Primarily books prior to 1960, including the 19th Century.
New York: Blue Ribbon Press, 1934. Illustrations in full color by Harold B. Lentz. What better way to begin a story time on the theme of "Birds" than with a rhyme or two from a pop-up Mother Goose book? Afterall, a goose is a bird and pop-ups are attention grabbers.....
![Item #015273 [Pop-Up] Pictures of the Circus](/pictures/thumb/015273.jpg?v=1647371863)
London, England: Juvenile Productions, 1955. Illustrations by G. Higham. A Good Hardcover. Spiral bound; stiff pictorial cardstock All mechanicals are fine. Front has a closed partial tear/fold from the bottom edge to the center. Rear corner has a closed diagonal fold. Modest corner and handling wear. Oblong, 10.5 by 8.25.....
New York: Platt & Munk, 1912. A Very Good Hardcover, An anthology of stories and poetry for early readers.
New York: Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Company, 1917. Illustrated by Mary La Fetra. A Fair Soft cover. Stiff pictorial wraps; Heavily worn; illustrations clean with some soling on outside edges are printed on linen. Wraps attached but weak. Gift inscription in pencil.
Mid-Century Classic BakeLite Educational Toy.
Boston: Page Co.;, 1914. Illustrations by Walter S. Rogers. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. The Young Pioneer Series #4. First Edition, First Printing.Ref: Mattson, 330.
Santa Barbara, CA: Wallace Hebberd, 1927. Illustrations by James S. Bodrero. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. First appeared in "St. Nicholas" magazine. A Robin Hood theme set in the early days of Santa Barbara in Spanish California written for young adults.
New York: Frederick Warne, 1997. First Edition, First Printing, Thus. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. This collection contains the best-loved Flower Faries illustrations with the poems. Cicely Mary Barker was born in 1895 in Croydon, South London, and spent most of her life there. Because of ill-health she was educated at.....
Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing, Illustrated by Roy Best. Hardcover with illustrated Paper Boards. Peter Pan, in full Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up, play by Scottish playwright J.M. Barrie, first produced in 1904. Although the title character first appeared in Barrie’s novel The Little White Bird.....
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1903. First Edition, thus. Cloth Hardcover. This story was originally published in 1900 as A New Wonderland, and was reissued in 1903 under this title. The first chapter was replaced with 6 small chapters, some minor textual changes and the word ‘Phunnyland’ was replaced with ‘Mo’.....
Philadelphia: Edward Stern & Co., Inc., 1908. Illustrations by Francis. P. Wightman. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. The story is set in turn-of-the-century Egypt and is a tale of love, betrayal, and Revenge. Written shortly after Baum's trip to the Middle East in 1906. There he met.....
Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1911. Illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. One of the Rarest Baum Titles, using the Laura Bancroft Pseudonym.The Twinkle Tales is a 1905 series by L. Frank Baum, published under the pen name Laura Bancroft. The six.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949. Illustrations by Harry Beln. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. Behn wrote and translated poetry for children, especially haiku, and drew on the poetic heritage of Robert Louis Stevenson in his use of the "child's voice," as.....
New York: Roy Pub, 1944. Illustrations by Irena Lorentowicz. First Edition, First Printing. A Good Hardcover. A Christmas nativity story adapted from a Polish folktale. Nicely illustrated with styled lithographs by Irena Lorentowicz.
Boston: Jordon Marsh & Company, 1888. Illustrated by Henry Sandham, (1842-1910). First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. First separate edition, and first American edition. BAL second state without printer's imprint on verso of title; Frontispiece picture from the waist up. First appeared in the London, 1888 edition bound.....
New York: Grosset & Dunlap. 1950s reprint. Near Fine in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Tarzan finds an outpost of European knights and crusaders from a "forbidden valley" hidden in the mountains, whose ancestors had gone astray en route to the Holy Land and ended up in the depth of.....
![Item #008828 Zigzag Journeys in Europe. Vacation Rambles in Historic Lands [England]. Hezekiah...](/pictures/thumb/008828.jpg?v=1649317242)
Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1880. A Very Good Hardcover. This large and elegant child's book continues the series of sending a teacher and his boys off on an expedition of learning in foreign lands.In this case, the party go to Scotland, and through England to Belgium, Normandy and Paris; the.....
Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1884. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. A summer trip of the ZigZag Club through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. A popular series providing history, culture and travel knowledge in an adventure srory.
![Item #014725 [Christmas] As Ye Sow. Dorothy Canfield](/pictures/thumb/014725.jpg?v=1647433167)
Primos, PA: Franklin Printing Company, 1956. Illustrated by Norman Guthrie Rudolph. Limited Edition. Hardcover. A Christmas story about a tone-deaf boy who wants to perform in a Christmas entertainment. The nostalgic baby boomer era illustrations.Dorothy Canfield Fisher was an educational reformer, social activist, and best-selling American author in the early.....
Springfield, MA: McLoughlin Bros, Inc, 1934. Illustrated by Perer Da Ru. Good in a Good Dust Jacket. A collection of 2-3 page stories for reading at bedtime.
![Item #16093 Child-Life Arithmetics [Grade 3]. Frederick S. Breed Clifford Woody, James R. Overman](/pictures/thumb/16093.jpg?v=1662554106)
Chicago: Lyons & Carnahan, 1936. A Good Hardcover. A traditional text for teaching Arithmetic.
New York: International Association of Newspapers and Authors, 1901. A Very Good Hardcover. Anthology of nautical young adult fiction.Contents: Crockett's "The Smugglers of the Clone, " Parker's "There Is Sorrow on the Sea, " Frederic's "The Path of Murtogh, " Q's "The Roll-Call of the Reef" and Powell's "That There.....
Shanklin, Isle of Wight: J. Arthur Dixon, 1910. Illustrations by the author Marjorie Dawson, Soft cover. Unrecorded story of Pixies. 8 pages including the wraps; 4 color illustrations and text. 4.75 by 6.25 inches.
![Item #012976 Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates [Illustrated Junior Library]. Mary Mapes Dodge](/pictures/thumb/012976.jpg?v=1653495676)
New York: Grossett & Dunlap, 1945. Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge. A Very Good Hardcover. The novel takes place in the Netherlands and is a colorful fictional portrait of early 19th-century Dutch life, as well as a tale of youthful honor.
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1918. Illustrated by Nana French Bickford. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. The story of a little girl and her part in the revolt against Spain. Illustrated with four rather nice monochromatic b/w plates by Nana French Bickford.