Christmas is a Time of Giving
by ANGLUND, Joan Walsh
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, 1961. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/very good. Joan Walsh ANGLUND. First edition, later printing. 12mo; [30pp]; black stamped illustration to orange cloth over board, title on spine with author and publisher; gift inscription to front pastedown; color frontispiece in red, green and black; illustrations throughout the verse, in both color and b&w; unclipped color illustrated dust jacket; old label removal with loss of color to front of dj, chipping to edges, age... Read More
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Childhood is a Time of Innocence
by ANGLUND, Joan Walsh
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, 1964. First Edition. Cloth. Very good +/very good. Joan Walsh ANGLUND. First edition. 12mo; [32pp]; black stamped illustration to pale blue buckram over board, title stamped on spine with author and publisher; frontispiece and illustrations throughout the verse, some in blue, brown and black and some in b&w; light scuffing of cover edges; unclipped color illustrated dust jacket, small closed tear to front bottom edge, light age toning of paper; very... Read More
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A Pocketful of Proverbs
by ANGLUND, Joan Walsh
New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, Inc, 1964. Cloth. Fine. First edition. 32mo (4 1/8" x 3 1/8"); [30]pp; green cloth over board with a vignette of a girl on the front, lettering on the spine; gift inscription in neat fine marker dated 1964 on ffep; color vignette on title page; 12 full page illustrations, 6 in color; small b&w illustrations in text; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket; color pictorial slipcase with the slightest rub on head and... Read More
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The ABC of Salads
by [ANONYMOUS]
Mt. Vernon, New York: Peter Pauper Press, 1958. Boards. Very good. Ruth McCREA. First edition. 12mo; 62pp; illustrated paper over board with title and publisher in front cover cartouche, title on spine; illustrated throughout text in black and green; clipped dust jacket; light soiling to dj, light bumping to cover corners; very good.
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Shirley Temple through the day, No. 1716
by [ANONYMOUS]
Akron, Ohio: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1936. Staplebound wraps. Very good +. 8vo; 32pp; color photographic illustration wrapper with Shirley Temple waking up in bed; 2 staple binding holding tight; black and white photographic illustrations with text; bumping to wrapper corners; very good plus. Shirley Temple was a childhood star of screen, radio and television. She later was the Ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia. As a child star, she was Hollywood's number one box office draw from 1935-38.... Read More
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The Children at Play
by [ANONYMOUS]
Glasgow: John S. Marr & Sons, 194 Buchanan St, 1878. [JUVENILE]. 24mo (5 15/16" x 4 1/8"); 64pp +16pp publisher's ads; decoratively embossed maroon cloth over board, chromolithograph pictorial onlay to front board, blind-stamped decoration to rear; yellow glazed eps; color fp; title page has decorative font; head and tail-pieces; light hand-wear to boards; near fine. OCLC locates one copy at the British Library. A lovely little book with a story about children in everyday activities, all with moralistic... Read More
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Hymns for Little Children
by [ANONYMOUS]
Northampton [Massachusetts]: John Metcalf, 1838. BARBER. [CHAPBOOK] [JUVENILE] [RELIGION] [RELIGIOCENTRISM] [ETHNOCENTRISM]. [John Warner ?] BARBER, woodcut. Cover title: Hymns for Children, Northampton: J.H. Butler No date [1838-1850]. 24mo (5 1/4" x 3"); 24pp; yellow wrappers with a decorative border surrounding the lettering and a vignette of 3 children with a dog and cart on the front, the rear features a vignette of a man and young boy in a dooryard; publisher's string binding; woodcut fp titled "Going to... Read More
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Photograph album, Ogunquit, Maine, June 1904
by [ANONYMOUS]
[Maine]. 24mo oblong (5 1/2" x 7"); 16 leaves. Thirty untitled b&w photos of various sizes in a small purchased construction paper-style album titled "Photographs" on the front and a label on the inside rear wrapper reads: "Ward's Souvenir Album. Made in LIght Gray and Dark Gray Leaves. This Book is No. 111." Photos are both mounted and laid in. The photos are of houses and farmland, 3 contain farm animals, in one a woman holds a baby, 3... Read More
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Home Kindness, A Picture Gift Book for the Children
by [ANONYMOUS]
New York: McLoughlin Bros, 1870. Very good. 4to; [22pp]; color illustrated wrapper with advertising for other books on back, title and publisher to front; 6 full page chromolithographs with a verse on the opposite page; 2 tears on a verse page with some paper loss on ''Be Kind to Thy Mother'' and a scratch to verse page on soiling wrapper and pages, owner's name in pencil to front cover, 1/2'' separation of paper at bottom spine, some pulling... Read More
