Concord, New Hampshire: Rufus Merrill, circa 1850. Wraps. Chapbook. Approximately 2.5” x 4”. Complete. Cover shows two top-hatted Brazilian hunters with rifles, dogs, and game (bird, monkey, and lizard). Collection of short essays on South America, Mexico, “Exquimaux Indians,” and the United States. No repairs, just a little light wear..... More about Book About America
New York: Mahlon Day, 1833. Wraps. Chapbook. Approximately 2.5” x 4”. Complete. Cover features a cow with a bird on its back. Wood engravings throughout. Short illustrated essays on the horse, the ox, the goat, the cat, the mastiff, the pointer, the spaniel, the hog, the reindeer, the Arabian camel... More about The History of Tame Beasts
Concord, New Hampshire: Rufus Merrill, 1852 on the cover and 1853 on the title page. Wraps. Complete with original buff cover and 24 pages. The title page features an illustration of the ship Essex. Wood engravings throughout. Tiny “VtHi discard” stamp at the bottom margin of the first text page... More about Sailor Stories and Songs
New Haven: S. Babcock, [Undated but 1840]. Wraps. Chapbook. Approximately 1.75” x 2.75”. Complete. Cover features a young boy about to throw a ball. Internal wood engravings of children with hoops (title page), blowing bubbles, playing cricket, walking on stilts, and archery. Old re-sewn spine repair. Light wear and soiling... More about The Sports of Childhood ; or the Pastimes of Youth
Philadelphia: C. G. Henderson & Co., 1856. _. Paper Covered Boards. 24mo. Early printing. Complete with 44 pages, alternating illustrations and blanks. Cover has some edgewear. Lightly soiled pages. 24 hand-colored plates (some repeated) including three different North American Indians images, Chillians, Mexicans, Mexican Indians, Haytians, Tupinambas, Botocuodos, Brazilians, Brazilian... More about Uncle John's Panorama of America: Costumes of America
Chicago: Reilly & Lee, Copyright 1906. Enright, Maginal Wright. _. Pictorial Cover. 12mo. Binding type A with no blurb on rear cover. (The first edition was by Reilly & Britton; any Reilly & Lee publication is a later printing.) 64 pages. 15 full-page color illustrations as well as a color... More about Sugar-Loaf Mountain
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1952. Szyk, Arthur. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. 4to. Four-volume set (two volumes of text/illustrations plus two volumes of notes), Limited edition, #309 of 1500. 60 multi-color illustrations. Black linen covers with gilt decoration. Housed in two black slipcases. Includes the original advertisement and newsletter. Sound... More about The Arabian Nights Entertainments
New Market, Virginia: Salomon Henkel's Druckerey, 1819. Boards. Second edition. 36 pages. 3.5” x 5.5”. Woodcut title page vignette and other woodcut illustrations throughout. Original cloth-backed, paper-covered boards decorated with woodcuts including a large example of the famous Henkel rooster on the rear cover. An exceptionally nice example. This scarce... More about Das Kleine A B C Buch, oder erste Angangs-Buchlein Mit schonen Bilder Und Deren Namen . . . . ...
