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: 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

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

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

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, [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

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

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

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, 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

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

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