VESELÀ HROMÁDKA [Merry Crowd]
Darling Czech children's book, with vibrant chromolithographs of well-to-do children engaging in various activities including going to the zoo, going sailing, and buying new toys.
Darling Czech children's book, with vibrant chromolithographs of well-to-do children engaging in various activities including going to the zoo, going sailing, and buying new toys.
Four original fairy tales about pigs from the great turn-of-the-century children's publisher Nister: a charming book.
Uncommon chromolithographic picture book detailing little Dicky's return to England from South Africa, revealing Victorian-era colonialist culture and racism.
Scarce first edition of this juvenile novel in the Alcott school, about an industrious and moral young woman – in a lovely pictorial cloth binding.
First edition of this moralizing chapbook about the merits to be earned with good behavior – a remarkably scarce title.
First edition of this classic American "boy book," dramatizing the everyday life of boys in Gilded Age Boston.
First edition of Greenaway's first foray into almanack illustrating, with lovely seasonal pictures.
First edition of Kate Greenaway's second illustrated almanack for children.
First edition of this almanack for children, with lovely illustrations by Kate Greenaway.
First edition of this deluxe variation (in white imitation goatskin) of an almanack for children, with lovely illustrations by Kate Greenaway.
First edition of this Victorian almanack for children, with lovely illustrations by Kate Greenaway.
First edition of this Victorian almanack for children, with lovely illustrations by Kate Greenaway.
Collection of first editions of 15 almanacks illustrated by Golden Age trailblazer Kate Greenaway, one volume signed by her.
First edition of this miniature alphabet book illustrated by Golden Age great Kate Greenaway.
Charming 1880s autograph book, with illustrations in the style of Kate Greenaway.
First edition of this near-miniature collection of 12 short stories with illustrations attributed to Kate Greenaway.
First edition of this charming collection of simple moral poems for young readers, illustrated with attractive wood engravings.
Rare two-volume set of Hadley's Victorian retellings of the two testaments' greatest hits, for the young and young at heart.
First issue of the first extensive printed record of the tales of Brer Rabbit and other oral traditions kept by enslaved African Americans before emancipation, in the scarce yellow binding, and rarely seen in this condition.
First edition of the first extensive printed record of the tales of Brer Rabbit and other oral traditions kept by enslaved African Americans before emancipation, this copy with an owner's Christmas gift inscription dated 1880.
Third revised edition of this important bibliographical reference work on the "greatest little book" in the history of American early childhood education.
Limited edition bibliographical checklist, a follow-up and companion reference to Heartman's bibliography of New England Primers.
Early English-language adaptation/imitation of Hoffmann's STRUWWELPETER: the uncredited Anglophone interpreter produces a strong effort, with avaricious girls bitterly stung by furious bees, set on fire, and the like. Some of the children do live.
Philadelphia edition of this immensely popular book of questions and answers based around the teachings of the Reformed Dutch Church.
Scarce Regency-era history of ancient Greece, "now part of Turkey," adapted from Herodotus for young readers in England.