The FLINT CHIPPER.
Boston / New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1940. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy. [6], 361, [1] pp. Illustrated by Woodi Ishmael. 8vo. Grey cloth binding with brown lettering. No dust jacket. More
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LILLIPUT LEVEE. Poems of Childhood Child-Fancy and Child-Like Moods
New York: Wynkoop & Sherwood, 108 Fulton Street, 1868. 1st US edition. vi, 209, [1] pp. T.p. publisher device. 11 [of12] inserted plates [lacking the frontispiece]. 12mo. 7" x 5". Original publisher's pebbled brown cloth binding with gilt stamping. More
COBWEBS To CATCH FLIES. Illustrated books for the Nursery and Schoolroom 1700 - 1900.
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1975. 1st Edition. 163, [1 (blank)] pp. Illustrated. Royal 8vo. 10" x 7-1/2". Blue cloth binding with gilt title title stamped to spine. Blue dust jacket with illustration and white title lettering printed to front panel and spine. More
From PRIMER To PLEASURE In READING. An Introduction to the History of Children's Books in England from the Invention of Printing to 1900.
Boston: Horn Book Co., 1972. 1st US Edition. x, 340 pp. Illustrated. Royal 8vo. 10" x 7-3/8" Grey linen cloth binding. Pictorial eps. Brown paper dust jacket printed in green. More
RANDY STARR AFTER An AIR PRIZE or The Sky Flyers in a Dash Down the States. Randy Starr Series #1.
Akron: Saalfield, (1931). 212 pp. Frontis. 8-1/8" x 5-1/2". Green buckram cloth binding with black stamped lettering. Red dust jacket. More
PILOT Of The HIGH SIERRAS.
New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1937. 1st edition. 350 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth binding lettered in red. Orange topstain. Red & black pictorial dust jacket. An early title in the Dodd Mead Career series. More
ICE PATROL; Jim Steele's Adventures with the U. S. Coast Guard
New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1937. 1st edition. 262 pp. Illustrated from Official U. S. Coast Guard photographs and with Line Drawings by Frank Beaudouin. 8vo. Light blue cloth binding lettered in dark blue. Map eps. Light blue pictorial dust jacket. An early title in the Dodd Mead Career..... More
LITTLE GEORGE; or, Temptation Revisited. Third Series. - No. 4.
New York: Kiggins & Kellogg, 88 John St. (n. d.). Ca 1848 - 1857. 16 pp. Illustrated with 7 cuts, 4 full-page. 16mo. 4-1/2" x 3". Original pale yellow printed paper wrappers, sewn. Vignette to front wrapper, replicating that to the t.p. Prior owner has added a wall-paper glazed grey..... More
The PROBLEM FOX.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941. 1st Edition. Unpaginated. Illustrated with b/w line drawings. 8vo. Grey cloth spine over brick red cloth boards, with fox design. Dust jacket. "Alexander McCormick "Alex" Sturm was an American artist, author, and entrepreneur who co-founded in 1949, the American firearm maker, Sturm, Ruger &..... More
3000 MILES THROUGH The CLOUDS or Dropped Among an Unknown Race. "Pluck and Luck. Stories of Adventure." No. 812. Dec 24th, 1913.
New York: Frank Tousey, Publisher, 1913. Very early printing. Rear advert lists through # 814. 30, [2] pp. Text double column. 11" x 8". Color pictorial wrappers, stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Not found on OCLC, nor in the Teitler "American Lost-Race Fiction" Collection catalogue... More
BASEBALL'S GREATEST PLAYERS. The Big League Baseball Library.; With a Foreword by Ford C. Frick.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1971. x 295, [1 (blank)] pp. With 4 b/w halftone photographs at front. 8vo. 19.5cm x 13.5cm. Full color composition binding. Plain eps. More
The YOUNG PITCHER.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1939). Later edition. [6], 248, [2] pp. 12mo. Red cloth binding with black printing. Orange dust wrapper. More
A PAIR Of RED CLOGS.
