New Arrivals
Robinson Crusoe
New York, New York: William Wood & Co., c.1865. A charming story of four young children who pretend they are in the book Robinson Crusoe while their parents are away. A charming book about family, pretend play, and the enduring appeal of Robinson Crusoe to children across generations. Early ink.....
Price: $50.00
Children of the World, International Friendship, European Heritage
United States. Dorothy K. Weeblow, 1951. A charming interactive children's book emphasizing international friendship and cultural heritage. The story revolves around six children from European countries (England, France, Italy, Holland, Switzerland, and Norway) who are traveling across the Atlantic on an ocean liner. The young reader is asked to help.....
Price: $125.00
Pop-Up Books, Koalas
Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Co., 1935. First edition of an adorable children's book starring a mischievous koala named Blinky Bill, with three two-page spread pop-ups: one in the middle, and one on each paste down opening. The final pop-up shows a shopkeeper catching Blinky Bill sitting in a large jar.....
Price: $125.00
Zoo Animals, Interactive
New York, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1941. A very charming interactive children's book starring Mr. Luke, a harried zookeeper who needs help putting the animals back in their cages at the end of the night. Each of the eight die-cut animals, ranging from "Trunko" the elephant to "Humpo".....
Price: $125.00
Made by Hand, Childhood Ephemera
1930. Two (2) 3.75" paper dolls and numerous costumes. All executed in pencil and watercolor. The dolls are identical in size and share all off the clothing. There is a blond and a redhead. They are all housed in a 4.5" by 6: handmade booklet with tabbed organizers for the.....
Price: $325.00
Original Paper Doll Art
United States: 1870s. A handmade set of thirty-five (35) Victorian paper dolls including eight (8) men and twenty-seven (27) women. Each is already dressed in a variety of styles: mourning wear, day and evening wear, and night wear. There is even a male paper doll brandishing a knife in what.....
Price: $550.00
Original Paper Doll Art
United States: 1930s-1940s. Original paper doll artwork for a stylish modern woman, "Etta", with twenty (20) outfits, one (1) large matching hat, and one (1) pink fur-lined wrap. Etta's style is very Hollywood glam. Original ink, colored pencil, and watercolor on paper, each outfit with tabs to secure onto the.....
Price: $275.00
Original Paper Doll Art
United States: c.1900. An elegantly rendered family of seven (7) blonde Edwardian paper dolls in day wear, including a mother, father, and five daughters ranging in age from around three to fifteen. Original artwork, pencil and watercolor on card, sizes of dolls ranging from approx. 3.5" to 7". No additional.....
Price: $425.00
Original Paper Doll Art
United States: 1870s. A handmade paper doll with original watercolor artwork of a young Victorian woman in day wear, evening wear, and outerwear, including a feathered bonnet. Original pencil and watercolor, doll measures 5.25", includes doll and 8 (eight) separate outfits.
Price: $375.00
Original Paper Doll Art
United States: c.1890. An elegant handmade paper doll with original art depicting a young woman in upper-class late Victorian clothing. Doll is accompanied by eight (8) outfits including day wear, evening wear, and outerwear. Three of the outfits show her holding a book, a kitten, and white roses. Each outfit.....
Price: $450.00
Metallurgy, Decorative Wire Work
[Boston, Massachusetts]: Oliver Whyte & Co., c.1890. Handbill advertising decorative wire window guards for "stores, dwellings, school-houses, &c." as well as "ornamental patterns for Bank and Office railings", wire netting and cloths. Two illustrated examples of the products on offer are featured towards the head of the handbill. Measures 8.5".....
Price: $150.00
Cotton Industry
Howard County, Maryland: Alberton Cotton Factory, 1871. Illustrated letterhead for the Alberton Cotton Factory, featuring at lively image of the factory with people, a horse and buggy, nearby domiciles, and a steaming locomotive going by. Below is a letter handwritten ink by the Treasurer of the company to Mr. William.....
Price: $175.00
Satan, Devil Iconography, Thermos
Norwich, Connecticut: American Thermos Company, 1915. Illustrated letterhead for the American Thermos Company, featuring a rather fabulous 1908 illustration of the devil and what appears to be an anthropomorphized snowman holding thermoses with the caption "It is never too hot or too cold for the man with a thermos bottle".....