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Sweet Stories for Little Folks, Tit Bit Story Series
by [ANONYMOUS]
New York and London: Thos. Nelson & Sons and S.W. Partridge & Co, 1886. Wraps. Very good +. New York: Thos. Nelson & Sons, 42, Bleeker St., and London: S.W. Partridge & Co., 9, Paternoster Row 48mo (3 ½" x 2 15/16"); [22]pp; stiff color pictorial wrapper, title on front, series and publisher on rear wrapper; gift inscription on verso front wrapper dated 1886; color illustrated fp, small silhouette vignette on title page; text and 12... Read More
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The Picture Book of Motors
by [ANONYMOUS]
London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1930. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Very good. First edition thus. 8vo; [30pp]; quarter-bound red cloth with color pictorial glazed paper over board; color and b&w illustrations every page with titles; pumping to cover corners with loss, scuffing to edges, light soiling, a few closed tears to pages; very good minus. In 4 WorldCat libraries. Part of the Rainbow Picture Books series. Printed by LTA Robinson, Ltd., The Botolph Printing Works, London. Illustrators... Read More
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Arithmetical Tables, for the Use of Schools
by [ANONYMOUS]
New York: Samuel S. & William Wood, No. 261 Pearl-Street, 1842. Wraps. Very good. 4 ½" x 3 ½"; 24pp; yellow paper wrapper with wood-cut decoration of a paddle-wheeler on the front and a listing of other publisher's School Books to rear; string binding; wood-cut decoration to title page; all text within double-lined wood-cut borders; light soiling to wrapper, light foxing to margins, creasing to corners; very good. No WorldCat listings for this edition. Perhaps Dr. Alexander Anderson's... Read More
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Evening Hours with My Children: Or, Conversations on the Gospel Story
by [ANONYMOUS]
New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 530 Broadway, 1859. [JUVENILE] [RELIGION]. R. CRAIGHEAD, Printer, Stereotyper, and Electrotyper, Caxton Building, 81,83,85 Centre Street. M.U. [Matthew Urlwin] SEARS; J. [John] GILBERT; engravers. 4to (10 ½" x 8 1/8"); 143pp; quarter bound in black cloth with printed brown boards; engraved pictorial of angel with shepherds on the front with lettering; engraved fp with tissue guard + 11 additional full-page engravings; pictorial vignette on title page; printer info on verso title page;... Read More
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The Little Old Woman, Susie Sunshine's Series
by [ANONYMOUS.]
[New York]: McLoughlin Bros. Publisher, 30 Beekman [Street], 1869. Wraps. Very good. 12mo; [7pp]; yellow pictorial wrapper relief printed in red and navy, rear wrapper publisher's ads for Paper Dolls-Book Form and Paper Furniture; publisher's string binding; ownership in pencil on verso front wrapper; color pictorial title page; color illustrations with verse each page; light overall soiling, 2" split at foot of wrapper fold; very good. The date of publication is estimated for McLoughlin Brothers' address on Beekman... Read More
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Rags and Tatters, A Magic Action Story
by [ANONYMOUS]
Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Co, 1936. 1st Edition. Stiff boards. Near fine. 4to; [18pp]; color pictorial wrappers on stiff board; 3 staple binding; 3 color illustrated pop-up; light ink bleed through from some illustrations, small scuff to white dog face, light age toning of paper; near fine. Only 3 located in WorldCat libraries. Charming story of two mischievous dogs with three color pop-ups.
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The Candy Calendar, Being a collection of 150 pure candy recipes for home cookery arranged by months
by [ANONYMOUS]
Chicago: Woman's World Magazine Co., Inc, 1923. First Edition. Stiff wraps. Near fine. First edition. 4to; 46pp; stiff black illustrated wrappers with color printed title and picture of two girls baking; illustrated; original loop for hanging attached; light crease to bottom corner front cover, light age toning of paper; near fine. This edition in only one WorldCat library. Candy making and packing directions, and recipes for each month of the year.
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Dolly's Adventures
by [ANONYMOUS]
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, Publishers, 1894. Wraps. Very good. 8vo shape book (8 ¾" x 4 1/8"); [14pp]; chromolithographed outline of a doll in a frilly cape, title to front cover and publisher to back; 10pp black and white illustrations, 4pp color illustrations with text; creasing to feet and to fore edge through the wrapper with color loss, light age toning and some soiling to pages; very good minus.
