New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. First edition, 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 380, [26] (ads); 10 plates, 3 maps; original red publisher's cloth, bookplate on upper pastedown, some wear to lower cover, spine and edges, overall very good. The story of the British military expedition under Lord Kitchener and the..... More
Philadelphia [et al.]: J. B. Lippincott, [1941]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 47, [1]; illustrated throughout, some in two or three colors; publisher's orange cloth with pictorial pastedown; dust jacket with light wear at edges and several very shallow chips at extremities. This copy inscribed by the authors "To Corrine," and..... More
![Item #60404 Rudiments of Astronomy. A schoolboy sketch [cover title]. Horne, ichard, enry](https://rulon.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/60404_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1654007766)
[London: ca. 1810]. Square manuscript notebook, 7.75" x 6.5"; pp. 20 plus a number of blank pages; seven finely executed illustrations in pen and ink, depicting the solar system, movement of sun spots, the surface of the moon, and so on; paper wrappers, manuscript title on upper cover; wrappers detached..... More
Indianapolis: Printing and Publishing House, 1870. 8vo, pp. xiv, 15-163; original brown cloth; gilt lettering on upper cover; a newspaper clipping written by the author tipped onto front pastedown; pencil ownership inscription on front free endpaper; covers faded; spine extremities cracked; otherwise very good. A series of fictitious letters, ostensibly..... More
New York: James Miller, 1862. 12mo, pp. [2] (ads) [3]-187, [1], [10] (ads); wood engraved frontispiece and wood-engraved title page, 7 plates, a fine bright copy in original green cloth with pictorial gilt stamped front cover and spine. Nice example of a mid-19th century American trade binding. More
New York: Mahlon Day & Co., No. 374 Pearl-Street; [James Egbert, printer], 1839. Small square 8vo (approx. 5½" x 4½"), pp. 171, [1]; wood-engraved illustrations throughout; sectional title at p. [131]; original pictorial brown paper-covered boards, rebacked, most of the printed spine label laid down; occasional moderate foxing; old paper..... More
New York: Knopf, 1923. Fourth printing, sm. 8vo, pp.222; numerous illus. throughout, some full-p.; fine copy in a very slightly chipped jacket. The story of a young boy in Argentina who gets lost, only to be discovered by the Queen of the Mirage. More
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1902. 12mo, pp. xxiii, [1], 312; frontispiece, numerous plates and illustrations (by Edmund J. Sullivan) in the text, 2 folding maps with clean tears, marbled endpapers and edges, prize inscription on verso of front free endpaper; front hinge cracked, some dampstaining on prelims, else a...... More
Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1849. First edition, 16mo, pp. 72; hand-colored frontispiece, wood-engraved initial and tailpiece; slight foxing; very good in original brown cloth, gilt-lettered on upper cover. More
Cleveland & New York: The World Publishing Company, [1968]. First U.S. edition, 8vo, pp. xviii, 297; illustrated throughout; original rust cloth; very good in dust-jacket. More
New Haven: printed and sold by Edward O'Brien, who holds the copy-right for the states of Connecticut and New-York, 1797-8. First and only edition of the first English dictionary compiled by an American, and a noted American rarity. 32mo (4 7/8" tall), pp. 198; contemporary marbled boards neatly rebacked in..... More
Stockholm: privately printed, 1998. Edition limited to 185 copies, this the bookbinder Greg Campbell's copy, Campbell-Logan Bindery, unsigned and unnumbered; 8vo, pp. [6], 19, [3]; 12 linocut illustrations; original plum cloth over boards, paper labels on upper cover and spine; fine. Printed at Midnight Paper Sales in Stockholm, Wisconsin. More
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1948. Second printing, 8vo, pp. [14], 248, frontispiece and 10 full-page illustrations on 5 plates; original orange cloth lettered in black on spine, with dustjacket; the jacket faded on spine panel with a handful of small chips and tears, but all else very good. More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1902. First edition, large 8vo, pp. [6], 249, [2]; 22 plates by Kipling; full red niger morocco, t.e.g., gilt lettered direct on gilt paneled spine, original pictorial red cloth front cover bound in at the back. "Just So Stories has achieved nursery immortality because a genius..... More
Chicago: P.F. Volland & Co., 1912. First edition, 12mo, pp. 142; original red leather limp boards gilt, original glassine, publishers box stamped in gilt and brown; endpapers and boxed a bit discolored, else fine. More
New York: Schocken Books, [1897]. First edition, 4to, pp. x, [2], 225, [1]; illustrated throughout; pictorial boards, fine. More
![Item #60205 クジラがくれた力 [= The strength the whales give]. Koutarou Kojima, Tomoko Egami](https://rulon.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/60205_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1651180388)
Tokyo: Poplar Co., 2002. First edition, 8vo, pp. 39, [1]; text in Japanese; illustrated throughout; fine in fine dust jacket and jacket band; a children's book on the cuisine of Indonesian village of Lamalera, which is best known for its whale hunts. More
Zurich: Gebruder Kunzli, 1923. Small folio, pp. [3], 33-43; 12 double-page color lithograph plates; original pictorial paper covered boards backed in red cloth; edges and corners rubbed, small stain on upper end paper, very good and bright. "The last attempt to capture the universe for children between two book covers"..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, [1952]. First edition, second printing ("Grr-r-r" on p. [23]), small square 8vo, pp. 48; vignette title page, printed in red and black throughout; price-clipped dust jacket with several small cracks and breaks; a very good copy. Illustrated throughout by Maurice Sendak. More
Cleveland: The Arthur Westbrook Company, 1900. 12mo, pp. 100; original color pictorial wrappers; text toned, but overall very good. Publisher's ads on back cover. Issued as no. 77 in Beadle's Frontier Series. More
Boston: Munroe and Francs, 1823. Second edition, 12mo, pp. iv (recommendations), vi, [2], 9-180; woodcut headers; stiff card backed in maroon buckram; ends stained, binding split at p. 82; ex-Library of Congress with acquisition note and stamp on title page and deaccession stamp on endpaper. Not found in OCLC. American..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1953, 1964. Fourth printing, 8vo, pp. viii, 215; publisher's orange pictorial cloth stamped in red; ex-Rochester, MN Public Library with usual markings, back pastedown glue-stained. A young adult novel of Chinese refugees during the Japanese occupation. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co.; London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1936. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, 335; a very good copy in orig. green cloth. A scarce and informative socio-philological study on the early stages of the development of language in children. More
Utrecht: W. De Haan N. V., 1946. First edition, 8vo, pp. 199, [1]; text in Dutch, text illustrations; navy cloth gilt; boards a touch soiled, pages toned but clean, very good. A book on early childhood development that was translated into eight languages. More
Hartford: Hale & Hosmer, 1813. First edition, 32mo, pp. [3], 6-30; lacking the final leaf of ads; 22 woodblock illustrations; original blue paper wrappers; spine effectively resewn, upper cover cracked along joint, some illustrations poorly imprinted, text generaly worn and soiled. American Imprints 28988; Welch 804.1. More
