London and New York: Macmillan and Co. and The Macmillan Company, 1897. I.W. TABER. [FICTION]. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited and New York: The Macmillan Company, 1897. I.W. TABER, illustrator. R. & R. Clark, Limited, Edinburgh, printer. First British edition. 12mo (7 7/16” x 5”); viii, [1]-245pp; red goat over..... More
New York: McLoughlin Bros. 1903. [EPHEMERA] [JUVENILE EDUCATION] [ABECEDARIAN]. (12 5/8” x 10”) box of stiff paper board with a lid, chromolithographed titled pictorial on the lid features two young girls and a cow; box side panels with repairs; 9 wooden blocks each measuring (4” x 3 1/8” x ¾”)..... More
Boston: Cottage Hearth Company, 11 Broomfield Street, 1884, November. [PERIODICAL] [WOMEN’S INTEREST]. 4to (11 ¼” x 8 ½”); [iv]pp advertisements, [i], [1], 328-356pp + [4]pp advertisements; tan wrapper printed in black, a pictorial on the front of a fire in a hearth with a young girl reading and a cat..... More
Utica [New York]: William Williams, 1819, July. [GEOGRAPHY] [MAPS] [NON-FICTION]. Twentieth Edition. Frontispiece fold-out map: The Western Hemisphere or the New World, along with the Eastern Hemisphere or the Old World. Fold-out map after p. 62: A Map of North America from the latest Discoveries, 1817, Published by Thomas &..... More
Philadelphia: M'Carty & Davis (successors to the Late Benjamin Warner), 171 Market Street, 1828. [JUVENILE] [NON-FICTION]. 32mo (5 ½” x 3 ½”); 36pp; blue stiff wrapper, large Federal style eagle wood engraving on front within a double black fillet, rear wrapper has a printed quiz for children titled “Questions for..... More
Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1873. [NON-FICTION] [WOMEN’S INTEREST]. Small 4to (9” x 6 ½”); ii, (i), 4-464pp; green cloth over board, elaborate gilt decoration of the front and spine within a decorative boarder stamped in black; brown eps; fp with tissue guard; title page printed in black and red; 13..... More
New York: Jacobson & Company, 1921. [SALES CATALOG] [DESIGN] [ART]. 4to oblong (9 ¼” x 12 ¼”); [49]pp; stiff gray ribbed wrapper, black lettering within a red border, a vignette of Tudor rose on the front; 2 staple binding; 47pp of labeled designs in b&w with prices; soiling to wrapper..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1882. [COOKERY] [WOMAN AUTHOR]. 32mo oblong (4 1/8” x 7”); [54]pp; color pictorial boards featuring a woman holding a steaming dish and a rhyming verse, rear boards picture a tray with good; green cloth shelf back; verse on front pastedown; text in sepia; rear pastedown..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, by the Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1894. [POETRY] [ILLUSTRATED]. 8vo (8 ½” x 6 5/8”); 58 French-fold plates; glazed gray cloth over beveled board, gilt and black stamped decoration to front, decorated title on spine; gilt top edge; peach eps printed with a floral and..... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1895. [WOMEN’S INTEREST] [HAIR STYLES] [HISTORY]. 8vo; (xi), (i), 209pp; glazed blue cloth over board, gilt lettering and a vignette of a Roman-style woman within a floral wreath on the front; top edge gilt, fore-edge and bottom untrimmed; bookplate with the initials “JAHB” for Julie..... More
Paris: Rêve, 35. Rue du Quatre-Septembre, près la Place de l’Opéra, No date [c. 1890-1905]. [FASHION] [ADVERTISEMENT] [DRESSMAKER]. Folio (17 3/8 x 12 ½ ); [13] leaves ; stiff faded peach wrapper with three punched holes with string, leaf border, decorative lettering of title to front, front table of contents listing 17..... More
[New York]: [Art Fabric Mills], No date [c. 1906]. [EPHEMERA] [TEXTILE] [JUVENILE] [CHRISTMAS]. 30” long by 6” at the widest part of the top; cut and sewn from a full fabric panel sold as 35 ½” x 22 ½” which was printed one side only with both the front and..... More
No place noted: No maker noted, No date [c. 1870-1900]. [BINDING] [BEAD EMBROIDERED COVER] [WOMAN’S COPY BOOK]. 16mo oblong (6 7/8” x 8 ½”); purple cotton velvet over board, beaded embroidery design of a basket with strawberries on the front, dark green eps; fore-edge and bottom untrimmed; blank copybook of..... More
No place: No date [c. 1860s]. [EPHEMERA] [TIN TYPE PHOTOGRAPHS]. 32mo (4 ¼”x 3 5/8”); 12 stiff leaves each with gilt-embellished, oval cut-outs for inserting 8 gem-sized photographs; brown goatskin, blind-stamped double fillets, gilt decorative lettering on front, flap closure with tab pull; all edges gilt; 93 black & white..... More
London: Printed for the Religious Tract Society, Sold at the Depository, 56, Paternoster Row, No date [c. 1855]. [MINIATURE] [RELGION]. Also sold at: 63, St. Paul’s Churchyard; and by the Booksellers. C. Whittingham, London, printer. Miniature (2 ¾” x 2 ¼”); red goat skin over board, gilt-stamped fillet with corner..... More
Gera, Germany: C.B. Greisbach, 1875. [PRINTS] [MUSHROOMS] [CHROMOLITHOGRAPH]. Two original prints of mushrooms from the artist, Gustav Pabst. Quarto plates (9 1/2" x 6 5/8" within the neat lines); chromolithograph of four species of mushrooms; double acid-free archival backing and double matted to 13 7/8" x 11" matted (ready to..... More
Worcester [Massachusetts]: Achille J. St. Onge, 1961. [MINIATURE] [RELIGION]. Limited edition. Miniature (2 5/8” x 1 7/8”); 63 [1]pp; royal blue leather with gilt stamped lettering on the front and spine, and a gilt stamped vignette of a menorah on the front, a Star of David on the rear board;..... More
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Alsace [France]: Mulhouse, No date [c. 1910-1913]. [NEEDLEWORK]. 16mo oblong (7 ¾” x 11 ¾”); 43, [1]pp + [4]pp publisher’s ads, [1] introduction to the patterns, [8]pp waxed-gauze printed fold-out patterns with 16 patterns printed on them; embossed stiff aubergine-colored wrapper with a floral design in white, cloth shelf-back; photographic..... More
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[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
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
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
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