Kindness To Animals A Picture Gift Book For The Young
NY: McLoughlin Bros., no date [ca 1890s]. Small 4to.; pictorial stiff wraps, softcover; color illustrations; wraps are soiled with some light internal foxing else very good. More
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Rand McNally Guide to New York City and Environs with Maps and Illustrations 31st Edition
NY: Rand McNally & Co., 1932. 31st Edition; 12mo.; illustrated wraps, softcover; 160 pages; black and white photographic illustrations and maps; maps are lightly edgeworn and soiled else very good. More
Night Before Christmas
Racine, WI, Whitman Publishing Co. 1947. 4to., pictorial wraps with Santa going down the chimney; large softcover; color illustrations; light edgewear else a very good clean tight copy. More
The Night Before Christmas or A Visit of St. Nicholas Mounted on Linen #1568
NY: McLoughlin Bros., no date [ca 1888]. 4to.; illustrated stiff wraps with sewn binding, softcover; 16 unnumbered pages; color illustrations chromolithographed; #1568; wraps are edgeworn with color chipped on spine and edges else very good. More
Indian Wars of the United States From the Discovery to the Present Time; With Accounts of the Origin, Manners, Superstitions, etc. of the Aborigines.
Philadelphia: James B. Smith & Co., 1855. Later Printing, 8vo.; embossed blue cloth with gilt figure and decorations, hardcover; 328 pages with marbled edges; hand colored half title page and frontispiece with 6 colored plates and 18 black and white illustrations; boards are edgeworn and faded else very good... More
Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education (2 Vols. in One)
Boston: Joseph Bumstead, 1802. Third American Edition with Considerable Additions; 12mo;; brown leather with leather spine label; two volumes in one, with A View of the Principles and Conduct Prevalent among Women of Rank and Fortune; hardcover; 312 pages; pages are age-toned else a very good, clean, tight copy. More
The ABC Of Animals
NY: McLoughlin Bro’s [1889]. Small 4to.; pictorial wraps with stapled binding, softcover; Printed on Linen; color illustrations; wraps are edgeworn, chipped and wrinkled but very good internally. More
Alphabet Picture Stories
Philadelphia: The American S. S. Union, 1868. 16mo.; blue cloth embossed boards with gilt lettering, hardcover; 55 pages; black and white illustrations; boards are edge rubbed with some soiling on back cover else a very good clean, tight copy. More
Dolly At School A.B.C.
NY: Sam’l Gabriel Sons, 1912. Narrow Folio; pictorial stiff wraps with stapled binding, softcover; brown and white and color illustrations; # 288; edgeworn and sunned wraps with sticker remnant on front inside cover, the middle page detached and a split on the spine 1/2” from the top and 1” from..... More
New York City Views
NY: John Scheidig & Co, [ca 1900]. 3-1/2” x 7-1/4” red box containing glossy black and white Stereoscope photographic illustrations; New York Stereoscope Views 1-25, Box No. 1, Nos. 1-25; entire New York series consists of 100 views in total this is just one box of collection; box has been..... More
Our Town Huntington A Pictorial History Of Huntington In Commemoration Of Its Tercentenary 1653-1953
Huntington: the Brochure Committee of the Huntington Tercentenary Inc., 1953. First edition; 4to.; stiff paper wraps with stapled binding, softcover; 96 pages; b/w illustrations and photographic illustrations; very good in sunned wraps. More
Russian Orthodox Church of Christ the Savior in New York: The Tenth Anniversary Book 1924-1934
NY: Rossiya Publishing Co., 1934. One copy each of the English and Russian/English Editions; 4to.; both wraps with stapled binding, softcovers; 24 and 80 pages; black and white photographic illustrations and Advertisements; Photos of Clergy, committees, clubs and the Church. Includes a 1 page letter on stationery from Vladimer P...... More
These Are Nursery Rhyme Pictures
England: Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd, no date. A Rudin Edition #6905; oblong 24mo.; printed fabric with sewn binding, softcover; color illustrations; in original glassine envelope that is worn else book is in fine condition. More
