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The Little Painter

By: N/A

Price: $281.25

Publisher: Philadelphia, Janentzky & Co.:

Seller ID: Books013336

Binding: Paper wraps

Condition: Very Good

Eight leaves, with colour plate on left and black & white facing for the owner to colour... which they did not. Right corners of front cover and lower corner of first leaf chipped. Uncommon; likely early 1870s, with Janentzky & Co. at 1125 Chestnut Street.
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Benjamin B. Mussey & co., Boston. Copy book

By: N/A

Price: $218.75

Publisher: Boston, B. B. Mussey & Co.:

Seller ID: Books013337

Binding: Paper wraps

Condition: Very Good

Eight leaves, with the instructor's sentence above and student's copy beneath, recto and verso save for the final leaf where the student neglected to copy "Prosperity gains friends, adversity tries them", followed by evidence of four cleanly excised leaves. Circa 1850, with Mussey at 29 Cornhill. Attractive cover, with image of the muse Clio handing a warring prince an uncut pen.
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J. M. Westhaeffer's Cheap Cash Book Store. Copy book

By: N/A

Price: $343.75

Publisher: Lancaster, PA, J. M. Westhaeffer:

Seller ID: Books013338

Binding: Paper wraps

Condition: Very Good

Twelve lightly ruled leaves, entirely filled in. Notes regarding calculation of percentage, insurance, taxes, customs house business, profit and loss, simple interest, discounts, as well as penmanship, drawing shapes, and coin rubbings. Likely 1860 as we see an enthusiastic: FOR PRESIDENT STEPHEN A DOUGLAS. Wraps with light chipping and a bit loose.
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A Boy's Workshop: With Plans and Designs for In-Door and Out-Door Work

By: A Boy and His Friends. [Craigin, Harry], Henry Randall Waite intro.

Price: $189.41

Publisher: Boston, D. Lothrop and Company: 1884

Seller ID: Books010517

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

221 pages, with advert page to verso of second front free endpaper. Publisher's decorative binding extremities rubbed, gilt faded, light soiling. Lots of carpentry, other crafts include railway and train, fly tying, how to bind a magazine, how to photograph, archery, knots, &c. Binding sound, clean interior; short closed tear to final rear free endpaper. Bookseller's ticket of James Hope & Sons of Ottawa, Ont. to rear pastedown.
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A Boy's Workshop: With Plans and Designs for In-Door and Out-Door Work

By: A Boy and His Friends; Henry Randall Waite intro.

Price: $124.10

Publisher: Boston, D. Lothrop and Company: 1884

Seller ID: Books012546

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very good

221 pages. Illustrated throughout. No date on title page; copyright 1884. Offsetting from newsprint on pages 100/101. Binding is sound.
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The Fables of Aesop [limited ed. in slipcase]

By: Aesop

Price: $2,445.30

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1909

Seller ID: Books010102

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Cream cloth with gilt; top edge gilded, others untrimmed. Light handling to cloth, and foxing to spine. Interior clean and free of inscriptions; tanning to free endpapers. Number 481 of 750 issued, signed by Detmold. 25 gorgeous plates. The original slipcase is sturdy and complete without splitting: long ago covered in patterned book-covering paper (similar to thin wallpaper) that appears to be stuck to the slipcase only along fore-edges.
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The Fables of Aesop

By: Aesop

Price: $489.85

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1909

Seller ID: Books012448

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xvi, 152 pages, and all 23 plates with captioned tissue guards. No stated date of issue. Light fading to spine; extremities rubbed - particularly along top half of the rear joint. Binding is sound; no inscriptions.
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The Fables of Aesop, and Others, with Designs on Wood, by Thomas Bewick

By: Aesop

Price: $593.75

Publisher: Newcastle, E. Walker for T. Bewick and Son: 1823

Seller ID: Books013333

Binding: half leather

Condition: Very Good

xxiv, 376 pages. Half leather over ribbed lilac cloth: light rubbing. With the thumb-print leaf receipt for this demy octavo, copy number 682. Clean and sound; no inscriptions. 8.5 x 5.75 inches
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Evenings at Home; or the Juvenile Budget Opened

By: Aiken; Dr. [John] and Mrs. Barbauld [Anna Laetitia Barbauld]

Price: $58.79

Publisher: London, &c., George Routledge and Sons:

Seller ID: Books011368

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

446 pages, followed by 10 pages of ads. Every Boy's Library series, with no printed date of issue. Not illustrated. Routledge ads to pastedown and free endpaper front and rear. Light soiling to publisher's decorative binding and textblock edges, foxing to endpapers, old signature to verso of ffep and to Contents leaf. Binding is sound.
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Trappers of Arkansas [Munro's Boys Dashaway Series]

