Rowena Teena Tot and the Blackberries
by BLUMBERG, Fannie Burgheim
Chicago: Albert Whitman & Co., Junior Press Books, 1945. Cloth. Fine/near fine. Mary GROSJEAN. [JUVENILE] [WOMAN AUTHOR] [WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR] [STIGMATIZING LANGUAGE]. Mary GROSJEAN, illustrator. First edition, sixth printing, copyright 1934. Small 4to; 32pp; green cloth over board, color pictorial only to front board showing three young Black girls with pails of blackberries; color pictorial patterned eps; color pictorial half-title, title page and copyright page; color illustrations every page; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, fine in fine dj. The... Read More
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Rowena Teena Tot and the Runaway Turkey
by BLUMBERG, Fannie Burgheim
Chicago: Albert Whitman & Co., Junior Press Books, 1941. Cloth. Fine/near fine. Mary GROSJEAN. [JUVENILE] [WOMAN AUTHOR] [WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR] [STIGMATIZING LANGUAGE]. Mary GROSJEAN, illustrator. First edition, fourth printing, April 1941. Small 4to; 30, [2]pp; dark maroon cloth over board, color pictorial onlay to front board showing three young Black girls looking at a turkey through a poultry netting; color pictorial patterned eps; color pictorial half-title, title page and copyright page; color illustrations every page; unclipped color pictorial dust... Read More
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Chart of the North Atlantic Ocean from the Equator to 65 North Latitude According to the Latest Surveys and Observations
by BLUNT, E. & G.W. [Edmund and George William]
New York: E. & G. Blunt, 179 Water Street, SE Corner Burling Slip, 1857. Map no binding. Very good +. W. Hooker, engraver; D.R. Harrison, lettering. Three hydrographic detail insets: The Virgin Rocks and the Surrounding Bank from Recent Surveys; Georges Shoals; and Nantucket Shoals from the U.S. Coast Survey, 1846. 36 ½" x 48" within the neat line; two sheet blue-back chart; pencil notes and lines added by owner still visible; cleaned, conserved, and infill to areas... Read More
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The Busy Bees
by BOHATTA-MORPURGO, Ida; June HEAD, English version
New York: Ars Sacra-Herbert Dubler, Inc, 1946. Boards. Near fine. Ida BOHATTA-MORPURGO. 16mo; [20pp]; color pictorial grey boards with anthropomorphic bee on the front; 6 full-page color illustrations; light shelf wear; near fine. This little book of noted Austrian illustrator and author, Ida Bohatta-Morpurgo (1900-1992) translated into English by June Head. Unusually fine condition.
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Things to Make and Do
by BOLAND, Esther M.
Chicago: Standard Education Society, Inc, 1962. Cloth. Near fine. 4to; 192pp; color pictorial cloth over board; green and white pictorial endpapers; text with color illustrations; a few stray pencil marks; near fine. One hundred forty-six (146) craft and art project ideas for children, many from everyday materials found in the home. For the pre-school through grade school aged child. Projects are nicely illustrated with simple color line drawings.
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Isles de Cuba et de la Jamaïque.; from Atlas Encyclopédique
by BONNE, Rigobert
Paris, 1788. Near fine. English translation: Islands of Cuba and Jamaica 10 ¾ x 15 5/8 inches; 9 1/4 x 13 5/8 inches within the neat line; plate mark visible; topographical detail; one light spot; near fine. Charles Marie Rigobert Bonne (1727-1795) a French cartographer and hydrographer, in 1773 he became the Royal Hydrogrpaher at the Depot de la Marine, a French royal appointment. This is a detailed topographical map of the island of Cuba and Jamaique to... Read More
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Carte de la Partie Nord, Des Etats Unis, de l'Amérique Septentrionale, Atlas de Toutes les parties Connues du Globe Terrestre,; English : Map of the Northern Part, United States, North America
by BONNE, [Rigobert]
Geneva: J.L. Pellet, 1780. Map no binding. Fine. 10 1/8" x 15 ¼", 8 ¾" x 12 ½" within the neat line; plate mark visible; hand-colored; light creasing to lower right corner; fine. Published during America's War of Independence from Great Britain (1176-1783), this map features the mid-Atlantic region of the country and New England, north into Canada, and west into Ohio following Lake Erie. One of the interesting sites noted on the map is Pentagouet in what... Read More
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The Kingdom of Mother Goose. A New Fairy Play, for Vestry and School Entertainments. With Appropriate and Easy Music for Young Voices. Also, Recitations, Music, Motion-Songs, &c., For School Exhibitions
by BORDMAN, Mrs. G.N. [Georgiana N.]
