Early Learning
Nursery Rhymes
New York, New York: McLoughlin Bros. 1897. Beautifully printed on linen, this children's book by McLoughlin features four (4) full-page chromolithographed illustrations, as well as several smaller in-text illustrations on linen, as accompaniment for a plethora of short nursery rhymes. Very scarce. Small folio (10.5" by 7"), pp. [10], stapled.....
Price: $150.00
Nursery book, Juvenile literature
London: Dean & Son, c1860. 8 leaves. Hand colored illustrations all pages. The adventures of newly acquired naughty little pig in rhyming verse. A seemingly nice animal at the time of purchase goes bad... The last line of the book reads "Before another night shall pass, she'd turn the pig.....
Price: $55.00
children's books, religion
London: Truscott, Son & Simmons. "Printed under the direction of the committee of general literature and education, appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge". 18 pages, bound in blue paper wrapper with decorative border; engraved frontisepiece. Inscription dated 1864. Tells the story of a young woman learning to prioritize.....
Price: $25.00
Chap books,Native Americans in Children's Literature
New York, New York: Leavitt & Allen, c.1830s. A children's story about a papoose, first published in the 1820s. 16mo (4.25" by 2.75"), pp. 16, illus., sewn in contemporary (slightly later?) bright blue paper wrps. Later pencil ownership inscription of "Lettie" to title-page. Less than 15 copies of any edition.....
Price: $85.00
children, school
Springfield, MA: McLoughlin Bros., Inc, 1929. unpaginated. Printed color applied board cover, blue patterned background, illustrated end papers, black and white illustrations and full page color illustrations. The Peek-A-Boo children, Kenneth, Algernon, and Jane kept getting into trouble. Their nurse gave her notice and their parents were fed up. They.....
Price: $45.00
Children's Serials,Rebus,Published for Children
New York, New York: Phillips & Hunt, 1880. Three (3) issues of a charming newspaper published for little learners. Each two-page serial offers illustrations, poetry, history, and moral lessons reinforcing Christian values. Two of the issues feature rebus stories. Each issue is printed in a smaller format to better fit.....
Price: $125.00
advertising to children, activity book, JC Penney, Santa Claus
New York: J.C. Penney Co. Inc., 1929. 16 (unnumbered) pp. of a various activities for children including stories. mazes, a paper doll, connect the dots, paper toys music and much more. The JC Penney's promotional characters, Mary Lu and Little Jim are incorporated throughout. With original mailer with illustrated red.....
Price: $75.00
Teaching and Pedagogy
Rushville, Indiana: The Public School Printing Co., c.1900. "Would you govern your Schools without resort to harsh measures? 'The Report Book' will aid you to do this" (upper wrapper). Printed pamphlet promoting a blank report book for schoolteachers, including instructions for use and an example of a page from the.....
Price: $150.00
Educational Game, Magicians, Learning to Multiply
New York City: The Maxim Games Co., 1945. A 6 1/4" x 4 1/4" litho on pressed board box with a smilar number of discs. The cover illustration implies math can be magical. The box sides boast -age 8 to 80 play TALLYIT - an educational game. The cards have.....
Price: $45.00
Chapbook,Moralistic Tales for Children
Boston, Massachusetts: Taggard & Thompson, 1863. Later edition, first published in 1857, of a book of moralistic stories for children. In-text illustrations This edition not located in WorldCat (Jan. 2024). 16mo (4.25" by 2.75"), pp. 48, illus., in original publisher's brown cloth stamped in blind.
Price: $65.00
Chapbook,Moralistic Tales for Children
Boston, Massachusetts: Taggard & Thompson, 1863. Later edition, first published in 1857, of a book of moralistic stories for children. This edition not located in WorldCat (Jan. 2024). 16mo (4.25" by 2.75"), pp. 48, illus., in original publisher's green cloth stamped in blind, spine gilt. Gift inscription to Miss Phoebe.....
Price: $65.00
Sewing Specimens, Advance sewing technique, Pedagogy
Album of sewing samples by Miss G. C. Ayres. United States, c.1900. 4to album (9.25" by 7.5"). Approx. 75 blank leaves bound in original three quarter sheep and marbled paper sides. Contains approx. 18 sewing samples, with at least two appearing to be missing. Techniques/features include: running stitch;.....
