New York: A. L. Burt Company. Reprint. Octavo. Decorative, pictorial cloth; vii, 306 pp.; five illustrations by J. Watson Davis. The story of a young Italian street musician who strikes out on his own after running away from his abusive padrone. A beautiful copy of this Burt reprint. Some dust-soiling..... More
Boston: Lee and Shepard. [HOPPIN, Augustus (1828-1896)]. Later edition? The only date is 1858, which is the date of copyright. Sixteenmo (17.5 cm); 104, [4] pp.; illustrations by Augustus Hoppin. Purple, blind-stamped cloth decorated in gilt to spine. Cloth is rubbed, including gilt; spine ends worn; browning to pale yellow..... More
New York: American Tract Society, [n.d.]. First edition. Sixteenmo (16 cm); 32 pp.; engravings. Red cloth boards with dulled gilt to spine. Cloth is a trifle faded with some spotting and wear to board edges and spine ends. "Presented to Rebecca Williamson from the Sunday School" on pastedown. Mid-nineteenth century..... More
Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1934. First edition. Octavo (22 cm); 304 pp.; frontispiece + 4 plates; dust jacket. Grey cloth boards stamped in black to front board and spine; illustrated endpapers. A Near Fine copy with some very faint spotting to page edges. Beautiful owner's bookplate to front endpaper..... More
Philadelphia: Henry To. Coates & Co., n/d. Later edition. Octavo (20 cm); 305 pp.; frontispiece; illus. Blue pictorial cloth stamped in black, red, gilt and white; illustrated endpapers. Cloth is rubbed with minimal edgewear; owner's name in pencil to endpaper and blank flyleaf; tissue guard missing from frontis; hinges starting;..... More
Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Company, 1857. First edition. Twelvemo. Blue, blind-stamped cloth decorated in gilt; 176 pp., [4 pp., adverts]; eight color plates with tissue guards. Easily a Very Good copy with some age toning to board edges; paper browning, but plates are bright and clean; owner's faint, penciled gift..... More
Philadelphia: The Rodgers Company. Reprint. First published in 1874. 1898 gift inscription to title page. Sixteenmo (15 cm); 126 pp.; illus. Contemporary publisher's binding stamped in blue and silver. Some light dust-soiling and rubbing, but an about near fine copy. By the author of "John Halifax, Gentleman," which was Dinah..... More
Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1911. First edition. Octavo (20 cm); 154 pp.; color frontispiece illus. Buckram cloth boards printed in brown with overlaid illustration to front board; decorative endpapers. Cloth is slightly rubbed and dirty, but overall Very Good. Many illustrations. Scarce first edition. More
New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1954. First American edition. Second printing. Octavo; 241 pp.; dust jacket. Cloth boards with black titling to spine. A Near Fine copy with the slightest hint of rubbing. In a Near Fine, unclipped dust jacket, some rubbing and slight wear to spine ends. Jacket..... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1893. Twelvemo (19 cm); xii, 355 pp.; tissue-protected frontispiece; illus. Publisher's green cloth stamped decoratively in black to front board; bright gilt to spine; floral endpapers. A fine copy. Illustrated throughout. More
London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin. 16mo. Brown, blind-ruled cloth stamped in gilt; four coloured engravings (with tissue guards) on wood, designed and engraved by Dalziel Brothers; 123, [1], [4] (adverts) pp. This is volume 11 of the 16 volume Rose-Bud Stories published by James Hogg & Sons, uniformly bound, paginated..... More
St. Louis & Boston: Hamilton-Brown Shoe Company, 1926. First edition. Illustrated, paper-covered boards; illustrated endpapers; unpaginated [36 pp.]; illustrations. An unbelievably fresh and bright copy that excepting for one bump to rear board edge would be Fine. Our copy still retains the original glassine dust jacket, which is slightly chipped..... More
