MERRY PASTIME PRETTY PICTURE BOOK
Lovely large-format example of a McLoughlin alphabet picture book, full of their signature vibrant chromolithographs.
Lovely large-format example of a McLoughlin alphabet picture book, full of their signature vibrant chromolithographs.
Simple 1920s American alphabet book, with 2-3 large letters on each page, illustrated with simple objects, people, and animals.
Early 20th-century cloth alphabet book in verse, with images and rhymes associated with affluent families of the period.
Great early 20th-century linen ABC book with colorful images, accomplished in typical early 20th century style.
Basic 1930s American alphabet book with superior illustrations, printed in stiff linentex paper.
First edition of a charming miniature seaside fishery paper doll panorama, complete in its original envelope.
Die-cut Mother Goose rhymes, in the shape of a little girl carrying a pig.
Early 20th-century alphabet book in verse, with most letters representing different nursery rhyme figures.
Great object ABC mounted on muslin for easy use by young children, with no text except for large block letters accompanied by a rich illustration and primarily one-word captions.
Clever alphabet book pairing each object with a child interacting with it: "U is for Ursula and her Umbrella"; "Y is for Yasha with his Yacht."
WWI-era American alphabet book, including "S" for Uncle Sam.
Early Republic era chapbook of this fascinatingly fatalistic little work about aging and death — a rare survival.
First edition of this moral story of what may be lost when you attempt to please people rather than completing your task correctly.
First edition of a beautiful and bright unused 19th-century coloring book.
Little book of pig mischief, apparently an advertising giveaway for Jelloids, with maze at rear.
Exceptional ABC using names to teach letters, with large print and colorful images.
Exceptional linen alphabet book that uses a fun searching game to teach early readers letters and numbers.
First edition of this small and charming chapbook featuring animal woodcuts and short passages about them.
First edition of this little moral tale of the theft of a melon and the resulting punishment for the thief, published by active abolitionist Charles Whipple.
Charming ABC book in the form of a handsome and fluffy cat, containing a feline love story told with each of the letters of the alphabet.
First edition thus of a McLoughlin collection of classic ROBIN HOOD stories, in a die-cut book in the shape of the man himself.
Wonderful large-format shape book full of classic nursery rhymes and vibrant chromolithographs.
Unused 3-panel Christmas themed activity book, illustrated in an exuberant early 1960s style.
Stunning Gilded Age ABC book with each letter illustrated in a stars-and-stripes motif, and including a Fourth of July story.
First edition of this little chapbook collection of bucolic and moral tales in rhyme, from the third series of the Redfield's Toy Books series.