First edition of this gothic-tinged chapbook on the death of a moral young woman, told partially through correspondence.

First edition of this moral story of what may be lost when you attempt to please people rather than completing your task correctly.

Exceptional ABC using names to teach letters, with large print and colorful images.

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.

First edition of this collection of everyday scenes in rural Victorian England, including a vignette about a disabled veteran.

Very scarce antebellum US chapbook of the classic tale, with charming wood engravings.

First edition of a combination of two shorter nursery rhymes about TOM, with a humorous reference to the Napoleonic Wars to tie them together.

Second revised edition of one of the most popular mathematical textbooks in early United States, with extensive contemporary figuring.

First edition of one of the earliest collections of Andersen's fairy tales translated into English.

First edition in English of this collection of some of Andersen's most recently published popular tales, with gorgeous historiated initials and vignettes after drawings by Johann Baptist Zwecker.

First US edition of this chapbook poem about the sights and sounds (and smells) of the UK's capitol city.

First edition of this collection of old-English Christmas legends, history, and lore, touching on both the origins of contemporary British Christmas rituals and many lost traditions.

First edition of these Irish verses about fairies, with beautiful Art Nouveau designs by Housman carrying distinct notes of Beardsley's style.