FORRESTER'S BOYS' & GIRLS' MAGAZINE. January, 1852. Vol. 9. No. 1.
Boston: Bradbury & Guild, 1852. 1st printing. 32 pp. Illustrated. 8-3/4" x 6". Printed pale pink paper wrappers, sewn. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
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The CHILDREN'S HOUR. A Magazine for the Little Ones. August, 1871. Vol. X. No. 2.
Philadelphia: T. S. Arthur & Sons, 1871. 1st printing (presumed). 41 - 72 pp. Illustrated. 7-1/2" x 6". Tan paper wrappers with black title lettering and illustration printed to front wrapper. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
The CHILDREN'S HOUR. A Magazine for the Little Ones. September 1871. Vol. X. No. 3.
Philadelphia: T. S. Arthur & Sons, 1871. 1st printing (presumed). 73 - 104 pp. Illustrated. 7-3/4" x 6". Pink paper wrapper with black title lettering and illustration printed to front wrapper. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
YOUTHS CASKET And PLAYMATE. A Magazine for Boy and Girls. February, 1864. Volume XIX. Number 6.
Boston: William Guild & Company, 1864. 1st printing. [1], 130 - 160 pp. Illustrated. 8-1/4" x 5-1/2". Pink paper wrappers with black title lettering and illustration printed to front wrapper. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
YOUTHS CASKET And PLAYMATE, A Magazine for Boy and Girls. November 1863. Volume XIX. Number 2.
Boston: William Guild & Company, 1863. 64, [2] pp including wrappers. 4 b/w illustrations. 8-1/4" x 5-1/2". Pink paper wrappers, sewn, with illustrated paper wrappers and black title lettering printed to front wrapper. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
NO NUKES And KAREN SILKWOOD.
Stockbridge: Recorded at Shaggy Dog Studio, (1977). 2 part record sleeve, with the interior left a poem by Ruth Rae. Includes a 7" diameter record [inside, examined, but not played]. 5 blue-tinted photographic images of Seabrook N.H. 1976. Rae's poe illustrated with drawing of a tree, by Lorie Leininger, rendered..... More
OUR YOUNG FOLKS. An Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls. September, 1871. Number 81.
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1871. 1st printing. [1], 514 - 576, [8 advertisements] pp. Several b/w illustrations. Frontis. 9" x 6"". Orange paper wrappers, sewn, with black title lettering and design printed to front wrapper and spine. More
OUR YOUNG FOLKS. An Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls. October, 1868. Number 46.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868. 1st printing. [1], 578 - 639, [1], [8 advertisements] pp. Several b/w illustrations. Frontis. 9' x 6". Orange paper wrappers, sewn, with black title lettering and design printed to front wrapper and spine. More
OUR YOUNG FOLKS. An Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls. September, 1868. Number 45.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868. 1st printing. [1], 514 - 576, [4 advertisements] pp. Untrimmed. Several b/w illustrations and mucial notes. Frontis. 9" x 6". Orange paper wrappers, sewn, with black title lettering and design printed to front wrapper and spine. More
OUR YOUNG FOLKS. An Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls. December, 1871. Number 84.
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1871. 1st printing. [2], 706 - 768, [iv], [8 advertisements] pp. Frontis. Several b/w illustrations. 9" x 6". Orange paper wrappers, sewn, with black title lettering and design printed to front wrapper and spine. More
HEADLIGHT TOM. The Boy Engineer. And Other Stories. PLUCK And LUCK. Stories of Adventure. No. 1316. August 22, 1923.
New York: Harry H Wolf, Publisher. 1923. 1st printing thus, a reissue of an 1899 work. 32 pp. Adverts last 4 pages. 8vo. 9-5/8" x 6-7/8". Original paper wrappers, with color pictorial to front wrapper. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
The CHILDREN'S A B C.
London: Frederick Warne & Co., (n. d.). Ca 1890s. Not in Cotsen. 10 pp. B&W / color illustrations affixed to 'untearable' stiff linen. 9-5/8" x 6-3/4". Glazed color-pictorial boards. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
The STORY Of The LITTLE WHITE MOUSE: Or the Overthrow of the Tyrant King.
Glasgow: Printed for the Booksellers, (n. d.). Ca. 1850. Not in Osborne, nor in Gumuchian. 24 pp. Woodcut of a castle to front wrapper. 6-7/8" x 4-1/2". Printed paper wrappers, stitched. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
RCA TELEVISION PICT-O-GUIDE. Volume I.
