No date [c. 1870]. Cloth. [POCKET MAP] [TRAVEL & ADVENTURE] [TOURIST MAP]. Case title: Map of Moosehead Lake, Maine. Pastedown title: A Map of Moosehead Lake, And the Principal Localities of Interest in its Vicinity Case Map. Fold-out map: 5 7/8” x 9 ¼”; 5 3/8” x 9” within the..... More
Philadelphia: H.C. Peck & Theo. Bliss, No date [c. 1851-1862]. Cloth. [MINIATURE]. 64mo (3 1/16” 2 5/8”); vi-xi, 12-191pp + publisher’s ad following; brown ribbed cloth over board, gilt-stamped vignette of two children playing with hoops on front cover, gilt decoration and lettering on spine; all edges gilt; pale yellow..... More
Northampton [Massachusetts]: John Metcalf, 1838. BARBER, woodcut. Wraps. [CHAPBOOK] [RELIGION] [RELIGIOCENTRISM] [ETHNOCENTRISM]. [John Warner ?] BARBER, woodcut. Cover title: Hymns for Children, Northampton: J.H. Butler No date [1838-1850]. 24mo (5 1/4” x 3”); 24pp; yellow wrappers with a decorative border surrounding the lettering and a vignette of 3 children with..... More
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, No date [c. 1827-1850]. Wraps. [CHAPBOOK] [RELIGION] [ILLUSTRATED]. Stereotyped by L.[Lawrence] Johnson. 32mo (4 1/8” x 2 11/16”); 7pp; cream wrapper, front has printed decorative border surrounding the lettering, rear wrapper features a young girl sitting on a stool and reading a book..... More
Philadelphia: Protestant Episcopal Book Society, No. 1224 Chestnut Street, No date [c. 1861-1874]. Wraps. [CHAPBOOK] [RELIGION]. 32mo (4 3/16” x 2 13/16”); 16pp; blue wrapper, lettering printed inside a decorative border on the front, rear wrapper reads “Presented by the / United States Christian Commission, / Central Office, / No..... More
New York: Geo. Munro Publisher, 17 to 27 Vanderwater St. Dec. 17, 1889. Wraps. [DIME NOVEL / PULP] [FICTION]. 12mo (7 3/16 x 4 7/8”); [2]pp ads for the “New York Fashion Bazar” magazine precedes the text, 144pp + [16]pp publisher’s ads, including [4]pp for Die Deutshe Library in German..... More
Chicago: Albert Whitman & Company, Just-Right-Books, 1926. Violet Moore HIGGINS. Cloth. [JUVENILE] [FAIRY TALES]. First edition. The dust jacket front flap identifies this as the “New Enlarged Picture Edition” with a price of “Net 65” cents. 8vo; [59]pp; navy cloth over board, gilt-stamped lettering and border, color pictorial only of..... More
New York: Leo. Feist, Inc., 1918. Wraps. [SONG BOOK]. 24mo; 80pp; pale yellow stiff wrappers, pictorial front with price of 15 cents; two staple binding; light stain to front, light wear to wrapper; near fine. Calendar for 1918, 1919 to verso front wrapper. Back wrapper features advertisement for U.S. Government..... More
Boston: New England Sabbath School Union, 79 Cornhill, 1845. Wraps. [CHAPBOOK] [JUVENILE] [RELIGION]. Cover title: Dr. Baldwin’s Catechism., Boston: New England Sabbath School Union, 79 Cornhill. 24mo (5 5/8” x 3 5/8”); 36pp; stiff green wrapper, title and imprint on front within a decorative border and vignette of a child..... More
Boston, Massachusetts: The Mutual Book Company, Publishers, 1904. Wraps. [NOVELTY BOOK]. Cover title: 1000 Proverbs and Old Time Sayings, Price 10 Cents, The Mutual Book Company, Publishers, Boston, Mass. 16mo (6 1/8” x 3 ¾”); 29, [1]pp + [2]pp publisher’s ads; white glazed wrapper printed in blue, rear wrapper publisher’s..... More
Boston: L. Prang & Co., No date [c. 1876]. Wraps. [GIFT BOOK] [NOVELTY BOOK] [POETRY]. 32mo oblong (4 11/16” x 5 5/8”); [12]pp; stiff glazed cream-colored pictorial wrapper, gilt-stamped clover border at spine, decorative lettering, vignette of a pasture with fence on front; half title; 4 full-page lithographic illustrations; light..... More
Munich & New York: The Art Lithographic Publishing Company, No date [c. 1890s]. Marian CHASE. Wraps. [GIFT BOOK] [NOVELTY BOOK] [POETRY] [RELIGION] [WOMAN AUTHOR] [WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR]. Marian CHASE, illustrator. Printed in Germany. 48mo oblong (3 15/16” x 4 7/8”); [8]pp; stiff chromolithographed wrapper die-cut in the shape of a church..... More
