Outside of Things: A Sky Book
by BAILEY, Alice Ward
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1899. First Edition. Cloth. Very good +. Annita Lyman PAINE. First edition. 8vo; [60pp]; pale blue cloth over board, silver stamped title and borders, vignette of child on a star to front; ownership in pencil on ffep; color illustrated title page; thick creamy glazed stock, printed verso only; color printed relief illustrations surrounding text; soiling to boards; very good plus. For this edition, only 4 WorldCat libraries. Children personified as weather and... Read More
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Tuck-Me-In Tales Boxed Set with their dust jackets: The Tale of Jasper Jay, 1917. The Tale of Betsy Butterfly, 1918. The Tale of Bobby Bobolink, Sleepy-Time Tales, 1920. The Tale of Chirpy Cricket, Sleepy-Time Tales, 1920
by BAILEY, Arthur Scott
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers, 1920. [JUVENILE]. Boxed Set of FOUR Tuck-Me-In Tales with their dust jackets. 12mo (7 ¼" x 5"); each book 114pp; bright orange textured paper over board, stamped-black lettering on front and spine, a vignette of 3 birds heads in diamonds on the front board; pictorial eps in orange and black; color printed fp; small vignette on title page; unclipped dust jackets lacking prices, publisher's ad for The Honey Bunch Books by Helen... Read More
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Li'l' Hannibal
by BAILEY, Carolyn Sherwin
New York: The Platt and Munk, Co., Inc, 1938. First Edition. Cloth. Very good/very good. First edition. 8vo; [20pp]; black stamped blue cloth over board with title, author and illustration of a boy carrying a basket to front cover; color illustrated unclipped dust jacker with no listed price; color illustrated endpapers; 12pp color illustrations including frontispiece and title page, 10pp black and white illustrations; small area on front and rear endpapers of missing paper, address label stuck to... Read More
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Meal Planning and Table Serivce in the American Home
by BAILEY, N. Beth
Peoria, Illinois: The Manual Arts Press, 1923. Cloth. Near fine. Florence E. Busse, preface. 8vo; 128pp; green cloth over board with stamped in black title and author with decoration of a set table on front cover; title and author stamped in black and spine; black and white photographic illustrations; owner's name and address in ink to front endpapers; light bumping to cover corners; near fine.
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A Maritime History of Bath, Maine and the Kennebec River Region
by BAKER, William Avery
Bath, Maine: Maritime Research Society of Bath, 1973. [STATE OF MAINE]. The Anthoensen Press, Portland, Maine, printers. Two volumes. Small 4to; Vol. I: xviii, [1-2], 3-564pp; Vol. II: viii, [1-2], 565-1160; crisp red cloth over board, gilt lettering on spines; map eps; ship-plans, fold-out maps, b&w illustrations; light pencil marginalia; near fine. Housed in a tan slipcase. The history of the mid-coast Maine town of Bath, which is known for shipbuilding, and the Kennebec River that flows through... Read More
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CONSUMER SERVICE DEPARTMENT
by All About Home Baking
New York: General Food Corporation, 1933. Second Edition. Cloth. Very good. Second edition. 8vo; 144pp; plaid cloth over board with title and contents stamped on ribbon onlay to front cover; illustrated with both black and white and color photographs; light soiling to cover; very good.
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A New Story of Little Black Sambo, No. W-957
by [BANNERMAN, Helen]
Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1932. Staplebound. Very good. Juanita BENNETT. Folio; 12pp; stiff color pictorial wrap-around wrapper; 3 staple binding; color illustration every page, bordered with a blue line, with text; light vertical creasing to wrapper, scuffing to spine; very good. Barton 193. A story about Little Black Sambo, based on that written by Helen Bannerman. An uncommon addition is Sambo being spanked by his mother with a hairbrush.
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The Story of Little Black Quibba
by [BANNERMAN, Helen]
London: James Nisbet & Co., Limited, 1902. First Edition, Later Printing. Cloth. Very good. First edition later printing; 24mo (3 1/2" x 5"); 143pp; light green cloth over board cover with laid on color illustration of Quibba; printed one side of page only; 36 color illustrations including frontispiece; very good. Address listed is 21 Berners Street but cover illustrations is of Quibba with a basket on his head instead of eating a watermelon. The basket Quibba was published... Read More
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Histoire du Petit Negre Sambo
by BANNERMAN, Helen. Madeleine Bleroit JOHNSON, translator from English to French
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, Publishers, 1921. Later printing. Cloth. Very good. Later printing. 18mo (5 ¾" x 4 3/16"); vi, 56pp; brick red cloth spine, color pictorial cream paper over board, Sambo in a circle on front; ownership in ink to front pastedown; color fp block-printed; 25 full-page illustrations with a page of text opposite; light soiling, scuffing to boards and corners; lacking the dust jacket; very good minus. Colors are bright on the illustrations with... Read More
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Mrs. Barbauld's Hymns, Half Hours with the Bible
by [BARBAULD, Mrs. Anna Leticia]
New York: McLoughlin Bros, 1870. [JUVENILE] [POETRY] [RELIGION]. 12mo (7 1/2" x 6"); 32pp; stiff wrapper, chromolithographed pictorial front featuring a pastoral scene with three children framed by a vine, the series and title above the scene, small publisher applied brown label to front; rear wrapper features an angel and the series title and publisher; 3 staple binding; ownership in pencil on verso front wrapper "St. Johns S.S."; several small partial stamps with a name (?); hymn number and... Read More
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The Hand Book of Illustrated Proverbs: Comprising Also a Selection of Approved Proverbs of Various Nations and Languages, Ancient and Modern, Interspersed with Numerous Engravings and Descriptions: Adapted for the Use of All Ages and Classes of Persons
by BARBER, John W.