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, (1960). 1st edition. Unpaginated. Color illustrations by Kazue Mizamura. Oblong 8vo. 8-1/8" x 9-1/2". Yellow cloth binding with red printing. Patterned design to eps. Black dust jacket, with $3.00 price. More
MYSTERY Of The GLOWING EYE. The Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #51.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1974. 2nd Printing (Farah 1974B-2). 181, [2] pp. Illustrated. 12mo. Composition binding with yellow spine, with cover art by Rudy Nappi. Black topstain. White pictorial eps. More
A GARLAND Of NEW SONGS. The Post Captain. The Maid of Lodi. The Beggar Girl. Sally in Our Alley. The Woodland Maid.
Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed by J. Marshall, in the Old Flesh-Market. (n. d.). Ca. late 1790s. 8 pp (one [half] sheet folded, unopened). Untrimmed. Woodcut vignette to front wrapper (a ship under sail). 16mo. 6-1/4" x 4". Printed self-wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
The PHANTOM FREIGHTER. The Hardy Boys Mystery Series #26.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1947). Later printing, ca 1960. vi, [2], 216 pp. Frontis. 12mo. Sand cloth with dark brown lettering. Light brown pictorial eps. Color pictorial wraparound dust jacket. More
The HUBBUB; or, The History of Farmer Russel the hard-hearted Overseer.; Cheap Repository.
London / Bath / Edinburgh: Sold by J. Marshall (Printer to the Cheap Repository...) ... and R. White, Picadilly, London ... By. S. Hazard, at Bath ... J. Elder, at Edinburgh, [1797]. 1st printing (Spinney 90). 16 pp. Untrimmed. Signed "S" at conclusion of text [cf. Spinney, p. 310]. Woodcut..... More
TOM SWIFT And His OCEAN AIRPORT or Foiling the Haargolanders. 2164.
Racine: Whitman Publishing Co., (1928). Circa early 40s. 214 pp. 8vo. Red cloth binding with black stamped lettering. Orange topstain. Dust jacket. More
The BATTLESHIP BOYS FIRST STEP UPWARD. Battleship Boys Series #2.
Akron: Saalfield, (1911). Reprint. 254 pp. Frontispiece. 12mo. Dark blue cloth binding with pictorial design & lettering in black. Dust jacket. More
The COCK - FIGHTER. A True History.
Bath / London: Sold by S. Hazard, (Printer to the Cheap Repository for Religious and Moral Tracts) ... ; by J. Marshall, At the Cheap Repositories, ...; R. White, Piccadily, LONDON... [1795]. 1st publication (Spinney 5). 12 pp. Untrimmed. "Entered at Stationers' Hall" blacked out, as are the B.M. &..... More
HUSBANDRY MORALIZ'D; Or, Pleasant Sunday Reading for a Farmer's Kitchen. Part I.
Bath / London: Sold by S. Hazard, (Printer to the Cheap Repository for Religious and Moral Tracts) ... ; by J. Marshall, At the Cheap Repositories, ...; R. White, Piccadily, LONDON... [1795]. 1st publication (Spinney 12). 12 pp. Untrimmed. Woodcut vignette [2-3/4" x 3"] center, p. 1. 12mo. 7-1/2" x...... More
The HISTORY Of IDLE JACK BROWN. Containing the Merry Story of the Mountebank, with some Account of the Bay Mare Smiler.; Being the Third Part of the History of TWO SHOEMAKERS. Cheap Repository.
London / Bath: Sold by J. Marshall (Printer to the Cheap Repository for Moral and Religious Tracts) ... and R. White, Piccadilly, London ... By. S. Hazard, at Bath ... [1796]. 1st printing (Osborne, p. 916; Spinney 53). 21, [3] pp. "Z" p. 21. Untrimmed. Last page a publication history..... More
The MOTHER At HOME; or, The Principles of Maternal Duty Familarly Illustrated.
Boston / New-York: Crocker and Brewster / Jonathan Leavitt, 1833. 3rd edition (American Imprints 17225). viii, [13] - 164 pp. 12mo, signed in 6s. 7-1/2" x 4-5/8". Original publishers green cloth spine over drab paper boards, with printed paper title label to spine. Abbott, a well-known Congregational clergyman, as well..... More
CARIBOO GOLD. The Story of the British Columbia Gold Rush.
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, (1970). 1st Edition. [10], 180, [2] pp. Illustrated with drawings by Deane Cate, including 3 maps. 8vo. Green cloth binding with black stamping. Dust jacket. More