92 pages, including frontispiece and 10 full page engravings. Apparently rare issue, with this story only, OCLC locating no copies. Dodd Mead copyright date of 1878; no date on title page. Gift inscription to front free endpaper Christmas 1883. Attractive publisher's binding with paper insert surrounded. Brown blemish to six leaves, the worst of which is pictured. Binding sound and hinges secure. View More...
Eight leaves, with the instructor's sentence above and student's copy beneath, recto and verso save for the final leaf where the student neglected to copy "Prosperity gains friends, adversity tries them", followed by evidence of four cleanly excised leaves. Circa 1850, with Mussey at 29 Cornhill. Attractive cover, with image of the muse Clio handing a warring prince an uncut pen. View More...
16 pages plus covers. 11.5 x 8.6 inches. A good copy of this scarce book. Oblong format. English edition of Per Vliegtuig Naar Droomland; No. 1780A. Binding is sound and covers fully attached. Light soiling to covers, and creasing to spine and corners. Flapped plane at rear is well attached, with creasing to its right wing-tip. Two-inch shallow crease to rear cover running up from foot at right near Mulder & Zoon insignia. No inscriptions. View More...
125 pages. Selected by Chr. Heinrich Kleukens; with 57 hand-colored in-text woodcuts. Number 43 of 200 copies issued, this one in vellum - slightly bowed. A lovely example, with no inscriptions. 7.4 x 4.9 inches. View More...
28 unnumbered pages, with text also on pastedowns. Four full-page illustrations in colour. No publishing indications other than BLACKIE to front, and faint small stamp to rear panel: printed and bound in Great Britain. Textblock putting away from binding thread along hinge. View More...
30 pages. 8.1 x 6.5 inches. A well preserved example of this uncommon book. Worldcat shows only two institutional holdings. Spine rubbed, in places to webbing as seen in photo. Binding remains firm. Foxing throughout. Small chip off fore-edge of front endpaper. Splitting to rear gutter, but again binding is sound. No inscriptions. View More...
64 pages. Publisher's decorated red cloth with pictorial paper onlay. Frontispiece in colour. Spotting to cloth; endpapers toned; old Sunday School inscription. Little Dot Series; c. 1884. View More...
Unpaged. Measures 3.3 x 3 inches. Golly and Dolly (appearing more like young adults than dolls) head our for a vacation. Binding rough with chipping to spine. Boards remain attached; sewn textblock secure. Some colouring to rear pictorial endpapers. Closed tear to two adjacent leaves; light foxing to some pages. Uncommon, with OCLC recording no copies. View More...
110 pages. 10.3 x 8.2 inches. A well preserved example of this uncommon book. No stated date of issue or copyright. Minor soiling to covers, with some chipping of paper covering and shallow crease to upper right corner. Binding remains firm. Interior is tanned, with stain and chipping to front endpaper. The following leaf is the chrome litho frontispiece, which is tanned and stained. Occasional light marginal staining throughout. No inscriptions. View More...
Twelve lightly ruled leaves, entirely filled in. Notes regarding calculation of percentage, insurance, taxes, customs house business, profit and loss, simple interest, discounts, as well as penmanship, drawing shapes, and coin rubbings. Likely 1860 as we see an enthusiastic: FOR PRESIDENT STEPHEN A DOUGLAS. Wraps with light chipping and a bit loose. View More...
57 pages, and 3 pages of ads at rear. Volume IX of The Children's Red Books Series. Both stories copyright 1908, but ad for OZ books lists to The Emerald City [1910]. Xmas 1918 gift inscription at Hamilton, Bermuda to front free endpaper. 'This Book Belongs To'... Babs. No other inscriptions; light soil to fore-edge and a few leaves. 7 x 5.3 inches. View More...
46 pages. Title and number 221 in gilt to spine. Spine chewed near head. Ownership inscription on front free endpaper obscured by pencil dots. Foxing throughout. Binding is sound. View More...
16 pages. 9.2 x 7.2 inches. A well preserved example of this uncommon book. Spine rubbed, with top third of paper along upper hinge perished as seen in photo, and paper splitting for another two inches. Binding remains firm. Interior is very good. No inscriptions. View More...
192 pages. Good only, with general wear and light soil; ' May 20 ' stamped to front cover. Slight bow to spine. Small crease and closed tear to margin at fore-edge of 3 adjacent leaves [pp 115-20], longer closed tear in same location of pp163-6 just touching image, some creased/dog-eared leaves. Binding sound; no inscriptions. 5.5 x 4 inches. View More...
46 pages plus covers. 8 x 6 inches. A well preserved example of this uncommon booklet. Card covers. Splitting for an inch along spine at foot and small diagonal chunck off head of spine. Sewn binding remains sound. Interior is clean and unmarked. Vertical crease to front cover. Colour covers, and profusely illustrated in black and white within. Noted as copyrighted at lower left front cover, but with no indication of when. Likewise no indication of the artist(s). One illustration (that for Hush-A-Bye, baby, on the tree top) has Howard DEL. beneath it. I have failed to locate another example. View More...
Chrome litho title page, 64 [unpaged] pages and rear endpaper. Copyright 1886 on urn lower left front cover. Running title: Mother Goose's Melodies. Half of the 64 pages are illustrated in full colour. Light foxing to plain text pages. Spine rubbed and joints splitting at head and foot, though covers remain well attached. Third of an inch closed tear to side margin of one leaf. No inscriptions or scribbling. View More...
72 pages. 11 x 8.4 inches. A very well preserved example of this uncommon book. No stated date of printing. Binding remains firm. Interior is clean and unmarked save for the This Book Belongs To neatly filled in. Most illustrations in black and white, with some full-page doll leaves in orange, as well as the full colour leaves of the story Molly's Birthday. Most leaves are on thick paper, Molly's story is on thin shiny paper [recto only] with illustrations in the style of Beatrix Potter. View More...
22 pages plus final illustration leaf and covers. 7.6 x 6.25 inches. A very well preserved example of this scarce publication. Covers rubbed and with some staining. Sewn binding remains sound. Name in pencil to verso of front cover, otherwise unmarked. Some light marginal smudges but overall a clean interior. Seven full-page illustrations in colour. At time of cataloguing Worldcat shows only one institutional holding of this booklet: University of North Carolina at Greensboro: Jackson Library Special Collections, Lois Lenski Juvenile Collection. View More...
12 pages including covers. 10 x 7.25 inches. A well preserved example of this uncommon version. With no apparent indication of date. Saddle stapled with 3 staples showing light rust but fully secure. Fraying to linen edges; lower corner creased. Light foxing throughout. No indication of publisher, just "No. 892" lower left rear cover. No inscriptions. View More...
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