NY: American Tract Society, [c.1850]. Original decorative wrappers printed in black & brown. Illustrated title page and two other engravings. Some foxing and discoloration, basically very good. Issued as No. 26 in a series, so indicated by a numbered box on the front wrapper. The WorldCat entry associates this book with Emma Sharpington, and with Elias James Whitney, who may have done the engraving. One engraving is also signed: "Childs". View More...
Two volumes. 4to. Red decorative half-calf, red coated end papers, top edge gilt. Some shelf wear to the tips and edges, a very clean and attractive set in a handsome binding. This is copy CLXIX of 250 copies on Papier d'Arches; the entire edition was 3416 copies on a variety of papers. Original floral decorative wrappers bound in, design by Jean Boisseau. Decorations by M. Boris Grosser. Illustrations including 24 in colour by Adrien Bagarry. A heavy set which will incur additional postage costs. An anthology of curious tales by 18th century authors including Voltaire, Diderot, Pigault-Lebrun... View More...
Original colour pictorial wrappers. Spine worn, chips to lower corners of front cover, a bright very good copy in general. This magazine contains three full-page chromolithographic ads for Canadian children's books: The Prattler for Boys & Girls / My Pet Book / My Own Book. The chromos are in very nice condition. Also good ads for Mark Twain's Scrap Books, sewing machines and whatnot. Contents include a story by B.L. Farjeon and a long poem by Charles Sangster. A slightly sinister Santa Claus graces the front cover. Uncommon in the original wrappers. View More...
Flexible red pictorial cloth, sewn. 48pp. Light edge wear, clean and very good. Seven stories with some small b&w illustrations in the text. A school book, issued as: Collins' Supplementary Readers. Grade I. Stamped on title page: Specimen. The inner back cover contains printed questions about the story. View More...
San Francisco: Bird in Hand Press, 1976. Cloth spine, decorative boards. A fine copy. Of an edition of 1000 numbered copies, this is one of 100 in hard covers. Illustrated with photographs and drawings, this will teach you how to handcraft apple dolls. View More...
Wellington, Salop: Printed by and for F. Houlston and Son, 1821. Second Edition. Original tan printed wrappers. Engraved frontispiece. 128 pp., plus one leaf of ads at rear. Much of the spine is chipped away, some old stains to edges and wear to corners, but generally a very good copy. The first edition was published in the same format in 1820. Uncommon in original wrappers. View More...
Illustrated boards. Issued as Algonquin "Sunny R Book" No. 105. End papers illustrated in color, numerous illustrations in color and b&w. A bit of wear to corners, boards splitting along spine, ownership signature on front end paper dated 1934; a very good copy otherwise. Quite a delightful little duck book. View More...
Los Angeles, etc.: Suttonhouse, (1936). First edition. Pictorial boards, red cloth spine. Pictorial end papers. Some shelf wear to edges, spine ends a bit worn, quite an attractive very good copy. Of Tomasito, the burro. A nicely illustrated book. View More...
Blue cloth lettered in gilt. Blue end papers. Some fading to lower edge, a nice clean copy in a pictorial dust jacket, with modest edge wear and a few internal tape repairs. Coleman has penned a full-page poem as an inscription on the recto of the frontispiece, signed and dated Vancouver, 1936. A series of poems about Patricia the doll. Quite scarce. View More...
London: Methuen, (1922). First edition. Brown boards, spine and front cover lettered in black, colour pictorial label on front cover. Frontispiece in colour, interior illustrations in b&w. Some light edge wear, light chipping to edges of label, but a clean and attractive very good copy. View More...
Flexible red pictorial cloth, sewn. 16pp. Illustrated title page and seven full-page colour plates, as well as many small illustrations by Walter Crane. This is the first volulme of The Dale Readers in the series: The Dale Method of Teaching Reading. These were published earlier by Walter Crane (1899). Light edge wear, but a clean and attractive copy. View More...
NY: Schilling, 1944. First edition. Two 11 x 6 inch booklets, illustrated in color, accordion fold-outs. A children's story of a king and his twelve daughters. A little wrinkling to lower corner, some small scuffs, but about fine. An unusual format, nicely illustrated. View More...
Publisher:
London, etc.: Hodder & Stoughton / Published for The Daily Telegraph, [1915].
Seller ID: 56858
Tan cloth designed and lettered in dark blue. 19 tipped-in colour plates by Dulac. A very fresh and attractive copy in a slightly worn pictorial dust jacket. Christmas inscription dated 1915 on the front fixed end paper. A very nice copy. View More...
Publisher:
London, etc.: Blackie, 1909. First edition.
Seller ID: 56863
Red pictorial cloth designed in gilt, black, and orange. Tan end papers. All edges gilt. Frontispiece & many illustrations in black & white. Some wear to spine ends, a few minor blemishes, a clean very good copy generally. 16 pages of ads at the rear. Quite uncommon. View More...
Full vellum designed and lettered in gilt. One of 350 numbered copies, signed by Thomson; this is copy #175. 25 mounted colour plates. Some mottling of vellum, but bright and quite decent. The end papers have come unglued, and the vellum is curling at the edges of the covers. Still, a very good and attractive copy. View More...
Publisher:
Rugeley: Walters / London: Burns, 1844. First edition.
Seller ID: 56998
12mo. Burgundy half-calf & marbled boards, spine gilt. Spine label chipped, affecting the title, rubbed at extremities, about very good. Frontispiece & four inserted plates. Wolff 2766, describing a copy in original scarlet cloth. Issued as the third volume in the "Juvenile Englishman's Library". Wolff's copy contains a final leaf printing a prospectus of the series, not present in this copy. A moral tale produced "for young persons of the upper and middle classes". View More...
Slate pictorial cloth designed inn black, lettered in gilt. The spine is unlettered. Oval device and ruled boxes in blind on rear cover. Pale yellow end papers. Title page printed in black & red. Frontispiece in colour, title, and 47 leaves with chromolithographic illustrations, printed on rectos only. Ownership inscription on the front end paper dated 1883. One leaf has a tear to the lower edge, which has an old tape repair, now yellowed; some rubbing to hinges and light fraying to spine ends, a clean very good copy. There are a couple of short tears to lower margins, and mostly light offsett... View More...
Large format, illustrated boards. 31.5 x 42 cm. Patterned end papers. With 20 pochoir plates (19 are mounted; one is executed directly on the page). This copy has suffered the indignity of having the spine and inner hinges taped, and the removal of the tape has left residue and damage from the glue. A couple of pages have been loose, and consequently are worn along the outer edge. The original spine is lacking, but the book is still intact, the covers attached. The front fly leaf and two pages are loose. A couple of plates have small creases where the corners were folded, but in general they a... View More...
Disbound. 78pp. Frontispiece & 3 inserted plates in colour. Final blank leaf detached, foxing throughout, wear to edges, very good otherwise. Published anonymously. A juvenile work in verse, a tale of two birdies. View More...
Brown boards lettered in blue, pictorial paper label on front cover. Moderate shelf wear, small paper label on front cover, a very good copy. The verso of the title page contains a list of books in this series, of which this is Volume 30. Uncommon. View More...
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