Carter, Herbert

The BOY SCOUTS ALONG The SUSQUEHANNA or The Silver Fox Patrol Caught in a Flood. The Boy Scout Series #10

New York: A. L. Burt, 1915. Later printing, ca 1917. Green decorative cloth binding with red, silver & black stamping. Dust jacket,which replicates binding design. 254, [2] pp. Adverts last 2 pages. Frontispiece on coated paper. 12mo. About VG (biopredation to joint cloth)/VG+ (minor wear & soiling/sticker abrasion to front panel [affecting the "SU" in "Susquehanna"]).

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Carter, Herbert

The BOY SCOUTS In The ROCKIES or, The Secret of the Hidden Silver Mine. The Boy Scout Series #6

New York: A. L. Burt, 1913. Later printing, ca 1916. Green cloth with decorative cover (binding variant #1). Dust jacket, which replicates binding design. 256 pp. Frontispiece on coated paper. 12mo. VG (few spots of biopredation to cloth along front board joint/offset to eps)/VG+ (some modest wear & soiling).

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Book number: 6617.3

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"Cary"

A KEY To NATURE'S LOCK. Die-Cut Children's Poem

New York: Merrimack Publishing Corporation, (n. d.). "Reproduction of the antique original.". Stiff color illustrated die-cut wrappers in the shape of an antique lock. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. 16 pp. Color illustrations within. 5" x 4". Modest wear to wrappers and paper (light rubbing, light age-toning). A VG example. "There my mother's voice was always kind, and her smile was always sweet; and there I've sat on my father's knee, and watched his thoughtful brow, with my childish hand in his raven hair, that hair is silver now! But that broad hearth's light, oh, that broad hearth's light! And my father's look and my mother's smile, they are in my heart tonight.".

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[Walt Disney / Snow White / Caselotti, Adriana (1916 - 1997)]

WALT DISNEY'S MASTERPIECE SNOW WHITE and the SEVEN DWARFS SPECIAL EDITION LITHOGRAPH.; "Let Me See Your Hands."

(n. p.): Disney, 1994. SIGNED by Caselotti. Self wrappers. Broadside housed in a color printed portfolio, signed. Color lithograph. In portfolio: 9" x 12". A NF copy. To commemorate the first-ever release of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" on video, Suncoast and Disney Preferred Galleries presented this special edition lithograph, signed by the voice actor for the animated film of 1937, Adriana Caselotti, who passed away only three years after this was produced.

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Cavanah, Frances. Hutchinson, Paula - Illustrator

ABE LINCOLN GETS His CHANCE

Chicago / New York / San Francisco: Rand McNally & Company, 1959. Childrens Book Club Edition. Green papered boards with brown title lettering stamped to spine and brown hat and umbrella stamped to front board. Blue green and yellow illustrated dust jacket with yellow and white title lettering prined to front panel and yellow title lettering printed to spine. Illustrated eps. [3] - 92, [2] pp (eps inculded in pagination). Several intra-textual b/w illustrations. 9-1/4" x 7-1/4". Slight lean, toning to pages. Chipping and rubbing to dust jacket, 1" closed tear to front left corner and a 1" closed tear to top right corner of rear panel. Withall a VG+ copy in a VG jacket.

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Book number: 37099

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[Children's Chapbook]

CHARLES MURRAY. No. 431. IV. Series.; Revised by the Committee of Publication of the American Sunday School Union

Philadelphia: American Sunday - School Union, No. 1122 Chestnut St, (n. d.). Ca latter 19th C. Printed buff paper covers, sewn. Rear wrapper prints "A Hymn". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. 16 pp. Cut to front cover, as well as p. 1. 32mo. 4-1/4" x 2-3/4". Some wear & soiling, with faint tide-line to upper left quadrant. A VG copy. The American Sunday-School Union was at this address from 1857 to 1907.

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Book number: 50053

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[Chidrens Chapbook]

The HISTORY Of LITTLE TOM TUCKER

York: J. Kendrew, Printer, Colliergate, [n. d.]. Circa 1820s / 1830s (Davis 28; cf Opie, p. 417). Pale yellow printed self wrappers, sewn. 16 pp. illustrated with 16 woodcuts. 16mo. 4" [scant] x 2-5/8". Minor wear. A VG - VG+ copy. One of Kendrew's Halfpenny Books.

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[Childrens' Chapbook]

HISTORY Of PETER BROWN

Otley: Printed for the Booksellers [by Yorkshire J. S. Publishing & Stationery Co. Limited], (n. d.). Ca. 1850s. Printed self-wrappers, with cut to front wrapper center, surrounded by yellow background. Series advert to rear wrapper [16 titles]. Unpaginated, though 8 pp. Unopened. Illustrated with 8 cuts, 4 hand-colored. 12mo. 6-9/16" x 4-1/8". Paper adhesion to rear wrapper margins. Very Good. Per the series advert, this title #16 in the series.

