Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Company, (1857). An early printing (if not the first) of this collection of Rollo stories. 16mo, original gilt-stamped blue cloth, 32 pages. Frontis, illus. From the indefatigable Abbott, a pleasing example of a Rollo title. Phillips, Sampson (the publishers here) failed in 1859, and Rollo was... More
Philadelphia: Printed for Johnson and Warner, 1811. First Bailey edition. 12mo, original orange boards, 72 pages. Engraved frontis. A handsome little edition, printed by Lydia Bailey. The frontispiece is engraved by Tanner after Stothard. Rosenbach 442; Nipps, Lydia Bailey, 55. Frontispiece browned. More
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Worcester [Mass.]: Edward Livermore, 1847. First Livermore edition of each title. 12mo, original gilt-stamped brown cloth, 72, 72 pages. Illus. Published here in the series “Uncle Thomas’ Stories for Good Children,” an early series from the Worcester publisher Livermore (who had the book printed by Merriam & Mirick in Greenfield... More
Hartford: Published by Oliver D. Cooke, 1820. First edition. Original printed pictorial light brown wrappers, 5.38 x 3 inches, 32 pages. Frontis, illus. The first compilation of these two English pieces. Didactic to a high degree, the “Happy Boatman” being a tale of an industrious and honest ferryman on the... More
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Newport, N. H. Wilcox & Brown, 1835. 24mo, original pictorial self-wrappers, 3.75 x 2.25 inches, [12] pages. Illus. Various issues of chapbooks and primers appeared under this title (with various or varied contents) and under different publisher’s imprints, including White & Wilcox (in Vermont) and John Wilcox in Newport in... More
Philadelphia: Published by Kimber & Conrad, [1812?]. First edition. Original stiff unprinted yellow wrappers, 5.75 x 2.63 inches, [24] pages. Illus. with woodcuts throughout. A curious compendium of woodcut vignettes, assembled seemingly at random (Welch notes a few seem reworked from an 1810 Hosford Robinson Crusoe) and captioned as though... More
Harrisburg, Pa. Gedruckt und zu haben bey G. S. Peters, 1840 [1837]. Original printed pictorial glazed orange wrappers, 5.75 x 3.5 inches, 18 leaves printed on one side only. Fifteen color-printed illustrations. A lovely copy of an early edition of the Peters edition of the Joseph story (the first evidently... More
Harrisburg, Pa. Gedruckt und zu haben bey G. S. Peters, [ca. 1835-1839?]. Original printed pictorial glazed orange wrappers, 5.88 x 3.5 inches, 16 leaves printed on one side only. Fifteen color-printed illustrations. A nice copy of an early edition of the Peters edition of the Joseph story (the first evidently... More
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[Raleigh, N.C. General Tract Agency, between 1861-1865]. First edition. 16mo, unbound pamphlet, approx. 5-1/4 x 3-3/4 inches, 8 pages. Two small pious pieces, “Noah’s Carpenters” and “Delay in Religion,” the latter signed in type “Dr. Spencer.” The first piece is signed in type “Heber”—though per the catalogue description of the..... More
Philadelphia: Gedruckt bey Jacob Meyer, 1810. First edition in German. Original stiff salmon wrappers, 5.38 x 3.5 inches, 36 pages. Woodcut title-page vignette by Alexander Anderson. The German translation of The Dangers of the Street, and Other Tales (Philadelphia: Jacob Johnson, 1808); wagon, oxen, and horses seem to figure prominently... More
New-York: Published by D. Longworth, at the Dramatic Repository, Shakespeare-Gallery, 1807. First New York edition of this stage adaptation. Unbound pamphlet, 6.25 x 3.88 inches, 12 pages, stitched. The drama opens with a scene among the gods on Mount Ida—hence the “grand allegorical” scope of this pantomime adaptation of Cinderella... More
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Albany: Printed by E. & E. Hosford, 1816. A later Hosford edition of the popular chapbook version of the Cinderella tale. Original pictorial self-wrappers, 3.88 x 2.5 inches, 30, [2] pages. Illus. Early editions of Cinderella tend toward the ephemeral, as here. Welch 987.12; American Imprints 37246. More
