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Philadelphia: David McKay, Publisher, 1911. Cloth. Fine/very good. Albert D. BLASHFIELD, decorations. [J.C. LEYENDECKER, illustrated binding onlay]. Octavo; viii, 240pp; dark green basket-weave cloth with stamped white lettering to front and gilt-stamped spine, color illustration onlay to front board of a putti or Kewpie about to carve a turkey; illustrated endpapers; 7 half-tone photographic illustrations; ownership in neat ink to free front endpapers; color pictorial dust jacket, lightly chipped and soiled; fine in very good minus dj. First edition. Famed cookbook author, Fannie Farmer's book dedicated to celebrating the holidays and special occasions with festive food and menus. Farmer (1857-1915) was the daughter of a printer and editor, and expected to complete higher education, but at the age of 16 she suffered a stroke which left her bedridden and in her parent's care for years. During a slow recovery she started cooking and turned her mother's house into a boarding house known for high… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1916. Cloth. Very good. 12mo; 161pp; green cloth over board with title, author and chafing dish design in white; rubbing to head and tail of spine, bumping to corners; very good.

New York: Hurd and Houghton, 401 Broadway, Cor. Walker Street, 1865. Cloth. Near fine. [SPORTS]. 12mo; 31pp; maroon cloth covered stiff wrapper, blind-stamped borders, gilt-stamped vignette of a croquet player with a mallet on front, blind-stamped rear wrapper; publisher's string binding; brown endpapers; ownership in ink to fly-leaf; b&w frontispiece and a few illustrations in the text; near fine. [JUVENI[SPORTS]. FELLOW. R. The Game of Croquet; Its Appointment and Laws; with Descriptive Illustrations, New York: Hurd and Houghton, 401 Broadway, Cor. Walker Street, 1865. 12mo; 31pp; maroon cloth covered stiff wrapper, blind-stamped borders, gilt-stamped vignette of a croquet player with a mallet on front, blind-stamped rear wrapper; publisher's string binding; brown endpapers; ownership in ink to fly-leaf; b&w frontispiece and a few illustrations in the text; near fine. A short pamphlet-style book on the game of croquet in an elegant binding. $160.00 2022 April Book Inserts [JUVENILE]… Read More

Washington [D.C.]: United States Government Printing Office, 1928. Cloth. Very good +. [GOVERNMENTAL REPORT] [NATIVE AMERICANS] [INDIANS] [STATE OF MAINE]. First edition. 4to; 828pp; olive cloth over board, blind stamped borders, vignette portrait gilt-stamped to front; 24 b&w photographic illustrated plates; binding tight; a few scuffs to boards, light foxing on a few pages but no odors; very good plus. Fold-out map: Map of Southern New England Culture Areas. Following the 19 page Administrative Report of the Chief, there are five Accompanying papers containing rich cultural information and images of various tribes. Reports include: 1) The Osage Tribe, Two Versions of the Child-naming Rite, by Francis La Flesche, including lists of names and their translations into English; 2) Wawenock Myth Texts from Maine, by Frank G. Speck, including the origin and use of wampum, the Wawenock drinking song, and an illustration of Francois Neptune, the last speaker of the Wawenock dialect; 3) Native Tribes and… Read More

Chicago: M.A. Donohue, 407-429 Dearborn St, 1905. Cloth. Very good +. [POETRY] [SIGNED] [HUMOR]. SIGNED by Author. First edition. 12mo; 142pp; olive cloth over board, gilt-stamped lettering, stamped figure of a boy carrying a pitcher of water with ice on front board; gilt-stamped lettering on spine; author's portrait in sepia half-tone as fp; tissue guard with author's signature in red ink, ink has offset across the face of the author's portrait; scuffed corners, lightly age-toned paper; very good plus. Humorous rhyming poetry for adults by Eugene Field (1850-1895), the American poet often referred to as the "Poet of Childhood." In the first poem titled "The Clink of the Ice," Field notes "When I wake at fine in the morning with a feeling in my head / Suggestive of mild excesses before I retired to bed;" "How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall / At the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the hall!".