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1959. First edition. Small octavo (19 cm); 175 pp.; photographic frontispiece; 2 page map; photographs; dust jacket. Green paper boards stamped in blue. A near fine or better copy with some darkening to bottom board edges and a faint pink stain to bottom..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942. First edition. Octavo (21.5 cm). Light blue cloth pictorially stamped in blue; 224 pp.; five full page illustrations by Helen Blair; dust jacket. In this novel for young adults, a group of children flee from their Tennessee home for a cottage on the South Carolina..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1953. First edition. Octavo. Burgundy cloth printed in yellow; viii, 248 pp.; dust jacket. Young adult fiction concerning railroading in Duluth, MN, at the turn of the twentieth century. An about Fine copy with scant rubbing to the tail in a Near Fine, unclipped dust..... More
Plainfield, New Jersey: John Dalziel, Publisher, 1892. First edition. Octavo (22 x 18 cm); xiii, 14-63, [1] pp.; engravings. Illustrated paper-covered boards; decorated endpapers. General rubbing and toning with some slight wear to board edges. Very Good. With illustrations by W. T. Richards, F. O. C. Darley, E. Matlack and..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1881. First edition. Square octavo (21.5 cm); vi, [1], 8-200 pp.; tissue-protected color frontispiece; ill. Publisher's decorative blue cloth ornately stamped in gilt, black and pink; beveled boards; all edges gilt; floral endpapers. Chromolithographs and black & white headpieces by painter/illustrator, Ida Waugh..... More
Chicago: P F Volland Company, 1919. First edition. First edition in illustrated box. Unpaginated; color illustrations. Pictorial boards are Near Fine with owner's name to front endpaper; illustrated endpapers. Box is rubbed and a trifle soiled with a few tears to edges. Scarce title by children's book publisher, writer and..... More
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Apapa, Lagos, Nigeria: Obobo Books, 1994. First edition. 20, [2]; 19 pp.; illus. Saddle-stapled illustrated cardboard wrappers. A Near Fine set with only some slight rubbing; clean throughout. Scarce. No copies of either volume found in commerce, and although OCLC has a listing, no libraries claim to have holdings. As..... More
Boston: The Page Company, Publishers, 1915. Twenty-seventh impression. 12mo. (19.5 cm). Green cloth stamped in gilt; viii, 310, 16 pp.; eight plates illustrated by Stockton Mulford. An exceptionally Fine copy of this later printing in a VG+, unclipped dust jacket. Some spotting to front and rear panels, else very little..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920. First edition. Octavo (20 cm); viii, [2], 180, [1] pp.; frontispiece; ill. Mustard yellow cloth printed in light blue. A very good copy lacking the dust jacket. Cloth is slightly rubbed and darkened; darkened spine; book seller's label to bottom of front..... More
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1939. First edition. Octavo. Red cloth printed in blue; 133 pp; illus. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good, unclipped ($1.75) dust jacket. Jacket is rubbed with a few nicks and closed tears to edges; tiny piece missing from center of..... More
Lexington, Kentucky: Privately printed, 1969. Limited ed. Folio-size (9 ½” x 12”); red cloth boards with hand-colored paper label to front board, 31 leaves hand-lettered and hand-colored on variegated stock (rectos only). Some light soiling to cloth, presumably issued without dust jacket. A VG+ copy. We find four copies in..... More
Chicago: The Goldsmith Publishing Company, 1934. First edition. Octavo (20 cm); 251 pp.; dust jacket. Decorative yellow paper over blue-green cloth boards with black printed spine. A Near Fine copy with a hint of dust-soiling to page edges in a Near Fine, bright, pictorial dust jacket; illustrated endpapers. Scarce in..... More
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1973. First edition. The first book by Ianthe Thomas, which follows a young Black girl, Jeppa Lee, as she experiences a hot summer day in the rural south. After a breakfast of fried sidemeat and hot pan biscuits prepared by her Aunt Hattie, Jeppa..... More