Philadelphia. American Sunday-School Union. (n.d.). c. early to mid 1800s. 8 pp. Three small engravings, hand colored. 4-3/8" x 2-3/4". Original publishers green wrappers, sewn. Printed in black. More about The TWO ARROWS.; Revised by the Committee of Publication of the American Sunday-School Union
New York. American Tract Society, (n.d.). c. 1880s. 32 pp. Illustrated with engravings. 4-1/4" x 2-3/4". Original publishers brown, decorative wrappers, sewn. Printed in red and green. Illustrated on nearly every page, text in black and red. AEG. More about The PICTURE ALPHABET.; In Prose and Verse
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Boston. Gould and Lincoln, 1846. 1st Edition, presumed. 128 pp. 4-1/2" x 2-3/4". Brown cloth boards, blind stamp rule to upper boards, with gilt image of two figures, gilt illustrations to back strip, blind stamp rule and same image to upper board to lower board. Yellow eps with gilt pattern... More about The ATTRACTIONS Of HEAVEN.; I Will Give Thee A Crown of Life. [cover title
Zürich: Dogenes Verlag, (1971). 1st Swiss edition (Toledano B40d). Unpaginated, though 32 pp. Drawings by Edward Gorey. Oblong 8vo. Black paper wrapped covers. Pictorial eps. Dust jacket. More about Die SEHR GUTE UHR (The VERY FINE CLOCK
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1922). Later printing, ca 1925. iv, 212, [8 (adverts)] pp. Frontis. 12mo. Mustard cloth binding with 4 quadrant vignette cover. Color pictorial dust jacket. More about TOM SWIFT And His ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE or Two Miles a Minute on the Rails. Tom Swift Sr. Series #25
Ca 1960s. 6-3/4" x 6-3/8". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Harry Corbett was an English puppeteer, magician and television and stage presenter, who is best known as the creator, in 1948, of the glove puppet character Sooty. In this original art, Sooty is pictured in a play room, standing... More about ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR SKETCH Of SOOTY, The BEAR.; Holograph caption: "S/S Pagett 13"
Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Company, Inc., 1941. Later printing. Unpaginated, ~ 100 pages. Illustrated by the author, with some drawings in color. 8vo. Black cloth spine over color pictorial paper wrapped boards. Yellow pictorial eps. Dust jacket. More about PETITE SUZANNE
Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Company, Inc., 1940. 1st edition. SIGNED by the Author on the t.p. Unpaginated, ~ 100 pages. Illustrated by the author, with some draawings in color. 8vo. Fine weave light blue linen cloth binding stamped in yellow. Blue & red pictorial eps. Dust jacket, with $2.00 price intact. More about THEE, HANNAH!
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1948. 1st Edition. Unpaginated. Illustrated with lithograph drawings by the author. Oblong 8vo. Hard cover. Pictorial eps. Dust jacket, with $3.50 price stamped to front flap over a clip [so presumed 2nd issue]. More about SKETCHBOOK
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1946. 1st Edition. Unpaginated. Illustrated with lithograph drawings by the author. Oblong 8vo. Hard cover. Dust jacket, with $3.00 price to front flap. More about TOMORROW'S CHAMPION
New York: Published by J. S. Redfield, (n. d.). Ca 1854. 24 pp. Illustrated with cuts. 6" x 3-7/8". Publisher's printed brown paper wrappers. Contents include: Disobedience to Parents--a True Story; Robert, and His Dog; I Mean to Be a Man; The Cruel Boy; The Brothers; The Arabs and the... More about The LITTLE CASKET; Filled with Pleasant Stories for the Instruction of the Young.; Redfield's Toy...
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Boston / New York: Joseph H. Allen / N. A. Calkins, 1864. 1st publication (Jones 038). [33] - 63, [9] pp. Adverts last 8 pages. Rear cover advert for the Bellevue Stereoscope. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Illustrated with cuts. 8vo. 22cm x 15cm. Publisher's printed pictorial wrappers... More about TRIALS And TRIUMPHS; or Paul Clifford in Trouble [as published in] "Student and Schoolmate...
