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The Child's Book on the Lord's Prayer

By: N/A

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, American Baptist Publication Society:

Seller ID: 014438

Binding: Original Paper Covered Boards

Condition: Fair

82pp. + 2pp. ads. Original marbled paper over black cloth. Part of the original paper spine label remains. Frontispiece and engraved title page. No date given, but probably 1840's. The OCLC Worldcat locates only two copies of this title in university holdings with this pagination and estimates the publishing date to be 1852 but includes a question mark after that date. Faint pencil ownership inscriptions on the pastedowns. Hinges cracked. The text is foxed and soiled, but complete. One inch tear in the back joint. All edges rubbed through. Closed tears to the frontispiece and title page. Size:...
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Peter Rabbit, Little Red Hen and Owl and Pussy Cat

By: N/A

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Newark, Charles E. Graham:

Seller ID: 010231

Binding: Original Decorative Boards

Condition: Good

Unpaginated (2pp. prelims including title page + 38pp.). Original laid paper over green cloth (resulting in a quarter bound cloth). Color pictorial pasteon on the front board. Illustrated with 16 full page color plates, profusely illustrated in text. Pictorial endpapers. The illustrations are drawn after Beatrix Potter, but they are not hers since The Tale of Peter Rabbit was pirated in America. The first pirated edition appeared in 1904. Dating this one is difficult but we estimate that this was printed in the 1920's based on the listing in OCLC WorldCat (which lists only two copies in instit...
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Dean's A Book of Fairy Tales

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: NY, Playmore Inc.: 1977

Seller ID: 023951

Binding: Original Pictorial Boards

Condition: Very Good

176pp. Original color pictorial boards. Delightfully illustrated by Janet & Anne Grahame Johnstone. Corners bumped and rubbed but not rubbed through. Spine ends the same.
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The Sower

By: N/A

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Raphael Tuck & Sons, Co. Ltd: 1901

Seller ID: 016503

Binding: Original Pictorial Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Unpaginated (12pp.). Nice chromolithography, typical for this publisher better known for their collectable postcards. Illustrated throughout in text but also with four full page color plates. Gift inscription to the verso of the back cover. Back cover browned around the edges. Dime sized peeled spot to the front cover. Rubbing along the joint. Size: 8vo - over 7 - 9" tall
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The Ten Virgins

By: N/A

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Raphael Tuck & Sons, Co. Ltd: 1901

Seller ID: 016504

Binding: Original Pictorial Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Unpaginated (12pp.). Nice chromolithography from this publisher that is better known for its collectable postcards. Illustrated throughout in text, but also with four color plates. Gift inscription on the verso of the back cover. The back cover is browned around the edges. Small bit of surface peeling a little smaller than a dime on the front cover. Joint a bit rubbed. Size: 8vo - over 7 - 9" tall
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St. Nicholas, An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks, Vol. XLII, Part I & II

By: N/A

Price: $200.00

Publisher: NY, The Century Co.: 1915

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 020890

Binding: Original Decorative Binding

Condition: Very Good

Two volumes, complete. 1152pp (continuous pagination). Original decorative red beveled cloth with elaborate black and gilt stamping. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated. This set includes four stories that are illustrated by Norman Rockwell, representing some of his earliest work (only two years after his first Boys' Life cover and one year before his first Saturday Evening Post cover). He would have only been 21 years old at the time. There are also three gorgeous full color "fairy" plates by Arthur Rackham. As usual, there is much to delight the collector here: a description of...
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The Book of Beasts

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, T. Woolmer:

Seller ID: 024009

Binding: Original Decorative Binding

Condition: Good

95pp. + advert for "Reward Books" published at the Wesleyan Conference Office. Original blue cloth with decoration stamped in black and gilt. Illustrated with woodcuts of various animals, mostly in text. Patterned endpapers. Front joint starting. Corners rubbed, but not rubbed through, at the tips. The spine is discolored. Some staining to the back board. As near as we can tell, this title is quite scarce.
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Louise: Or, the Beauty of Integrity. A Story for the Young. To Which are Added The Mother's Grave and No Place Like Home

By: N/A

Price: $100.00

Publisher: NY, D. Appleton & Co.: 1851

Edition: Early Edition.

Seller ID: 009053

Binding: Original Paper Covered Boards

Condition: Very Good

105pp. + 6pp. ads. Printed paper over red cloth which is decoratively stamped in gilt on the backstrip. Patterned endpapers. Quite scarce. The OCLC locates only three copies of this edition in university holdings. Corners bumped, most of the bottom edge and corners rubbed through. Gift inscription on one of the blanks in the prelims. Foxed. Size: 24mo - over 5" - 5" tall
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St. Nicholas, An Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls Vol. XLVI, Part I & II (1919)

By: N/A

Price: $100.00

Publisher: NY, The Century Co.: 1919

Seller ID: 024027

Binding: Original Decorative Binding

Condition: Very Good

Two volumes, complete for 1919. Original decorative red cloth elaborately stamped in black and gilt. Illustrated. Corners bumped. Hinges starting. Still a bright set.
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St. Nicholas; An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks, Volume XL, Parts 1 & 2, 1913

