Austin-Dallas, [Texas]: Graphic Ideas, 1972. Cloth. 8vo; 288pp; color illustrated cloth over board with title and author to front cover and title, author and publisher to spine; front pastedown has printed school property student registration form; color illustrated; near fine. UNUSED school text book with lessons taught in story form..... More
Portland [Maine]: Sanborn & Carter, and H.J. Little & Co., 1853. [TRAVEL] [MAPS] [RAIL ROADS]. Baker, Smith & Andrew, wood engravers. Half-title: Portland White-Mountains & Montreal Rail-Road Guide, Portland [Maine]: Foster, Gerrish & Co., Printers, Corner of Middle and Exchange Sts., 1853. Cover title: Portland, White Mountains and Montreal Rail..... More
Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally and Company, Publishers, 1908. Elizabeth B. BROWNELL. Cloth. [VICTORIANA] [POETRY] [WOMAN AUTHOR] [WOMAN PHOTOGRAPHER]. 4to; 63pp; tan cloth over board, gilt-stamped lettering, decorative rondel with a portrait of a toddler on the front, portrait of a toddler onlay to rear; frontispiece of two toddlers..... More
New York: McLoughlin Bro's, No date [c. 1882]. [JUVENILE] [POETRY] [RHYMING VERSE] [WOMAN AUTHOR]. 4to (10 ½” x 6 7/8”); [16]pp; color pictorial wrapper, a vignette of children signing with a chorusmaster within a frame of leaves; rear wrapper features a publisher’s ad for “New Picture Books for Little Children”;..... More
Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1886. Ephemera no binding. [ETCHINGS] [ILLUSTRATION] [POETS]. Envelope flap-wrapper 6 ¼” x 7 ¾”; individual author envelope-style wrapper with flap, approximately 5 5/8” x 7 ¼”; cover leaf and plates are 5 ½” x 7”; plates printed in sepia on thick chain-laid paper, plate mark..... More
New York and Tokyo: Walker/Weatherhill, 1968. Keiko HIDA. First American Edition. Pictorial boards. First American edition. 4to; 63pp; color pictorial paper over board, yellow cloth spine; gold endpapers; text with color illustrations; clipped pictorial dust jacket, light chipping at spine; fine in very good plus dj. Lively color reproductions of..... More
Paris: Plon-Nourrit et Cie, No date [c. 1887]. [JUVENILE] [ETIQUETTE] [ILLUSTRATED] [FRENCH LANGUAGE]. Small 4to oblong (9 x 10 5/8 ); 47, [1]pp; gold cloth over board, lettering stamped in black on front, color vignette of a man in 18thc. dress kissing the hand of a woman; edges stained red; pale..... More
745 Seventh Ave., New York: De Sylva, Brown, and Henderson Inc., 1929. Ephemera no binding. 11 3/4" x 9 1/8"; 5 [1]pp; color pictorial front wrapper; ad for Outstanding Song Hits From The William Fox Picture "Sunny Side Up" by B.G. De Sylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson; 1 1/2"..... More
Augusta, Maine: Friends of the Maine State Museum, 1997. Second Edition. 1/4 cloth. Second edition. 4to; x, 438pp; quarter-bound black cloth with yellow boards, gilt-stamped title on spine; glazed stock; b&w illustrations; unclipped b&w pictorial dust jacket without price; offset yellow patch to rear dj, light soiling; fine in very..... More
New York: Sheldon and Company, Publishes, 1864. 1/4 cloth. 12mo; xvi, 291pp + [2pp ads]; quarter-bound green cloth, title, author and publisher to front in double black border, ad to rear board; small pencil drawing of a wagon on blank verso of last page; scuffing to boards and corners, light..... More
Philadelphia: The Fleisher Yarns, 1913. Wraps. [HOME ARTS] [NEEDLE ARTS] [ILLUSTRATED]. Cover title: Fleisher’s Knitting & Crocheting Manual, Eleventh Edition, Price 25 cents 8vo (9 ¾” x 7”); 206pp; gilt-embossed and grey printed lettering on stiff marbled grey wrapper, vignette of a knitting basket with yarn on front; frontispiece a...... More
Portland, Maine: Foster & Co., Proprietors, 1851. [NEWSPAPER]. March 7, 1851. Folio (25 1/2” x 19 1/2”); [4 pp]; creased edges, some damp stains, previous owner name on top of first page, folded horizontally and vertically at center, ragged tear in center of paper with loss; good minus. Contents include..... More
