No place or publisher listed: 1896. Palmer COX. [EPHEMERA] [JUVENILE] [ADVERTISING PREMIUM] [ILLUSTRATED]. Palmer COX, illustrator. (9 x 6 3/8”); [32]pp; glazed color pictorial wrapper, illustration of anthropomorphic mice dancing and playing on the front, rear wrapper an ad for the “Book Department at Jordan, Marsh & Co.” department store;..... More
London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd., No date [not before 1918]. [JUVENILE] [WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR]. Engraved and Printed by Edmund Evans, Ltd., Rose Place, Globe Road, London E. 16mo (6 ½” x 4 ¼”); 52, [1]pp; glazed cream-colored boards, lattice design with roses borders the front pictorial of..... More
New York: McLoughlin Bro's. No date [c. 1880-1890s ?]. [JUVENILE] [ABECEDARIAN] [RHYMING VERSE]. Small 4to (9 3/8” x 6”); [8]pp; stiff color lithographed pictorial wrapper, front wrapper features an illustration of two children riding a donkey with a dog running next to them, rear wrapper has no advertisements, pictorial of..... More
[Portsmouth, VA]: [Seaboard Air Line Railway], 1913. [EPHEMERA] [MAP] [RAILROAD] [TRANSPORTATION]. Center-fold Map: Map of the Sea Board Airline Railway and Connections, with inset Seaboard Air Line in Florida, Buffalo [N.Y.]: The Matthews Northrup Works, [1913]. (16 ½ x 9 1/8”) centerfold map. (9 1/8” x 4 ¼”) tall oblong..... More
[EPHEMERA] [MASONS]. (7 7/8" x 5 7/8"); hand-drawn and colored design on free front end-paper removed from a book. A folk-art style rendering of symbols relating to the Masonic affiliated organization named Grotto, drawn and colored by hand on what appears to be the free front paper of a book..... More
Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Pub. Co., No date [c. 1920]. [EPHEMERA] [PAPER DOLL] [JUVENILE]. 12” tall, stiff, color printed, die-cut, paper doll of a young boy labeled “No. 202-- JACK” on the front base; easel style base on verso; three uncut sheets of color pictorial outfits labeled A, B, C with..... More
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, Publisher, 1947. [JUVENILE] [SERIES BOOK]. Frank VAUGHN, illustrator. First edition, later printing c. 1957, as the front dj flap lists Cherry Ames Camp Nurse in the series title listing; this format published from 1947-1961. Number 8 in the Cherry Ames Series of books: Format III..... More
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, Publishers, 1959. [JUVENILE] [SERIES BOOK]. Picture cover A edition published from 1961-1968, later printing c. 1965 as Cherry Ames Jungle Nurse is included in the series title listing on the rear board. Number 20 in the Cherry Ames Series of books: Format V, Version B...... More
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, Publishers, 1952. Frank VAUGHN. [JUVENILE] [SERIES BOOK]. [Frank VAUGHN, illustrator.] First edition, later printing c. 1957; this edition published between 1952-1961, the front dj flap lists books through Cherry Ames Camp Nurse. Number 13 in the Cherry Ames Series of books: Format III: reddish-brown tweed..... More
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, Publishers, 1955. [JUVENILE] [SERIES BOOK]. Frank VAUGHN, illustrator. First edition, later printing. Number 16 in the Cherry Ames Series of books. Published from 1955-1961 in this format, series book listings on the front dust jacket flap through Cherry Ames, Department Store Nurse published in 1956..... More
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, Publishers, 1956. Frank VAUGHN. [JUVENILE] [SERIES BOOK]. Frank VAUGHN, illustrator. First edition, later printing. Published between 1956-1961; this book printed c. 1957 as the front flap lists the series through Cherry Ames, Camp Nurse. Number 18 in the Cherry Ames Series of books: Format III..... More
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, Publishers, 1954. Frank VAUGHN. [JUVENILE] [SERIES BOOK]. Frank VAUGHN, illustrator. Published between 1954-1961 with a dust jacket, this copy printed around 1955 as the front dj flap lists Cherry Ames, Boarding School Nurse. Number 15 in the Cherry Ames Series of books: Format III: reddish-brown..... More
