New York: McLoughlin Bros. No date [c. 1875]. [JUVENILE] [ABECEDARIAN] [RHYMING VERSE] [ILLUSTRATED]. Small 4to; [12]pp; stiff yellow pictorial wrapper with the title printed in red on the front and a color vignette of a woman sewing while a young child looks on with an open ABC book; ownership in..... More
New York: McLoughlin Bro's. 1891. First Edition. Boards. [PICTURE BOOK]. First edition. 4to (12 ½” x 10”); 120pp; glazed color pictorial boards, red cloth shelf-back; b&w vignette two lions on the title page; 52 full-page lithographed illustrations with titles, other illustrations in text; scuffing to edges, corners bumped with loss..... More
New York: Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Company, No date [c. 1930s]. Staplebound. 8vo; [10pp]; 2 staple binding; color illustrated wraps and illustrations every page with text; light soiling; very good plus. More
New York and London: Thos.Nelson & Sons and S.W. Partridge & Co., No date [c. 1882]. Wraps. New York: Thos. Nelson & Sons, 42, Bleeker Street, and London: S.W. Partridge & Co., 9, Paternoster Row 48mo (3 11/16” x 2 7/8”); [22]pp; stiff color pictorial wrapper, title on front, series..... More
Chicago: Woman's World Magazine Co., Inc., 1923. First Edition. Stiff wraps. First edition. 4to; 46pp; stiff black illustrated wrappers with color printed title and picture of two girls baking; illustrated; original loop for hanging attached; light crease to bottom corner front cover, light age toning of paper; near fine. This..... More
Leonminster, [England]: Orphans' Printing Press, No date [c.1873]. String. 32mo (4 1/16” x 2 11/16”); yellow glazed wrapper, string binding, front printed with vignette of a dove caring a small branch (olive branch?) in his beak, rear wrapper a poem; light pencil marks to front wrapper; near fine. Not held..... More
Glasgow: John S. Marr & Sons, 194 Buchanan St. 1878. [JUVENILE]. 24mo (5 15/16” x 4 1/8”); 64pp +16pp publisher’s ads; decoratively embossed maroon cloth over board, chromolithograph pictorial onlay to front board, blind-stamped decoration to rear; yellow glazed eps; color fp; title page has decorative font; head and tail-pieces;..... More
Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Co., 1940. Staplebound. Folio; [18pp]; full color illustrated textured paper wrapper with three staple binding; full page color illustrations and in text; light scuffing to wrapper, a few smudges; very good. More
Kenosha, Wisconsin: Abbott Publishing Co., No date [c. 1940s]. Winifred PLENINGER. Boards. A Pull-Toy Book. 8vo; [16pp]; color illustrated card stock train engine shaped wrapper with hinge that expands so the wrapper stands; color illustrated with text below; creases to wrapper, light soiling, light age toning to paper; very good..... More
[Cincinnati, Ohio]: [1915]. Boards. [SCRAPBOOK]. 8vo (9½” x 6½”); [34 unnumbered leaves]; three-quarters green calf; blind-stamped “Scrap Book” and hubs on spine; marbled boards; sewn-in bindings; commercially sold scrapbook with Daniel Slote & Co. book trade label on front endpaper; 1 ½” split to spine; fragile without wrinkling or odors;..... More
No place listed: Not stated, No date [c. 1801-1830s]. Full leather. [FASHION] [ALBUM]. Spine title: Coloured Plates of the Latest Fashions 8vo; horizontal ribbed brown Morocco with gilt borders and ornaments; 5 banded spine with gilt ornaments, red leather title label; all edges gilt; gilt dentelles, heavy marbled endpapers; frontispiece..... More
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, Publishers, No date [c. 1894]. Wraps. 8vo shape book (8 ¾” x 4 1/8”); [14pp]; chromolithographed outline of a doll in a frilly cape, title to front cover and publisher to back; 10pp black and white illustrations, 4pp color illustrations with text; creasing to feet and..... More
![Item #1269 [Dressed in Finery]--a Tintype Photograph of 8 young people. ANONYMOUS](https://slhbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1269-1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1613491564)
No place identified. No photographer identified. No date [c. late 19th c.]. No binding, photograph. [TINTYPE PHOTOGRAPH] [MELAINOTYPE] [FERROTYPE.] 3 ½” x 5”; image is clear; japanned verso; light scratching to surface; very good plus. A tintype or ferrotype photograph of five young women and three young men, most likely..... More
New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 530 Broadway, 1859. [JUVENILE] [RELIGION]. R. CRAIGHEAD, Printer, Stereotyper, and Electrotyper, Caxton Building, 81,83,85 Centre Street. M.U. [Matthew Urlwin] SEARS; J. [John] GILBERT; engravers. 4to (10 ½” x 8 1/8”); 143pp; quarter bound in black cloth with printed brown boards; engraved pictorial of angel..... More
[Chicago]: M.A. Donohue & Co., 1916. Wraps. [CHILDREN] [ANIMALS] [ABECEDARIAN] [PICTURE BOOK]. Cover: No. 2000. 4to (13 3/8” x 10 ¼”); [8]pp; glazed color stiff pictorial wrappers, front and rear; 3 staple binding; 10pp of illustration printed in orange and black, front and rear inside wrapper have illustrated alphabets; light..... More
No place [possibly New York City]: Fleischmann & Co., No date [c. 1900]. Wraps. 12mo; [14pp]; chromolithographed illustrated glazed wrappers with a chick on the front and a bid flying over a wheat farm on the rear wrapper; illustrated throughout in dark green ink; fine. Scarce, located in 3 WorldCat..... More
London: Frederick Warne & Co., No date [c. 1880s]. [VICTORIAN GIFT BOOK] [POETRY] [ILLUSTRATED] [ADVERTISEMENT]. 8vo square (8 ¾” x 7 ½”); [12]pp; stiff wrapper with a glazed chromolithographed onlay featuring a portrait of two girls on the front; rear wrapper features an advertisement for “Sir John Bennett’s Ladies’ Gold..... More
Philadelphia and Baltimore: Fisher & Brother, 1864. [JUVENILE] [ILLUSTRATED]. C.W. Murray, Washington D.C., electrotype. Spine series title: Treasury of Gems 48mo (3 7/8” x 3 ¼”); 144pp; gilt stamped maroon cloth over board, gilt stamped fillet encloses a decorative swirl of leaves and flowers surrounding the title on the front..... More
Alnwick: W. [William] Davison, No date [c. 1840s]. Wraps. 16mo (5 1/8” x 3 1/8”); uncut leaf of 8 numbered pages; 1 ½” split at spine fold; relief illustrated; very good. In 6 WorldCat libraries, 2 in the U.S.A. Unusual to have survived as an uncut leaf. Gruesome French folktale..... More