New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1927. First American Edition. First Printing, trade issue. Octavo (19.75cm); orange cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; [2],xii,103,[3]pp; illus. Spine ends gently nudged, touch of oxidation to spine gilt, with subtle offsetting to endpapers..... More

Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1787. 12mo (16cm). Contemporary full sheep, titled in gilt on red leather spine label; vii,[1],9-191,[5],92pp. Rubbed, front joint partly split and tender, lacking leaf C4: just Good. Includes "Essays on Various Subjects," with a separate title page dated 1786 (also issued separately). EVANS 20534. W4374. More

New York: Scribner, 2003. First Edition. First Printing. Square quarto (23.75cm); dark teal paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; [32]pp; illus. Signed by both authors on the title page. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $17.95). Final volume in a three-book series of..... More

Washington DC: Polaris Company, 1923. First Edition. Slim 12mo (17cm); pictorial blue cloth; 63pp; illus. Mild rubbing and external soil, but still a bright, well-preserved copy, Very Good to Near Fine. Imaginary journey to the stars, written to provoke an interest in astronomy among young folks. In the author's preface..... More

New York: Harper & Row, 1963. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm.); glossy paper-wrapped pictorial boards in pictorial dust wrapper with identical printing; 64pp. Textblock overall clean and sound; light toning on pastedowns and endpaper margins, else Fine. Dust wrapper price clipped, lists other "I Can Read" titles on reverse..... More

Philadelphia: National Organization for an American Revolution / Pacesetters, Inc., [1978]. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; decorated card wrappers; 76pp. Mild external wear and soil; Very Good or better. Pamphlet on the history and sociology of the American family, with an emphasis on multicultural and Afrocentric themes. Directed at young..... More

[Reading, MA]: Addisonian Press Book, Addison-Wesley, [1969]. First Edition. First Printing. Square 12mo (15.75cm.); original boards in white pictorial dust jacket with original price ($2.95); unpaged; illus. Bottom edge of jacket cockled from exposure to damp, very slightly affecting textblock, else Near Fine in About Very Good jacket. TOLEDANO B41a..... More

Orange, MA: 1876-1890. Autograph book presented to thirteen-year-old Marshall Newton (1863-ca. 1930s) by his teacher: "A present. Master Marshall Newton for excellence in spelling. May this little book remind you of the winter term of 1875-76 and of the happy hours you passed in Dist. No. 6. In Proverbs IV-5th..... More

Nairobi: East African Literature Bureau, [1962]. 1966 Printing. 12mo (18cm.); publisher's orange pictorial staplebound card wrappers; [4],53pp. Light toning, else Near Fine. Collection of folk tales in the Bantu language Kamba, spoken in Kenya. OCLC locates five copies as of November, 2018, at Northwestern, Indiana, Harvard, Michigan State, and Wisconsin..... More

Enugu, Nigeria: Nwankwo-Ifejika & Co., N.d. [1968?]. First Edition. 12mo. Pictorial card wrappers; 94,(2)pp; illus. Trace of rubbing at spine joints and bottom of front board, else clean, tight and unmarked, Very Good or better overall. "...a straightforward children's adventure story about the cave exploration of four children on a...... More

Atlanta: Peachtree Publishing, 1993. First Edition. Slim Oblong Quarto. Pictorial paper covered boards in dust jacket; unpaginated. Author inscription to title page. Illustrated in color throughout. Trivial soiling to top edge of boards, else a tight, clean, new-appearing copy. Dust jacket showing trivial external wear. Fine. More

Nairobi: East African Literature Bureau, 1970. Reprint. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Pictorial card wrappers; 46pp. Fine and unmarked. Third printing. In the publisher's series "Kenya's Famous Men." More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913. First Edition. Paine's 17th novel, a juvenile adventure novel centered around the digging of the Panama Canal, and part of the Scribner Series for Young People. Copies of the first edition are scarce, in or out of dustjacket. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); orange cloth..... More