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912. First Edition. Cloth. Fine. Florence STORER. [JUVENILE] [POETRY] [HOLIDAY] [WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR]. Florence STORER, illustrations. First edition. 8vo; 119pp; olive cloth over board, gilt-stamped label and lettering, three small angels on front, gilt-stamped lettering on spine; bookseller's ticket on ffep; holly leaves decorate the title page; 6 b&w full-page illustrations, 8 color plates including fp; b&w line drawings throughout text, head and tail-pieces; binding tight, appears unread; fine. A beautiful copy of Eugene Field's (1850-1895) Christmas book, published posthumously. Field was an American journalist and writer, and much beloved for his childhood poetry. .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. Later printing. Cloth. Fine. Maxfield PARRISH. Later printing, c. 1920. 8vo; x [ii], 199pp [1]; last leaf unopened; black cloth over board, color pictorial onlay to front, gilt-stamped spine; deckle fore-edge; color pictorial endpapers featuring a giant with a club astride a red lobster; color pictorial plate as title page; 8 color illustrated plates; fine. Eugene Field (1850-1895) was an American poet, known as the "poet of childhood". This volume a collection of his favorite childhood poems, in an exceptional condition.

Newark, N.J.: Charles E. Graham and Co, 1925. Boards. Very good +/very good. 4to; [32pp]; color pictorial paper over board, tan cloth shelf-back; color pictorial endpapers; color halftone illustrations with borders every page, text sometimes inset into the illustration; light scuff to bottom, chipping to front board fore-edge, bumping of bottom corners;  color pictorial dust jacket unclipped but lacking price, chipping to fore edge, corners and head and tail of spine, 2 closed tears to rear dj; very good plus in very good dust jacket.  Scarce in its dust jacket.  BAL 5889. . Included with the book and dust jacket is one of the printing plates.  The steel relief printing plate numbered "0967"  for the illustrated page:  "But up in that tree sits a chocolate cat, and a gingerbread dog prowls below—".  Both are housed in a custom clamshell by Julie Stackpole, the book on a lift-out tray with the steel plate below. Eugene Field (1850-1895) was an American journalist and writer, and much… Read More

Rockland, Maine: Courier-Gazette, 1973. Stiff wraps. Very good +. 8vo; 65pp + a-h [8pp] cooking aids + [4] blank for recipes; white glazed stiff wrapper with white plastic comb binding, illustration of a sailing ship to front; b&w vignettes to chapter heads; light staining to front wrapper; very good plus. Not in WorldCat. Scarce. Listing of the Women's Auxiliary of the Thomaston Fire Department with the 1972-73 Officers on the first page. Recipe, recipe title and contributing author on each page.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1941. Later printing. Cloth. Fine/near fine. Sibylle v. OLFERS. Later printing, date on front flap of dust jacket only. 4to; [22pp]; yellow cloth over board illustrated with silhouettes of tiny children carrying plant stems; pictorial endpapers; full page color illustrations opposite a page of text; light finger smudges to boards; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket with price of $3.39, gold "Longlife Binding" (library binding) sticker to front, light chipping at spine; fine in near fine dj. First published in 1930 by Frederick A. Stokes, this later edition by a different publisher retains the charming illustrations and story of "root children" who live underground and return to the surface of the earth in spring.

New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 172 William Street, 1855. Second Edition. cloth. Very good +. 12mo; 225pp +[5]pp publisher's ads; blind-stamped decoration in brown cloth over board, gilt title on spine; marbled edges; ownership in pencil on ffep; 6 hand-colored double-page maps, one b&w map; numerous engraved illustrations; rear eps with neat notes in pencil; light bumping to corners, light age-toning of paper; very good plus. A small geography book covering a broad range of subjects in science ranging from land masses and their physical description to plants, weather, animals, and people. Owner's notes on rear endpapers are a hand-written account dated 1865 about a visit to the "Heigh Bridge" (either a misspelling or the name spelling has changed), correctly called the "High" Bridge which crosses from Westchester County, New York to New York City.

Cincinnati, Ohio: The Standard Publishing Company, 1938. Boards. Very good. 4to; 128pp; tan pictorial boards, price of $1.50 printed on front; gift inscription to ffep with poinsettia sticker with presenter's calling card, dated 1944; rubbing and light soil to boards and endpapers; very good. Children's handwork activities for every month of the year. The author states in the forward, "The purpose of this book is twofold. First, through telling of the stories to create a desire among the children to do something for some one; and then through the activities described here, help them to satisfy the desire created by the story.".