New York: George F. Tuttle, Publisher, 102 Nassau Street, 1856. Cloth over board. Very good. [INSPIRATIONAL]. Cover title: Barber's Illustrated Proverbs 12mo; 252pp; brown ribbed cloth, blind-stamped decorative frame around a gilt-stamped title, gilt lettering and vignette on spine; pale yellow endpapers, ownership on ffep; five-panel leporello frontispiece; wood-engraved illustration at the beginning of each chapter; scuffing to boards with loss at head & tail of spine and corners, foxing but clean and without odors; very good. Twenty... Read More
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The How-To-Get-There (Barkan System) Street Directory of New York City Manhattan & Bronx, The Most Up-to-date Common Sense Street Directory, Containing the Latest Improved Indexed Map, Including the New St. Nicholas-Eighth Avenue Subway
by [BARKAN SYSTEM STREET DIRECTORY CO., INC.]
Brooklyn, New York: The Bardkan System Street Directory Co., Inc, 1933. Wraps. Near fine. [TRAVEL] [MAP]. 16mo (6 ¼" x 3 ¼"); 160pp; orange stiff wrapper, lettering in black, vignette of a man walking a city on the front; 2 staple binding; folded map in rear; light creasing to wrapper rear corners; near fine. Scarce. OCLC finds several but not this publishing year. An early, near fine copy of the Barkan System street directory of New York with... Read More
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Kate Greenaway's Birthday Book, with verses by Mrs. Sale Barker
by BARKER, Mrs. Sale [Lucy Sale-Barker] verses
London and New York: Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd, 1918. Kate GREENAWAY. 48mo square (3 7/8" x 4"); [vi], [4], 5-126, [6]pp; interleaved with lined note pages; maroon pebbled cloth over board, rounded edges, gilt stamped lettering and a vignette of a girl holding a badminton racquet on the front; all edges gilt; fp + 11 additional plates printed by chromoxylography; small line drawings for each day of the year; printed in green and black; fine. (Schuster & Engen... Read More
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Kate Greenaway's Birthday Book
by BARKER, Mrs. Sale, verses
London and New York: Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd, 1918. Cloth. Very good. Kate GREENAWAY. [GIFT BOOK] [RHYMING VERSE]. Printed in Great Britain. Half-title: Kate Greenaway's Birthday Book for Children 48mo (3 15/16" x 4 ¼"); [vi] [4] 5-126 [127-132]pp; tan cloth over board, stamped green double border surrounding red lettering and a round vignette of a young girl on front; ownership page filled-in with blue ink, a few pages noted with names; fp +11 chromolithographed plates; dates... Read More
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Tale of Two Oceans; A New Story by an Old Californian. An Account of a Voyage from Philadelphia to San Francisco, Around Cape Horn, Years 1849-50, calling at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and at Juan Fernandez, in the South Pacific
by BARRA, E.I. [Ezekial]
San Francisco: E.I. Barra, 1893. Cloth. Near fine. [ADVENTURE]. Eastman & Co. Press, printers. 8vo; 198pp; rebound in navy cloth over board with gilt lettering over the publisher's original stiff tan wrapper; wrapper printed in navy with an engraved vignette of a three-masted ship at anchor surrounded by mountains on the front; pictorial title page; 2 full-page engraved illustrations and several small engraved illustrations in text; light creasing to front wrapper, small chip to corner of rear wrapper;... Read More
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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, (From the "Little White Bird")
by BARRIE, J.M.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. Later printing. Cloth. Very good. Arthur RACKHAM. Reprint. 8vo; 126pp; gilt-stamped green cloth over board with color pictorial onlay to front; ownership in neat ink and bookseller's ticket to free front endpaper; 16 full-page color illustrations inserted including fp; light shelf wear, darkening to spine gilt, upper edge foxed, scattered light page foxing, light glue burns to front and rear free endpapers; very good. First printed in London in 1905, this volume... Read More
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Vines and Vine Culture; Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged
by BARRON, Archibald F.
London: Journal of Horticulture, 1900. Fourth Edition. Cloth. Very good. 8vo; xvi, 202 + viii pp ads; gilt-stamped green cloth over board, grape cluster, title and author to front; relief printed illustrations throughout; shelf scuffing to cover, bumping to corners; very good. An extensive discourse on grape growing.