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[Chapbook]

The HISTORY Of TOM THUMB With PRE-PRODUCTION ILLUSTRATION CARDS. Walker Toy Book

[Otley, UK]: [Renwick], (n. d.). Ca. 1930s. Chapbook on beige printed paper, white stiff stock printed paper for illustrations. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Single sheet folded once + 2 stiff stock notecards. Color illustrations to outside wrappers of chapbook, large pre-production b/w illustrations to 2 notecards included. Chapbook: 4-1/4" x 5-5/8". Notecard Illustrations: 5-3/4" x 7-3/8" Scant. Modest wear to wrappers. Some soiling to notecard versos. A VG copy.

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[Chidrens Chapbook]

The HISTORY Of LITTLE TOM TUCKER

York: J. Kendrew, Printer, Colliergate, [n. d.]. Pale yellow printed self wrappers, sewn. Circa 1820s / 1830s (Davis 28; cf Opie, p. 417). Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. 16 pp. illustrated with 16 woodcuts. 16mo. 4" [scant] x 2-5/8". Minor wear. A VG - VG+ copy. One of Kendrew's Halfpenny Books.

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[Childrens Chapbook]

The HISTORY Of VALENTINE And ORSON

[Nottingham]: Printed for the Company of Walking Stationers [by Charles Sutton], (n. d.). Ca 1790s. Cf. Cropper 17; ESTC N9051; Gumuchian 6233; Osborne, p. 614; Spencer Catalogue, p. 54. Printed self wrappers. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. 16 pp. A single unopened- folded sheet, showing the fold pattern employed for the gathering. Woodcut vignette to p. 1 (cf. OCCL, p. 106, where this chapbook is depicted). Head- tailpieces. 8vo. 6-1/4" x 3-7/8". Age-toning to paper. Stab holes along spine fold. Faint stain in upper right of gathering. Withal, a VG copy.

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[Childrens' Chapbook]

The HISTORY Of PETER THOMSON. In Two Parts. Series IV. No. IX.; By the author of Noonday and evening; Cottage friends; Shepherd's son, &c

New-York: The American Tract Society, 144 Nassau-St. Fanshaw, Printer, (n. d.). Ca. 1829 - 1832 (cf. AAS Catalog Record #246852). Not in Rosenbach. Printed pale green covers, sewn. "2 1/2 cents" printed to rear cover upper left. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. 36 pp. Front wrapper with ornamental border & woodcut vignette. T.p. cut, 19 additional cuts, 3 full page. 5-1/2" x 3-7/16". General wear & soiling. Some minor browning & foxing. Very Good.

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[Chapbook]

JACK The GIANT KILLER With PRE-PRODUCTION ILLUSTRATION CARDS. Walker Toy Book

[Otley, UK]: [Renwick], (n. d.). Ca. 1930s. Chapbook on beige printed paper, white stiff stock printed paper for illustrations. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Single sheet folded once + 2 stiff stock notecards. Color illustrations to outside wrappers of chapbook, large pre-production b/w illustrations to 2 notecards included. Chapbook: 4-1/4" x 5-5/8". Notecard Illustrations: 5-3/4" x 7-3/8" Scant. Modest wear to edges (rubbing, one small chip). Light soiling. A VG example.

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[Children's Chapbook]

The LITTLE FLOWER - GATHERER. [cover title]

Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 530 Arch St, (n. d.). Ca 1858 - 1876. Original publisher's printed yellow paper wrappers, sewn. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. 8 pp. Cut, p. 1. 32mo. 3-7/16" x 2-5/16". General wear & soiling to wrappers. A VG copy. OCLC records just one institutional holding (AAS) of this publication.

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[Childrens Chapbook]

LITTLE FRANK And Other Tales. Chiefly in Words of One Syllable. Uncle John's library. First Series. No. 3

Boston: W. J. Reynolds, 20 Cornhill, (n. d.). 1st printing, ca mid 1840s. OCLC records two holding institutions: Am Phil Soc & Peabody Essex. Printed light blue coated paper covers. Bright yellow eps. Publisher series advert to back wrapper [listing 6 titles]. 61, [3 (blank)] pp. Wood-engraved illustration p. [4] signed "FEW" (i.e. Fernando Edwards Worcester); p. 41 signed "Gordon sc." (i.e. John G. Gordon?). 8vo. 5-1/2" x 4-5/8". Wrappers show wear & soiling, with edge rash. Foxing & browing throughout. Period poi to preliminary blank. A Good-plus copy. Contents: 1. The Owl; 2. John Grant's Return from Sea; 3. Little Frank and the Rat; 4. Frank and a Field Mouse; 5. A True Tale of a Little Girl Who Fell into a Tan-Pit; 6. The Useful Dog; 7. George and Rose's Long Walk; 8. The Glow-Worm; 9. A Tale of the North.

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