New York: Munn & Co., 37 Park Row, 1877. Ephemera no binding. Folio (16 ¼” x 11 ¼”); pp48-62; rear wrapper has owner label, illustrated wrapper; 2” closed tear through all leaves at fold, hortizontal fold through all leaves, chipping to wrapper edges, small insect holes in some sheets, hand-soiling..... More
Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1874. Cloth. 12mo; 158 [1]pp + 8pp publisher’s ads; blue cloth over board, stamped black decorative borders and designs, title on front and spine in gilt-stamped frame; all edges gilt; glazed yellow endpapers; gift inscription in neat ink dated 1876 for Sunday School attendance on ffep;..... More
Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1876. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. One of the Flaxie Frizzle Stories series. 12mo; 182pp; dark green cloth over board, black Aesthetic-style design of flowers stamped in black, gilt-stamped vignette of a girl holding on to her hat in blowing wind to front board; child’s..... More
New York: Cupples & Leon Company, 1927. Julia GREENE. Later printing. Cloth. Later printing. Book 6 in the Brother and Sister Series. 12mo; 128pp + [4]pp publisher’s advertisements; green pictorial cloth; ownership on ffep; 4 color illustrations including frontispiece; very good. Lacking its dust jacket. The author, Josephine Lawrence (1889-1978)..... 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
New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1881. Boards. 8vo; 212pp; color pictorial boards, green cloth shelfback, rear board publisher’s advertisement; b&w illustrations throughout including fp and titlepage; scuffing to boards and edges; very good plus. The story of a young girl of 10 or 11 years, who is “Aunt..... More
No place listed [Philadelphia]: Jane Eayre Fryer [and Winston], 1916. Jane Allen BOYER. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 8vo; 144pp; royal blue cloth over board, color pictorial onlay to front with title, gilt-stamped spine, spine stamped, “Winston” at tail; bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown, “P.O. News Stand, 25 W. Park..... More
New York: R. Martin, 170 Broadway and 66 Beekman St. 1847 and 1851. James SMILLIE. 4to; viii, 93pp + 22 engraved plates with tissue guards including map and facing half-title; and 119pp + 22 engraved plates with tissue guards including map and facing half-title; decorated red morocco, 5 raised bands..... More
No place listed [Portland, Maine]: No publisher listed [Chisholm Bros.], No date [c. 1880s]. Boards. [VIEWBOOK] [SOUVENIR] [ADVERTISING]. The New Album of New York, No place, publisher, or date listed [c. 1880s]. 12mo (6 1/4" x 4 3/4"); concertina folded [12 panels]; gilt-stamped pebbled green paper over board, elaborate gilt border..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. Cloth. 4to; xii, 133pp; olive cloth over board; pictorial label with title and author to front board, gilt-stamped spine; top edge gilt; deckle fore-edge and bottom; color duotone frontispiece with tissue guard and 82 b&w illustrations; light sunning to spine and part of rear..... More
London, England and New York: A. Raphael, 1901. A. RAPHAEL. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 8vo; 221, [4]pp; gilt-stamped title, author to brown pebbled cloth over board, vignette of a palm in a circle of the Zodiac signs to front stamped in silver, titled Planetary Hand; gilt upper edge; frontispiece..... More
No place listed [Austria or Germany]: No publisher listed, No date [c. 1880s]. Ephemera no binding. Wood box measures: 9 5/8” x 6 ¾” x 3 1/8”, old blue paper to bottom. 5 hand-colored lithographed cards on board: 8 9/16” x 5 ¾”, light scuffing to corners else near fine..... More
No place listed: Elliott Blaine Henderson, 1911. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 8vo; 61pp; brown cloth over board, gilt-stamped title and author to front; frontispiece a photographic illustrated portrait on glazed plate; scuffing to head and tail of spine, bumping to cover corners, light crease to fp, chip to top..... More
