Early Learning
Pennsylvania Dutch,Fratur ABC,Early Learners,Martin Luther
Philadelphia: bei Sch0 fer und Koradi, 1850s. A later edition of a charming Pennsylvania Dutch ABC, published for early learners just beginning to read ("fu r Kinder welche anfangen zu lernen"). The first and final leaves have been pasted into the binding as endpapers, and feature woodcuts of animals for.....
Price: $125.00
Advertising handbills for D. Lothrop & Co's Wide Awake and Babyland and George A. Smith & Co.'s Our Little Ones. One in the form of a small format trade card, the second a two-sided flyer for Wide Awake and Babyland with three vignettes from the magazines with three vignettes including.....
Price: $100.00
Volvelle, Wheel, Early Learning
Baltimore MD: Dvorine, Israel, [1928]. Three (3) different 3 1/2" x 7" early learning educational volvelles with mirror images both sides. They include a circus that various animals occupy, a magician's box with different objects appearing and disappearing and a fish tank with various tropical fish. Marked B14, B24 and.....
Price: $150.00
alphabet rhymes, nursery rhymes, children's poetry, alphabet.
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, c1885. 16 pp. (including wrap covers, unpaginated). Mounted on linen, this book has charming chromolithographic illustrations throughout. Each letter has rhyme snippet that accompanies it. For example: " 'F' is for A Frog, he would a-wooing go, whether his mother would let me or no" ".....
Price: $75.00
Child Welfare,Serials,Poverty,Child Labor,Education
Montgomery, Alabama: Child Welfare Department of Alabama, 1921. Volume I, No. 1 of "Alabama Childhood", the "official bulletin of the State Child Welfare Department of Alabama". The first issue of a new series published in 1921 to highlight the importance of child welfare, and to report on the activities of.....
Price: $250.00
Kindergarten, Froebel, Alumni Associations, Women in Education
New York, New York: Kraus Alumni Kindergarten Association, 1914. The 1913-1914 annual report of the Kraus Alumni Kindergarten Association, an organization dedicated to promoting Kindergarten, Froebel, and Montessori in New York City-area schools. Includes: a list of officers; minutes from the 1914 annual meeting; news from the year; a treasurer's.....
Price: $100.00
Mathematics, Tables and Formulas, Arithmetic, School books
New York: Samuel S. & William Wood, 1842. A handy pocket-sized guide to arithmetic with additional tables of roman numerals, federal and British money, weights, lengths, measures, and even book formats. 24mo (4.5" by 3.75"), pp. 24, "Stereotyped by Richard C. Valentine" of New York. Sewn in original illustrated light.....
Price: $100.00
children's books, fairy tales, fairies, princesses
London; New York: Frederick Warne & Co. 11 leaves including covers. dark blue paper wrapper with colored decorative border and decorative elements on the cover, and "Price One Shilling; or, Mounted With Linen, Two Shillings" written across the top. Includes 6 full page, color illustrations. Back cover lists the different.....
Price: $75.00
Spelling Bees, Community Events
Maytown, Ohio: Marietta Times, 1887. B at the B! The local spelling bee, that is, in Maytown, Ohio, on February 22, 1887: "There will B prizes! There will B music!". Measures 10.25" by 6.75", verso blank. Ink stamp to recto.
Price: $175.00
1893 Columbian Exhibition,Depictions of Christopher Columbus,ABC Books,Advertising Family Medicines
United States: [1893]. A color-illustrated ABC book for little readers, advertising family medicines and household remedies. The two main products advertised as Brandreth's Pills and Allcock's Porous Plasters. Each letter of the alphabet has a different color illustration of a significant moment in American history, highlight the Columbus expedition. Some.....
Price: $200.00
children's books, religion
London: Benjamin Pardon, 1850. Produced by the The Religious Tract Society. 32 pages; green paper wrapper, cover has decorative border. Engraved frontisepiece, decorative elements on title page. Story focusing on religion, morality, and devotion to God. 2 3/4" x 4". OCLC-1 (Aug, 2018).
Price: $30.00
Child Psychology,Growing Up,Parenting Education,Gender Roles in Childhood
Chicago, Illinois: Science Research Associates, Inc., 1950-1952. A collection of eighteen (18) booklets published for families between 1950 and 1952, offering advice on everything from helping siblings get along as young children to how to navigate the tricky teen years as parents. Penned by psychologists, each booklet addresses either parent.....
