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...
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....
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"...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
Price: $325.00
religion, Death, Religious aspects, Immortality, poem, poetry, verse, lady jane...
Portland: Oliver L Sanborn, 1839. Edward Young was an English poet from the 18th century, whose most well-known poem was...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Price: $95.00
friendship albums
Coxsacki, NY: c 1850-1861. A friendship album, entitled 'Album of Gems' which belonged to Matilda S. Bedell of Coxsacki, NY...
Price: $110.00