[Ibadan, Nigeria: Onibonoje Press, 1970]. First Edition. Epic poem based on the deeds of the Yoruba woman Moremi, who saved her village from foreign invaders. Published as a school reader, with a glossary of difficult words and textual questions at the end of the text. 12mo (18cm.); original pictorial staplebound..... More

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. First Edition. Blanck's first state, with "presumptive" on last line of p.9, and ads on p.[233] beginning with New Books: A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine. Octavo (19.75cm); publisher's powder blue cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt and black on..... More

New York: Vantage Press, [1985, 1990]. Second Printing. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in yellow pictorial dust jacket; [8],55pp.; illus. throughout. Jacket spine a bit sunned, light soil to rear panel, else Fine. Collection of poems for children by the African American San Francisco-based educator. More

Ibadan: Onibonoje Press & Book Industries, 1973. First Edition. 12mo. Illustrated card wrappers; 61pp; illus. Fine, unmarked copy. Primary reader for African schoolchildren, a retelling of the Biblical story of Esther. Text in English; includes vocabulary lessons at rear. OCLC, 6cc (of which 2 in North America). More

Detroit: Wakweli Publications, [1974]. First Edition. Small quarto (21.5cm.); original yellow pictorial staplebound wrappers; unpaged; printed on yellow cardstock. Fine. Distributed by the Broadside Press. Folktale translated from the original Swahili by N. Mwakikagile. More

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, N.d. [1938]. Reprint. Octavo. Orange cloth hardcover, titled in black on spine; dustjacket; 390pp; illus. Old department store price sticker to front endpaper else a tight, Near Fine copy. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, lightly worn at extremities with a few short, closed tears; Very..... More

New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1898. First Edition. First printing. Small octavo. Pictorial cloth; viii,359pp. Wear to cloth at spine ends and board corners; faint stains and some moisture rippling to text block edges; rear endpaper lacking: a flawed copy, no better than Good, but retaining decent shelf appearance..... More

Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co., [1865]. Oblong octavo (13.5cm). Blue printed paper over boards, backed in tan leather; 224pp; publisher's ads to rear panel. Dealer's stamp of S. R Leland and contemporary pencil ownership marks to front free endpaper. General mild wear, with two-inch splits at lower and upper front..... More

Garden City: Doubleday, 1937. Later printing. Quarto. Cloth-backed pictorial boards; dustjacket; [88]pp; illus; pictorial endpapers. Very Good, with mild soiling and wear to board edges; jacket chipped at extremities, with loss to "I" in author's name at heel; just VG. Edition not stated, but in the correct ($2.00) dustwrapper according..... More

[N.p. Naomi Young Armstrong, 1971]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original white pictorial staplebound wrappers; unpaged. About Fine. Religious children's poetry, written from the point of view of a young boy. More

Richmond: The Hermitage Press, 1912. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Brown cloth stamped in gilt; 305,[1]pp; frontispiece and 8 black and white halftone plates. An upright, unfaded copy with superficial abrasion to cloth over front board, rubbing to head and tail, partial crack to front hinge: Good or better..... More

Auburn, NY: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1854. Later edition. Octavo (18.5cm); brown cloth, stamped in blind with gilt on spine; yellow endpapers; 243+[12]pp, frontispiece. Spine lolled, backstrip and upper margins sunned; soiling and surface wear; extremities bumped and rubbed. Textblock damped and foxed throughout, with some soiling and slight pulling..... More

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, [1966]. First American Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth in olive pictorial dust jacket, green topstain; [8],181pp. Jacket extremities rubbed with a few short closed tears and creasing; Fine in About Very Good jacket. Paranormal young adult novel twice adapted for television, in 1971 and 1996. More