By: Aimard, Gustave

Price: $65.31

Publisher: New York, George Munro's Sons: 1895

Seller ID: Books010888

Binding: Printed wrapper

Condition: Good

128 pages. Revised and edited by Percy B. St. John. Issued March 2, 1895. Wrapper chipped, creased, and reinforced with tape at head and foot of spine.Top outer corner of first two leaves chipped. Cheap paper tanned.
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Work. A Story of Experience. and Beginning Again

By: Alcott, Louisa May

Price: $156.25

Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington: 1891

Seller ID: Books013311

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

[4], 218, 226 pages, with 25 in-text illustrations. The "Vignette" illustration called for at front is not present. Cloth rubbed; endpapers foxed; title page splitting along gutter for 2 inches from foot. Binding is sound.
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Why The Chimes Rang

By: Alden, Raymond Macdonald

Price: $71.85

Publisher: Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill: 1909

Seller ID: Books011990

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Unpaged. Profusely illustrated. Jacket with foxing, shallow chips, and tears. Soiling to endpapers; old inscription to front. Lower margin of one page soiled and a small chip off top corner of same leaf. Binding is sound.
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Duckling o' the Cosy Corner

By: Aris, Ernest

Price: $124.10

Publisher: London, Humphrey Milford:

Seller ID: Books012628

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

31 pages, frontispiece in colour and five full page colour plates. No date of issue specified; the plates are dated '20. Edges rubbed; spine panel peeling and splitting from foot. Binding otherwise sound and contents clean.
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The Elves Build a Castle. A Charming Story to Read & Colour

By: Avram-Andrasiu, Felicia; Danuta Bolintineanu trs; adapted by J.A. Storrie

Price: $96.19

Publisher: Bucharest, Ion Creanga Publishing House: 1984

Seller ID: Books013180

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

[16] pages. Light rust to staples but holding fine. No inscriptions; nothing coloured. Black and white illustrations, suitable for colouring; with text in English.
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The Sibyl's Cave: or, Book of Oracles, for Ladies and Gentlemen

By: Bache, Anna

Price: $570.71

Publisher: Philadelphia, Henry F. Anners: 1848

Seller ID: Books010970

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

128 pages. 4.4 x 3 inches. All edges gilt (dulled). Frontispiece with tissue guard. Cloth rubbed; minor soiling throughout.
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Peter and Wendy

By: Barrie, J. M.

Price: $424.54

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton:

Seller ID: Books012372

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

vii, 182 pages, with frontispiece, pictorial title, and twelve plates as called for. The later undated Hodder edition in green cloth. Jacket toned, rubbed and nicked at extremities, chip off head of spine, and a short closed tear top right front panel. Light foxing to inner flaps of jacket, first few and final few leaves. Front flap is price clipped. Top edge is dusty. Interior is unblemished; the binding is sound. Jacket now in a removable archival sleeve.
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The Little White Bird, or Adventures in Kensington Gardens

By: Barrie, J. M.

Price: $195.94

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1902

Seller ID: Books012373

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

iv, 349 pages. Top edge gilt. Light scuffing to cloth; top right corner of front free endpaper clipped. No inscriptions; binding is sound.
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My Basket

By: Berestov, Valentin; Fainna Solasko trs.

Price: $64.13

Publisher: Moscow, Malysh Publishers:

Seller ID: Books013171

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

Cover and eight leaves, cut in the shape of a basket. Brief poetry regarding seasonal harvest. Short crease to front cover; else unmarked.
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Smitty. Golden Gloves Tournamnet

By: Berndt, Walter

Price: $52.25

Publisher: Racine, WA, Whitman Publishing Co.:

Seller ID: Books012415

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

315, [1] pages. No explicit date of issue. Light wear to extremities; no inscriptions.
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Time For Bed

By: Bertail, Inez

Price: $109.01

Publisher: New York, Doubleday and Company: 1939

Seller ID: Books005947

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

30 pages (unpaginated). Dust jacket chipped around extremities; boards foxed; smudge to title page and "Tony goes to sleep" last 2 pages. Else clean, crisp, with brilliant color, and no inscriptions. Binding is sound. Scarce early work of Bertail and MacKnight. Lovely illustrations, alternating black & white / color each set of pages. Front flap indicates the novelty, 70 years ago, of this sort of book: "At last the very youngest children have a book written just for them".
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Category: Antique & Vintage Children's