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Paris: Librairie Garnier Freres. Very Good. 1880. Decorative Cloth. 114 pages; Culs-de-lampe de Bourget graves par Lefman. A lovely book with charming engraved illustrations. Contents clean and tight in original tan cloth binding with decorative stamping in gilt and lettering in black on front cover. Some very minor flaking at front edge of a few leaves. No date printed in book, but paper, illustrations and binding style suggest 1880s. A small superficial spot to cloth at bottom edge of front board. Text in French. A delightful collection of songs and rounds for children with music and illustrated with four wonderful full-page chromolithographs and dozens of black and white illustrations after engravings. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co.. Good. 1926. First American Edition. Hardcover. 46 pages; Original owner's name inside front cover, otherwise contents clean and unmarked, illustrations brightly coloured. 23 leaves printed on rectos only with colour illustrations on each recto. Original pictorial boards rubbed along edges, especially corners, paper covering spine is lacking; dust soiled. Scarce First American Edition of this William Nicholson classic tale with fabulous colour illustrations. OCLC 7092517 This Doubleday, Page first American edition precedes the later Doubleday, Doran and Doubleday issues. "In 1927, Doubleday, Page merged with the George H. Doran Company, creating Doubleday, Doran. ... In 1944, Doubleday, Doran acquired the Philadelphia medical publisher Blakiston. In 1946, the company became Doubleday and Company." .

Paris: Editions Leclere. Very Good. 1862. Limited Numbered Edition. Hardcover. (iv), 208, (vi); (vi), 207, (v) pages; Contents of both volumes clean and secure in contemporary bindings of handsome black half-leather with 5 raised bands at spines, marbled boards and marbled endpapers. Some scattered foxing to initial leaves and concluding leaves; some crazing at spine, rubbed a bit at extremities. An attractive set. Gilt titles in second compartments and volume number in third compartments. Title pages printed in Red & Black. Set Number 199 of a Limited Edition of only 200 copies; both books numbered 199. Silk place ribbons. Tome I with vignette medallion portrait of Voltaire, Tome II vignette of Grecourt. Each author's contribution has a title page and an egraved in-text illustration; first volume has 21 illustrations and second volume has 25 illustrations. Voltaire's pieces begin with: L'Education d'un Prince. Grecourt's begin with Le Cuisinier… Leer más

Paris: Editions du Pre aux Clercs. Good+. 1947. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 69 pages; Contents complete and free of marks or tears. Page signatures somewhat loose in binding of blue cloth spine and pictorial boards; boards rubbed and chipped. Illustrations in b&w drawings by Elsa Henriquez, text printed in various colours. Stories include: L'Autruche, Scènes de la Vie des Antilopes, Le Dromadaire Mécontent, L'éléphant de Mer, L'Opéra des Girafes, Cheval dans Une Ile, Jeune Lion en Cage, Les Premiers Anes. Elsa Henriquez (1915?-2010) was an Argentinian painter and illustrator. She was the daughter of Peruvian dancer Helba Huara. Her family, including her father, the Peruvian journalist Gonzalo More, moved to Paris in 1932. Where she posed as a model for the painter Balthus. While living on the Rue Boulard in Paris, Henriquez received many artists and friends, including the Cuban poet Pita Rodriguez and the Peruvian guitarist and… Leer más

Boston: D. Lothrop and Co. ; Franklin and Hawley Streets. Very Good. [1884]. Hardcover. Clean and secure in original pictorial boards, chipping at spine ends, one small scrape to front board; lacks frontispiece. Text printed in double columns, unpaginated. OCLC 25695505 A charming illustrated edition of this series of stories about a cooking club formed for the girls of Tu-Whit Hollow. "Yes, a cooking club -- a series of little daytime parties for you and the other girls. They will be given, first at one house, and then another. You all will wear your every-day dresses. You will cook your own refreshments while at the club." The stories of the meetings evolve around the preparations for and baking of bread, etc., from the hop yeast to the final product. Profusely illustrated with charming wood engravings, some signed "Kilburn" in the plate -- Samuel Smith Kilburn (1831—1903) was an accomplished engraver in Boston. D. Lothrop and Company was at this… Leer más

London: Macmillan. Very Good+. 1898. Hardcover. viii, (2), 223 pages; Former owner's brief inscription and bookplate, otherwise clean and secure in original decorative bluecloth binding with gilt lettering. Seven full page plates illustrated by Walter Crane. .

