London: The Alexander Publishing Co., circa 1885.. 1885.. Very good. - Small quarto [approximately 10-5/8 inches high by 8-5/8 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial color wraps. The spine & extremities are lightly rubbed with short tears to the head & tail of the spine. The edges of the wraps are slightly darkened. [10] pages, including inside wraps. The verses of the text are incorporated into full-page illustrations, of which 4 are in full color. Very good.
A rare children's book in excellent condition. View More...
- Sextodecimo, 6-1/2 inches high by 4-7/8 inches wide. Brown cloth titled and decorated in gilt on the spine with the vignette of a sock framed by decorated borders in blind on the covers. There is wear to the head of the spine and a few small stains to the front cover. 130 pages, illustrated with a frontispiece and a full-page plate by James H. Richardson. Very good. From the series "The Sock Stories, by 'Aunt Fanny's' Daughter". A juvenile Civil War fiction novel about a group of boys playing soldiers, calling themselves the "Dashahed Zouaves". The playful frontispiece, titled "Bull Run", de... View More...
London: Edward Arnold, 1899.. 1899.. Good. - Square octavo, cream pictorial boards backed with cream cloth titled in black on the front board with an illustration in yellow, green, white & black. The binding is bumped & soiled with the spine darkened. 63 pages plus 1-page publisher's catalog. There is an owner's ink name on the front endpaper. There is offsetting to the endpapers, half-title & catalog page. Illustrated throughout in black & white by Basil Blackwood. Good.
First edition [Osborne p. 90]. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
- Miniature chapbook [approximately 4-3/4 inches high by 3-1/4 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial yellow wrappers sewn with black thread with a border of 10 vignettes on each cover, a vignette of a rose below the title on the front cover & an ad for Babcock's Toy Books on the rear cover. The binding is lightly stained. The corners of the front cover are creased.There are pieces out of the bottom corners of the rear cover with tears along the lower end of the spine. 8 pages. Illustrated with a pictorial title & 3 full-page woodcuts in the text. There is a piece out of the bottom corners... View More...
New-York: Mahlon Day, 374 Pearl Street, 1837.. 1837.. Fair. - 16mo [5-1/2 inches high by 3-5/8 inches wide], softcover bound in printed green wrappers with the frontispiece & the last text page pasted to the wraps, as published. The front cover copy is printed within a triple decorative frame & there is a catalog of the publisher's school books on the rear cover. The binding is bumped & chipped with short tears & small pieces out. The bottom two inches of the wraps are detached. 23 & [1] pages, including the wraps. Illustrated with black-and-white woodcuts, including a frontispiece, a title vi... View More...
AN EARLY PRINTING OF DR. SEUSS "500 HATS" - Quarto, 12 inches high by 9 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in black pictorial boards with a red cloth spine, in an illustrated dust wrapper by Dr. Seuss picturing Bartholomew Cubbins. The edges of the covers are slightly rubbed. The corners of the dust jacket are slightly worn and the head and tail of the jacket's spine are chipped. There are short chips & tiny tears to the edges of the jacket. The top corner of the jacket's front flap is clipped but the price is present, though partially inked out, at the bottom of the flap. [48] unnumbered pages, il... View More...
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1835).. (1835).. Very good. - Small octavo, brown cloth. The spines are perished and thus lacking and the cloth is worn at the corners. 204 pages; and 196 pages respectively, illustrated with extra engraved pictorial title pages, 2 engraved frontispieces, and 5 plates. The hinges are cracked and there are glue stains to the pastedowns and damage to the endpapers of volume 2. Though a few signatures are slightly pulled and there is some slight darkening, the contents are in remarkably very good condition and this set would be well- worth rebacking. A wonderful juve... View More...
- Octavo, 7-3/8 inches high by 5-3/4 inches wide. Purple cloth titled and decorated in gilt on the front cover. The covers are soiled, rubbed and stained with wear to the corners. The spine is darkened with chips at the head and tail. 43 pages plus a one-page advertisement for Demorest's Young America magazine, illustrated with 6 bright color plates. The pages are darkened & soiled with occasional spots of browning or foxing. There is dampstaining to the bottom edge of the last several pages. Good. Although no author is listed, the work is attributed to Mary Kidder. View More...
- 12mo, 7-3/8 inches high by 5-3/4 inches wide. Softcover, bound in pictorial wraps illustrated and decorated in pastel colors on the front & rear covers, with a list of the titles of the six books in the series printed on the rear cover. The stained & chipped covers are detached and the text block is crudely re-stitched. There are small chips & tears to the edges of the rear cover. [32] pages, including the half-pages. A metamorphosis book consisting of 8 full-page tinted lithographs by William Ludwell Sheppard with a nursery rhyme printed on the verso of each leaf. These pages are interleave... View More...
New York: American Tract Society, circa [1850's]., [1850's].. Very good. - 32mo, 4-1/2 inches high by 3 inches wide. Blue cloth titled and decorated in gilt on the spine with a gilt vignette within a blind stamped decorative frame on the front cover. All edges are gilt. The covers are rubbed and slightly soiled. 141 pages, illustrated with a title page vignette and several half-page woodcuts. Very good. A Juvenile morality tale attributed to George Mogridge (1787-1854) who was best known by his pseudonym "Old Humphrey". View More...
