Category: Children's Literature

Harper's Story Books. A Series of Narratives, Dialogues, Biographies, and Tales, for the Instruction and Entertainment of the Young. Embellished with Numerous and Beautiful Engravings. Rambles among the Alps. Contents: The Little Savoyards and Their Goats; Up to Chamouny; Mont Blanc; The Glaciers; The Sea of Ice; Old Black Head; The Great St. Bernard; The Excursion; The Baths of Leuk; The Pass of the Gemmi.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, (1856).

Seller ID: 9751gcs

Signed by Elias Loomis to his son, Henry Elias Loomis, famous scientist. Duodecimo, red blind-stamped cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 160 pp. Very Good, with edgewear.
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Shadow Pcitures My Children Love to Make.

By: Adams, Elizabeth.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York: Lloyd Adams Noble, 1914.

Seller ID: 12460scs

Large, oblong octavo, paperbound (stiff gold illus. wrappers, stapled), [34] pp. Very Good+, with edgewear and light soiling to covers. From Preface, A Book Planned to Entertain Your Children...In the evening hour after supper the making of shadow-pictures has afforded my cchildren endless delight. And I am sure their efforts to entertain their father and myself have been of a real instructive value to themselves.
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Round the Year in Pudding Lane. Illustrated by Gertrude A. Kay.

By: Addington, Sarah.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1924.

Seller ID: 12719scs

Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), full-color illus. paper label, gilt letters to spine, full-color illus. endpapers, 231 pp. Very Good+, with former-owner signature and lightly rubbed edges, in protective mylar wrapper.
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Stories and Sketches: What People Are Doing. Illustrations by Marguerite Davis.

By: Allen, Nellie B. and Edward K. Robinson.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boston: Ginn and Company, 1923.

Seller ID: 5026bd

Oblong octavo, stapled illus. wrappers, [31] pp + 26 pages of tracing/sketching paper provided under a flap at the rear. Good, with pencilled signature of former owner and pencilled responses to questions in text, one penciled drawing on one of the provided tracing papers.
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The Magic of Ah. Illustrated by Charlotte Firmin.

By: Alton, Birthe. [Firmin, Charlotte; Illus.].

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London: Kaye & Ward, 1980.

Seller ID: 4993bd

Octavo, full-color illustrated laminated boards, 92 pp. Fine (As New). From lower cover: Ah is a very special bear belonging to Katie and Vickie. He wears a magic charm round his neck called a luckster which, as you may have already guessed, makes him very wise and clever. Together with his friends Squeak, the cat, Richard, the lion, and a furry toy called Mincemeat, he looks after the children when their mother and father are not there. Ah is a second generation bear with friends and relatives all over the world. In this book you can read tales told to him by his Uncle Mario in Italy, ...
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An Old Sailor's Yarn. Illustrated. [with:] Wide World Rambles. Illustrated. [Two volumes in one].

By: Anonymous.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, (1880).

Seller ID: 7365fd

Dudecimo, illustrated cloth, [vii], 8-62, [vii], 8-59 pp. Illustrated with wood engravings. Very Good; some shelf wear.
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Dame Crump and Her Little White Pig.

By: Anonymous.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Philadelphia: Turner & Fisher, n.d. [ca. 1835]. Turner & Fisher's Edition. The preceeding information from the title page / inside wrapper.

Seller ID: 61089bd

An apparent later wrapper has been added: Dame Crump. Philadelphia: Fisher & Brother, n.d. [ca. 1850]. Fisher & Brother's Golden Toys - 12 Kinds. 16mo, illustrated wrappers, [8] pp. (with second wrapper, [12] pp). Both titles and each page illustrated with wood engravings. Good; former-owner signature, illustrations amateurishly colored, spine amateurishly sewn.
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Hymns for Infant Minds.

By: Anonymous.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Andover: Printed for the New England Tract Society, 1820.

Seller ID: 4077bd

No. 34, Part 1. Third Edition, one of 6,000. Octavo, later 19th century plain wrappers, 28 pp. Very Good, uncut.
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Lothrop's Christmas Book of Verse and Story.

By: Anonymous.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Boston: Lothrop Publishing Co., (1900).

Seller ID: 7545fd

Quarto, cloth-backed color-illustrated boards, [ii], [242] pp. 3 chromolithograph plates, b& white plates, b&w illus throughout. Near-Fine, gift inscription dated 12/25/1901.
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The People of Europe. Second Series.

By: Anonymous.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, Committee of General Literature and Education, n.d., [ca. 1863].

Seller ID: 4103bd

Duodecimo, decorated yellow wrappers, 48 pp. Twelve color plates by William Dickes in the Baxter Process. The contents include: Germans, French, Spaniards, Portuguese, Swedes, Greeks, and Turks. Good; spine badly chipped, some wear.
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The Teddy Bear Story Book, Comprising Pictures and Rhymes That Will Entertain the Little Ones, Including An Original Teddy Bear Alphabet Printed in Colors.

By: Anonymous.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: N.l.: [W. E. Scull, 1908].

Seller ID: 6582fd

Octavo, cloth-backed color-illustrated boards (hardcover), [128] pp. Plates, illus. Teddy Bear Alphabet mostly printed with colors, the remainder of the book printed in red and blue. Stories and rhymes include: Mary Had a Little Lamb, Simple Simon, many Mother Goose rhymes, The Three Little Kittens, The Three Little Pigs, Jack the Giant Killer, Little Red Riding Hood, Little Snowdrop, and many others. Good; quite shelf worn, yet holding together better than you'd expect.
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Farthest West. Illustrated by Sidney Armer.

By: Armer, Laura Adams

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1939. First Edition, stated.