Published at Melrose, Mass: Copyrighted by the Author, 1877. Boards. Very good +. [DRAMA] [MUSIC] [WOMAN AUTHOR]. 8vo; 48pp; taupe stiff wrapper, brown cloth shelf back; front wrapper features dark brown lettering within a border with corner ornaments and a silhouette vignette of an old woman with a cane; rear wrapper ads for other titles by the author; light creasing of the wrapper, chipping spine head and tail, small stain on front, some finger marks on pages; very... Read More
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1881 Time Table Boston & Hingham Steamboat Co. and Nantasket Beach Railroad Co
by BOSTON AND HINGHAM STEAMBOAT COMPANY, NANTASKET BEACH RAILROAD
No place listed: Forbes Co, 1881. Stiff wraps. Near fine. 16mo (5 ½" x 2 ¾"); [26pp]; chromolithographed stiff pictorial wrapper, steamboat to front and Hotel Pemberton illustration to rear; string binding; 17pp advertisements, 4 with illustrations; 2 maps; small chip to fore-edge rear wrapper, and one to bird's-eye view map bottom corner; near fine. Held in 7 WorldCat libraries. Timetable for the steamboat and railroad, with two maps: center-fold color map of the ferry route, and a... Read More
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Fish & Game Cook Book
by BOTSFORD, Harry T.
New York: Cornell Maritime Press, 1947. Larry SPINELLI. [COOKERY]. Larry SPINELLI, illustrator. First edition. 8vo; xiii [i], 290pp; tan buckram over board, brown lettering on spine; chapter headpiece; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, age-toned spine; fine in very good plus dj. A serious game and fish cookbook with chapter clever titles and interesting discussions preceding the recipes. A few chapter titles include "Pheasant Memories," "Luck With a Duck," and "Rabbits is Nice.".
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The History of Wells and Kennebunk from the Earliest Settlement to the Year 1820, at which time Kennebunk was Set Off, and Incorporated with Biographical Sketches
by BOURNE, Edward E.
Portland, [Maine]: B. Thurston & Company, 1875. First Edition. Cloth. Very good +. First edition. 8vo; [xxiii], 797pp; blind-stamped borders to black cloth over board, gilt-stamped title to spine; brown endpapers; portrait frontispiece of Bourne with tissue guard, four additional illustrations in b&w; bumping to corners with loss, chipping to spine head & tail; light foxing to fly-leaves, a few spots; very good plus. An extensive history of the Wells and Kennebunk area, including its placement on the... Read More
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The Robin's Christmas Eve, Uncle Ned's Picture Books
by C.E.B. [Charlotte Elizabeth BOWEN]
New York: McLoughlin Bro's, 1882. [JUVENILE] [POETRY] [RHYMING VERSE] [WOMAN AUTHOR]. 4to (10 ½" x 6 7/8"); [16]pp; color pictorial wrapper, a vignette of children signing with a chorusmaster within a frame of leaves; rear wrapper features a publisher's ad for "New Picture Books for Little Children"; publisher's string binding; gift inscription on first page; 4 chromolithographed plates; upper edges have been creased, light soiling, ¾" split through all spine folds at bottom; very good. Lovely decorations to... Read More
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Maine
by BRADFORD, T. G. [Thomas Gamaliel]
Boston: Weeks, Jordan & Company, 1838. Very good. G.W. BOYNTON. Hand-colored. 11 3/8'' x 14 1/8'' within the neat lines; light age toning and soiling to margins; very good. Map of Maine showing its 12 counties: Cumberland, Franklin, Hancock, Kennebeck, Lincoln, Oxford, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset, Waldo, Washington and York; and Augusta as the capital. Both Franklin and Piscataquis counties were established in 1838. The northern boundary with Canada is described as the "True Boundary according to the Treaty... Read More
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The Maine Land, A Portfolio of Views Taken in Vacationland
by BRADSHAW, Marion J.