Price: $200.00
Little Bo Peep, Chromolithography
New York, New York: McLoughlin Bros. c.1875. A scarce illustrated edition of "Little Bo Peep", from McLoughlin's "Little Folks Series", featuring six full-page chromolithographed illustrations. Square 12mo (7.25" by 5.75"), pp. [12], illustrated, sewn in original illustrated wrappers with advertisement for Swift's Combination Toy Blocks on the lower wrapper. Approx.....
Price: $85.00
Humor, American Southwest
United States: H.H. Tammen, 1903. "Burros" is an endlessly charming book of "sixty-four cute, curious and interesting burro pictures", die-cut into the shape of a donkey's head. The burro, according to the introduction, is "a constant joy"; this sentiment is evident from each of the photos and their subtitles which.....
Price: $55.00
Dance Card
Norwich, Connecticut: 1860. A February, 1860 dance card produced for a "Social Levee" held at Breed Hall in Norwich, Connecticut. The event's organizing committee is listed on the second leaf recto. Bifolium (3.75" by 2.5") printed in blue on embossed card with rounded corners. Fastened in lower left-hand corner with.....
Price: $75.00
Dance Card
New York, New York: Homer Lee Bank Note Co., 1892. Dance card for the First Annual Ball of the Homer Lee Bank Note Co. Mutual Benefit Association, held in New York's Lyric Hall in February 1892. Includes a program of dances with spaces to write one's dance partners, as well.....
Price: $65.00
Child Development, Parenting
Washington, D.C. United States Department of Labor, 1930. A government-issued advice booklet ("Publication No. 202") for American parents, published by the Children's Bureau of the United States Department of Labor. Includes twelve "lessons" for parents including "Why and how do you punish your child?", "Does your child always obey you?".....
Price: $65.00
Calligraphy, Autograph Collecting
Sun Prairie, Wisconsin: 1877-1899. Autograph album of Miss Anna Allen, later Mrs. Flint c.1891, including Victorian scrap, calligraphic flourishes, and two rather fine gouaches of wildflowers. Oblong 12mo (4" by 7"), approx. 120 pp., about half-filled with contemporary ink inscriptions ranging in date from 1877 to 1899, in original green.....
Price: $175.00
Scrapbooking, Chromolithography, Decals
Germany: Abzieh-Bilder, 1880s. Two (2) brown paper envelopes, each measuring 6" by 5", with chromolithographed onlays advertising Abzieh-Bilder Transfer Pictures, i.e., Victorian scrapbook transfer patterns made in Germany for use in the United States. Each envelope depicts a beautiful young woman holding a bouquet of roses. "Decalmanie" and "Calcomania" are.....
Price: $75.00
American Civil War, Stereotypes, Racism, African American History
New York, New York: Charles Magnus, c.1864. Sensitive Racist Material. Hand-colored illustrated broadside with words to be sung to the tine of "Cars on the Track" by Charlie Hall, telling the story of a fictional Black man conscripted into the Civil War. Horace Greeley (1811-1872), "who wants them n****rs free".....
Price: $350.00
Crime, Police Work, Public Notices
Buffalo, New York: Superintendent of Police, 1882. Printed handbill (8.5" by 5.5", verso blank) distributed to the public by the Buffalo Superintendent of Police reporting a safe burglary at the general store of Bates & White in Erie County. Includes a full listing of items stolen, including certificates of deposit.....
Price: $110.00
Chromolithography, Circus
Rochester, New York: Stecher Lith. Co., 1916. A whimsical flight through "Clown Land", with large chromolithographed illustrations of circus acts including a donkey and clowns, a polar bear on a slide, trained elephants and "educated seals", chariot races, and the "Queen of the Arena" balancing on the back of a......
Price: $125.00
Springs, Taking the Waters, Geology, Mineral Water, Health and Wellness Tourism
Saratoga Springs, New York: Lincoln Spring Co., c.1900. Illustrated advertising pamphlet for "America's Greatest Water", sourced from Saratoga Springs "with its remarkable cluster of mineral fountains and invigorating climate". Includes photographs of the Lincoln Spring Plant's grounds, bottling department, engine room, and a horse and buggy getting ready to ship.....
Price: $150.00