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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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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 Burgess Bird Book For Children

By: Burgess, Thornton W.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown & Co.: 1921

Edition: Reprint.

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 004110

Binding: Original Decorative Cloth

Condition: Very Good

353pp. + 2pp. ads. Illustrated. This copy inscribed and signed with a five line inscription by the author and also signed by the illustrator on the front free endpaper. Corners bumped and rubbed, one corner rubbed through at the tip. Extremities rubbed on the spine but not rubbed through. Ownership inscriptions on the front pastedown. Offsetting to the half title and the facing page from a newspaper clipping that was once laid in and since removed. Bookplate on the half title and ownership inscription on the page facing the half title. Quite scarce signed by both the author and the illustrator...
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The Wonders of Common Things

By: Carey, Annie

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co.:

Seller ID: 009177

Binding: Original Decorative Boards

Condition: Very Good

284pp. + 4pp. ads. Original beveled red cloth nicely stamped in black and gilt, all edges gilt. Illustrated. Ca. 1880's. Two corners bumped, one corner rubbed through at the tip. Some staining to the cloth. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
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Pious Reflections for Every Day of the Month; To Which is Prefixed The Life of the Author

By: Fenelon

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Boston, Lincoln & Edmand: 1819

Seller ID: 011780

Binding: Original Pictorial Wraps

Condition: Good

54pp. Original bluish gray printed wraps, sewn binding. Frontispiece copperplate engraving. The spine is gone but the contents are intact. Corners of the wraps chipped. Ownership inscription on the front free endpaper. The leaf for page ix and x is torn horizontally but intact. "Books suitable for presents in Sunday School" ad on the back wrap. Size: 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall
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Johnny Tremain

By: Forbes, Esther

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton, Mifflin & Co.: 1945

Edition: Reprint

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 023344

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Good

256pp. + xxpp. "To Help You Enjoy the Story". Original orangish red cloth with lettering and decoration stamped in gray. Illustrated by Lynd Ward. Map endpapers. This copy inscribed and signed by the author on the verso of the frontispiece. Winner of the Newbery Award for childrens literature. Corners bumped and rubbed through. Some soil to the cloth. Text browned.
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A Visit to the Celestial City; Revised by the Committee of Publication for the American Sunday School Union

By: Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Price: $99.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, American Sunday School Union:

Edition: Revised Edition

Seller ID: 241

Binding: Paper Covered Boards

Condition: Good

54pp. Circa 1840's. Bound in original cloth backstrip with marbled paper covered boards. I find one bibliographer online who claims this as an 1843 printing and third in the list of separate printings, apart from religious periodicals of the day (http://blog.celestialrailroad.org/2009/09/current-bibliography/). Originally published in 1843 and written by the great American author, Nathaniel Hawthorne. The original title was, "The Celestial Rail-Road". The concept is a revisiting of Bunyan's road to the Celestial City by way of rail-road which easily glides over places like the Slough o...
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Phil Sidney or a Rich Boy's Trials (with) Jim Dexter or Handsome is as Handsome Does

By: Hooper, W.W.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Brooklyn, Brooklyn Eagle Press: 1903

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 021573

Binding: Original Decorative Binding

Condition: Very Good

356pp. + errata slip tipped in. Original red cloth with a boy's profile inset in a ribbon design with an unusual color backdrop that darkens from yellow to green, lettering stamped in black and gilt, top edge gilt. Illustrated. An uncommon title, rendered interesting and collectible based on the fact that it is DOUBLE JACKETED. The interior jacket is a glassine jacket. The exterior jacket is printed. The glassine jacket has chipping at the edges. The printed jacket is dampstained at the front panel and has a few small closed tears. Fore and bottom edges of the text block foxed. Bottom...
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The Fables of Aesop: Selected, and Told Anew, and Their History Traced

By: Jacobs, Joseph

Price: $50.00

Publisher: NY, E.A. Lawson Co.:

Edition: Reprint.

Seller ID: 006807

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good

228pp. Illustrated in text in an art nouveau style by Heighway. This is an early edition of this Aesop with these illustrations since MacMillan issued the Heighway edition in 1894. Bookplate on the front pastedown, ownership inscription (dated 1897) on the front free endpaper. Extremities rubbed but not rubbed through. Spine lettering dulled. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
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Lives of the Hunted...

By: Seton-Thompson, Ernest

Price: $40.00

Publisher: NY, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1901

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 023830

Binding: Original Decorative Binding

Condition: Very Good

360pp. Original pea green decorative cloth stamped in black and gilt. Profusely illustrated. One corner bumped. Spine sunned, front board unevenly sunned.
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Keyword: Childrens Books