Printed in Alliance, Ohio: Bradshaw Printing Service, 1945. [STATE OF MAINE]. 1941/1945. Eighth printing, October 1945. SIGNED by author and numbered "23." "War Economy Standards" printing. 8vo; 148 numbered b&w photographic full page illustrations with a facing page of text; black stamped textured boards, lettering in green, lighthouse decoration on front in gilt; untrimmed top and fore edge; lightly sunned spine; near fine. The author, Marion J. Bradshaw, was a professor of the Philosophy of Religion at the Bangor... Read More
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Primary Manual Work. A Suggestive Outline for a Year's Course in First and Second Grades
by LEDYARD Mary F. and Bertha H. BRECKENFELD
Springfield, Mass: Milton Bradley Company, 1919. Pictorial boards. Very good. 8vo; 8-124pp; quarter bound dark brown cloth with pictorial paper over board, title to front cover and design of a child at a book shelf; illustrated including some sepia toned photographs of finished projects; light chipping to spine and cover edges, offset burn from laid in paper to free front endpaper, small chip to front hinge paper. Very good. Wonderful illustrations of crafts and projects to build with... Read More
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The Santa Claus Club, Santa Claus for President
by BRIDGMAN, L.J.
New York and Boston: H.M. Caldwell Company, 1907. Cloth. Very good. 12mo; [76]pp; light brown pictorial cloth over board, illustration of a rabbit and bear marching with a drum featuring Santa Claus's face and campaign-style banners on front; pictorial endpapers in green and white; ownership in pencil on verso ffep; thick creamy stock; "Merry Christmas Member's Certificate" before the title page; fp and pictorial title page; 32 full-page black and red illustrations; illustrations in text; wear and light... Read More
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Original art from LIGHTHOUSE LULLABY
by BRIGGS, Kelly Paul
Rockport, Maine: Down East Books, 2000. Ephemera no binding. Fine. Kelly Paul BRIGGS. [ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATION ART] [JUVENILE]. SIGNED by the ARTIST. Original art: 15 ½" x 15 ½" mat size; 5 5/8" x 5 5/8" image size. Original illustration art from Lighthouse Lullaby by mid-coast Maine author and artist Kelly Briggs. The thirteenth illustration found in the book on page 28 pictures a sailing ship at night, a lantern lighting its sails, and a lighthouse beam on the... Read More
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Original art from LIGHTHOUSE LULLABY
by BRIGGS, Kelly Paul
Rockport, Maine: Down East Books, 2000. Ephemera no binding. Fine. Kelly Paul BRIGGS. SIGNED by the ARTIST. Original art: 15 ½" x 15 ½" mat size; 5 5/8" x 5 5/8" image size. Original illustration art from Lighthouse Lullaby by mid-coast Maine author and artist Kelly Briggs. The fifth illustration found in the book on page 13 pictures a horse standing in the snow waiting for his master. "Gentle Belgian paws the ground / And prances once around... Read More
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Original art from LIGHTHOUSE LULLABY
by BRIGGS, Kelly Paul
Rockport, Maine: Down East Books, 2000. Ephemera no binding. Fine. Kelly Paul BRIGGS. SIGNED by the ARTIST. Original art: 15 ½" x 15 ½" mat size; 5 5/8" x 5 5/8" image size. Original illustration art from Lighthouse Lullaby by mid-coast Maine author and artist Kelly Briggs. The fourteenth illustration found in the book on page 31 pictures a young boy sleeping in bed with his cat. "Icy pine boughs tap the window. / Little child, with peaceful... Read More
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Original art from LIGHTHOUSE LULLABY
by BRIGGS, Kelly Paul
