![Item #44597 亜米利加言葉幼稚繪觧 [Amerika kotoba osanaetoki] =Teaching young children...](https://rulon.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/44597_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1554480805)
Japan, n.d. [ca. 1870s]. An omochae, or toy picture broadside, approx. 14" x 10"; minor wear to extremites, repaired and neatly reinforced with paper on verso, some soiling. Omochae were broadsides and pamphlets that provided entertainment and education to young children through the use of colorfully illustrated terms for study..... More
[London]: Andre Deutsch, [1955]. New, enlarged, and revised edition, 8vo, pp. 239; original boards in tan dust jacket; mild shelf wear to jacket edges, else about fine. "Principles that govern the writing of the language [illustrated] with examples" (jacket blurb). Published in The Language Library series, edited by Eric Partridge..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. First edition, 12mo, printed at the Merrymount Press, pp. [2], 36-[38]; title-p. vignette; very good in original black cloth-backed brown paper-covered boards, light wear to extremities, lower forecorners bumped. A commencement address. Smith 221. More
Terre Haute: Friends of the Cunningham Memorial Library, 1999. First edition limited to 50 copies, 4to, pp. xix, [1], 171; original cream pictorial spiral-bound wrappers; fine. More than 1500 entries. Indiana only in OCLC as of December, 2013. More
Bruxelles: Aug. Decq, 1849. First edition, 8vo, pp. 24; self-wrappers; near fine. More
New York: E. Duyckinck, T. & J. Swords [et al.], 1803. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. lvi, 353; [2], 470, [10]; contemporary full sheep, black morocco labels and red morocco numbering pieces on spine; the text is tones, both bindings rubbed and worn, but sound. In fact, not the first American..... More
Philadelphia: printed for John Conrad & Co. No. 30, Chestnut-street, M. & J. Conrad & Co., no. 140, Market-street, Baltimore; and Rapine, Conrad & Co. Washington City. J. Bioren, printer, 1801. Ostensibly, the first American edition (see below); 16mo, pp. xvi, 186, [2] ads; contemporary full sheep, red morocco label..... More
Cambridge: 1856. Broadside, 4¾" x 6¼"; printed pro-forma document completed in manuscript; previous folds; very good. "The [Junior] Class are hereby authorized to hold a meeting in [The Societies Room] at [seven] o'clock, [P.] M., for the purpose of [electing editors of the Harvard Magazine]." Signed in full, "James Walker."..... More
New Haven: Yale University, Far Eastern Publications, 1968-69. Later printings, the second volume in boards and dust jacket, the others in red printed wrappers; previous owner's names, else very good. More
Boston: published at the Christian Register Office. John B Russell, printer, 1824. 12mo, pp. 118, [2]; original plain paper-covered boards; spine partially perished, but otherwise generally very good. Inscribed on the flyleaf: "Given / with a wish that the little Tract / may be read in the school / It..... More
Boston: S. N. Dickinson & Co., printers, 1845. First edition, 8vo, pp. 40; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; very good. The Boston Farm School was established by a group of Boston philanthropists who purchased Thompson Island, in the North End of Boston, for $6,000. The Farm School was conceived to..... More
Philadelphia: Eldredge & Brother, 1879. 8vo, pp. vi, 7-127, [1] ads; text in double column; original leather-backed printed paper boards; covers rubbed; bookplate of C. R. Sine; else very good. Issued in the publisher's "Model Word Book" series. More
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, [1852]. Revised by Andrew J. Graham. 12mo, pp. [2], 112, 7, [21] (ads); pictorial orange printed boards backed in green cloth, extremities rubbed, dampstain on upper board, a nice sound copy. A re-titling of Webster's Phonographic teacher, which uses the Pitman system. More
Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin, 1794. 12mo, pp. 252; front cover perished, back cover loosening; textblock a bit toned and lightly dampstained, but textually complete. Webster's Reader was first published in 1785. After but two editions the title was changed to An American Selection (Phila., 1787). Other 18th-century printings appeared in..... More
Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin, n.d., [ca. 1803]. Small 8vo, pp. viii, [9]-165, [1]; 8 vignette woodcuts illustrative of the fables; original calf-backed paper-covered boards, extremities rubbed, some staining of the boards, joints professionally reinforced, leaf I2 with short tear (no loss); a good, sound copy. The cuts are, in Skeel's..... More
Boston: John West, 1807. Small 8vo, pp. 168; 8 vignette woodcuts illustrative of the fables; original calf-backed paper-covered boards; some peeling of the paper, leaves C1-C3 with tears in the lower gutter affecting a letter or two (sense remains clear); still, this is a better than usual copy of Webster's..... More
Canandaigua: Bemis, Morse, & Ward, 1827. Small 8vo, pp. 168; 8 vignette woodcuts illustrative of the fables; homemade calf cover over blue paper-covered boards; rubbed and worn, hinges cracked, text stained and foxed, a number of leaves with short marginal tears occasionally with loss of letters (especially in the headlines)..... More
Boston: printed ... by E. G. House ... for John West and Co., 1812. 12mo, pp. vi, [7]-168pp., 8 woodcuts illustrative of 8 fables; small pinhole through the first 40 pages of text, small piece missing from the fore-edge of M1 causing loss to a few letters, some dampstaining and..... More
Brattleborough, Vt. John Holbrook, 1817. 12mo, pp. 168; 8 woodcuts illustrating 8 fables; original full sheep, worn, spine with numerous small cracks, margin of title with short tears; binding firm; good. With early ownership signatures of "Erastus Way / Book of Words." American Imprints 42853; McCorison 1975; Skeel 169. More
Tokyo & Osaka: various publishers, ca. 1860s to1890s. 17 volumes, 12mo and 8vo, all in original blue printed paper-covered boards backed in cloth; condition ranges from fair to near fine. All with the title (or variant title) of The Elementary Spelling-Book with the following imprints, and variations: 1) Tokio: Bookselling..... More
New York: Huntington and Savage, n.d., [1845?]. Small, square 8vo, pp. 341, [3]; full contemporary sheep, morocco label; front board loose, lower joint starting, edges foxed, fair. Skeel 644. More
Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin, 1809. 12mo, pp. [8], 208; original calf-backed paper-covered boards, page edges rounded; corners bumped; early ownership signature of Noah Platt, Saybrook, 1810; very good copy. Text contains 13 sections for study, including the rivers of the U.S., the discovery of America, Indian Wars, etc. First published..... More
Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin, 1792. 12mo, pp. 3-131 (pp.1, 2, & 132 pastedowns); original sheep-backed blue paper-covered wooden boards; leather rubbed; covers soiled; rear board split vertically, internally reinforced in the margins with surgical tape (not obscuring any lettering); pages toned and lightly soiled. Contemporary inscription on front pastedown: "Reumah..... More
New Havens: S. Babcock, 1839. First edition, small 8vo, pp. viii, [9]-248; full contemporary sheep rebacked; good, sound copy, with an important presentation, "To Professor Silliman with the author's regards." A tear through the presentation has been skillfully mended and as the inscription is written in red pencil it is..... More
Kyoto: Shobougou-shi, 1872. Small 8vo (7" x 4 3/4"), 32 leaves folded and sewn in the Japanese manner, xylographically printed throughout, inserted title page in English on yellow paper, printed paper label on upper cover, original blue mottled wrappers; and remarkably retaining the original printed sleeve (i.e. fukuro) in Japanese..... More
