40 VALENTINES TO PUNCH OUT AND MAKE UP
Collection of 40 vintage die-cut valentines, illustrated in full color in typical 1950s style and ready to punch out along with leaves of envelopes for the user to cut out and glue together.
Collection of 40 vintage die-cut valentines, illustrated in full color in typical 1950s style and ready to punch out along with leaves of envelopes for the user to cut out and glue together.
Object-based WWII-era American alphabet book, printed on textured paper with colored backgrounds, each letter featuring a large color illustration.
Mid-century alphabet book printed in Chicago on texture paper, an object-based ABC in lovely 1940s style.
Lovely basic alphabet book printed on stiff linentex paper, well printed and with no text at all apart from the large block letters of the alphabet.
Pre-war American alphabet book printed on cloth, each letter represented by a different animal.
Great alphabet and counting book illustrated in color on every page in typical 1940s style.
Complete set of Gilded Age alphabet trade cards advertising Blake's Great Piano Palace in Boston in a style reminiscent of Alfred Crowquill.
Single continuous folding pictorial alphabet book with a military theme, featuring gilt-lettered wrappers and details within illustrated letters.
Exquisite fully engraved portable atlas, featuring 29 hand-colored maps and 3 additional engraved spreads, in a blind-stamped contemporary German binding.
Publisher's catalogue of children's books for Longman's, Green & Co., an annotated listing that includes books by the Haders, Sanford Tousey, Lawson and more.
A short story of the Campfire Girls, a popular fiction series from the early 20th century based upon a girls' club very similar to the Girl Scouts.
Gilded Age small-format McLoughlin Brothers publication with a cute pet dog theme.
Turn of the century American alphabet book printed on cloth
Progressive-era alphabet book, capturing the everyday life of children through each letter, depicted with clear gender lines: while Bobby plays with marbles and toy soldiers, Amy cleans.
18th-century collection of two important hymnals printed by Samuel Saur in German: the rare 1792 first edition of DIE KLEINE HARFE, with the 1797 second edition of DAS KLEINE DAVIDSCHE PSALTERSPIEL (lacking two leaves) – including four leaves of manuscript material by an early owner.
Rare and early Dean moveable, with vivid hand-colored moveables plates operated by levers with metal grommets, in beautiful condition.
Original peepshow of the Nordic Exhibition of Industry, Agriculture, and Art – opening to a detailed three-dimensional view of the rotunda and nave of the entrance hall of the exhibition.
Novelty board book, die-cut in the shape of a doll's house.
Mid-century "double doll" pop-up featuring a cat figure and a chick figure, accompanied by two "costume books" with clothes for the dolls.
Lovely example of an early 19th century ivory hornbook.
Provincial collection of Victorian poems about everyday life, including wood-engraved illustrations of the market.
Large format bucolic alphabet book, with illustrations in 3 colors filling every page, each letter representing a different farm animal.
Gilded Age McLoughlin Brothers publication of the traditional rhyme "This Little Pig Went to Market" from Aunt Mary's Little Series.
Unused children's activity book featuring 6 pairs of illustrated postcards (12 total), each pair with an uncolored version for the child to paint.
Winter and Christmas-themed picture book from the McLoughlin Brothers, featuring rhymes for young children illustrated with chromolothographs with little children at play.