London: Frederick Warne, n.d. [circa 1940s]. Reprint. Small octavo (16.5cm); glazed pictorial paper over boards, quarterbound in green cloth; 52pp. Comprehensive toning and foxing; boards and dustwrapper soiled; dustwrapper extremities and hinges chapped, with some chips to top edges; inner wrapper price-clipped with ownership signature; sticker on ffep; else Very..... More

London: Frederick Warne & Co., n.d., ca. 1931. Slim quarto (24.75cm.); publisher's green cloth-backed pictorial boards; 24pp.; color illus. throughout, sheet music printed in brown. Boards rubbed with a few small dings to extremities, the whole rather dust-soiled, textblock a hint shaken and lightly foxed throughout. About Very Good only..... More

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963. First Edition. 24mo. Rebound in publisher’s presentation binding of three quarter red morocco gilt and cloth. Minor external rubbing, else very near fine. Presentation card laid in from Edgar Rigg, Chairman of Holt, Rinehart and Winston, sending this specially bound copy as a...... More

New York: A.C. McClurg & Co, 1909. First Edition. First printing. Small octavo (19.5cm). Publisher's pictorial green cloth, stamped in white and black; 310pp, frontispiece and 5 inserted leaves of b/w plates (halftones). A complete, sound copy, with the binding mildly rubbed (slightly heavier at spine ends) and some small..... More

New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1873. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's brown blind-ruled cloth, gilt-lettered spine, yellow endpapers; 264pp. Light shelf wear, small loss of cloth mid-spine edge of upper cover, else Very Good or better. Scottish Presbyterian sermons by the founder of the Ragged School system, which provided free education..... More

Boston: J. Stilman Smith & Co., [1887]. First Edition. Novella written and published as "A Christmas Present to the Ten Times One Is Ten Clubs," religious clubs for children inspired by the author's journal of the same title. The action follows the exploits of Ezekiel Beers, whose father was killed..... More

Paris: Présence Africaine, [1972]. First Edition. 2 volumes; octavo (21cm.); original white pictorial wrappers; illus. Some foxing to top and fore-edge of upper wrappers, else Very Good and sound. Collection of Nigerian folktales, compiled by the former President of the National Assembly of Niger. More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. First Edition. Variant issue on laid paper, edges untrimmed. 21cm. In original publisher's cloth, titled on spine, pictorial decoration on front, top edge gilt; x, 210pp; frontispiece and 31 halftone illustrations by A. B. Frost. A tight, fresh copy, with spine slightly dulled; crayon..... More

New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1903. First Edition. First edition, second state, lacking terminal advertisements. Octavo (22cm). In beige publisher's cloth, titled in black on spine, with pictorial stamp in red, green, and black on front; [viii], 294pp; frontispiece and 31 illustrations by Karl Moseley. Clean and tight, with..... More

London: Religious Tract Society, 1888. An illustrated zoological guide to biblical animals, aimed at a juvenile audience. 12mo (19cm). Original brick red cloth, stamped in gilt and black; pictorial series endpapers; 240,[2]pp; 2pp of ads at rear; 3 full-page plates, numerous in-text wood engravings. A straight tight copy with exterior..... More

Boston: Tappan and Bennet, 1842. Third edition, first printing, first issue. 12mo (16cm). Blindstamped brown cloth, titled in gilt on spine; pale yellow endpapers; [i]-viii [9]-156pp; frontispiece and wood engraving, p.14. Binder's ticket of H. Kitfield, Boston. Contemporary ownership inscription of Susan A. Adams, Cavendish, VT. Sound but rubbed, chipped..... More

New York: James G. Gregory, 1864. First Edition. Slim octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's green decorative cloth embossed in gilt, unadorned spine; 31pp.; color lithograph frontispiece and additional title page & 4 leaves of color lithographic plates. Boards rubbed, cloth splitting along bottom two inches of upper spine joint, textblock quite shaken..... More

New York: Robert M. McBride, 1929. First Edition. Presentable copy of this somewhat uncommon children's book from the pen of Violet Moore Higgins, a talented cartoonist and illustrator labeled by cartoon historian Alan Holtz as "almost criminally undercelebrated." Higgins drew the 1920s syndicated comic strip "Drowsy Dick," and remained active..... More