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Download PDF of Children's Books and Related ItemsPhiladelphia, PA: Published by Johnson & Warner, No. 147, Market Street; Griggs & Dickinsons, Printers, 1814. 12mo. 35pp, woodcut frontispiece illustration, 6 full page woodcut illustrations. Bound in stiff plain yellow wrappers [lightly toned], stitched. First and last leaves pasted down to wrappers. Stitched, spine worn. Uniform tanning, light scattered..... More
New York: Beadle and Adams, [REPRINT -1940]. Folio, 8"x 11". 15, [1, advts.] pp. Caption title [as issued]. Folded, partly uncut, two staples. Large illustration on front page relating to the story. Printed in triple columns. Tanned, light edgewear. Good+. More
New Haven: Printed and Published by S. Babcock, [@1830]. Original printed wrappers [blank margins reinforced, repair to lower corner of rear wrapper, not affecting text or image]. Light toning, stitched, 16pp. Seven full-page engravings, plus engraving on each wrapper. Inner rear wrapper advertises the publisher's offerings. Good+. "The largest, the..... More
Chambersburgh, (PA.): Hickok & Blood, 1836. Miniature, 2" x 3-1/2", 16pp plus two original printed title wrappers: the first with the Hickok & Blood 1836 imprint; the second with the imprint "Lewistown, (PA.) Hickok & Stark. 1835." Illustrated title pages plus six additional illustrations. Light wear, Very Good. AAS has..... More
[New Haven: Eli Hudson, 1810]. 24pp. Original plain drab wrappers, separated from the stitched text block. Caption title, as issued. Contemporary ownership inscriptions. Widely scattered light foxing. Good+. This is volume 2 of a two-volume work. The first volume-- 47, [1] pp-- is entitled 'The Elements of Arithmetic Illustrated...' Both..... More
Philadelphia: Crukshank, 1790. Covers absent, frontis present, folding table absent. [2], xiv, [10], 192 pp. Good. One of a number of editions, the first American having issued in 1773. Evans 22461. More
Cincinnati: W.C. Peters & Sons; Louisville: Peters Webb Co.; Cleveland: Molbrook & Long; St. Louis: Balmer & Weber, [1853]. Folio, 10" x 13-1/2", disbound, loose. 6pp. Music only, no words. Original printed and full color illustrated wrappers, engraving of several well dressed ladies, babies in their arms and small rocking..... More
Philadelphia: Published by Kimber and Conrad, [1812?]. 2 1/2" x 5 1/2", in contemporary plain yellow wrappers. Title page woodcut, and 44 additional woodcuts. [24] pp. Wraps lightly dusted, Near Fine. An attractive children's book. Rosenbach 466. AI 26465 [5]. More
Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1875. Pages [243]-320, [6-advts], frontispiece illustration, several plate and text illustrations. Caption title [as issued], printed in double columns. Original orange printed wrappers illustrated with boys playing baseball [and, on the right side of the wrapper, a girl playing cricket]. Light wear, Very Good. One of..... More
Boston: Perry Mason & Co., 1875. Folio, 10.75" x 15". [405]-412pp, illustrated, folded, uncut. Caption-title [as issued], printed in four columns. Light age toning, old folds [some small holes at folds with a line or two of text loss here and there]. In type at outer blank margin of page..... More
1856. [At head of title: FRANKLIN TOYS]. New York: Philip J. Cozans. 1856. 5" x 7.25". 24pp, text illustrations. Original printed wrappers [light wear and dustsoiling, a few short closed tears at edges of front wrap], stitched. Wrappers printed and illustrated in blue and red ink, text pages printed within..... More
Philadelphia: Kimber & Conrad, 1807. Stitched without wrappers. 36pp. Light wear and soil, Good+. With much data on each State, as well as the West Indies and the British possessions in North America. Quite scarce, American Imprints noting only one copy and NUC recording only this printing, with three locations..... More
Charleston, S.C. John Hoff, 1823. viii, 194pp. Original boards detached [accession number on front board, library bookplate on front pastedown]. Light institutional blindstamp on title page, a few numerical rubberstamps. Light pencil signatures, 'P.C. Gaillard, Charleston So. Carolina', from a prominent Charleston family that included a physician by that name..... More
Boston: Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews, 1793. 239, [1] pp, with the portrait of Webster laid down on the inner front board. Text lightly toned, binding very worn with spine chips and loosened hinges. Good+. "Thomas and Andrews's Third Edition. With many Corrections and Improvements by the Author." It..... More