A Sound of Hunting, A Play in Three Acts
by BROWN, Harry
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/very good +. John Mason BROWN, introduction. First edition. 12mo; xii, 176 + [1]; mint green cloth over board, blind stamped vignette of soldiers on front, gilt stamped spine; red stained upper edge; ownership in ink to ffep; 4 b&w photographic illustrations on glazed stock from Broadway play; light age-toning of paper; unclipped pictorial dustjacket in sepia; chipping to edges, age-toning; fine in very good plus dj. The author,... Read More
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I Came Here To Talk For Joe
by BROWN, Lew, Charlie TOBIAS, and Sam H. STEPT
New York: Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. Inc. R.K.O. Building, 1270 Sixth Avenue, 1942. Ephemera no binding. Very good +. 12" x 9 1/8"; 3 [1]pp; color pictorial front wrapper; ad for a folio on rear wrapper; very good plus.
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Chili Bean; Eenie - Meenie - Minie - Mo
by BROWN, Lew
New York: Broadway Music Corporation, 1920. Ephemera no binding. Very good. Albert VON TILZER, music.. 12 1/16" x 9 1/16"; 5, [1]pp; color pictorial front wrapper; ad for The Waltz Song Hit Of The Season "I'll Be With You In Apple Blossom Time" on rear wrapper; 2 9/16" split at foot of fold; 1/2" split at top of fold; very good. By the Writers of "Oh By Jingo". Featured by Aileen Stanley in William Rock's Broadway Sensation. ... Read More
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Wheel on the Chimney
by BROWN, Margaret Wise
Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1954. Tibor GERGELY. [JUVENILE] [WOMAN AUTHOR] Tibor GERGELY, illustrator. Bruce Bliven, Jr. and Roberta Rauch, Executors of the Estate of Margaret Wise Brown, text copyright. First edition. A Caldecott Honor Book for 1955. 4to (11 ¼" x 7 ¾"); [30]pp; tan linen over board, a vignette of a stork in flight printed in black and orange on the front, lettering in orange on spine; gift inscription in neat ink on ffep;... Read More
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The Pied Piper of Hamlin
by BROWNING, Robert
London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd, 1903. Pictorial boards. Very good. Kate GREENAWAY. 4to (25.6cm); [3] 4-48pp; quarter bound brown cloth with galzed pictorial paper over board, spine printed with title; color illustrations every page with verse all with a thin black border; illustrated end papers; rubbing to board edges with paper loss, previous owner colored areas of loss with green marker; very good. Matches no listing in Schuster & Engen or Thomason's DPL catalog. It most closely... Read More
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Rebecca of Sunny-Brook Farm
by BROWN, Seymour
New York: Jerome H. Remick & Co, 1924. Ephemera no binding. Very good. 13 7/8" x 10 7/8"; 5, [1]pp; color pictorial front wrapper; ad for Please Leave Mama Dear on rear wrapper; 8 5/8" split at foot of fold; very good minus.
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The Hudson by Daylight. Map showing the Prominent Residences, Historic Landmarks, Old Reaches of the Hudson, Indian Names, & c. With Descriptive Pages
by BRUCE, Wallace
New York: Bryant Literary Union, 1901. Stiff wraps. Very good. 16mo; [32pp]; green stiff wrappers with printed decoration, photo of the Hudson River and title to front cover, black cloth spine, back cover advertisements for St. Denis Hotel, NY; verso front and recto back wrappers are illustrated advertisements; pages are card stock; black and white photographic illustrations and engravings; chipping to cover with large piece missing from bottom front cover affecting text on verso, back cover edge chipping... Read More
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The Unknown Way
by BRYANT, William Cullen
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1885. First Edition. Stiff wraps. Near fine. First edition. 12mo; [40pp]; gilt embossed decoration of flowers to white pebbled stiff wrapper, gilt-stamped title and author; silk ribbon tie through all layers; gilt all edges; relief printed illustrations and poetry to recto only on stiff card stock; light soiling to front wrapper; near fine.