1862.. 1862.. Fair. - sc - Seventeen original graphite pencil drawings executed on two 14-1/4 inch high by 10-1/4 inch wide sheets of buff art paper. Each well-executed drawing is a finished illustration within pencil drawn frames laid out on the sheets as if they were cards. One of the drawings is initialed N.A.W. and dated 1862. On one sheet, a central drawing appears to be a version of Struwwelpeter with a large demonic head on a thinner tree- like body. Eight drawings are laid out, as if cards, surrounding this central drawing. Among them is a child, looking much like a young Napoleon, sea... View More...
- Small octavo [6-1/8 inches high by 4 inches wide], brown cloth. The binding is rubbed & lightly bumped with some very light staining to the rear cover. 61 pages. Illustrated with a black-and-white frontispiece & title vignette. The front endpaper is lacking. There is a faded gift inscription on the verso of the frontispiece and some offsetting from an owner's stamp on the front pastedown. The pastedowns & rear endpaper are darkened with some light scribbling on the endpaper. There is occasional foxing & staining. Despite its flaws, a good, tight copy. A title in "The Oiled Feather Serie... View More...
Publisher:
[London]: [The Iron Jelloids Co.], 1922. : 1922.
Seller ID: 96426
- What is offered here are original autograph manuscripts penned by Ernest Protheroe for 2 of the "Budge and Betty" stories published as promotional booklets by the Iron Jelloids Company, together with original pen & ink art work and printed proofs of the illustrations for the stories. The material consists of the following: The ORIGINAL 21-PAGE AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT penned by ERNEST PROTHEROE for "The Iron Jelloids Edition of Budge & Betty Second Series, No. 14": "ALL ABOARD THE 'SUNBEAM'". The manuscript is densely penned on the verso of identical form letters by "The Popular Publishing Co. L... View More...
- Sextodecimo (16mo), 6 inches high by 3-3/4 inches wide. Softcover, bound in printed tan wraps titled within a floral wreath on the front cover and with the publisher's ads on the verso. The covers are stained with some creases to the corners and slits to the paper along the head and tail of the spine. 26 pages, with a decorated title and a half-page woodcut. There is dampstaining to the top of the front edge of the first six and last four pages. Good. RARE. Possibly authored by Jane Alice Sargant (1789-1869), who was born in Isle of Ely. She was close to her elder brother Sir Harry Smith, t... View More...
- Octavo, 6-7/8 inches high by 4-7/8 inches wide. Brown cloth titled and decorated in gilt on the spine with decorations in blind on the covers. The book is slightly cocked. The covers are rubbed and stained with wear to the corners and head and tail of the spine. 279 pages, illustrated with a lithographic frontispiece and an additional pictorial title page, signed "Howland". Additionally illustrated with a title vignette, a second title vignette preceding the second story, signed "Howland", a third vignette title followed by a fourth title. Also with 4 textual wood engravings. The endpapers a... View More...
- 12mo, 5-3/4 inches high by 4-1/2 inches wide. Softcover, bound in stitched pale yellow wrappers titled with a vignette illustration adorning the front cover and a full-page woodcut illustrating the Death of Nelson on the rear cover. The covers are darkened and stained and the corners worn. There is a tiny chip out from the front edge of the rear cover. The chipped and worn spine was roughly re-stitched at an earlier time. 64 pages, with pages 15 and 16 being a plate (Admiral Keppel) which is mis-bound in front of the first story. Illustrated with a title page vignette and 16 full-page plates... View More...
- 12mo. 5-7/8 inches high by 4-3/4 inches wide. Green cloth, titled & decorated in gilt on the spine with decorations in blind on the covers. The covers are rubbed and stained with wear to the corners. The head and tail of the spine are chipped and the cloth is split along the rear joint. viii & 136 pages, illustrated a full-page frontispiece and 87 mostly half-page engravings, one for each activity described. A child's blue & gray graphite scribbles have been partially erased from the front blank. The front hinge is cracked and the front endpaper is lacking. There is foxing throughout and sev... View More...
- 32 mo, 6 inches high by 3-5/8 inches wide. Light greenish-gray boards backed with a black cloth spine, titled with rules in gilt on the spine. The covers are rubbed and soiled with wear to the edges. 108 pages, illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece of a ship under sail signed "AB" [possibly Abel Bowen]. The endpapers and front & rear blanks are darkened. Several page corners are creased and there is occasional faint foxing throughout. Good. First edition. In addition to "The Sorrows of Rover", the book includes "Elias Wilson. By Allan Cunningham" - p. [96]-105, and "Reproof from a ch... View More...
London/NY: Frederick Warne and Co./Scribner, Welford, and Co., [circa 1865-1880].. [circa 1865-1880].. Good. - Quarto, red cloth titled in red with profuse decorations in gilt on spine & in red within gilt panels with decorations stamped in gilt within decorative gilt frame on front cover & with decorative frames in blind on both covers. The binding is lightly rubbed. The covers are bumped with a few small black stains to each cover. Unnumbered text pages interleaved with 24 brilliant chromolithographic plates printed by Kronheim and the Dalziels. There is foxing throughout. The original bindi... View More...
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