ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
First printing of the classic American children's book about an orphan boy growing up on the banks of the Mississippi River in Missouri, in the expertly restored original cloth binding.
First printing of the classic American children's book about an orphan boy growing up on the banks of the Mississippi River in Missouri, in the expertly restored original cloth binding.
First edition, first state of Twain's allegorical adventure of 16th-century England, aimed at elevating his literary reputation before HUCKLEBERRY FINN finally secured it.
First printing, state A, of the continuing travels of Tom Sawyer, with authorial responsibility assigned to "Huck Finn, edited by Mark Twain."
Early issue of the first UK edition, in attractive pictorial cloth.
First edition of this beautifully illustrated collection of simply rhyming verses about the everyday life of little children at the turn of the century — quite scarce in this condition.
A scarce toy book using Cox's illustrations without his approval, illustrating the title story plus three other fairy tales.
First edition of this collection of moral poems and prose, with numerous woodcuts.
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 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.