Boston: F. Gleason. Very Good+. 1854. First Edition. Print. Gleason's Pictorial ; 1 pages; A beautiful vintage print, hand-colored. This first page of the August 19, 1854 issue of Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion. Image measures 10 X 14 inches; matted print measures 22 X 14 inches. Beautiful coloring. The top image is the bannerhead of the publication which depicts Boston (City on the Hill) and Boston Harbor with two steam paddleboats and several sailing boats and ships. The central text serves as explication of the lower image which depicts AUGUST - three dairy-maids churning and molding butter under a vine covered area near the dairy barn. Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion was a 19th-century illustrated periodical published in Boston, Massachusetts from 1851– 1859. The magazine was founded by Frederick Gleason in 1851. The publication name was changed to Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion in 1855, after managing editor Maturin Murray… Leer más

Norwalk, CT: C.R. Gibson & Co. Very Good. 1950. Paperback. Stand-Up Stories; 12 pages; This seven panel "stand-up book" retells the story of the Israeli shepherd boy who saved his country from Philistine invaders by killing the giant Goliath with a stone from his sling accompanied by colourful illustrations. OCLC: 51247786 Small bookseller's stamp at lower edge for Christian Book Store, Thomaston, Georgia. Regarding the publisher of this book, the founders of what became C. R. Gibson and Company immigrated from York, England to the U.S. in 1850. Printing was the Gibson family business, so they brought along a French handpress to start their business in America. The brothers -- Robert, Stephen, George and Samuel and John Gibson -- established two printing companies: one propelled by the outbreak of the Civil War in 1860 and the other which they purchased in 1870. The second company , John Gibson Company, evolved into C.R. Gibson and Company and continues to operate today. . Leer más

London: Adam and Charles Black. Near Fine. 1911. Hardcover. ix, 174 pages; Illustrated with Folding map, 20 colour plates after paintings by Robert Anderson. Original green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration in brown, white and gilt. Toning to endpapers, else a very nice copy of this beautiful book. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .

Saint John: J. & A. McMillan. Very Good. 1886. Printed wrappers. Natural History Society of New Brunswick, April 1886; 4, plate pages; Clean and secure in original printed wrappers; tiny chip at lower corners. Wonderful engraved plate of young lynx by E.E.T.S [Ernest Thompson Seton] - one of his early publications. Read before the New Brunswick Natural History Society, Feb. 2nd, 1886. OCLC 41924545 Ernest Evan Thompson Seton (1860 – 1946) was an English-born Canadian-American author, wildlife artist, founder of the Woodcraft Indians in 1902 (renamed Woodcraft League of America), and one of the founding pioneers of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) in 1910. Seton also influenced Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of one of the first Scouting organizations. His writings were published in the United Kingdom, Canada, the US, and the USSR; his notable books related to Scouting include The Birch Bark Roll and the Boy Scout Handbook. He is responsible for the appropriation and… Leer más

London: The Caravel Press. Near Fine. 1953. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 34 pages; Publisher's binding: vellum spine over blue-grey paper-covered boards, with pictorial device in gilt on the front cover and lettering in gilt on the spine. Endpapers with a wood-engraved device printed in green, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Four full page wood engravings and three smaller engravings, one as title page device, the other two as tail-pieces to the colophon and list of illustrations. The artist, Stephanie Maberly Smith (1911-1996) was a student and protege of Robert Gibbings at the School of Art, Reading University. Gibbings, master of the modern British revivial of wood engraving, oversaw Stephanie Maberly Smith's 1939 publication at the School - [ 'Loftur. A Play, by Johann Sigurjonsson.' Printed by Robert Gibbings at The University of Reading in an edition of 105 copies]. The present 1953 publication is part of an unspecified, but small edition. The colophon… Leer más

New York: Charles Scribner's. Near Fine. 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Contents clean and tight in original pictorial green cloth binding with onlay illustration and gilt lettering. A very nice example of this book. Ten fabulous full page colour plates by Jessie Willcox Smith, including Tiny Time, David Copperfield, Paul Dombey, Little Nell, Pip and Joe Gargery, Jenny Wren, Oliver and the Artful Dodger, Four Little Kenwigses, The Runaway Couple, and Little Em'ly. .

Jena: Eugen Diederichs. Very Good. 1926. Hardcover. 80 pages; Clean and secure in original patterned boards, front and back panel of dustjacket laid-in. Illustrated with 22 woodcuts after 18th century designs. .