London, Paris, New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd., Publishers to Her Majesty the Queen, No date [c. 1893-1898]. A. SIMPSON, C. KLEIN, etc. Wraps. [GIFT BOOK] [NOVELTY BOOK] [POETRY] [RELIGION] [WOMAN AUTHOR]. A. SIMPSON, C. KLEIN, ETC. illustrators. 24mo (5 3/8” x 4”); [16]pp; stiff glazed, color-printed, die-cut and..... More
New York: American Tract Society, Sold at Their Depository, No date [c. 1832-1848]. Wraps. [CHAPBOOK] [JUVENILE] [RELIGION]. New-York: American Tract Society, Sold at their Depository. No. 150 Nassau-St., near the City-all New-York; and by Agents of the Society, its branches and Auxiliaries, in the principal cities and towns in the..... More
New York: Carlton & Porter, Sunday-School Union, 200 Mulberry-St. [1861]. Wraps. [ALMANAC] [RELIGION]. 32mo (4 ½” x 2 7/8”); 64pp; stiff pale green wrapper, front has printing within a highly decorative border, rear wrapper ad for the “Sunday School Union, M.E.C.”; ownership in pencil and vignette of a boy on..... More
No place listed: Forbes Co., No date [c. 1895]. Ephemera no binding. [PAPER DOLLS] [ADVERTISING PREMIUM] [JUVENILE]. , The New Home Sewing Machine Co. listed their locations on the front of the paper doll card in Orange, Mass., at 28 Union Square, N.Y., in Boston, Mass., Chicago., St. Louis, Atlanta..... More
New York: Sunday-School Union, 200 Mulberry Street, No date [c. 1857-1868]. cloth. [HOLIDAY] [CHRISTMAS]. 32mo (4 3/8” x 2 7/8”); 47pp; blind-stamped design to faded red cloth; ownership in light pencil on ffep; engraved frontispiece; 5 historiated caps; fading and shelf-wear to boards, light staining, offsetting of fp to title-page;..... More
London and Edinburgh: T. Nelson, Paternoster Roy, 1818. Boards. [NON-FICTION] [HOME ARTS]. 32mo (4” x 2 ¾”); 190pp; decoratively blind stamped red boards, gilt -stamped lettering and decoration to spine; pale yellow endpapers, gift inscription dated 1853 on ffep; borders around text on each page; chapter head-pieces; light rubbing to..... More
[London]: Sinclair, 54 Haymarket S.W., No date [c. after 1905]. Leather bound. [TRAVEL] [PHOTOGRAPHS]. 32mo oblong (4 7/8” x 7”); 69 leaves with b&w photographs; red goatskin, gilt-stamped decorative borders on boards, 4 banded spine with gilt-stamped lettering; all edges gilt; gilt dentelles and marbled endpapers; leaves hinged by binder’s..... More
No place listed: Van Noy-Interstate Company, No date [c. 1923]. Wraps. [VIEWBOOK] [RAILROADS]. Cover title: From San Francisco Along the line of the Western Pacific Railway Feather River Canon Route to Salt Lake City Map: Map of the Western Pacific Railroad Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad and Connections, Poole..... More
New York: The Art Lithographic Publishing Company, No date [c. 1890]. Wraps. [VICTORIAN GIFT BOOK] [NOVELTY BOOK] [POETRY]. also published in London: The Artistic Lithographic Company, No date [c. 1890]. Printed at the works in Munich. No. 4042. 4to; [18pp]; stiff embossed color pictorial wrapper, flowers decorate a crescent moon..... More
Austin 1, Texas: E.M. Scarbrough & Sons, No date [c. late 1940s-early 1950s]. Wraps. [EPHEMERA] [ADVERTISING PREMIUM] [PAPER DOLLS]. 4to (10 ¾” x 7 11/16”); 4 leaves; stiff pictorial wrapper printed in black, rear wrapper a mailer with U.S. Postage Paid from Austin, Texas; 2 staple binding; 4 leaves and..... More
Beverly, Mass. Crowley & Lunt, 242 Cabot Street, 1942. Wraps. [POCKET MAP] [ADVERTISING PREMIUM]. (6” x 3 ¾”) black lettering on stiff manila wrapper front and rear, small vignette of a ship in a shipyard under the letter “M”; advertisement on rear; map sheet size: 10 7/8” x 29 1/2”;..... More
New York, N.Y. Stoll and Edwards Co., Inc., 1928. Harrison CADY. Boards. Harrison CADY, illustrator. Small 4to; [16]pp; color pictorial boards, two bunnies with baskets and vegetables on front, green cloth shelf-back; color fp, color vignette on title page; illustrations throughout in b&w and color; 2pp publisher’s ads for other..... More
Augusta, Maine: Maine Development Commission, 1932. Wraps. Map: Eastern Portion of the Simangas Map 1610 First edition. 8vo; [iv], 108pp; cream colored stiff paper wrapper wtih yapp edges, title and ship decoration printed on front; illustrated with vignettes; one fold-out map stapled in before the front free endpaper; light creasing..... More