New York: The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, [1902]. Quarto (25.5 cm); 283 pp.; plates; fold-out facsimile of Washington's genealogical table. Light blue cloth binding with paper spine label nearly chipped away. Cloth is marked and grubby with 'dup' [duplicate] written in ink to front board; wear to extremities... More about The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. XXXIII, Nos. 1-4, 1902

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 about Karl Kiegler; Or, The Fortunes of a Foundling

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 about City of Adventure

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 about Bright Pictures from Child Life

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 about The Story of Cotton

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 about Donald and Dorothy

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 about Twinkie Town Tales, Book No. 1

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 about Carolina Caravan

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 about Halloran's Hill

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 about Belle's Pink Boots

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 about The Blue Cowrie [Two Vols. - Complete

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 about The Hidden Treasure of Rasmola

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 about I Take Your Hand