New York: Row, Peterson and Company, 1943. Cloth. Very good. Florence and Margaret HOOPES. [SCHOOL BOOK] [WOMEN AUTHORS] [WOMEN ILLUSTRATORS]. Florence and Margaret HOOPES, illustrators. First edition. 8vo; 192pp; brown cloth over board, pictorial front board featuring a house on a hill; front pastedown has ownership for School District No. 1, Laramie County; color pictorial title page; color illustrations throughout with text; shelf wear and light soiling, orange crayon mark on rear pastedown; very good. A child's reader for an older elementary grade. The Alice and Jerry Series of readers were published from the 1930s into the 1960s. The stories follow the siblings, Alice and Jerry, along with their dog Jip.

[Boston]: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1937. Marjorie FLACK. [WOMAN AUTHOR / ILLUSTRATOR]. 12mo oblong (7 1/8" x 10 1/8'); [46]pp; bright green cloth over board, black-stamped lettering and vignette of a flying bird on front; color pictorial endpapers of birds in trees; price tag from "Marston's San Diego" on ffep; gift inscription in pen on verso ffep; color pictorial title page with birds; full page color pictorials throughout; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, chipping and small tears to edges; fine in very good plus dj. A beautiful copy of Marjorie Flack's (1897-1958) book about robins. Flack may be best known for her book The Story About Ping illustrated by Kurt Weise.

Philadelphia: The Fleisher Yarns, 1913. Wraps. Very good +. [HOME ARTS] [NEEDLE ARTS] [ILLUSTRATED]. Cover title: Fleisher's Knitting & Crocheting Manual, Eleventh Edition, Price 25 cents 8vo (9 ¾" x 7"); 206pp; gilt-embossed and grey printed lettering on stiff marbled grey wrapper, vignette of a knitting basket with yarn on front; frontispiece a photographic illustration of the mills; b&w half-tone photographic reproductions throughout; split at head of spine, light wear and soiling to wrapper; very good plus. The Introduction in this eleventh edition announces that one-third of the publication is new, with the largest change in fashion updates. Clear photographic images accompany the crochet and knitting instructions and the finished garments are displayed on models. An interesting and useful book for those interested in historical fashion and the art of knitting and crocheting.

New York: The Century Co, 1891. Boards. Very good. R.B. BIRCH. Tall 8vo; 66, [1]pp; glazed ivory colored boards with a pictorial scene in blue and black incorporating the title and publisher's name to front, title in black to spine; b&w illustrations; soling and shelf wear to boards and spine, some light creasing to pages; very good. R.B. BIRCH, illustrator, from designs by the author.

[No place listed--Switzerland?]: Michael-Slains publication, 1966. Wraps. Very good +. CAMILLA. [JUVENILE] [ANIMALS] [WOMAN AUTHOR and ILLUSTRATOR]. Gerber & Daengeli Inc., Vevey, Switzerland. CAMILLA (Aged sixteen), illustrator. 4to; [16]leaves; stiff manila color pictorial wrapper, red ribbon binding tied through stab holes, 4 vignettes of Pekingese dogs on front; text printed on both sides of the leaves; 8 color plates with tissue guards; light spotting to wrapper interior bright and clean; very good plus. OCLC locates 2 copies one in Wales and one in Australia. The story of a Pekingese dog named Wee Jade Button who did not like to be told what to do because he knew his breed was royal. Privately printed in Switzerland.

Paducah, KY: Collector Books, A Division of Schroeder Publishing Co. Inc, 2002. Boards. Near fine. 4to; 239pp, [1]pp publisher's ad; glazed color pictorial boards; color illustrations with text; lightly used.

Paducah, KY: Collector Books, 1988. 4to; 221pp + [3]pp index and publisher's ad; glazed yellow pictorial boards; light wear from use. Collector's resource for collecting glassware from the Depression period.

Boston: Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture, 1912. First Edition. Cloth. Very good. W.E. BEECROFT and Edward Howe FORBUSH. First edition. 8vo; xvi [ii], 622pp; forest green ribbed cloth over board with blind-stamped border, gilt-stamped spine; 37 b&w half-tone photographic plates including frontispiece and b&w wood-engraved illustrations in text; scuffing to boards, bumping to corners with loss, paper on front hinge cracked but holding tight, early paper repair to table of contents page in bottom margin; very good. Detailed look at the birds of Massachusetts dating back to colonial times.