No place listed: Juliette Low, 1916. First Edition. Stiff wraps. Cover title: How Girls Can Help Their Country, Handbook for Girl Scouts First edition. 12mo; vi, 156pp; blue glazed cloth wrapper, line drawing of a Girl Scout in uniform to front; frontispiece and 9 additional b&w photographic illustrated plates; small b&w..... More
Newark, N.J. Charles E. Graham and Co., 1925. Boards. 4to; [32pp]; color pictorial paper over board, tan cloth shelf-back; color pictorial endpapers; color halftone illustrations with borders every page, text sometimes inset into the illustration; light scuff to bottom, chipping to front board fore-edge, bumping of bottom corners; color pictorial..... More
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, 1883. Stiff wraps. 4to; [16pp]; stiff glazed color pictorial wrapper, ownership in light ink to front top margin; publisher’s string binding; pictorial title page on verso front wrapper, ownership in decorative ink on title page; chromolithograph illustrations every page with verse, all within a yellow border;..... More
Boston: The Congregational Publishing Society, Beacon Street, 1881-1883. Print no binding. [BROADSHEET]. Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society, Congregational House, Boston, order list, 1884-5. [PAMPHLET]. C.L.S.C. 1884-1885, Boston: Congregational S.S. and Publishing Society, 1884. [MAILING ENVELOPE]. Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society, Boston, [1884]. Thirty-five Lesson Papers: Thirteen Lesson Papers from 1881, Vol. VI: No. 38..... More
New York: McLoughlin Bros., Publishers, No date [c. 1860]. Stiff wraps. 16mo (5” x 4 3/16”); [48pp]; stiff pink wrappers block-printed pictorial in red and black; string binding; publisher’s ad to rear wrapper for One Cent Toy Books; light hand-soiling to wrapper, light creasing to front bottom corner; binding tight..... More
No place listed: Not published, manuscript, 1928, August. D. LESLIE. Stiff wraps. Designed and printed by D. Leslie, August 1928. D. LESLIE, calligraphy and illustrator. 8vo; [34pp]; red-textured stiff wrapper, hand lettered with title and author; all edges gilt, deckle fore-edge; leaves sewn to wrapper with thick red silk twisted..... More
Paris: No publisher listed, 1887, Christmas. F. A. BANNISTER. Cloth. F.A. BANNISTER, illustrator. Printed in London by the National Press Agency, Limited. 8vo; 31pp; gilt-stamped bright blue cloth over beveled board, gilt-stamped vignettes of flowers, and a fairy on a mushroom to front; all edges gilt; black endpapers; 4 full-page woodcut..... More
New York: Random House, 1967. Dr. Seuss [Theodore Geisel]. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 4to; [62pp]; color pictorial cloth over board, list of author’s books to rear ending with I Had Trouble, the list for Beginning Readers ending with Fox in Socks; color pictorial endpapers and title page; color illustrated..... More
London: The Folio Society, 1998. Helen SMITHSON. Cloth. Helen SMITHSON, illustrator. Michael ROSEN, introduction. 8vo; 104, [1]pp; color pictorial cloth over board; pale blue endpapers; color pictorial double title page; illustrations in both b&w and color; publisher’s maroon slipcase; unread; fine in near fine case. Beautiful illustrations for Stevenson’s beloved childhood..... More
Dallas: Mathis, Van Nort & Co., 1938. Estellyn ACHNING. Boards. 8vo; [49pp]; color pictorial on white board; owner’s bookplate on front pastedown; printer’s error on title page misspelling illustrator’s name; b&w line drawings; light shelf-wear, bumping to corners; very good plus. Held in 5 WorldCat libraries. The author opens this..... More
New York: The Platt & Munk Co., Inc., 1939. Wraps. 8vo; [10pp]; color pictorial glazed cloth wrapper and leaves; 2 staple binding; color illustrations accompany poems; light creasing to front wrapper; very good plus. Ten favorite Mother Goose rhymes with color illustrations, including: Baa Baa Black Sheep, Simple Simon, Pat-a-Cake..... More
Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1961. First Edition. Cloth. First printing of JPS, published the same year by Farrar Straus and Cudahy. 8vo; 214pp; quarter-bound in green cloth with maroon boards, gilt-stamped spine; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, light soiling to rear, archival repair to dj head of..... More