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

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 about Phil the Fiddler: The Story of a Young Street-Musician

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 about Our Katie

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 about Our Fellows; Or, Skirmishes with the Swamp Dragoons

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 about The Little Lame Prince and His Traveling Cloak: A Parable for the Young and Old

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 about The San Sebastian

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 about Juvenile Tales for Juvenile Readers (Rosebud Stories

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 about We Go to the Western Isles

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