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The Chinese Children Next Door
by BUCK, Pearl
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 36 Essex Street, STrand W.C. 2, 1943. Cloth. Near fine/very good. Katharine TOZER. [WOMAN AUTHOR] [WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR]. Katharine TOZER, illustrator. Jas. Truscott & Son, Ltd., Printers, London E.C.3. First British edition. 8vo; 54pp; blue cloth over board, portrait of a Chinese girl dancing on front stamped in red and black, black lettering on front and spine; color pictorial endpapers; fp; 14full-page color illustrations; sunning of board bottom edges; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket,... Read More
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The North-West View of Lambeth-Palace, in the County of Surry
by BUCK, Samuel and Nathaniel, artists and engravers
London: D. Bond, printer, 1774. Ephemera no binding. Fine. Nathaniel and Samuel BUCK. Archival matting with a hand-applied gilt border. Matted print measures 14" high by 21" wide; the printed sheet measures 11 3/8" high by 18" wide; the engraved image within the plate-line measures 7 1/2" x 14 5/8" This hand-colored copperplate engraving is from the publication, Buck's Antiquities, or Venerable Remains of Above 400 Castles, &c. in England and Wales, with near 100 Views of Cities.... Read More
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The South-East View of Dartmouth-Castle, in the County of Devon
by BUCK, Samuel and Nathaniel
London: D. Bond, printer, 1774. Ephemera no binding. Fine. Samuel and Nathaniel BUCK. Archival matting with a hand-applied gilt border. Matted print measures 14" x 21"; print sheet measures 11 3/8" x 18"; engraved image within the plate line measures 7 ½" x 14 ½". Hand-colored copperplate engraving from the publication, Buck's Antiquities, or Venerable Remains of Above 400 Castles, &c. in England and Wales, with near 100 Views of Cities. The text reads, "This Castle was built... Read More
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L'Europe, Suivant les dernieres Observations de l'Acad-Royale des Sciences; English translation: Europe, according to the latest observations of the Royal Academy of Sciences
by BUFFIER, Le Pere Claude de la Companie de Jesus
Paris: Geographie Universelle, Pierre-Francois Giffart, rue S. Jacques, a Sainte Therese, 1758. Ephemera no binding. Fine. 10" x 13" size, 5 ¾" x 7 1/8" mat opening, 5 7/16" x 6 13/16" within the neat line; hand-colored copper plate engraving; gilt-bordered archival matting and backing board; fine. Claude Buffier (1661-1737) was a Jesuit priest who was born in Poland of French parents. Returning to France shortly after his birth, he was educated in Rouen but spent his life... Read More
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Marco Moonlight
by BULLA, Clyde Robert
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co, 1976. [JUVENILE] [SIGNED]. Julia NOONAN, illustrator. SIGNED and inscribed by author on half title. First edition, first printing. 12mo (7" x 4 ¾"); 104pp; cream cloth over board, blind stamped fillet with corner ornaments on front, lettering stamped in bronze on spine; dark green eps; fp + 13 full-page b&w illustrations; clipped color printed dust jacket, pictorial front and rear; light stain to foot of spine, light rubbing to dj edges; fine (unread... Read More
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D.J.'s Worst Enemy
by BURCH, Robert
New York: The Viking Press, 1968. Emil WEISS. [JUVENILE] [SIGNED]. Emil WEISS, illustrator. Inscribed and Signed by Author. Fourth printing. 8vo; 142pp; blue pictorial cloth over board; author inscription and signature on ffep; fp and small line drawings; binding tight; rear free ep has ink scribble and bottom corner torn off; very good. Robert J. Burch [1922-2007], was from Fayette County, Georgia and the author of 19 children's books. This book is set in the 1930s and tells the... Read More
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Five Tourist Brochures with Maps of Hawaiian Islands: Hawaii, The Big Island; Kauai, The Garden Island; Maui, The Valley Isle; Oahu, Crossroads of the Pacific; and Molokai, The Friendly Isle
by [HAWAII VISITOR'S BUREAU]
Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A.: Hawaii Visitors Bureau, 1960. [MAPS] [TOURIST BROCHURE]. Four of the folded tourist brochures measure (6" x 3") and open to (12" x 9"). Each is printed on colored paper and features tourist information on one side, along with a relief map that includes an inset map of the eight major islands, showing their placement in the island chain on the verso. The maps include a compass rose, legend, elevations, major roads, towns, crops, sports facilities, hotels,... Read More
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All About Dogs
by BURGER, Carl; Lee S. CRANDALL, forward
New York: Random House, Allabout Books, 1962. Carl BURGER. [JUVENILE] [NON-FICTION]. Carl BURGER, illustrator. First edition. 8vo; 140pp + [4]; yellow pictorial cloth over board; b&w photographic illustrated endpapers; illustrated throughout with photographic illustrations and drawings; light scuffing to edges, upper corners bumped; very good. A wonderful children's book introducing them to dogs, their history and breeding, their jobs, domestic breeds (hunters and non-hunters), and their interactions with humans.
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Goops and How to Be Them, A Manual of Manners for Polite Infants Inculcating Many Juvenile Vitrues Both by Precept and Example with Ninety Drawings
by BURGESS, Gelett
Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1928. [JUVENILE] [ETIQUETTE] [RHYMING VERSE]. Thirty-fourth impression. Small 4to; yellow buckram over board, stamped pictorial of a man and woman with two goops and lettering on the front, lettering on spine; vignette of three goops on title page; unclipped dust jacket, chipping at edges; fine in very good plus dj. A clever and humorous basic etiquette book for children covering child-rearing subjects. Chapters include table manners, cleanliness, neatness, courtesy, generosity, consideration, borrowing,... Read More
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The Seashore Book for Children
by BURGESS, Thornton W.