Chicago: Alberts Whitman & Co., 1941. First edition. 12mo, original pictorial cloth, 48 pages. Illus. An ex-library copy, with their scattered stamps and circulation pocket in the rear. Published in the Federal Writers’ Project W.P.A. series of children’s educational books. With a portion of the original dust jacket mounted to..... More
New York: Published by James Miller, 1864. A later edition. Square small 8vo, original gilt pictorial blue cloth, xvi, 80 pages, plus inserted numbered card printed in red ink on card stock. Shall I write to him? Am I not taking an imprudent step? Oracle! Am I pretty? A fortune-telling... More
Cooperstown: Stereotyped, Printed and Sold by H. & E. Phinney, 1828. An early Phinney printing. Original pictorial self-wrappers, 5.25 x 3.63 inches, [1-5], 8-30 pages. Illus. A fairly nice copy of the Phinney cheap edition of the New Hieroglyphical Bible, this a strangely uncommon printing. (Phinney had also issued an... More
Cooperstown: Stereotyped, Printed and Sold by H. & E. Phinney, 1824. First Phinney edition. Chapbook, self-wrappers, 31, [1] pages. Illus. “She went to the Alehouse / To get him some Beer; / And when she came back / The Dog sat on a Chair.” The Harris London edition appeared in... More
Philadelphia: Published and Sold by J. Grigg [et al.], 1824. Later American edition. 12mo, original tree calf, red leather label, gilt lettering, 236 pages. 23 plates. First published in London in 1819, with the first American edition appearing in 1820. An important and innovative work of popular science education, a.... More
New-York: Lane and Scott, for the Sunday-School Union of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 200 Mulberry-street, 1851. Later printing. Printed pictorial yellow wrappers, 4.25 x 2.88 inches, 16 pages. Illus. A Sunday-school account of the life and work of the Moravian missionary David Zeisberger, who worked and lived among various Native... More
Concord, N. H. Published and Sold by I. and W. R. Hill, at their Book-Store, 1813. Original printed blue wrappers, [i], 47 pages (first and last leaf mounted to the wrappers). Frontis, illus. With the wrapper publication date of 1818 and the sole imprint of Isaac Hill. Even by the... More
Providence: Published by George P. Daniels, 1843. A later edition. Original pictorial brown wrappers, 5.5 x 3.5 inches, 24 pages. Frontis, illus. “She knew there was no absolute necessity for her becoming an accomplished woman, while an actual reason existed for her becoming a useful one.” A pious teenaged girl... More
Cincinnati: Corey, Fairbank, & Webster, 1835. Later printing, the first appearing in 1833. Original pictorial wrappers, 5.75 x 3.75 inches, 35 pages (frontis and last leaf mounted to the wrappers). Frontis, illus. An uncommon early little Cincinnati schoolbook; see Morgan 2528 for the original 1833 version. Morgan does not note... More
New-York: Published by Samuel Wood & Sons; Samuel S. Wood & Co., Baltimore, [1823]. A later edition, though with renewed copyright. Original pictorial blue wrappers, 5.25 x 3.5 inches, 32 pages. Illus. “The favorable reception which the Young Child’s A, B, C; or, First Book, and the New-York Primer, have... More
New-York: Printed and Sold by Samuel Wood, 1812. Second Wood printing of this English work, preceded by his 1811 edition. Original printed wrappers over stiff cardstock, 5.25 x 3.5 inches, 52 pages. Illus. “Although calculated for the latitude and meridian of Great Britain, yet on an examination of this little... More
New-York: Printed and Sold by Samuel Wood, 1814. Third Wood printing of this English work, preceded by his 1811 and 1812 editions. Original printed wrappers over stiff cardstock, 5.25 x 3.5 inches, 52 pages. Illus. “Although calculated for the latitude and meridian of Great Britain, yet on an examination of... More
(Moscow): Detizdat TSK VLKSM, 1938. First edition. Near-minature self-wrappered pamphlet, scant 3.13 x 2.5 inches, [12] pages. Color illus. Charming Soviet children’s story: a fox outwits a wolf. Issued in the series Knizhka-malyshka. Small ink stamp to the rear wrapper, “Printed in Soviet Union.” OCLC notes four locations (two in... More
