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
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Libanon, (Penn.): J. Schnee für M. Carey in Philadelphia, 1810. First edition in German. 12mo, contemporary full calf, brown leather spine label, gilt rules and lettering, 210 pages. Engraved frontis and six engraved plates (including a portrait of Washington). The Weems life of Washington (cherry tree anecdote and all) here..... More
Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union, No. 146 Chesnut [sic] Street, 1830. A later edition. Original black morocco spine titled in gilt, “S. Farmer,” scant 6 x 3.5 inches, 143, [1] pages. Wood engraved frontispiece by George Gilbert. Contemporary ink Sabbath School ownership inscription on the rear paste-down. More
Chicago: Published by Root & Cady, 67 Washington Street, 1866. First edition of the first number of this juvenile musical quarterly. Small 8vo, contemporary marbled boards, cloth spine and tips, [ii], 5-61, [2] pages (lacks wrappers; this may be an issue sold in boards). Illus. Each number of this quarterly..... 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
Boston: Printed by Samuel T. Armstrong, 1819. Stated tenth edition. Original marbled wrappers, 5.5 x 3.38 inches, 72 pages. Illus. Nearly entirely Biblical in nature, which—given the title—may not be entirely a surprise. Ink autograph gift inscription to a Sabbath school at the head of the front blank, with an..... 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
Worcester, Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomas, 1787. The fourth American edition. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards (neatly rebacked), 4.13 x 2.75 inches, 158, [2] pages, trimmed rather than uncut. LACKS THE WOODCUT FRONTISPIECe; woodcut illustrations in the text. Some clue to the condition of this copy might be guessed from the juvenile ink..... More
Boston: Leonard C. Bowles, 1831. Second edition. Original red roan spine, green paper over boards, 6 x 3.69 inches, 65, [1] pages. Frontispiece, title-page vignette. “So much the worse, ma’am, so much the worse. I hate to see girls brought up to care for nothing but books. It was not..... 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: Published by the American Tract Society, 150 Nassau-Street, [1832-1848]. Contemporary sheep spine, marbled boards, [2], 94 pages. Inserted frontispiece and one plate. Temperance tracts; Marsh’s “Putnam and the Wolf” being perhaps the best known. With separate section titles for each story. With the American Tract Society address suggesting pubilcation..... 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
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
