40 VALENTINES TO PUNCH OUT AND MAKE UP
Collection of 40 vintage die-cut valentines, illustrated in full color in typical 1950s style and ready to punch out along with leaves of envelopes for the user to cut out and glue together.
Collection of 40 vintage die-cut valentines, illustrated in full color in typical 1950s style and ready to punch out along with leaves of envelopes for the user to cut out and glue together.
Object-based WWII-era American alphabet book, printed on textured paper with colored backgrounds, each letter featuring a large color illustration.
Mid-century alphabet book printed in Chicago on texture paper, an object-based ABC in lovely 1940s style.
Lovely basic alphabet book printed on stiff linentex paper, well printed and with no text at all apart from the large block letters of the alphabet.
Pre-war American alphabet book printed on cloth, each letter represented by a different animal.
Great alphabet and counting book illustrated in color on every page in typical 1940s style.
Complete set of Gilded Age alphabet trade cards advertising Blake's Great Piano Palace in Boston in a style reminiscent of Alfred Crowquill.
First edition of this delightful and detailed French panorama alphabet — each panel is its own game, with a number of hidden objects beginning with the featured letter.
Early edition of this classic rhyme, published by "one of the two printers who dominated the New York City children's book publishing scene in the early 19th century" (Modero).
First edition of this moralistic tale of how friendship is tested by dishonesty, with delicate wood-engraved illustrations.
Fourth edition of this illustrated description of various 19th-century jobs, this copy lacking 2 plates of 67 total.
Publisher's catalogue of children's books for Longman's, Green & Co., an annotated listing that includes books by the Haders, Sanford Tousey, Lawson and more.
A short story of the Campfire Girls, a popular fiction series from the early 20th century based upon a girls' club very similar to the Girl Scouts.
Gilded Age small-format McLoughlin Brothers publication with a cute pet dog theme.
First edition of this illustrated collection of simple passages for early readers – a scarce Mahlon Day title.
Later edition of this little collection of moral stories, presented to a child over 150 years ago.
First edition thus, from publisher Mahlon Day, of this traditional and tragic tale, with lovely hand-colored illustrations.
First edition thus, from Boston publisher Degen & Estes, of the tragic folktale, with woodcut illustrations after the circa 1850 Mahlon Day publication.
Turn of the century American alphabet book printed on cloth.
First edition of this scarce little collection of illustrated nursery rhymes, including classics like Little Miss Muffet and Bah Bah Black Sheep.
First edition of this charming paper doll set, complete with fashionable chromolithograph dresses and hats, in the scarce original box.
Novelty board book, die-cut in the shape of a doll's house.
Mid-century "double doll" pop-up featuring a cat figure and a chick figure, accompanied by two "costume books" with clothes for the dolls.
First edition of this charming collection of rural vignettes and short poems, including two depictions of men with prosthetic legs.
Illustrated gift book extolling the virtues of the independent grocery store via adventurous fairies – a charming piece of 1920s US advertising.