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1929. First Edition. W.H. SOUTHWICK & George SUTTON. [SIGNED] [JUVENILE] [NATURAL HISTORY]. W.H. SOUTHWICK and George SUTTON, illustrators. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED. First edition. 8vo; 336pp; blue cloth over board, color pictorial onlay of an underwater scene framed by gilt fillets and a green seaweed pattern; gilt stamped lettering on front and spine; author inscription and signature on ffep "This book was written to help you to know the shore folk. Thornton W. Burgess, 1929,... Read More
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State Historian. Gorges and the Grant of the Province of Maine 1622. A Tercentenary Memorial
by BURRAGE, Henry S.
No place listed: Printed for the State, 1923. First Edition. Cloth. Near fine. First edition. 8vo; xv [i], 178pp; brown ribbed cloth over board, gilt-stamped title to spine; 8 glazed illustrated plates including frontispiece; binding tight, text clean, minor rubbing to board edges, gilt on spine faded; near fine. Written as a history for the State Historical Society on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the grant of the Province of Maine to Sir Ferdinando Gorges and... Read More
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Our Little Mexican Cousin
by BUTLER, Edward C.
Boston: The Page Company, 1928. [JUVENILE]. Fourteenth impression, first printed in 1905. Part of The Little Cousin Series of books. 12mo; vii, [v], 100pp + 16pp publisher's ads; tan cloth over board, color pictorial of a boy holding a lasso dressed in traditional Mexican clothing on front; ownership dated 1937 on ffep; 10 photographic illustrated plates including fp; paper lightly age toned; very good plus. An interesting book in The Little Cousin Series of books which explores other countries... Read More
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Catalogue of Fashions for Winter 1902-03
by [BUTTERICK PUBLISHING CO.]
Paris, London, New York: The Butterick Publishing Co., Ltd, 1902. [EPHEMERA] [FASHION] [SALES CATALOG]. 4to (11 3/16" X 8 1/8"); 32pp; salmon-colored pictorial wrapper, front features a vignette of a stylishly dressed woman, front wrapper imprinted with the name "C.W. Corrin, Dealer in Millinery and Butterick Patterns, No. 45 Main Street, Bangor, ME."; rear wrapper an advertisement for 3 items sold by C.W. Coffin, Bangor, ME; ad on verso front wrapper; 29pp b&w illustrations of patterns to purchase; damp... Read More
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The Troubles of Biddy, No. 25
by BYRUM, Isabel
Rochester, N.Y.: Stecher Litho Co, 1917. Staplebound. Very good +. Margaret Evans PRICE. Folio; [14pp]; color illustrated wrapper with three staple binding; color illustrations throughout the text; light soiling to wrapper; very good plus. Colorful and charming illustrations accompany the adventures of a small girl, her then, Biddy, and the chicks.
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Mammy's Little Sunny Honey Boy; A Dreamy Waltz Lullaby, With a Croony Patter Chorus
by CADDIGAN, Jack and STORY, Chick
Feist Building, New York: Leo. Feist, Inc, 1921. Ephemera no binding. Good. 12 1/4" x 9 1/4"; 5, [1]pp; color pictorial front wrapper; ad for New Feist Song Hits on rear wrapper; 2" split at foot of fold; 1" split at top of fold; good.
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Four American Indian Songs, High Voice
by CADMAN, Charles Wakefield
Boston: White-Smith Music Publishing Company, 1909. String. Stiff wraps. 4to; 29pp; stiff brown wrapper printed in green, brown twisted cord tie binding; scores for 4 songs; small spots and ownership in ink to front wrapper, a few marginal pencil marks; very good plus. Held in 9 WorldCat libraries, High Voice and Low Voice editions. Words first presented as a poem, then followed by the score with words. Includes poems by Nelle Richard Eberhart (1871-1944) set to three Omaha... Read More
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Johnny Funny-Bunny's Picnic Party
by CADY, Harrison
New York, N.Y.: Stoll and Edwards Co., Inc, 1928. Boards. Very good. Harrison CADY. Harrison CADY, illustrator. Small 4to; [16]pp; color pictorial boards, two bunnies with baskets and vegetables on front, green cloth shelf-back; color fp, color vignette on title page; illustrations throughout in b&w and color; 2pp publisher's ads for other Johnny Funny-Bunny stories; light warping of boards, scuffing of edges and corners; very good. OCLC locates only one copy at the University of Florida. Scarce. The... Read More
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