A PRESENT FOR SARAH
First edition of this small and charming chapbook featuring animal woodcuts and short passages about them.
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.
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.
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.
First edition of a sweet little alphabet reader with hand-colored illustrations.
Second American edition of the popular English nursery rhyme about bird-based crime and justice.
First edition of this moralistic chapbook, in eye-catching speckled gilt boards.
Great ABC book, with a charming rhyme for each of the colorful letters of the alphabet with accompanying depiction.
Early edition of the book that made the Rollo series big, intended to instruct the novice American reader by combining a mature vocabulary with a lively series of animal metamorphoses and moral lessons.
Second revised edition of one of the most popular mathematical textbooks in the early United States, with extensive contemporary figuring.
Early edition of this French reader for young US learners, published as the cracks that would lead to the Civil War began to form.
First edition of the third volume in Alcott's series of short stories for children, told from her nickname "Aunt Jo" that also refers to her beloved heroine in LITTLE WOMEN.
First edition of the second volume in Alcott's series of short stories for children, told from her nickname "Aunt Jo" that also refers to her beloved heroine in LITTLE WOMEN.
First appearance, in ST. NICHOLAS MAGAZINE, of Alcott's story about a less common holiday seen in literature, and later incorporated into AUNT JO'S SCRAP BAG.
Popular antebellum book of catechisms for children, written for the use of Sunday Schools.
First edition of one of the earliest collections of Andersen's fairy tales translated into English.
First edition of this early collection in English of Andersen's new fairy tales, including six appearing in English for the first time.
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 book edition in English of BILLEDBOG UDEN BILLEDER, Andersen's collection of tales in which the moon recounts stories to a lonely artist.
First US edition of this chapbook poem about the sights and sounds (and smells) of the UK's capitol city.
Uncommon American moral story for children, loosely modeled on Hoffmann's STRUWWELPETER.
First edition thus, from New Haven published Babcock, of this illustrated collection of hymns by one of the most famous children's writers of the 19th century.
First edition of these Irish verses about fairies, with beautiful Art Nouveau designs by Housman carrying distinct notes of Beardsley's style.
First edition of this scarce Bennett title, an inventive and humorous series of tall tales set during the unchronicled youth of Baron Munchausen.