London: George Routledge and Sons. No date [c. 1881]. Kate GREENAWAY. Boards. 8vo; [5], 6-29, [30]; glazed illustrated paper over beveled board with green cloth spine; green plain endpapers; 8 full page color illustrations with color illustrations on title page, content and through musical text; gift inscription to acknowledgement page..... More
Boston: L. Prang & Co., Publishers of Prang's American Chromos, 2182 Washington St. 1872. Boards. [CASE MAP] [SOUVENIR]. Case title: Prang’s Map of Boston. Case: 4 7/8” x 3 3/8”; rust-colored cloth over board, blind-stamped borders, gilt-stamped title to front; fine. Map: 23 ¼” x 26 7/8” sheet size; 15..... More
Cloth. [NAUTICAL / MARINE] [MANUSCRIPT]. 8vo oblong; green textured cloth over board, gilt-stamped title on front; green endpapers; lined and columned pages for owner entries; light scuffing to head and tail of spine; near fine. A purchased Yacht Log Book of the New York residents, E.A. and H.B. Guthries, recording..... More
New York: General Protestant Episcopal Sunday S. Union and Church Book Society, Depository—762 Broadway, 1868. A. DONLEVY. Wraps. A. DONLEVY, illustrator, and L.E. BOWER, engraver, front wrapper. 16mo (6 ½” x 4 3/16”); blue wrapper, front wrapper finely illustrated with church symbols and ornate vines, rear wrapper publisher’s ad; publisher’s..... More
Chicago: Popular Publicastions, Inc., 2256 Grove Street, Chicago 16, 1948, January. Small 4to (9 3/8" x 6 1/2"); 146pp; color pictorial wrapper featuring a train on the front and an ad for Prestone Anti-Freeze on the rear; chipping and small splits to edges, paper age-toned, binding tight; very good minus..... More
Stuttgart: Loewes Verlag Ferdinand Carl, No date [c. 188-1890]. Fedor Alexis FLINZER. [JUVENILE] [ILLUSTRATED] [GERMAN LANGUAGE]. F. [Fedor Alexis] FLINZER, illustrator. Front board: Die drei kleinen Kätzchen. No. 273 English: The Three Little Cats, a fine funny story for little cat lovers 4to (10 ¼” x 8 3/8”); [16]pp; chromolithographed..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946, January. Gustav TENGGREN. First Printing. Boards. First printing. 4to; 91 [1]pp; color pictorial boards; color pictorial endpapers and title page; both b&w and color illustrations; light scuffing to edges, bumping to corners; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, rear panel publisher’s ad for The Golden..... More
Paris: F.D. Pillot, 1830. Comte de B.G. LACEPÈDE. Ephemera no binding. 8vo plate (8 3/4" x 5 1/2"); 6" x 3 1/2" within borders; custom acid-free archival backing and French matting with hand-applied silver line; a few light spots of foxing; near fine. Hand-colored copper plate engraving of Stingrays from..... More
Paris: F.D. Pillot, 1830. Comte de B.G. LACEPÈDE. Ephemera no binding. 8vo plate (8 3/4" x 5 1/2"); 5 7/8" x 3 1/2" within borders; custom acid-free archival backing and French matting with hand-applied silver line; one small spot, else fine. Hand-colored copper plate engraving of Sharks from Comte de..... More
Paris: F.D. Pillot, 1830. Comte de B.G. LACEPÈDE. Ephemera no binding. 8vo plate (8 3/4" x 5 1/2"); 5 13/16" x 3 1/2" within borders; custom acid-free archival backing and French matting with hand-applied silver line; a few light spots of foxing; near fine. Hand-colored copper plate engraving of Sharks..... More
Paris: F.D. Pillot, 1830. Comte de B.G. Lacepede. Ephemera no binding. 8vo plate (8 3/4" x 5 1/2"); 6" x 3 1/2" within borders; custom acid-free archival backing and French matting with hand-applied silver line. Hand-colored copper plate engraving of Sharks from Comte de B.G. Lacepede’s (1756-1825) Historie Naturelle. Plate..... More
Paris: F.D. Pillot, 1830. Comte de B.G. LACEPÈDE. Ephemera no binding. 8vo plate (8 3/4" x 5 1/2"); 6" x 3 15/8" within borders; custom acid-free archival backing and French matting with hand-applied silver line; one small white area upper left of print. Hand-colored copper plate engraving of Finback Whales..... More
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Paris: F.D. Pillot, 1830. Comte de B.G. LACEPÈDE. Ephemera no binding. 8vo plate (8 3/4" x 5 1/2"); 6" x 3 1/2" within borders; custom acid-free archival backing and French matting with hand-applied silver line; a few spots of foxing; near fine. Hand-colored copper plate engraving of Sharks from Comte..... More