Poetry & Verse
Religion] [juvenile] [chapbook]
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, c. 1840s. 8 pp. Blue illustrated printed cover, illustrations. Prayers are for "In the Morning" "At Night" "A Prayer for a Child who is in trouble" and "A Thanksgiving when a Child has recieved a favour from God" 3" x 2" inscribed, slight staining.
Price: $25.00
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 block and back cover of another. Both were published by Sanborton Press. The front cover of the chap book has a picture of a lion on the front and is.....
Price: $100.00
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
eclectibles, paper dolls, vintage paper dolls, jointed paper americana, ephemera, paper toy, menus, travel americana, children's books, valentines folk art Pan Pipes, Walter Crane, Theo Marzial, fanciful Victorian imagery
A hard cover book with pictorial covers with 51 pages of song including printed music and musical score. Arranged and with accompaniments by Theo. Marzials ; set to pictures by Walter Crane; engraved and; printed in colours by Edmund Evans. Profusely illustrated in the fanciful Victorian style of Walter Crane.....
Price: $100.00
menu, medical conference, international allegory, patriotism
Philadelphia: Bailey Banks & Biddle, A 4 page heavy stock with gilt fore edge menu with a red, white and blue grosgrain ribbon binding. The front cover is an illustration of Lady Liberty with the American shield and the Eagle atop the world. The stars below represent the states of.....
Price: $150.00
nursery rhymes, early learning, poem, poetry, anthropomorphism, children's poetry
Edinburgh, Scotland: William P Nimmo, 1873. 6 leaves (2 unnumbered text leaves, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates of color illustrations). Tells the classic poem of "Mother Hubbard and her Dog". One interior front and back cover is printed music for the poem. The four leaves of color illustrations are illuminated.....
Price: $65.00
Commonplace Book
A book of musings by an unidentified gentleman with the first entry on September 27th, 1825. Entries include To the Flower called Forget me not!, A recipe for Courtship, the tea of Sympathy, The Rose of the Valley, On Leaving a Place of Residence, A Fragment, Lines written beneath a......
Price: $275.00
Religion, Folk Art, Manuscript
A pencil drawing of an angel on a 9 1/2" x 8" single-fold letter sheet with embossed border decoration.. The angel is somewhat naive surrounded by a halo The penned verse reads "I would not live always, No welcome the time, Since Jesus has rain these I dread not It's.....
Price: $65.00
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
poetry, friendship, correspondence
Rhode Island or Bellow Falls, VT: [1820]. A poem entitled "On Society" transcribed for Ruth Howland by her "sincere friend", S. Brown. The poem talks of friendship and the pleasure of social bonds. Below are a few of the poems stanzas: "Hail social converse! source of purest pleasure, Sweet and.....
Price: $145.00
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
poetry, Anne Anderson, juvenile
Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., ca. 1920. unpaginated. Cloth cover with printed title and applied illustration,frontispiece, illustrations through out signed Anne Anderson. A collection of popular verses and poetry with illustrations and color plates. Some titles include, Little Jack Horner, Buttercups and Daisies, Lady Moon, and How Doth the Little.....
Price: $85.00
poem, st. patrick, love songs
Boston, MA: J. G. & H. Hunt, [1835]. A song sheet featuring two songs, Primrose Hill and St. Patrick was a Gentleman. There are two woodcuts on the top of the sheet. The first wood cut shows a suitor sitting on hill surrounded by various items, including a shield emblazoned.....
Price: $400.00
children's book, picture book, nursery rhymes, poetry
New York: McLoughlin Bros. 8 leaves, one-sided; white paper wrapper with illustrations and decorative elements on the front cover, printed in green, brown and gilt. Includes four stories: The Little Man and His Gun -- The Selfish Old Woman -- A Capital Cure For Rats -- How Lady Butterfly Spent.....
Price: $150.00
Love and Friendship, Poetry
1829. A single-fold 10" x 8" valentine with a handcolored lithograph image in the shape of a heart. A stately somewhat voluptuous woman amidst large rose blossoms. The verse begins " As roses other flowers excel...Twist happy Man and Wife". Inside pages blank. A crown watermark with "J & M......
Price: $300.00
Susie Sunshine's Series, poetry, poem, verse, nursery rhyme
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, c1900. 8 plates, litho on linen covers, with linen interior pages. Tells the classic story of Simple Simon. In verse with charming color illustrations on each page. A part of the Susie Sunshine's Series. Measures 7 1/2" x 5" Cover wear, particularly on the back strip.....
Price: $85.00
teacher, retirement, poem, humor, photograph, humor
Queens, NY: PS19, Jun-41. A memoir book presented to Rose A. Maguire, an elementary school teacher, upon her retirement in June 1951. She taught at a school located in Queens, NY called PS 19 Corona (now known as Marino Jeantet Elementary). The memoir book features over fifty pages of short.....
Price: $275.00
Cinderella series, Juvenile poetry, children's poetry, Country life, poetry, verse
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, c1879. This book beautifully illustrates the classic and popular British nursery rhyme and cumulative tale, "The House that Jack Built." This is apart of the Cinderella Series, printed by the McLoughlin Brothers. The cover is printed on yellow wrappers, and the front cover depicts a boy.....
Price: $95.00
Christmas, poetry, animal cruelty,
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, 1882(2). A Christmas book that attempts to teach the reader a lesson on animal cruelty. The book follows the story of three brothers, Frank ,Harry and Tommy, and their three dogs. The story starts with Tommy killing Frank's dog, and Santa Claus deciding to teach Tommy.....
Price: $375.00
friendship, love, civil war, battle flag, dried flowers, in memoriam
New York: John C. Riker, c1860. A friendship album of Addie A. Allen who most likely lived in Connecticut as many of the entries note Connecticut towns in the closing. The album itself dates from 1858-1864, with the bulk of the entries dated between 1858-1860. The majority of the material.....
Price: $650.00
Humor, Cutlery Puns
London: J. King, [1890s]. Two (2) amusing greeting cards designed with cutlery puns: "A Stirring Time to You" - may you always have a fresh spoon when the old one turns rusty..., "A FORK to show you're not fork-gotten...", and so on. Each is crafted out of embossed decorated paper.....
Price: $350.00
Children's poetry, nursery rhymes, picture book, animals, birds
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, c1870. 20 pp (including wrappers), blue cover with printed litho design depicting one of the stories found within, 'The Pet Hen.' Other stories included in this book are: 'The Star', 'The Cow', 'Dolly's Tea Party', 'The Little Girl Who Was Unkind to her Sister', 'Mary's Little.....
Price: $65.00
language of flowers, flower dictionary, poem, poetry, verse
Boston: G W Cottrell, 1851. 96 pp, Decorated green cloth binding, with gilt edges. Miniature book. Edited by Anna Elizabeth, this pocket book details the language of flowers. On each page, it denotes a flower, what it looks like, its meaning and then a poem or verse. For example: Daffodil.....
Price: $45.00
Social History, Visual Culture, Albums & Journals, Commonplace Books
Hildesheimer & Faulkner, 1870-1880s. Large format album with 39 leaves with applied fine chromolithograph album cards and illustrations on both sides of the page, in other words 78 decorated pages. At the center of each page is an applied album cards surrounded by watercolor illustrations and elements relevant to the.....
Price: $2,400.00