Christmas Carols
Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press, 1952. small oblong 8vo; stiff pictorial wraps with red comb binding; 12 colorfully decorated on cards; a fine, clean, tight, unmarked copy in a lightly edgeworn pictorial box. More
Essays on Modern Manners. Addressed to Persons of Every Denomination, Particularly to Parents; And Humbly Dedicated to Beilby, Lord Bishop of London
Dublin: William Porter, Fox P. Byrne, J Moore, J Jones, Grueber and McAllister and W. Jones, 1790. 1st edition; stiff wraps; 60 pages; toned pages else a very good, clean, unmarked copy; Neale was the Curate of St. Margaret Pattens, Rood-lane, and Lecturer St. Bennet, Grace-churdh;. More
Sing and Be Happy
NY: John Day Company, 1951. First Edition; 4to., pictorial cloth; illustrated by Charlot Byj; inscribed and signed by June and Byj dated Oct 1951 (author and illustrator); very good in edgeworn and soiled dust jacket. More
Appletons’ Home Books Home Grounds
NY: D. Appleton And Company, 1881. First edition; small 8vo; decorative cloth covered boards, 119 pages plus 10 pages of advertisements; black and white illustrations; toned pages else a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy. More
Femina Modes d'éte (N° Hors Série) Juin 1948
Paris: Editions Pierre Lafitte, 1948. 4to.; stiff pictorial wraps, softcover; 116 pages; black and white and color illustrations many of which are photographic illustrations; French Text; 12 page booklet enclosed “Derniere heure”; wraps are edgeworn and rubbed with creasing on bottom corner else very good. More
The Dancing Rock and The Floating Elephant
no place: (1993). First Trade edition, Toledano A108b; oblong miniature; stiff wraps with stapled binding, softcover; black and white illustrations; a two-sided flip book; a very good clean tight copy. More
Eminent Woman Of The Age; Being Narratives of The Lives and Deeds Of The Most Prominent Women of the Present Generation.
Hartford, CT: S. M. Betts & Company, 1868. 1st edition; 8vo. green cloth covered boards with gilt lettering, hardcover; 628 pages; 14 steel engravings ot the women; edgeworn covers have been neatly taped and reinforced else it is a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy. More
The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse
London: Decimus Publishing Ltd., 1979. Limited edition #428 of 500 copies; 24mo.; flexible leather boards with gilt in slipcase with gilt picture of mouse and butterfly, hardcover; a Facsimile of the manuscript together with additional drawings from the Linder Bequest; color illustrations tipped in; a fine copy in a fine..... More
Flapje Wildsnuit Wil een Mensch Worden
Zwolle: De Erven J. J. Tijl, no date [1948]. Small 4to.; pictorial paper-covered boards, hardcover; 32 pages; color illustrations; binding is loose with slight wear on lower spine and boards are rubbed else very good. More
Montauk: Three Centuries of Romance, Sport and Adventure
East Hampton: The Star Press, 1938. Oblong 8vo.; stiff illustrated wraps with stapled binding, softcover; 94 pages; black and white photographic illustrations; List of Old Place Names; internal foxing especially on title page and wraps are edgeworn and soiled else good. More
Wordy-grams an Absorbing Game for Intelligent People.
NY: Kendall & Sharp Inc., 1935. 8vo. red and black cloth covered boards, hardcover; 128 pages; lightly edgeworn and rubbed covers and one vocabulary page partially removed but still complete, else a fine copy. More
EVA Support For Antennas and Telescopes in Space. Oral Presentation to National Aeronautics and Space Administration Marshall Space Flight Center
Republic Aviation Division of Fairchild Hiller and Space Systems Division of Fairchild - Hiller Kollsman Instrument Corp Airborne Instruments Laboratory. Oblong small 4to l spiral bound stiff pictorial covers; softcover; unpaginated; black & white graphs and illustrations; lightly sunned covers and pages else a clean, tight copy. More