Literature
Literary Associations,History of Brooklyn
[Brooklyn, New York]: Lee Literary Association, 1869. A handsome embossed program produced for an anniversary event held by the Lee Literary Association in 1869. Lists the order of events beginning with a voluntary on the organ and prayer and ending with readings, addresses, and a poem. From the New York.....
Price: $200.00
Original Manuscript, Apparently Unpublished, American West, American Southwest, Colorado River, Humor
United States: 1920s. Two (2) original manuscripts and one (1) original typescript of what appears to be an unpublished original series of stories titled "The Amazin' Adventur's Uv Abner". Told in the first person in a mock-Southern accent, the stories paint the picture of a folksy, outrageous character for readers.....
Price: $225.00
Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820] [juvenile literature
France: Domino Press, 1931. 14 pp. Applied illustrated cover over cloth spine. Edited by Esther Averill and Lila Stanley, full color lithographs by Fedor Rojankovsky. The adventures of Daniel Boone and his encounters with Indians, , hunting, traveling into the wilderness, and war. 14 1/2" x 11 1/4" wear on.....
Price: $110.00
Charles Dickens, Essay, School Project
An 18 page handwritten report or essay with three (3) images from photographs and one drawing. Paper covers with ribbon binding. Titled Charles Dickens 1812-1870. Nellie M. Krehbiel. Embossed Victorian floral scrap affixed to front cover. Although it is structured as a school project the factual narrative is written subjectively.....
Price: $125.00
magazine, illustrations, short stories,
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1887. 844pp. Green cloth board, stamped in red and black with gilt accents. Volume 3 starts at November 2, 1886 with No. 366 and ends with No. 417 on October 25, 1887. Harper's Young People was a weekly magazine: each issue was 16 pages.....
Price: $135.00
McLoughlin,Card Games,American Authors and Literature,Parlor Games
New York, New York: McLoughlin Bros, 1897. A complete set of Improved Game of Star Authors, including thirty-six (36) cards, a printed directions booklet, and the original chromolithographed illustrated box. Variations of this game were popular since the 1860s, and McLoughlin capitalized off its popularity by releasing two versions. This.....
Price: $175.00
Literature,The Arts
Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Lillabulero of Whigh Court, 1967. 40 pp. large format, paper covers. Presenting Known and Unknown Authors viz. A story and five poems by William Faulkner. New Fiction by Ralph Dennis & Rubin Barker. Poetry by Stuart, Shepard, Skellings, Hoy, and Leimbacher. Reviews of New Fiction and.....
Price: $110.00
Die-cut,
C. G. & S. Ltd. (Chas Goodall and Son), [1930]. Twenty-three (23) different die-cut lithograph whist badges with images of characters from literature. Also includes original box that held four dozen badges. Includes 23 of the 24 different designs. Includes Fatima, Blue Bear, Ali Baba, Sister Anne, Pantaloon, Clown, Aladdin.....
Price: $850.00
Feminism, Literary Criticism, Public Speaking and Lectures, Suffrage
Brookline, Massachusetts: 1902. Printed card (2.25" by 3.75", verso blank) promoting a 1902 lecture by Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) in Brookline, Massachusetts. Howe was a poet, women's suffrage leader, and audodidact who may be best known today for penning the “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” published in the Atlantic Monthly.....
Price: $85.00
Sentimental Novels, Female Characters, Toys Based on Books, Female Authors and Scribbling Women, Original Artwork
United States: c1860. A charming paper doll depicting the character Gertrude Flint from "The Lamplighter" by Maria Susanna Cummins, together with six overlays showing her in different circumstances: as "A School Girl"; "Nan Grant's Dependent"; "Mr. Armory's Daughter"; "Miss Emily's Friend"; "With the Kitten the Lamplighter Gave Her"; and "The.....
Price: $450.00
Programme, Linnaean Literary Society,
1880. 16" x 16 1/4" linen napkin with a 6" x 3 1/2" program printed on one section. It is for Monday Evening, June 21, 1880, Exercises begin at 6 o'clock PM. The program begins with music and is follows each speaking presentation. Some discoloration and toning. Scio College was.....
Price: $125.00
Advertising to Children, Shakespeare, Seven Ages of Man, Borax Soap, Social History
Brooklyn, Buffalo: Kirkman's Borax Soap, c1890s. Includes a 4 1/4" self-standing die-cut paper doll of an infant. Captioned 1st Age - The Seven Ages, Shakespeare' The reverse reads "First Age- THE INFANT. Baby's clothes its little stockings -- its cunning little undershirts -- its sweet snowy dress -- should all.....
