COVERINGS FOR THE HEAD AND FEET, IN ALL AGES AND COUNTRIES
First edition of this informational chapbook of various examples of hats and shoes from history and around the world.
First edition of this informational chapbook of various examples of hats and shoes from history and around the world.
First edition of this Gilded Age semi-autobiographical work detailing the joys and struggles of being an American farm boy, a lovely copy.
Lovely Arts and Crafts edition of Watts' stern and pious children's verses, illustrated by Gaskin's sunlit Greenawayesque visions of figures untroubled by guilt, grief, and sin.
First edition of this collection of rhymes illustrated with darling chromolithographs of Victorian children by Ida Waugh.
First edition of this book for noting the birthdates of acquaintances, with verse and illustrations by Kate Greenaway and others.
First printing of this landmark bibliography of the earliest years of children's books printing in the US.
First edition thus of this pair of beloved stories, published in the early years of "one of the most important" booksellers in Cleveland (Maurice Joblin).
First edition of this fantasy adventure set in Toyland, fetchingly illustrated in Art Nouveau style.
First edition of this Victorian piggy story for young people, partly told from the perspective of the pigs themselves – in an attractive pictorial cloth binding.
First edition of this story that relates the adventures of a pig family: Tusko the father, Grumphy the Mother, and their three children Fusky, Snout, and Chunk.
First edition of this 19th century do-it-yourself shadow puppet theater, beautifully intact and unused, with 16 articulated puppet figures and two dramatic stage sets.