An April Shower: Bright Stories and Pictures for Little Ones
Boston: De Wolfe, Fiske & Co. Hardcover. A blue fabric spine with color-illustrated wraps over boards. Unpaginated. Contains many black-and-white illustrations. More
Literature Young and Old
April Showers
New York: Dodd, Mead, & Company, Publishers, 1901. 1901 (?). Hardcover. Color-illustrated boards with black cloth spine. Pink end papers. 46 pp. with bw frontis and bw illustrations throughout. Various stories and poems include the Tea Party, The Fall from the Aple Tree, The Little Brother, Mabel's School, Come into..... More
The Atlantic Souvenir for 1859
new York: Derby & Jackson, 1859. Hardcover. Leather covered boards with gilt embossed title in design at center of cover, different gilt designed title on spine. 288 pp., 12 steel engravings. A compilation of contributions to the Knickerbocker Gallery including selections from Longfellow, Irving, Stoddard, Street, Eastman, Taylor, Bryant, others..... More
Aucassin et Nicolette
Paris: L'Edition d'Art H. Piazza, 1929. First. Softcover. Slipcase covered with lavender, blue, and brown floral-print paper; Light brown dj. with color illustration; Off-white wraps; Unpaginated, approx. 220 pp.; Profusely decorated in bw and color; 12 color plates. Text in French; A medieval French chante-fable (or chantefable), which is a...... More
Aunt Louisa's Big Picture Series: Rip Van-Winkle
New York: McLoughlin Bro's Publishers, 1870s. Softcover. A color-illustrated softcover book. [12] pages. More
Boy's and Girl's Illustrated Olio
New York, New York: S. S. Union, 1856. Hardcover. Green stamped cloth over boards, with gilt titling and illustration at spine and front cover; 180 pp.; Profusely illustrated in bw. Includes a prefatory note by "D. W." dated 1856, the only clue to the publishing date of this book. A...... More
Catalogue of Western Rare Books - Bunka Women's University Library
Tokyo, Japan: Bunka Women's University Library, 2000. Softcover. White wraps with color illustration and blue text, Japanese and English. 221 pages. Color and bw illustrations. Text in Japanese and English. More
The Collected Poems of Elma Stuckey
Chicago: Precedent Publishing, Inc, 1987. Hardcover. Orange cloth, grey ill. DJ. iv, 187 pp. No ills. For the first time in poetry the entire odyssey of blacks in America - through slavery to the present, from the countryside to the city, from the south to the north - is captured..... More
A Collection of New Poems by Contemporary Poets (in The Monthly Chapbook, No. 7, Vol. 2)
London: The Poetry Bookshop, 1920, January. Printed color wraps with printed title. 32 pp. + 4 pp ads. A selection of new poems by John Redwood Anderson, A.E.Coppard and Mary Webster. More
Dante e Padova: Studj Storico-Critici.
Prosperini: Padova, 1865. Softcover. Card wraps. xii, 451 pages. Text in Italian. Translated: "Dante and Padua: historical-critical study". Published on the occasion of the 6th centenary of Dante's birth. Contents: On Dante's residence in Padua; critical research -- Andre a Gloria: Jacopo da Sant'Andrea and the feudatarj del Padovano --..... More
The Decameron of Boccaccio
no place noted: The Bibliophilist Society, nd. Hardcover. Black cloth, ill. salmon DJ. xii, 307 pp. Numerous bw plates. Two volumes in one. More
Direction Special Issue, Vol I No 3 : American Stuff
Darien, CT: Federal Writer's Project, 1938. Softcover. Blue white and red wraps. 128 pp. Eight bw prints by Federal Art Project. Contents : Literature Without Money ; The Giant by Fred Rothermell ; A Very Early Morning Exercise by Kenneth Rexroth ; The Library, Four Sketches, by Weldon Kees ;..... More
Ditties for Little Children
New York: McLoughlin Bro's Publishers, 1870s. Softcover. A yellow softcover book. Unpaginated, [12]; illustrated in color. More
Everyman: A Dutch Morality Play of the 15th Century Translated into English
Maastricht, Netherlands: Stols, 1929. Hardcover. Green cloth over boards; 45 pp.; No illustrations. One of 325 copies in this edition. More
Excelsior Diary: Columbian Edition, 1893 [personal day planner]
[Chicago?]: [1892?]. Hardcover. Brown flexible leather, gilt edges all around, 200+ pp., 24 BW illus. pp. A mostly blank pocket-sized day planner, evidently printed in honor of Chicago's World Columbian Exposition in 1893. Has the number "163" printed on the front flyleaf. The first section of 24 pages are printed..... More
Greek Composition for Schools: With Exercises Based on Anabasis I-III, College Entrance Papers, and Original Selections
Chicago: Scott, Foresman, and Company, 1903. Hardcover. A navy blue casebound book with gilt text on the spine and front cover. viii, 248 pages. More
Happy Families
London, Paris, New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd. Sewn Color-lithographed flexible linen covers and pages. 12 color illustrated panels including the covers. No. 6385 on the rear cover. Part of Father Tuck's "Indestructible Calico" Series printed on flexible linen cloth that can (could be) cleaned after youngsters got it..... More
The Horse Orchard: Fionna Perkins Poems
Forestville: Floreant Press, 2000. Softcover. Blue ill. wraps. 86 pp. More
A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres (from the Original Edition)
London: Printed for Frederick Etchells and Hugh Macdonald, 1926. Hardbound. 1/2 brown cloth with gilt title and light rust colored boards. xxxix, [3], 198 pp., with bw frontispiece and 5 other bw plates or illustrations. One of 400 copies printed. More
Illustrations To Moore's Irish Melodies
Lonon, England: Longman & Co., 1845. Hardcover. black leather boards w/ inlaid marbled green paper & leather corners; gilt printed spine w/ compartments. 51 black/white plates. all edges gilt. This only a collection of 51 plates/engravings; they remain unprinted/bare of verse. Printed title page dated 1845. Approximately 9lbs for shipping..... More
In the Woods with Bryant, Longfellow, and Halleck
NY: Hurd and Houghton, 1866. Hows, John A. Hardcover. Gold-embossed brown original publisher's cloth. 28 pp. 28 bw plates. Contains three poems, with lovely illustrations. More
Just for To-Day and Other Verses (gathered from various sources)
New York: James Pott & Co., nd. Hardcover. Beige rag paper/flexi boards; hand-painted daisies and title. [44] with black borders around all text on every page. Likely published prior to 1912. Inspirational poetry. More
Les Fables de la Fontaine pour Bebe
Paris: Librairie de Theodore Lefevre et Cie, no date given (circa 1890). Hardcover. Red cloth over boards; Gilt decoration; All edges gilt; Unpaginated, approx. 48 pp.; 22 color plates. Text in French; A collection of children's fables wonderfully illustrated with color plates on every other page. More
Little Bo-Peep
New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd., 1920. Circa 1920. Softcover. Color-illustrated untearable linen cover with red lettering; stapled. 8 linen pages with 2 color and several duotone illustrations. 4x6.5 inches. From Father Tuck's "Dear Dolly" Series. No. 2302. More
Lucian's Dialogues of the Hetaerai
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Privately printed, 1916. Hardcover. White leather at spine; Green paper over boards; Gilt titling at spine; Top edges gilt; 106 pp.; BW illustrations at chapter heads. By Lucian of Samosata, the Assyrian satirist; This edition translated from a French version of the original Greek; Hand-numbered, no. 422 of..... More