Aunt Carrie's Rhymes for Children

New York, James Miller, 1854. 1st Edition, 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. 90pp. Gilt embossed brown boards, gilt lettering and floral design to spine, 5 hand-colored engraved plates. Cover shows very slight wear, chipping to head and tail of spine, small insect holes to rear joint, binding is tight and sound, an occasional spot to text otherwise clean, 1864 inscription on front free endpaper, book is overall in a well-preserved condition. Good.

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Book number: 004658

Catalogue: Children's, Poetry, Illustrated

Keywords: Poems Rhymes "Hand-Colored" Illustrated

Browning, Robert

Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister

Atlantic Ocean, Privately Printed, 1945. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Hardcover. Greer Allen. Unpaginated, Blue cloth. One of 48 copies printed with Cloister Types. Title page reads : "Printed in the Atlantic Ocean." 5 engravings by Greer Allen. Edges lightly rubbed, one inch abrasion to lower front cover, remnants of label removed from front pastedown, text is clean and unmarked. Good.

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Book number: 003134

Catalogue: Poetry, Illustrated

Keywords: "Donald Chalmers" "Paul Tarantino"

Cumplido, Ignacio

Presente amistoso dedicado a las Señoritas Mexicanas

Mexico, I. Cumplido, 1847. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 194pp. Blind stamped boards, gilt stamped floral border, gilt stamping and gilt lettering to spine, all edges gilt, 7 engraved plates with tissue-guards, signed on editor's page "Maria G. Haro." Edge worn, spine chipped with minor loss, endpapers stained, very occasional foxing to text. Good/As New.

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Book number: 004753

Catalogue: Illustrated, Poetry, Biography

Keywords: Senoritas Women Mexico

Dorat, Claude Joseph

The Kisses (Les Baisers) Preceded by the Month of May.

London, Vizetelly & Co. 1890. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover. C.Eisen and C.P. Marillier. 124pp. no date c1890. Three-quarter maroon leather, marbled boards and endpapers, a Limited Edition of 1,100 copies of which this copy is No. 5, copperplate engravings with tissue-guards throughout. Front board detached but present, spine worn and chipped including one inch piece from head of spine, edges rubbed, text and engravings are in very good, unblemished condition. Profusely illustrated with meticulously detailed copperplate engravings. Good.

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Book number: 004674

Catalogue: Poetry, Illustrated

Keywords: Engravings Binding

Numerous

Cherry Cheeks and Roses

New York and London, Ernest Nister and E.P. Dutton & Co. 1890. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Unknown. 32pp unoaginated. Pictorial boards, green cloth spine. Light wear, one inch wide stain to foredge, cracking to front endpapers. Contents are clean and mildly age-toned, endapers more heavily age-toned, but all text and illustrations are bright and clear, former owner's named stamped on front endpaper. Nursery rhymes accompanied by tasteful, adorable illustrations. Good.

Old BookshelfProfessional seller

Book number: 003884

Catalogue: Poetry, Illustrated, Children's

Keywords: Poems

Teasdale, Sara

Rainbow Gold; Poems Old and New

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1924. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. Dugald Walker. 267pp. Blue cloth, balck lettering and decoration. Book is clean and sound inside and out. Familiar and unfamiliar poems selected by Sara Teasdale attractively illustrated by Dugald Walker. Very Good/No Jacket.

Old BookshelfProfessional seller

Book number: 004657

Catalogue: Children's, Poetry, Illustrated

Keywords: Rhymes Poetry

Thompson, Constance E.

He Loveth All.

Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1888. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. Rosa Jameson and Alfred W. Strutt. 24pp. Green pictorial heavy card stock. Very light soil to covers, an occasional small spot in margins. Poems of praise with monotint illustrations throughout. Edited by Geo. C. Haité. Good.

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Book number: 001805

Catalogue: Poetry, Illustrated

Keywords: Monotints

Whittier, John Greenleaf

Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier

Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1882. New and Revised Edition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 450pp. Green cloth over bevelled boards, gilt and black title and decoration to cover and spine, all edges gilt. Frontispiece engraving of author with facsimile inscription and signature and many other illustrationsall with tissue guards. Covers are worn . Spine is chipped at head and tail and has a half inch flap of cloth 2 inches from head. Hinges are split, some signatures are loose. Owner's name in pencil on front endpaper Contents are age-toned but otherwise quite clean, tiny smudge on frontispiece. Fair/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000338

Catalogue: Poetry, Illustrated

Keywords: Snow-Bound