Baltimore: None listed [Baltimore & Ohio Railroad], 1927. Second Edition. cloth. Second edition, November 1927. 8vo; [9] 10-210pp; quarter bound in blue buckram, light blue buckram over board, label with title to front cover and spine; illustrated with a map of “The Fair of the Iron Horse Centenary Exposition, The... More about The Catalogue of the Centenary Exhibition of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad 1827-1927
Augusta, Maine: E. E. Knowles & Co., 1892. Second Edition. Cloth. 8vo; 608pp; green stamped cloth over board with decorative banding and gilt stamped title and state seal to front cover, gilt and black stamped decorative spine; owner’s signature with dates to free front endpaper and verso frontispiece; frontispiece a...... More about History of the State of Maine, Second Edition, Illustrated
[London]: Hodder and Stoughton for Boots Pure Drug Company, No date [c. 1900]. W. Heath Robinson. Cloth. 4to; 319pp; gilt stamped red cloth over board with outline of children playing on front cover; illustrated in black and white drawings and 16 tipped in color illustrations including frontispiece; light foxing to... More about Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales with Illustrations by W. Heath Robinson
New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1970. Cloth. Later printing. 8vo; [40pp]; green cloth over board with color illustrated onlay to cover, stamped spine; color printed clipped dust jacket; color endpapers; color and black and white illustrations; presentation inscription in ink to rear fly leaf dated 1978; fine in near fine dj. More about The Fir Tree
Toronto: William Briggs, 1889. cloth. SIGNED. 8vo; [i-vii], viii-ix, [3], 12-136pp; gilt stamped title and decoration on blue cloth over board, beveled board edges, blind stamped borders; inscribed and signed by author on free front endpaper; illustrated; scuffing and fraying to head and tail of spine, ½” scrape to mid... More about Swimming and LIfe-Saving
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1964. Joan Walsh ANGLUND. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 12mo; [32pp]; black stamped illustration to pale blue buckram over board, title stamped on spine with author and publisher; frontispiece and illustrations throughout the verse, some in blue, brown and black and some in... More about Childhood is a Time of Innocence
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1961. Joan Walsh ANGLUND. First Edition. Cloth. First edition, later printing. 12mo; [30pp]; black stamped illustration to orange cloth over board, title on spine with author and publisher; gift inscription to front pastedown; color frontispiece in red, green and black; illustrations throughout the... More about Christmas is a Time of Giving
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, Publishers, 1880. Rosina Emmet [SHERWOOD]. cloth. 8vo; [3] 4-64pp; quarter bound tan cloth binding, illustrated paper over board with title and author on front cover and publisher on rear; blue endpapers; gift inscription in ink to free front endpaper dated 1887; chromolithographed illustrations with... More about Pretty Peggy and Other Ballads
New England: Printed for the Proprietor, 1813, February. Full calf. 12mo; 264pp; contemporary smooth brown calf, spine with onlaid gilt stamped black label; 4 woodcut illustrations of which 3 depict various conjoined twins and one with other genetic anomalies; damage to head and tail of spine, scuffing to edges, scrapes... More about The Works of Artistotle the Famous Philosopher in Four Parts Containing I. His Complete...
Reading, Pennsylvania: The Narrow Fabric Co., 1917. Staplebound wraps. 8vo; 24pp; blue pictorial wrappers with two staple binding; black and white photographic illustrations; light vertical creasing to the wrappers and some pages, small area of loss on two corresponding pages; very good. Sewing and crafting with rick rack produced by... More about Nufashond Rick Rack Book, Volume 3
Portland, Maine: Chisholm Brothers, 1911. 12th Edition. Stiff wraps. Twelfth Edition Improved by New Plates. 8vo long; [46pp]; stiff grey pictorial wrappers with a color scene of a lighthouse and title to the front, rear is plain white; chipping to edges, light hand soiling to rear wrapper; 2 staple binding... More about Portland Maine and What I Saw There, A City of 60,000 Souls Throned on Hills and Sea-Surrounded
Waterville, Maine: W. M. Ladd Company, Printers, No date [1902]. Stiff wraps. 12mo; [1-2] 3-36; light brown stiff wrapper with black title printed on front; 2 staple binding; black and white photographic illustrations; some printing ink smears, rusting of the staples with some staining; near fine. Four copies located in... More about 1802-1902 Waterville Centennial, June 22-23-24, The Official Programme
New York: Samuel S. & William Wood, No. 261 Pearl-Street, 1842. Wraps. 4 ½” x 3 ½”; 24pp; yellow paper wrapper with wood-cut decoration of a paddle-wheeler on the front and a listing of other publisher’s School Books to rear; string binding; wood-cut decoration to title page; all text within... More about Arithmetical Tables, for the Use of Schools
Augusta, [Maine]: Kennebec Journal Print, 1904. Cloth. 8vo; 95pp; blue cloth over board with black printed boarder and gilt stamped title to front cover; binder’s ink stamp to free front endpaper; light age toning of paper, light scuff to bottom cover corners and tail spine; near fine. Presentation slip from..... More about Aroostook War. Historical Sketch and Roster of Commissioned Officers and Enlisted Men called...