By: N/A

Price: $150.00

Publisher: NY, The Century Co.: 1913

Seller ID: 024031

Binding: Original Decorative Binding

Condition: Very Good

Two volumes, complete. 1152pp. Original beveled red decorative cloth elaborately stamped in black and gilt. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated. Part I includes L. Frank Baum's "Aunt 'Phroney's Boy" (Illustrated by George Avison), several Brownies poems by Palmer Cox, and three color frontispieces by Arthur Rackham. Part II includes another Brownies poem by Cox and five more color frontispieces by Arthur Rackham. Hinges a little weak. Extremities rubbed. A few stray scuff marks to the front board on Part II. Otherwise, a clean and presentable set with some important Rackham illu...
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Georgie (Rollo Story Books)

By: Abbott, Jacob

Price: $80.00

Publisher: Boston, Phillips, Sampson & Co.: 1857

Seller ID: 211

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good

163-191pp. Bound in original blue cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, yellow endpapers. Illustrated with one woodcut in text. The sixth story in "Rollo at Work". Corners bumped and rubbed through, spine ends rubbed through. Ownership address label on the back pastedown. Intermittent foxing. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
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The Widow's Broom

By: Allsburg, Chris Van

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton, Mifflin & Co.: 1992

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 024001

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated. Ownership inscription to the front pastedown. The jacket is worn at the spine ends. Several closed tears to the edges of the jacket. Top corners bumped and rubbed through.
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Children of the Handcrafts

By: Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin

Price: $15.00

Publisher: NY, The Viking Press: 1935

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 023950

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good

192pp. Original light blue cloth stamped in dark blue. Patterned endpapers. Illustrated by Grace Paull. Extra material on the author pasted onto the prelims. Bottom corners bumped. Some shelfwear. The jacket is price clipped and chipped at the spine ends. Many small closed tears along the edges of the same.
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Sisters, and Not Sisters

By: Berry, Mrs. M.E.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: NY, American Tract Society: 1865

Seller ID: 024006

Binding: Original Decorative Binding

Condition: Very Good

246pp. + 6pp. adverts. Original brown cloth elaborately stamped in blind and gilt. Frontispiece engraving. Occasional spotting in the text. Corners bumped and rubbed through. The heel of the spine shows some wear.
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The Big Shoe Book

By: Brody, Virginia

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Irvington-On-Hudson, Harvey House Publishers: 1956

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 024026

Binding: Original Pictorial Boards

Condition: Very Good

Unpaginated (20pp). Original pictorial boards in the shape of a boot (little old woman who lived in a shoe motif). Illustrated. Holes cut for shoe laces, but those are missing. Creased at the edges. A nice copy.
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The Bible Story from the American Standard Edition of the Revised Bible

By: Burdick, Jennie Ellis

Price: $15.00

Publisher: NY, The University Society: 1925

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 024041

Binding: Original Decorative Binding

Condition: Very Good

541pp. + xixpp. indices. Original black leatherette cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated. Spine lettering almost completely flaked away. Shelfwear to the extremities. No previous ownership inscriptions.
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Editha's Burglar: a Story for Children

By: Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Price: $70.00

Publisher: Boston, Jordan, Marsh & Co.: 1888

Edition: First Edition, First Issue.

Seller ID: 009001

Binding: Original Decorative Boards

Condition: Near Fine

64pp. Original green cloth nicely stamped in black and gilt on the front board. Illustrated. First issue, with the printer's imprint on the copyright page and the full figure on the frontispiece. Corners very gently bumped and ownership inscription on the front free endpaper. Trace of rubbing at the tips of the corners. Text lightly browned. Size: 12mo - over 6 - 7" tall
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Little Lord Fauntleroy

By: Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Price: $100.00

Publisher: NY, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1887

Edition: Second Printing.

Seller ID: 009002

Binding: Original Decorative Boards

Condition: Very Good

209pp. + 16pp. illustrated ads. Original bluish green cloth stamped decoratively in red, black and gilt. Illustrated. Corners bumped and rubbed, one corner rubbed through. Spine ends rubbed but not rubbed through. Ownership inscription on one of the blank prelims. A fairly handsome copy of this classic of American children's literature. Size: 8vo - over 7 - 9" tall
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Horse Haven

By: Caffrey, Nancy

Price: $200.00

Publisher: NY, E.P. Dutton: 1955

Edition: First Edition.

Seller ID: 006903

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Good

94pp. Illustrated with sketches in text. A scarce title in the first edition. Brown was considered one of the best equestrian artists of his time. Tape ghosts to the pastedowns with offsetting from the same to the facing endpapers. Ownership inscription on the front free endpaper. Corners gently bumped. The jacket is torn at the spine ends and is tattered at the lower corner of the back panel. Size: 12mo - over 6 - 7" tall
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There

By: Carroll, Lewis

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Henry Altemus:

Seller ID: 024025

Binding: Original Pictorial Boards

Condition: Good

344pp. Original green cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Pictorial color inset to the front board. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated with the original illustrations by John Tenniel. Color frontispiece. Front hinge starting. Endpapers unevenly browned. Front joint starting at the head. Corners bumped and rubbed through. Bookplate to the front pastedown. An uncommon edition by this publisher.
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Keyword: Childrens Books