New York: E. R. Squibb & Sons, 1924. Staplebound. 12mo (6 1/8” x 4 1/8”); [14pp]; color pictorial wrapper, 2 staple binding; color illustrations every page; light pencil mark to front wrapper; near fine. Located in 5 WorldCat libraries. Published as a children’s story, a dental cream tube is the..... More
London: Journal of Horticulture, 1900. Fourth Edition. Cloth. 8vo; xvi, 202 + viii pp ads; gilt-stamped green cloth over board, grape cluster, title and author to front; relief printed illustrations throughout; shelf scuffing to cover, bumping to corners; very good. An extensive discourse on grape growing. More
New York: Brentano's, 1894. Boards. 8vo; [iv], 105pp; illustrated including one color wheel illustraton; staining and scuffing to cover, bumping to cover corners with loss, some stray ink marks and smudges, very good minus. Charming juvenile introduction to French words accompanies by illustrations, pronunciations and childhood songs. More
New York City: G. Howard Watt, Publisher, 1929. Clement B. DAVIS. First Edition. Boards. First edition. 8vo; xviii,415pp; acknowledgement to Abercrombie and Fitch company inserted after xviii; gilt-stamped green cloth over board, black and gilt stamped vignette to front; color pictorial endpapers; ownership bookplate to verso ffep and recto frontispiece;..... More
New York: G.W. & C.H Colton for G.M. Donham, 1894. No binding. 17” x 14”, and 16” x 12 7/8” to the edge of the map extending through the neat line. Hand-colored folded pocket map, lacking its case, published for the Maine State Year Book. The map shows counties, towns..... More
City Island, New York: Ratest & Lapthorn Inc., 1950, June. W.H. deFontaine. Second Printing. Staplebound. Second Printing. 12mo (7 1/8” X 3 5/8”); 30pp; navy printed wrapper with a vignette of a sailboat to the front; 2 staple binding; vignette of a sailmaker to title page; text and illustrations in..... More
Minneapolis: A Gordon Volland Production presented by The Buzza Co., Craftacres, 1928. Boards. [TOY BOOK] [WOMAN AUTHOR] [RACIST CARICATURE] [STIGMATIZING LANGUAGE]. 8vo oblong (9 ¾” x 13”); [8] illustrated stiff board leaves with peep-holes bound on cloth hinges to the left, and [6] illustrated leaves and a title page bound..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, No date [c. 1913]. Boards. 8vo; 114pp; printed paper over board with corner decorations, title, author, and content description to front cover, title to spine; illustrated with black and white photographs; sunning to cover, back cover still pale pink, glue burns to endpapers; very..... More
New York: Cupples & Leon Company, 1922. Julia GREENE. Later printing. Cloth. Later printing. Book 4 in the Brother and Sister Series. 12mo; maroon cloth over board, color pictorial onlay to front; 130pp + [2]pp publisher’s advertisement; ownership on ffep; color frontispiece plus 3 additional plates; unclipped color pictorial dust..... More
Springfield, Mass: Milton Bradley Company, 1919. Pictorial boards. 8vo; 8-124pp; quarter bound dark brown cloth with pictorial paper over board, title to front cover and design of a child at a book shelf; illustrated including some sepia toned photographs of finished projects; light chipping to spine and cover edges, offset..... More
New York: Fred. Rullman, Inc., No date [c. 19--]. Wraps. 8vo; [17]pp + 6pp musical score; stiff grey pictorial wrapper; one staple binding; rear wrapper advertisement for Knabe pianos with pictorial portraits of opera artists; musical score follows text; light age-toning of wrapper, one leaf with creases from printer; very..... More
Dorchester, Mass. Compliments of Walter Baker & Co., Inc. Ltd., Established 1780, 1922. Wraps. [ADVERTISING PREMIUM] [HOME ARTS]. 16mo (6 ½” x 3 7/8”); 64pp; stiff glazed embossed yellow wrapper, the front features a border of cocoa beans with leaves and flowers surrounding a woman serving cocoa; the rear wrapper..... More
Springfield, Massachusetts: Milton Bradley Co., 1899. L. J. BRIDGMAN [Lewis Jesse]. Cloth. 8vo; xiv, 443pp; illustrated tan cloth over board, vignette of a child playing with a cat and kittens to front; 47 full-page b&w illustrations including frontispiece; light fading to cover, lightly shaken; very good. Second issue of this..... More
Boston: Jenks, Palmer & Co., 1848. Boards. 12mo; 80 + [2]pp; brown marbled boards, brown calf shelf-back; pages bright and clean with a few spots; shelf-wear to boards and spine, endpapers foxed; very good minus. Interesting book on correct speech in the English language. More
New York: Orange Judd Company, 1907. Cloth. 12mo; 276 + 12pp ads; maroon cloth over board with gilt stamped title, author and publisher to spine; illustrated and tables; rear cover, bottom pp208-276 and the ads have damp staining to corner with staining from the maroon cover, acidic offset burn to..... More
New York: Random House, 1959. Robert PATTERSON. 1/4 cloth. Dust jacket title: The Shirley Temple Treasury. Stories from movies that made her famous. Four Books in One. First edition. 4to; [206pp]; quarter-bound blue cloth, yellow paper over board; title stamped in blue inside gilt stamped border on front board; color..... More
New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1943. First Edition. Cloth. Mary SHEPARD and Agnes SIMS, illustrators. First edition. 12mo; 239pp; tan cloth over board, navy stamped title and vignette of Mary Poppins on front, lettered spine; pictorial endpapers; copyright page has declaration of wartime Governmental publishing; spotting to upper edge, minimal..... More
Portland [Maine]: J. Chace, Jr. & Co., No date [c. 1862]. Boards. 8vo; 344pp; blind-stamped brown cloth over board; title to spine; 5pp ads on pink paper to front and 5pp to rear including endpapers, 77pp ads following the directory; wear to cover, corners bumped with loss, light soiling; good..... More
Philadelphia: Lee & Walker, 722 Chestnut St. 1861. Ephemera no binding. [SHEET MUSIC] [CIVIL WAR] [HISTORY]. Folio (13 ¼” x 10 ¼”); 5pp; pictorial chromolithograph of Col. Ellsworth standing on a flag to front wrapper, sewn binding; title page then numbered pages 3-5 printed with musical score for piano with..... More