Price: $475.00
Advertising Trade Card, Uncle Tom's Cabin, African American Vernacular, Harriet Beecher Stowe
Five Points NY: Donaldson Brothers. A 5" x 3 1/4" advertising trade card promoting Uncle Tom's Cabin Smokin Tobacco, manufactured by Wellman & Dwire, Quincy, Ill. Depicts characters from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Eva is holding a plug of tobacco while seated on Uncle Tom's shoulder. It.....
Price: $100.00
juvenile, short stories
England: Dean and Son, LTD., n.d. ca. 1930's. Applied illustrated color hard cover, color frontispiece plus five plates, illustrations throughout, Dean's Gold Medal Books No. 1. Stories by Agnes Richardson and Mabel M. Stevenson, Illustrated by Nora M. Birch and Agnes Richardson. Other books in the Series: 1-Pam and Peter.....
Price: $20.00
schools & universities, speech, literature, educational, collegiate society, literary society
Carlisle, PA: Office of the "Herald" 1827. A copy of the speech given by Charles F. Mayer, to the Belles Lettres and Union Philosophical Societies (UPS) of Dickinson College on Tuesday, September 28, 1827. John Jenkins was a member of the Belles Lettres Society at Dickinson College, and he was.....
Price: $125.00
Women's History, Meditations, Child Welfare,
Los Angeles: Los Angeles Branch of the Sunshine Society, 1908. An unpaginated 8" x 5" booklet. Copyright 1908. Lulu A. Crawford. Cover depicts California Poppies with inset of sun rising over the mountains. The title page reads "Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on. "Twas not given for.....
Price: $75.00
classics, adventure, cast away, island, robinson crusoe, shipwreck, survival, shipwreck survival, solitude.
Chicago, IL: Thomspon & Thomas, 1872. A 'profusely illustrated' version bound in publisher's gilt stamped and pictorial blue cloth boards. The novel also has an autobiographical memoir of the author, and a life of Alexander Selkirk, to whose residence on the island Juan Fernandez inspired the novel. There are over.....
Price: $35.00
Literature, Poetry, New York Harbor, Social History
New York: J.E.D. Comstock, June 1846. Illustrated wraps. Pgs. 334-363. Engraving of Bay and Harbour of New York from Staten Island. Hand colored engraving of Lily of the valley and balsam flowler (sp). An original poem The Return of Spring by H. A. Del Oriend. Numerous articles including The History.....
Price: $95.00
art nouveau, fashion and costume, erte
Paris: Fasquelle, 1929. 40 pp. 4to. Paper wrapper. With four (4) pages of costume and design by Erte. . A piece in four acts. Clean copy. 11 1/2" x 8" Light cover wear.
Price: $125.00
Mark Twain, juvenile fiction
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1923. 421 pp. Cloth cover with color applied pictorial, color frontispiece, black and white illustrations by Worth Brehm. The classic story by Mark Twain. A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down the river with a runaway slave.....
Price: $28.00
Mark Twain, juvenile literature,
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1917. 285 pp. Cloth cover with stamped frame around applied color illustration, frontispiece, 7 color plates. Illustrated by Franklin Booth. The story of two boys who look identical but live very different lives. One, Tom Canty, an abused pauper and the other, Prince Edward, son.....
Price: $50.00
Early Children's Literature,Evangelical Literature
Hartford, Connecticut: Hudson and Co. Printers, 1817. Scarce second American edition of a children's book first published in London in 1814, penned by Mary Martha Sherwood (1775-1851). Containing strong themes of colonialism and evangelicalism, it tells the story of a young British boy who converts an Indian man. Sherwood's name.....
Price: $150.00
Song Book
Paris: G. Hartmann, 1882. 37 pp. with one vocal score. Tastefully illustrated paper wraps. 2 OCLC when researched. Measures 7 3/4" x 11 1/2"
Price: $150.00
Robert Louis Stevenson, orphans, ships
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1921. 302 pp. Cloth cover with applied printed paper title, frontispiece, heavily illustrated and decorated by Louis Rhead. An exciting tale of David Balfour, who after his father dies, goes to live with his miserly old uncle. The uncle brings him to the port one.....
Price: $50.00