Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, [n. d., but 1833?]. Evidently a later printing of this tract. 12mo, original printed wrappers, 24 pages. A comprehensive plan on the proposed spread and regulation of Sabbath schools through the west and the rural areas. Apparently first published under the pseudonym "Owen"..... More
Boston: American Tract Society, 28 Cornhill, [ca. 1869]. Perhaps a later American edition with a notice on the verso of the title page "Reprinted from the London Religious Tract Society," though the relationship to the American Sunday-School Union work of 1834 with the same title is unclear. 16mo, original purple..... More
Dayton, O. Published by B. F. Ells, 1848. First Dayton edition of this evergreen Romantic French tale of sensibility. Small 4to, original gilt-stamped brown cloth, 112 pages. Frontis and full-page wood engravings (with decorative borders) in the text. An uncommon Ohio imprint, unusual for its illustrations. The anti-slavery theme likely..... More
New-York: Toy and Song Book Repository [John Slater], 204 Chatham Square, [between 1849-1855]. First edition. 12mo, self-wrappered pamphlet with the spine overstitched at an early date, 8 pages. Illus. What appears to be a relatively early separate appearance in America of this English-language adaptation of the classic Perrault fairy tale..... More
Philadelphia: Published by Jacob Johnson, 1808. First edition. 16mo, original orange wrappers, [36] pages. Illus. with copperplate engravings. An amiable botch of a production, with a number of the otherwise attractive illustrations bound in upside-down and leaves of text bound out of order; it is unlikely Johnson ever allowed the..... More
Genève: H. Georg, 1873. First edition in French? 8vo, original printed green wrappers, [iv], 8, 147, [1], 27, [1], [4] pages, unopened. Deux Traductions separately paginated with a separate title page. The famed sinologist Julien's translation into French (in Chinese and French, with extensive commentary), of the classic children's instruction..... More
[Detroit: n. p., ca. 1922-1932?]. First edition. Unbound pamphlet, 8.5 x 5.5 inches, [4] pages. Detroit printer's union bug on page [3]. "You see, the earth is big. There is lots of room. But it's as tho fences were around most of it, with signs up reading: 'Private Property--Keep Out!'..... More
Canton, Ohio: Peter Kaufmann, 1834. First edition. Small 8vo (gathered in eights and fours), contemporary green boards neatly rebacked in drab paper period style, 96 pages. A children's catechism, and a fairly early and moderately uncommon book from the press of the German-born printer and semi-utopian Hegelian reformer Kaufmann (1800-1869)..... More
Hartford: Printed by George Goodwin & Sons, 1820. Original blue sugar paper wrappers, 4.25 x 2.63 inches, [1], [3]-62, [1] pages. Frontis, illus. The first and last leaf are mounted to the inside of the wrappers. With ads for Goodwin on the leaf mounted to the rear wrapper. Heartman 329;..... More
Delaware, Ohio: Cooperative Recreation Service, [various dates ca. 1930-1948]. Two publisher's ring binders labeled "Handy" and "Handy II," eight pamphlets in the first volume, 12 pamphlets in the second. 20 of the entertaining pamphlets from the small firm known for saving and propagating folk dances and folk games, on such..... More
(Cleveland: The Soul-Winner), [ca. 1910-1920?]. A later American edition of this uncommon children's tract. 16mo, original self-wrappers, 15, [1] pages. A moderately popular but ephemeral children's tract, moderately lachrymose and sentimental. Evidently originally published in England at the end of the 19th century, and here republished as part of this..... More
[Philadelphia]: Published at the Temperance Office, 3 North Eighth Street, [ca. 1842]. Broadside, paper clay-coated in black, ornately printed in gilt, approx. 5.5 x 9 inches. "Here, Lord! I pledge perpetual hate / To all that can intoxicate; / I'll never use the filthy weed, / The from its evils..... More
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New York: McLoughlin Brothers, [ca. 1867]. First edition. Original color pictorial self-wrappers, 4.38 x 3.63 inches, [12] pages, added red plaid scrap cloth spine, machine-stitched with white thread. Wood engravings printed in black and red. Entertaining and moderately didactic verses for children, handsomely produced in the McLoughlin style. Per the..... More
