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...
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...
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...
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...
[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.....
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.....
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....
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...
East Canterbury, N. H. [Printed at Shaker Village], [1899]. Stated third edition. 12mo, wire stitched into the original blue cloth spine, printed green-gray boards, xii, [2], 79 pages. A conduct guide, originally for the students at the school at the New Lebanon, N. Y. community. Preface to the third edition...
(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...
[Boston: n. p.], 1896. First edition. Broadside on yellow cardstock printed in red and gilt, with cutouts and mounted pink pledge slips. Small brass manicule hanger on the top edge. "On nickel helps the street child to learn the way of Eternal Life." Unused, visually striking, and a superb bit...
(Moscow): Detizdat TSK VLKSM, 1938. First edition. Self-wrappered pamphlet, scant 3 x 2.13 inches, [12] pages. Color illus. Charming children’s book in Russian (verses on a toy horse) from the Yiddish poet Leib Kvitko (1890-1952), the Ukrainian-born Jewish anti-fascist poet and children’s author, popular both as a Yiddish poet and...
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