Poetry & Verse
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
nursery rhyme, verse, poem, picture book, dog
London: Frederick Warne and Co, c1870. 18 pp (including wrappers), blue covers with printed blue and red illustration of a dog holding a bouquet. Tells the classic story of 'Old Mother Hubbard and her Dog". The book is printed on paper pasted over linen. Measures 9 1/2" x 7 1/4".....
Price: $85.00
Original Art, Made by Hand, Poetry and Verse, Anthropomorphism
[1930s]. Ten (10) original hand penned verses, each with charming relevant drawings. All are on a single 12" x 9" art board except for the tale of A Mouse and a Beetle and a sweet baby Sausage who lived together. This particular tale, written in five verses has a sad.....
Price: $1,750.00
Original Poetry, Pens, Humor, Manuscript
[West Virginia?]: 1914. A charming original manuscript poem in blue ink titled "Pen", signed by A.G. Wilcox: "Pen is a thing that they write with Pen is a thing that will brake[sic] Pen is a thing to keep in the house..." Concludes with "Pen is a thing that they write.....
Price: $150.00
nursery rhymes, kate greenaway, childs play
London: Cassell and Co, 1887. A 76 pp hard cover book with pictorial covers. Includes 22 full page illustrated plates, some in color. Profusely illustrated with sepia tone line drawings throughout. Includes verse and music. Cassell & Company's Publications advertising pages at rear. Shelf wear. Rebound with black endpapers. Slight.....
Price: $250.00
Mourning, Mourning Poetry
Scituate, Rhode Island: 1867. A touching and seemingly scarce printed tribute to Sarah E. Dorrance, a Rhode Island woman who died at the age of twenty-nine. Includes seven stanzas of loving poetry, each stanza rhyming "AABB". We have been unable to trace another printing of this poem. Measures approx. 7.75".....
Price: $150.00
grind book, plants, botany, poem, poetry, flower, humor, smith college
Northampton, MA: Smith College, 1914. 8 pg., staple booklet. A humor filled book, which appears on first glance to be a baby book on botany. However upon closer inspection, one realize that the book has noting to do with botany. It is actually a 'Grinds' Book from Smith College, a......
Price: $110.00
Made by Hand. songs, music, sheet music, nursery songs
1940s. A handmade song book with over 50 songs. The book has been divided up into seven categories: Traditional, Autumn, Winter, Spring, Animals, Special Occasions, People, and Games . The majority of the songs in this book are short nursery songs, such as 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star', 'Rock-a-bye Baby', and.....
Price: $325.00
Manuscripts for Children,Original Watercolor Artwork,Girlhood,Poems for Children,Anthology Manuscripts
United States: Wanda Caderquist, 1928. A dreamlike and rather lovely manuscript created for "Jackie, a dear little girl" by a loving adult in her life, Wanda Caderquist, with original pen and watercolor artwork by "E.M.W.". The original watercolor frontispiece depicts a little raven-haired girl (perhaps Jackie?) reading on a stone.....
Price: $525.00
religion, Death, Religious aspects, Immortality, poem, poetry, verse, lady jane grey, lady jane dudley, nine day queen,
Portland: Oliver L Sanborn, 1839. Edward Young was an English poet from the 18th century, whose most well-known poem was "Night-Thoughts." Although Night Thoughts is long and disconnected poem, it abounds in brilliant isolated passages and it found an enormous amount of success. It was eventually translated into French, German.....
Price: $65.00
History of Charleston, American South, Women Authors
Charleston, South Carolina: William G. Mazyck, 1870. "Days of Yore" is a historical account of Charleston, South Carolina, divided into four "letters" penned "By the Ancient Lady" (i.e. Elizabeth Anne Poyas), and includes excerpts of poetry, biographical and genealogical information, and musings on local history. Poyas had a distinctive writing.....
Price: $175.00
French Language, Hand-colored Valentine
[France?]: c.1810. Regency-era Valentine with hand-colored etching of a lovely young lady holding a bouquet of flowers, above what appears to be an original handwritten sonnet: "Ne vous Affligez point sure votre infirmité / Ô beauté singulière! admirable Entrangère..." ("Do not grieve over your infirmity / O singular beauty! admirable.....