Price: $350.00
Temperance,Moralistic Tales for Children,Chap books
New York, New York: J.S. Redfield, c.1850? A pro-temperance tale for children, warning against the evils of drinking. 16mo (4.5" by 3"), pp. 16, illus., in original illus. wrps. Early pencil message to upper wrapper verso ("Get well soon..."). Approx. 5 copies on WorldCat (Jan. 2024).
Price: $40.00
Encyclopedias for Children,Children's Publishing,Self-Learning,Auto Didact
New York, NY: The Grolier Society, c.1954. Two publications "keyed to the 1954 edition of The Book of Knowledge", advertising the children's encyclopedia directly to children. The encyclopedia set was first published by the Grolier Society in 1912, and went through many editions well into the 1960s. The present publications.....
Price: $225.00
Juvenile Verse, Cats, Etiquette
New York: McLoughlin Bros. 8 unnumbered pp. Printed paper cover, 8 text pages with 4 full color plates. A collection of verses including Table Rules For Little Folks, The Dunce of a Kitten, The Noah's Ark, and Idle Ben. Lovely color plates that coordinate with verse. 10 1/2" x 7".....
Price: $55.00
Children's Stationery, Childhood Ephemera, Early Learning
[1940s]. Housed in an applied litho on pressed board box with fairies floating about as a young girl reads. The content includes 24 illustrated single-fold note sheets. There are six each for Little Red Riding Hood, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, Cinderella and her Coach and Four, and Jack and.....
Price: $100.00
clock, time, telling time, tell time, education, educational, german. langers hausen,
1950s. 8 pp. Litho on board throughout. German lnaguage. A book that teaches young children how to read the clock. The cover has a clock on it with movable hands, (missing from the book), so they can change the time. The book takes a group of children through their day.....
Price: $45.00
Children's Toys, Early Learning, Education, Trivia
Leominster, Massachusetts: W.S. Reed Toy Company, c.1890. The original "World's Educator" trivia game for children and adults, manufactured by W.S. Reed Toy Co., featuring fine chromolithography. Originally patented in 1887, the game was re-released in 1919 by the same company, with different illustrations. To play, one must use the teetotum.....
Price: $425.00
Mathematics, Education, Science & Technology, Broadside
New York: Pudney & Russell, 1856. A 37" x 26" broadside chart. This chart commends itself to the actual want of every individual, being a Universal Guide in every department of Mechanical and Mercantile business, and likewise, to a definite extent, in Scientific and Philosophical pursuits, involving principles of practical.....
Price: $275.00
Beatrix Potter, Peter Rabbit books
New York: Frederick Warne & Co, 1904. 85 pp. First American edition with original pale blue boards with applied stamp. Color pictorial endpapers. 27 wonderful color illustrations that depict the destructive mischief the two mice wrought on a doll house.It is the classic tale of two naughty mice by Beatrix.....
Price: $300.00
children's books, religion
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1861. 16 pages. Written by Catherine D. Bell under the pseudonym "Cousin Kate". Engraved frontisepiece, and decorative elements on page 4. Tan wrapper printed with red ink. Ornate decorative border includes a biblical parable and illustrations. Story of a young boy learning about the value.....
Price: $25.00
Mathematics, Tables and Formulas, Arithmetic, School books
Boston: Gould, Kendall & Lincoln, 1838. Second edition of a book of multiplication tables by Charles W. Greene, educator and director of Greene's Academy in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. Greene conceived of the project after discovering that having his pupils commit times tables to memory was an "irksome labor" (advertisement), and.....
Price: $125.00
sheet music, musical score, nursery rhymes, hammond
London: Mitchell's Musical Library, 1824. 12 pp. The cover has the title of the item engraved in various scripts. Songs include "Dance Little Baby", "Bye Bye Little Dolly", "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", "Little Miss Kid", "Pretty Flower, Tell Me Why?", and "Who'll Come and Play with Me, Dialogue and Duet".....
Price: $45.00
Children's Books,Learning at Home,Self-Directed Learning
Boston, Massachusetts: Carter and Hendee, 1830. No. 1 in a scarce series of books for children stereotyped by Carter and Hendee in the 1830s. The content of this issue includes an instructional and moralistic dialogue, followed by instructions for exploring basic concepts (shapes, colors, weight, water, earth). Natural history is.....
Price: $150.00