TINY TODDLERS
First edition of this rare large format Maud Humphrey book, a portfolio loose as issued with six magnificent full-page chromolithographs of charming Gilded Age children.
First edition of this rare large format Maud Humphrey book, a portfolio loose as issued with six magnificent full-page chromolithographs of charming Gilded Age children.
Uncommonly nice copy of the first edition of Pyle's first commissioned book, with Pyle's own bookplate.
Civil War-era holiday compendium with an early printing of "A Visit From St. Nicholas" (the original name of the famous poem) and an engraving of Santa by Thomas Nast inspired by the poem.
First printing, state A, of the continuing travels of Tom Sawyer, with authorial responsibility assigned to "Huck Finn, edited by Mark Twain."
First UK edition of this adventure story, following a spoiled young boy as he matures aboard a fishing vessel – from the collection of publisher Michael Sadleir.
Scarce first edition "picture-story" of a terrible child taken on a nighttime journey over the moon to Toyland, to learn good manners.
First edition of this moral tale in the shape of its titular character, with illustrations by noted Philadelphia chromolithographer Ferdinand Moras.
Early issue of the first UK edition, in attractive pictorial cloth.
McLoughlin edition of this vibrantly illustrated nursery rhyme set to music, featuring humanized frogs, rats, and cats, part of their Aunt Louisa's Big Picture Series.
Signed limited first edition of the classic work in the field of children's book collecting, one of only 585 copies signed by the great 20th-century bookseller Rosenbach.
First US edition of this chapbook poem about the sights and sounds (and smells) of the UK's capitol city.
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.
First edition of the popular US fairy tale author's first book, featuring the adventures of the fairy prince TING-A-LING, a giant, a princess, and other fanciful characters.
Second edition of this little collection of moral advice for children, in a remarkably early US example of a publisher's cloth binding.
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.
First US edition of this collection of short moral stories from English polymath John Bowring.
First printing of this colorful Christmas gift book filled with seasonal poems and bright color plates, in the scarce original dust jacket.
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 this moralizing chapbook about the merits to be earned with good behavior – a remarkably scarce title.
Charming 1880s autograph book, with illustrations in the style of Kate Greenaway.
First edition of this collection of rhymes illustrated with darling chromolithographs of Victorian children by Ida Waugh.
Charming American schoolbook for German speakers, featuring an inspirational woodcut image of Martin Luther at his writing desk on the front cover.
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.
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.