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania / Zabel Brothers. Very Good. 1931. Paperback. 56 pages; Contents clean and secure in original pictorial wrappers, wrappers have a thumb sized stain at spine edge, otherwise image bright and impressive. Cover illustration is a bright red and blue color lithograph of a dastardly fellow clutching a swooning blond woman in distress, as a crying hound dog looks on. Illustrated with many photographs by Anton Breuhl, graphic illustrations, and many wonderful advertisements; e.g. Brooks Brothers, Provident Trust Company, The Barclay Apt. Bldg., J.E. Caldwell Jewelers, etc. This extensive programme for this play The production cast included Ward M. French as Sir John; Thurston C. Shays as East Lynne; E. Firzgerald Gore as Nell Lynne and and Arthur B. Sinkler as Abner Heartburn. Anton Bruehl studied engineering in Melbourne, Australia before emigrating to the United States in 1919. In 1924, he left engineering to enroll in Clarence H. White's school to… Leer más

Madrid: Editorial Saturnino Calleja. Very Good. c. 1900. Pictorial Boards. Narraciones Biblicas; 127 pages; Clean and secure in original pictorial board. Color pictorial boards with b&w illustrations. A religious based tale directed at young readers. .

Madrid: Editorial Saturnino Calleja. Very Good. c. 1900. Pictorial Boards. Narraciones Biblicas; 125 pages; Clean and secure in original color pictorial boards with b&w illustrations. A religious based tale directed at young readers. OCLC 433621421 .

New York: Macmillan and Co. Very Good. 1880. Hardcover. xi, (1), 368 pages; A lovely example of this uncommon 19th century book of fairytales. Contents clean and secure in original publisher's blue cloth decoratively stamped in gold and black. Very mild rubbing at spine ends, one tiny closed tear at edge of spine, brown endpapers clean and intact, original owner's note on t.p. "Master Charlie Sherrill / Birth-day gift / from Mama / April 13, 1881" OCLC 3044040 Illustrated with ten full page color plates. This collection of 36 fairytales includes such classics as The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Jack the Giant-Killer, Rumpelstilzchen, Clever Alice, Little Red-Riding-Hood, Puss in Boots, The Yellow Dwarf, and many more. Dinah Maria Craik (born Dinah Maria Mulock, 1826– 1887) was an English novelist and poet. She is best remembered for her novel - John Halifax, Gentleman - which portrays mid-Victorian ideals of… Leer más

New York: Judge Company. Very Good+. 1902. First Edition. Print. 1 pages; Image clean and clear, with bright white matting. Image measures 13 X 9.25 inches; matted measures 22 X 14 inches. Full page cover of JUDGE magazine for September 13, 1902. "Rothschild Van Rockerbilt - Muriel Antoinette, my own, my precious! What more can I do to win your undying affection and love? Haven't I lavished upon you automobiles and yachts? And even greater than these, have I not showered upon you anthracite jewelry? How can you question my deep, undying love when you look upon this Soft Coal solitaire ring, and these Red Ash earrings, and this magnificaent, priceless and sparkling Lehigh necklace? What further proof do you ask, my own adored one?" References The Coal Strike of 1902 -- a strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania. Miners sought higher wages, shorter workdays, and the recognition of their union. The strike threatened… Leer más

Boston: F. Gleason. Very Good+. 1854. First Edition. Print. Gleason's Pictorial ; 1 pages; A beautiful vintage print, hand-colored. This first page of the March 4, 1854 issue of Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion. Image measures 10 X 14 inches; matted print measures 22 X 14 inches. Beautiful coloring. The top image is the bannerhead of the publication which depicts Boston (City on the Hill) and Boston Harbor with two steam paddleboats and several sailing boats and ships. The central text serves as explication of the lower image which depicts FEBRUARY - three men, a horse, two oxen and a dog. One man is on horseback, one has an axe and is working a log, the third man is moving cut logs with a team of harnassed oxen. There is a log farmhouse in the background across a snow covered field, and trees bare of leaves at the edge of the forest. Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion was a 19th-century illustrated periodical published in Boston, Massachusetts from… Leer más

Boston: F. Gleason. Very Good+. 1854. First Edition. Print. Gleason's Pictorial ; 1 pages; A beautiful vintage print, hand-colored. This first page of the February 1, 1854 issue of Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion. Image measures 10 X 14 inches; matted print measures 22 X 14 inches. Beautiful coloring. The top image is the bannerhead of the publication which depicts Boston (City on the Hill) and Boston Harbor with two steam paddleboats and several sailing boats and ships. The central text serves as explication of the lower image which depicts JANUARY - a farmer and a boy carrying hay to four cows penned between a wooden barn and another small outbuilding. The buildings are covered in snow, as is the ground. There are some chickens grazing in the foreground. Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion was a 19th-century illustrated periodical published in Boston, Massachusetts from 1851– 1859. The magazine was founded by Frederick Gleason in 1851. The… Leer más