Seller ID: 5131bd

Royal octavo, green cloth (hardcover), illustrated endpapers, illus. frontis., ix + 190 pp. Very Good, with edgewear that includes light fraying to tips of spine, darkened endpapers, Illustrated. Dedicated to the members of Save-the-Redwoods League -- Òthat far-seeing group which knows the need of serving the Earth our Mother.Ó From the story: Pigeon Creek flowed westward toward the sea. Between shadowed banks green with deer ferns and lacy leaves of bleeding heart the mountain-born stream found its way. It ran past a small schoolhouse in a clearing, where stumps of giant redwoods to...
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Waterless Mountain. Illustrated by Sidney Armer and Laura Adams Armer.

By: Armer, Laura Adams.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1932.

Seller ID: vas736

Octavo, brown illustrated cloth (hardcover), xi, 212 pp. Very Good. From Foreword: ...Partly because of her paintings of the Navaho legends, in which the Indians saw an unusual insight and an expression of many things which they did not expect white people to understand, partly because she has been guided in her contacts by one of the wisest and most sympathetic of all the Navahos' friends, and largely through her own personality, she has been able to come unusually close to these people in a very short time. Her knowledge of their real selves has enabled her to select a difficult theme fo...
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Little Barefoot: Or, Strive and Trust. A Tale of Village Life. Translated by H. W. Dulcken, Ph.D. With Seventy-Five Illustrations by B. Vautier.

By: Auerbach, Berthold.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London: George Routledge and Sons, n.d.

Seller ID: 13257scs

Royal octavo, red illus. cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, all edges gilt, tissue protected frontis., 194 pp. Poor, with cracked hinges, speckling to covers, and damp staining to rear endpapers & lower cover. Still, the numerous and charming plates are all present, and the text is clean and generally tight; a rare copy.
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Cousin's Treasure. Written and Illustrated by Margot Austin.

By: Austin, Margot.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1960. First Edition, stated.

Seller ID: 5096bd

Large, square octavo; gold illustrated cloth (hardcover); illus. endpapers, 45 pp. Very Good, with former-owner inscription and light edgewear; in a Fair dust jacket with edgewear that includes chpping and one cellow-tape repaired rip. From dust jacket: The talented creator of Peter Churchmouse now introduces the equally beguiling Cousin, a small, wistful bear, who lives with Uncle. Cousin decides to hunt for buried treasure one day when Uncle is away on big bear business. Armed with a shovel and pail and a treasure map he has made himself, complete with an X to mark the spot, Cousin sets...
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Margot Austin's Churchmouse Stories: A Collection of Peter Churchmouse and Other Children's Favorites. Illustrated by the Author.

By: Austin, Margot.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1960. Weekly Reader Edition.

Seller ID: 5008bd

Large octavo, illustrated cloth (hardcover), [64] pp. Very Good, with foxing (age darkened spotting) to covers. From text: Up jumped Peter! S-N-A-P! went the snap-rat! Poor little Peter Churchmouse raised his eyebrows the way he always did when he made a poem, ÒI wish the cheese I ate / Were on a plate / That wouldn't snap at me / Because I DON'T LIKE IT!Ó Then Peter sat right down on the big wooden snap-rat and ate his cheese. Every last bit. ÒNow,Ó said Peter, ÒI shall bite another big hole in something so that Parson Pease-Porridge will put more cheese on the snap-rat for tomorrow.Ó...
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The Robin's Christmas Eve. Aunt Louisa's London Toy Books.

By: B., C. E. [C. E. Bowen].

Price: $45.00

Publisher: London: Frederick Warne & Co., n.d. [ca. 1865].

Seller ID: 5262fd

This edition with color plates mounted on linen. Quarto, still decorated lavendar wrappers, [22] pp. 6 chromolithograph plates printed by Kronheim & Co., using the Baxter process. Good; clean and bright with some wear, corners bumped.
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Li'l' Hannibal.

By: Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York: The Platt & Munk Co., Inc., (1938).

Seller ID: 8593bd

Small, square octavo, hardcover (green, textured, illus. boards), color illus. endpapers, full-color frontis. and title illus., [28] pp. Very Good, with former-owner inscription and light edgewear. ÒOnce on a time, Ôway down South, there lived a little boy named Hannibal, Li'l' Hannibal. He lived, along with his gran'mammy and his gran'daddy in a li'l' one-story log cabin that was set right down in a cotton field. Well, from morning until night Li'l' Hannibal's gran'mammy kept him toting things. As soon has he woke up in the morning it was: ÒOh, Li'l' Hannibal fetch a pine knot and light...
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The Mysterious Leaf. Illustrated by Irene Haas.

By: Banks, Richard.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1954. First Edition.

Seller ID: 5066bd

Square octavo, blue cloth with stamped illustration of leaves to upper cover, [52] pp. Very Good, with sunned spine and edgewear. Illustrations throughout. From story: This is what happened in Sparkling... Sparkling is a little town at the edge of the great prairies. It has a park or two, churches, stores and filling stations, and a gathering of neat little houses. Nearly every street is bewhiskered by white picket fences, and each trim, green yard overflows with flowers and shrubs. Years ago the Chamber of Commerce put of signs on all roads leading into the village, saying, ÒSparkling...
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Rachael's Splendifilous Adventure. Illustrated by Roger Bansemer. Written by Daryl May and Roger Bansemer.

By: Bansemer, Roger.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Mt. Desert, Maine: Windswept House Publishers, (1991). First Edition.

Seller ID: 157md

Signed & inscribed by Daryl May. Folio, hardcover (slick, full-color illus. white boards), 32 pp. Fine and Fine dust jacket.
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Category: Children's Literature