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Child Life, The Children's Own Magazine, June 1931, Vol. X, Number VI
by BARROWS, Marjorie, editor
New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1931. Staplebound. Very good. Hazel FRAZEE, cover illustrator. 4to; [51pp] numbered pages from 261 to 312; color pictorial wrapper, 3 staple binding; b&w and color illustrations throughout; advertisements; light creases to wrapper, chipping at spine; very good. Anthology of verse and stories, including by Clara Ingram Judson. Paper dolls, decorations to cut-out, and advertisements aimed at both children and their parents. Profusely illustrated.
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Tate House. Crown of the Maine Mast Trade
by BARRY, William David, and Frances W. PEABODY
Portland, Maine: National Society of Colonial Dames of AMerica in the State of Maine, 1982. Limited Edition. cloth. Fine/near fine. W. L. Frost. Fold-out Map: FROST, W.L., Falmouth Neck and Stroudwater in the Time of the Tates, for the Colonial Dames, 1982. Fold-out Map: A Plan, of the Clear Inclosures in Brigadier Gen. Waldo's Farm of Stoudwater in the Year 1756, as bounded by the Rivers &c. Limited edition 23/750. 8vo; xii, 116 [4]pp; gilt stamped orange... Read More
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Eskimos
by BARSKE, Charlotte
Poughkeepsie, New York: Artists & Writers Guild, 1940. Wraps. Very good +. Oscar HOWARD. [WOMAN AUTHOR]. 4to (12 7/8" x 9 ½"); [16]pp; textured linen-like stiff color pictorial wrapper, Eskimos on front and rear; 4 double page color illustrations, b&w illustrations with text; light damp-staining on fore-edge and upper edge, rubbing of edges; very good plus. OCLC locates 9 libraries with this holding, 6 in the U.S.A. A story of the Copper Eskimos of Northern Canada and how... Read More
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Tourist's Map of England & Wales from the Ordnance Survey; Cover title: Philips' Cyclist's Map of England & Wales, by J. Bartholomew FRGS
by BARTHOLOMEW, John
London: George Philip & Son, 32 Fleet Street, and Liverpool, 1890. Cloth. Very good. [POCKET MAP]. Wrapper: 57 5/8" x 4 ½"; glazed green cloth wrapper printed in red and black, silhouette of England on front; publisher's ad to front pastedown and back of map; light scuffing and soiling to wrapper; very good. Map: 43 ½" x 34 ¼" sheet size; 41 x 31 ¾" within neat line; cloth backed paper; printed in color half-tone; foxing to left... Read More
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Martin Brook, A Novel
by BATES, Morgan
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1901. [LITERARY WORK] [DECORATIVE BINDING]. Cover title: Martin Brook. A Story of Modern American Life. First edition. 12mo; 364, [1]pp + [2] pp publisher's ads; green cloth over board, gilt-stamped lettering, color pictorial onlay of a church spire and town, pale green fillet and decorative framing; a few spots; near fine. A statement from the publisher preceding the title page reads: " 'Martin Brook' is the third of twelve American... Read More
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Zehn Kleine Negerbuben, Eine lustige Geschichte mit drolligen Bildern; Ten Little Negros, A Funny Story with Funny Pictures
by BAUMGARTEN, Fritz
Mainz: Engelbert Dessart, 1948. 1/4 cloth. Near fine. 8vo; 19pp; quarter bound red cloth with illustrated glazed paper over board cover; illustrated paste downs; full page illustrations in color and black and white with text; light scruffing to bottom cover, faint scratch to cover; near fine. A German version of the book Ten Little Niggers with scenary that is definitely Germanic in many illustrations; this is a variation of the Ten Little Indians counting rhyme. Charming illustrations do... Read More
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Tercentenary of Martin Pring's First Voyage to the Coast of Maine, 1603-1903
by BAXTER, Hon. James Phinney. Prof. Alfred L.P. DENNIS. Rev. Henry O. THAYER
[Portland, Maine]: [Maine Historical Society], 1903. 1st Edition. Wraps. Near fine. Cover title: Tercentenary of Martin Pring's First Voyage to the Coast of Maine, 1603-1903, [Portland, Maine: Maine Historical Society], 1903. BAXTER, Hon. James Phinney. The Avant Couriers of Colonization. DENNIS, Prof. Alfred L.P. Captain Martin Pring, Last of the Elizabethan Seamen. THAYER, Rev. Henry O. A Pioneer Voyager of the Sixteenth Century: Sir Humphrey Gilbert. 8vo; 73pp; grey sprinkled wrappers; 3 staple binding; frontispiece illustration of Monument... Read More
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Documentary History of the State of Maine, Vol. XV Containing The Baxter Manuscripts edited by James Phinney Baxter, A.M., Litt. D., Published by the Maine Historical Society, Aided by Appropriations from the State
by BAXTER, James Phinney
Portland [Maine]: Lefavor-Tower Company, 1910. [STATE OF MAINE] [HISTORY]. First edition. Small 4to; xviii, 478pp; dark brown textured cloth over board; gilt stamped lettering on spine-faded; light scuffing to boards, light shelf soiling to top edge; very good plus. From the Preface by James Phinney Baxter, Mackworth Island, August 30, 1910: "The publication of the documents in this volume gives and idea of the important part sustained by the people of Maine in the War of the Revolution, and... Read More
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