Childhood Ephemera & Books
Articulated paper toy, articulated paper doll, jointed paper doll, whimsy...
A truly fanciful fellow with a printed face,and card stock body parts that have been decorated with applied and layered...
Price: $750.00
paper doll, social history, fashion
A copper engraving cut-out from the February 1872 Peterson's Magazine that has been dressed in both paper and fabric. It...
Price: $450.00
Prang, Leporello, Barnyard Animals, Pastoral
Boston, Massachusetts: L. Prang & Co., 1865. A folding accordion-style (leporello) children's book by Prang, featuring a happy host of...
Price: $450.00
religion
Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society. 31 pp. Applied marble cover, frontispiece. The story of a group of boys and the...
Price: $25.00
Paper Dolls, Culture and Ethnicity, Social History, Pretend Play
c1840s. A set including two (2) single-sided 6 3/4" female paper dolls and eight (8) costumes depicting regional variances from...
Price: $1,400.00
World's fair, business history, American dream, finance, loan
Chicago, IL: Household Finance Corporation, 1933. In 1933 Chicago hosted it second World's Fair in forty years, and it was...
Price: $135.00
Handmade Paper Doll, Pretend Play, Victorian
1880s. A 7 " well executed handmade papers depicting a fine Victorian lady along with her three costumes, 3 hats...
Price: $350.00
Paper Dolls, Made by Hand, Pretend Play, Marie Antoinette, Women's...
c1900. An elegantly designed 6 1/8" handmade watercolor paper doll in the style of Marie Antoinette and her eight (8)...
Price: $1,500.00
Made by Hand, Overlay, Fashion & Costume, Women's History
1820s. A finely executed watercolor of a Regency era women with 14 intricately detailed watercolor overlays. Each character is identified...
Price: $5,800.00
Original Artwork, Unpublished, Manuscript, Watercolor
United States: 1940s. A rather remarkable manuscript children's book rendering of the story of Snow White, with stunning original watercolor...
Price: $750.00
Domestic Arts, Women's Education, Textiles and Fiber Arts
Scranton, Pennsylvania: Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts & Sciences, 1915-1923. A grouping of five (5) booklets published by the Scranton...
Price: $175.00
linen book, Saalfield's Muslin Books, anthropomorphism, nursery books, early learning...
New York, NY; Akron, OH; Chicago, IL: Saalfield's Publishing Company, 1910. This charming linen book tells the classic finger and...
Price: $75.00
Educational, Morals, Alphabet
Concord: Atwood & Brown, 1837/1839. 16 pp. wrapper. with 14 illustrations. The cover is yellow, and the title page states...
Price: $50.00
Southern Relief Fund, Civil War, Concerts, Benefit Concerts, Reconstruction, Music...
[Boston]: 1867. A Grand Concert hosted by the Mercantile Library Association at the Academy of Music for the benefit of...
Price: $150.00
Circus, Entertainment, Songster, Dime Hand Book, Clowns
New York: N.Y. Popular Pub. Co., [1895]. 32 unnumbered pages with hand colored illustrated wraps of circus performers. A wide...
Price: $200.00
Peter G. Thomson, Paper Dolls, Pretend Play
Cincinnati: Peter G. Thomson, 1880s. The paper dolls were part of a series of uncut small format penny paper dolls...
Price: $825.00
Froebel Kindergarten, History of New York, Social Work, Public Health...
New York, New York: Bloomingdale Neighborhood Association, 1908. Fourth Annual Report of the Bloomingdale Neighborhood Association, featuring a photograph on...
Price: $150.00
religion, Fourth of July
New York: American Tract Society, n.d. 36 pp. Printed soft cover, hand sewn binding, illustrations. Two inscriptions dated 1829 and...
Price: $40.00
farming] [edgeworth toy] [juvenile
Troy, NY: Merriam & Moore. 12 pp. Illustrated paper cover, wood cut illustrations throughout, frontispiece, "The Edgeworth Toys" Story of...
Price: $55.00
paper dolls,ethnicity, World Tolerance, Indigenous People
New York: Friendship Press, 1933. One of two different Friendship Press paper dolls we are offering. They are Friendship Paper...
Price: $125.00
German, anthropomorphic, rabbit, rabbits, bunny, bunnies, hare, hares
1960s. 6pp. Litho on board throughout. German language. A charming story about the trouble three hares get into while their...
Price: $25.00
Camp Fire Girls, Scouts, Youth Groups, Diversity and Inclusion, Women...
New York, New York: Camp Fire Girls, 1920s. A gathering of nine (9) items from the 1920s relating to an...
Price: $300.00
Illustrated Children's Books, Primers
New York, New York: Huestis & Cozans, Between 1842 and 1849. A charming pint-sized illustrated primer produced by Huestis &...
Price: $140.00
religious poetry] [miniature books
New York: American Tract Society, c. 1850. 256 pp. Blind stamped brown cloth hard cover, gilt spine, miniature book, index...
Price: $40.00