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Petits animaux
by [ANONYMOUS]
Zurich: Max Künzli Verlag, 1970. Stiff wraps. Near fine. 12mo (6 5/16" x 7"); [12pp]; chromolithographed pictorial of anthropomorphic insects on stiff wrapper, a butterfly wedding on the front, and a queen bee riding on a flower petal on the rear; 2 staple binding; produced as a coloring guide book with text, color pictorial to one page and the facing page in black outline; light crease to bottom corner; near fine. Not recorded. The publisher, Max Künzli, of... Read More
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What to Eat, How to Use the Science of Modern Dietetics for More Efficient Living. Published by the Review of Reviews Company Under the Auspices of the Life Extension Institute of New York
by [ANONYMOUS]
[New York]: Review of Reviews Company, 1917. First Edition. Cloth. Very good. First edition. 8vo; 48pp; brown mottled paper over board with printed title and seal of the Life Extension Institute Inc., New York to front cover; tan cloth spine; lightly bumped corners; black and white illustrations; double frontispiece and one other full page plate inserted twice; very good. Odd little diet book from the Life Extension Institute with dietary and life style recommendations. Some seemingly pseudo-science but... Read More
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Ricordo di Siracusa; Memory of Syracuse [Sicily]
by Anonymous
Roma: Antonino Greco tu Carmelo, 1900. Wraps. Very good. 18mo; unpaginated [24pp]; photographic illustrations with guard sheets; tan paper wrapper with stamped gilt design and title on cover; light age toning of paper, stain to last illustration, recto and verso and to back wrapper; very good. Scarce, only one listed in WorldCat.
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1802-1902 Waterville Centennial, June 22-23-24, The Official Programme
by [ANONYMOUS]
Waterville, Maine: W. M. Ladd Company, Printers, 1902. Stiff wraps. Near fine. 12mo; [1-2] 3-36; light brown stiff wrapper with black title printed on front; 2 staple binding; black and white photographic illustrations; some printing ink smears, rusting of the staples with some staining; near fine. Four copies located in WorldCat libraries, all in Maine. Event program for the Centennial celebration of the town of Waterville, Maine. Includes committee members for the various celebratory functions, the town history,... Read More
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Bunny Babies, ''Linenette", No. 443
by [ANONYMOUS]
New York: Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Company, 1930. Staplebound. Very good +. 8vo; [10pp]; 2 staple binding; color illustrated wraps and illustrations every page with text; light soiling; very good plus.
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How to Cook and How to Carve. Giving Plain and Easily Understood Directions for Preparing, Cooking and Serving, with the Greatest Economy, Every Kind of Dish, From the Simplest to the Most Difficult. Also, How to Carve All Kinds of Meat, Poultry, Game and Fish
by [ANONYMOUS]
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1869. First Edition. Boards. Very good +. First edition, thus. 12mo; [iv pp ads], 130pp + [4pp ads]; relief printed decorative paper over boards, red, green & black; red cloth spine; front and rear pastedowns are ads; light foxing to edges and some pages; very good plus. Only one located in WorldCat in the Library of Congress. Fanciful dragons and a boar's head tableau decorate the boards. Contents include: Soups; Sauces, etc; Fish;... Read More
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The Two Cousins, and the Water-Cress Girl, Embellished with Cuts
by [ANONYMOUS]
Providence: Geo. P. Daniels, 1839. [JUVENILE] [CHAPBOOK]. First published in 1835 by Cory & Daniels in Providence. 24mo (5 11/16" x 3 ½"); 24pp; yellow wrapper, front printed with decorative printer's ornament borders surrounding the title and a vignette of a girl reading while another stands beside a round bookcase, rear wrapper features publisher's ad for twelve "Children's Books"; engraved fp and vignette of boy's playing tops on the title page; decorative alphabet printed on verso title page;... Read More
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A Teacher's Present
by [ANONYMOUS]
Boston: Taggard & Thompson, 29 Cornhill, 1864. [JUVENILE] [ILLUSTRATED]. Boston Stereotype Foundry, electrotype. Reprint, first printed by Taggard & Thompson in 1863. 32mo ( 4 ¼" x 3"); 48pp; glazed yellow pictorial boards printed in red and green, a girl and boy reading a book on the front; rear board publisher's ad for "Popular Juveniles" including "The Martin & Nelly Stories," "The Summer House Series," and "My Uncle Toby's Library"; glazed yellow eps; engraved fp & pictorial title... Read More
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