Munich and New York: Obpacher Brothers Pubishers, No date [c.1900]. Wraps. [EPHEMERA] [GIFT BOOK]. 16mo (6 5/8” x 4 ¾”); [16]pp; cream-colored stiff wrappers, chromolithograph of a man bowling in the mountains on the front, small vignette of two owls at night on rear wrapper; publisher’s gold string binding; rounded..... More
Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1885. [MOVABLE BOOK] [GIFT-BOOK] [VICTORIANA] [WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR]. Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers, and New York: Charles T. Dillingham. Eleanor W. TALBOT, illustrator. 16mo (6 7/8” x 9 ¾”); [47] leaves; dark gold pebbled cloth over beveled board, vignette of a woman’s fan, and hankie on..... More
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1877. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 12mo; 148 [1]pp; gilt stamped green cloth over board; publisher's monogram at foot of spine, wove paper flyleaves; brown endpapers; ownership on front fly dated Dec. 25, 1876; light shelf scuffing to cover; near fine. First state, BAL..... More
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
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
New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, Inc., 1964. Cloth. First edition. 32mo (4 1/8" x 3 1/8"); [30]pp; green cloth over board with a vignette of a girl on the front, lettering on the spine; gift inscription in neat fine marker dated 1964 on ffep; color vignette on title page;..... More
London: Frederick Warne & Co., No date [c. 1880s]. [VICTORIAN GIFT BOOK] [POETRY] [ILLUSTRATED] [ADVERTISEMENT]. 8vo square (8 ¾” x 7 ½”); [12]pp; stiff wrapper with a glazed chromolithographed onlay featuring a portrait of two girls on the front; rear wrapper features an advertisement for “Sir John Bennett’s Ladies’ Gold..... More
Boston: Lee and Shepard, Publishers, 1883. Miss L.B. HUMPHREY. Three-quarter leather bound. [ANTHOLOGY]. Designs by Miss L.B. Humphrey. [Anthology]: ADAMS, Sarah Flower. Nearer, My God, to Thee. KNOX, William. Oh, Why Should the Spirit of Mortal Be Proud? LYTE, Henry Francis. Abide With Me. TOPLADY, Augustus Montague. Rock of Ages..... More
London: Ernest Nister, c. 1890. Stiff wraps. No date [c. 1890]. Printed by E. Nister at Nuremburg (Bavaria). 12mo; [16pp]; gilt stamped stiff scalloped-edge wrapper with chromolithographed pastoral scene in a fan shaped cartouche to front; gold cord binding; all edges gilt; decorated title page; 7 full page sepia illustrations..... More
London and New York: Ernest Nister, No date [c.1890s]. [GIFT BOOK] [VICTORIANA] [ILLUSTRATED] [POETRY]. London: Ernest Nister, 24 St. Bride Street, E.C. and New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 31 West Twenty Third Street. E. Nister at Nuremberg (Bavaria), printers. [14]pp; [14]pp; stiff wrapper, color pictorial front, publisher’s gilt twist..... More
Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally and Company, Publishers, 1908. Elizabeth B. BROWNELL. Cloth. [VICTORIANA] [POETRY] [WOMAN AUTHOR] [WOMAN PHOTOGRAPHER]. 4to; 63pp; tan cloth over board, gilt-stamped lettering, decorative rondel with a portrait of a toddler on the front, portrait of a toddler onlay to rear; frontispiece of two toddlers..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1885. First Edition. Stiff wraps. First edition. 12mo; [40pp]; gilt embossed decoration of flowers to white pebbled stiff wrapper, gilt-stamped title and author; silk ribbon tie through all layers; gilt all edges; relief printed illustrations and poetry to recto only on stiff card stock;..... More
London: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, 1843. Kenny MEADOWS. Leather bound. 12mo; 76pp; gilt stamped contemporary calf, 5 banded spine, red leather label, gutters and spine professionally restored; dark teal endpapers; inside dentelles; original cloth front wrapper bound in after text; light scattered foxing to verso free endpapers and fly leaves..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, Franklin Square, 1873. [POETRY] [BINDING]. Small quartos (4to); tan cloth over beveled board with decorative gilt-stamped fillets around a double black fillet, lettering in gilt, pictorial decoration on each; all edges gilt; dark tan endpapers; frontispiece with tissue guard and illustrated throughout text and..... More
Boston: Lockwood, Brooks, & Company, 1876. Cloth. 12mo; 138, [1]pp; gilt-stamped green cloth, title and vignette of cherubim blowing a trumpet and carrying lilies, gilt stamped spine; all edges gilt; brown endpapers; title page in red and black; all verse within black border; ornamental tailpiece; light scruff to spine tail;..... 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: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1961. Poetry. Limited Edition. Cloth. [POETRY] [LETTERS]. Limited edition, number 232 of 400. 4to; 187pp; publisher’s alternative half-binding of royal blue cloth with a red overlay; gilt-stamped roundel with the portrait of a cat on front, gilt lettering on front and spine; bottom edge untrimmed;..... More
London and New York: Hildesheimer & Faulkner, No date [c. 1880-1890]. Alice REEVE & B.D. SIGMUND. [EPHEMERA] [VICTORIAN GIFT BOOK] [WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR]. London: Hildesheimer & Faulkner and New York: Geo. C. Whitney. Alice REEVE and B.D. [Benjamin] SIGMUND, illustrators. Printed in Germany. 48mo oblong (3 15/16” x 5”); [12]pp; pictorial..... More
Boston: The Ball Publishing Company, 1929. Boards. [POETRY] [SIGNED] [WOMAN AUTHOR]. SIGNED by the Author. 12mo; 81pp; white boards, onlay of a cobweb with title and author in black, black cloth shelf-back; deckle fore edge and bottom edge; signed by the author and dated “Most Sincerely Iva H. Drew 1929”..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928, February. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 8vo; xix [i], 191pp; gilt-stamped title and decorative lozenge on navy blue cloth over board, gilt-stamped spine; deckle fore-edge; ownership to front pastedown; marginalia in pencil on a few pages; light rubbing to spine head and tail; age-toning..... More
Chicago: M.A. Donohue, 407-429 Dearborn St. 1905. Cloth. [POETRY] [HUMOR]. First edition. 12mo; 142pp; olive cloth over board, gilt-stamped lettering, stamped figure of a boy carrying a pitcher of water with ice on front board; gilt-stamped lettering on spine; author’s portrait in sepia half-tone as fp; tissue guard with author’s..... More
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London: John Lane The Bodley Head, No date [c. 1916]. Joyce DENNYS. [HUMOR] [POETRY] [ABECEDARIAN]. Also published by New York: John Lane Company, and Toronto: S.B. Gundy. Joyce DENNYS, illustrations. Cover title: Our Hospital ABC 4to (9 3/8”x 7 5/8”); [54pp]; quarter bound in blue cloth with color printed paper..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928. Cloth. 12mo; xi, [1], 184pp; bright green cloth over board, gilt-stamped lettering on spine; bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown; light shelf wear to boards; very good plus. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an English novelist and poet. He is perhaps best remembered for two of..... 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
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