Smithfield / London / Bath: Sold by J. Evans and Co., Printers to the Cheap Repository... and J. Hatchard ... By S. Hazard, (n. d.). 1st printing thus, i.e., with Evans as the primary printer (ESTC T167661), ca 1800. 24 pp. Untrimmed. Signed "Z" at the end of p. 24... More about The HISTORY Of MR. FANTOM, The New-Fashioned Philosopher, and His Man William.; Cheap Repository
Chicago: Reilly & Lee, (1923). Later printing, ca 1931. 250 pp. 12mo. Red cloth binding with black stamped lettering. Dust jacket. More about The BLACK SCHOONER. The Mystery Story for Boys Series #6
Mound, Minnesota: Tonka Toys Inc., [1963]. 1st Printing. 16 pp, including wrappers. 72 color images, depicting trucks, construction vehicles, fire engines, etc. Oblong format: 3-13/16" x 5-5/16". Printed self-wrappers, stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. These toys, originally manufactured under the company name, Mound Metalcraft, officially became "Tonka... More about TONKA
Smithfield / London / Bath: Sold by J. Evans, Printer to the Cheap Repository... and J. Hatchard ... By S. Hazard, [n. d.]. 1st printing thus, issue with trade price schedule & Evans as primary printer (ESTC N505684), ca 1798. 15, [1] pp. Last page a list of tracts offered... More about The BEGGARLY BOY, A Parable.; Cheap Repository
London / Bath: Sold by J. Marshall (Printer to the Cheap Repository...), R. White..., S. Hazard. [1796]. 1st printing (Spinney 77). 16 pp. Untrimmed. Signed "Z" at text end, p. 16. Woodcut vignette, 2-1/2" x 2-7/8", to center of title page. 8vo. 7-1/4" x 5". Printed self-wrappers, sewn. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More about BLACK GILES the Poacher; With some Account of a Family who had rather live by their Wits than...
Cincinnati: William T. Truman, 1844. 1st printing (presumed). Not found in the Osborne Catalogue, nor in the Spencer Collection Catalogue. 24 pp. T.p. with wood engraved ornamental border, having 9 vignettes of children in various forms of play [e.g., spinning a top. Text illustrated with 6 wood engravings. 12mo. 5-13/16"... More about TRUE STORIES With Pretty Pictures.; Truman's Entertaining and Instructive Toy Books
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, (1869). Early printing. xviii, 524 pp. Errata slip tipped in after p. 524. Illustrated, including frontispiece of Yosemite Falls. 8vo. Purple decorative cloth lettered in gilt, with elaborate gilt stamped oxen cart to front board. The author's round-the-world trip includes much in China, as... More about OUR NEW WAY ROUND The WORLD
7 Dials, [London]: E. Hodges (from Pitt's Wholesale Toy & Marble Warehouse), (n. d.). Ca 1840s / 1850s. Broadside, printed two columns, with typographical border between. Woodcut, 1-1/2" x 2", at top of right column. 9-1/2" x 6=5/8". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Rare songster from the era... More about POTBOY SOLDIER. WHEN The MOON Is On The WATERS
Smithfield / London / Bath: Sold by J. Evans and Co., Printers to the Cheap Repository... and J. Hatchard ... By S. Hazard, [n. d.]. 1st printing (ESTC T155709), ca 1800. 16 pp. Untrimmed. Woodcut vignette to title page. 8vo. 7-1/2" x 5". Self-wrappers, sewn. "Price One Penny" Now housed... More about SORROWFUL SAM; or, The Two Blacksmiths.; Cheap Repository
Philadelphia. American Sunday School Union. 1831. Reprint. 36 pp. Frontis. 5-1/2" x 3-1/3". Original publishers peach colored wrappers, sewn. Printed in black. More about ELLEN, Or The DISINTERESTED GIRL.; Revised by the Committee of Publication
Philadelphia. American Sunday-School Union. (n.d.). c. early to mid 1800s. 8 pp. Six engravings throughout. 4-3/8" x 2-3/4". Original publishers, yellow printed wrappers, sewn. Printed in black. More about THE PARROT.; Written for the American Sunday-school Union, and revised by the Committee of...
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...
