Arthur, T[imothy]. S[hay] [1809 - 1885]. - Editor

The CHILDREN'S HOUR. A Magazine for the Little Ones. September 1871. Vol. X. No. 3

Philadelphia: T. S. Arthur & Sons, 1871. 1st printing (presumed). Pink paper wrapper with black title lettering and illustration printed to front wrapper. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. 73 - 104 pp. Illustrated. 7-3/4" x 6". Wear to extremities, yapped bottom edge. Withal a VG copy.

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Arthur, T[imothy]. S[hay. 1809 - 1885]. - Editor

The CHILDREN'S HOUR. A Magazine for the Little Ones. August, 1871. Vol. X. No. 2

Philadelphia: T. S. Arthur & Sons, 1871. 1st printing (presumed). Tan paper wrappers with black title lettering and illustration printed to front wrapper. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. 41 - 72 pp. Illustrated. 7-1/2" x 6". A VG copy.

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Book number: 35691.1

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Artzybasheff, Boris

POOR SHAYDULLAH

New York: Macmillan, 1931. 1st edition. Gray cloth binding. Dust jacket. Unpaginated. Illustrated by the author. 8vo. 8-5/8" x 7-5/8". VG+ (extremities tanned)/VG+ (minor wear & soiling).

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Book number: 23408.2

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Ashton, John

CHAP-BOOKS Of The EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

New York & London: Benjamin Blom, 1966. Reissue of the 1882 1st edition. Green cloth binding. 486 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. VG (gilt bright/gutter break bwtn tp & frontis).

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Book number: 15391.1

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[Aulnoy, Madame Marie-Catherine d', 1651 - 1705.]

The STORY Of The LITTLE WHITE MOUSE: Or the Overthrow of the Tyrant King

Glasgow: Printed for the Booksellers, (n. d.). Ca. 1850. Not in Osborne, nor in Gumuchian. Printed paper wrappers, stitched. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. 24 pp. Woodcut of a castle to front wrapper. 6-7/8" x 4-1/2". Modest wear to wrappers (age-toning and rubbing to edges, binding string visible). A VG example.

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Book number: 25283.1

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'By the Best Authors and Artists.'

OLIVER OPTIC'S ANNUAL 1889. Stories, Poems, and Pictures fro Little Men and Women

Boston: The Russell Publishing Company, 1887. 1st edition thus. Glazed color pictorial boards, with images reminiscent of Greenaway. Unpaginated. Illustrated. Square 8vo. Wear to edges & joint cloth. Period pos & drawings to preliminary blanks. A Good copy.

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Book number: 31621

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Avery, Al

A YANKEE FLIER On A RESCUE MISSION. Air Combat Stories #15

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1945. 1st edition. Green cloth binding stamped in dark blue. Red topstain. Blue pictorial eps. Color pictorial dust jacket. vii, [3], 210 pp. Frontis. 12mo. Nr. Fine (text browned, as usual)/VG (minor wear, with some chipping to the spine ends).

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Book number: 1558.2

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Avery, Al

A YANKEE FLIER With The R.A.F. Air Combat Stories for Boys #8

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1941. 1st edition. Green cloth with dark green lettering. Orange pictorial eps. Dust jacket. [8], 214 pp. Frontis. 12mo. NF/VG+ (faint soil to rear panel). A nice copy. Rear panel advert lists to this title.

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Book number: 2979.4

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Bailey, Lydia [1779 - 1869] - Printer. [Kendall, Edward Augustus]

KEEPER'S TRAVELS In SEARCH Of HIS MASTER

Philadelphia: Published by Johnson & Warner, No. 147, Market Street, 1808. 1st printing thus (American Imprints 15353; Nipps 7; Rosenbach 370; Welch 723.4). Period drab paper boards, with front board professionally reattached. Speckled edges. 87, [3] pp. 'Contents' last 2 pages. Frontispiece. 18mo, signed in 6s. 5-3/8" x 3-1/4". Minor wear. Front paste-down never attached to front board, so now acts as ffep & reveals binding technique underneath. A solid VG copy. This children's tale first published by Newbery in 1798; this particular edition's claim to fame results from being an early imprint from the printshop of the distinguished early 19th C. lady printer, Lydia Bailey. Cf. Nipps, LYDIA BAILEY A Checklist of Her Imprints [2013] for more on this remarkable woman.