Harrison, NJ: Radio Corporation of America, (1949). 100 pp. Illustrated with b/w photographs & diagrams. 4 1/4 x 6 3/4 in. Red vinyl with 4-ring binder inside of spine. Housed in original card board box. An early manual for television technicians. More
RCA TELEVISION PICT-O-GUIDE. Volume III.
Harrison, NJ: Radio Corporation of America, (1952). 220 pp. Illustrated with b/w photographs & diagrams. 4 1/4 x 6 3/4 in. Red vinyl with 4-ring binder inside of spine. Housed in original card board box. An early manual for television technicians. More
TALES Of The JUNGLE. Father Tuck's 'Alphabet' Series.
New York - London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, (n. d.). Circa 1890s. Unpaginated (though 12 pp). Illustrated, including 4 full page chromolithographs. Royal 8vo. 7 1/4" x 10 3/4" Color pictorial, stiff wrappers. Stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
FUN WHEREVER WE ARE.; The New Basic Readers.
Chicago: Scott Foresman & Co., (1962). 3rd printing. 79 pp. Illustrated in color by Bob Childress. 8vo. Linen cloth spine with color pictorial paper wrappers, stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
WILD OATS.
Topeka, Kansas: Crane & Company, Printers, 1914. 1st edition. INSCRIBED, PRESENTATION copy, SIGNED as "the Author" 117, [3 (blank)] pp. Frontispiece photographic image of the author. 8vo. 8" x 5-1/2". Canvas covered paper covers, cord tie. Interesting essays on divers subjects, mainly on Kansas & points southwest, by this peripatetic..... More
CRYSTALLINE ROCKS Of SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA. San Francisco. Bulletin 159. June 1951.; State of California. Department of Natural Resources. Division of Mines. Ferry Building, San Francisco
San Francisco: 1951. 1st Edition. 136 pp (including Index). Charts, graphs, maps (including 8 folding [#5 in duplicate] in rear pocket). 9-1/4" x 6". Original publisher's tan cloth binding with black stamping. More
IMPORATANT DOCUMENTS On The GREAT PROLETARIAN CULTURAL REVOLUTION In CHINA.
Peking: Foreign LanguageS Press, 1970. 323, [5] pp. Red ribbon page marker. 4 b/w photographic images of Mao at front. 16mo. 5-1/8" x 3-5/8". Red vinyl covers, with gold stamping to front panel. More
The PALACE HOTEL.
San Francisco: (1930). 1st edition (Rocq 9577). With tipped in author signature at front. 38 pp. Illustrated, with many from photographs. 8vo. Grey cloth spine with blue marbled-paper boards with gilt stamped lettering to front board. The Palace Hotel is a landmark historic hotel in San Francisco, California, located at..... More
A DISCOURSE In TWO PARTS, Preached at the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century.
Boston: Printed by E. Lincoln, for John West, No. 75, Cornhill, 1801. 1st Edition (American Imprints 790; Sabin 39181). 40 pp. 8vo. 8-7/8" x 5-3/8". Bound in later red half-leather binding, dark red cloth boards. A sermon on Psalm LXXVIII. 2 & 3, 6 & 7. More
HISTORY Of BRITISH COLUMBIA. The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft. Volume XXXII.
San Francisco: The History Company, Publishers, 1887. 1st Edition. xxxi, [1 (blank)], 792 pp (including Index). Original publisher's printed 1887 Prospectus Leaflet laid-in. Fold-out map at front. Numerous other intratextual maps. 8vo. 9-1/8" x 5-7/8". Original full publisher's deluxe full black morocco binding, with elaborate gilt stamping to spine. AEG..... More
A TRIBUTE To GEORGE W. BUSH. Forty - Third President of the United States of America.; Printed for the gratification of the Members of the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs
Mountain View, California: Printed .. by Jonathan Clark at The Artichoke Press, 2008. 1st Printing. Unpaginated bifolium, so 4 pages. P. 2 blank. Cut to pp. 1 & 4. 9-3/8" x 6-1/2" White paper, printed in black. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Mencken's quote found on p. 3..... More
The ACT Of INCORPORATION, Regulations, and Members of the Massachusetts Congregational Charitable Society; with a Brief Sketch of Its Origin, Progress, and Purposes.
Boston: John Eliot, 5, Court-Street, 1815. 1st printing (American Imprint 35218). 20 pp. 8vo. Original printed blue paper wrappers, now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Rear wrapper with advert for other publications available from "the Printing-Offfice of John Eliot" More