Childhood Ephemera & Books
Multiplication, Paper Slide, Early Learning
Chicago: The Simplicity Co., 1908. A 3 1/4" x 6" card folder with an image of a schoolmaster pointing at...
Price: $175.00
Gilt cover picture books, picture book, Juvenile literature
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, c1890. This book includes four poems and their corresponding full=page, color chromolithographs. The poems are: Sister...
Price: $90.00
Die-cut,
C. G. & S. Ltd. (Chas Goodall and Son), [1930]. Twenty-three (23) different die-cut lithograph whist badges with images of...
Price: $850.00
Pretend Play, Paper Dolls, Social History
Germany: c1850. A 7 1/4" litho on heavy stock paper doll with his original stand and eight (8) costumes and...
Price: $650.00
Black Interest, Black Americana, coloring book
Topeka Kansas: Capper Publications, Inc., 1941. 21 pp black and white with gray cover unused coloring story book. Stereotypical imagery...
Price: $115.00
School Newspaper, Andover Massachusetts, Private School
Andover, Mass: Edward H. Williams, III, 8-Jun-04. The small newspaper is published one a week during the school year and...
Price: $55.00
Job Printing, Hand Coloring, Gardening, Early Children's Publishing, Advertising to...
Boston, Massachusetts: J. Fisher, 1849-1850. A charming piece of hand-colored job printing for children by the Boston printer James Fisher...
Price: $175.00
fairy tales, nursery rhymes, picture books, Juvenile,
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, c1870. 14 pp (including wrappers), yellow covers with printed litho illustrations. The design on the cover...
Price: $125.00
juvenile fiction
New York: McLoughlin Bros. 1850. unnumbered. Printed yellow paper cover illustrated in black and red, text with black and white...
Price: $100.00
death] [graves
Mahlon Day. 8 pp. illustrated printed paper cover, cover and title page are the same, one illustration at beginning of...
Price: $38.00
Doll Transformations, Metamorphosis , ABAA-RBMS-2023
Germany: c.1830. An attractive and engaging children's transformation game comprised of three sections-- head, torso, and bottom-- in which multiple...
Price: $2,200.00
chap book, poetry, gender roles, Redfield's Toy Books
New York: Kiggins & Kellogg, [1856]. A chap book for young children, filled with poetry of a moralistic nature, often...
Price: $36.00
chap book, poetry, rhyme
Greenfield, MA: Ansel Phelps, 1847. A short chap book containing poems on a variety of subjects aimed at children. Right...
Price: $75.00
Religion] [juvenile] [chapbook]
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, c. 1840s. 8 pp. Blue illustrated printed cover, illustrations. Prayers are for "In the Morning" "At...
Price: $25.00
anthropomorphism, fairy tales, chicken, fox
Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Co., 1932. unpaginated. Printed color soft cover, black and white illustrations by Nina R. Jordan. Little...
Price: $30.00
Pop-up Book, Jumbo,
New York: McLoughlin Bros. A single-fold pop-up book with applied litho depicting a family of giraffes grazing in nature. When...
Price: $450.00
Sign language letters, Sign Letters word, The Lord's Prayer
Hartford, CT: The Connecticut Magazine Co., 1899. 32 pp. (unpaginated) lightly coated stock illustrated wraps. The two page preface discusses...
Price: $150.00
religion, drawing, art by children,
c1940s. This is a handmade coloring book, depicting "The Lords's Prayer". The interior pages were created using a mimeograph, then...
Price: $30.00
Paper Doll, Pretend Play, Women's History
New York: McLoughlin, c1875. Two-sided printing. 7" cut paper doll with with four (4) two-sided dresses and no hats With...
Price: $215.00
Transformation, US Presidents, Childhood Ephemera
8.13: c1900. Housed in a 3 1/2" x 6 1/2" illustrated envelope with an image of George Washington at left...
Price: $85.00
Reward of Merit, Made by Hand,
May happiness thy steps attend In this role of tears my friend And when this vale of tears is shed...
Price: $75.00
Invitations,Patriotic Iconography,Mardi Gras
New Orleans, Louisiana: 1929. Printed invitation addressed in ink to "Mr. M.L. Dowd", inviting him to a Mardi Gras party...
Price: $100.00
chap book, animals, lion, religion, hymns, poetry, married chap book
Sanborton, NH: Sanborton Press, 1835-1836. This married chap book is actually the front cover of one book, and the text...
Price: $100.00
Martinet Champagne, Menu card
A 4 5/8" x 3 1/4" menu card for Martinet, 28 Avenue de L'Opera, Paris. A menu card for Lunch...
Price: $40.00