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, Publishers, 1944. [JUVENILE] [SERIES BOOK]. Published between 1961-1968, early printing: rear board lists series on rear board through Cherry Ames, Rural Nurse published in 1961. Number 3 in the Cherry Ames Series of books: Picture cover A with Cherry and other nurses in front of..... More
New Haven: E.P. Best Mfg. Co., No date [c. 1904]. [EPHEMERA] [PAPER DOLL] [ADVERTISING PREMIUM]. (5 3/8" x 2 3/4"); two piece, die-cut head and shoulder paper doll with folding doll costUme; advertising on dress rear panel; fine. "My Mama Always Used ROSE BUD COFFEE it comes in 1-lb. and..... More
No place noted: No maker noted, 1925. [SOUVENIR] [ADVERTISING PREMIUM] [BOOKMARK] [SILKS]. (8 3/8" x 2"); woven silk bookmark; red, blue, and yellow thread on an ivory-colored ground; small tear to the upper left corner with some fraying; very good. A commemorative, souvenir ribbon in the style of those that..... More
Chicago: Chek-Chart Corporation, 624 South Michigan Avenue, 1936. [NON-FICTION] [AUTOMOTIVE] [ADVERTISING PREMIUM]. Fourth edition, published August 1936. The first edition published June 1931. Small 4to (9 ¼” x 6 1/8”)128, [1]pp; dark green cloth over board, faux leather stamping, gilt lettering on front and spine; pictorial advertising eps; b&w diagrams..... More
New York: Harold Vincent Smith for the Home Insurance Company, 1939, September. [FIRE FIGHTING] [FIREMEN] [ILLUSTRATED] [SIGNED PUBLISHER'S LETTER]. 4to; 64pp; gilt stamped title on stiff red wrapper, color illustrated onlay to front; glazed stock; b&w and color illustrations; presentation letter paper clipped to ffep; light soiling to wrapper, light..... More
Washington 25, D.C. Distribution Division of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, United States Department of Commerce, 1946. [NON-FICTION] [BUSINESS]. Cover title: Establishing and Operating a…Hardware Store, U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce Small 4to (9” x 5 ¾”); vii, [i], 204pp; stiff tan and..... More
No place listed [London]: Hodder and Stoughton, 1939, November. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 4to; 255pp; red stamped light blue buckram with title on front cover in a cartouche over which is a crown and a red cross below, title and publisher on spine; 12 full page illustrations in color..... More
New York: Theo. Audel & Company, 1911. Cloth. 8vo; 667 [1] + 12pp advertisements; gilt stamped title to spine, red cloth over board, blind stamped automobile to front cover; red endpapers; front and back fly-leaves have pasted in cut-outs about engines from previous owner; 2pp tipped-in diagram of automobile identifying..... More
New York: The Platt & Munk Co., Inc., Publishers, 1949. Adele WERBER, Doris LASLO. [JUVENILE] [ILLUSTRATED] [WOMAN AUTHOR] [WOMEN ILLUSTRATORS]. Adele WERBER and Doris LASLO, illustrators. 4to (10 ¼” x 8”); [47], [1]pp; bright orange textured paper over board, blue lettering and vignette of a kitten stamped on the front..... More
Lyon and Paris [France]: Librairie Catholique Emmanuel Vitte, 1913. [RELIGION] [FRENCH LANGUAGE]. English: Complete Parish Prayer Book or Book of Hours for the Use of the Diocese of Lyon according to the Romano-Lyons rite approved by order of His Holiness Pope Pius IX. New edition, revised and updated. Lyon and..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 715 and 717 Market Street, No date [c. 1886]. [POETRY]. 8vo (8” x 6 1/8”); 48pp; stiff brown boards, stamped faux-morocco, gilt script lettering on front, red braided long-stitch decorative binding; all edges gilt; engraved fp + 11 additional full-page illustrations; binding tight; scuffing to boards..... More
New York: Frank Tousy, Publlisher, 24 Union Square, 1901, April 3. MARSH, Howard. Small 4to (11” x 7 7/8”); 30, [2]pp; color pictorial wrapper featuring three men on a ship deck, one man being strangled and an on-looker; publisher’s ad on rear wrapper; two staple binding; bookseller’s stamp to front..... More
New York: Street & Smith, Publishers, 79-89 Seventh Avenue, 1907, September 28. [JUVENILE] [PERIODICAL] [PULP FICTION]. Small 4to (10 ¾” x 8”); 32pp; color pictorial wrapper featuring an illustration of men on a beach, one shooting a gun at men in a rowboat; rear wrapper publisher’s ad for latest titles;..... More