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Book number: 42562

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Bailey, Arthur Scott [1877 - ]

The TALE Of JASPER JAY

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1917. Early prtg. Grey cloth stamped in black & red. White dust jacket with color pictorial duplicating that on the front board. 120 pp. Frontis + 3 color plates by Harry L. Smith. 12mo. VG+/VG. Tuck-Me-In Tales #4. Uncommon in dust jacket.

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Book number: 18475

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[Broadside Ballad]

The CHILDREN In The WOODS: Being a True Relation of the inhuman Murder of Two Children of a deceased Gentleman in Norfolk .... this wicked Uncle ... contrived to have them destroyed by two Ruffians ..

[Boston]: Sold at the Bible & Heart, in Cornhill, (n. d.). Ca 1785. 1st printing thus, and evidently the 3rd US edition (Evans 19401; Ford 3015; Rosenbach 101). Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Single sheet, verse in thirty-eight stanzas, triple column. First line: "Now ponder well, you parents dear." Followed by two additional stanzas of verse entitled: "A Word of Advice to Executors." Crude woodcut of the fighting ruffians, to the left of the sub-title. Folio. 12-1/2" x 8-1/8". Edgewear & worming, with some minor loss of text. Faint fold lines. Unobtrusive expert tissue mends. In lower margin, in a period hand, is inked: "Lycia Pratts Verses". A Fair - Good copy. A popular childhood ballad, first registered at Stationers' Hall in 1595, the piece also subsequently published as "The Babes in the Woods." Shipton & Mooney record the first US edition as 1768(?), followed by the Heart & Crown imprint of the 1770s (no copy located, though see Rosenbach 64), then this Bible & Heart version, ca 1785 (date from Evans). A quite rare 18th C. US children's broadside.

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Book number: 41475

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Bannerman, Helen [1862 - 1946]

HISTOIRE Du PETIT NEGRE SAMBO (The Story of Little Black Sambo). Traduit de L'Anglais par Madeleine Bleriot Johnson

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1921. 1st edition in French (Barton, p. 118). NB. Barton calls for a "$1.00" price on the dust jacket; this is incorrect. Per the 4th edition of The United States Catalog, this book was first issued with a "75¢" price. Red cloth binding with color pictorial paper onlay to front board, showing 'Little Black Sambo', within an oval, walking while carrying a green umbrella. Buff printed dust jacket, which duplicates binding pictorial, and has a '75¢' price to front flap. vi, 56, [2] pp. Last leaf blank. Frontis + 26 full-page color illustrations after the originals. 16mo. 5-3/4" x 4". A Nr Fine book in an Abt VG jacket, which has a tape repaired split to the left of the front panel, and a chip at the top of the spine panel [no lettering affected]. Barton, while incorrect in her note regarding dust jacket price, was correct when she stated, "scarce in dust jacket.".

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Book number: 28412

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Barbauld, Mrs. [Anna Laetitia. 1743 - 1825]

HYMNS In PROSE For CHILDREN

London: John Murray, 1865. Early Murray edition. Original green cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine & front board. Red edgestain. xii, 100 pp. Illustrated with wood engravings by James D. Cooper. 12mo. 7-3/4" x 5-3/4". Slight lean. Period poi to preliminary blank. A VG - VG+ copy.

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Book number: 37516

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Barth, Chr. G.

DER ARME HEINRICH, Ober die Pilgerhutte am Weizenstein

New York: American Tract Society, (n.d.). Blue cloth in blind. 94 pp. Frontis illustration. 6 1/4" x 4". VG (light wear to extremities/bkpt on front past-down/corners turned in).

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Book number: 18089

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Bartok, Ian

The CIRCUS BOOK. A Book for Early Childhood

Racine WI: Merrigold Press, 1974. Color composition binding. Unpaginated. Illustrated in color by Jack C. Glover. Sq 8vo. Nr Fine (pos on front paste-down).

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Book number: 14513

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