New York: McLoughlin Bros. 1904. Stiff wraps. 8vo; [10pp]; chromolithographed stiff wrapper with children playing “London Bridge” to front, back wrapper a pale blue calico pattern; two staple binding; red and black illustrations in text; creasing to front wrapper edge, light soiling, wrapper fold separated to first staple but binding..... More about A Birthday Treat and Other STories, Playtime Series
Chicago: O. L. Fox & Co., 1873. Stiff wraps. 4to; 77 [2]pp; color illustrated stiff tan wrappers with title on front cover and an ad on the back cover; engraved illustrations; light soiling to cover with some creasing, pg 47 damaged with a 6 ½ x 3 ¼” column neatly... More about Chicago Almanac 1874
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, Publishers, No date [c. 1894]. Wraps. 8vo shape book (8 ¾” x 4 1/8”); [14pp]; chromolithographed outline of a doll in a frilly cape, title to front cover and publisher to back; 10pp black and white illustrations, 4pp color illustrations with text; creasing to feet and... More about Dolly's Adventures
London: Ernest Nister, No date [c. 1905]. Cloth. 8vo; [36pp]; quarter bound red cloth, chromolithographed pictorial paper over board with title on front cover; decorative endpapers; 12 full page chromolithographed illustrations including frontispiece, 2 full page lithographed illustrations and illustrations every page within text; thick stiff pages; 3 staple binding;... More about Feathered Friends
No place [possibly New York City]: Fleischmann & Co., No date [c. 1900]. Wraps. 12mo; [14pp]; chromolithographed illustrated glazed wrappers with a chick on the front and a bid flying over a wheat farm on the rear wrapper; illustrated throughout in dark green ink; fine. Scarce, located in 3 WorldCat... More about Fleischmann & Co.'s Jingles, Series No. 2
No publication place: No publisher listed, Shumate, Railroad Printer, Lebanon, Indiana, No date [c. 1914-1918]. 1st Edition. String-tied Cloth over Board. 8vo; 20 leaves; wood design blind stamped cloth covers, gilt stamped title to front; string tied binding; leaves pasted recto and verso with color postcards of the city of... More about Have a Look at Our City
No place listed: No publisher listed, No date [c. 1930s]. G.G. WIEDERSEIM. Pictorial boards. Folio; [14pp]; heavy card stock wrapper and pages; wrapper full color illustrated cover with title on front cover; full color illustrations every page; light soiling and shelf scuffing to wrapper, tape to wrapper upper spine covering..... More about Kiddie land; W931
Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Co., 1927. Pictorial boards. 8vo; [18pp]; color pictorial paper boards with images of Rin-Tin-Tin the dog on the covers; pictorial endpapers; color illustrations; light scuffing to spine and cover edges, light stain to back cover; illustrations bright and binding tight; very good plus. Cover states, "Appearing... More about Little Folks' Story of Rin-Tin-Tin; W698
Augusta, Maine: Maine Development Commission, No date [c. 1930s]. Staplebound wraps. 8vo; 47 [1]pp; dark green wrappers embossed with gilt design, cut-out window on front revealing color photographic illustration on title page; two staple binding; black and white photographic illustrations throughout and five in color; chip to bottom edge front wrapper... More about MAINE, The Land of Remembered Vacations
Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1931. Ethel Bonney TAYLOR. Wraps. Folio; [14pp]; each page color illustrated and cut to a shape, back wrapper has a house roof flap that folds over the front wrapper; creasing to wrappers front and read, 6” closed tear to back wrapper with old tape to... More about The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe, No. 958
New York: Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Company, 1942. Staplebound wraps. 8vo; [10pp]; color pictorial textured heavy paper wrapper with two staple binding; color illustrations every page with text beneath border; light staining to bottom wrapper corner at fold; near fine. Charming, illustrated story about the adventures of piggies. More about Plump Piggies, Linenette, No. 494