Rockport, Maine: Down East Books, 2000. Ephemera no binding. Fine. Kelly Paul BRIGGS. SIGNED by the ARTIST. Original art: 15 ½" x 15 ½" mat size; 5 5/8" x 5 5/8" image size. Original illustration art from Lighthouse Lullaby by mid-coast Maine author and artist Kelly Briggs. The second illustration found in the book on page 6 pictures a mother baking and gazing out the window at her husband and son. "Island home built snug and true /... Read More
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The Spider Web
by BRINCKLOE, Julie
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1974. First Edition. Boards. Near fine/Very good. First edition. 12mo oblong; [32pp]; pale olive buckram over board with title, author and publisher in black on spine; b&w pictorial endpapers; bookplate to verso ffep; b&w line drawing illustrations every page without text; light age-toning to cloth on spine; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket with light shelf-wear at spine; near fine in very good plus dj. The story of a spider building a web... Read More
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Treasured Recipes from the Past and Present
by BROAD COVER CHURCH, CUSHING, MAINE
Collierville, TN: Fundcraft Publishing, 1996. Stiff wraps. Very good. 8vo; A-D, [iv],130pp + A-D index, 1-31pp [1] Making the Right Food Choices; white glazed stiff wrapper printed with title and church name, vignette illustration of church; black comb-style plastic binding; b&w photographic illustration of church with worship schedule on pC; full page color pictorial chapter divisions; recipes with author; scuffing to wrapper, light soiling of wrapper and a few pages; very good. Cushing, Maine is a town in... Read More
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Mineral Deposits in Essex County Massachusetts, Especially in Newbury and Newburyport with Map and Notes
by BROCKWAY, Charles J.
Newburyport [Massachusetts]: William H. Huse & Co., Printers, 1875. Wraps. Very good. [GEOLOGY] [MAP]. Map: Map of Mining Lands at Newbury and Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts, Boston: The Hatch Litho Co., 1875. 12mo; 60pp; map attached to title page; lacks a wrapper, publisher's stab-stitched leaves; light soiling to title and last leaf; 2 spots on pp37; very good. Located in 10 OCLC libraries. Map: Paper size: 19 ¼" x 22 5/8"; 17 ¾" x 22 3/8"... Read More
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Christmas One is Christmas Still" A Christmas Carol
by BROOKS, Phillips
London and New York: Ernest Nister, 1890. [GIFT BOOK] [VICTORIANA] [ILLUSTRATED] [POETRY]. London: Ernest Nister, 24 St. Bride Street, E.C. and New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 31 West Twenty Third Street. E. Nister at Nuremberg (Bavaria), printers. [14]pp; [14]pp; stiff wrapper, color pictorial front, publisher's gilt twist string binding; decorated half and title page; fp + 3 full page color illustrations; unclipped color pictorial dust wrapper, gift inscription on upper front dj; chipping to edges, age-toned; fine... Read More
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Really Babies, with Illustrations Reproduced from Photographs Taken by the Author
by BROWNELL, Elizabeth B.
Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally and Company, Publishers, 1908. Cloth. Very good. Elizabeth B. BROWNELL. [VICTORIANA] [POETRY] [WOMAN AUTHOR] [WOMAN PHOTOGRAPHER]. 4to; 63pp; tan cloth over board, gilt-stamped lettering, decorative rondel with a portrait of a toddler on the front, portrait of a toddler onlay to rear; frontispiece of two toddlers kissing; portrait vignette on title page; photographic illustrations of children throughout with text; light scuffing to edges, front upper corner bumped, a few fingermarks, lightly shaken;... Read More
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