Price: $575.00
Ornithology, Grade School
Redwood Falls, Minnesota: Redwood County Public Schools, 1938. A charming award book privately printed for Redwood County Public Schools, titled "Birds of Minnesota". Each leaf has on its recto an illustration of a native bird, along with a printed form certifying that the student has attended school for twenty days.....
Price: $150.00
children's books, religion
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, ca. 1850. 8 pages, bound in tan paper wrapper with decorative border and circular vignette, printed in blue ink. Engraved quarter page illustration. One book from an 11-book set. 3 1/4" x 4 1/2". OCLC- 2 full sets; 0 individual (Aug, 2018).
Price: $20.00
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Dissected Puzzle Map,Geography,Learning Through Play
New Haven and New York: D. and M. C. Wiggins, 1870s. A complete example of a double-sided "Dissected Puzzle Map", offering young ones the opportunity to learn about geography through interactive play. When completed, a map of the United States is revealed with geography trivia questions at the bottom. Each.....
Price: $450.00
ABAA-RBMS-2026,Milton Bradley,Pedagogy,Kindergarten
Springfield, Massachusetts: Milton Bradley Co, 1890s. A scarce trade catalogue of school aids and material sold by the famous Milton Bradley, then styling themselves as "Manufacturers and Publishers [of] Kindergarten Material and Furniture, Elementary Physical Apparatus, Educational Games and Home Amusements" (upper wrapper). Notable for its inclusion of a variety.....
Price: $450.00
Nursery book, nursery rhyme, mother Hubbard, Mother goose,
New York: Platt adn Munk Co Inc, 1939. A charming children's book full of Mother Goose Rhymes and colorful illustrations. In addtion to the classic rhymes the book also features several short stories, such as "Good Doggies" and "The Quack Quack Family". There is also an ABC section to the.....
Price: $50.00
Salesman's Dummies,History of Education,Publishing,Elementary Curriculum
Chicago, Illinois: Scott, Foresman and Company, c.1937. A book of curriculum and lesson plan ideas for educators published by Scott, Foresman and Company. This item is Book One of the Teacher's Guidebook for the Elson-Gray Basic Readers, a line of books for early learners used in the classroom. It is.....
Price: $150.00
Children's Toys and Games, Card Games
Cincinnati, Ohio: The U.S. Playing Card Company, 1921. A book of games for children using old decks of playing cards: "Decks of cards which no longer 'slip' easily interfere with the pleasure of grown-ups but to kiddies they offer material for much entertainment and not a little instruction disguised as.....
Price: $125.00
Coloring and Painting Book,Learn to Paint
Germany: c.1900. A charming coloring book for children, printed in Germany for what we presume is the American toy market. The front depicts an artist at his easel painting a pet dog, with a child watching. Inside, the coloring book is comprised of four panels at unfold to reveal two.....
Price: $125.00
Children's Serials
Elgin, Illinois: David C. Cook Publishing Co., 1893. Vol. 16, Nos. 26, 35, 38, and 40 of "Dew Drops", a charming illustrated children's newspaper issued weekly in the late 19th century and well into the early 20th century. These issues were published in June 1893, and each start with a......
Price: $225.00
Child Development, Embroidery
c1920. A 7 1/2" x 7 1/2" The Child's Delight No. 2 Embroidery Outfit. Complete and unused with 6 doilies , 12 embroidery skeins and 3 embroidery needles. Imagery of little girl happily embroidering on envelope and needle envelope. The paper envelope the kit came in is toned due to.....
Price: $125.00
Growing Up,Chores,Parenting and Family,Incentive Based Learning
Hughes Specialties: Los Angeles, California, 1944. A charming 10-week merit chart for kids to use to track chores and tasks, including hundreds of stars to cut out and paste next to completed tasks. This example has been partially used and has been signed in pencil by a young girl named.....
Price: $100.00
Tactile Books,Circus,Acrobats,Clowns
Cleveland, Ohio: The Goldsmith Company, 1928. A very charming acrobatic ABC alphabet, with each letter featuring clowns forming the letters out of paired contorted poses. For the letter "C": "Entwined like this we bend and curve Our bodies in the air, And thus we make as fine a C As.....
Price: $150.00