Literature
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
advertisement, juvenile literature, history, charles dickens, children's stories
Philadelphia: International Publishing Co, 1901. A double sided advertising sheet for the International Publishing Company located in Philadelphia. The front side advertises for a book entitled "The Child's History of the United States" by Charles Morris. This poster showcases five of the illustrations that would be found in the book.....
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
Robinson Crusoe
New York, New York: William Wood & Co., c.1865. A charming story of four young children who pretend they are in the book Robinson Crusoe while their parents are away. A charming book about family, pretend play, and the enduring appeal of Robinson Crusoe to children across generations. Early ink.....
Price: $50.00
literature, publishing, political, advertising
New York, NY: Jefferson Publishing Company, INC, 1919. A tri-fold brochure advertising a newly published book entitled "My Political Trial and Experiences" written by Jeremiah A. O'Leary, who was tried for conspiracy to commit treason under the United States Espionage Act and considered to be an anti-British agitator during WWI.....
Price: $150.00
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 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
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
Benjamin Franklin, Short Stories, Writing
Norwalk, Ohio: 1887. Manuscript writing book of John Anderson of Norwalk, Ohio, complete with elaborate calligraphic headings. Sample titles include "Egypt", "The Gigantic Cabbage", "Maxims of Benj. Franklin", and "Pepper". One charming quirk of the manuscript is that Anderson seems to draw the letter "s" backwards, perhaps for style's sake.....
Price: $325.00
Oz, wizard of Oz, Fred Stone, David C. Montgomery, Highly Magnified WoggleBug, Jack Pumpkinhead, Animated Saw-Horse, Gump
Chicago: Reilly & Britton Co, 1904. 287 pp. with green pictorial covers showcasing a whimsical illustration of the Tin Woodman shaking hands with the Scarecrow. 1st edition. Second State text block.. Sixteen (16) full color plates plus black and white in-text illustrations. Features illustrated endpapers with the comedians Montgomery and.....
Price: $950.00
New York: World, 1969. Illustrated cloth boards, in text black and white illustrations, 7 color plates, 544 pp, size 9.5 x 6.5.
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
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
satirical writings, roger gerlin,
Paris: Rene Debresse, 1939. 76 pp., Uncut. Heavy Stock Wraps. Small black and white illustrations each page. Thirty six single page satirical writings. Each page captioned with hors du temps et de l'espace.(beyond time and space). Free end paper inscribed and autographed by the author. OCLC 2. Measures 9 3/4".....
Price: $350.00