Price: $225.00
fairy tales, juvenile fiction
New York: Stecher Litho, 1929. 12 unnumbered pp. Color illustrated cover, no. 52. Two young girls save a dwarf who tries to feed them to a bear. The bear becomes a prince and marries one of the girls, color illustrations by author. Measures 10 1/2" x 10" Center pages detached.....
Price: $65.00
geography, arithmetic, verse, poetry, education, maps, subscription publications
Cincinnati, OH: 1852. A textbook, only sold by subscription, that seeks to teach the reader arithmetic and world geography by using verse, often rhyming verse, to help the reader memorize the important terms and formulas. For example, in describing the divisions of land, the following poem is used: "Of land.....
Price: $75.00
children's books, poetry, rhyming, animals, flowers, horticulture & gardens
F. Fechner, [1850]. A short book of eight rhyming poems meant for children. Each page features a new poem and a corresponding hand colored illustration. All stories take place outside and the majority of which include an animal, such as a cow, goat, sheep, dog and bird. One poem features.....
Price: $100.00
Promotional Circular, Poetry and Verse
Poughkeepsie, NY: A.V. Haight Co, 1909. A single-fold 6" x 4 1/2 " with deckled edge. Cover illustration features decorative devices, title and author. The inside pages provide a summary of the book and pricing information. The back form includes excerpts from "In Kansas" and "Envoy"
Price: $125.00
Song sheet, poetry, death, ocean travel, gold mines
Philadelphia: A.W. Auner, 1870s-90s. An eight (8) verse poem/song. Laments of death, ocean travel, gold mines etc. Top and bottom of sheet read A.W. Auner, song publisher & printer, Tenth and Race Sts., Philadelphia, Pa. Measures 7 3/4" x 4 1/2"
Price: $125.00
friendship album, poetry, drawings
Candor, NY: 1876-1880. A friendship album belonging to Ida E. Williams of Candor, NY. The album entries comprise of her friends and family members from Candor, NY, and surrounding towns between 1876-1880. The entries are, generally speaking, short quotes, either from poetry or plays. Of note in the album is.....
Price: $275.00
Beer, Poetry, German-American poetry
Rochester NY: Gertrude Schwabl, 1935. A large format broadside with verse and music for "Ei du Schone, ei du schone, ei du schone Schnitzelbank."The 24 captioned images are the objects found in this cumulative song. Presumably the broadside was designed to encourage patrons to sing along. Measures 37 1/2" x......
Price: $275.00
friendship albums, rebus
Rahway, NJ: 1874. A friendship album, aptly titled "Album of Friendship", belonging to a woman by the name of Jennie. Her last name is never mentioned. The album is mostly blank, but the entries date from 1874, and when a location is noted, it is Rahway, NJ. One of the.....
Price: $130.00
Poetry, Manuscript
1870s-1880s. A grouping of materials related to Whittier. The first is a cabinet card with Whittier's signature at base. The second is a 4 3/4" x 7 1/2" page from an autograph album with what seems to be an original verse penned and signed by John G. Whittier, Amesbury 1878.....
Price: $500.00
Christmas, santa, poem
Weston, MA: Dec-39. A Christmas poem written by John Henry Bartlett, an eleven year old boy. According to the Note printed on the back the poem was printed by his parents, so that it could be read on Christmas morning. The front cover has a silhouette of Santa in his.....
Price: $65.00
Visiting Cards, Musings
[Auburn, New York]: c.1877. Commonplace book of Louis McCrea, compiled c.1877. Louis was one half of the McCrea Brothers, coal dealers based in Auburn, New York; his business card has been pasted-in, as well as his visiting card to the upper pastedown. brief descriptions of McCrea's travels are recorded, as.....
Price: $225.00
Margaret Evens Price
Rochester, NY: Stecher Litho. Co., 1916. This children's book is beautifully illustrated by Margaret Evens Price. 12 pages, with a stapled thick-card wrapper cover. The full color and three color lithographs in the book perfectly exemplify the ability of the Stecher Lithography Company. Shared with the colorful lithography is a......
Price: $95.00