Carte De Visite. Blank reverse. An uncommon youthful portrait of the famous American author best known for his short stories, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle." More about Washington Irving - CDV
New York: Century, Circa 1918. Cox, Palmer. Hard Cover. 4to. Mrs. L. Palmer Cox's address label is inside the front cover. Complete. Sound binding. Clean pages. Light cover wear. Dust jacket has some minor edge wear, heaviest at spine ends. Number 5 in the Brownies series. Eleven Brownies titles in... More about The Brownies Through the Union
New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1907. Wylie, Charles (photographer). First Edition. Pictorial Boards. Oblong 8vo. Wonderful early Teddy Bear book illustrated with photographs and featuring two Steiff stuffed bears. Includes photos of tin houses, toy soldiers, a soft monkey, and lots of dolls. Full-page photographs alternate with text pages... More about Two Teddy Bears in Toyland
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1948. Gramatky, Hardie. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Complete. First edition with $2.25 on dust jacket. Inscribed by Gramatky on the title page, "For my very fine friends / -The Kollikers / with all good / wishes / Hardie Gramatky / 1948". Sound binding... More about Creeper's Jeep
Chicago: Scott Foresman, Copyright 1960. Johnson, Gordon. Posters. Complete set of 12 giant (18" x 21") Dick, Jane, and Sally poster cards for classroom display. Includes the original shipping sleeve. Generally clean with occasional light soiling and finger smudges. Minor wear. Two of the cards have edge tears; one extends... More about The Big Book for Before We Read
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. Church, Frederick S. and James H. Moser. First Edition, 1st State. Hard Cover. 12mo. Meets all BAL 7100 first state points. 232 pages. 8 pp. advertisements. Frontispiece and 7 plates inserted; other illustrations in text. Last line of p. 9 shows the word... More about Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1939. Hogan, Inez. First Edition, 1st Printing. Hard Cover. 12mo. Complete with dust jacket. Sound binding with intact hinges. Clean pages. Cover has light wear and soiling; a split along the spine is just starting. Minor wear to most of the dust jacket, but missing about... More about Nicodemus and the Gang
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1946. First Edition. Paper Covered Boards. Oblong 16vo. Very nice movable book requiring the reader to catch loose dogs and put them in the correct beds. All six dogs (poodle, collie, terrier, scottie, spaniel, and dachshund) and dog beds are present. Both fire department... More about Catch the Dogs (later Re-Issued as Puppy Play House
Allahabad, India: A. H. Wheeler & Company, 1889. First Published Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. All published as part of the Indian Railway Library and bound together in a buckram binding with original wrappers and advertisements. City of Dreadful Night (1891) is the first published edition with "Printed at the 'Pioneer'... More about The City of Dreadful Night and Other Places + Wee Willie Winkie + In Black and White (Bound Together
Oldenburg, Germany: Verlag Gerhard Stalling, 1930. Wenz-Vietor, Else. First Edition. Hard Cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Complete. Text in German (Sutterlin typeface). Striking color illustrations throughout; seven of them are full-page. Sound binding; front hinge starting to crack. No names or other writing. Clean pages with a.... More about Das Arme Mariechen (The Poor Little Marie
New York and London: E.P Dutton & Co. and Longmans, Green and Co., [1884]. Doyle, Richard. First Edition. Pictorial Cover. 8vo. Complete with 56 pages and all 25 color illustrations (two are double-page) and 31 sepia illustrations. Illustrated endpapers. Sound binding; neatly mended front hinge, rear hinge just starting to... More about The Princess Nobody: A Tale of Fairyland
Donohue, 1912. Printed Wrapper. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Complete. This edition has eight full page color lithographs instead of the more frequently found copies with only four The full page color illustrations are of scouts Selecting a campsite, Signaling form a hilltop, Sending Morse Code, Fording a.... More about American Boy Scouts Plays and Pastimes
New York: Nelson Doubleday, 1961. Sendak, Maurice. Hard Cover. 8vo. Number 41 from the 'Best in Children's Books' series with illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Six pages of two-tone Sendak illustrations for the story, "What the Good-Man Does is Always Right." Book has almost no wear. Sound binding, clean pages, no... More about Best in Children's Books - # 41 with "What the Good-Man Does is Always Right,"...
New York: International News Company, 1884. Hard Boards with Cloth Spine. Folio. This book has the same cover illustration as a German edition, Lebende Thierbilder, along with three of the same movables. Complete with six movables: 1) Happy Family - works fine; tab shortened and very worn, 2) Geese, Ducks... More about Moving Picture Series: Vol III Moving Animal Pictures
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1922. Kirk, Maria L. & Arthur Hughes. Gift Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Gift Edition. Complete with all 14 multi-color plates and front cover applique. Sound binding; rear hinge intact, front hinge cracked. Minor cover wear. Slightly darkened spine. More about Adventures of a Brownie, The Little Lame Prince, Poor Prin
Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1941. MacKnight, Ninon. First Edition. Hard Cover. 4to. Complete with dust jacket. Sound binding with intact hinges. Clean pages. Light wear to cover. Slight spine slant. Price-clipped dust jacket is edge-worn, heaviest at top of spine; closed tear on front cover. Child's name on front free... More about Parasols is for Ladies
London - Paris - New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd., 1896. Unlisted. Pictorial Cover. 4t0. Very nice early movable book. 10 pages with 4 transformation pictures. All four transformations work well. 1st transformation: Petting Donkey to Picking Wildflowers - soiled tab, pulls just a little tight, no other problems... More about Pleasure Pages - Transformation Book