Boston: Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, 1842. First American [stated]. Not found in American Imprints. 52 pp. Frontispiece. Illustrated with cuts. 5-3/4" x 3-3/4". Publisher's printed blue paper wrappers. OCLC records just a single institutional holding. More about The SCHOOLMATES. Or, The Influence of Character and Connections Displayed
Smithfield / London / Bath: Sold by J. Evans, Printer to the Cheap Repository... and J. Hatchard ... By S. Hazard, [n. d.]. 1st printing, issue with trade price schedule (ESTC N505684), ca 1798. Cf. AFRO-AMERICANA 1553 - 1906 entry 6794 for a later US edition from 1800. 16 pp... More about The BLACK PRINCE, A True Story; Being An Account of the Life and Death of Naimbanna, an African...
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers. (n. d.). Ca early 1920s. Single sheet, printed, in red, both sides. 6 cuts, 3 per side, accompany the text. 11" x 8-1/4". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "The House of Harper has won the deserved reputation of having on its list... More about ADVENTURE
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, (1921). Later edition. xvii, [1], 246, [2] pp. Illustrated. Small folio. 12-1/4" x 9". Black cloth spine over drab paper boards, with a color pictorial only to front board, stamped silver lettering. Yellow topstain. Printed buff paper dust jacket, replicating the front board design. More about HOWARD PYLE'S BOOK Of PIRATES.; Fiction, Fact & Fancy concerning the Buccaneers &...
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Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868. 1st printing. [65] - 128, 4 pp. Adverts last 4 pages. Color frontis by Bobbitt & Hooper. Cuts throughout the issue. 8vo. 8-7/8" x 5-3/4". Original printed orange wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More about The OLD LIFE - BOAT [as published in] OUR YOUNG FOLKS. An Illustrated Magazine for Boys and...
Moscow: 1977. 1st printing thus. 11, [1] pp. Illustrated in color. Small folio. 11-3/4" x 9-1/4". Color printed paper covers, stapled. More about The TALE Of TSAREVICH IVAN, The FIRE - BIRD And GREY WOLF.; Retold in English by Irina Zheleznova
New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., (1953). Early printing, ca 1953. 180 pp. Illustrations by Beth & Joe Krush. 8vo. Light blue cloth binding with black stamping. Dust jacket. More about The BORROWERS
London: Frederick Warne & Co Ltd., (n. d.). Later edition (Schuster 109.4). 64 pp. Color illustrations by Greenaway, many full-page. 9" x 10". Green cloth spine & tips. Glazed pictorial boards, with publisher imprint on front board. More about LITTLE ANN And Other Poems
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1884. 1st edition. 473 pp + 4 pp publisher advert at rear. Color frontis + many intratextual cuts. Royal 8vo. Blue colored decorative cloth. Map eps. More about The BOY TRAVELLERS In The FAR EAST. Part Fifth. Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey Through...
Boston. Little, Brown and Company. 1933. Later printing. [xii], 1-316 pp. Illustrated with colored plates. 8-3/4" x 5-3/4". Black cloth, full page, full color label to upper board, yellow top stain, gilt lettering to back strip, pictorial end papers, illustrated dust jacket. More about JO'S BOYS And How They Turned Out.; A Sequel to "Little Men"
Akron, Ohio. The Saalfield Publishing Company. 1930. Reprint. [1-12], 13- 311, [1 advert] pp. Illustrated. 7-1/2" x 5". Green cloth, full page, full color label to upper board, black lettering, red top stain, in dust jacket. More about EIGHT COUSINS, Or The Aunt-Hill
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New York: Random House, (1946). 1st edition thus. [10], 150, [2]; [10], 165, [3] pp. Illustrated by John Tenniel, colored by Fritz Kredel. 8vo. Blue / red quarter cloth bindings, over patterned cloth boards, with pictorial onlay to each front boar. Publisher's box. More about ALICE'S ADVENTURES In WONDERLAND [And] THROUGH The LOOKING GLASS, And What Alice Found There. ...
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1913). Early, if not first, printing. iv, 208, [12 (adverts)] pp. Frontis. 12mo. Green cloth with 4 quadrant front board. Dust jacket, white paper printed in red & green duplicating binding design. More about The MOVING PICTURE BOYS or The Perils of a Great City Depicted. The Moving Picture Boys Series #1
